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3MONDO CHANGES
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52.2.0-1 (2006-06-12)
6- indent on source files
7- asprintf used instead of malloc_string + sprintf/strcpy/strcat without verifications. Optimisations on memory consumption (allocate only size needed + remove memory leaks) (Bruno Cornec)
8- Internationalization (A huge thank to rene-marc dolhen <rmd_at_mecreant.org> who achieved that big task)
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102.0.9 (2006-06-26)
11- nfsmount option added to allow redeployment from another NFS server (Bruno Cornec)
12- Replaced all occurrences of egrep with 'grep -E' and of fgrep with 'grep -F' (Andree Leidenfrost)
13- Optimize grep usage - fixes Debian bug #222052 (Andree Leidenfrost)
14- Avoid false alerts about growisofs not running under sudo (Andree Leidenfrost)
15- Increase PPCFG_RAMDISK_SIZE to 350 MB (Thomas Börkel/Bruno Cornec)
16- Removed useless mondo-makefilelist (Andree Leidenfrost)
17- Fix a segmentation fault in parse_mdstat() (Andree Leidenfrost)
18- Fix gcc 4.1.2 warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
19
202.0.8-3 (2006-06-07)
21- Fix a bug in -I and -E handling !! (Paolo Bernardoni <bernardoni_at_sysnet.it>/Bruno Cornec)
22- Fix permissions for autorun (Bruno Cornec)
23- Fox delivery problems for tar files with too restrictive umask (Bruno Cornec)
24- Fix parsing of DHCP information in start-nfs script (Andree Leidenfrost)
25
262.0.8-2 (2006-06-02)
27- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment (Bruno Cornec)
28
292.0.8-1 (2006-05-25)
30- new build process (Bruno Cornec)
31- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused) (Bruno Cornec)
32- Support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost)
33- New mr_strtok functionn added and used for dm support (Andree Leidenfrost)
34- Complete doc is now a separate package. mondo still contains the man pages and howto in minimal useful formats (Bruno Cornec)
35- HOWTO now contains a new chapter on unattended support for mondo
36- Increase size (4 times) of include|exclude variables
37- Fix a bug on -I and -E not working with multiple parameters
38- Fix a bug in verify for NFS by swapping nfs_remote_dir and isodir when assembling name for image file to verify (Andree Leidenfrost)
39- Fix mondo when restoring filenames containing blanks (still a problem for filenames with ') (Bruno Cornec)
40- Fix a RPM generation bug for rh7.3 (i386-redhat-linux prefix for binaries) (Bruno Cornec)
41
422.0.7 (2006-03-10)
43- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
44- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
45- Add the actual format to messages after calls to function is_this_a_valid_disk_format() about unsupported formats. (Andree Leidenfrost)
46- Abort|Warn when one of the include|exclude dirs (-I|-E) does not exist (Bruno Cornec/Jeffs)
47- Replaced partimagehack with ntfsclone from ntfsprogs package. (Andree Leidenfrost)
48- use df -P everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
49- Paypal incitations removed (Andree Leidenfrost)
50- mondo now uses /usr/share for the restore-scripts (Bruno Cornec)
51- rpmlint cleanups (Bruno Cornec)
52- no shared librairies and no X11 anymore (were useless) (Bruno Cornec)
53- files > 2GB are now really supported (Andree Leidenfrost)
54- new SGML based Mondo Rescue documentation + new Web site (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
55- mondoarchive aborts when 'mindi --findkernel' gives a fatal error (See also Debian bug #352323.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
56- /tmp not excluded anymore from backup (Bruno Cornec)
57- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
58
59v2.06 (2005-12-23)
60- better error handling of failed commands/mindi (Andree Leidenfrost)
61- fix compiler warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
62- -p improvements for NFS/PXE/ISO modes (Bruno Cornec)
63- support of default route and netmask for PXE/NFS (Bruno Cornec)
64- fix for restoring mondo backups on md-raid systems (Philippe De Muyter)
65- remove excessive 'cat' commands (Philippe De Muyter)
66- fix to force growisofs to use speed=1 for DVD burning (Philippe De Muyter)
67- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
68- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images (Andree Leidenfrost)
69- Add -P option to df calls (Andree Leidenfrost/Chuan-kai Lin)
70- fix usage of joint -B and -m options (Andree Leidenfrost/Efraim Feinstein)
71- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's filebrowser (Andree Leidenfrost)
72- remove the renice of mondoarchive (Hugo Rabson)
73- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
74- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball) (Bruno Cornec)
75- disable x11 build by default (Bruno Cornec)
76- remove sbminst (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
77- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
78- exports MONDO_LIB (Bruno Cornec)
79- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0, mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
80- interactive mode now asks for image size and prefix in NFS mode (Gallig Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
81- iso-prefix should be read in iso mode even when -H not given (Stan Benoit)
82- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
83- many code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
84
85v2.05 (2005-11-19)
86- -p options works better for NFS cases (Bruno Cornec)
87- ia64 is now working for rhel3 (Bruno Cornec)
88- delivery process to BerliOS improved (Bruno Cornec)
89- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
90
91v2.04_berlios (2005-10-30)
92- Add -p option to generate ISO images file names with prefix. The new default name for ISO images is mondorescue-1.iso, ... For PXE environment, you have to use the prefix option on the command line (read README.pxe) (Bruno Cornec)
93- Mandrake 2005 support (Bruno Cornec)
94- NFS patches (Yann Aubert <technique@alixen.fr>)
95- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H (this is an unattended mode) (Bruno Cornec)
96
97v2.04 (2005-05-03)
98- made mondo more clever about finding its home. Avoids mondo considering directories like '/usr/share/doc/momdo' as its home.
99
100v2.03 (2004-09-29)
101- better SLES8 support
102- test user-specified temp dir's sanity
103
104v2.02 (2004-07-21)
105- instead of using 'dd' to erase partition table, delete existing partitions w/ the same call to fdisk that is used to create the new partitions; this should avoids locking up the partition table
106- set bootable partition in the above same call to fdisk, for the same reason (avoids locking up the partition table)
107- better software RAID support
108- mount ext3 partitions as ext2 when restoring - better for Debian
109- better star, ACL support
110- added ACL, xattr support for afio users
111
112v2.01 (2004-06-21)
113- fixed cvs for SuSE systems
114- fixed NTFS backup/restore bug relating to partimagehack log file overflow and NTFS v non-NTFS differentiation
115- more reliable extraction of config info from CDs, floppies
116- better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
117
118v2.00 (2004-06-18)
119- first 2.0 release
120- updated grub-install.patched to support SuSE and Red Hat
121- added kdelibs as xmondo dependency (Joshua Oreman)
122- better find_cdrom_device(), to cope w/ multiple CD writers
123- added xmondo pixmap installation
124- fixed -m and -Vc flags
125- fixed NTFS support!
126- bootable CD uses native, not El Torito, support now
127- added -devel package
128- made xmondo a second package
129- added ability to specify --without xmondo at build time
130- Clean up, added spanish translation
131- Set prefix to be /usr
132- added/fixed Requires
133- remove CVS directories prior to building
134- added 2.6 kernel support
135- if 2.6 kernel, insist that the user specify CD device
136- drop Embleer; insist on ms-sys and parted if Windows partition
137- added support for boot/root multi floppies
138- call 'mt' to set block size to 32K before opening in/out tape
139- updated mondo-prep.c to create each disk's partitions all at once (one call per drive) instead of one call to fdisk per partition
140- when extracting cfg file and mountlist from all.tar.gz (tape copy), use block size of INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE, not TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE
141- added star and rudimentary SELinux support
142- fixed lots of bugs
143- all logging now goes to /var/log/mondo-archive.log, with symlink to /tmp/mondo-restore.log for restore-time log-tracking
144- added grub-install.patched
145- removed embleer & other binaries
146- added '-b' to specify block size
147- added '-R' for star support
148
149v1.75 (2004-03-29)
150- fixed chmod/chown bug (Jens Richter)
151- ask user to confirm NFS mountpoint in Interactive Mode
152- rewritten format_everything() to make sure LVMs, RAIDs and regular partitions are prepped in the correct order
153- better magicdev support
154- rewritten external binary caller subroutine
155- DVD support added
156- better backup-time control gui; offer to exclude nfs if appl.
