influxdata/influxdb · error · FormatError

invalid restore path

Error message

invalid restore path: {0}

What it means

The checkpoint or log path stored inside a RestoreCatalog record could not be parsed as a valid object-store path ({0}). Before the restore can fetch anything, the recorded location must be a well-formed store URL/path; a malformed value indicates the record was written with a bad path or the string was corrupted/altered.

Solutions

1. Restore using the same object-store type/configuration as the backup was taken with.
2. Inspect the malformed path in the error and correct or re-create the restore record from a valid source.
3. Re-take the backup/restore pair with matching InfluxDB versions to ensure path format compatibility.

// Validate the recorded path matches the configured store type before apply
let parsed = ObjectStorePath::parse(&record.checkpoint_path)
    .map_err(|e| format!("bad restore path {}: {e}", record.checkpoint_path))?;
if parsed.store_type() != configured_store.store_type() {
    return Err("restore record from a different object-store type");
}

if let Err(e) = apply_restore(record) {
    if e.to_string().contains("invalid restore path") {
        eprintln!("path {} unusable with current store config", record.checkpoint_path);
    }
}

When it happens

Trigger: Applying a RestoreCatalog record whose embedded path string does not parse for the configured object store (wrong scheme, malformed prefix, unexpected relative path).

Common situations: Restoring a backup taken with a different object-store type than the current configuration (e.g. file-store path replayed against S3); hand-edited or translated catalog records; version skew between writer and reader path formats.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid URL" errors: why new URL(), URI.parse, and reqwest::Url reject your string — missing scheme, whitespace, and bad path format — this error's family across 39 libraries.

Related errors

• failed to load restore source
• Invalid database ID
• Invalid path format: expected
• Invalid sequence number in
• Invalid table ID

AI-assisted analysis of influxdata/influxdb@06200ef96b (2026-09-19). Data as JSON: /api/errors/89ff482db67009d3. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at influxdb3_catalog/src/format/mod.rs:232

    /// empty preload. Callers on a persistence path must first load the
    /// backup state off-lock via `preload_restore_for_records` /
    /// `preload_restore_for_file` and pass the resulting `RestorePreload`
    /// into the apply call.
    #[error(
        "RestoreCatalog record encountered without object-store access \
         (sync apply path): the catalog cannot reload backup state from \
         here — use the async apply path"
    )]
    RestoreRequiresStore,

    /// Loading the backup snapshot/log files referenced by a `RestoreCatalog`
    /// record failed.
    #[error("failed to load restore source: {0}")]
    RestoreLoadFailed(String),

    /// The checkpoint or log path in a `RestoreCatalog` record could not be
    /// parsed as an object-store path.
    #[error("invalid restore path: {0}")]
    InvalidRestorePath(String),

    /// The backup snapshot referenced by a `RestoreCatalog` record was not
    /// found at the recorded checkpoint path.
    #[error("restore checkpoint not found at {checkpoint_path}")]
    RestoreCheckpointMissing { checkpoint_path: String },

    /// A decoded record could not be serialized to a value for inspection.
    #[error("failed to serialize record id {record_id} to value: {reason}")]
    RecordToValue { record_id: u16, reason: String },
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;

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