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3Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released ??????????????????)
4========================================================================
5
61. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
7 directory.
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92. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
10 Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
11
123. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
13 to the examples section. It features dumping several
14 filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
15
164. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
17 which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
18 dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
19
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205. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
21 to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
22 patch.
23
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246. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
25 remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
26 regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
27 to know this information when reading a remote compressed
28 dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
29 the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
30 for device) when using a non Linux remote box.
31
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32Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
33========================================================================
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351. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
36
372. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
38 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
39 objects overlap).
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413. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
42 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
43 filesystem being compared in the process).
44
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454. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
46 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
47 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
48
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495. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
50 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
51
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526. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
53 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
54 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
55 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
56 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
57 original BSD tape format.
58
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597. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
60 very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
61 for the bug report.
62
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638. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
64 kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
65 a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
66 John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
67 for this suggestion.
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699. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
70 (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
71
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7210. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
73 which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
74 done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
75 output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
76 possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
77
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78Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
79===================================================================
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80
811. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
82 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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842. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
85 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
86
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873. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
88 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
89 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
90 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
91
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924. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
93 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
94 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
95
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965. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
97 previous version.
98
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996. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
100 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
101 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
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102 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
103 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
104 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
105 conservative.
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1077. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
108 the next volume in restore.
109
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1108. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
111 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
112 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
113 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
114 script parameters and return codes.
115
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1169. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
117 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
118 the man pages.
119
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12010. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
121 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
122 be lost.
123
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12411. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
125 comma separated list of inode numbers.
126
12712. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
128 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
129
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13013. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
131
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132Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
133==================================================================
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90aa4874 1351. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 136 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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1382. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
139 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
140 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
141 bug and providing a patch.
142
a01aa5e8 1433. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 144 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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146 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
147 drives supporting variable block size.
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148
149 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
150 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
151 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
152
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1534. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
154 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
155 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
156 it upstream.
157
43460f04 1585. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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159 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
160 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
43460f04 161
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1626. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
163 are now based on the configure parameters.
164
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1657. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
166 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
167 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
168 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
169 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
170 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
171 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
172 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
173
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1748. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
175 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
176 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
177
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1789. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
179 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
180 correctly).
181
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18210. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
183 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
184 process per tape).
185
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18611. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
187 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
188 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
189 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
190
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191Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
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1941. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
195 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
196 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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1982. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
199 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
200 who reported this stupid error.
201
a1158276 2023. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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203 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
204 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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2064. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
207 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
208 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
209 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
210 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
211 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
212
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2135. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
214 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
215 for the patch.
216
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2176. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
218 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
219 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
220 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
221 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
222 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
223 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
224
7ae7e2fd 2257. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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226 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
227 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
228 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
229 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
230 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
231 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
232 useful thoughts.
233
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2348. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
235 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
236 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
237 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
238 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
239
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240Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
241=======================================================================
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2431. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
244 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
245 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
246 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
247 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
248 a fix.
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2502. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
251 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
252 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
253 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
254 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
255
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2563. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
257 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
258 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
259 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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2614. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
262 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
263 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
264 when multiple -e options are used.
265
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2665. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
267 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
268 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
269 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
270
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2716. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
272 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
273
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2747. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
275 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
276
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2778. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
278 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
279 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
280
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2819. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
282 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
283 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
284 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
285
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28610. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
287 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
288 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
289 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
290
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29111. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
292 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
293 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
294 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
295
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296Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
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298
2991. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
300 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
301 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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3032. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
304
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3053. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
306 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
307 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
308 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
309
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3104. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
311 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
312 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
313 for reporting the bug.
314
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3155. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
316 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
317 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
318 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
319
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3206. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
321 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
322 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
323 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
324 reporting the bug.
325
3e815572 3267. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 327 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 328 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 329
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3308. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
331 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
332 library in order to compile the readline support.
333
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3349. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
335 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
336 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
337 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
338 for providing the patch.
339
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340Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
341===================================================================
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3431. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
344 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
345 the bug.
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3472. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
348 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
349 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
350 for the bug report.
351
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3523. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
353 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
354 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
355 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
356 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
357 the bugs to me.
358
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3594. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
360 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
361 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
362 to make network backups should read first the man page
363 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
364
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3655. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
366 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
367 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
368 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
369
ac443b63 370Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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372
3731. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 374 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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375 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
376
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377 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
378 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
379 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
380 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
381 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
382
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3832. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
384 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
385 the patch.
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3873. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
388 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
389 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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390 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
391 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 3934. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 3955. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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396 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
397 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 398
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3996. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
400 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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401 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
402 suggestion.
403
4047. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
405 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
406 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
407 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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4121. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
413 output of dump.
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4152. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
416 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
417 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
418 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
419 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
420 character at the end).
421
4223. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
423 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
424 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
425
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4264. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
427 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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428 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
429 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
430 patch.
