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1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.115 2001/05/26 11:04:46 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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9Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
10==================================================================
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90aa4874 121. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 13 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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152. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
16 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
17 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
18 bug and providing a patch.
19
a01aa5e8 203. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 21 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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23 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
24 drives supporting variable block size.
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25
26 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
27 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
28 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
29
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304. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
31 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
32 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
33 it upstream.
34
43460f04 355. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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36 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
37 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
43460f04 38
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396. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
40 are now based on the configure parameters.
41
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427. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
43 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
44 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
45 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
46 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
47 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
48 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
49 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
50
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518. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
52 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
53 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
54
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559. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
56 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
57 correctly).
58
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5910. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
60 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
61 process per tape).
62
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6311. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
64 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
65 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
66 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
67
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68Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
69======================================================================
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70
711. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
72 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
73 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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752. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
76 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
77 who reported this stupid error.
78
a1158276 793. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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80 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
81 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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834. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
84 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
85 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
86 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
87 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
88 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
89
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905. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
91 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
92 for the patch.
93
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946. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
95 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
96 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
97 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
98 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
99 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
100 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
101
7ae7e2fd 1027. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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103 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
104 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
105 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
106 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
107 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
108 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
109 useful thoughts.
110
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1118. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
112 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
113 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
114 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
115 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
116
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117Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
118=======================================================================
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1201. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
121 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
122 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
123 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
124 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
125 a fix.
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1272. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
128 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
129 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
130 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
131 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
132
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1333. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
134 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
135 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
136 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
f1d86882 137
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1384. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
139 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
140 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
141 when multiple -e options are used.
142
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1435. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
144 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
145 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
146 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
147
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1486. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
149 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
150
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1517. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
152 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
153
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1548. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
155 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
156 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
157
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1589. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
159 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
160 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
161 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
162
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16310. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
164 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
165 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
166 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
167
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16811. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
169 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
170 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
171 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
172
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173Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
174=====================================================================
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175
1761. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
177 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
178 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
ddf0df5b 179
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1802. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
181
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1823. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
183 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
184 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
185 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
186
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1874. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
188 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
189 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
190 for reporting the bug.
191
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1925. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
193 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
194 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
195 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
196
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1976. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
198 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
199 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
200 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
201 reporting the bug.
202
3e815572 2037. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 204 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 205 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 206
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2078. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
208 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
209 library in order to compile the readline support.
210
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2119. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
212 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
213 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
214 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
215 for providing the patch.
216
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217Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
218===================================================================
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2201. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
221 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
222 the bug.
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2242. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
225 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
226 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
227 for the bug report.
228
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2293. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
230 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
231 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
232 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
233 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
234 the bugs to me.
235
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2364. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
237 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
238 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
239 to make network backups should read first the man page
240 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
241
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2425. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
243 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
244 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
245 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
246
ac443b63 247Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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249
2501. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 251 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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252 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
253
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254 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
255 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
256 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
257 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
258 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
259
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2602. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
261 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
262 the patch.
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2643. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
265 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
266 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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267 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
268 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 2704. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 2725. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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273 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
274 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 275
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2766. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
277 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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278 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
279 suggestion.
280
2817. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
282 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
283 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
284 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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286Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
287====================================================================
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2891. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
290 output of dump.
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2922. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
293 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
294 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
295 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
296 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
297 character at the end).
298
2993. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
300 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
301 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
302
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3034. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
304 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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305 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
306 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
307 patch.
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3095. Added the device name and the current volume number
310 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
311
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3126. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
313 broken it in 0.4b15).
314
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315Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
316===================================================================
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3181. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
319 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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3212. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
322 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
323 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
324 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
325 who forwarded me his mail).
326
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3273. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
328 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
329 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
330 pager etc.).
331
3324. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
333 I made in 0.4b14.
334
3355. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
336 in both dump and restore.
337
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338Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
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340
3411. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
342 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
343 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
344 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
345 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
346 bug and submitting the patch.
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3482. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
349 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
350 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
351 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
352
3533. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
354 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
355
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3564. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
357 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
358
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3595. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
360 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
361
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3626. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
363 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
364 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
365
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3667. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
367 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
368 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
369 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
370 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
371 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
372 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
373 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
374 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
375 helping me test the fix.
