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a01aa5e8 1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.103 2001/02/21 16:16:00 stelian Exp $
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3Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released ????????????????)
4======================================================================
5
90aa4874 61. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 7 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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92. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
10 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
11 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
12 bug and providing a patch.
13
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143. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
15 <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
16
17 WARNING: the compression works only on drives supporting
18 variable block size.
19
20 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
21 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
22 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
23
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24Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
25======================================================================
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271. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
28 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
29 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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312. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
32 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
33 who reported this stupid error.
34
a1158276 353. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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36 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
37 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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394. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
40 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
41 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
42 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
43 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
44 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
45
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465. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
47 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
48 for the patch.
49
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506. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
51 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
52 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
53 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
54 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
55 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
56 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
57
7ae7e2fd 587. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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59 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
60 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
61 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
62 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
63 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
64 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
65 useful thoughts.
66
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678. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
68 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
69 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
70 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
71 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
72
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73Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
74=======================================================================
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761. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
77 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
78 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
79 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
80 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
81 a fix.
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832. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
84 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
85 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
86 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
87 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
88
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893. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
90 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
91 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
92 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
f1d86882 93
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944. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
95 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
96 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
97 when multiple -e options are used.
98
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995. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
100 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
101 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
102 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
103
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1046. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
105 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
106
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1077. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
108 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
109
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1108. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
111 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
112 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
113
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1149. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
115 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
116 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
117 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
118
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11910. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
120 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
121 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
122 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
123
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12411. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
125 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
126 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
127 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
128
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129Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
130=====================================================================
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131
1321. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
133 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
134 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
ddf0df5b 135
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1362. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
137
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1383. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
139 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
140 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
141 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
142
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1434. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
144 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
145 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
146 for reporting the bug.
147
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1485. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
149 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
150 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
151 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
152
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1536. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
154 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
155 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
156 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
157 reporting the bug.
158
3e815572 1597. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 160 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 161 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 162
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1638. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
164 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
165 library in order to compile the readline support.
166
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1679. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
168 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
169 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
170 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
171 for providing the patch.
172
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173Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
174===================================================================
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175
1761. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
177 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
178 the bug.
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1802. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
181 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
182 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
183 for the bug report.
184
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1853. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
186 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
187 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
188 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
189 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
190 the bugs to me.
191
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1924. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
193 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
194 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
195 to make network backups should read first the man page
196 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
197
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1985. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
199 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
200 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
201 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
202
ac443b63 203Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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205
2061. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 207 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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208 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
209
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210 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
211 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
212 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
213 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
214 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
215
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2162. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
217 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
218 the patch.
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2203. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
221 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
222 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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223 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
224 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 2264. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 2285. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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229 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
230 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 231
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2326. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
233 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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234 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
235 suggestion.
236
2377. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
238 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
239 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
240 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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242Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
243====================================================================
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244
2451. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
246 output of dump.
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2482. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
249 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
250 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
251 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
252 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
253 character at the end).
254
2553. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
256 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
257 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
258
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2594. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
260 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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261 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
262 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
263 patch.
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2655. Added the device name and the current volume number
266 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
267
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2686. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
269 broken it in 0.4b15).
270
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271Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
272===================================================================
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2741. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
275 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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2772. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
278 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
279 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
280 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
281 who forwarded me his mail).
282
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2833. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
284 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
285 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
286 pager etc.).
287
2884. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
289 I made in 0.4b14.
290
2915. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
292 in both dump and restore.
293
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294Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
295=======================================================================
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296
2971. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
298 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
299 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
300 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
301 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
302 bug and submitting the patch.
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3042. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
305 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
306 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
307 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
308
3093. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
310 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
311
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3124. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
313 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
314
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3155. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
316 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
317
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3186. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
319 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
320 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
321
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3227. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
323 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
324 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
325 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
326 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
327 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
328 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
329 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
330 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
331 helping me test the fix.
