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2
3 Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released ?????????????????)
4 =======================================================================
5
6 1. Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths.
7 Thanks to David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for
8 reporting the bug.
9
10 2. Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence
11 instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues
12 with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen
13 <kari@funky.pp.fi> for reporting the bug.
14
15 3. Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing
16 a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks
17 to Gunther Reiszig <gunther@mit.edu> for reporting the bug.
18
19 4. Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument)
20 even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
21 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
22
23 5. Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt.
24 Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting
25 the bug.
26
27 6. Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes
28 dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
29 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
30
31 7. Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having
32 a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <minduni@ti-edu.ch>
33 for reporting the bug.
34
35 8. Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a
36 problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified
37 between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for
38 the bug report and the patch.
39
40 9. Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full
41 filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen
42 to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned,
43 dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is.
44 Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr> for reporting the
45 bug and providing the fix.
46
47 10. Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and
48 table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to
49 Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
50
51 11. Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0.
52 This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used.
53 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
54
55 12. Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been
56 dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid).
57 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
58
59 13. Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part.
60 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
61
62 14. Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics
63 (and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot
64 script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or
65 when multiple tapes are listed on the command line
66 (-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense).
67 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
68
69 15. Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per
70 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change.
71
72 16. Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has
73 the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming
74 on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch
75 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> for the patch and to
76 Markus Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> for giving special permission
77 to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore.
78
79 17. Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia
80 <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> for reporting the bugs.
81
82 18. Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing
83 to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on
84 how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde
85 <ken@globalremit.com> for the patch.
86
87 19. Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics.
88 Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> for the patch.
89
90 Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003)
91 =======================================================================
92
93 1. Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question
94 'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by
95 restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes.
96
97 2. Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes.
98 Thanks to Dark Force <daq4th@users.sourceforge.net> for
99 reporting this bug and providing test cases.
100
101 3. Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed
102 an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic
103 <dkrnic@lycos.com> for reporting this bug.
104
105 4. Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab
106 when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems
107 caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts.
108 Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uhlar@fantomas.sk>, Elliott Mitchell
109 <ehem@m5p.com>, Greg Edwards <gedwards@users.sourceforge.net>,
110 Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@opus.co.nz>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086
111 and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832).
112
113 5. Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the
114 read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running
115 dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to
116 John I Wang <jiwang@users.sourceforge.net> for the suggestion.
117
118 6. Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of
119 'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always
120 1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and
121 made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of
122 a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> for
123 the suggestions.
124
125 7. Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks.
126
127 8. Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where
128 EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined.
129
130 9. Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line
131 (-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one.
132 Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb22@users.sourceforge.net> for the
133 suggestion.
134
135 10. Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in
136 ./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions
137 of config.guess, config.sub etc).
138
139 Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002)
140 =======================================================================
141
142 1. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead
143 of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old
144 locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the
145 dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack
146 on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new
147 scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file.
148 Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for
149 reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post).
150
151 2. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings
152 about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling
153 <jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this
154 bug.
155
156 3. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes.
157
158 4. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB
159 (raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs
160 this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp
161 <dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this.
162
163 5. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an
164 inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount
165 of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin
166 <sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug.
167
168 6. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases,
169 to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP
170 directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks
171 to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and
172 providing the test cases.
173
174 7. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump:
175 replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with
176 'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested
177 by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report.
178
179 Changes between versions 0.4b30 and 0.4b31 (released July 30, 2002)
180 ===================================================================
181
182 1. Fixed rmt open flags transmission (GNU's symbolic syntax over
183 rmt) which I broke in 0.4b29. Thanks to Eros Albertazzi
184 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting the bug.
185
186 Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002)
187 ===================================================================
188
189 1. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read
190 error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command,
191 in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this
192 usage in dump's man page.
193
194 2. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big
195 endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was
196 contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>.
197
198 3. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes
199 and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold
200 <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
201
202 4. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based
203 on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD
204 media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to
205 Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts.
206
207 5. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved
208 by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD
209 inode format, which means that the tape format was changed.
