** Description changed: This was recently fixed in duplicity trunk. But I'm filing a bug for paperwork purposes and for Ubuntu SRUs. [Impact] When restarting a backup, duplicity may accidentally skip the first 65k chunk of one of the source files. This means that when it is restored, it will be incomplete/corrupted, resulting in data loss. + + Note that symptoms of this bug are diverse and may look like: + assert len( patch_seq ) == 1, len( patch_seq ) + or + assert first.difftype != "diff", patch_seq + or + librsync error 103 while in patch cycle + + These are all different results from this root cause. In all cases, it + is because chunks of files are missing in your backup. There is nothing + we can do to get those chunks back. But a related patch in duplicity + trunk will let you restore the rest of your files (instead of just + crashing halfway through a restore like 0.6.22 does). So try duplicity + trunk to get a little progress from your broken backups. And use + duplicity trunk for all future backups. [Test Case] Download and install the 'test1.sh' file attached to this bug report, and run it like 'sh test1.sh'. If it prints the following line, the bug is present: Binary files /tmp/source/newfile and /tmp/restore/newfile differ Or, follow these manual steps: mkdir /tmp/source dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/source/bigfile bs=1024 count=5000 # This next command will intentionally fail after the second volume! duplicity full /tmp/source file:///tmp/backup --vol 1 --fail 2 --no-encryption mv /tmp/source/bigfile /tmp/source/newfile duplicity full /tmp/source file:///tmp/backup --no-encryption duplicity restore file:///tmp/backup /tmp/restore --no-encryption # This next line will say the files differ if the bug is present diff /tmp/source/newfile /tmp/restore/newfile [Regression Potential] It's a relatively small patch, only affecting the specific case of restarting a backup when the file we were in the middle of is no longer there. I'd say minor regression potential.
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