NAME
rsyncrypto_recover - recover all usable data from corrupted rsyncrypto
filemaps
SYNOPSIS
rsyncrypto_recover badfile > goodfile
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the rsyncrypto_recover command.
When the rsyncrypto command is used with the --name-encrypt command, a
file containing the mapping from the plain text representation to the
encrypted file names is formed. This file mapping has a strict format
of records delimited by a NULL byte.
A bug introduced in version 1.07 or rsyncrypto, and solved in version
1.09, caused this file to be somewhat corrupted under certain
circumstances, most notably the use of the --delete-keys command line
option.
It is important to note that the only records corrupted are records
that were due to be deleted anyways. This bug did not result in any
loss of actual important data. It did, however, leave behind a file
that rsyncrypto then refused to open.
rsyncrypto_recover will read in a file map, and output to the standard
output only those records that are valid.
PARAMETERS
badfile
A file map that contains some good and some corrupted records.
SEE ALSO
rsyncrypto(1)
AUTHOR
rsyncrypto was written by Shachar Shemesh for Lingnu Open Source
Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com
This manual page was written by Shachar Shemesh <shachar@debian.org>
PROJECT HOMEPAGE
http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com