-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.128 2001/07/20 12:41:53 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.166 2002/02/27 09:47:48 stelian Exp $
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
+=======================================================================
+
+1. Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused
+ a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
+ restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
+
+2. Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
+ there should be no white space between the option letter and
+ the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
+
+3. Made restore work with older versions of the readline library,
+ by checking in configure for several extended symbols. Restore
+ can now be compiled with a readline as old as the 2.0 release
+ (though it may be a good idea to upgrade it to a more recent
+ version...). Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
+ reporting the build failures.
+
+4. Fixed a performance problem with the QFA file creation in
+ dump, which made unnecessary seeks on the tape slowing down
+ the dump. Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
+ reporting this issue.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
+=======================================================================
+
+1. Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
+ (SIGXFSZ treatment).
+
+2. Added the -L flag to restore to allow the user to specify a
+ maximal allowed number of miscompares when using restore
+ with the -C option to check the backup.
+
+3. Detailed the manual entry for the -N option of restore.
+
+4. Added the -a flag to restore to make able doing unattended
+ restores in -i or -x mode (automatically walks through the
+ multiple dump volumes).
+
+5. Extended the QFA mode to work with local files and/or
+ remote tapes and files. This way, restore can know in advance
+ the tape number and the offset for the inodes to extract and
+ can minimize the extraction time by seeking directly to the
+ good tape/offset.
+
+6. Added the -A <archive> option to both dump and restore,
+ which makes dump to archive a dump table-of-contents in
+ the specified file to be used by restore to determine
+ whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored.
+ (the archive file syntax is also compatible with the
+ Solaris ufsdump generated one).
+
+7. Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
+ Solaris ufsdump tapes.
+
+8. Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
+ ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
+ for reporting this bug.
+
+9. Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
+ Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch
+ contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
+
+10. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a
+ possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
+ contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
+=====================================================================
+
+1. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz
+ <getnito@yahoo.com> in the examples section. It features
+ automatic (cron based) full and incremental dumping of
+ several filesystems on a separate filesystem.
+
+2. Fixed a off-by-one miscalculation which disabled dumping
+ a one letter subdirectory. Thanks to Chris Siebenmann
+ <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
+
+3. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to
+ restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris
+ Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
+
+4. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from
+ a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed
+ by <splite@purdue.edu>.
+
+5. Fix a bug which could caused, in some conditions, the highest
+ number inode of a filesystem, to not be dumped. Many thanks
+ to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for helping me
+ chase this bug.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
+=======================================================================
+
+1. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
+ directory.
+
+2. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
+ Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
+
+3. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
+ to the examples section. It features dumping several
+ filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
+
+4. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
+ which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
+ dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
+
+5. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
+ to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
+ patch.
+
+6. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
+ remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
+ regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
+ to know this information when reading a remote compressed
+ dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
+ the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
+ for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
+ many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
+ <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
+
+7. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
+ stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
+ to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
+ for you, please report back.
+
+8. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
+========================================================================
+
+1. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
+
+2. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
+ definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
+ objects overlap).
+
+3. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
+ a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
+ filesystem being compared in the process).
+
+4. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
+ whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
+ easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
+
+5. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
+ refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
+
+6. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
+ to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
+ >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
+ The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
+ the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
+ original BSD tape format.
+
+7. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
+ very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
+ for the bug report.
+
+8. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
+ kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
+ a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
+ John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
+ for this suggestion.
+
+9. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
+ (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
+
+10. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
+ which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
+ done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
+ output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
+ possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
===================================================================
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