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