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Usage of parted2fdisk instead of fdisk everywhere.
on ia64 this is mandatory, and simplifies the infrastructure
on other archs, it doesn't change anything as parted2fdisk here is a link to fdisk

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1MONDO CHANGES 2005-11-05
2
3v2.06 (xxx)
4- better error handling of failed commands/mindi (Andree Leidenfrost)
5- fix compiler warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
6- -p improvements for NFS/PXE/ISO modes (Bruno Cornec)
7- support of default route and netmask for PXE/NFS (Bruno Cornec)
8- fix for restoring mondo backups on md-raid systems (Philippe De Muyter)
9- remove excessive 'cat' commands (Philippe De Muyter)
10- fix to force growisofs to use speed=1 for DVD burning (Philippe De Muyter)
11- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
12- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images
13 (Andree Leidenfrost)
14- Add -P option to df calls (Andree Leidenfrost/Chuan-kai Lin)
15- fix usage of joint -B and -m options (Andree Leidenfrost/Efraim Feinstein)
16- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's filebrowser
17 (Andree Leidenfrost)
18- remove the renice of mondoarchive (Hugo Rabson)
19- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance)
20 (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
21- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball)
22 (Bruno Cornec)
23- disable x11 build by default (Bruno Cornec)
24- remove sbminst (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
25- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
26
27v2.05 (2005-11-19)
28- -p options works better for NFS cases (Bruno Cornec)
29- ia64 is now working for rhel3 (Bruno Cornec)
30- delivery process to BerliOS improved (Bruno Cornec)
31- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
32
33v2.04_berlios
34- Add -p option to generate ISO images file names with prefix. The new default
35 name for ISO images is mondorescue-1.iso, ... For PXE environment, you have
36 to use the prefix option on the command line (read README.pxe)
37 (Bruno Cornec)
38- Mandrake 2005 support (Bruno Cornec)
39- NFS patches (Yann Aubert <technique@alixen.fr>)
40- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H
41 (this is an unattended mode) (Bruno Cornec)
42
43v2.04
44- made mondo more clever about finding its home. Avoids mondo considering
45 directories like '/usr/share/doc/momdo' as its home.
46
47
48v2.03
49- better SLES8 support
50- test user-specified temp dir's sanity
51
52
53v2.02
54- instead of using 'dd' to erase partition table, delete existing
55 partitions w/ the same call to fdisk that is used to create the
56 new partitions; this should avoids locking up the partition table
57- set bootable partition in the above same call to fdisk, for
58 the same reason (avoids locking up the partition table)
59- better software RAID support
60- mount ext3 partitions as ext2 when restoring - better for Debian
61- better star, ACL support
62- added ACL, xattr support for afio users
63
64
65v2.01
66- fixed cvs for SuSE systems
67- fixed NTFS backup/restore bug relating to partimagehack
68 log file overflow and NTFS v non-NTFS differentiation
69- more reliable extraction of config info from CDs, floppies
70- better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
71
72
73v2.00
74- first 2.0 release
75- updated grub-install.patched to support SuSE and Red Hat
76- added kdelibs as xmondo dependency (Joshua Oreman)
77- better find_cdrom_device(), to cope w/ multiple CD writers
78- added xmondo pixmap installation
79- fixed -m and -Vc flags
80- fixed NTFS support!
