On Monday 01 May 2017 21:28:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2017 19:27:04 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to > > recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar? > > Or does the recording version have to be newer too? > > > > (I.e. maybe Gene could still test using his existing backups. And > > this would mean that older backups aren’t worthless. ) > > > > Deb Baddorf > > Thinking further afield folks, this machine has 4 other clients. 3 of > them running wheezy are on 1.26, and the jessie/pi is running 1.27.1 > > I think I had better copy this tarball to all 4 and build a 1.29 on all > of them. Or is 1.26 ok? Late February when that thread of messages > went by, has anyone contacted their distro to file a nastygram in the > bugzilla?
Not a direct response, but if your backups aren't complete, you aren't dealing with the same bug. That bug only affected amrecover. I was able to extract the full dump file from tape and restore manually, when I ran into it.