157- fixed multi-tape support
158- re-implemented -D and -J
159- fixed bug in extract_config_file_from_ramdisk() which affected tape+floppy users
160- updated is_incoming_block_valid() to make it return end-of-tape if >300 flotsam blocks
161- unmount CD-ROM before burning (necessary for RH8/9)
162- fixed some stray assert()'s
163- fixed bug in grub-MR (Christian)
164- make user remove floppy/CD before restoring interactively from tape
165- fixed bug in am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
166- added code to nuke_mode() to make sure NFS (backup) share is mounted in Nuke Mode
167- improved tape device detection code
168- better GRUB support
169- better logging of changed bigfiles at compare-time
170- better NTFS support, thanks to partimagehack-static
171- better logging
172- rewrote tape-handling code, breaking compatibility w/ previous versions
173- fixed ISO/CD biggiefile verification bug in mondoarchive
174- fixed bug which stopped boot/compare-time changelist from popping up
175- replaced mondo-makefilelist with C code - faster, cleaner
176- tweaked GUI - better feedback
177
1781.74 (2003-09-24)
179- fixed biggiefile atime/ctime restoration bug 73
180- fixed 'default boot loader' detection bug (Joshua Oreman)
181- use single-threaded make_afioballs_and_images() if FreeBSD
182- fixed mondoarchive -Vi multi-CD verify bug (Tom Mortell)
183- superior get_phys_size_of_drive() (Joshua Oreman)
184- fixed RAID-related bug in where_is_root_mounted()
185- ISO tweaks
186- fixed silly bug in load_filelist() which stopped funny German filenames from being handled properly
187- misc fixes (Michael Hanscho's friend)
188- added rudimentary support for SME
189- added better label support
190- fixed various calls to popup_and_get_string()
191- fixed spec file
192- reject -E /
193- added partimagehack to the mix
194
1951.73 (2003-05-04)
196- mark relevant partitions as bootable _after_ unmounting them
197- resolve boot device (-f) if softlink
198- post_param_configuration() --- store iso-dev and isodir
199- added post-nuke-sample.tgz to package
200- Nuke Mode now checks mountlist against hardware; offer user opportunity to edit mountlist if insane; if user declines, abort
201- added lots of assert()'s and other checks
202- ran code thru Valgrind to catch & fix some memory leaks
203- made mondo-restore.c smaller by moving some subroutines to common/libmondo-raid.c and mondorestore/mondo-rstr-compare.c
204- added '-Q' flag, to let user test mondoarchive's ability to find their boot loader and type
205- improved which_boot_loader()
206- when burning or comparing to a CD, defeat autorun if it is running, to avoid confusing mondoarchive and the user
207- if original backup media no longer available at boot-time then offer user chance to choose another media source
208- when booting, type 'nuke noresize' to nuke w/o resizing mountlist to fill your drives
209- add 'textonly' when booting, to avoid using Newt gui
210- run nice(20) to prioritize mondoarchive at start
211- don't pause and wait for next blank CD at backup-time unless necessary (e.g. previous CD has not been removed)
212- get_phys_size_of_drive() --- better support of older drives
213- don't eject if "donteject" is in kernel's command line
214- cleaned up segfault-handling
215- added Conor's strip_path() to improve file list display
216- added Herman Kuster's multi-level bkp patch
217- added Joshua Oreman's FreeBSD patches x3
218- fixed interactive/textonly support
219- fixed support for subdir-within-NFS-mount
220- fixed "Can't backup if ramdisk not mounted" bug
221- try to work around eccentricities of multi-CD drive PCs
222- misc clean-ups (Steve Hindle)
223
224v1.72 (2003-04-23)
225- LVM/RAID bugs fixed (Brian Borgeson)
226- major clean-up of code (Stan Benoit)
227- make-me-bootable fix (Juraj Ziegler)
228- fixed problem w/ multi-ISO verify cycle (Tom Mortell)
229- removed duplicate entry from makefile
230- if root is /dev/root then assume not a ramdisk
231- fixed potentially infinite loop in log_to_screen (Tom Mortell)
232- reject relative paths if -d flag (Alessandro Polverini)
233- add '/' to custom filelist as workaround for obscure bug
234- ask user speed of CDRW if writing to CD
235- find_cdrom_device() --- if nonexistent/not found then make sure to return '' as dev str and 1 as res
236- tweaked restore scripts tgz
237- cleaned up find_cdrom_device()
238- if user creates /usr/share/mondo/payload.tgz then untar payload to CD at backup-time
239- fixed insist_on_this_cd_number()
240- fixed am_i_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
241- misc clean-up (Tom Mortell)
242- made code more legible
243- fixed post-nuke support
244- fixed nfs support
245- fixed iso support
246- at restore-time, only sort mountlist internally, in mount_all_devices() and unmount_all_devices()
247- fixed cosmetic bug in label-partitions-as-necessary
248- updated documentation
249- fixed fstab-hacking scripts
250
251v1.71 (2003-04-04)
252- log newt, slang, ncurses info
253- updated man page
254- handle %% chars in issue.net properly (Heiko Schlittermann)
255- fixed serious NFS restore bug
256- changed various strcpy() calls to strncpy() calls
257- added mondo-makefilelist to makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
258- mount_cdrom() better at handling multiple CD drives
259- exclude /media/cdrom,cdrecorder,floppy
260- sensibly_set_tmpdir_and_scratchdir() --- exclude smb and smbfs
261- better logging by eval_call_to_make_ISO()
262- accept -J <fname> to let user provide their own fs catalog instead of -I <paths> to backup
263- if dir excluded with -E or included with -I and dir is actually a softlink then exclude/include the dir pointed to, as well
264- better location for manpage
265- adjusted block size of tarball at start of tape, to help users w/ broken tape driver firmware
266- sort -u fstab after modifying it
267- if backup type is nfs then don't estimate noof media
268- fixed Makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
269- updated manpage
270- added -e support
271
272v1.70 (2003-04-04)
273- new devel branch opened
274
275v1.52 (2002-12-08)
276- fixed bug in multithreading
277- use new grub-MR instead of grub-install
278- wipe only the partition table (not MBR) when repartitioning drives
279- ignore lilo.conf.anaconda when looking for lilo.conf file
280- accepts '-l RAW' to backup/restore original boot sector instead of running grub or lilo to init it after restoring
281- fixed&updated stabgrub-me script; software RAID + GRUB work now
282- mount/unmount /boot partition for Gentoo 1.2 users
283- re-enabled extra tape checksums
284- disabled spurious warnings
285- unmount/remount supermounts at start/end of live restore, if nec.
