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a94ecd11 1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.110 2001/04/10 13:42:21 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
a01aa5e8 143. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 15 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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17 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
18 drives supporting variable block size.
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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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244. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
25 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
26 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
27 it upstream.
28
43460f04 295. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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30 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
31 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
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336. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
34 are now based on the configure parameters.
35
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367. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
37 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
38 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
39 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
40 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
41 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
42 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
43 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
44
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458. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
46 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
47 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
48
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49Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
50======================================================================
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521. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
53 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
54 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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562. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
57 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
58 who reported this stupid error.
59
a1158276 603. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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61 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
62 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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644. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
65 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
66 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
67 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
68 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
69 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
70
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715. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
72 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
73 for the patch.
74
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756. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
76 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
77 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
78 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
79 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
80 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
81 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
82
7ae7e2fd 837. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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84 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
85 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
86 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
87 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
88 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
89 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
90 useful thoughts.
91
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928. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
93 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
94 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
95 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
96 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
97
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98Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
99=======================================================================
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1011. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
102 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
103 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
104 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
105 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
106 a fix.
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1082. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
109 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
110 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
111 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
112 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
113
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1143. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
115 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
116 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
117 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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1194. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
120 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
121 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
122 when multiple -e options are used.
123
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1245. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
125 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
126 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
127 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
128
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1296. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
130 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
131
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1327. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
133 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
134
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1358. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
136 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
137 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
138
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1399. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
140 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
141 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
142 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
143
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14410. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
145 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
146 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
147 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
148
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14911. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
150 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
151 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
152 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
153
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154Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
155=====================================================================
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156
1571. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
158 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
159 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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1612. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
162
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1633. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
164 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
165 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
166 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
167
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1684. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
169 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
170 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
171 for reporting the bug.
172
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1735. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
174 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
175 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
176 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
177
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1786. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
179 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
180 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
181 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
182 reporting the bug.
183
3e815572 1847. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 185 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 186 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 187
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1888. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
189 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
190 library in order to compile the readline support.
191
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1929. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
193 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
194 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
195 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
196 for providing the patch.
197
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198Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
199===================================================================
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2011. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
202 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
203 the bug.
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2052. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
206 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
207 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
208 for the bug report.
209
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2103. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
211 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
212 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
213 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
214 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
215 the bugs to me.
216
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2174. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
218 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
219 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
220 to make network backups should read first the man page
221 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
222
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2235. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
224 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
225 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
226 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
227
ac443b63 228Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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230
2311. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 232 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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233 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
234
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235 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
236 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
237 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
238 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
239 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
240
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2412. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
242 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
243 the patch.
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2453. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
246 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
247 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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248 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
249 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
3d78f5f2 250
d8574d45 2514. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 2535. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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254 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
255 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
a110deb5 256
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2576. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
258 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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259 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
260 suggestion.
261
2627. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
263 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
264 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
265 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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267Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
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2701. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
271 output of dump.
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2732. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
274 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
275 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
276 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
277 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
278 character at the end).
279
2803. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
281 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
282 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
283
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2844. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
285 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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286 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
287 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
288 patch.
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2905. Added the device name and the current volume number
291 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
292
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2936. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
294 broken it in 0.4b15).
295
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296Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
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2991. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
300 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
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3022. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
303 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
304 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
305 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
306 who forwarded me his mail).
307
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3083. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
309 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
310 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
311 pager etc.).
312
3134. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
314 I made in 0.4b14.
315
3165. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
317 in both dump and restore.
318
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319Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
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3221. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
323 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
324 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
325 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
326 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
327 bug and submitting the patch.
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3292. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
330 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
331 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
332 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
333
3343. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
335 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
336
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3374. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
338 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
339
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3405. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
341 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
342
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3436. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
344 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
345 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
346
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3477. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
348 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
349 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
350 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
351 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
352 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
353 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
354 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
355 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
356 helping me test the fix.