210 However, since all restore versions out there should
211 transparently support both inode formats, the change should
212 have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for
213 reporting the bug.
214
215 6. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling
216 with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree
217 <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this.
218
219 7. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to
220 Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the
221 patch.
222
223 8. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro
224 package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD
225 format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify.
226
227 Changes between versions 0.4b28 and 0.4b29 (released June 8, 2002)
228 ==================================================================
229
230 1. Fixed a problem in the rmt ioctl command, where ioctl's issued from
231 non Linux clients were misinterpreted. The description of the problem
232 (incompatible numbering in Linux mtio opcodes) is documented at
233 ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.mtio . Thanks to
234 Jörg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> for reporting this bug and
235 providing an excellent, cross-platform replacement for rmt in his
236 star package.
237
238 2. Fixed a bug reported by Andy Mentges <amentges@jumpline.com>
239 which caused restore to fail when the inode maps were not entirely
240 contained on the first volume (when using really small volumes or
241 when dumping a huge number of inodes).
242
243 3. Fixed a problem in dump, where files in subdirectories of directories
244 that have the nodump flag set (or being excluded with -e/-E) were
245 sometimes incorrectly dumped (instead of being excluded). The original
246 fix is from David C Lawrence <tale@dd.org> in the FreeBSD version
247 of dump: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32414
248 Thanks to Ted Grzesik <tedgyz@roostme.com> for reporting the bug and
249 help testing the patch.
250
251 4. Added some example scripts from Gerd Bavendiek <bav@epost.de>
252 which makes one able to pipe the output of dump, by the net, to
253 a remote CD-burner server.
254
255 5. Made dump use O_CREAT|O_TRUNC both locally and remotely (over rmt),
256 and use GNU's symbolic syntax over rmt instead of numerical values
257 to assure multiple platform compatibility.
258
259 6. Documented the -d option in restore.
260
261 7. Added a -v (verbose) mode to dump. For now it just prints the number
262 of the inode being dumped, but this could evolve in future versions
263 to include interesting debugging output.
264
265 8. Added a -o flag to restore, which automatically restores the current
266 directory permissions in -i or -x mode, without asking the operator
267 whether to do so. Patch submitted by Tony Clayton <tonyc@e-smith.com>
268 and Peter Samuel <peters@e-smith.com>.
269
270 Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released April 12, 2002)
271 ====================================================================
272
273 1. Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused
274 a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
275 restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
276
277 2. Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
278 there should be no white space between the option letter and
279 the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
280
281 3. Made restore work with older versions of the readline library,
282 by checking in configure for several extended symbols. Restore
283 can now be compiled with a readline as old as the 2.0 release
284 (though it may be a good idea to upgrade it to a more recent
285 version...). Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
286 reporting the build failures.
287
288 4. Fixed a performance problem with the QFA file creation in
289 dump, which made unnecessary seeks on the tape slowing down
290 the dump. Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
291 reporting this issue.
292
293 5. Removed the inclusion of some kernel headers in the dump
294 source, which prevented the compile in some kernel/glibc
295 headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee
296 <bdale@gag.com> for reporting the bug.
297
298 6. Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to
299 open the output file for writing. Thanks to Amith Varghese
300 <amithv@yahoo.com> for reporting this bug.
301
302 7. Made restore able to understand large Solaris ufsdump tapes
303 (containing inodes bigger than 4194304). Sun have introduced
304 an "extension" to the dump tape format when dealing with
305 those inodes, which was uncorrectly handled by Linux restore.
306 Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for reporting the bug and
307 providing a test case.
308
309 8. Added the -m parameter to dump which optimises the output for
310 inodes having been changed but not modified since the last dump
311 ('changed' and 'modified' have the meaning defined in stat(2)).
312 For those inodes, dump will save only the metadata, instead of
313 saving the entire inode contents. Inodes which are either
314 directories or have been modified since the last dump are saved
315 in a regular way. Uses of this flag must be consistent, meaning
316 that either every dump in an incremental dump set have the flag,
317 or no one has it.
318
319 Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
320 =======================================================================
321
322 1. Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
323 (SIGXFSZ treatment).