81- bootable CD uses native, not El Torito, support now
82- added -devel package
83- made xmondo a second package
84- added ability to specify --without xmondo at build time
85- Clean up, added spanish translation
86- Set prefix to be /usr
87- added/fixed Requires
88- remove CVS directories prior to building
89- added 2.6 kernel support
90- if 2.6 kernel, insist that the user specify CD device
91- drop Embleer; insist on ms-sys and parted if Windows partition
92- added support for boot/root multi floppies
93- call 'mt' to set block size to 32K before opening in/out tape
94- updated mondo-prep.c to create each disk's partitions all at once
95 (one call per drive) instead of one call to fdisk per partition
96- when extracting cfg file and mountlist from all.tar.gz (tape copy),
97 use block size of INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE, not TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE
98- added star and rudimentary SELinux support
99- fixed lots of bugs
100- all logging now goes to /var/log/mondo-archive.log, with symlink to
101 /tmp/mondo-restore.log for restore-time log-tracking
102- added grub-install.patched
103- removed embleer & other binaries
104- added '-b' to specify block size
105- added '-R' for star support
106
107
108v1.75
109- fixed chmod/chown bug (Jens Richter)
110- ask user to confirm NFS mountpoint in Interactive Mode
111- rewritten format_everything() to make sure LVMs, RAIDs and
112 regular partitions are prepped in the correct order
113- better magicdev support
114- rewritten external binary caller subroutine
115- DVD support added
116- better backup-time control gui; offer to exclude nfs if appl.
117- fixed multi-tape support
118- re-implemented -D and -J
119- fixed bug in extract_config_file_from_ramdisk() which
120 affected tape+floppy users
121- updated is_incoming_block_valid() to make it
122 return end-of-tape if >300 flotsam blocks
123- unmount CD-ROM before burning (necessary for RH8/9)
124- fixed some stray assert()'s
125- fixed bug in grub-MR (Christian)
126- make user remove floppy/CD before restoring interactively from tape
127- fixed bug in am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
128- added code to nuke_mode() to make sure NFS
129 (backup) share is mounted in Nuke Mode
130- improved tape device detection code
131- better GRUB support
132- better logging of changed bigfiles at compare-time
133- better NTFS support, thanks to partimagehack-static
134- better logging
135- rewrote tape-handling code, breaking compatibility w/ previous versions
136- fixed ISO/CD biggiefile verification bug in mondoarchive
137- fixed bug which stopped boot/compare-time changelist from popping up
138- replaced mondo-makefilelist with C code - faster, cleaner
139- tweaked GUI - better feedback
140
141
1421.74
143- fixed biggiefile atime/ctime restoration bug 73
144- fixed 'default boot loader' detection bug (Joshua Oreman)
145- use single-threaded make_afioballs_and_images() if FreeBSD
146- fixed mondoarchive -Vi multi-CD verify bug (Tom Mortell)
147- superior get_phys_size_of_drive() (Joshua Oreman)
148- fixed RAID-related bug in where_is_root_mounted()
149- ISO tweaks
150- fixed silly bug in load_filelist() which stopped
151 funny German filenames from being handled properly
152- misc fixes (Michael Hanscho's friend)
153- added rudimentary support for SME
154- added better label support
155- fixed various calls to popup_and_get_string()
156- fixed spec file
157- reject -E /
158- added partimagehack to the mix
159
160
1611.73
162- mark relevant partitions as bootable _after_ unmounting them
163- resolve boot device (-f) if softlink
164- post_param_configuration() --- store iso-dev and isodir
165- added post-nuke-sample.tgz to package
166- Nuke Mode now checks mountlist against hardware; offer user
167 opportunity to edit mountlist if insane; if user declines, abort
168- added lots of assert()'s and other checks
169- ran code thru Valgrind to catch & fix some memory leaks
170- made mondo-restore.c smaller by moving some subroutines to
171 common/libmondo-raid.c and mondorestore/mondo-rstr-compare.c
172- added '-Q' flag, to let user test mondoarchive's ability
173 to find their boot loader and type
