Bug 13969 - CU201 : restore URLFilter with Toulouse list
Summary: CU201 : restore URLFilter with Toulouse list
Status: ON_QA
Alias: None
Product: IPFire
Classification: Unclassified
Component: --- (show other bugs)
Version: 2
Hardware: all All
: - Unknown - Minor Usability
Assignee: Assigned to nobody - feel free to grab it and work on it
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Reported: 2026-05-12 13:29 UTC by Phil SCAR
Modified: 2026-06-11 10:47 UTC (History)
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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/*