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2
3 Changes between versions 0.4b36 and 0.4b37 (released ??????????????)
4 ====================================================================
5
6 1. Added the --enable-staticz configure option which enables
7 dump and restore to be linked with static versions of
8 libz and libbz2 (and dynamic versions of all other libraries).
9 This will make Debian users happy, because libz and libbz2
10 were the only needed libraries living in /usr, all the
11 others live in /lib. In case of system emergency, it is
12 better not to have to rely on an extra filesystem.
13 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for the suggestion.
14
15 2. Fix compilation on (at least the Linux Debian port to) AMD64.
16 (<ext2fs/ext2_types.h> defines some types (__s64 and __u64)
17 that are also defined by <linux/types.h> (<asm/types.h>) and
18 they conflict).
19
20 3. Make dump's reading of the dumpdates file a bit more robust,
21 preventing dump from crashing when the dumpdates file has
22 been modified by hand.
23
24 Changes between versions 0.4b35 and 0.4b36 (released April 21, 2004)
25 ====================================================================
26
27 1. Fixed dump compilation with old gcc versions. Thanks to
28 Mike Castle <dalgoda@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch.
29
30 2. Fixed some warnings (howmany, roundup, powerof2 redefined)
31 when compiling against a recent glibc version.
32
33 3. Fixed a bug in restore preventing the read of a dump tape
34 written with Solaris 7 ufsdump. Thanks to Patrick Higgins
35 <phiggins@transzap.com> for reporting the bug and providing
36 the test case.
37
38 4. Changed dump to enable the creation of volumes of different
39 sizes in a single run (make -B accept a list of values).
40 Patch contributed by Florian Zumbiehl <florz@gmx.de>.
41
42 5. Use the glibc provided minor() and major() macros instead
43 of our own bitmask implementation. This should be safe for
44 when the major/minor namespace will migrate to 32 bits.
45 Thanks to Zhang Jun <zhangjun@nanjing-fnst.com> for reporting
46 the bug.
47
48 6. Made explicit in the dump man page that dump will not create
49 a remote file, it will only write to an already existing one.
50
51 7. Another try at making size estimates better again.
52
53 8. Put back the inconditional running of the end-of-tape
54 script which was changed in 0.434 to be run only when -M
55 or multiple -f were NOT specified. Some users rely on this
56 feature even when it is combined with -M/-f.
57
58 9. Fixed restore when restoring huge backups (where rstdir...
59 temporary files are over 2GB). Thanks to
60 Raphael Jaffey <rjaffey@artic.edu> for reporting this,
61 debugging the issue and making the patch.
62
63 10. Made restore understand FreeBSD UFS2 tapes. Thanks to
64 David <vrtin@users.sourceforge.net> for submitting the bug
65 and providing a test case.
66
67 11. Made dump work with an arbitrary integer level (no more 10
68 levels only limitation). Thanks to Matthew
69 <msvincen@midway.uchicago.edu> for the patch.
70
71 Changes between versions 0.4b34 and 0.4b35 (released December 21, 2003)
72 =======================================================================
73
74 1. Added a note in the dump man page saying that the default
75 blocksize can be 32 if -d is used with a high density argument.
76 Thanks to Antonios Christofides <A.Christofides@itia.ntua.gr>
77 for the patch.
78
79 2. Fixed configure to correctly understand CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS,
80 LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Arcady Genkin
81 <antipode@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
82
83 3. Made -e/-E options of dump accept an unlimited number of inodes
84 to be excluded, rather than a hardcoded maximum. Thanks to
85 Dietrich Rothe <d-rothe@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch.
86
87 4. Updated the autoconf system to 2.50. Forced the -D_BSD_SOURCE
88 and -D_USE_BSD_SIGNAL defines in configure in order to solve
89 64bit build problems because quad_t is redifined with a
90 different signature. Thanks to Mike Harris <mharris@redhat.com>
91 for reporting this bug.
92
93 5. Made restore build on Solaris, making possible to
94 restore Linux's "enhanced" tapes. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
95 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch.
96
97 6. Made an extension in the dump tape format capable of saving
98 MacOSX specific inode extensions. Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>
99 wrote the extension and contributed the restore code back
100 into this codebase. The same extension mechanism will be
101 used in the future to save ACLs...
