X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=dump.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CHANGES;h=9c18c539e35a76e95f14b4866588b48a340731dd;hp=ff90fc716a9cf204941c5531f1abd1e415bbec86;hb=3a07bc169e53e03d353dc367809c529ff34c9826;hpb=f48a055e452249091f3c6851a20431a8c87135b1 diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index ff90fc7..9c18c53 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,7 +1,153 @@ -$Id: CHANGES,v 1.130 2001/08/13 16:17:52 stelian Exp $ +$Id: CHANGES,v 1.169 2002/03/28 14:53:01 stelian Exp $ -Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released ?????????????) -=================================================================== +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 . + +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 + +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 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 for + reporting this issue. + +5. Removed the inclusion of some kernel headers in the dump + source, which prevented the compile in some kernel/glibc + headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee + for reporting the bug. + +6. Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to + open the output file for writing. Thanks to Amith Varghese + for reporting this bug. + +7. Made restore able to understand large Solaris ufsdump tapes + (containing inodes bigger than 4194304). Sun have introduced + an "extension" to the dump tape format when dealing with + those inodes, which was uncorrectly handled by Linux restore. + Thanks to Uwe Gohlke for reporting the bug and + providing a test case. + +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 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 + for reporting this bug. + +9. Added the -P option to restore to create a + Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch + contributed by Uwe Gohlke . + +10. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a + possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was + contributed by Uwe Gohlke . + +Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002) +===================================================================== + +1. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz + 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 + for reporting the bug. + +3. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to + restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris + Siebenmann for reporting the bug. + +4. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from + a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed + by . + +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 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 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. + +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. @@ -9,6 +155,43 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released ?????????????) 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) ===================================================================