Bug#402679: backupninja: mysql handler overwrites existing backups, even if mysqldump fails

2006-12-13 Thread Joel Fuster
Hi, Thanks for the quick response. This only occurs when you specify databases and you have compress=no, mysqld isn't running or mysqdump doesn't exist. This is a pretty unique combination of events! Please note that this happened to me (and I tested again) with compress=yes. I refer to

Bug#402679: backupninja: mysql handler overwrites existing backups even if mysqldump fails

2006-12-11 Thread Joel Fuster
Package: backupninja Version: 0.9.4-4 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss The mysql backup handler happily overwrites your existing sql.gz files with empty tarballs even in situations such as: 1) mysqldump does not exist 2) mysql is not running ...etc. This just bit me

Bug#385908: rdiff-backup: Security Violations when using --remove-older-than with B time formats

2006-09-03 Thread Joel Fuster
Package: rdiff-backup Version: 1.1.5-3 Severity: normal Hi, When I use rdiff-backup with --remove-older-than and use a B time format, I get a Security Violation exception. This does not occur if, say, I use 60D instead of 60B. It also does not occur if I am using with a local backup