174- improved which_boot_loader()
175- when burning or comparing to a CD, defeat autorun if it is
176 running, to avoid confusing mondoarchive and the user
177- if original backup media no longer available at boot-time
178 then offer user chance to choose another media source
179- when booting, type 'nuke noresize' to nuke w/o resizing
180 mountlist to fill your drives
181- add 'textonly' when booting, to avoid using Newt gui
182- run nice(20) to prioritize mondoarchive at start
183- don't pause and wait for next blank CD at backup-time
184 unless necessary (e.g. previous CD has not been removed)
185- get_phys_size_of_drive() --- better support of older drives
186- don't eject if "donteject" is in kernel's command line
187- cleaned up segfault-handling
188- added Conor's strip_path() to improve file list display
189- added Herman Kuster's multi-level bkp patch
190- added Joshua Oreman's FreeBSD patches x3
191- fixed interactive/textonly support
192- fixed support for subdir-within-NFS-mount
193- fixed "Can't backup if ramdisk not mounted" bug
194- try to work around eccentricities of multi-CD drive PCs
195- misc clean-ups (Steve Hindle)
196
197
198v1.72
199- LVM/RAID bugs fixed (Brian Borgeson)
200- major clean-up of code (Stan Benoit)
201- make-me-bootable fix (Juraj Ziegler)
202- fixed problem w/ multi-ISO verify cycle (Tom Mortell)
203- removed duplicate entry from makefile
204- if root is /dev/root then assume not a ramdisk
205- fixed potentially infinite loop in log_to_screen (Tom Mortell)
206- reject relative paths if -d flag (Alessandro Polverini)
207- add '/' to custom filelist as workaround for obscure bug
208- ask user speed of CDRW if writing to CD
209- find_cdrom_device() --- if nonexistent/not found then
210 make sure to return '' as dev str and 1 as res
211- tweaked restore scripts tgz
212- cleaned up find_cdrom_device()
213- if user creates /usr/share/mondo/payload.tgz then untar
214 payload to CD at backup-time
215- fixed insist_on_this_cd_number()
216- fixed am_i_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
217- misc clean-up (Tom Mortell)
218- made code more legible
219- fixed post-nuke support
220- fixed nfs support
221- fixed iso support
222- at restore-time, only sort mountlist internally,
223 in mount_all_devices() and unmount_all_devices()
224- fixed cosmetic bug in label-partitions-as-necessary
225- updated documentation
226- fixed fstab-hacking scripts
227
228
229v1.71
230- log newt, slang, ncurses info
231- updated man page
232- handle %% chars in issue.net properly (Heiko Schlittermann)
233- fixed serious NFS restore bug
234- changed various strcpy() calls to strncpy() calls
235- added mondo-makefilelist to makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
236- mount_cdrom() better at handling multiple CD drives
237- exclude /media/cdrom,cdrecorder,floppy
238- sensibly_set_tmpdir_and_scratchdir() --- exclude smb and smbfs
239- better logging by eval_call_to_make_ISO()
240- accept -J <fname> to let user provide their own fs catalog
241 instead of -I <paths> to backup
242- if dir excluded with -E or included with -I and dir is actually
243 a softlink then exclude/include the dir pointed to, as well
244- better location for manpage
245- adjusted block size of tarball at start of tape, to help
246 users w/ broken tape driver firmware
247- sort -u fstab after modifying it
248- if backup type is nfs then don't estimate noof media
249- fixed Makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
250- updated manpage
251- added -e support
252
253v1.70
254- new devel branch opened
255
256
257v1.52
258- fixed bug in multithreading
259- use new grub-MR instead of grub-install
260- wipe only the partition table (not MBR) when repartitioning drives
261- ignore lilo.conf.anaconda when looking for lilo.conf file
262- accepts '-l RAW' to backup/restore original boot sector instead
263 of running grub or lilo to init it after restoring
264- fixed&updated stabgrub-me script; software RAID + GRUB work now
265- mount/unmount /boot partition for Gentoo 1.2 users
266- re-enabled extra tape checksums
267- disabled spurious warnings
268- unmount/remount supermounts at start/end of live restore, if nec.
