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3Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
4=======================================================================
5
61. Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused
7 a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
8 restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
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102. Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
11 there should be no white space between the option letter and
12 the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
13
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143. Made restore work with older versions of the readline library,
15 by checking in configure for several extended symbols. Restore
16 can now be compiled with a readline as old as the 2.0 release
17 (though it may be a good idea to upgrade it to a more recent
18 version...). Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
19 reporting the build failures.
20
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214. Fixed a performance problem with the QFA file creation in
22 dump, which made unnecessary seeks on the tape slowing down
23 the dump. Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
24 reporting this issue.
25
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265. Removed the inclusion of some kernel headers in the dump
27 source, which prevented the compile in some kernel/glibc
28 headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee
29 <bdale@gag.com> for reporting the bug.
30
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316. Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to
32 open the output file for writing. Thanks to Amith Varghese
33 <amithv@yahoo.com> for reporting this bug.
34
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357. Made restore able to understand large Solaris ufsdump tapes
36 (containing inodes bigger than 4194304). Sun have introduced
37 an "extension" to the dump tape format when dealing with
38 those inodes, which was uncorrectly handled by Linux restore.
39 Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for reporting the bug and
40 providing a test case.
41
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428. Added the -m parameter to dump which optimises the output for
43 inodes having been changed but not modified since the last dump
44 ('changed' and 'modified' have the meaning defined in stat(2)).
45 For those inodes, dump will save only the metadata, instead of
46 saving the entire inode contents. Inodes which are either
47 directories or have been modified since the last dump are saved
48 in a regular way. Uses of this flag must be consistent, meaning
49 that either every dump in an incremental dump set have the flag,
50 or no one has it.
51
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52Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
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551. Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
56 (SIGXFSZ treatment).
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582. Added the -L flag to restore to allow the user to specify a
59 maximal allowed number of miscompares when using restore
60 with the -C option to check the backup.
61
623. Detailed the manual entry for the -N option of restore.
63
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644. Added the -a flag to restore to make able doing unattended
65 restores in -i or -x mode (automatically walks through the
66 multiple dump volumes).
67
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685. Extended the QFA mode to work with local files and/or
69 remote tapes and files. This way, restore can know in advance
70 the tape number and the offset for the inodes to extract and
71 can minimize the extraction time by seeking directly to the
72 good tape/offset.
73
746. Added the -A <archive> option to both dump and restore,
75 which makes dump to archive a dump table-of-contents in
76 the specified file to be used by restore to determine
77 whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored.
78 (the archive file syntax is also compatible with the
79 Solaris ufsdump generated one).
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817. Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
82 Solaris ufsdump tapes.
83
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848. Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
85 ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
86 for reporting this bug.
87
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889. Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
89 Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch
90 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
91
9210. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a
93 possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
94 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
95
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96Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
97=====================================================================
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991. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz
100 <getnito@yahoo.com> in the examples section. It features
101 automatic (cron based) full and incremental dumping of
102 several filesystems on a separate filesystem.
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1042. Fixed a off-by-one miscalculation which disabled dumping
105 a one letter subdirectory. Thanks to Chris Siebenmann
106 <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
107
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1083. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to
109 restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris
110 Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
111
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1124. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from
113 a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed
114 by <splite@purdue.edu>.
115
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1165. Fix a bug which could caused, in some conditions, the highest
117 number inode of a filesystem, to not be dumped. Many thanks
118 to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for helping me
119 chase this bug.
120
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121Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
122=======================================================================
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123
1241. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
125 directory.
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1272. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
128 Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
129
1303. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
131 to the examples section. It features dumping several
132 filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
133
1344. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
135 which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
136 dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
137
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1385. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
139 to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
140 patch.
141
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1426. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
143 remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
144 regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
145 to know this information when reading a remote compressed
146 dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
147 the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
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148 for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
149 many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
150 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
151
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1527. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
153 stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
154 to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
155 for you, please report back.
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156
1578. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
158
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159Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
160========================================================================
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1621. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
163
1642. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
165 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
166 objects overlap).
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1683. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
169 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
170 filesystem being compared in the process).
171
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1724. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
173 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
174 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
175
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1765. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
177 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
178
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1796. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
180 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
181 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
182 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
183 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
184 original BSD tape format.
185
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1867. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
187 very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
188 for the bug report.
189
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1908. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
191 kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
192 a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
193 John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
194 for this suggestion.
