Comment 4 for bug 1077105

My understanding is that this bug has already been squashed in Raring Ringtail (see bug #1074574), so it's a known issue with a known fix going forward. My concern is that it hasn't been backported to Precise Pangolian (12.04 LTS). LTS versions of Ubuntu are the ones used in production environments, on mission-critical servers, where the maintenance of a rock solid backup and restore system is a basic system administration duty. The procedure for getting a bug on a released version of Ubuntu onto the SRU track is not well documented online (which is probably a bug in itself) and I ended up emailing one of the SRU team administrators about it in the hope of moving it in that direction.

I've already fixed this bug on my servers, so the patch is as much as anything for the convenience of others who may be having the same problem in Precise. My concern is that someone installing the lastest LTS version of Ubuntu Server shouldn't have to deal with a disabling bug in a major backup and restore suite for which a fix was available a year and a half ago and which is already fixed in the latest non-LTS releases.