286- cleaned up mondo's tape block handling (now, TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE=128K and I've added INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE=32K variable for buffering)
287- added Makefile
288- added -l RAW option, to backup and restore original MBR
289- cleaned up iso_mode() and nfs restoring
290- create /mnt/RESTORING/mnt/.boot.d for Gentoo users
291- made mondorestore CD bootable for ArkLinux users
292- if user runs as 'su' not 'su -' then work around
293
294v1.51 (2002-11-17)
295- pop-up list of changed files, at end of verification phase
296- better handling of changed.files list at restore-time
297- lots of CD-related fixes
298- added '-N' flag --- to let user exclude all NFS-related mounts&devices
299- better handling of 'kill'
300- restructuring of code to ease integration of mondo w/XMondo
301- fixed obscure bug in find_and_mount_actual_cd()
302- fixed install.sh
303- updated documentation
304- fixed .spec file
305- if / or /root has <50MB free then abort & complain
306- commented code
307- updated man page
308- added -v / --version flag
309- replaced convoluted grep with wc (KP)
310- fixed bug affecting restoration of bigfiles from CD's created w/0 compression
311- fixed BurnProof-related bug
312- better at figuring out which is the best partition to use for temp/scratchdir
313- added do-not-compress-these (text file) to RPM
314- do not compress files of types listed in do-not-compress-these
315- dropped -U from call to afio - saves 20-30% runtime (Cosgrove)
316- added Cosgrove's do-not-compress-these list
317- included various patches from KP
318- chmod tmpdir, scratchdir to 700 before using
319- restore from specified backup device, even if its own cfg file disagrees
320- fixed multi-tape bug
321- fixed "Can't find first ISO when verifying nonbootable ISO" bug
322- multithreaded make_afioballs_and_images()
323- tmpdir and scratchdir set sensibly whether mondoarchive is called with command-line parameters or not
324- fixed bug in strip_spaces() which stopped it from handling small strings correctly - affected mountlist editor
325- create a repaired copy of grub-install which is RAID-friendly; use it when initializing boot sector with run_grub()
326- fixed bug in mondo-makefilelist
327
328v1.50 (2002-09-08)
329- if restoring, don't try to find SCSI node of CD-ROM drive; find /dev entry
330- during selective restore, skip filesets which don't contain relevant archives
331- set /dev/null's perms to 777, just in case devfs-enabled kernel mangles it
332- remove /var/run/*.pid after restoring
333- move spurious lockfiles from /home/* to /home/*/.disabled
334- ask user to confirm the tape/CD device name
335- lots of multitape-related fixes
336- added code to autodetect the hardware of the user, when possible
337- if isodir does not exist then abort
338- doubled 'biggiefile' threshold... to 32MB
339- exclude /root/images/mindi
340- fixed multi-imagedev bug (Emmanuel Druon)
341- unmount/remount /mnt/floppy before/after backing up, if Mandrake
342- restructured the source files
343- fixed serious bug in line 1546 - should have been !=, not ==; stopped mondorestore from correctly restoring big files
344- added '#include <signal.h>' to my-stuff.h
345- exclude "incheckentry xwait()" from changed.files
346- fixed minor bug in find_cdrom_device()
347- fixed bug in friendly_sizestring...
348- insist on tape #1 when start verifying
349- added internal buffering, replacing the external 'buffer' exe
350- if differential backup then don't permit formatting or fdisking, whether Interactive or Nuke mode
351- if mondorestore is run on live filesystem (or from ramdisk) without parameters then mondorestore will ask which backup media (tape, CD, etc.) was used; it will read the config file from the media and proceed from there
352- if tape streamer is softlink then resolve it first
353- incorporate post-nuke tarball
354- if user doesn't specify tape size, proceed anyway; behave intelligently in the event of end-of-tape
355- prefix bkpinfo->restore_path to biggiefile fname before generating checksum & comparing to archived biggiefile
356- if /etc/lilo.conf not found not /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda found then create a softlink from the former to the latter, to work around RH7.3's b0rken LILO support
357- LFS support (mharris, michele, hugo)
358- fixed verify bug --- CD#1 was being verified again & again & ...
359- differential mode fixed; supported again
360- ask user for boot loader + device if not detectible
361- list up to 512 files in file selection window at once (was 128)
362- better handling of bigfiles' checksums, perms and owns
363- delete final filelist if <=2 bytes long
364- if kernel not found and mondo in graphics mode then popup and ask for kernel path+filename
365- misc clean-ups (Troff)
366- noninteractivity-related & misc clean-ups (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
367- RAID, feedback enhancements (Philippe de Muyter)
368- exclude /dev/* from changed.files
369- replaced large declarations with malloc()'s and free()'s
370- added lockfile
371- fixed bugs affecting tape users who backup+verify at same time
372- fixed bugs re: tape block size >32K (Troff)
373- added signal-trapping to mondoarchive and mondorestore
374- fixed bug in new '-s' code
375- added --isonuke and --mbr switches
376- cleaned up live filesystem restoration
377- permit '-0' (no compression) flag
378- if user restores selectively (picks some files to be restored) then large files archived during '-L' (LZO) backup will now be restored properly
379- fixed bug in make-me-bootable
380- don't change /tmp's permissions unless it doesn't exist & has to be created
381- changed $i to $j in mondo-makefilelist (Karsten)
382- fixed 'I refuse to write floppy images to /dev/fd0 because its size is not apparent from its filename' bug
383- disabled 'nr-failed-disks' entry in raidtab generator
384- added '-o' flag to let user choose LILO as CD/floppy's boot loader
385- fixed bug in --mbr
386
387v1.43-7 (2002-06-04)
388- afio uses 16MB buffer when restoring, instead of 8MB buffer
389- mondorestore makes /var/run/console in case user excluded it
390- the -s switch now accepts multiple sizes, one per tape/CD
391- added -u switch for streaming to device; like -t (tape) but without various error checks; use with caution
392- bugfixes; cleaned up code (Troff)
393- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
394- use dvdrecord instead of cdrecord, if available
395- don't alter /mnt/RESTORING/tmp's permissions if comparing
396- added -follow to search for home (Bruno Vidal)
397- unmount/remount CD-ROM at start/end if supermounted
398- delete old /tmp/filelist.full,biggielist.txt if restoring to live filesystem
399- if Mindi aborted then show last 6 lines of its log before mondoarchive aborts
400- reformatted, redistributed source code (Stan Benoit)
401- replaced isolinux dependency with syslinux dependency
402- now shows the CDR(W)'s progress properly - 20%, 30%, etc.
403- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
404
405v1.42-3 (2002-04-12)
406- minor cosmetic enhancements
407- improved homedir-locating code
408
409v1.42-1 (2002-04-07)
410- mondorestore may now be run on live filesystem, i.e. user does not have to reboot in order to restore data; works for CD's and tapes; NFS and ISO restores will be supported at a later date
411- fixed restore-time RAID-handling bugs
412- added -E patch to exclude files and/or dirs properly (Andy Glass)
413- cat /proc/cpuinfo and run uname -r; save output to logfile at backup-time
414- fixed minor bug in stablilo-me
415- if /tmp/fstab.new exists then use _it_ instead of /tmp/fstab to label ext2 or ext3 partitions
416- bootable CD's now use SYSLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
417- don't pclose() tape after calling closein_tape(): the latter does it already
418- tarball installs to /usr/share/mondo by default; was /usr/local/share/mondo
419- numerous cosmetic enhancements
420- added '-m' (manual CD tray) flag
421
422v1.41-1 (2002-03-21)
423- record hostname (Krzysztof Dubowik)
424
425v1.40-7 (2002-03-10)
426- if '-L' then test for lzop; abort if not present
427- if Mondo cannot figure out which boot loader the user is using, tell the user to read the manual and mention -l, -f switches
428- abort if ramdisk not available
429- updated man page (Mikael Hultgren)
430- support multiple -I params (Mikael Hultgren+Randy Delfs)
431- mkreiserfs -ff instead of -q (Andy Glass)
432
433v1.40-6 (2002-03-03)
434- incorporated new config.guess, config.sub (H�tor Garc� �varez)
435- updated manual to explain tmpfs needs to be in kernel (Mikael Hultgren)
436- don't let non-root users run mondoarchive
437- allow up to 50 chars in popup_and_get_string()'s input field
438- tell user to use 'su -' instead of 'su' if they use 'su' by mistake
439- make mondo-makefilelist more SUN-friendly, re: fstab (Andy Glass)
440- modified 'Sliced bigfile #n' log entry to say '..#(n+1)'
441
442v1.40-5 (2002-02-24)
443- improved the way Mondo installs itself (Mikael Hultgren)
444- updated manpage
445- touch /mnt/RESTORING/var/log/pacct after restoring
446- added updated docs (Cafeole, Randy Delfs, Stan Benoit et al)
447- added pico to restore-scripts.tgz; deprecated some scripts
448- if restoring to /dev/ida/* or /dev/cciss/* then drop the 'p' before trying to discover the size of the partition itself
449- support pathnames containing spaces (KirkJT)
450- added -C switch, to treat CD burner almost as a tape streamer
451- run post-nuke script if it exists
452- put (char*)(&buf) instead of &buf when reading/writing biggiefiles' info
453
454v1.40-3 (2002-02-17)
455- let user exclude devices from mountlist with (e.g.) -E /dev/hda1
456- handle one-letter dirs properly (Ian Kent)
457- when making ext3 fs, don't specify journal size (Cafeole)
458- add tmp.mondo.NNNN to tempdir path, if tempdir is specified by user
459- add mondo.scratch.NNN to scratchdir path, if scratchdir is specified by user
460- beefed up RAID-related logging a bit
461- exclude .journal files properly
462- Italian patch (Michael Baldessari)
463
464v1.40-2 (2002-02-11)
465- fixed typo in manpage (Mikael Hultgren)
466- exclude "#"*"#" and *~ from tarball and source RPM
467- updated manual (Randy Delfs)
468- put the correct version# in mondo/my-stuff.h
469- in Nuke Mode, expand/contract mountlist proportionately to fill hard disks
470- fix serious restore-time bug in tape/afio-handling code
471- cdrecord is only required if burning CD's
472
473v1.40-1 (2002-02-10)
474- set partition(s) bootable w/fdisk if appropriate
475- cosmetic bugfixes
476- changed get_phys_size_of_drive() to read value from fdisk, not dmesg
477- if hard disk does not exist then warn user when editing mountlist
478- if boot+floppy disk images were not created then don't offer to write them to disks; instead, mention the mindi.iso bootable CD images
479- exclude each partition's .autofsck from backup
480- fixed bug in CD restoration progress form
481- changed many tempfilenames from mojo-jojo* to sensible, random names
482- exclude win386.swp from backup (Cafeole)
483
484v1.38-2 (2002-02-07)
485- minor improvements to the NFS-handling code
486- mondo-restore now records Mondo's version# in log
487- fixed silly bug that makes 'current filelist #' progress form inaccurate
488- fix typo in '10 seconds to abort' line; also, made 20 seconds
489
490v1.38-1 (2002-02-06)
491- source code has been beautified (Stan Benoit)
492- makefile, Config implemented (Stan Benoit)
493- use /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg instead of all kinds of silly /tmp files at boot-time; slowly migrating to a proper /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg file
494- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
495- patch to make it easier to install Mondo almost anywhere (Ian Mortimer)
496- proper, one-char switches replace the long-winded multi-char switches of 1.36 and earlier
497- migrating from lots of /tmp files in ramdisk to a single configuration file on ramdisk, at /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg
498- estimates the number of media required by this backup session
499- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
500- records+restores biggiefiles' permissions+ownership properly
501
502v1.37-1 (2002-01-25)
503- proper 'selective restore' interface implemented
504- if the user specifies boot loader or device, record those settings
505- fixed cdrecord-related bug in .spec file
506- if backing up specific paths - e.g. /usr/local/bin - then include /usr and /usr/local/ in filelist; don't backup /usr/* but do recreate /usr and /usr/local/; this is to help the selective restore subroutine
507- user's BIOS is assumed not to be able to handle LILO's sector-seek merging
508- switches --broken-bios, --debug and --chunk-size have been removed
509- if user calls with --burn-cds 2 (nothing else) then find CDRW and continue
510- if CD writer's speed is not specified then assume 2x
511- better autodetection of CD writer
512- set size is 5MB for tape users and CD users alike
513- exclude /root/images/mondo from backup
514- added --skip-floppies switch
515- abort if PC has <32MB of RAM at backup-time; warn if <64MB
516
517v1.36-1 (2002-01-20)
518- fixed v.minor bug in MakeFilelist()
519- in mondo-archive, replaced calls to Die() with calls to FatalError()
520- include .spec file in tarball
521- if cdrecord v1.8 or older then abort: inadequate for Mondo's needs
522- moved misc functions from mondo-archive to mondo-tarme.c
523- prettier interface when preparing and formatting boot+data disks
524- when editing mountlist, warn if formats !supported by kernel (B. Hartin)
525- don't try to run e2label on filesystems which aren't ext2 or ext3
526- don't write to tape if already burning to CD (Kosaku Nagasaka)
527- re-enabled and tested some CD-verifying code
528- added buffer to RPM/tarball requirements
529- set size is 4MB for tape users; 16MB for CD users
530- files <16MB aren't chopped
531- uses tmpfs for temp storage if backing up to tape
532- (rudimentary) selective formatting
533- log versions of afio, bzip2, etc.
534
535v1.35-1 (2002-01-10)
536- NFS backup+restore support
537- exclude Win2K hiberation file (Paul Rensing)
538- fixed filelist.full/filelist.blah typo (Paul Rensing)
539- unset TAPE at start of mondo-archive (Norm Crowfoot)
540- if bzip is <v0.99 then abort
541- if hard disk fills to capacity then abort
542- --post-nuke <tarball> will incorporate a tarball of tools and data files of the user's choosing in the boot CD/floppies; the tarball must contain an executable, 'post-nuke', which will be called at the end of Nuke Mode
543- --text-mode forces Mondo Archive to use text only (no newt or ncurses)
544- the deprecated scripts have now been disabled
545- boot floppy will use 'safe' LILO calls; boot CD will use 'fast' LILO calls unless --broken-bios is supplied in call to Mondo
546- cdrecord's buffer is now 4 MB (was 16 MB)
547- tape support has been rewritten from ground up
548- set size is now 16MB for CD users and 48MB for tape users
549- don't let user change mountlist entry from regular mountpt to 'image'
550- mount -t (space was missing in mount_isodir())
551- all calls to afio now use blocks of TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE KB and RAM buf of 8 MB
552- added Peter Seidler <p.seidler@mail1.stofanet.dk>'s "Petris" game
553- --exclude-paths now drops the trailing '/' from param(s) if present
554- tab-align /etc/fstab after hacking it
555
556v1.34-1 (2001-12-25)
557- if /sbin or /usr/sbin are not in PATH then add them temporarily
558- if --broken-bios then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
559- tape users can boot from a single floppy now
