[Pkg-bareos-devel] Bug#788543: bareos-sd will silently corrupt backups when using multi-volume disk-based jobs

[Michael Renner]

Package: bareos
Version: 14.2.1+20141017gitc6c5b56-4
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

In March 2015 bareos fixed a bug which caused silent corruption of
backups when the following conditions are met:

 * backups are written to disk (tape backups are not affected)
 * autolabelling is enabled
 * a backup spans over multiple volumes
 * the additional volumes are newly created and labeled during the backup.

Bug: https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=437
Announcement: http://www.bareos.com/en/company_news/items/Bareos-14.2.4-published.html
Fix for 14.2: https://github.com/bareos/bareos/commit/263240eaa911563a8468ecdaf7d4957201b41426

Given that the above conditions are met in most bareos installations
I've tagged this as critical.


While I'm at it I'd like to point out that Joerg Steffens, an upstream maintainer,
employee and/or partner of bareos.com and co-maintainer of this
package in Debian, hasn't found the time to inform the Debian community of this issue, lest
providing a patched package.

best,
Michael