269- cleaned up mondo's tape block handling (now, TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE=128K
270 and I've added INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE=32K variable for buffering)
271- added Makefile
272- added -l RAW option, to backup and restore original MBR
273- cleaned up iso_mode() and nfs restoring
274- create /mnt/RESTORING/mnt/.boot.d for Gentoo users
275- made mondorestore CD bootable for ArkLinux users
276- if user runs as 'su' not 'su -' then work around
277
278
279v1.51
280- pop-up list of changed files, at end of verification phase
281- better handling of changed.files list at restore-time
282- lots of CD-related fixes
283- added '-N' flag --- to let user exclude all NFS-related mounts&devices
284- better handling of 'kill'
285- restructuring of code to ease integration of mondo w/XMondo
286- fixed obscure bug in find_and_mount_actual_cd()
287- fixed install.sh
288- updated documentation
289- fixed .spec file
290- if / or /root has <50MB free then abort & complain
291- commented code
292- updated man page
293- added -v / --version flag
294- replaced convoluted grep with wc (KP)
295- fixed bug affecting restoration of bigfiles from CD's created w/0 compression
296- fixed BurnProof-related bug
297- better at figuring out which is the best partition to use for temp/scratchdir
298- added do-not-compress-these (text file) to RPM
299- do not compress files of types listed in do-not-compress-these
300- dropped -U from call to afio - saves 20-30% runtime (Cosgrove)
301- added Cosgrove's do-not-compress-these list
302- included various patches from KP
303- chmod tmpdir, scratchdir to 700 before using
304- restore from specified backup device, even if its own cfg file disagrees
305- fixed multi-tape bug
306- fixed "Can't find first ISO when verifying nonbootable ISO" bug
307- multithreaded make_afioballs_and_images()
308- tmpdir and scratchdir set sensibly whether mondoarchive is called with
309 command-line parameters or not
310- fixed bug in strip_spaces() which stopped it from handling
311 small strings correctly - affected mountlist editor
312- create a repaired copy of grub-install which is RAID-friendly;
313 use it when initializing boot sector with run_grub()
314- fixed bug in mondo-makefilelist
315
316
31709/08/2002
318""""""""""
319v1.50
320- if restoring, don't try to find SCSI node of CD-ROM drive; find /dev entry
321- during selective restore, skip filesets which don't contain relevant archives
322- set /dev/null's perms to 777, just in case devfs-enabled kernel mangles it
323- remove /var/run/*.pid after restoring
324- move spurious lockfiles from /home/* to /home/*/.disabled
325- ask user to confirm the tape/CD device name
326- lots of multitape-related fixes
327- added code to autodetect the hardware of the user, when possible
328- if isodir does not exist then abort
329- doubled 'biggiefile' threshold... to 32MB
330- exclude /root/images/mindi
331- fixed multi-imagedev bug (Emmanuel Druon)
332- unmount/remount /mnt/floppy before/after backing up, if Mandrake
333- restructured the source files
334- fixed serious bug in line 1546 - should have been !=, not ==; stopped
335 mondorestore from correctly restoring big files
336- added '#include <signal.h>' to my-stuff.h
337- exclude "incheckentry xwait()" from changed.files
338- fixed minor bug in find_cdrom_device()
339- fixed bug in friendly_sizestring...
340- insist on tape #1 when start verifying
341- added internal buffering, replacing the external 'buffer' exe
342- if differential backup then don't permit formatting or fdisking,
343 whether Interactive or Nuke mode
344- if mondorestore is run on live filesystem (or from ramdisk) without
345 parameters then mondorestore will ask which backup media (tape, CD, etc.)
346 was used; it will read the config file from the media and proceed from there
347- if tape streamer is softlink then resolve it first
348- incorporate post-nuke tarball
349- if user doesn't specify tape size, proceed anyway; behave intelligently
350 in the event of end-of-tape
351- prefix bkpinfo->restore_path to biggiefile fname before generating
352 checksum & comparing to archived biggiefile
353- if /etc/lilo.conf not found not /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda found
354 then create a softlink from the former to the latter, to work
355 around RH7.3's b0rken LILO support
356- LFS support (mharris, michele, hugo)
357- fixed verify bug --- CD#1 was being verified again & again & ...
