ext2 dump/restore should be end-of-life
Bug #1336368 reported by
Andy Valencia
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| dump (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
ext2 restore has broken incremental backups since 2012; it is tracked under dump.sf.net ticket 157.
A dump/restore backup system which is broken and HAS been broken for years is demonstrably not
needed. Worse yet, users will only find out it is broken at that critical time when they're trying to
use their backups to restore a filesystem. There is no response from the devs--it's not clear there
*are* any devs any more. The submitter who broke restore is also MIA. So I suggest removing this
package which has become more than useless--it falsely creates the illusion that it can be used
to implement incremental backups which can actually be restored.
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in dump (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package dump - 0.4b44-5
Sponsored for Jackson Doak (noskcaj)
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dump (0.4b44-5) unstable; urgency=high
* Patch from Ben Harris to skip directories already scheduled for
deletion in findunreflinks() (Closes: #714234)
-- Matthew Vernon <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:36:37 +0100