324
325 2. Added the -L flag to restore to allow the user to specify a
326 maximal allowed number of miscompares when using restore
327 with the -C option to check the backup.
328
329 3. Detailed the manual entry for the -N option of restore.
330
331 4. Added the -a flag to restore to make able doing unattended
332 restores in -i or -x mode (automatically walks through the
333 multiple dump volumes).
334
335 5. Extended the QFA mode to work with local files and/or
336 remote tapes and files. This way, restore can know in advance
337 the tape number and the offset for the inodes to extract and
338 can minimize the extraction time by seeking directly to the
339 good tape/offset.
340
341 6. Added the -A <archive> option to both dump and restore,
342 which makes dump to archive a dump table-of-contents in
343 the specified file to be used by restore to determine
344 whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored.
345 (the archive file syntax is also compatible with the
346 Solaris ufsdump generated one).
347
348 7. Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
349 Solaris ufsdump tapes.
350
351 8. Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
352 ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
353 for reporting this bug.
354
355 9. Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
356 Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch
357 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
358
359 10. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a
360 possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
361 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
362
363 Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
364 =====================================================================
365
366 1. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz
367 <getnito@yahoo.com> in the examples section. It features
368 automatic (cron based) full and incremental dumping of
369 several filesystems on a separate filesystem.
370
371 2. Fixed a off-by-one miscalculation which disabled dumping
372 a one letter subdirectory. Thanks to Chris Siebenmann
373 <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
374
375 3. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to
376 restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris
377 Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
378
379 4. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from
380 a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed
381 by <splite@purdue.edu>.
382
383 5. Fix a bug which could caused, in some conditions, the highest
384 number inode of a filesystem, to not be dumped. Many thanks
385 to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for helping me
386 chase this bug.
387
388 Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
389 =======================================================================
390
391 1. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
392 directory.
393
394 2. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
395 Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
396
397 3. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
398 to the examples section. It features dumping several
399 filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
400
401 4. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
402 which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
403 dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
404
405 5. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
406 to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
407 patch.
408
409 6. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
410 remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
411 regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
412 to know this information when reading a remote compressed
413 dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
414 the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
415 for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
416 many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
417 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
418
419 7. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
420 stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
421 to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
422 for you, please report back.
423
424 8. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
425
426 Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
427 ========================================================================
428
429 1. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
430
431 2. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
432 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
433 objects overlap).
434
435 3. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
436 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
437 filesystem being compared in the process).
438
439 4. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
440 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
441 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
442
443 5. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
444 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
445
446 6. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
447 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
448 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
449 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
450 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
451 original BSD tape format.
452
453 7. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
454 very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
455 for the bug report.
456
457 8. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
458 kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
459 a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
460 John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
461 for this suggestion.
462
463 9. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
464 (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
465
466 10. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
467 which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
468 done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
469 output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
470 possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
471
472 Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
473 ===================================================================
474
475 1. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
476 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
477
478 2. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
479 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
480
481 3. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
482 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
483 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
484 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
485
486 4. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
487 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
488 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
489
490 5. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
491 previous version.
492
493 6. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
494 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
495 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
496 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
497 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
498 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
499 conservative.
500
501 7. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
502 the next volume in restore.
503
504 8. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
505 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
506 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
507 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
508 script parameters and return codes.
509
510 9. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
511 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
512 the man pages.
513
514 10. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
515 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
516 be lost.
517
518 11. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
519 comma separated list of inode numbers.
520
521 12. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
522 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
523
524 13. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
525
526 Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
527 ==================================================================
528
529 1. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
530 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
531
532 2. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
533 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
534 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
535 bug and providing a patch.
536
537 3. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
538 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
539
540 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
541 drives supporting variable block size.
542
543 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
544 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
545 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
546
547 4. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
548 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
549 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
550 it upstream.
551
552 5. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
553 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
554 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
555
556 6. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
557 are now based on the configure parameters.
558
559 7. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
560 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
561 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
562 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
563 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
564 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
565 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
566 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
567
568 8. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
569 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
570 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
571
572 9. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
573 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
574 correctly).
