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ad922073 1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.119 2001/07/18 08:50:58 stelian Exp $
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3Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released ????????????)
4==================================================================
5
61. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
7 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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92. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
10 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
11
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123. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
13 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
14 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
15 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
16
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174. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
18 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
19 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
20
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215. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
22 previous version.
23
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24Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
25==================================================================
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90aa4874 271. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 28 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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302. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
31 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
32 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
33 bug and providing a patch.
34
a01aa5e8 353. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 36 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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38 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
39 drives supporting variable block size.
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40
41 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
42 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
43 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
44
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454. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
46 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
47 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
48 it upstream.
49
43460f04 505. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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51 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
52 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
43460f04 53
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546. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
55 are now based on the configure parameters.
56
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577. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
58 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
59 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
60 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
61 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
62 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
63 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
64 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
65
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668. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
67 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
68 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
69
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709. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
71 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
72 correctly).
73
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7410. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
75 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
76 process per tape).
77
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7811. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
79 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
80 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
81 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
82
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83Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
84======================================================================
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85
861. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
87 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
88 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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902. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
91 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
92 who reported this stupid error.
93
a1158276 943. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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95 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
96 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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984. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
99 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
100 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
101 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
102 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
103 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
104
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1055. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
106 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
107 for the patch.
108
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1096. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
110 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
111 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
112 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
113 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
114 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
115 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
116
7ae7e2fd 1177. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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118 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
119 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
120 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
121 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
122 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
123 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
124 useful thoughts.
125
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1268. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
127 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
128 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
129 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
130 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
131
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132Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
133=======================================================================
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1351. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
136 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
137 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
138 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
139 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
140 a fix.
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1422. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
143 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
144 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
145 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
146 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
147
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1483. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
149 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
150 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
151 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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1534. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
154 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
155 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
156 when multiple -e options are used.
157
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1585. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
159 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
160 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
161 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
162
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1636. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
164 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
165
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1667. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
167 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
168
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1698. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
170 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
171 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
172
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1739. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
174 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
175 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
176 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
177
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17810. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
179 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
180 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
181 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
182
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18311. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
184 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
185 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
186 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
187
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188Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
189=====================================================================
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190
1911. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
192 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
193 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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1952. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
196
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1973. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
198 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
199 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
200 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
201
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2024. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
203 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
204 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
205 for reporting the bug.
206
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2075. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
208 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
209 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
210 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
211
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2126. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
213 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
214 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
215 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
216 reporting the bug.
217
3e815572 2187. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 219 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 220 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 221
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2228. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
223 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
224 library in order to compile the readline support.
225
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2269. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
227 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
228 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
229 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
230 for providing the patch.
231
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232Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
233===================================================================
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2351. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
236 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
237 the bug.
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2392. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
240 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
241 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
242 for the bug report.
243
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2443. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
245 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
246 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
247 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
248 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
249 the bugs to me.
250
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2514. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
252 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
253 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
254 to make network backups should read first the man page
255 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
256
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2575. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
258 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
259 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
260 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
261
ac443b63 262Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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264
2651. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 266 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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267 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
268
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269 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
270 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
271 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
272 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
273 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
274
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2752. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
276 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
277 the patch.
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2793. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
280 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
281 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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282 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
283 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 2854. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 2875. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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288 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
289 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
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2916. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
292 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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293 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
294 suggestion.
295
2967. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
297 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
298 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
299 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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301Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
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3041. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
305 output of dump.
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3072. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
308 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
309 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
310 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
311 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
312 character at the end).
313
3143. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
315 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
316 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
317
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3184. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
319 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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320 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
321 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
322 patch.
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3245. Added the device name and the current volume number
325 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
326
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3276. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
328 broken it in 0.4b15).
329
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330Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
331===================================================================
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3331. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
334 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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3362. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
337 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
338 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
339 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
340 who forwarded me his mail).
341
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3423. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
343 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
344 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
345 pager etc.).
346
3474. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
348 I made in 0.4b14.
349
3505. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
351 in both dump and restore.
352
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353Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
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3561. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
357 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
358 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
359 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
360 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
361 bug and submitting the patch.
