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