CHANGES

   1 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
   2 ===================================================================
   3
   4 1.      Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
   5         was not compiled in.
   6
   7 2.      Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
   8         to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
   9
  10 3.      (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
  11         file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
  12         flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
  13         should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
  14         by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
  15
  16 4.      Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
  17         (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
  18
  19 5.      Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
  20         unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
  21         which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
  22
  23 6.      Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
  24
  25 7.      Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
  26         when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
  27         dump).
  28
  29 8.      Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
  30         dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
  31         one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
  32         compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
  33         worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
  34         DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
  35
  36 9.      Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
  37         the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
  38         /etc/dumpdates.
  39
  40 10.     Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
  41         included the current date/version in man pages.
  42
  43 11.     Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
  44         the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
  45         was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
  46         that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
  47         the results canceled each other...
  48
  49 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
  50 ===================================================================
  51
  52 1.      Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
  53
  54         - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
  55           isn't specified.
  56         - several fixes in the man pages.
  57         - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
  58         - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
  59         - buffer overruns.
  60         - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
  61         - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
  62         - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
  63         - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
  64
  65 2.      Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
  66         made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
  67
  68 3.      Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
  69
  70 4.      Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
  71         routines (only if available).
  72
  73 5.      Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
  74         by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
  75
  76 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
  77 ======================================================================
  78
  79 1.      Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
  80         (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
  81         tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
  82         (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
  83         RMT etc.).
  84
  85 2.      Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
  86
  87 3.      Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
  88         tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
  89         when comparing).
  90
  91 4.      Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
  92         This works for me, needs further testing.
  93
  94 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
  95 ====================================================================
  96
  97 1.      Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
  98         Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
  99
 100 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
 101 ========================================
 102
 103 1.      Use realpath() if available
 104
 105 2.      Report statistics
 106
 107 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
 108 ========================================
 109
 110 1.      Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
 111         the patch)
 112
 113 2.      Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
 114
 115 3.      Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
 116
 117 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
 118 ======================================
 119
 120 1.      Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
 121
 122 2.      Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
 123
 124 3.      Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
 125
 126 4.      Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses.  This
 127         should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
 128
 129 5.      Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
 130         distribution's one) to use autoconf
 131
 132 6.      Fixed a few minor bugs
 133
 134 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
 135 ======================================
 136
 137 1.      Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
 138
 139 2.      Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
 140
 141 3.      Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
 142         patch for 1.2.x kernels.
 143
 144 4.      Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
 145         not restored.
 146
 147 5.      Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
 148
 149 6.      Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
 150         correctly files ending by a hole.
 151
 152 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
 153 ======================================
 154
 155 1.      Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process.  Every file was restored
 156         with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
 157
 158 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
 159 ======================================
 160
 161 1.      Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
 162
 163 2.      Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
 164
 165 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
 166 ======================================
 167
 168 1.      Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
 169
 170 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
 171 ======================================
 172
 173 1.      Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
 174
 175 2.      Enabled optimization again.
 176
 177 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
 178 =====================================
 179
 180 1.      Disabled the optimization during compilation.
 181
 182 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
 183 ====================================
 184
 185 1.      Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
 186         the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
 187         use the mntent functions).
 188
 189 2.      Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format.  Backups
 190         made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
 191         by the BSD dump should be readable by restore.  Unfortunately, this
 192         means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
 193         0.2 :-(
 194
 195 3.      Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
 196         filesystems like the BSD version.
 197
 198 4.      Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
 199         than 2 GB.
 200
 201 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
 202 ====================================
 203
 204 1.      Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
 205
 206 2.      Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
 207
 208 3.      Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
 209         incremental backups.
 210
 211 4.      Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.