From 91fa568d5e39d44b66cd0c3d365447555217c0ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Waldmann Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:33:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add note about issue #1837 --- docs/changes.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/changes.rst b/docs/changes.rst index 0ffc24e83..dad0149f9 100644 --- a/docs/changes.rst +++ b/docs/changes.rst @@ -3,6 +3,21 @@ Important notes This section is used for infos about e.g. security and corruption issues. +Pre-1.0.9 potential data loss +----------------------------- + +If you have archives in your repository that were made with attic <= 0.13 +(and later migrated to borg), running borg check would report errors in these +archives. See issue #1837. + +The reason for this is a invalid (and useless) metadata key that was +always added due to a bug in these old attic versions. + +If you run borg check --repair, things escalate quickly: all archive items +with invalid metadata will be killed. Due to that attic bug, that means all +items in all archives made with these old attic versions. + + Pre-1.0.4 potential repo corruption -----------------------------------