102
103 7. Made rmt work correctly with regard to QFA and local/remote
104 files and tapes. The remote access will however work only
105 when the dump provided rmt version is used. If you want to
106 use another rmt server, please do not use the QFA feature.
107 Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch.
108
109 Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released April 18, 2003)
110 ====================================================================
111
112 1. Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths.
113 Thanks to David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for
114 reporting the bug.
115
116 2. Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence
117 instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues
118 with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen
119 <kari@funky.pp.fi> for reporting the bug.
120
121 3. Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing
122 a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks
123 to Gunther Reiszig <gunther@mit.edu> for reporting the bug.
124
125 4. Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument)
126 even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
127 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
128
129 5. Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt.
130 Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting
131 the bug.
132
133 6. Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes
134 dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
135 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
136
137 7. Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having
138 a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <minduni@ti-edu.ch>
139 for reporting the bug.
140
141 8. Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a
142 problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified
143 between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for
144 the bug report and the patch.
145
146 9. Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full
147 filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen
148 to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned,
149 dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is.
150 Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr> for reporting the
151 bug and providing the fix.
152
153 10. Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and
154 table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to
155 Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
156
157 11. Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0.
158 This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used.
159 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
160
161 12. Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been
162 dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid).
163 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
164
165 13. Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part.
166 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
167
168 14. Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics
169 (and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot
170 script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or
171 when multiple tapes are listed on the command line
172 (-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense).
173 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
174
175 15. Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per
176 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change.
177
178 16. Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has
179 the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming
180 on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch
181 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> for the patch and to
182 Markus Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> for giving special permission
183 to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore.
184
185 17. Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia
186 <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> for reporting the bugs.
187
188 18. Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing
189 to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on
190 how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde
191 <ken@globalremit.com> for the patch.
192
193 19. Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics.
194 Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> for the patch.
195
196 20. Fixed a bug which caused dump -w|-W not to work anymore, because
197 the fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/mtab are always set
198 to 0 0. Thanks to Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> for
199 reporting the bug.
200
201 Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003)
202 =======================================================================
203
204 1. Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question
205 'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by
206 restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes.
207
208 2. Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes.
209 Thanks to Dark Force <daq4th@users.sourceforge.net> for
210 reporting this bug and providing test cases.
211
212 3. Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed
213 an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic
214 <dkrnic@lycos.com> for reporting this bug.
215
216 4. Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab
217 when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems
218 caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts.
219 Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uhlar@fantomas.sk>, Elliott Mitchell
220 <ehem@m5p.com>, Greg Edwards <gedwards@users.sourceforge.net>,
221 Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@opus.co.nz>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086
222 and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832).
223
224 5. Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the
225 read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running
226 dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to
227 John I Wang <jiwang@users.sourceforge.net> for the suggestion.
228
229 6. Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of
230 'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always
231 1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and
232 made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of
233 a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> for
234 the suggestions.
235
236 7. Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks.
237
238 8. Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where
239 EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined.
240
241 9. Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line
242 (-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one.
243 Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb22@users.sourceforge.net> for the
244 suggestion.
245
246 10. Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in
247 ./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions
248 of config.guess, config.sub etc).
249
250 Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002)
251 =======================================================================
252
253 1. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead
254 of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old
255 locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the
256 dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack
257 on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new
258 scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file.
259 Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for
260 reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post).
261
262 2. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings
263 about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling
264 <jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this
265 bug.
266
267 3. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes.
268
269 4. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB
270 (raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs
271 this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp
272 <dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this.
273
274 5. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an
275 inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount
276 of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin
277 <sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug.
278
279 6. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases,
280 to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP
281 directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks
282 to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and
283 providing the test cases.
284
285 7. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump:
286 replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with
287 'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested
288 by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report.
289
290 Changes between versions 0.4b30 and 0.4b31 (released July 30, 2002)
291 ===================================================================
292
293 1. Fixed rmt open flags transmission (GNU's symbolic syntax over
294 rmt) which I broke in 0.4b29. Thanks to Eros Albertazzi
295 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting the bug.
296
297 Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002)
298 ===================================================================
299
300 1. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read
301 error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command,
302 in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this
303 usage in dump's man page.