560- when archiving/restoring/verifying tape, skip the first 32MB
561- fixed bugs in actually_verify_the_tapes()
562- fixed some popen/pclose mismatches
563- no longer run compare_a_biggiefile() right after restore_a_biggiefile(), as it can upset the restoration of biggiefiles which are spread across CD's
564
565v1.33-8 (2001-12-19)
566- implemented --image-devs <dev> (<...>) switch
567- improved --verify switch's code
568- exclude Windows' win386.swp file, if found
569- fixed bug in unmount_all_devices()
570- include version of Mondo/Mindi in error log
571- updated the FAQ
572- when making differential backup, make sure to exclude nonexistent files
573- --use-lzo now applies lzo to big files as well as afio archives
574- changed all 'long long's to 'off_t's
575- no longer aborts if /etc/lilo.conf does not exist
576- moved FAQ's to FAQ file
577- archive bigfiles one slice at a time; much less wasteful of space
578- abort if user tries to backup a mounted partition as an _image_
579
580v1.33-6 (2001-12-15)
581- misc bugfixes
582
583v1.33-5 (2001-12-14)
584- improved error-reporting in the event of boot loader detection failure
585- improved tape verification code
586- experimental support for backing up and restoring devices as images
587
588v1.33-4 (2001-12-13)
589- updated FAQ
590- experimental GRUB support
591- when calculating checksums, tell user %done and time remaining
592- checksum catalog entry = filesize+mtime+ctime; don't call md5sum or cksum
593- compile mondo-filelistchop and mondo-checksum with -O2 optimization
594- when writing floppies, ask specifically for floppy #x (Randy Delfs)
595
596v1.33-3 (2001-12-12)
597- supports --boot-loader and --boot-device to let user specify them
598- fixed CDRW node autodetection bug
599- MONDO_PATH was misconfigured; is now "/usr/share/mondo"
600
601v1.33-1 (2001-12-12)
602- if user changes a partition's device, change it in raidtab too
603- don't extrapolate from /etc/raidtab to /tmp/mountlist; editor does it already
604- don't backup /tmp (somewhere in the v1.3x series, I stopped excluding /tmp)
605- cosmetic fixes to mondo-prep.c and mondo-newt.c
606- put quotes around chmod's parameter
607- subtract 5% from reported maximum storage capacity of drives, when checking that the parttions will fit; some drives lie about their max cap
608- stablilo-me no longer tries to mark partitions as bootable
609- better exclusion of /var/log/pacct
610- tape users can now use --verify to verify archives w/o rebooting
611- checksum calculated for every file backed up - for future expansion
612- implemented a _real_ --differential switch, to backup all files changed or added since the last complete backup
613
614v1.32-2 (2001-12-09)
615- if no RAID devices after editing mountlist then delete raidtab
616- don't try to mount RAID partitions (components of RAID dev)
617- don't add partitions to mountlist when extrapolating from mountlist unless the partitions are not already present in mountlist
618- don't format partitions if partitioning failed
619- when user selects RAID level, establish whether said level is available
620
621v1.32 (2001-12-09)
622- if user creates ISO images, the default dest dir is /root/images/mondo now
623- log_it() makes sure it only writes one \n on the end of each logged line
624- detects if user is using GRUB/LILO/other; abort if neither LILO nor GRUB
625- passes the boot loader's name and device to Mindi, to be available at boot-time
626- if user successfully restores using Nuke or Interactive w/o error then Mondo generates a random message, basically saying, "Cool."
627- enlarged afio's "-M" parameter from 12M to 16M
628- if stablilo-me fails then restore the original lilo.conf and fstab before offering user the opportunity to edit them (Dean Carpenter)
629- added ISO Mode, to let user restore from ISO images in directory
630- cosmetic fix to compare/restore phase windows
631- if backing up to ISO images then offer to write boot floppies too
632- changed some references to /tmp/raidtab, to /etc/raidtab
633- cleaned up compare + restore logging
634- scratchdir is now [path]/mondo.scratch.$$; was just [path]/mondo.scratch
635
636v1.31 (2001-12-04)
637- turned on '-Wall' to find cruft; found lots of it; cleaned it up
638- exclude each device's lost+found directory
639- mountlist editor now permits advanced editing of RAID devices
640- fixed a silly bug that was causing freeze-up on <1% of systems; if biggielist was empty then sometimes mondo-archive would freeze when backing up big files (cos there weren't any *g*)
641- partition and set type in 2-stage process (was 1-stage)
642- cleaned up Compare Mode's logging a bit, to make it more legible
643- don't report changed archives as 'errors' but as 'differences'
644- exclude ext3's .journal files from backup (yes, this time I really do)
645- '--my-kernel SUCKS' has been replaced with '--my-kernel FAILSAFE'
646- softlink mondo-restore to /usr/bin/ before calling Mindi, so that Mindi can pick up mondo-restore and its depdendencies easily
647- copy mondo-restore to Mondo's temp dir before calling Mindi
648- don't try to compress MP3's, MPG's, WMV's or RA's
649- cleaned up mondo-newt.c; alphabetized the subroutines; moved some tools from there to mondo-tools.c
650- mondo-tarme and mondo-restore are now compiled as dynamic executables; I have amended install.sh and mondo-1.31.spec accordingly
651- now make boot/data floppies at end of backup, not beginning
652- backup in alphabetical order now, not reverse-alpha
653- if Compare Mode reports changed files /var/* and /etc/mtab only then tell the user their archives are good despite the differneces
654- cut back on excessively verbose logging at backup-time
655- when vacuum-packing a partition, describe it as "(max size)", not "(0 MB)"
656- if swap is already mounted, don't abort: just say, 'swap already mounted'
657- when unmounting all devices, don't try to unmount something if it's not even mounted; if it's not mounted, say so but don't try to unmount it: you'll just end up looking very silly :)
658
659v1.30 (2001-11-28)
660- I have reorganized the C code, sorted the subroutines alphabetically, and re-jigged Mondo's installation routines (inc. the RPM spec file) to reflect the changes
661- check for mondo-restore's presence; if absent then abort & ask user to check to see if Mondo was installed properly
662- always exclude /var/log/pacct from backup
663- optimal set size is now 24MB
664- install.sh will abort w/error if compilation of mondo-* fails
665- after creating the mountlist, put a copy in Mondo's tmp directory
666- each ext3 filesystem has a .journal file in its base directory; Mondo will now exclude each of these journal files automatically
667- use the archived copy of LILO, not the copy from the restore-time ramdisk, to configure the MBR
668- size_of_file() now returns long long, not long
669- find mondo-archive and set MONDO_PATH accordingly
670- scratchdir is /home/mondo.scratch by default
671- at backup-time, run mondo-restore in test mode to make sure that the executable is sane & will run OK at restore-time
672
673v1.19 (2001-11-14)
674- tested on Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2; backup,wipe,restore went OK
675- fixed a bug in is_this_device_mounted()
676- at restore-time, always check for presence of decompressor; abort if notfound
677- run 'chmod -r 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp' after restoring
678- fixed bugs in Compare Mode:- - missing else{} - erroneous 'cannot add archive' error; res+=retval should have read retval+=res (Tony Kim)
679- use 'umount /mnt/cdrom' instead of 'umount /dev/cdrom', to make it compatible with busybox's umount command
680- fixed bug in mondo-archive which stopped Mondo from pausing to retry if the CD/ISO fails the verification phase
681- modified compare_all_tarballs() in mondo-restore.c
682- if running interactively then offer to modify fstab and lilo.conf if user says s/he has modified the mountlist
683- if mondo-tarme segfaults (as it does, on a _very_ few systems) then Mondo picks up on the fact & reports it
684- when restoring, create /mnt/RESTORING/tmp before _and_ after restoring data, just in case it is necessary; also set permissions okay
685- C code is now compiled 'O0' (without optimizations)
686- each CD's slices were being listed to screen; now, piped to /dev/null
687
688v1.18 (2001-10-28)
689- changed minor error in documentation (mondo-archive's --help output)
690- improved Mondo's compare phase for tape users
691
692v1.17 (2001-10-20)
693- the deprecated scripts now work with LZO
694- if mondo-restore cannot mount all devices, it will _unmount_ whatever it did mount, before it returns an error
695- works with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
