Package: dump Version: 0.4b41-5+b1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
I set up dump using a SLT24 tape system and tested local and remote dump and restore with restoring single files OK. When I restored a user's lost file I discovered I had got back text from another (unrelated?) file. Therefore I restored the whole of /etc (critical) locally from a typical dump and cannot see a problem, on the system where the tape drive is. But when I dump/restore from this system to the remote tape drive (same OS) I am reproducably finding some files corrupted (using /etc for all tests). When I do file * in the restored etc I find two files listed as Vim swap files. These seem in some way related eg hosts.allow is full of the wrong contents and one of my old copies (I dated them .0902xx etc) is reported as a Vim file. This behaviour happens with the default block size, with a block size of 64 and one of 256. The files in question are not open when I do the test dump though it is true the file system is mounted. I have not proved no files are corrupted on any local dump. I have read that dump may not be as reliable for a mounted file system under Linux as with Solaris, which I was using before, but if this is a feature not a bug then I am unsure how to avoid it. hosts.allow has definitely been edited with vi but another file that seems corrupted is mailcap and I do not think I have edited that. The key thing is that the same corrupted files are seen each time I do this test ie from /etc on this system to the remote tape drive on the same OS. dump and restore give no errors. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dump depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.41.3-1 ext2 filesystem libraries ii libblkid1 1.41.3-1 block device id library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-3.1 GNU readline and history libraries ii libuuid1 1.41.3-1 universally unique id library ii tar 1.20-1 GNU version of the tar archiving u dump recommends no packages. dump suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
