Confirmed, which is interesting because I was trying that earlier, when it looked like you had it on.
I watched with Process Monitor to see what Duplicati was doing on the F: drive. At restore, got
but one can’t make too much of the low-level stuff, as I think sometimes CreateFile is just a test.
Regardless, I now have at least one case that fails. Major step forward, and thanks for the leads.
EDIT:
Some simple steps for repro. I’m using F: drive (USB thumb drive), but I assume C: will also fail:
Set dont-compress-restore-paths
Make F:\level0.txt containing the word level0
Backup that file
Restore that file to “Pick location” of F:\testrestore
If I help it by creating F:\testrestore\F it succeeds.