696- cosmetic change to output (no more 'burning first/last CD' msgs)
697- abort if user uses '--use-lzo' but doesn't install LZO(P) first
698- changed --differential's \( and \) to ( and ) <-- thanks, Michael Moellney)
699- added Marcus Oberhumer's LZO to Mindi and Mondo; use '--use-lzo' switch to activate this groovy new compression algorithm; it is not as efficient as bzip2 but it is can take up to 50% less time than bzip2 to compress data
700- incorporated Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch
701- at restore-time, set biggiefiles to +x
702- set optimal fileset size to 16MB (was 8MB)
703- don't report non-existent differences/errors between archives and filesystem
704- fixed bug in --differential switch (Michael Moellney)
705- scripts will no longer function unless gawk and printf are included in Mindi's deplist.txt; add them if you want to use the scripts
706
707v1.16 (2001-10-10)
708- default scratchdir is `pwd`/mondo.scratch.$$ (was mondo.scratch)
709- when asking user to send me a log file, warn them that the log file may contain information which they do not want me to see but point out that I cannot help much unless I have a copy of their log file
710- when comparing to or restoring from tape, only update the progree form if/when I've just restored files; otherwise, I would screw up the time est.s
711- increase afio's block count from 256 to 1024 when restoring from tape
712- plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
713- when restoring or comparing, track progress by the archive# (N out of M), not by the file#; the former is more reliable and useful than the latter
714- has been tested successfully with the following distros - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel --- tape / CDR - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel --- tape / CDR
715- tape streamers are now supported; use the '--write-tapes <dev> <sizeMB>' switch, e.g. --write-tapes /dev/st0 4096
716- LVM support is stabilizing
717- when mounting/unmounting partitions to be restored, don't forget to mount/unmount the swap partitions
718- when zeroing a drive, use plain old C fopen/fputc/fclose, not 'dd'
719- after restoring data and running LILO, unmount (as usual) and then run label-partitions-as-necessary, to set the ext2fs LABELs if it is appropriate
720- fixed bugs in selective restoration scripts and executable
721- fixed silly bug in hack-lilo; bug was triggered when I moved to Mandrake 8.1; bug caused '/dev/fd0' entry in lilo.conf to become corrupted
722- if user tries to make a bootable rescue CD with the '--no-bkpath' switch then politely direct them to Mindi :-)
723
724v1.15 (2001-09-28)
725- serialized the call to mondo-filelistchop.c; helps to improve visual feedback (yeah, sounds weird but it's true)
726- the switches --differential and --exclude-paths should play nicely now
727- improved the logging a bit, esp. when ejecting or unmounting CD's
728- improved the visual feedback (specifically, the bar and percentage figures indicating time spent & remaining)
729- experimental LVM support
730- fixed 'cannot eject CD' bug, which was caused by busybox's sync & umount
731- fixed mount-me to allow for mountlists with >1 spaces between columns
732- fixed documentation; param is --my-kernel <path>, not kernel-path <path>
733- fail if user runs mondo-archive _from CD_; this is for the user's protection
734- fixed silly bug in mount-me (a crucial line was disabled)
735- working on stablilo-me, hack-lilo and hack-fstab to make sure they work with the new, busybox-based Mindi v0.41
736- Mindi v0.41 is very different from v0.40, internally anyway; so, I had to do a lot of testing to make sure Mondo would play nicely with the new Mindi
737
738v1.14 (2001-09-18)
739- if verify is enabled then verify each CD/ISO after writing it
740- fixed a quasi-bug in mondo/mount-me; this script used 'sort +1' which is not supported by busybox; I've changed it to just plain old 'sort'
741- Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
742- fixed bug in 'biggify-me' script; now, checksums will be verified
743- fixed bug in checksum comparison code (mondo-restore.c)
744- reimplemented '--verify' switch; now, user can verify ISO's or CD's against the live filesystem, just for 'belt and braces' emotional security
745- improved the error-reporting at restore-time (if tarball cannot be accessed)
746- if user does not specify CD-R(W) drive's speed or device then Mondo will try to locate the drive and will assume 4x speed
747- user may now type 'edit-mountlist' after booting, if they want to edit the mountlist without risking accidentally wiping their hard disks
748- fixed a few silly typos in the error messages in mondo-tarme
749- updated the FAQ
750- added code to verify ISO images
751- used 'blank=fast' instead of '-blank fast' for backward-compatibility with older versions of cdrecord
752- if nonzero value returned by Mondo, then Mondo creates a mondo.err.$$.tgz tarball containing log files & stuff, which it tells the user to e-mail me
753- when debugging, don't pause before running mondo-tarme; just run it
754- automatically exclude any file including '/vmmhiber.w9x' in its pathname
755- added Minix support (although I doubt anyone needs it)
756- ported mondo-tarme to C - prettier interface at run-time (backup), giving better feedback - obviates a mysterious, intermittent bug in bash itself - shows '% done' when burning CD
757- afio now has a 12MB FIFO buffer (was 16MB)
758- cdrecord now has a 20MB FIFO buffer (was 24MB)
759- wipe [CD]/usr/share/mondo, as well as floppy images, if CD #2 or later
760- up to 19 CD's may be created now
761- fixed the 'stderr.txt not found' loop error in mondo-tarme.c
762- fixed the weird 'segfault on finish() after archiving' bug
763- modularized the install.sh and mondo-1.14-x.i386.rpm compilation sections
764
765v1.13 (2001-09-01)
766- fixed some compiler warnings in mondo-newt.c; rearranged some code
767- mondo-tarme now uses -M 16m -t 4k in its call to afio, to improve performance
768- fixed mondo-restore.c's mkreiserfs call; ditto, prep-me's mkreiserfs call
769- fixed mondo-restore.c's compare_a_biggiefile() subroutine, which would generate erroneous error messages
770- fixed mondo-archive.c's restore_a_biggiefile() and restore_all_biggiefiles() subroutines; I can't get them to break but others can, so I've streamlined the code to make them easier to debug and in theory more stable too
771- fixed 'hack-fstab' to make sure that non-LABELed partitions are correctly moved/changed, etc.
772- fixed the 'space in big filename' bug (I think)
773- make Interactive Mode sort the mountlist (by partition size) before creating the dirs and mounting the partitions to them
774- fixed a slew of bugs related to Red Hat's LABEL= extensions
775- cleaned up mondo-restore.c and mondo-newt.c; replaced lots of arbitrary limits and lengths with a small number of #define's
776- added some sample RAID0/1/5 raidtab (config) files to restore-scripts.tgz, which will be restored to the ramdisk's /etc dir when the user boots from the CD; this will only take up an extra 50K or so & will help any user who is moving from non-RAID to RAID
777- changed FIFO size to 20MB
778- only use the VFAT kludge on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1; otherwise, even if the partition type is VFAT, do a regular mkfs.vfat
779- if mkfs.vfat doesn't exist, use mkfs.dos
780- only try to add 'LABEL=' to ext2 and ext3 partitions
781- moved a bunch of scripts from Mindi's rootfs.tgz to our restore-scripts.tgz
782- fixed bugs in mondo-restore.c, which would sometimes just sit there when trying to compare or restore big files that were spread across CD's
783- Interactive Mode goes straight to 'mondo-restore --interactive' now, i.e. the user doesn't have to choose Interactive once at boot and once within mondo-restore
784- better post-run clean-up
785- improved mondo-restore.c's error-reporting a little bit
786- stablilo-me (the script) now supports Red Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to /etc/fstab, via the script, 'label-partitions-as-necessary'
787- added a user-friendly mountlist editor to mondo-restore.c
788- added lots of sanity-checking to mountlist editor
789
790v1.12 (2001-08-18)
791- changed cdrecord's FIFO size to 8MB
792- removed -pad and -sort from the call to mkisofs
793- amended the .spec file to be saner when building RPM's
794- archives are named '.afio.bz2' instead of '.tar.bz2'
795- mondo-archive, mondo-tarme, mondo-restore.c and the DEPRECATED scripts have been amended accordingly
796- should be able to create up to 20 CD-R's per backup set now
797- moved a line within prep-me that was in the wrong place (thanks, Fran Boon!)
