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