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1969. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
197 (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
198
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19910. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
200 which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
201 done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
202 output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
203 possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
204
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205Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
206===================================================================
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2081. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
209 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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2112. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
212 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
213
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2143. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
215 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
216 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
217 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
218
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2194. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
220 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
221 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
222
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2235. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
224 previous version.
225
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2266. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
227 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
228 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
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229 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
230 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
231 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
232 conservative.
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2347. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
235 the next volume in restore.
236
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2378. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
238 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
239 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
240 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
241 script parameters and return codes.
242
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2439. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
244 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
245 the man pages.
246
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24710. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
248 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
249 be lost.
250
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25111. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
252 comma separated list of inode numbers.
253
25412. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
255 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
256
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25713. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
258
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259Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
260==================================================================
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90aa4874 2621. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 263 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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2652. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
266 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
267 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
268 bug and providing a patch.
269
a01aa5e8 2703. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 271 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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273 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
274 drives supporting variable block size.
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275
276 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
277 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
278 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
279
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2804. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
281 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
282 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
283 it upstream.
284
43460f04 2855. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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286 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
287 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
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2896. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
290 are now based on the configure parameters.
291
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2927. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
293 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
294 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
295 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
296 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
297 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
298 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
299 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
300
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3018. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
302 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
303 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
304
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3059. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
306 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
307 correctly).
308
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30910. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
310 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
311 process per tape).
312
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31311. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
314 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
315 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
316 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
317
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318Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
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320
3211. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
322 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
323 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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3252. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
326 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
327 who reported this stupid error.
328
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330 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
331 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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3334. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
334 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
335 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
336 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
337 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
338 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
339
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3405. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
341 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
342 for the patch.
343
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3446. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
345 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
346 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
347 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
348 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
349 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
350 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
351
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353 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
354 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
355 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
356 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
357 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
358 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
359 useful thoughts.
360
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3618. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
362 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
363 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
364 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
365 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
366
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367Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
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3701. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
371 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
372 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
373 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
374 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
375 a fix.
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3772. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
378 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
379 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
380 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
381 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
382
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3833. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
384 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
385 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
386 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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3884. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
389 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
390 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
391 when multiple -e options are used.
392
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3935. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
394 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
395 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
396 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
397
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3986. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
399 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
400
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4017. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
402 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
403
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4048. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
405 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
406 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
407
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4089. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
409 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
410 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
411 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
412
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41310. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
414 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
415 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
416 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
417
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41811. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
419 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
420 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
421 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
422
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423Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
424=====================================================================
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425
4261. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
427 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
428 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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4302. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
431
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4323. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
433 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
434 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
435 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
436
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4374. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
438 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
439 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
440 for reporting the bug.
441
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4425. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
443 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
444 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
445 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
446
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4476. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
448 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
449 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
450 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
451 reporting the bug.
452
3e815572 4537. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 454 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 455 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 456
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4578. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
458 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
459 library in order to compile the readline support.
460
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4619. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
462 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
463 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
464 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
465 for providing the patch.
466
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467Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
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4701. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
471 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
472 the bug.
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4742. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
475 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
476 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
477 for the bug report.
478
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4793. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
480 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
481 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
482 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
483 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
484 the bugs to me.
485
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4864. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
487 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
488 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
489 to make network backups should read first the man page
490 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
491
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4925. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
493 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
494 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
495 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
496
ac443b63 497Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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499
5001. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 501 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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502 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
503
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504 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
505 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
506 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
507 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
508 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
509
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511 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
512 the patch.
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5143. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
515 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
516 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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517 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
518 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 5204. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 5225. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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523 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
524 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 525
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5266. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
527 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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528 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
529 suggestion.
530
5317. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
532 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
533 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
534 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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537====================================================================
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538
5391. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
540 output of dump.
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5422. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
543 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
544 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
545 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
546 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
547 character at the end).
548
5493. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
550 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
551 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
552
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5534. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
554 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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555 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
556 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
557 patch.
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5595. Added the device name and the current volume number
560 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
561
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5626. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
563 broken it in 0.4b15).
564
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565Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
566===================================================================
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567
5681. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
569 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
d6f78b13 570
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5712. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
572 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
573 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
574 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
575 who forwarded me his mail).
576
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5773. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
578 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
579 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
580 pager etc.).
581
5824. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
583 I made in 0.4b14.
584
5855. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
586 in both dump and restore.
587
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588Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
589=======================================================================
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590
5911. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
592 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
593 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
594 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
595 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
596 bug and submitting the patch.
