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3Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released ?????????????)
4===================================================================
5
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61. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
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82. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
9 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
10 objects overlap).
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123. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
13 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
14 filesystem being compared in the process).
15
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164. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
17 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
18 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
19
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205. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
21 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
22
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236. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
24 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
25 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
26 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
27 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
28 original BSD tape format.
29
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30Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
31===================================================================
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331. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
34 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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362. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
37 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
38
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393. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
40 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
41 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
42 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
43
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444. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
45 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
46 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
47
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485. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
49 previous version.
50
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516. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
52 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
53 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
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54 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
55 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
56 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
57 conservative.
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597. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
60 the next volume in restore.
61
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628. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
63 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
64 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
65 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
66 script parameters and return codes.
67
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689. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
69 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
70 the man pages.
71
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7210. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
73 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
74 be lost.
75
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7611. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
77 comma separated list of inode numbers.
78
7912. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
80 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
81
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8213. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
83
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84Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
85==================================================================
fa7fb417 86
90aa4874 871. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 88 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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902. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
91 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
92 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
93 bug and providing a patch.
94
a01aa5e8 953. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 96 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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98 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
99 drives supporting variable block size.
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100
101 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
102 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
103 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
104
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1054. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
106 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
107 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
108 it upstream.
109
43460f04 1105. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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111 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
112 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
43460f04 113
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1146. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
115 are now based on the configure parameters.
116
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1177. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
118 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
119 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
120 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
121 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
122 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
123 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
124 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
125
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1268. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
127 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
128 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
129
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1309. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
131 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
132 correctly).
133
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13410. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
135 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
136 process per tape).
137
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13811. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
139 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
140 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
141 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
142
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143Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
144======================================================================
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145
1461. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
147 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
148 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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1502. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
151 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
152 who reported this stupid error.
153
a1158276 1543. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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155 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
156 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
a1158276 157
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1584. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
159 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
160 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
161 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
162 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
163 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
164
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1655. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
166 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
167 for the patch.
168
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1696. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
170 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
171 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
172 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
173 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
174 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
175 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
176
7ae7e2fd 1777. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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178 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
179 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
180 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
181 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
182 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
183 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
184 useful thoughts.
185
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1868. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
187 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
188 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
189 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
190 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
191
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192Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
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1951. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
196 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
197 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
198 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
199 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
200 a fix.
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2022. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
203 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
204 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
205 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
206 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
207
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2083. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
209 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
210 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
211 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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2134. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
214 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
215 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
216 when multiple -e options are used.
217
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2185. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
219 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
220 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
221 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
222
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2236. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
224 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
225
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2267. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
227 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
228
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2298. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
230 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
231 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
232
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2339. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
234 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
235 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
236 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
237
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23810. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
239 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
240 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
241 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
242
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24311. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
244 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
245 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
246 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
247
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248Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
249=====================================================================
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250
2511. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
252 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
253 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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2552. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
256
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2573. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
258 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
259 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
260 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
261
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2624. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
263 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
264 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
265 for reporting the bug.
266
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2675. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
268 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
269 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
270 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
271
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2726. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
273 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
274 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
275 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
276 reporting the bug.
277
3e815572 2787. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 279 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 280 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 281
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2828. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
283 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
284 library in order to compile the readline support.
285
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2869. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
287 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
288 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
289 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
290 for providing the patch.
291
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292Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
293===================================================================
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2951. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
296 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
297 the bug.
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2992. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
300 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
301 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
302 for the bug report.
303
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3043. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
305 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
306 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
307 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
308 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
309 the bugs to me.
310
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3114. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
312 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
313 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
314 to make network backups should read first the man page
315 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
316
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3175. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
318 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
319 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
320 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
321
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324
3251. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 326 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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327 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
328
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329 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
330 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
331 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
332 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
333 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
334
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3352. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
336 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
337 the patch.
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3393. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
340 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
341 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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342 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
343 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 3454. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 3475. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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348 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
349 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 350
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3516. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
352 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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353 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
354 suggestion.
355
3567. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
357 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
358 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
359 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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361Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
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3641. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
365 output of dump.
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3672. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
368 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
369 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
370 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
371 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
372 character at the end).
373
3743. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
375 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
376 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
377
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3784. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
379 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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380 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
381 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
382 patch.
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3845. Added the device name and the current volume number
385 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
386
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3876. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
388 broken it in 0.4b15).
389
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390Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
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3931. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
394 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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3962. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
397 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
398 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
399 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
400 who forwarded me his mail).
401
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4023. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
403 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
404 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
405 pager etc.).
