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Subject: [Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b21 released.
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:42:01 +0100
From: Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ 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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and
bgjenero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for reporting the bug.
5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for submitting the patch,
and to Theodore T'so <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the suggestion.
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Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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