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From: Stelian P. <ste...@fr...> - 2001-09-12 13:18:27
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Hi everybody, A new version of dump/restore, the linux ext2/ext3 filesystem backup utilities was released today. This new release fixes some bugs (yet another LFS bug, etc.) and adds some new features, like the ability to create bzip2 compressed dumps and to stream multi-volume dumps directly to a CD writer. Downloads, bug-reports, mailing lists, all is available from: http://dump.sourceforge.net Enjoy! Stelian. Changelog follows: 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 <jk...@it...> and to Theodore T'so <ty...@mi...> 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 <jar...@ig...> 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! -- Stelian Pop <ste...@fr...> |---------------- Free Software Engineer -----------------| | Alcôve - http://www.alcove.com - Tel: +33 1 49 22 68 00 | |------------- Alcôve, liberating software ---------------| |
From: Stelian P. <ste...@fr...> - 2001-07-20 15:34:13
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This mailing list has been put in moderated only state. Please use dum...@li... or dum...@li... for dump related discussions. I apologize to the subscribers of this list who got unwanted, non announce related, mails. It won't happen anymore. Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <ste...@fr...> |---------------- Free Software Engineer -----------------| | Alcôve - http://www.alcove.com - Tel: +33 1 49 22 68 00 | |------------- Alcôve, liberating software ---------------| |
From: Mike D. <mdr...@wi...> - 2001-07-20 15:26:34
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Matt Britt wrote: > Ive been trying to use dump to backup my sysem onto a tape drive on a > windows system I access using samba. When doing the backup, dump asks me > if the volume is mounted and ready every minute or so. Can I keep it from > doing this (how do I specify to use only one volume)? Also, dump says it's > 100.00% done, but it keeps on going. I tried waiting a few minutes, but it > did the same thing. I know I'm doing something wrong... The command I use > is: > For the first part of your question: I uninstalled dump awhile ago, but i remember an autosize command. man dump, should help you find it. |
From: Matt B. <yea...@mi...> - 2001-07-20 14:57:27
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Ive been trying to use dump to backup my sysem onto a tape drive on a windows system I access using samba. When doing the backup, dump asks me if the volume is mounted and ready every minute or so. Can I keep it from doing this (how do I specify to use only one volume)? Also, dump says it's 100.00% done, but it keeps on going. I tried waiting a few minutes, but it did the same thing. I know I'm doing something wrong... The command I use is: dump -0u -f /mnt/backup / where /mnt/backup is the mounted samba tape drive. Thanks in advance, Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email at http://www.microsoftsucks.org |
From: Stelian P. <ste...@fr...> - 2001-07-20 13:33:59
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Hi everybody, A new version of dump/restore, the linux ext2/ext3 filesystem backup utilities was released today. This new release fixes some bugs (the 'looping dump' bug, compressed multi-volume dumps) and adds some interesting new features (like the -F script option for restore, exclude inodes from dump enhancements etc). Downloads, bug-reports, mailing lists, all is available from: http://dump.sourceforge.net Enjoy! Stelian. Changelog follows: 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.). 2. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted by Ian Gordon <ian...@us...>. 3. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the latest version of this file. Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...>. 4. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output. Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...>. 5. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the previous version. 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 <jar...@ig...>. 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 <uw...@ug...>, 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. -- Stelian Pop <ste...@fr...> |---------------- Free Software Engineer -----------------| | Alcôve - http://www.alcove.com - Tel: +33 1 49 22 68 00 | |------------- Alcôve, liberating software ---------------| |
From: Stelian P. <po...@no...> - 2001-05-12 12:35:23
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Hi folks, I've released a new version of dump/restore, the linux ext2 filesystem backup utilities. The rumours about the dump's death were exagerated, dump is still here alive, better and better with each release, carrying for your data. This new release includes several new features (compression support, quick file access mode), and many bug fixes (especially the LFS support). Get it at http://dump.sourceforge.net and enjoy. Stelian. Changelog follows: Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001) ================================================================== 1. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume. Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@we...> for the suggestion. 2. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes' question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to Graham Reed <gr...@us...> for reporting the bug and providing a patch. 3. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry Peters <gap...@wo...>. WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and drives supporting variable block size. WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction. 4. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <pa...@de...> for the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bd...@ga...> for forwarding it upstream. 5. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...>. 6. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path are now based on the configure parameters. 7. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uw...@ug...>. In this mode, dump stores in a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename) to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support. 8. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uw...@ug...> for implementing this option. 9. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored correctly). 10. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump process per tape). 11. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64). -- /\ / \ Stelian Pop / DS \ Email: po...@no... \____/ |
From: Stelian P. <ste...@fr...> - 2001-02-16 15:01:19
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Some users reported severe problems using the prebuild binary RPM distributed by me. Thanks to those users, it seems that the problem has been tracked down to the RedHat 7 gcc version (yes, THAT one :-) ) who somewhat miscompiles the dump code. Until someone finds a full solution, I have uploaded on ftp://dump.sourceforge.net/pub/dump/ new binary RPM, build using kgcc (egcs-2.91.66) instead of gcc 2.96. If you are using the prebuild RPMs and have problems, try the new ones and report back to me if the symptoms persist. Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <ste...@fr...> |------------- Ingénieur Informatique Libre --------------| | Alcôve - http://www.alcove.com - Tel: +33 1 49 22 68 00 | |----------- Alcôve, l'informatique est libre ------------| |
