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TAPER BUG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jan 13 17:44:48 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:16:12 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Yusuf Nagree <yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk>
Reply-To: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Subject: TAPER BUG
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To all the users of taper out there, please note there is a serious bug
in versions 5.6 to 6.1.
The bad news:
There is no way to fix archives that have fallen victim to this bug
The good news:
It does not occur all the time, but is most likely to occur on slow tape
drives that have two buffers queued for writing at the end of the backup
Only the data on the last two blocks of each volume are affected. Since
a block is typically 28K long, the most you have lost is 56K.
Diagnosis:
After running mkinfo/check archive, you will be told (in the logfile)
that the volume count was incorrect and the info file has been fudged
to overcome it.
The solution:
Please upgrade to 6.1.1 immediately. Locations:
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Backup (or /pub/Linux/Incoming)
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/sources/sbin
Yusuf
yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
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Yusuf Nagree yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Author & Maintainer of
TAPER
The user friendly Linux Backup Solution
Available from
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Backup
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin
and all mirrors
Current version 6.1 December, 1995
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