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