Bug 1436863

Summary:	Katello backup uses special characters in directory name
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	John Mitsch <jomitsch>
Component:	Backup & Restore	Assignee:	John Mitsch <jomitsch>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	jcallaha
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2.8	CC:	bbuckingham, bkearney, dlobatog, jcallaha, mmccune
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Description John Mitsch 2017-03-28 21:16:04 UTC

Description of problem:

katello-backup creates a directory named something like "katello-backup-2017-03-28T15:18:13-04:00", these special characters can cause problems for certain file types and programs (i.e yaml, scp) here are some guidelines on what is acceptable in a file or directory: 
http://www.mtu.edu/umc/services/digital/writing/characters-avoid/

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.2.8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.katello-backup /path/


Actual results:
directory has special characters

Expected results:
No special characters in directory

Additional info:

Comment 1 John Mitsch 2017-03-28 21:17:56 UTC

Created redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19054 from this bug

Comment 2 Satellite Program 2017-03-29 14:02:24 UTC

Moving this bug to POST for triage into Satellite 6 since the upstream issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19054 has been resolved.

Comment 5 Daniel Lobato Garcia 2017-08-09 13:19:22 UTC

Verified.

Tested on:

satellite-6.3.0-16.0.beta.el7sat.noarch
tfm-rubygem-katello-3.4.4-1.el7sat.noarch

The directory created does only contain hyphen, letters and numbers: Creating backup folder /tmp/backup/katello-backup-20170809091815

Comment 12 Satellite Program 2018-02-21 16:54:37 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA.
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> > For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below.
> > 
> > If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
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> > https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336