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3632. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
364 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
365 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
366 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
367
3683. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
369 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
370
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3714. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
372 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
373
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3745. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
375 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
376
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3776. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
378 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
379 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
380
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3817. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
382 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
383 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
384 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
385 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
386 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
387 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
388 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
389 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
390 helping me test the fix.
391
3928. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
393 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
394 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
395 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
396
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397Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
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4001. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
401 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
402
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4032. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
404 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
405 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
406
8d957ae7 4073. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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408 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
409 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
410 helping me find this bug.
411
8d957ae7 4124. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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413 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
414 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
415
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4165. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
417 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
418
2f9a0c5c 419Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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4221. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
423 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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4252. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
426 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
427 submitting the patch.
428
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4293. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
430 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
431 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
432
4334. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
434 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
435 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
436
4375. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
438 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
439 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
440 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
441
4426. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
443 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
444 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
445 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
446 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
447
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4487. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
449 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
450 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
451 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
452 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
453
cf9aab8e 454Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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456
4571. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 458
144a6db1 4592. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 460 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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461 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
462 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
463
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4643. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
465 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
466 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
467 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
468 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
469 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
470 asking to enter a new tape each time.
471
7fbb9b02 4724. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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473 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
474 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
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476Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
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4791. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
480 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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481 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
482 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
483 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
484 glitches.
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4862. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
487 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
488 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
489 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
490
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4913. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
492 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
493 contents.
494
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4954. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
496 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
497 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
498 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
499 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
500 it is dumped (it should not).
501
5025. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
503 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
504
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507
5081. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
509 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
510 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
511 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
512 this and providing the patch.
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514Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
515====================================================================
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5171. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
518 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
519
5202. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
521 easily verify the version he is using.
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524 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
525 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
526
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528 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
529 for submitting the bug report.
530
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5315. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
532 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
533
5346. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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535 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
536 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
537 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
538
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540 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
541 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
542 this should work.
543
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544Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
545===================================================================
546
5471. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
548 was not compiled in.
549
5502. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
551 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
552
5533. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
554 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
555 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
556 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
557 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
558
5594. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
560 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
561
5625. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
563 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
564 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
565
5666. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
567
5687. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
569 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
570 dump).
571
5728. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
573 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
574 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
575 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
576 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
577 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
578
5799. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
580 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
581 /etc/dumpdates.
582
58310. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
584 included the current date/version in man pages.
585
58611. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
587 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
588 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
589 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
590 the results canceled each other...
591
592Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
593===================================================================
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5951. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
596
597 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
598 isn't specified.
599 - several fixes in the man pages.
600 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
601 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
602 - buffer overruns.
603 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
604 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
605 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
606 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
607
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6082. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
609 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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6113. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
612
6134. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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614 routines (only if available).
615
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6165. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
617 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
618
619Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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6221. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
623 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
624 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
625 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
626 RMT etc.).
627
6282. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
629
6303. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
631 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
632 when comparing).
633
6344. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
635 This works for me, needs further testing.
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637Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
638====================================================================
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6401. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
641 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
642
643Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
644========================================
645
6461. Use realpath() if available
647
6482. Report statistics
649
650Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
651========================================
652
6531. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
654 the patch)
655
6562. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
657
6583. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
659
660Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
661======================================
662
6631. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
664
6652. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
666
6673. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
668
6694. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
670 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
671
6725. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
673 distribution's one) to use autoconf
674
6756. Fixed a few minor bugs
676
677Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
678======================================
679
6801. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
681
6822. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
683
6843. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
685 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
686
6874. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
688 not restored.
689
6905. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
691
6926. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
693 correctly files ending by a hole.
694
695Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
696======================================
697
6981. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
699 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
700
701Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
702======================================
703
7041. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
705
7062. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
707
708Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
709======================================
710
7111. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
712
713Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
714======================================
715
7161. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
717
7182. Enabled optimization again.
719
720Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
721=====================================
722
7231. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
724
725Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
726====================================
727
7281. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
729 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
730 use the mntent functions).
731
7322. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
733 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
734 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
735 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
736 0.2 :-(
737
7383. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
739 filesystems like the BSD version.
740
7414. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
742 than 2 GB.
743
744Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
745====================================
746
7471. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
748
7492. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
750
7513. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
752 incremental backups.
753
7544. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.