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Upload fails on backup to remote server

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Description

Hi,
When my full restore point is done compressing, encrypting and packing it fails to upload. I have set a remote sftp connection as the destination for my backups. When I run the backup:point:upload command to upload my restore point I get this error:
* Creating Restoring Point on external folder: Could not create path ! cannot create restoring point ! issue while checking external folder: OCP\Files\NotPermittedException Could not create path
The message says it could not create path, but on the destination side I see the following files created in the directory named after my restore point:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Sep 1 16:29 .nobackup
-rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Sep 1 16:29 .noindex
-rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Sep 1 16:29 restoring-point.data

That's all that gets created there before it errors out.

I've been having this issue forever and I was hoping the new update to 1.1.3 will fix this. Before the update when upload failed I got a different error message than the one above.

I appreciate it if someone has a solution to this.

Thanks,

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Start by reproducing the backup:point:upload command with the configured remote SFTP destination and inspect the reported OCP\Files\NotPermittedException. Compare the destination contents after the failure with the expected restore-point upload flow. Done means the full restore point uploads successfully without the path-creation error.

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Tech stack
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backend
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
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