From: Stelian P. <ste...@al...> - 2001-01-16 08:42:08
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[ I am reposting this since it seems that Sourceforge mailing lists are experiencing severe problems... ] Hi everybody and a happy new millenium! I've released a new version of dump/restore, the linux ext2 backup utilities. The new version fixes some bugs, and adds the ability to save and restore files larger than 2 GB (LFS support). For the entire list of changes see below. You can download the latest version of dump/restore from: http://dump.sourceforge.net Stelian. Changelog follows: Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001) ====================================================================== 1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for his help on this one. 2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users who reported this stupid error. 3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams <jo...@on...> for reporting the bug. 4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly report a 'no space left on device' error instead of strange errors which could imply an archive corruption. Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <so...@cs...> and bgjenero <bgj...@sy...> for reporting the bug. 5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for the patch. 6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin <co...@ho...> for reporting the bug, investigating the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break anything, he is to blame for :-)). 7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem containing large files, generate a large file on output and restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to Andrea Arcangeli <an...@su...> for submitting the patch, and to Theodore T'so <ty...@va...> for his always useful thoughts. 8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for the suggestion. -- Stelian Pop <po...@no...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-11-10 18:48:16
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Hi folks, A new version of Dump/restore, the linux ext2 filesystem backup utilities has been released today. This one has many small fixes and enhancements, including a fix for the recently reported exploit on Bugtraq (present when dump and/or restore are suid root). For more details, see the changelog below. The dump/restore utilities can be downloaded at: http://dump.sourceforge.net Prepare the tapes ! Stelian. Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000) ======================================================================= 1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change in the definintion of the struct sigaction in glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel <sch...@ri...> for reporting the bug and to Dave Platt <dp...@sn...> for suggesting a fix. 2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <ber...@gm...> for reporting the bug. 3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison <ger...@us...> for reporting the bug. 4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow when multiple -e options are used. 5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann <be...@be...> for reporting the bug. 6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB. 7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!). 8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for the patch. 9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for the patch. 10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for the patch. 11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label. Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option) will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@tu...> for the patch. -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-08-20 23:11:20
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A new version of dump/restore, the ext2 filesystem backup utilities has been released today. This new version fixes a signal handling problem in dump, which was causing many dump failures since 0.4b17. All the users of dump are invited to upgrade to the latest version. Some other small bugs have been fixed, and the ability to use LABEL= and UUID= notations in /etc/fstab or the dump command line has been added. The entire Changelog is attached below. The dump/restore utilities can be downloaded at: http://dump.sourceforge.net Backup well. Stelian. Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000) ===================================================================== 1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17) which was causing several strange dump failures (dump hanged or segmentation faults etc). 2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page. 3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell <sa...@ur...> for the suggestion. 4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented dumping a directory having a 1 character name length. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <ber...@gm...> for reporting the bug. 5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <ber...@gm...> for reporting the bug. 6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused in some conditions hard links to be restored several times (therefore generation some warning messages). Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@we...> for reporting the bug. 7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version, providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes. 8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap before checking for libreadline, because we need this library in order to compile the readline support. 9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ew...@re...> for providing the patch. -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-06-30 09:52:36
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A new version of Dump/Restore, the linux ext2fs backup utilities has been released today. This version has some bugfixes, including some security related ones. See the ChangeLog for details. You can download the last version, submit bug reports, subscribe to several mailing lists at the dump homepage: http://dump.sourceforge.net Enjoy! Stelian. Changelog: Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000) =================================================================== 1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks to Stan Bubrouski <sa...@fa...> for reporting the bug. 2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks to Charles Karney <ka...@us...> for the bug report. 3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to be more stable against some attacks (like the last one reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to Andreas Hasenack <an...@co...> for reporting the bugs to me. 4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order to make network backups should read first the man page of dump and enable the suid bit manually. 5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore when using readline support, in order to make the compile process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to Patrik Schindler <po...@po...> for reporting the bug. -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-06-01 21:31:22
