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with version 0.4b47-3 of dump no reliable incremental dumps possible

Asked by Arie Maaskant

In the Ubuntu version of 22.04 (LTS) is still dump version 0.4b47-3 been used. With this version one cannot
do incremental-dumps anymore, because these depend on persistent partition naming in /var/lib/dumpdates of
the partitions. /dev/sdxx naming is not persistent anymore when one has muliple disks.
The problem is solved with version 0.4b47-4 (in may 2022). I wonder why this patched version isn't included in
Ubuntu22.04 because it is a serious bug in my opnion.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

The new version of dump was only published after publication of Ubuntu 22.04.

If the new version provides critical bug fixes or important improvements, then please create a bug report request a SRU or a backport.

What you could try is manually installing the dump package for kinetic on your jammy system. I do not see any change in the dependencies, so this should be possible.

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Arie Maaskant (arimaask) said : 		#3

"What you could try is manually installing the dump package for kinetic on your jammy system. I do not see any change in the dependencies, so this should be possible."

I did so and did some tests. As far as i can see it works. Thank you very much. I can use the ¨dump" command again, as i
did since unix 6 (approximetly in the year 1982 :)