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3Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released ????????????)
4==================================================================
5
61. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
7 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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92. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
10 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
11
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123. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
13 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
14 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
15 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
16
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174. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
18 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
19 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
20
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215. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
22 previous version.
23
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246. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
25 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
26 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
27 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>.
28
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297. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
30 the next volume in restore.
31
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328. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
33 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
34 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
35 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
36 script parameters and return codes.
37
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389. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
39 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
40 the man pages.
41
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42Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
43==================================================================
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90aa4874 451. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 46 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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482. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
49 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
50 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
51 bug and providing a patch.
52
a01aa5e8 533. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 54 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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56 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
57 drives supporting variable block size.
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59 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
60 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
61 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
62
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634. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
64 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
65 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
66 it upstream.
67
43460f04 685. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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69 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
70 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
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726. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
73 are now based on the configure parameters.
74
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757. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
76 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
77 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
78 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
79 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
80 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
81 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
82 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
83
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848. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
85 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
86 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
87
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889. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
89 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
90 correctly).
91
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9210. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
93 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
94 process per tape).
95
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9611. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
97 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
98 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
99 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
100
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101Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
102======================================================================
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103
1041. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
105 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
106 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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1082. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
109 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
110 who reported this stupid error.
111
a1158276 1123. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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113 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
114 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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1164. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
117 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
118 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
119 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
120 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
121 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
122
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1235. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
124 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
125 for the patch.
126
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1276. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
128 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
129 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
130 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
131 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
132 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
133 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
134
7ae7e2fd 1357. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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136 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
137 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
138 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
139 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
140 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
141 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
142 useful thoughts.
143
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1448. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
145 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
146 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
147 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
148 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
149
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150Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
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1531. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
154 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
155 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
156 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
157 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
158 a fix.
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1602. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
161 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
162 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
163 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
164 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
165
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1663. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
167 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
168 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
169 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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1714. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
172 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
173 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
174 when multiple -e options are used.
175
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1765. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
177 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
178 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
179 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
180
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1816. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
182 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
183
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1847. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
185 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
186
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1878. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
188 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
189 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
190
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1919. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
192 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
193 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
194 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
195
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19610. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
197 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
198 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
199 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
200
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20111. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
202 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
203 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
204 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
205
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206Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
207=====================================================================
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208
2091. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
210 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
211 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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2132. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
214
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2153. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
216 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
217 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
218 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
219
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2204. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
221 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
222 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
223 for reporting the bug.
224
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2255. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
226 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
227 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
228 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
229
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2306. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
231 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
232 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
233 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
234 reporting the bug.
235
3e815572 2367. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 237 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 238 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 239
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2408. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
241 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
242 library in order to compile the readline support.
243
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2449. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
245 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
246 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
247 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
248 for providing the patch.
249
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250Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
251===================================================================
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252
2531. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
254 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
255 the bug.
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2572. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
258 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
259 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
260 for the bug report.
261
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2623. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
263 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
264 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
265 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
266 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
267 the bugs to me.
268
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2694. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
270 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
271 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
272 to make network backups should read first the man page
273 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
274
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2755. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
276 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
277 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
278 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
279
ac443b63 280Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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282
2831. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 284 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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285 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
286
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287 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
288 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
289 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
290 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
291 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
292
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2932. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
294 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
295 the patch.
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2973. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
298 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
299 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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300 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
301 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 3034. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 3055. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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306 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
307 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
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3096. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
310 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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311 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
312 suggestion.
313
3147. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
315 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
316 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
317 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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319Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
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3221. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
323 output of dump.
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3252. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
326 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
327 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
328 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
329 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
330 character at the end).
331
3323. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
333 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
334 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
335
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3364. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
337 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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338 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
339 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
340 patch.
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3425. Added the device name and the current volume number
343 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
344
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3456. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
346 broken it in 0.4b15).
347
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348Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
349===================================================================
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3511. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
352 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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3542. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
355 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
356 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
357 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
358 who forwarded me his mail).
359
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3603. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
361 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
362 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
363 pager etc.).
364
3654. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
366 I made in 0.4b14.
367
3685. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
369 in both dump and restore.
370
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371Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
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373
3741. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
375 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
376 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
377 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
378 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
379 bug and submitting the patch.