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Dump/restore 0.4b17 has been released today. This new version fixes some small bugs and gives some new useful features (like the readline support in interactive restore). You can fetch it, submit bug reports, participate on the mailing lists at the dump homepage: http://dump.sourceforge.net Enjoy! Stelian. Changelog follows: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000) ==================================================================== 1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape, not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul <ha...@in...> for the bug report. Normally, the device name and the current volume number are passed on the command line of the script. However, if you want the old style script (with no arguments passed on the command line), you can enable it in configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript. 2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jb...@re...> for the patch. 3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors, 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@we...> for the suggestion. 4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore. 5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman <it...@sp...> for the bug report. 6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore. Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature. Thanks to Patrik Schindler <po...@po...> for the suggestion. 7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@we...> for the suggestion. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-03-11 16:13:12
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I made a new version of dump/restore, the linux ext2fs backup utilities. For the list of bug fixes and new features, see the ChangeLog below. Dump/restore utilities are available from: http://dump.sourceforge.net Best regards, Stelian. Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000) ==================================================================== 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the output of dump. 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory, which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null character at the end). 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley <wc...@na...> for the patch. 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed from a text file (in addition of the command line). Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <de...@qu...> for the patch. 5. Added the device name and the current volume number as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option). 6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having broken it in 0.4b15). -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-03-02 13:14:51
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A new maintenance release of dump/restore ext2fs backup utilities has been released. This release fixes some bugs and adds a useful option to dump. For details, read the ChangeLog below. Dump/restore is available for dowload/bug reporting at: http://dump.sourceforge.net Regards, Stelian. Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000) =================================================================== 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <ad...@ho...> for the patch. 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by not checking the size of the filesystem parameter). Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <lo...@ha...> for reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users who forwarded me his mail). 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by pager etc.). 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes I made in 0.4b14. 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax in both dump and restore. -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-02-10 12:12:20
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A new version of dump/restore, linux ext2fs backup utilities is now available. This release includes some fixes and new features, detailed information is available in the Changelog below. Linux dump users using a big-endian architecture (such as Sparc, m68k, ppc etc), should be careful as this release fix a bug in the dump tape format, so you'll not be able to restore a pre-0.4b14 tape! Little-endian architectures users should see no differences (apart the fact that they will be able to restore big-endian machines dumps). Dump/restore is available for download at: http://dump.sourceforge.net Regards, Stelian. Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000) ======================================================================= 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways). Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oy...@cs...> for finding this bug and submitting the patch. 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped, but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory to be dumped (generally an empty directory). 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree). 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to Isaac Chuang <ik...@is...> for contributing with the patch. 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore. 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to Ambrose Li <ac...@mi...> for submitting the patch. 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD, Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible, so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak <ce...@ah...> for submitting the bug and helping me test the fix. 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt <jea...@du...> for reporting the bug. -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |
From: Stelian P. <po...@cy...> - 2000-01-21 15:38:08
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Hello everybody, A new version of dump/restore ext2 backup utilities has been released today. Several bugs have been fixed. See the Changelog below for details. The dump/restore project moved to Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net), so you can download the releases, subscribe to dump's mailing lists, report bugs, access the CVS repository, etc. at the following address: http://dump.sourceforge.net Thanks, Stelian. Changelog: Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000) ====================================================================== 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug. 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber <na...@mi...> for submitting this. 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs, causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems. Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <po...@po...> for helping me find this bug. 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber <na...@mi...> for providing the patch. 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display garbage characters instead of the remote host name. -- Stelian Pop <po...@cy...> |