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5982. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
599 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
600 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
601 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
602
6033. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
604 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
605
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6064. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
607 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
608
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6095. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
610 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
611
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6126. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
613 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
614 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
615
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6167. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
617 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
618 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
619 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
620 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
621 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
622 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
623 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
624 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
625 helping me test the fix.
626
6278. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
628 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
629 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
630 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
631
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632Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
633======================================================================
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634
6351. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
636 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
637
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6382. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
639 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
640 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
641
8d957ae7 6423. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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643 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
644 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
645 helping me find this bug.
646
8d957ae7 6474. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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648 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
649 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
650
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6515. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
652 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
653
2f9a0c5c 654Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
df172bbb 655=====================================================================
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656
6571. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
658 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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6602. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
661 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
662 submitting the patch.
663
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6643. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
665 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
666 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
667
6684. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
669 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
670 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
671
6725. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
673 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
674 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
675 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
676
6776. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
678 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
679 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
680 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
681 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
682
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6837. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
684 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
685 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
686 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
687 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
688
cf9aab8e 689Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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690======================================================================
691
6921. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 693
144a6db1 6942. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 695 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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696 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
697 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
698
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6993. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
700 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
701 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
702 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
703 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
704 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
705 asking to enter a new tape each time.
706
7fbb9b02 7074. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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708 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
709 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
7fbb9b02 710
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711Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
712======================================================================
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713
7141. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
715 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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716 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
717 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
718 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
719 glitches.
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7212. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
722 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
723 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
724 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
725
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7263. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
727 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
728 contents.
729
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7304. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
731 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
732 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
733 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
734 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
735 it is dumped (it should not).
736
7375. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
738 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
739
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740Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
741====================================================================
742
7431. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
744 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
745 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
746 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
747 this and providing the patch.
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749Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
750====================================================================
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7521. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
753 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
754
7552. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
756 easily verify the version he is using.
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7583. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
759 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
760 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
761
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7624. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
763 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
764 for submitting the bug report.
765
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7665. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
767 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
768
7696. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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770 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
771 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
772 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
773
f34aca37 7747. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
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775 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
776 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
777 this should work.
778
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779Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
780===================================================================
781
7821. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
783 was not compiled in.
784
7852. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
786 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
787
7883. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
789 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
790 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
791 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
792 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
793
7944. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
795 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
796
7975. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
798 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
799 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
800
8016. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
802
8037. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
804 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
805 dump).
806
8078. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
808 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
809 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
810 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
811 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
812 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
813
8149. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
815 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
816 /etc/dumpdates.
817
81810. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
819 included the current date/version in man pages.
820
82111. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
822 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
823 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
824 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
825 the results canceled each other...
826
827Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
828===================================================================
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8301. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
831
832 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
833 isn't specified.
834 - several fixes in the man pages.
835 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
836 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
837 - buffer overruns.
838 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
839 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
840 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
841 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
842
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8432. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
844 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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8463. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
847
8484. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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849 routines (only if available).
850
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8515. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
852 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
853
854Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
855======================================================================
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856
8571. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
858 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
859 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
860 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
861 RMT etc.).
862
8632. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
864
8653. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
866 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
867 when comparing).
868
8694. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
870 This works for me, needs further testing.
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873====================================================================
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8751. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
876 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
877
878Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
879========================================
880
8811. Use realpath() if available
882
8832. Report statistics
884
885Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
886========================================
887
8881. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
889 the patch)
890
8912. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
892
8933. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
894
895Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
896======================================
897
8981. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
899
9002. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
901
9023. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
903
9044. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
905 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
906
9075. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
908 distribution's one) to use autoconf
909
9106. Fixed a few minor bugs
911
912Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
913======================================
914
9151. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
916
9172. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
918
9193. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
920 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
921
9224. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
923 not restored.
924
9255. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
926
9276. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
928 correctly files ending by a hole.
929
930Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
931======================================
932
9331. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
934 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
935
936Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
937======================================
938
9391. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
940
9412. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
942
943Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
944======================================
945
9461. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
947
948Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
949======================================
950
9511. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
952
9532. Enabled optimization again.
954
955Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
956=====================================
957
9581. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
959
960Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
961====================================
962
9631. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
964 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
965 use the mntent functions).
966
9672. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
968 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
969 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
970 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
971 0.2 :-(
972
9733. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
974 filesystems like the BSD version.
975
9764. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
977 than 2 GB.
978
979Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
980====================================
981
9821. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
983
9842. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
985
9863. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
987 incremental backups.
988
9894. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.