304
305 2. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big
306 endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was
307 contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>.
308
309 3. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes
310 and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold
311 <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
312
313 4. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based
314 on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD
315 media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to
316 Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts.
317
318 5. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved
319 by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD
320 inode format, which means that the tape format was changed.
321 However, since all restore versions out there should
322 transparently support both inode formats, the change should
323 have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for
324 reporting the bug.
325
326 6. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling
327 with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree
328 <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this.
329
330 7. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to
331 Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the
332 patch.
333
334 8. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro
335 package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD
336 format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify.
337
338 Changes between versions 0.4b28 and 0.4b29 (released June 8, 2002)
339 ==================================================================
340
341 1. Fixed a problem in the rmt ioctl command, where ioctl's issued from
342 non Linux clients were misinterpreted. The description of the problem
343 (incompatible numbering in Linux mtio opcodes) is documented at
344 ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.mtio . Thanks to
345 Jörg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> for reporting this bug and
346 providing an excellent, cross-platform replacement for rmt in his
347 star package.
348
349 2. Fixed a bug reported by Andy Mentges <amentges@jumpline.com>
350 which caused restore to fail when the inode maps were not entirely
351 contained on the first volume (when using really small volumes or
352 when dumping a huge number of inodes).
353
354 3. Fixed a problem in dump, where files in subdirectories of directories
355 that have the nodump flag set (or being excluded with -e/-E) were
356 sometimes incorrectly dumped (instead of being excluded). The original
357 fix is from David C Lawrence <tale@dd.org> in the FreeBSD version
358 of dump: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32414
359 Thanks to Ted Grzesik <tedgyz@roostme.com> for reporting the bug and
360 help testing the patch.
361
362 4. Added some example scripts from Gerd Bavendiek <bav@epost.de>
363 which makes one able to pipe the output of dump, by the net, to
364 a remote CD-burner server.
365
366 5. Made dump use O_CREAT|O_TRUNC both locally and remotely (over rmt),
367 and use GNU's symbolic syntax over rmt instead of numerical values
368 to assure multiple platform compatibility.
369
370 6. Documented the -d option in restore.
371
372 7. Added a -v (verbose) mode to dump. For now it just prints the number
373 of the inode being dumped, but this could evolve in future versions
374 to include interesting debugging output.
375
376 8. Added a -o flag to restore, which automatically restores the current
377 directory permissions in -i or -x mode, without asking the operator
378 whether to do so. Patch submitted by Tony Clayton <tonyc@e-smith.com>
379 and Peter Samuel <peters@e-smith.com>.
380
381 Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released April 12, 2002)
382 ====================================================================
383
384 1. Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused
385 a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
386 restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
387
388 2. Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
389 there should be no white space between the option letter and
390 the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
391
392 3. Made restore work with older versions of the readline library,
393 by checking in configure for several extended symbols. Restore
394 can now be compiled with a readline as old as the 2.0 release
395 (though it may be a good idea to upgrade it to a more recent
396 version...). Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
397 reporting the build failures.
398
399 4. Fixed a performance problem with the QFA file creation in
400 dump, which made unnecessary seeks on the tape slowing down
401 the dump. Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
402 reporting this issue.
403
404 5. Removed the inclusion of some kernel headers in the dump
405 source, which prevented the compile in some kernel/glibc
406 headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee
407 <bdale@gag.com> for reporting the bug.
408
409 6. Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to
410 open the output file for writing. Thanks to Amith Varghese
411 <amithv@yahoo.com> for reporting this bug.
412
413 7. Made restore able to understand large Solaris ufsdump tapes
414 (containing inodes bigger than 4194304). Sun have introduced
415 an "extension" to the dump tape format when dealing with
416 those inodes, which was uncorrectly handled by Linux restore.
417 Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for reporting the bug and
418 providing a test case.
419
420 8. Added the -m parameter to dump which optimises the output for
421 inodes having been changed but not modified since the last dump
422 ('changed' and 'modified' have the meaning defined in stat(2)).
423 For those inodes, dump will save only the metadata, instead of
424 saving the entire inode contents. Inodes which are either
425 directories or have been modified since the last dump are saved
426 in a regular way. Uses of this flag must be consistent, meaning
427 that either every dump in an incremental dump set have the flag,
428 or no one has it.
