It's been soo long I honestly don't feel like messing with it. Thanks anyway.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Michael Terry <[email protected]>wrote: > How easy is it for you to try a branch of duplicity? I've linked this > bug to lp:~mterry/duplicity/tarfile which uses a more up-to-date > tarfile.py that seems to support negative uid/gid numbers. > > ** Branch linked: lp:~mterry/duplicity/tarfile > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690549 > > Title: > uid and guid setting adversely affects integrity > > Status in Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup: > New > Status in “duplicity” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: duplicity > > Ubuntu 10.10 Server > Duplicity 0.6.11(compiled, not apt-get) > > I have an Ubuntu machine importing nfs shares from my various systems, > including those exported from Windows machines (via Cygwin). I backup > all my computers from this system; it makes maintenance easy, and > duplicity is a fantastic solution. Unfortunately there is a segment > of code which modifies the uid and gid (in tarfile.py::getheader) for > any file whose id's are larger than 2097151 (2^21 -1), and for my > Windows 7 systems, the Administrators group possesses a gid of -1, > which is interpreted as (4^32 -1). The section of code changes these > id's to 60001. This will be a problem during disaster recovery. > > I attached a patch that solves the problem by extending the gid and > uid fieldsize. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/690549/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690549 Title: uid and guid setting adversely affects integrity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/690549/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