332
3338. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
334 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
335 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
336 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
337
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338Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
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340
3411. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
342 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
343
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3442. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
345 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
346 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
347
8d957ae7 3483. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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349 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
350 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
351 helping me find this bug.
352
8d957ae7 3534. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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354 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
355 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
356
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3575. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
358 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
359
2f9a0c5c 360Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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3631. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
364 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
2ed89fda 365
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3662. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
367 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
368 submitting the patch.
369
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3703. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
371 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
372 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
373
3744. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
375 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
376 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
377
3785. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
379 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
380 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
381 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
382
3836. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
384 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
385 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
386 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
387 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
388
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3897. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
390 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
391 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
392 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
393 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
394
cf9aab8e 395Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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397
3981. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 399
144a6db1 4002. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 401 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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402 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
403 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
404
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4053. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
406 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
407 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
408 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
409 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
410 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
411 asking to enter a new tape each time.
412
7fbb9b02 4134. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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414 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
415 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
7fbb9b02 416
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417Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
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4201. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
421 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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422 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
423 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
424 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
425 glitches.
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4272. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
428 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
429 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
430 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
431
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4323. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
433 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
434 contents.
435
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4364. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
437 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
438 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
439 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
440 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
441 it is dumped (it should not).
442
4435. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
444 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
445
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446Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
447====================================================================
448
4491. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
450 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
451 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
452 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
453 this and providing the patch.
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455Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
456====================================================================
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4581. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
459 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
460
4612. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
462 easily verify the version he is using.
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4643. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
465 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
466 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
467
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4684. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
469 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
470 for submitting the bug report.
471
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4725. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
473 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
474
4756. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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476 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
477 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
478 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
479
f34aca37 4807. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
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481 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
482 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
483 this should work.
484
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485Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
486===================================================================
487
4881. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
489 was not compiled in.
490
4912. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
492 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
493
4943. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
495 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
496 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
497 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
498 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
499
5004. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
501 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
502
5035. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
504 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
505 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
506
5076. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
508
5097. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
510 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
511 dump).
512
5138. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
514 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
515 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
516 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
517 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
518 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
519
5209. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
521 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
522 /etc/dumpdates.
523
52410. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
525 included the current date/version in man pages.
526
52711. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
528 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
529 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
530 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
531 the results canceled each other...
532
533Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
534===================================================================
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5361. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
537
538 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
539 isn't specified.
540 - several fixes in the man pages.
541 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
542 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
543 - buffer overruns.
544 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
545 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
546 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
547 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
548
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5492. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
550 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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5523. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
553
5544. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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555 routines (only if available).
556
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5575. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
558 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
559
560Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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5631. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
564 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
565 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
566 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
567 RMT etc.).
568
5692. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
570
5713. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
572 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
573 when comparing).
574
5754. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
576 This works for me, needs further testing.
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578Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
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5811. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
582 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
583
584Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
585========================================
586
5871. Use realpath() if available
588
5892. Report statistics
590
591Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
592========================================
593
5941. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
595 the patch)
596
5972. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
598
5993. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
600
601Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
602======================================
603
6041. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
605
6062. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
607
6083. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
609
6104. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
611 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
612
6135. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
614 distribution's one) to use autoconf
615
6166. Fixed a few minor bugs
617
618Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
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620
6211. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
622
6232. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
624
6253. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
626 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
627
6284. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
629 not restored.
630
6315. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
632
6336. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
634 correctly files ending by a hole.
635
636Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
637======================================
638
6391. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
640 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
641
642Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
643======================================
644
6451. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
646
6472. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
648
649Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
650======================================
651
6521. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
653
654Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
655======================================
656
6571. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
658
6592. Enabled optimization again.
660
661Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
662=====================================
663
6641. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
665
666Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
667====================================
668
6691. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
670 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
671 use the mntent functions).
672
6732. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
674 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
675 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
676 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
677 0.2 :-(
678
6793. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
680 filesystems like the BSD version.
681
6824. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
683 than 2 GB.
684
685Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
686====================================
687
6881. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
689
6902. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
691
6923. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
693 incremental backups.
694
6954. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.