Re: [BackupPC-users] More Restore Problems

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Dan D Niles writes:

> Some files on the system I tried to restore were dated 1/1/1970.  When
> I unziped them, they were dated 1/18/2038.
> 
> That's just not right. 8^(
> 
> So many bugs showing up in BackupPC.  This is most disheartening.

I'll fix any bugs that I can recreate.  I think you'll find through
the history of this project that any reported bug that I can recreate
gets fixed.

BackupPC simply takes the file mtime from the backup and delivers
it to Archive::Zip, which makes the zip file.  I suspect, as Daniel
mentioned, somewhere along the line the mtime (maybe in your unzip
program?) gets adjusted for localtime, and overflows from the year
1970 to 2038.  But that's just a guess.

What unzip program are you using?

Craig