575
576 10. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
577 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
578 process per tape).
579
580 11. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
581 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
582 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
583 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
584
585 Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
586 ======================================================================
587
588 1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
589 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
590 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
591
592 2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
593 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
594 who reported this stupid error.
595
596 3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
597 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
598 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
599
600 4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
601 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
602 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
603 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
604 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
605 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
606
607 5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
608 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
609 for the patch.
610
611 6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
612 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
613 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
614 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
615 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
616 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
617 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
618
619 7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
620 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
621 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
622 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
623 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
624 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
625 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
626 useful thoughts.
627
628 8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
629 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
630 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
631 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
632 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
633
634 Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
635 =======================================================================
636
637 1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
638 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
639 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
640 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
641 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
642 a fix.
643
644 2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
645 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
646 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
647 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
648 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
649
650 3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
651 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
652 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
653 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
654
655 4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
656 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
657 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
658 when multiple -e options are used.
659
660 5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
661 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
662 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
663 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
664
665 6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
666 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
667
668 7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
669 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
670
671 8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
672 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
673 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
674
675 9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
676 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
677 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
678 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
679
680 10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
681 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
682 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
683 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
684
685 11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
686 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
687 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
688 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
689
690 Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
691 =====================================================================
692
693 1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
694 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
695 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
696
697 2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
698
699 3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
700 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
701 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
702 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
703
704 4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
705 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
706 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
707 for reporting the bug.
708
709 5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
710 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
711 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
712 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
713
714 6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
715 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
716 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
717 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
718 reporting the bug.
719
720 7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
721 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
722 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
723
724 8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
725 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
726 library in order to compile the readline support.
727
728 9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
729 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
730 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
731 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
732 for providing the patch.
733
734 Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
735 ===================================================================
736
737 1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
738 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
739 the bug.
740
741 2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
742 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
743 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
744 for the bug report.
745
746 3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
747 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
748 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
749 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
750 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
751 the bugs to me.
752
753 4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
754 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
755 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
756 to make network backups should read first the man page
757 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
758
759 5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
760 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
761 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
762 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
763
764 Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
765 ====================================================================
766
767 1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
768 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
769 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
770
771 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
772 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
773 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
774 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
775 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
776
777 2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
778 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
779 the patch.
780
781 3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
782 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
783 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
784 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
785 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
786
787 4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
788
789 5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
790 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
791 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
792
793 6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
794 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
795 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
796 suggestion.
797
798 7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
799 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
800 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
801 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
802
803 Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
804 ====================================================================
805
806 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
807 output of dump.
808
809 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
810 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
811 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
812 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
813 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
814 character at the end).
815
816 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
817 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
818 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
819
820 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
821 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
822 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
823 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
824 patch.
825
826 5. Added the device name and the current volume number
827 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
828
829 6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
830 broken it in 0.4b15).
831
832 Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
833 ===================================================================
834
835 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
836 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
837
838 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
839 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
840 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
841 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
842 who forwarded me his mail).
843
844 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
845 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
846 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
847 pager etc.).
848
849 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
850 I made in 0.4b14.
851
852 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
853 in both dump and restore.
854
855 Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
856 =======================================================================
857
858 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
859 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
860 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
861 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
862 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
863 bug and submitting the patch.
864
865 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
866 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
867 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
868 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
869
870 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
871 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
872
873 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
874 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
875
876 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
877 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
878
879 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
880 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
881 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
882
883 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
884 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
885 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
886 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
887 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
888 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
889 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
890 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
891 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
892 helping me test the fix.
893
894 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
895 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
896 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
897 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
898
899 Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
900 ======================================================================
901
902 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
903 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
904
905 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
906 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
907 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
908
909 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
910 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
911 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
912 helping me find this bug.
913
914 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
915 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
916 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
917
918 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
919 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
920
921 Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
922 =====================================================================
923
924 1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
925 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
926
927 2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
928 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
929 submitting the patch.
