borg-create: non-existing top level paths should be explicitly logged

[azrdev]

Have you checked borgbackup docs, FAQ, and open Github issues?

Yes

Is this a BUG / ISSUE report or a QUESTION?

ISSUE

System information. For client/server mode post info for both machines.

Your borg version (borg -V).

• client 1.1.17
• server 1.1.16

Operating system (distribution) and version.

• client Fedora 35
• server Debian 11

Hardware / network configuration, and filesystems used.

irrelevant, I think

How much data is handled by borg?

irrelevant, I think

Full borg commandline that lead to the problem (leave away excludes and passwords)

me@client$ borg create --stats --verbose --show-rc --compression auto,zstd,9 \
        ssh://server/~/borg02::client.{utcnow} \
        /etc \
        /home/me/directory-does-not-exist

Describe the problem you're observing.

When passing a PATH to borg create that does not exist (among others that do), it returns 1 indicating "warning (operation reached its normal end, but there were warnings -- you should check the log, logged as WARNING)" but there is nothing logged to stdout/err, even with --verbose. In other words: borg states something failed, and I should see why above, but I don't.

Adding --list --filter='E?' reveals that the top-level PATH was not found (in my case a typo, which excluded the meant directory from backups).

In such a case, I'd expect the missing top-level PATH to be printed (at least on --verbose).

Can you reproduce the problem? Yes

Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the system logs

none

[ThomasWaldmann]

I just tried to reproduce with borg 1.2-maint branch:

(borg-env) tw@mba2020 borg % borg create repo12::archive src/ foobar/ docs/
Enter passphrase for key /Users/tw/w/borg/repo12: 
foobar: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'foobar'

So I guess this was either fixed at some time or you just overlooked the output.