429
430 Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
431 =======================================================================
432
433 1. Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
434 (SIGXFSZ treatment).
435
436 2. Added the -L flag to restore to allow the user to specify a
437 maximal allowed number of miscompares when using restore
438 with the -C option to check the backup.
439
440 3. Detailed the manual entry for the -N option of restore.
441
442 4. Added the -a flag to restore to make able doing unattended
443 restores in -i or -x mode (automatically walks through the
444 multiple dump volumes).
445
446 5. Extended the QFA mode to work with local files and/or
447 remote tapes and files. This way, restore can know in advance
448 the tape number and the offset for the inodes to extract and
449 can minimize the extraction time by seeking directly to the
450 good tape/offset.
451
452 6. Added the -A <archive> option to both dump and restore,
453 which makes dump to archive a dump table-of-contents in
454 the specified file to be used by restore to determine
455 whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored.
456 (the archive file syntax is also compatible with the
457 Solaris ufsdump generated one).
458
459 7. Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
460 Solaris ufsdump tapes.
461
462 8. Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
463 ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
464 for reporting this bug.
465
466 9. Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
467 Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch
468 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
469
470 10. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a
471 possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
472 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
473
474 Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
475 =====================================================================
476
477 1. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz
478 <getnito@yahoo.com> in the examples section. It features
479 automatic (cron based) full and incremental dumping of
480 several filesystems on a separate filesystem.
481
482 2. Fixed a off-by-one miscalculation which disabled dumping
483 a one letter subdirectory. Thanks to Chris Siebenmann
484 <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
485
486 3. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to
487 restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris
488 Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
489
490 4. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from
491 a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed
492 by <splite@purdue.edu>.
493
494 5. Fix a bug which could caused, in some conditions, the highest
495 number inode of a filesystem, to not be dumped. Many thanks
496 to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for helping me
497 chase this bug.
498
499 Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
500 =======================================================================
501
502 1. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
503 directory.
504
505 2. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
506 Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
507
508 3. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
509 to the examples section. It features dumping several
510 filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
511
512 4. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
513 which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
514 dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
515
516 5. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
517 to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
518 patch.
519
520 6. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
521 remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
522 regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
523 to know this information when reading a remote compressed
524 dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
525 the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
526 for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
527 many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
528 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
529
530 7. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
531 stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
532 to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
533 for you, please report back.
534
535 8. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
536
537 Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
538 ========================================================================
539
540 1. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
541
542 2. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
543 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
544 objects overlap).
545
546 3. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
547 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
548 filesystem being compared in the process).
549
550 4. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
551 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
552 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
553
554 5. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
555 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
556
557 6. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
558 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
559 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
560 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
561 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
562 original BSD tape format.
563
564 7. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
565 very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
566 for the bug report.
567
568 8. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
569 kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
570 a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
571 John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
572 for this suggestion.
573
574 9. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
575 (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
576
577 10. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
578 which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
579 done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
580 output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
581 possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
582
583 Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
584 ===================================================================
585
586 1. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
587 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
588
589 2. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
590 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
591
592 3. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
593 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
594 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
595 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
596
597 4. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
598 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
599 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
600
601 5. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
602 previous version.
603
604 6. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
605 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
606 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
607 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
608 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
609 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
610 conservative.
611
612 7. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
613 the next volume in restore.
614
615 8. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
616 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
617 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
618 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
619 script parameters and return codes.
620
621 9. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
622 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
623 the man pages.
624
625 10. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
626 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
627 be lost.
628
629 11. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
630 comma separated list of inode numbers.
631
632 12. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
633 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
634
635 13. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
636
637 Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
638 ==================================================================
639
640 1. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
641 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
642
643 2. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
644 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
645 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
646 bug and providing a patch.
647
648 3. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
649 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
650
651 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
652 drives supporting variable block size.
653
654 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
655 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
656 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
657
658 4. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
659 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
660 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
661 it upstream.
662
663 5. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
664 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
665 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
666
667 6. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
668 are now based on the configure parameters.
669
670 7. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
671 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
672 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
673 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
674 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
675 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
676 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
677 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
678
679 8. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
680 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
681 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
682
683 9. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
684 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
685 correctly).
