Comment 16 for bug 1252484

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Dan Gillmor (dan-gillmor) wrote : Re: [Bug 1252484] Re: Possible data loss when restarting in the middle of a deleted file

I tried this with a brand-new backup, not an old one.

Dan

On 12/17/2013 11:53 AM, Michael Terry wrote:
> Dan, simply backing up with a fixed duplicity will not retroactively fix
> the bug. That is, if you have a backup chain that is already affected
> by the bug, adding more incremental backups to the chain won't be able
> to recover the previous missing 65k chunk. We're just ensuring that
> future backups won't be affected.
>