Bug 13969

Summary: CU201 : restore URLFilter with Toulouse list
Product: IPFire Reporter: Phil SCAR <p27m>
Component: ---Assignee: Assigned to nobody - feel free to grab it and work on it <nobody>
Status: ON_QA --- QA Contact:
Severity: Minor Usability    
Priority: - Unknown - CC: adolf.belka
Version: 2   
Hardware: all   
OS: All   

Description Phil SCAR 2026-05-12 13:29:31 UTC 
Between March 2nd and 12th, 2026, the University of Toulouse modified its lists by replacing the directories
- aggressive
- proxy
- ads
- mail
- drugs
- porn
- violence

Through symbolic links
Therefore, any attempt to restore IPFire containing this new list Before an update of the list has been done

will fail :

[root@ipfireTest bin]# ./backup.pl restore /var/ipfire/backup/2026-03-12-1612.ipf
...
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/aggressive: Cannot create symlink to ‘agressif’: File exists
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/proxy: Cannot create symlink to ‘redirector’: File exists
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/ads: Cannot create symlink to ‘publicite’: File exists
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/mail: Cannot create symlink to ‘forums’: File exists
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/drugs: Cannot create symlink to ‘drogue’: File exists
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/porn: Cannot create symlink to ‘adult’: File exists
tar: var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/violence: Cannot create symlink to ‘agressif’: File exists
...
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
[backup.pl:93] echo 'Could not extract backup'
Could not extract backup
[backup.pl:94] return 1
Comment 1 Phil SCAR 2026-05-12 13:38:15 UTC 
can be added
rm -f /var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/*
Before extract
Comment 2 Phil SCAR 2026-05-12 13:41:02 UTC 
rm -rf /var/ipfire/urlfilter/blacklists/*