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Unzipping the backup yields 11/29/79 as the creation date

Jul 27, 2009 03:48pm craiglisterine Total Posts: 1	hi, love the app. very straightforward, and as easy to use as wordpress/joomla/etc… i discovered a bug in the backup feature. when clicking backup, it creates the file and zips it nicely. but when unzipping on my localhost, it shows a creation date of 11/29/79. i tried numerous times, and same result. i grep searched the entire directory, and found no reference to that string. any idea where this is coming from? another question… if we have an export feature, why not an import feature? seems noobs won’t know how to play with phpmyadmin or cli. this wordpress plugin has all the features needed. any chance of integrating it in the project? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ also, it has a nice addition of a cron task to auto backup/email on any user-specified interval. adds a safety net to lazy users who never backup web stuff. thanks for the great product. ping me when in nyc and i’ll buy u a beer.

Jul 28, 2009 06:42am Derek Allard Total Posts: 2324	Bamboo isn’t controlling the date set on that file, I can’t imagine why you’d experience that. I believe you, I just don’t know why or how that would happen.

Feb 05, 2010 12:56pm chr1831 Total Posts: 14	I have verified this issue unzipped the file on the server 12 -rw-r—r—1 root root 10475 2092-08-05 00:00 bambooinvoice_20100205.sql 4 -rw-r—r—1 www-data www-data 2124 2010-02-05 16:16 bambooinvoice_20100205.zip unzipping it on my 32bit cpu time stamp is known linux bug 12 -rw-r—r—1 chris chris 10475 2038-01-18 19:14 bambooinvoice_20100205.sql I have concluded that this is an issue with the CI zipping library and they are going to have to fix it before BI will have a working time stamp changing the library to gzip and extension to sql.gz reports the current date (Why are we not using sql.gz anyways?, phpmyadmin is what most people use to restore the database…) -Chris

Feb 05, 2010 01:03pm Derek Allard Total Posts: 2324	http://codeigniter.com/bug_tracker/bug/7422/ It’s been reported, and at least one developer is looking into it. If its something that you’d like to get involved in, I strongly encourage you to join in with the CI community and lend a hand.