798- runs 'df -m' and saves it to a text file 'df.txt' on the CD
799- added 10-second delay before mondo-restore's Nuke Mode, to let the user abort
800- really fixed the '/mnt/RESTORING/tmp' permissions bug (thanks, Ang Tan!)
801- sometimes, bash gets all screwed up & won't let the user type 'continue' when Mondo asks them to; if that happens, Mondo will detect it & use a different kind of mondo-askme; the new mondo-askme will check every 10 minutes for a blank CD; if it's there, then the burn continues
802- abort if isodir or scratchdir is a softlink
803- replaced mondo-askme with a good shell script, to work around flaws in bash and/or kernel (don't know which)
804- added a failsafe kernel to Mindi, which means you don't have to make sure your kernel is suitable for a boot disk; you can just use Mindi's instead
805- make+chop filelist _after_ calling Mindi
806- updated the FAQ
807
808v1.10 (2001-08-12)
809- changed cdrecord's FIFO size back to 4MB
810- added -pad -sort to the call to mkisofs
811- stop saying, "N files differ so far" after comparing each tarball
812- updated the FAQ, to remind users that they can boot from floppy images if their kernel does not have the right support of CD-ROM's, filesystems, etc.
813- erroneous error-reporting by /mondo/biggify-me; fixed (David Granz)
814- don't estimate the time remaining unless >20 sets processed already
815- default set size (uncompressed) is now 8MB (was 12MB); when 8MB, seems to run more smoothly & a little quicker, too, at restore-time
816- chmod 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp after restoring/creating /tmp
817- dropped mondo-askme.c; using regular 'read' instead
818- mondo-restore.c uses newt instead of ncurses; much prettier that way
819- cdrecord now uses a 16MB FIFO buffer (was 8MB)
820- fixed floating point error in mondo-restore (when showing progress)
821- when mondo-restore is called without params (e.g. by Interactive Mode), it lets the user choose between nuke, interactive or compare (or abort)
822- updated the FAQ
823- working on Cuckoo Mode...
824
825v1.09 (2001-08-02)
826- default compression level is now 3 (was 2)
827- retry/fail/abort loop bug fixed
828- calls mindi with "--custom $TMP $scratchdir/images" to force mindi to use my temp dir and to put the images in my 'images' folder
829
830v1.08 (2001-07-28)
831- offer to Retry/Fail/Abort if an error occurs when Mondo tries to burn a CD-R
832- warn if kernel is 2.4.[0-5] (could have buggy loopfs code)
833- tested with RAID-5 --- works fine :-)
834
835v1.07 (2001-07-22)
836- fixed cosmetic mistake in an error msg in mondo-tarme ('continue'-related)
837- hack-fstab now uses "defaults 0 0" instead of "default 1 3" when making a new entry in /etc/fstab
838- /mondo/restore-me always makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp; so does mondo-restore.c
839- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore.c's screen output
840- RAID-related enhancements to mondo-restore.c - RAID bkp/restore appears to be stable - it is possible to move from non-RAID to RAID by backing up, wiping, creating /etc/raidtab, modifying /tmp/mountlist.txt and then restoring - mondo-restore.c works well - the only weakness is that the kernel's messages are written to the current console, not to a separate console... HELP? :-)
841- updated README (esp. FAQ) and TODO
842- tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
843- mondo-1.07.spec and install.sh compile every C program with -lncurses, just in case some programs (besides mondo-restore.c) need the NCURSES library
844- mondo-restore.c is now compiled statically
845
846v1.06 (2001-07-19)
847- now software-RAID compatible
848- install.sh only compiles mondo-restore.c once now
849- if scratchdir or isodir contain more than one path (each), abort
850- mondo-restore.c creates dummy partitions if the user starts the official etc/fstab table at /dev/hda7 or something; so, partitioning should work, even if the mountlist has some gaps
851- for each /dev/md* device in the mountlist, run raidstop before mkraid
852
853v1.05 (2001-07-16)
854- patch from DoJ to make install.sh compile with -O2, not -O
855- cosmetic changes to the biggiefile-slicing code
856- fixed install.sh
857
858v1.04 (2001-07-15)
859- make-me-bootable only "boot-makes" each partition ONCE now
860- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore's logfile output
861- mondo-restore.c makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp if necessary
862- should be able to cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" messages in /etc/fstab
863
864v1.03 (2001-07-14)
865- looks for /etc/lilo.conf; aborts if it cannot locate it
866- abort if burning CD's & verify level>=2 (must be 1 or 0 if burning CD's)
867- catch errors in MakeIsoFS, if any
868- added 'mondo-restore.c'
869 - C program, to replace the old restore scripts
870 - Mindi will incorporate it in the data disks, if it can find Mondo - Mindi will also incorporate the old restore scripts (from Mondo) just in case the new C program doesn't work
871 - calls the script, 'stablilo-me' to run LILO if desired
872- added 'restore-scripts.tgz', which contains the /mondo scripts that used to live in Mindi; now, Mindi grabs them from here if necessary
873- cleared up Mode-related scripts & the executable to replace them
874- if mkisofs fails, ABORT, don't just warn
875- added '--differential' option, to backup the files changed during the last N days (N specified by user)
876
877v1.02 (2001-07-07)
878- retract the CD tray after asking user to enter 'continue' (PauseAndAskForCDR)
879- uses C program instead of bash loop for PauseAndAskForCDR; some bash versions go into an infinite loop for no reason; hopefully, outsourcing to C will help
880- when slicing, indicate progress ("N slices...")
881- when told to '--burn-cds', Mondo pipes mkisofs's output to cdrecord, instead of saving the ISO file to disk first; this change will save time and space (not in the Star Trek sense, however *smile*)
882- default set size (native) is now 12MB
883- copy /usr/share/mondo to correct directory within CD
884- all calls to gawk have been replaced with calls to awk
885- RPM and SRPM published
886- delete $TMP at end; don't just delete $TMP/*
887- can accept multiple parameters in the '--bkpath' switch
888
889v1.00 (2001-07-04)
890- thanks to recent changes to Mindi, Mondo is now compatible with the filesystem formats JFS, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 (if your own kernel is)
891- CDs [2-N] do not have boot floppy images on them; only CD#1 does (although CDs [2-N] do have the El Torito boot image, just in case...)
892- modified the --burn-cds switch; now it takes 3rd param, 'cdrw' (optional) to let you wipe and rewrite CDRWs instead of wasting CDRs ;-)
893- removed that PID thing; doesn't work; please don't run Mondo twice at once :)
894- removed that "filenames contain '|'" error & associated problems
895- got rid of 'UNSAFE' warning/shortcut
896- removed --xerox-dev, --include-tarball, --skip-tildes, --ide-opt, --use-bzip2
897- mondo-archive doesn't make/hack/edit mountlist anymore; that's Mindi's job
898- uses Mindi Linux to make boot disks & data disks based on your distro
899- boot&data stuff goes in $scratchdir/images now
900- bzip2 is used by default to compress archives
901- don't make MD5 checksums if verify_level==0
902- when archiving, make N.tar.bz2 and cklist.txt (tarball+checksums) in parallel
903- at end of mondo-archive, remove scratchdir and TMP completely IF they were created by Mondo (e.g. /home/mondo.scratch or /home/tmp.mondo.12345)
904- fill CD/image up to 1MB less than its max size; was being filled up to about 8MB less than its max size, which wasted 8-10MB of storage space per disk
905
906v0.99 (2001-03-15)
907- /proc and /tmp removed --- i.e. added to exclude list :)
908- Mondo now uses 2.4-series kernel and modules (Bruno Cornec)
909- minor typos fixed (Bruno Cornec)
910- older, restore-related fixes merged w/Bruce's work (Maciej Kulasa)
911- better RPM spec file (Bruno Cornec)
912- incorporated Mondo v0.977's restore scripts' bugfixes (Maciej Kulasa)
913
914v0.981 (2001-03-06)
915- put 'dd' in coolstuff.tgz (Art Wells)
916
917v0.98 (2001-02-28)
918- INSTALL script renamed to install.sh
919- tarball cleaned up and re-tarred (Art Wells)
920- trailing CR/LF's cleaned from scripts (Art Wells)
921- work is underway to make Mondo compatible with the Linux kernel's 2.4 series
922
923v0.977 (2001-02-26)
924- based on v0.976
925- missing subs and silly typos fixed in restore scripts (Maciej Kulasa)
926- fstab files containing NFS mounts are handled properly (Petre Scheie)
927- Mondo is being actively developed again (yippee!)
