For incrementals, we *must* read dumpdates (fail if it's not there!).

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7f99d5fb5c2f04916e23321b2bd19fc2eab94509..607a400f78831b73bdc42db0d60effcdf8d6b9fe 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.9 1999/10/30 22:55:45 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.10 1999/10/31 19:48:25 tiniou Exp $
 
 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
 ===================================================================
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
        bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
        backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
 
+6.     Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
+       we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
+       Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
+       this should work.
+
 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
 ===================================================================
 

diff --git a/dump/itime.c b/dump/itime.c
index f0fa41454de2856c2906b0125cd0de6efcbee7b5..62792253d13b33e0ccc8ce8a0936a3b809a47c68 100644 (file)
--- a/dump/itime.c
+++ b/dump/itime.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 #ifndef lint
 static const char rcsid[] =
-       "$Id: itime.c,v 1.6 1999/10/13 09:57:19 stelian Exp $";
+       "$Id: itime.c,v 1.7 1999/10/31 19:48:28 tiniou Exp $";
 #endif /* not lint */
 
 #include <sys/param.h>
@@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ getdumptime(int createdumpdates)
        spcl.c_ddate = 0;
        lastlevel = '0';
 
-       /* if we're not going to update dumpdates, there's no point in reading
-          it, particularly since /var might not be mounted... wait until here
-          to benefit from the initialization of variables needed by parent */
-       if (!uflag && level == lastlevel)
+       /* If this is a level 0 dump, there's no point in trying to read
+          dumpdates.  It may not exist yet, or may not be mounted.  For
+          incrementals, we *must* read dumpdates (fail if it's not there!) */
+       if (level == lastlevel)
                return;
        initdumptimes(createdumpdates);
        if (ddatev == NULL)