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