928
929v0.976 (2000-09-01)
930- technical changes - 12MB ramdisk - repackaged: now, Mondo comes in big tarball/RPM with all overhead-files - each Mondo CD has a 15MB administrative overhead; used to be 50-60MB - definitely 386-compatible now (RH 6.2 binaries) - Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (2.2.16) kernel w/ReiserFS & Supermount - modules.conf / conf.modules support (whichever you've got) - user may include their own copies of modules, if Mondo doesn't come with the requisite modules already
931- extra facilities - ReiserFS support - '--load-modules <foo> <bar> ...' will allow you to force Mondo to load key modules at boot-time, e.g. aic7xxx for SCSI-only users
932- bugfixes - path-exclusion code (mondo-backup) - bogus 'flaws=1' message has been eradicated - CDRW-finding code is now much better at finding the CDRW correctly - dummy burn mode is working again - fixed security hole (thanks, Matija); now, user will be warned if Mondo is configured to execute /tmp/mondo-tarme - changed lots of 'grep " $string "' to 'grep -w "$string"' (thanks, Matija)
933
934v0.975 (2000-07-03)
935- made mondo-tarme use 'ask-me-a-question' to pause for new, blank CD-Rs
936- don't deeply search isodir for ISO files to wipe: maxdepth should be 1
937- 386-compatible kernel and modules (should be, anyway...)
938- applied Doug Nordwall's calc-disk-size patch to fix SCSI hdd size calc'n bug
939- applied Michael Ralph Pape's SCSI (2nd floppy) patch
940- removed devdump from overhead-list
941- mkisofs no longer called with '-quiet' switch
942- changed '--burn-cds' format: now it's --burn-cds <speed> (<device>)
943- added '-L' to LILO's call, so that >8GB hard disks overcome 1024-blk limit
944- mondo-compare runs check-mountlist-sanity before mounting partitions
945- ramdisk is now 14MB
946
947v0.972 (2000-06-16)
948- auto-archive, mondo-archive and mondo-tarme updated to make them more friendly towards mult-disk sets
949- if multiple CDRW drives, user is asked which mondo-archive should use
950
951v0.971 (2000-06-14)
952- auto-archive now passes CD size to mondo-archive
953- mondo-tarme, in conjunction with auto-archive, now handles CDRW boot/burn sharing much better than before
954
955v0.970 (2000-06-10)
956- kernel now creates 12MB ramdrive (was 16MB)
957- lots of silly bugs & overhead problems fixed; 2nd floppy closer to working
958- restore scripts all log to /var/log/mondo-restore.log
959- auto-archive:- - offers Low, Medium or High compression - no longer needs a spare hard drive for scratch space; uses loopfs on existing hard drive (if possible) instead - handles weird (multi-CDROM) PCs more gracefully now - handles PCs with CDRW but without CDROM more gracefully now - deletes each ISO after burning it to a CD-R (if it _is_ burning them) - asks if PC is old & crappy; if it is, IDE optimizations are disabled at backup-time and restore-time - lets user use CDRW for booting _and_ burning, thanks to reroute-softlinks
960- selective restore is finally fixed
961- nicer help screens on boot floppy
962
963v0.965 (2000-06-03)
964- 2MB of space left empty at end of every CD (e.g. 650MB is only 648MB full)
965- Suzhe & Lonius's SmartBootManager (sbminst) is used instead of Win98's MBR
966- Mondo may now resize Windows-only backups when restoring
967- silly bugs in prep-me... fixed
968
969v0.964 (2000-06-02)
970- VFAT partitions >8GB handled OK now
971- 2nd floppy (optionally) created for SCSI users <--- not working yet
972- better calc-disk-size algorithm (thanks, Doug Nordwall)
973- Mondo can now backup and restore Windows-only PCs! :-)
974- silly prep-me and format-and-kludge-vfat bugs fixed
975- 'resize hack' retitled as 'vacuum-pack'
976
977v0.963 (2000-05-31)
978- ISO images are no longer padded
979- all currently-loaded modules are backed up to custom hboot.img & installed at restore-time before CD is accessed
980- '--burn-cd <speed>' switch added
981- '--no-opt' switch added; use it in the call to mondo-archive if you don't want IDE optimization when restoring
982- lots of work done on auto-archive
983- mondo-extras-1.5 created; excludes mondo-zfile but includes hlib.tar.bz2
984- boot floppy image now includes kernel w/lots of SCSI stuff
985- slice* deleted (WipeArchives); was 'slices*' (bug!)
986- restore scripts all use 'lastbit-me' to find the 'X' part of '/dev/X' device; this will make it easier to port Mondo to kernel 2.4.x
987- I cannot make SCSI-based CDROMs boot from Mondo CDs properly... but SCSI hard drives and ZIP drives should be handled ok from now on
988- with a little coaxing, Mondo will backup Windows-only PCs (as well as Lin/Win and Linux-only PCs)
989
990v0.962 (2000-05-25)
991- silly bug in mondo-checksum fixed
992- stale tmp dirs are now definitely deleted (bug fixed)
993- "Job is %d complete. hh:ss to go." --- much better 'progress' string
994- 'buffer' is gone again :) thank goodness
995- only 1st ISO is padded; the rest aren't.
996- working on implementing an easy 'cdrecord' shortcut-call-thingy
997- mondo-archive doesn't try to delete loopfs unless it exists
998- mondo-restore's "hack-softlinks" - silly bug ($1/ missing) fixed
999- boot floppy image now includes mkdir and rmdir
1000- user may specify temp directory using '--tempdir <path>'
1001- mondo-archive now includes a copy of 'buffer' for future use
1002- Mondo will now archive and restore Linux AND LinWin systems ok. W00H00! :-)
1003
1004v0.961 (2000-05-23)
1005- mondo-checksum ignores files <2k in length
1006- default compression level is 4
1007- default verify level is 2
1008- files <3k in size aren't compressed
1009- filelist no longer includes bashbug, dosfsck or dir
1010- bs-me is disabled in mondo-restore
1011- fixed bug in 'hack-fstab' which stopped processing fstab if blank line found
1012
1013v0.960 (2000-05-22)
1014- mondo-vfat-1.0 package released, to provide kludging for VFAT bootables
1015- logfile now saved at /var/log/mondo-archive.log (not `pwd`/mondo-archive.log)
1016- pid registered/checked _after_ command line processed... so you can do --help without being shouted at ;)
1017- restore-me broken into 2 scripts: untar-me and biggify-me
1018- restore-subroutine-me now renamed untar-subroutine-me
1019- bzip2 decompression should work again ;) ... a missing '-Z' was added to the afio call, and the usr/lib/libbz* libraries are now included on CD ISOs
1020- fixed hack-lilo to ignore blank lines
1021- really ugly boot kludge has been implemented, using embleer files to make newly-formatted VFAT partitions bootable
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