376
3778. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
378 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
379 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
380 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
381
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382Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
383======================================================================
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384
3851. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
386 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
387
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3882. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
389 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
390 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
391
8d957ae7 3923. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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393 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
394 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
395 helping me find this bug.
396
8d957ae7 3974. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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398 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
399 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
400
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4015. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
402 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
403
2f9a0c5c 404Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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4071. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
408 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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4102. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
411 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
412 submitting the patch.
413
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4143. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
415 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
416 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
417
4184. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
419 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
420 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
421
4225. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
423 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
424 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
425 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
426
4276. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
428 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
429 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
430 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
431 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
432
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4337. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
434 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
435 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
436 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
437 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
438
cf9aab8e 439Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
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441
4421. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 443
144a6db1 4442. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 445 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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446 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
447 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
448
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4493. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
450 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
451 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
452 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
453 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
454 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
455 asking to enter a new tape each time.
456
7fbb9b02 4574. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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458 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
459 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
7fbb9b02 460
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461Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
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4641. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
465 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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466 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
467 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
468 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
469 glitches.
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4712. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
472 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
473 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
474 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
475
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4763. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
477 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
478 contents.
479
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4804. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
481 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
482 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
483 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
484 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
485 it is dumped (it should not).
486
4875. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
488 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
489
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490Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
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492
4931. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
494 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
495 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
496 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
497 this and providing the patch.
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500====================================================================
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5021. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
503 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
504
5052. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
506 easily verify the version he is using.
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5083. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
509 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
510 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
511
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5124. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
513 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
514 for submitting the bug report.
515
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5165. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
517 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
518
5196. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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520 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
521 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
522 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
523
f34aca37 5247. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
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525 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
526 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
527 this should work.
528
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529Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
530===================================================================
531
5321. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
533 was not compiled in.
534
5352. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
536 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
537
5383. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
539 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
540 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
541 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
542 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
543
5444. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
545 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
546
5475. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
548 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
549 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
550
5516. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
552
5537. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
554 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
555 dump).
556
5578. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
558 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
559 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
560 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
561 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
562 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
563
5649. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
565 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
566 /etc/dumpdates.
567
56810. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
569 included the current date/version in man pages.
570
57111. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
572 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
573 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
574 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
575 the results canceled each other...
576
577Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
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5801. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
581
582 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
583 isn't specified.
584 - several fixes in the man pages.
585 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
586 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
587 - buffer overruns.
588 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
589 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
590 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
591 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
592
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594 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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597
5984. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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599 routines (only if available).
600
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6015. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
602 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
603
604Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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606
6071. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
608 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
609 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
610 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
611 RMT etc.).
612
6132. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
614
6153. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
616 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
617 when comparing).
618
6194. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
620 This works for me, needs further testing.
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6251. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
626 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
627
628Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
629========================================
630
6311. Use realpath() if available
632
6332. Report statistics
634
635Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
636========================================
637
6381. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
639 the patch)
640
6412. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
642
6433. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
644
645Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
646======================================
647
6481. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
649
6502. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
651
6523. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
653
6544. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
655 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
656
6575. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
658 distribution's one) to use autoconf
659
6606. Fixed a few minor bugs
661
662Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
663======================================
664
6651. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
666
6672. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
668
6693. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
670 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
671
6724. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
673 not restored.
674
6755. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
676
6776. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
678 correctly files ending by a hole.
679
680Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
681======================================
682
6831. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
684 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
685
686Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
687======================================
688
6891. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
690
6912. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
692
693Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
694======================================
695
6961. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
697
698Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
699======================================
700
7011. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
702
7032. Enabled optimization again.
704
705Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
706=====================================
707
7081. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
709
710Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
711====================================
712
7131. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
714 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
715 use the mntent functions).
716
7172. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
718 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
719 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
720 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
721 0.2 :-(
722
7233. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
724 filesystems like the BSD version.
725
7264. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
727 than 2 GB.
728
729Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
730====================================
731
7321. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
733
7342. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
735
7363. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
737 incremental backups.
738
7394. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.