[Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b36 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 some interoperability fixes (make restore
understand Solaris 7 ufsdump and FreeBSD UFS2 tapes), some new 
features (specify different tape sizes for each tape when doing
multi-volume dumps, extend dump to understand unlimited dump 
levels) and some other miscellaneous fixes.

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

Enjoy,

Stelian.

Changes between versions 0.4b35 and 0.4b36 (released April 21, 2004)
====================================================================

1.	Fixed dump compilation with old gcc versions. Thanks to
	Mike Castle <da...@us...> for the patch.

2.	Fixed some warnings (howmany, roundup, powerof2 redefined)
	when compiling against a recent glibc version.

3.	Fixed a bug in restore preventing the read of a dump tape
	written with Solaris 7 ufsdump. Thanks to Patrick Higgins
	<phi...@tr...> for reporting the bug and providing 
	the test case.

4.	Changed dump to enable the creation of volumes of different
	sizes in a single run (make -B accept a list of values).
	Patch contributed by Florian Zumbiehl <fl...@gm...>.

5.	Use the glibc provided minor() and major() macros instead
	of our own bitmask implementation. This should be safe for
	when the major/minor namespace will migrate to 32 bits.
	Thanks to Zhang Jun <zha...@na...> for reporting
	the bug.

6.	Made explicit in the dump man page that dump will not create
	a remote file, it will only write to an already existing one.

7.	Another try at making size estimates better again.

8.	Put back the inconditional running of the end-of-tape
	script which was changed in 0.434 to be run only when -M
	or multiple -f were NOT specified. Some users rely on this
	feature even when it is combined with -M/-f.

9.	Fixed restore when restoring huge backups (where rstdir...
	temporary files are over 2GB). Thanks to 
	Raphael Jaffey <rj...@ar...> for reporting this, 
	debugging the issue and making the patch.

10.	Made restore understand FreeBSD UFS2 tapes. Thanks to
	David <vr...@us...> for submitting the bug
	and providing a test case.

11.	Made dump work with an arbitrary integer level (no more 10
	levels only limitation). Thanks to Matthew
	<msv...@mi...> for the patch.
	

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