Bug#773934: restore: Failure to restore incremental dumps produced by earlier versions of dump
Package: dump
Version: 0.4b44-1
Severity: important
I believe the subject pretty well says it all, but a few more details:
The dumps I'm testing were produced by e2fsdump 0.4b43-1 (oldstable).
The failure output is like:
# restore -r -f dump.0
Dump tape is compressed.
# restore -r -f dump.1
Dump tape is compressed.
deleteino: out of range 0
abort? [yn] n
deleteino: 0 not found
abort? [yn] n
deleteino: out of range 0
abort? [yn] n
deleteino: 0 not found
abort? [yn] n
#
The dumps were created by running `dump -u0 -m -j8 -f dump.0
/dev/somedevice` and `dump -u1 -m -j8 -f dump.1 /dev/somedevice`. After
the about output restore sits there burning processor and apparently
doing nothing. This may qualify as a grave bug. While being able to
restore current backups is valuable, older backups are also quite
valuable.
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