Re: Extracting a single directory from a partial incremental dump?

"Felix E. Klee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:21:25 +0200, "Joerg Schilling"
> <[email protected]> said:
> > looks like the backup has been made with an outdated star version.
>
> This is indeed the case.  It was made with 1.5a5something IIRC.
>
> > The problem you report was most likely fixed on June 8th in star-
> > 1.5a61
>
> That's great news.  I'll let you know if the problem is really gone now.

Note that you need to start with creating a _new_ level 0 backup as the bug did
cause the inode list for a directory to get corrupted on the aresultant archive.

The probability for this to happen was approx.: 1 : 40,000,000
this is why it took so long to be discovered.

Jörg

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