[Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b34 released

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

Hi,

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

Starting with this release, the dump/restore code has been 
relicenced under the 'revised' BSD licence, as per
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change.

A couple of new features made it into this release (LZO fast
compression, new extended rmt capable of encryption, make dump work
with 2.5 kernel EOT semantics) and a LOT of small bugfixes.

The dump/restore homepage is located at:
        http://dump.sourceforge.net

The full changelog is appended below.

Enjoy !

Stelian.

Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released April 18, 2003)
====================================================================

1.	Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths.
	Thanks to David Ronis <ro...@ro...> for
	reporting the bug.

2.	Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence
	instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues
	with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen 
	<ka...@fu...> for reporting the bug.

3.	Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing
	a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks
	to Gunther Reiszig <gu...@mi...> for reporting the bug.

4.	Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument)
	even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet 
	<fa...@be...> for reporting the bug.

5.	Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt.
	Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fa...@be...> for reporting
	the bug.

6.	Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes
	dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
	<fa...@be...> for reporting the bug.

7.	Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having 
	a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <mi...@ti...>
	for reporting the bug.

8.	Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a
	problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified 
	between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <ph...@fi...> for
	the bug report and the patch.

9.	Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full
	filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen
	to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned,
	dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is.
	Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <js...@ee...> for reporting the
	bug and providing the fix.

10.	Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and
	table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to 
	Philippe Troin <ph...@fi...> for the patch.

11.	Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0.
	This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used.
	Thanks to Philippe Troin <ph...@fi...> for the patch.

12.	Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been
	dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid). 
	Thanks to Philippe Troin <ph...@fi...> for the patch.

13.	Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part.
	Thanks to Philippe Troin <ph...@fi...> for the patch.
	
14.	Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics
	(and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot
	script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or
	when multiple tapes are listed on the command line 
	(-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense).
	Thanks to Philippe Troin <ph...@fi...> for the patch.

15.	Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per
	ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change.

16.	Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has
	the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming
	on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch 
	<jar...@ig...> for the patch and to 
	Markus Oberhumer <ma...@ob...> for giving special permission
	to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore.

17.	Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia
	<an...@no...> for reporting the bugs.

18.	Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing
	to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on
	how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde
	<ke...@gl...> for the patch.

19.	Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics.
	Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai...@ko...> for the patch.

20.	Fixed a bug which caused dump -w|-W not to work anymore, because
	the fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/mtab are always set
	to 0 0. Thanks to Trent Piepho <xy...@sp...> for 
	reporting the bug.


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