Re: Doubled dates in old repositories

"Eric L. Zolf" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Organization Rdiff-Backup
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 21/04/2020 13:46, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> Despite the failed verifications, I have successfully recovered a largish
> (>150MB) file from December 2008 in the impacted repository. As there are
> 2806 later versions of this file (with changes in this file occurring
> between most of these versions), the recovery presumably involved applying
> 2806 reverse-diffs to the current file - pretty impressive work by
> rdiff-backup! (Sorry, still on v1.2.8)

As only the metadata are impacted, I'm not too surprised but I also
can't rule out that it might go wrong.

KR, Eric
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