357
3588. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
359 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
360 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
361 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
362
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363Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
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3661. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
367 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
368
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3692. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
370 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
371 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
372
8d957ae7 3733. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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374 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
375 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
376 helping me find this bug.
377
8d957ae7 3784. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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379 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
380 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
381
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3825. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
383 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
384
2f9a0c5c 385Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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3881. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
389 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
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3912. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
392 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
393 submitting the patch.
394
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3953. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
396 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
397 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
398
3994. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
400 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
401 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
402
4035. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
404 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
405 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
406 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
407
4086. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
409 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
410 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
411 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
412 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
413
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4147. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
415 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
416 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
417 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
418 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
419
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422
4231. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 424
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5c729713 426 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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427 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
428 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
429
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4303. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
431 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
432 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
433 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
434 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
435 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
436 asking to enter a new tape each time.
437
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439 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
440 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
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442Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
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4451. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
446 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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447 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
448 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
449 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
450 glitches.
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4522. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
453 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
454 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
455 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
456
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4573. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
458 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
459 contents.
460
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4614. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
462 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
463 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
464 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
465 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
466 it is dumped (it should not).
467
4685. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
469 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
470
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473
4741. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
475 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
476 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
477 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
478 this and providing the patch.
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481====================================================================
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4831. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
484 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
485
4862. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
487 easily verify the version he is using.
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4893. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
490 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
491 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
492
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494 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
495 for submitting the bug report.
496
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498 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
499
5006. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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501 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
502 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
503 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
504
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506 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
507 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
508 this should work.
509
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512
5131. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
514 was not compiled in.
515
5162. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
517 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
518
5193. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
520 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
521 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
522 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
523 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
524
5254. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
526 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
527
5285. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
529 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
530 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
531
5326. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
533
5347. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
535 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
536 dump).
537
5388. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
539 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
540 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
541 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
542 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
543 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
544
5459. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
546 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
547 /etc/dumpdates.
548
54910. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
550 included the current date/version in man pages.
551
55211. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
553 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
554 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
555 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
556 the results canceled each other...
557
558Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
559===================================================================
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560
5611. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
562
563 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
564 isn't specified.
565 - several fixes in the man pages.
566 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
567 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
568 - buffer overruns.
569 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
570 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
571 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
572 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
573
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575 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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5773. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
578
5794. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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580 routines (only if available).
581
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5825. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
583 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
584
585Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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587
5881. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
589 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
590 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
591 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
592 RMT etc.).
593
5942. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
595
5963. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
597 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
598 when comparing).
599
6004. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
601 This works for me, needs further testing.
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603Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
604====================================================================
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605
6061. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
607 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
608
609Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
610========================================
611
6121. Use realpath() if available
613
6142. Report statistics
615
616Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
617========================================
618
6191. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
620 the patch)
621
6222. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
623
6243. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
625
626Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
627======================================
628
6291. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
630
6312. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
632
6333. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
634
6354. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
636 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
637
6385. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
639 distribution's one) to use autoconf
640
6416. Fixed a few minor bugs
642
643Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
644======================================
645
6461. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
647
6482. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
649
6503. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
651 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
652
6534. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
654 not restored.
655
6565. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
657
6586. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
659 correctly files ending by a hole.
660
661Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
662======================================
663
6641. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
665 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
666
667Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
668======================================
669
6701. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
671
6722. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
673
674Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
675======================================
676
6771. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
678
679Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
680======================================
681
6821. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
683
6842. Enabled optimization again.
685
686Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
687=====================================
688
6891. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
690
691Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
692====================================
693
6941. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
695 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
696 use the mntent functions).
697
6982. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
699 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
700 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
701 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
702 0.2 :-(
703
7043. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
705 filesystems like the BSD version.
706
7074. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
708 than 2 GB.
709
710Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
711====================================
712
7131. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
714
7152. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
716
7173. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
718 incremental backups.
719
7204. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.