406
4074. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
408 I made in 0.4b14.
409
4105. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
411 in both dump and restore.
412
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413Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
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4161. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
417 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
418 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
419 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
420 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
421 bug and submitting the patch.
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4232. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
424 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
425 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
426 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
427
4283. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
429 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
430
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4314. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
432 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
433
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4345. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
435 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
436
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4376. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
438 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
439 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
440
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4417. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
442 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
443 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
444 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
445 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
446 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
447 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
448 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
449 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
450 helping me test the fix.
451
4528. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
453 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
454 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
455 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
456
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457Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
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4601. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
461 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
462
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464 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
465 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
466
8d957ae7 4673. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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468 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
469 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
470 helping me find this bug.
471
8d957ae7 4724. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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473 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
474 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
475
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4765. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
477 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
478
2f9a0c5c 479Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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4821. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
483 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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4852. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
486 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
487 submitting the patch.
488
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4893. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
490 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
491 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
492
4934. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
494 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
495 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
496
4975. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
498 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
499 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
500 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
501
5026. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
503 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
504 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
505 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
506 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
507
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5087. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
509 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
510 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
511 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
512 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
513
cf9aab8e 514Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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516
5171. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 518
144a6db1 5192. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 520 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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522 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
523
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5243. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
525 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
526 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
527 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
528 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
529 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
530 asking to enter a new tape each time.
531
7fbb9b02 5324. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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533 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
534 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
7fbb9b02 535
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536Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
537======================================================================
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538
5391. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
540 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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541 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
542 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
543 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
544 glitches.
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547 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
548 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
549 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
550
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5513. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
552 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
553 contents.
554
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5554. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
556 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
557 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
558 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
559 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
560 it is dumped (it should not).
561
5625. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
563 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
564
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565Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
566====================================================================
567
5681. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
569 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
570 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
571 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
572 this and providing the patch.
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574Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
575====================================================================
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5771. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
578 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
579
5802. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
581 easily verify the version he is using.
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5833. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
584 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
585 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
586
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5874. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
588 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
589 for submitting the bug report.
590
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592 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
593
5946. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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595 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
596 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
597 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
598
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600 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
601 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
602 this should work.
603
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604Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
605===================================================================
606
6071. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
608 was not compiled in.
609
6102. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
611 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
612
6133. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
614 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
615 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
616 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
617 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
618
6194. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
620 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
621
6225. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
623 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
624 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
625
6266. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
627
6287. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
629 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
630 dump).
631
6328. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
633 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
634 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
635 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
636 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
637 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
638
6399. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
640 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
641 /etc/dumpdates.
642
64310. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
644 included the current date/version in man pages.
645
64611. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
647 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
648 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
649 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
650 the results canceled each other...
651
652Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
653===================================================================
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6551. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
656
657 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
658 isn't specified.
659 - several fixes in the man pages.
660 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
661 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
662 - buffer overruns.
663 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
664 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
665 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
666 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
667
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669 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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6713. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
672
6734. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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674 routines (only if available).
675
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6765. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
677 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
678
679Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
680======================================================================
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6821. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
683 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
684 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
685 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
686 RMT etc.).
687
6882. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
689
6903. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
691 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
692 when comparing).
693
6944. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
695 This works for me, needs further testing.
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697Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
698====================================================================
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7001. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
701 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
702
703Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
704========================================
705
7061. Use realpath() if available
707
7082. Report statistics
709
710Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
711========================================
712
7131. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
714 the patch)
715
7162. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
717
7183. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
719
720Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
721======================================
722
7231. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
724
7252. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
726
7273. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
728
7294. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
730 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
731
7325. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
733 distribution's one) to use autoconf
734
7356. Fixed a few minor bugs
736
737Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
738======================================
739
7401. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
741
7422. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
743
7443. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
745 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
746
7474. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
748 not restored.
749
7505. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
751
7526. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
753 correctly files ending by a hole.
754
755Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
756======================================
757
7581. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
759 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
760
761Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
762======================================
763
7641. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
765
7662. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
767
768Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
769======================================
770
7711. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
772
773Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
774======================================
775
7761. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
777
7782. Enabled optimization again.
779
780Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
781=====================================
782
7831. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
784
785Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
786====================================
787
7881. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
789 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
790 use the mntent functions).
791
7922. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
793 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
794 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
795 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
796 0.2 :-(
797
7983. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
799 filesystems like the BSD version.
800
8014. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
802 than 2 GB.
803
804Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
805====================================
806
8071. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
808
8092. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
810
8113. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
812 incremental backups.
813
8144. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.