686
687 10. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
688 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
689 process per tape).
690
691 11. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
692 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
693 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
694 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
695
696 Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
697 ======================================================================
698
699 1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
700 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
701 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
702
703 2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
704 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
705 who reported this stupid error.
706
707 3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
708 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
709 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
710
711 4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
712 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
713 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
714 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
715 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
716 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
717
718 5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
719 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
720 for the patch.
721
722 6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
723 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
724 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
725 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
726 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
727 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
728 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
729
730 7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
731 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
732 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
733 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
734 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
735 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
736 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
737 useful thoughts.
738
739 8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
740 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
741 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
742 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
743 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
744
745 Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
746 =======================================================================
747
748 1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
749 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
750 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
751 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
752 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
753 a fix.
754
755 2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
756 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
757 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
758 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
759 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
760
761 3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
762 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
763 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
764 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
765
766 4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
767 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
768 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
769 when multiple -e options are used.
770
771 5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
772 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
773 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
774 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
775
776 6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
777 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
778
779 7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
780 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
781
782 8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
783 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
784 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
785
786 9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
787 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
788 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
789 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
790
791 10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
792 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
793 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
794 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
795
796 11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
797 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
798 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
799 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
800
801 Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
802 =====================================================================
803
804 1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
805 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
806 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
807
808 2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
809
810 3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
811 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
812 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
813 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
814
815 4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
816 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
817 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
818 for reporting the bug.
819
820 5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
821 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
822 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
823 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
824
825 6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
826 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
827 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
828 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
829 reporting the bug.
830
831 7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
832 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
833 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
834
835 8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
836 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
837 library in order to compile the readline support.
838
839 9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
840 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
841 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
842 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
843 for providing the patch.
844
845 Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
846 ===================================================================
847
848 1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
849 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
850 the bug.
851
852 2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
853 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
854 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
855 for the bug report.
856
857 3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
858 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
859 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
860 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
861 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
862 the bugs to me.
863
864 4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
865 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
866 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
867 to make network backups should read first the man page
868 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
869
870 5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
871 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
872 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
873 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
874
875 Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
876 ====================================================================
877
878 1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
879 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
880 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
881
882 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
883 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
884 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
885 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
886 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
887
888 2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
889 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
890 the patch.
891
892 3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
893 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
894 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
895 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
896 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
897
898 4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
899
900 5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
901 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
902 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
903
904 6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
905 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
906 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
907 suggestion.
908
909 7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
910 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
911 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
912 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
913
914 Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
915 ====================================================================
916
917 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
918 output of dump.
919
920 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
921 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
922 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
923 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
924 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
925 character at the end).
926
927 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
928 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
929 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
930
931 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
932 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
933 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
934 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
935 patch.
936
937 5. Added the device name and the current volume number
938 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
939
940 6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
941 broken it in 0.4b15).
942
943 Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
944 ===================================================================
945
946 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
947 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
948
949 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
950 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
951 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
952 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
953 who forwarded me his mail).
954
955 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
956 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
957 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
958 pager etc.).
959
960 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
961 I made in 0.4b14.
962
963 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
964 in both dump and restore.
965
966 Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
967 =======================================================================
968
969 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
970 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
971 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
972 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
973 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
974 bug and submitting the patch.
975
976 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
977 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
978 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
979 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
980
981 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
982 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
983
984 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
985 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
986
987 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
988 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
989
990 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
991 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
992 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
993
994 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
995 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
996 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
997 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
998 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
999 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
1000 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
1001 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
1002 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
1003 helping me test the fix.
1004
1005 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
1006 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
1007 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
1008 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
1009
1010 Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
1011 ======================================================================
1012
1013 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
1014 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
1015
1016 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
1017 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
1018 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
1019
1020 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
1021 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
1022 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
1023 helping me find this bug.
1024
1025 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
1026 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
1027 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
1028
1029 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
1030 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
1031
1032 Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
1033 =====================================================================
1034
1035 1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
1036 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
1037
1038 2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
1039 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
1040 submitting the patch.
