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On Sun, 19. Jul 21:51 Richard Jasmin <frazzledj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: xarchiver
> Version: 1:0.5.4-1
> Severity: Grave
>
> Xarchiver has a SERIOUS data LOSS issue.One can attempt to zip up some
> home folders from /home.The problem when doing so is that data gets
> corrupted on add. This does not happen when using zip from the
> commandline.When attempting to unzip these archives, unzip complains
> that there is invalid compressed data to inflate and skips over the bad
> crc marked files.This has resulted in about less than 25GB of a 300GB
> archive to be recovered on restore.I have lost my backup set due to
> this.

Hello,

Xarchiver is merely a frontend for various compression formats and not
much has changed in regard to zip compression since squeeze. Please try
to describe how it is possible to reproduce your issue by attaching a
simple test case to this bug report.

Thanks

Markus

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