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

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi

I actually have an almost ready 14.2.5 in git that would just fix everything. I'll try to get that done until the weekend. Does that sound ok for you?

Greets
Evgeni

On July 20, 2015 6:32:40 PM GMT+02:00, Felix Geyer <fgeyer at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 13.06.2015 01:32, Felix Geyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:30:51 +0200 Michael Renner <robe at amd.co.at>
>wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Attached is a debdiff that contains a backport of the upstream fix.
>
>How about reverting the fix for #769536 ("circular dependency hell")
>until there is a proper
>solution for it?
>That way we can get this bug fixed and bareos back into testing.
>I've prepared those changes in the attached debdiff.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Cheers,
>Felix