X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=dump.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CHANGES;h=72c5e3db6ee915d5e386ea35d32eec247ede77b0;hp=dba3572463ec12b7920ad084d59c5af8d5785469;hb=3195bc1f1361373549c37145a37381eceb623371;hpb=1df5c692513d8067e0892398e1301b7eb8bba2a1 diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index dba3572..72c5e3d 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,7 +1,39 @@ -$Id: CHANGES,v 1.135 2001/08/17 09:55:09 stelian Exp $ +$Id: CHANGES,v 1.144 2001/11/17 10:31:46 stelian Exp $ -Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (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. @@ -31,6 +63,21 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released ?????????????) 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) ===================================================================