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4325. Added the device name and the current volume number
433 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
434
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4356. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
436 broken it in 0.4b15).
437
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438Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
439===================================================================
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4411. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
442 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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4442. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
445 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
446 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
447 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
448 who forwarded me his mail).
449
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4503. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
451 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
452 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
453 pager etc.).
454
4554. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
456 I made in 0.4b14.
457
4585. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
459 in both dump and restore.
460
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4641. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
465 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
466 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
467 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
468 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
469 bug and submitting the patch.
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4712. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
472 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
473 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
474 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
475
4763. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
477 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
478
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4794. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
480 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
481
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4825. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
483 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
484
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4856. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
486 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
487 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
488
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4897. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
490 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
491 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
492 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
493 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
494 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
495 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
496 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
497 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
498 helping me test the fix.
499
5008. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
501 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
502 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
503 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
504
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5081. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
509 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
510
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512 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
513 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
514
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516 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
517 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
518 helping me find this bug.
519
8d957ae7 5204. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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521 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
522 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
523
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5245. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
525 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
526
2f9a0c5c 527Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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5301. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
531 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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5332. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
534 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
535 submitting the patch.
536
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5373. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
538 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
539 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
540
5414. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
542 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
543 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
544
5455. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
546 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
547 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
548 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
549
5506. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
551 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
552 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
553 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
554 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
555
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557 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
558 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
559 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
560 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
561
cf9aab8e 562Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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564
5651. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 566
144a6db1 5672. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 568 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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569 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
570 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
571
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5723. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
573 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
574 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
575 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
576 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
577 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
578 asking to enter a new tape each time.
579
7fbb9b02 5804. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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581 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
582 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
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584Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
585======================================================================
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586
5871. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
588 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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589 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
590 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
591 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
592 glitches.
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5942. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
595 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
596 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
597 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
598
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5993. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
600 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
601 contents.
602
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6034. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
604 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
605 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
606 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
607 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
608 it is dumped (it should not).
609
6105. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
611 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
612
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613Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
614====================================================================
615
6161. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
617 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
618 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
619 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
620 this and providing the patch.
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622Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
623====================================================================
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6251. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
626 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
627
6282. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
629 easily verify the version he is using.
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6313. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
632 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
633 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
634
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6354. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
636 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
637 for submitting the bug report.
638
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6395. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
640 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
641
6426. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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643 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
644 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
645 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
646
f34aca37 6477. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
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648 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
649 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
650 this should work.
651
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652Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
653===================================================================
654
6551. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
656 was not compiled in.
657
6582. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
659 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
660
6613. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
662 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
663 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
664 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
665 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
666
6674. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
668 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
669
6705. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
671 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
672 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
673
6746. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
675
6767. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
677 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
678 dump).
679
6808. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
681 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
682 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
683 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
684 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
685 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
686
6879. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
688 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
689 /etc/dumpdates.
690
69110. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
692 included the current date/version in man pages.
693
69411. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
695 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
696 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
697 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
698 the results canceled each other...
699
700Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
701===================================================================
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7031. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
704
705 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
706 isn't specified.
707 - several fixes in the man pages.
708 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
709 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
710 - buffer overruns.
711 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
712 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
713 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
714 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
715
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7162. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
717 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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7193. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
720
7214. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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722 routines (only if available).
723
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7245. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
725 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
726
727Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
728======================================================================
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7301. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
731 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
732 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
733 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
734 RMT etc.).
735
7362. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
737
7383. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
739 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
740 when comparing).
741
7424. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
743 This works for me, needs further testing.
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746====================================================================
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747
7481. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
749 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
750
751Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
752========================================
753
7541. Use realpath() if available
755
7562. Report statistics
757
758Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
759========================================
760
7611. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
762 the patch)
763
7642. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
765
7663. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
767
768Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
769======================================
770
7711. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
772
7732. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
774
7753. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
776
7774. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
778 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
779
7805. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
781 distribution's one) to use autoconf
782
7836. Fixed a few minor bugs
784
785Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
786======================================
787
7881. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
789
7902. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
791
7923. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
793 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
794
7954. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
796 not restored.
797
7985. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
799
8006. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
801 correctly files ending by a hole.
802
803Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
804======================================
805
8061. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
807 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
808
809Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
810======================================
811
8121. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
813
8142. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
815
816Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
817======================================
818
8191. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
820
821Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
822======================================
823
8241. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
825
8262. Enabled optimization again.
827
828Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
829=====================================
830
8311. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
832
833Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
834====================================
835
8361. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
837 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
838 use the mntent functions).
839
8402. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
841 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
842 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
843 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
844 0.2 :-(
845
8463. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
847 filesystems like the BSD version.
848
8494. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
850 than 2 GB.
851
852Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
853====================================
854
8551. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
856
8572. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
858
8593. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
860 incremental backups.
861
8624. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.