X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=dump.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CHANGES;h=72c5e3db6ee915d5e386ea35d32eec247ede77b0;hp=2565decb6dcdd5d97f0a707dba84cc1a0774a491;hb=3195bc1f1361373549c37145a37381eceb623371;hpb=5bbb0926a5e765575c199573ea3b3d0f5ecd99a2 diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 2565dec..72c5e3d 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,7 +1,85 @@ -$Id: CHANGES,v 1.121 2001/07/18 11:46:31 stelian Exp $ +$Id: CHANGES,v 1.144 2001/11/17 10:31:46 stelian Exp $ -Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released ????????????) -================================================================== +Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released ??????????????????) +======================================================================== + +1. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples + directory. + +2. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to + Chris Danis for reporting the bugs. + +3. Added a script from David B. Peterson + to the examples section. It features dumping several + filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh. + +4. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones + 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 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 + for reporting this. + + +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 and to Theodore T'so + 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 + 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) +=================================================================== 1. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.). @@ -24,11 +102,36 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released ????????????) 6. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on. Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch - . + . Note however that, since + it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed + data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit + conservative. 7. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for the next volume in restore. +8. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the + user to specify a script which will be launched at the + beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of + tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the + script parameters and return codes. + +9. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke + , and some recommendations for QFA uses in + the man pages. + +10. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake + to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to + be lost. + +11. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a + comma separated list of inode numbers. + +12. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing + inode numbers to exclude from the dump. + +13. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore. + Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001) ==================================================================