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3Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
4=======================================================================
5
61. Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused
7 a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
8 restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
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102. Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
11 there should be no white space between the option letter and
12 the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
13
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14Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
15=======================================================================
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171. Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
18 (SIGXFSZ treatment).
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202. Added the -L flag to restore to allow the user to specify a
21 maximal allowed number of miscompares when using restore
22 with the -C option to check the backup.
23
243. Detailed the manual entry for the -N option of restore.
25
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264. Added the -a flag to restore to make able doing unattended
27 restores in -i or -x mode (automatically walks through the
28 multiple dump volumes).
29
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305. Extended the QFA mode to work with local files and/or
31 remote tapes and files. This way, restore can know in advance
32 the tape number and the offset for the inodes to extract and
33 can minimize the extraction time by seeking directly to the
34 good tape/offset.
35
366. Added the -A <archive> option to both dump and restore,
37 which makes dump to archive a dump table-of-contents in
38 the specified file to be used by restore to determine
39 whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored.
40 (the archive file syntax is also compatible with the
41 Solaris ufsdump generated one).
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437. Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
44 Solaris ufsdump tapes.
45
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468. Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
47 ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
48 for reporting this bug.
49
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509. Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
51 Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch
52 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
53
5410. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a
55 possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
56 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
57
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58Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
59=====================================================================
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611. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz
62 <getnito@yahoo.com> in the examples section. It features
63 automatic (cron based) full and incremental dumping of
64 several filesystems on a separate filesystem.
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662. Fixed a off-by-one miscalculation which disabled dumping
67 a one letter subdirectory. Thanks to Chris Siebenmann
68 <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
69
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703. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to
71 restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris
72 Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
73
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744. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from
75 a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed
76 by <splite@purdue.edu>.
77
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785. Fix a bug which could caused, in some conditions, the highest
79 number inode of a filesystem, to not be dumped. Many thanks
80 to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for helping me
81 chase this bug.
82
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83Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
84=======================================================================
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861. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
87 directory.
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892. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
90 Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
91
923. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
93 to the examples section. It features dumping several
94 filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
95
964. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
97 which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
98 dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
99
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1005. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
101 to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
102 patch.
103
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1046. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
105 remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
106 regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
107 to know this information when reading a remote compressed
108 dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
109 the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
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110 for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
111 many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
112 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
113
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1147. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
115 stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
116 to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
117 for you, please report back.
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1198. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
120
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121Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
122========================================================================
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1241. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
125
1262. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
127 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
128 objects overlap).
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1303. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
131 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
132 filesystem being compared in the process).
133
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1344. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
135 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
136 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
137
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1385. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
139 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
140
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1416. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
142 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
143 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
144 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
145 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
146 original BSD tape format.
147
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1487. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
149 very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
150 for the bug report.
151
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1528. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
153 kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
154 a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
155 John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
156 for this suggestion.
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1589. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
159 (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
160
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16110. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
162 which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
163 done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
164 output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
165 possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
166
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167Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
168===================================================================
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1701. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
171 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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1732. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
174 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
175
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1763. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
177 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
178 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
179 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
180
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1814. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
182 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
183 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
184
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1855. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
186 previous version.
187
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1886. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
189 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
190 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
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191 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
192 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
193 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
194 conservative.
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1967. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
197 the next volume in restore.
198
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1998. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
200 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
201 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
202 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
203 script parameters and return codes.
204
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2059. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
206 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
207 the man pages.
208
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20910. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
210 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
211 be lost.
212
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21311. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
214 comma separated list of inode numbers.
215
21612. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
217 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
218
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21913. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
220
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221Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
222==================================================================
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90aa4874 2241. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 225 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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2272. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
228 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
229 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
230 bug and providing a patch.
231
a01aa5e8 2323. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 233 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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235 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
236 drives supporting variable block size.
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238 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
239 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
240 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
241
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2424. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
243 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
244 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
245 it upstream.
