[Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b33 released

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Hi everybody,

A new version of dump/restore, the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem
backup utilities, has been released today.

This release features several bugfixes (fixed the endianness issues
with compressed tapes, made rmt understand largefiles seeks, fixed
the build with ancient versions of libext2fs) and some new and useful
enhancements (let the user pass the dumpdates path on the dump command
line, made dump look into /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab for filesystems to 
dump etc). See the changelog below for full details. 

You can download the new version at dump/restore's homepage:
	http://dump.sourceforge.net

Enjoy,

Stelian.

Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003)
=======================================================================

1.	Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question
	'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by
	restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes.

2.	Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes.
	Thanks to Dark Force <da...@us...> for
	reporting this bug and providing test cases.

3.	Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed
	an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic
	<dk...@ly...> for reporting this bug.

4.	Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab 
	when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems
	caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts.
	Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uh...@fa...>, Elliott Mitchell
	<eh...@m5...>, Greg Edwards <ged...@us...>,
	Brian Hoy <bri...@op...>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086
	and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832).

5.	Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the
	read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running
	dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to
	John I Wang <ji...@us...> for the suggestion.

6.	Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of
	'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always
	1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and 
	made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of
	a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <ms...@as...> for
	the suggestions.

7.	Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks.

8.	Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where
	EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined.

9.	Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line
	(-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one.
	Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb...@us...> for the
	suggestion.

10.	Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in
	./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions
	of config.guess, config.sub etc).

-- 
Stelian Pop <st...@po...>