930
931 3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
932 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
933 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
934
935 4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
936 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
937 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
938
939 5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
940 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
941 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
942 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
943
944 6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
945 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
946 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
947 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
948 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
949
950 7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
951 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
952 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
953 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
954 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
955
956 Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
957 ======================================================================
958
959 1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
960
961 2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
962 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
963 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
964 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
965
966 3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
967 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
968 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
969 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
970 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
971 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
972 asking to enter a new tape each time.
973
974 4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
975 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
976 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
977
978 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
979 ======================================================================
980
981 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
982 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
983 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
984 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
985 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
986 glitches.
987
988 2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
989 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
990 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
991 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
992
993 3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
994 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
995 contents.
996
997 4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
998 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
999 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
1000 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
1001 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
1002 it is dumped (it should not).
1003
1004 5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
1005 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
1006
1007 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
1008 ====================================================================
1009
1010 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
1011 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
1012 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
1013 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
1014 this and providing the patch.
1015
1016 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
1017 ====================================================================
1018
1019 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
1020 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
1021
1022 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
1023 easily verify the version he is using.
1024
1025 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
1026 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
1027 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
1028
1029 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
1030 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
1031 for submitting the bug report.
1032
1033 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
1034 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
1035
1036 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
1037 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
1038 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
1039 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
1040
1041 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
1042 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
1043 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
1044 this should work.
1045
1046 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
1047 ===================================================================
1048
1049 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
1050 was not compiled in.
1051
1052 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
1053 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
1054
1055 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
1056 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
1057 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
1058 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
1059 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
1060
1061 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
1062 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
1063
1064 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
1065 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
1066 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
1067
1068 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
1069
1070 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
1071 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
1072 dump).
1073
1074 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
1075 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
1076 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
1077 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
1078 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
1079 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
1080
1081 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
1082 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
1083 /etc/dumpdates.
1084
1085 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
1086 included the current date/version in man pages.
1087
1088 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
1089 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
1090 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
1091 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
1092 the results canceled each other...
1093
1094 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
1095 ===================================================================
1096
1097 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
1098
1099 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
1100 isn't specified.
1101 - several fixes in the man pages.
1102 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
1103 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
1104 - buffer overruns.
1105 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
1106 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
1107 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
1108 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
1109
1110 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
1111 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
1112
1113 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
1114
1115 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
1116 routines (only if available).
1117
1118 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
1119 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
1120
1121 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
1122 ======================================================================
1123
1124 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
1125 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
1126 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
1127 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
1128 RMT etc.).
1129
1130 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
1131
1132 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
1133 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
1134 when comparing).
1135
1136 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
1137 This works for me, needs further testing.
1138
1139 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
1140 ====================================================================
1141
1142 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
1143 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
1144
1145 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
1146 ========================================
1147
1148 1. Use realpath() if available
1149
1150 2. Report statistics
1151
1152 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
1153 ========================================
1154
1155 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
1156 the patch)
1157
1158 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
1159
1160 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
1161
1162 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
1163 ======================================
1164
1165 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
1166
1167 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
1168
1169 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
1170
1171 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
1172 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
1173
1174 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
1175 distribution's one) to use autoconf
1176
1177 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
1178
1179 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
1180 ======================================
1181
1182 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
1183
1184 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
1185
1186 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
1187 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
1188
1189 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
1190 not restored.
1191
1192 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
1193
1194 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
1195 correctly files ending by a hole.
1196
1197 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
1198 ======================================
1199
1200 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
1201 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
1202
1203 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
1204 ======================================
1205
1206 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
1207
1208 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
1209
1210 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
1211 ======================================
1212
1213 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
1214
1215 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
1216 ======================================
1217
1218 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
1219
1220 2. Enabled optimization again.
1221
1222 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
1223 =====================================
1224
1225 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
1226
1227 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
1228 ====================================
1229
1230 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
1231 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
1232 use the mntent functions).
1233
1234 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
1235 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
1236 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
1237 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
1238 0.2 :-(
1239
1240 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
1241 filesystems like the BSD version.
1242
1243 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
1244 than 2 GB.
1245
1246 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
1247 ====================================
1248
1249 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
1250
1251 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
1252
1253 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
1254 incremental backups.
1255
1256 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.