358- differential mode fixed; supported again
359- ask user for boot loader + device if not detectible
360- list up to 512 files in file selection window at once (was 128)
361- better handling of bigfiles' checksums, perms and owns
362- delete final filelist if <=2 bytes long
363- if kernel not found and mondo in graphics mode then popup and ask
364 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
379 large files archived during '-L' (LZO) backup will now be restored properly
380- fixed bug in make-me-bootable
381- don't change /tmp's permissions unless it doesn't exist & has to be created
382- changed $i to $j in mondo-makefilelist (Karsten)
383- fixed 'I refuse to write floppy images to /dev/fd0 because its size is
384 not apparent from its filename' bug
385- disabled 'nr-failed-disks' entry in raidtab generator
386- added '-o' flag to let user choose LILO as CD/floppy's boot loader
387- fixed bug in --mbr
388
389
39006-04-2002
391""""""""""
392v1.43-7 (STABLE)
393- afio uses 16MB buffer when restoring, instead of 8MB buffer
394- mondorestore makes /var/run/console in case user excluded it
395- the -s switch now accepts multiple sizes, one per tape/CD
396- added -u switch for streaming to device; like -t (tape) but without
397 various error checks; use with caution
398- bugfixes; cleaned up code (Troff)
399- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
400- use dvdrecord instead of cdrecord, if available
401- don't alter /mnt/RESTORING/tmp's permissions if comparing
402- added -follow to search for home (Bruno Vidal)
403- unmount/remount CD-ROM at start/end if supermounted
404- delete old /tmp/filelist.full,biggielist.txt if restoring to
405 live filesystem
406- if Mindi aborted then show last 6 lines of its log before mondoarchive aborts
407- reformatted, redistributed source code (Stan Benoit)
408- replaced isolinux dependency with syslinux dependency
409- now shows the CDR(W)'s progress properly - 20%, 30%, etc.
410- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
411
412
41304-12-2002
414""""""""""
415v1.42-3 (STABLE)
416- minor cosmetic enhancements
417- improved homedir-locating code
418
419
42004-07-2002
421""""""""""
422v1.42-1 (STABLE)
423- mondorestore may now be run on live filesystem, i.e. user does not
424 have to reboot in order to restore data; works for CD's and tapes;
425 NFS and ISO restores will be supported at a later date
426- fixed restore-time RAID-handling bugs
427- added -E patch to exclude files and/or dirs properly (Andy Glass)
428- cat /proc/cpuinfo and run uname -r; save output to logfile at backup-time
429- fixed minor bug in stablilo-me
430- if /tmp/fstab.new exists then use _it_ instead of /tmp/fstab to label
431 ext2 or ext3 partitions
432- bootable CD's now use SYSLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
433- don't pclose() tape after calling closein_tape(): the latter does it already
434- tarball installs to /usr/share/mondo by default; was /usr/local/share/mondo
435- numerous cosmetic enhancements
436- added '-m' (manual CD tray) flag
437
438
43903-21-2002
440""""""""""
441v1.41-1 (STABLE)
442- record hostname (Krzysztof Dubowik)
443
444
44503-10-2002
446""""""""""
447v1.40-7 (STABLE)
448- if '-L' then test for lzop; abort if not present
449- if Mondo cannot figure out which boot loader the user is using,
450 tell the user to read the manual and mention -l, -f switches
451- abort if ramdisk not available
452- updated man page (Mikael Hultgren)
453- support multiple -I params (Mikael Hultgren+Randy Delfs)
454- mkreiserfs -ff instead of -q (Andy Glass)
455
456
45703-03-2002
458""""""""""
459v1.40-6 (STABLE)
460- incorporated new config.guess, config.sub (H�tor Garc� �varez)
461- updated manual to explain tmpfs needs to be in kernel (Mikael Hultgren)
462- don't let non-root users run mondoarchive
463- allow up to 50 chars in popup_and_get_string()'s input field
464- tell user to use 'su -' instead of 'su' if they use 'su' by mistake
465- make mondo-makefilelist more SUN-friendly, re: fstab (Andy Glass)
466- modified 'Sliced bigfile #n' log entry to say '..#(n+1)'
467
468
46902-24-2002
470""""""""""
471v1.40-5 (STABLE)
472- improved the way Mondo installs itself (Mikael Hultgren)
473- updated manpage
474- touch /mnt/RESTORING/var/log/pacct after restoring
475- added updated docs (Cafeole, Randy Delfs, Stan Benoit et al)
