On Monday 01 May 2017 22:09:11 Alan Hodgson wrote: > 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.
Perhaps I was being paranoid. This mornings emailed report is not statistically different enough in output size to indicate that 1.29 was saving stuff that 1.27.1 wasn't. So I'm assuming the backups are usable, and I just removed the amanda.conf changes in case the data did grow. Thanks Alan. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