246
43460f04 2475. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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248 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
249 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
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2516. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
252 are now based on the configure parameters.
253
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2547. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
255 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
256 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
257 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
258 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
259 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
260 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
261 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
262
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2638. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
264 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
265 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
266
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2679. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
268 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
269 correctly).
270
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27110. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
272 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
273 process per tape).
274
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27511. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
276 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
277 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
278 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
279
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280Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
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2831. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
284 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
285 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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2872. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
288 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
289 who reported this stupid error.
290
a1158276 2913. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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292 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
293 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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2954. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
296 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
297 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
298 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
299 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
300 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
301
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3025. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
303 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
304 for the patch.
305
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3066. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
307 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
308 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
309 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
310 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
311 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
312 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
313
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315 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
316 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
317 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
318 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
319 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
320 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
321 useful thoughts.
322
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3238. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
324 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
325 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
326 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
327 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
328
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329Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
330=======================================================================
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3321. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
333 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
334 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
335 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
336 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
337 a fix.
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3392. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
340 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
341 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
342 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
343 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
344
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3453. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
346 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
347 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
348 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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3504. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
351 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
352 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
353 when multiple -e options are used.
354
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3555. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
356 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
357 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
358 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
359
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3606. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
361 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
362
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3637. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
364 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
365
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3668. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
367 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
368 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
369
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3709. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
371 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
372 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
373 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
374
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37510. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
376 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
377 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
378 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
379
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38011. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
381 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
382 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
383 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
384
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385Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
386=====================================================================
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3881. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
389 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
390 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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3922. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
393
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3943. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
395 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
396 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
397 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
398
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3994. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
400 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
401 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
402 for reporting the bug.
403
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4045. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
405 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
406 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
407 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
408
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4096. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
410 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
411 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
412 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
413 reporting the bug.
414
3e815572 4157. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 416 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 417 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 418
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4198. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
420 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
421 library in order to compile the readline support.
422
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4239. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
424 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
425 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
426 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
427 for providing the patch.
428
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429Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
430===================================================================
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4321. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
433 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
434 the bug.
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4362. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
437 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
438 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
439 for the bug report.
440
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4413. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
442 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
443 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
444 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
445 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
446 the bugs to me.
447
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4484. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
449 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
450 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
451 to make network backups should read first the man page
452 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
453
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4545. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
455 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
456 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
457 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
458
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461
4621. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 463 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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464 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
465
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466 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
467 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
468 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
469 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
470 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
471
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473 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
474 the patch.
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4763. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
477 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
478 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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479 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
480 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 4824. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 4845. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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485 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
486 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 487
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489 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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490 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
491 suggestion.
492
4937. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
494 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
495 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
496 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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5011. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
502 output of dump.
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5042. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
505 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
506 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
507 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
508 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
509 character at the end).
510
5113. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
512 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
513 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
514
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5154. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
516 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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517 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
518 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
519 patch.
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522 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
523
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5246. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
525 broken it in 0.4b15).
526
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527Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
528===================================================================
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5301. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
531 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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5332. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
534 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
535 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
536 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
537 who forwarded me his mail).
538
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5393. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
540 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
541 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
542 pager etc.).
543
5444. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
545 I made in 0.4b14.
546
5475. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
548 in both dump and restore.
549
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550Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
551=======================================================================
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552
5531. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
554 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
555 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
556 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
557 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
558 bug and submitting the patch.
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5602. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
561 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
562 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
563 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
564
5653. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
566 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
567
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5684. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
569 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
570
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5715. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
572 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
573
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5746. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
575 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
576 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
577
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5787. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
579 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
580 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
581 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
582 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
583 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
584 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
585 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
586 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
587 helping me test the fix.
588
5898. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
590 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
591 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
592 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
593
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594Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
595======================================================================
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596
5971. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
598 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
599
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6002. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
601 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
602 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
603
8d957ae7 6043. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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605 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
606 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
607 helping me find this bug.