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3812. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
382 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
383 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
384 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
385
3863. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
387 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
388
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3894. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
390 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
391
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3925. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
393 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
394
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3956. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
396 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
397 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
398
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3997. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
400 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
401 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
402 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
403 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
404 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
405 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
406 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
407 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
408 helping me test the fix.
409
4108. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
411 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
412 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
413 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
414
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415Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
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417
4181. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
419 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
420
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4212. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
422 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
423 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
424
8d957ae7 4253. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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426 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
427 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
428 helping me find this bug.
429
8d957ae7 4304. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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431 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
432 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
433
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4345. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
435 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
436
2f9a0c5c 437Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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4401. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
441 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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4432. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
444 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
445 submitting the patch.
446
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4473. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
448 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
449 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
450
4514. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
452 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
453 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
454
4555. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
456 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
457 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
458 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
459
4606. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
461 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
462 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
463 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
464 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
465
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4667. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
467 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
468 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
469 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
470 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
471
cf9aab8e 472Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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474
4751. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 476
144a6db1 4772. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 478 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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479 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
480 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
481
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4823. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
483 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
484 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
485 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
486 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
487 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
488 asking to enter a new tape each time.
489
7fbb9b02 4904. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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491 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
492 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
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4971. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
498 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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499 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
500 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
501 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
502 glitches.
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5042. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
505 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
506 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
507 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
508
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5093. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
510 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
511 contents.
512
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5134. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
514 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
515 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
516 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
517 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
518 it is dumped (it should not).
519
5205. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
521 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
522
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524====================================================================
525
5261. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
527 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
528 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
529 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
530 this and providing the patch.
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532Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
533====================================================================
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5351. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
536 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
537
5382. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
539 easily verify the version he is using.
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5413. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
542 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
543 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
544
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546 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
547 for submitting the bug report.
548
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550 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
551
5526. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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553 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
554 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
555 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
556
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559 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
560 this should work.
561
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562Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
563===================================================================
564
5651. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
566 was not compiled in.
567
5682. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
569 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
570
5713. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
572 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
573 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
574 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
575 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
576
5774. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
578 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
579
5805. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
581 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
582 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
583
5846. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
585
5867. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
587 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
588 dump).
589
5908. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
591 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
592 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
593 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
594 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
595 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
596
5979. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
598 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
599 /etc/dumpdates.
600
60110. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
602 included the current date/version in man pages.
603
60411. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
605 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
606 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
607 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
608 the results canceled each other...
609
610Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
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6131. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
614
615 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
616 isn't specified.
617 - several fixes in the man pages.
618 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
619 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
620 - buffer overruns.
621 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
622 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
623 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
624 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
625
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627 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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6293. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
630
6314. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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632 routines (only if available).
633
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6345. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
635 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
636
637Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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639
6401. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
641 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
642 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
643 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
644 RMT etc.).
645
6462. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
647
6483. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
649 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
650 when comparing).
651
6524. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
653 This works for me, needs further testing.
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655Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
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6581. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
659 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
660
661Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
662========================================
663
6641. Use realpath() if available
665
6662. Report statistics
667
668Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
669========================================
670
6711. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
672 the patch)
673
6742. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
675
6763. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
677
678Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
679======================================
680
6811. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
682
6832. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
684
6853. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
686
6874. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
688 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
689
6905. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
691 distribution's one) to use autoconf
692
6936. Fixed a few minor bugs
694
695Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
696======================================
697
6981. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
699
7002. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
701
7023. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
703 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
704
7054. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
706 not restored.
707
7085. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
709
7106. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
711 correctly files ending by a hole.
712
713Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
714======================================
715
7161. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
717 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
718
719Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
720======================================
721
7221. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
723
7242. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
725
726Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
727======================================
728
7291. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
730
731Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
732======================================
733
7341. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
735
7362. Enabled optimization again.
737
738Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
739=====================================
740
7411. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
742
743Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
744====================================
745
7461. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
747 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
748 use the mntent functions).
749
7502. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
751 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
752 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
753 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
754 0.2 :-(
755
7563. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
757 filesystems like the BSD version.
758
7594. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
760 than 2 GB.
761
762Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
763====================================
764
7651. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
766
7672. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
768
7693. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
770 incremental backups.
771
7724. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.