1041
1042 3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
1043 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
1044 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
1045
1046 4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
1047 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
1048 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
1049
1050 5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
1051 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
1052 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
1053 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
1054
1055 6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
1056 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
1057 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
1058 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
1059 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
1060
1061 7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
1062 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
1063 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
1064 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
1065 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
1066
1067 Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
1068 ======================================================================
1069
1070 1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
1071
1072 2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
1073 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
1074 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
1075 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
1076
1077 3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
1078 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
1079 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
1080 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
1081 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
1082 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
1083 asking to enter a new tape each time.
1084
1085 4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
1086 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
1087 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
1088
1089 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
1090 ======================================================================
1091
1092 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
1093 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
1094 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
1095 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
1096 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
1097 glitches.
1098
1099 2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
1100 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
1101 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
1102 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
1103
1104 3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
1105 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
1106 contents.
1107
1108 4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
1109 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
1110 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
1111 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
1112 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
1113 it is dumped (it should not).
1114
1115 5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
1116 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
1117
1118 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
1119 ====================================================================
1120
1121 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
1122 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
1123 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
1124 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
1125 this and providing the patch.
1126
1127 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
1128 ====================================================================
1129
1130 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
1131 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
1132
1133 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
1134 easily verify the version he is using.
1135
1136 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
1137 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
1138 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
1139
1140 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
1141 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
1142 for submitting the bug report.
1143
1144 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
1145 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
1146
1147 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
1148 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
1149 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
1150 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
1151
1152 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
1153 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
1154 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
1155 this should work.
1156
1157 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
1158 ===================================================================
1159
1160 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
1161 was not compiled in.
1162
1163 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
1164 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
1165
1166 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
1167 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
1168 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
1169 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
1170 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
1171
1172 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
1173 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
1174
1175 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
1176 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
1177 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
1178
1179 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
1180
1181 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
1182 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
1183 dump).
1184
1185 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
1186 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
1187 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
1188 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
1189 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
1190 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
1191
1192 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
1193 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
1194 /etc/dumpdates.
1195
1196 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
1197 included the current date/version in man pages.
1198
1199 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
1200 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
1201 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
1202 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
1203 the results canceled each other...
1204
1205 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
1206 ===================================================================
1207
1208 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
1209
1210 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
1211 isn't specified.
1212 - several fixes in the man pages.
1213 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
1214 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
1215 - buffer overruns.
1216 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
1217 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
1218 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
1219 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
1220
1221 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
1222 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
1223
1224 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
1225
1226 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
1227 routines (only if available).
1228
1229 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
1230 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
1231
1232 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
1233 ======================================================================
1234
1235 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
1236 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
1237 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
1238 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
1239 RMT etc.).
1240
1241 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
1242
1243 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
1244 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
1245 when comparing).
1246
1247 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
1248 This works for me, needs further testing.
1249
1250 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
1251 ====================================================================
1252
1253 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
1254 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
1255
1256 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
1257 ========================================
1258
1259 1. Use realpath() if available
1260
1261 2. Report statistics
1262
1263 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
1264 ========================================
1265
1266 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
1267 the patch)
1268
1269 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
1270
1271 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
1272
1273 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
1274 ======================================
1275
1276 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
1277
1278 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
1279
1280 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
1281
1282 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
1283 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
1284
1285 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
1286 distribution's one) to use autoconf
1287
1288 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
1289
1290 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
1291 ======================================
1292
1293 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
1294
1295 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
1296
1297 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
1298 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
1299
1300 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
1301 not restored.
1302
1303 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
1304
1305 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
1306 correctly files ending by a hole.
1307
1308 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
1309 ======================================
1310
1311 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
1312 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
1313
1314 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
1315 ======================================
1316
1317 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
1318
1319 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
1320
1321 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
1322 ======================================
1323
1324 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
1325
1326 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
1327 ======================================
1328
1329 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
1330
1331 2. Enabled optimization again.
1332
1333 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
1334 =====================================
1335
1336 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
1337
1338 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
1339 ====================================
1340
1341 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
1342 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
1343 use the mntent functions).
1344
1345 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
1346 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
1347 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
1348 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
1349 0.2 :-(
1350
1351 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
1352 filesystems like the BSD version.
1353
1354 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
1355 than 2 GB.
1356
1357 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
1358 ====================================
1359
1360 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
1361
1362 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
1363
1364 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
1365 incremental backups.
1366
1367 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.