xfsdump new version, incompatible with old versions

[Sam Mulvey]

I know you generally track Debian, but there's a new version of xfsdump out, and it's new dump format is incompatible with earlier versions. The main distro I use is current with xfsdump, so as of 107 I can't restore from dumps made by my updated machines.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, as I rarely use XFS. I assume this is the difference between xfsdump 3.0 and 3.1? Are you saying that the backup/restore between them are mutually incompatible? That is, dump from 3.0 cannot be restored from 3.1, and dump from 3.1 cannot be restored from 3.0? If so, I don't think there's anything that can be done, since functionality is broken either way.

xfsdump 3.1.1 is in debian unstable (Finnix tracks from testing), so you should be able to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change the cdn.debian.net lines from "testing" to "unstable", then "apt-get update" and "apt-get install xfsdump" to just pull in 3.1.1. Of course, this has to be done every time you need it.

Finnix 108 will be released soon, but will also have 3.0.6. Debian wheezy is being released at about the same time, after which time testing will open up to updates from unstable, so Finnix 109 should probably have >= 3.1.1.

[Sam Mulvey (launchpan)]

Sorry for not being clear: xfsdump 3.1 adds some changes to the structure of the dump files that make files dumped with 3.1 unrestorable with 3.0. The 3.1 utilities can still handle older dump files. The problem is my non-debian Linux boxes now have xfsdump 3.1 on them, so xfsdump on stock 107 can't work with them. If I can just snag a package from a debian repository, that's no problem, but in either case I thought you might want to know.

Thanks a bunch!

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

That's fine then, xfsdump 3.1.1 can be easily backported from Debian unstable, and should be in Finnix 108.

[Finnix Launchpad Assistant (finnix-lp-bot)]

Distribution: 108
Source: xfsdump
Source-Version: 3.1.1~1finnix1

A package update has been sent to the Finnix archive, which marks this
bug as fixed. A copy of the upload changes is included below.

Thank you,
Your friendly Finnix Launchpad assistant

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Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Nathan Scott <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Ryan Finnie <email address hidden>
Description:
 xfsdump - Administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem
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   * Finnix backport (no change) (LP: #1170300)
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