608
8d957ae7 6094. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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610 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
611 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
612
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6135. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
614 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
615
2f9a0c5c 616Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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618
6191. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
620 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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6222. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
623 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
624 submitting the patch.
625
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6263. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
627 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
628 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
629
6304. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
631 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
632 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
633
6345. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
635 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
636 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
637 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
638
6396. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
640 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
641 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
642 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
643 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
644
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6457. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
646 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
647 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
648 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
649 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
650
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653
6541. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 655
144a6db1 6562. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 657 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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658 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
659 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
660
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6613. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
662 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
663 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
664 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
665 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
666 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
667 asking to enter a new tape each time.
668
7fbb9b02 6694. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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670 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
671 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
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673Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
674======================================================================
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675
6761. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
677 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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678 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
679 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
680 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
681 glitches.
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6832. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
684 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
685 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
686 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
687
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6883. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
689 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
690 contents.
691
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6924. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
693 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
694 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
695 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
696 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
697 it is dumped (it should not).
698
6995. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
700 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
701
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702Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
703====================================================================
704
7051. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
706 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
707 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
708 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
709 this and providing the patch.
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711Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
712====================================================================
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7141. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
715 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
716
7172. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
718 easily verify the version he is using.
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7203. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
721 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
722 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
723
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7244. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
725 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
726 for submitting the bug report.
727
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7285. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
729 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
730
7316. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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732 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
733 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
734 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
735
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737 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
738 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
739 this should work.
740
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741Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
742===================================================================
743
7441. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
745 was not compiled in.
746
7472. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
748 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
749
7503. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
751 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
752 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
753 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
754 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
755
7564. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
757 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
758
7595. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
760 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
761 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
762
7636. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
764
7657. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
766 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
767 dump).
768
7698. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
770 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
771 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
772 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
773 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
774 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
775
7769. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
777 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
778 /etc/dumpdates.
779
78010. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
781 included the current date/version in man pages.
782
78311. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
784 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
785 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
786 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
787 the results canceled each other...
788
789Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
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7921. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
793
794 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
795 isn't specified.
796 - several fixes in the man pages.
797 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
798 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
799 - buffer overruns.
800 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
801 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
802 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
803 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
804
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8052. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
806 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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8083. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
809
8104. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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811 routines (only if available).
812
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8135. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
814 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
815
816Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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8191. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
820 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
821 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
822 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
823 RMT etc.).
824
8252. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
826
8273. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
828 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
829 when comparing).
830
8314. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
832 This works for me, needs further testing.
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835====================================================================
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8371. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
838 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
839
840Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
841========================================
842
8431. Use realpath() if available
844
8452. Report statistics
846
847Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
848========================================
849
8501. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
851 the patch)
852
8532. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
854
8553. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
856
857Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
858======================================
859
8601. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
861
8622. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
863
8643. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
865
8664. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
867 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
868
8695. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
870 distribution's one) to use autoconf
871
8726. Fixed a few minor bugs
873
874Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
875======================================
876
8771. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
878
8792. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
880
8813. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
882 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
883
8844. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
885 not restored.
886
8875. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
888
8896. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
890 correctly files ending by a hole.
891
892Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
893======================================
894
8951. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
896 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
897
898Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
899======================================
900
9011. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
902
9032. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
904
905Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
906======================================
907
9081. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
909
910Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
911======================================
912
9131. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
914
9152. Enabled optimization again.
916
917Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
918=====================================
919
9201. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
921
922Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
923====================================
924
9251. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
926 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
927 use the mntent functions).
928
9292. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
930 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
931 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
932 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
933 0.2 :-(
934
9353. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
936 filesystems like the BSD version.
937
9384. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
939 than 2 GB.
940
941Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
942====================================
943
9441. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
945
9462. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
947
9483. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
949 incremental backups.
950
9514. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.