Bug#956083: autopostgresqlbackup: Fails to detect when DB dumps fail, and saves useless backups

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Bug#956083: autopostgresqlbackup: Fails to detect when DB dumps fail, and saves useless backups

tags 956083 + patch,pending thanks Hello Tina! I have prepared a _very_ simple patch for this issue that lacks elegance, but I think solves the problem: As it is invoked before the data rotation, it will notify via stderr and exit before destroying past data: diff --git a/autopostgresqlbackup

Bug#956083: autopostgresqlbackup: Fails to detect when DB dumps fail, and saves useless backups

Package: autopostgresqlbackup Version: 1.1-1 Severity: critical Tags: upstream Justification: causes serious data loss Due to a human error, today I had to resort to backups to recover data from a PostgreSQL database. In the worst possible moment, I realised that ALL of the backups we had of this