476- added pico to restore-scripts.tgz; deprecated some scripts
477- if restoring to /dev/ida/* or /dev/cciss/* then drop the 'p'
478 before trying to discover the size of the partition itself
479- support pathnames containing spaces (KirkJT)
480- added -C switch, to treat CD burner almost as a tape streamer
481- run post-nuke script if it exists
482- put (char*)(&buf) instead of &buf when reading/writing biggiefiles' info
483
484
48502-17-2002
486""""""""""
487v1.40-3 (STABLE)
488- let user exclude devices from mountlist with (e.g.) -E /dev/hda1
489- handle one-letter dirs properly (Ian Kent)
490- when making ext3 fs, don't specify journal size (Cafeole)
491- add tmp.mondo.NNNN to tempdir path, if tempdir is specified by user
492- add mondo.scratch.NNN to scratchdir path, if scratchdir is specified by user
493- beefed up RAID-related logging a bit
494- exclude .journal files properly
495- Italian patch (Michael Baldessari)
496
497
49802-11-2002
499""""""""""
500v1.40-2 (STABLE)
501- fixed typo in manpage (Mikael Hultgren)
502- exclude "#"*"#" and *~ from tarball and source RPM
503- updated manual (Randy Delfs)
504- put the correct version# in mondo/my-stuff.h
505- in Nuke Mode, expand/contract mountlist proportionately to fill hard disks
506- fix serious restore-time bug in tape/afio-handling code
507- cdrecord is only required if burning CD's
508
509
51002-10-2002
511""""""""""
512v1.40-1 (STABLE)
513- set partition(s) bootable w/fdisk if appropriate
514- cosmetic bugfixes
515- changed get_phys_size_of_drive() to read value from fdisk, not dmesg
516- if hard disk does not exist then warn user when editing mountlist
517- if boot+floppy disk images were not created then don't offer to write them
518 to disks; instead, mention the mindi.iso bootable CD images
519- exclude each partition's .autofsck from backup
520- fixed bug in CD restoration progress form
521- changed many tempfilenames from mojo-jojo* to sensible, random names
522- exclude win386.swp from backup (Cafeole)
523
524
52502-07-2002
526""""""""""
527v1.38-2 (DEVELOPMENT)
528- minor improvements to the NFS-handling code
529- mondo-restore now records Mondo's version# in log
530- fixed silly bug that makes 'current filelist #' progress form inaccurate
531- fix typo in '10 seconds to abort' line; also, made 20 seconds
532
533
53402-06-2002
535""""""""""
536v1.38-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
537- source code has been beautified (Stan Benoit)
538- makefile, Config implemented (Stan Benoit)
539- use /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg instead of all kinds of silly /tmp files
540 at boot-time; slowly migrating to a proper /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg file
541- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
542- patch to make it easier to install Mondo almost anywhere (Ian Mortimer)
543- proper, one-char switches replace the long-winded multi-char switches
544 of 1.36 and earlier
545- migrating from lots of /tmp files in ramdisk to a single configuration
546 file on ramdisk, at /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg
547- estimates the number of media required by this backup session
548- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
549- records+restores biggiefiles' permissions+ownership properly
550
551
55201-25-2002
553""""""""""
554v1.37-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
555- proper 'selective restore' interface implemented
556- if the user specifies boot loader or device, record those settings
557- fixed cdrecord-related bug in .spec file
558- if backing up specific paths - e.g. /usr/local/bin - then include
559 /usr and /usr/local/ in filelist; don't backup /usr/* but do recreate
560 /usr and /usr/local/; this is to help the selective restore subroutine
561- user's BIOS is assumed not to be able to handle LILO's sector-seek merging
562- switches --broken-bios, --debug and --chunk-size have been removed
563- if user calls with --burn-cds 2 (nothing else) then find CDRW and continue
564- if CD writer's speed is not specified then assume 2x
565- better autodetection of CD writer
566- set size is 5MB for tape users and CD users alike
567- exclude /root/images/mondo from backup
568- added --skip-floppies switch
569- abort if PC has <32MB of RAM at backup-time; warn if <64MB
570
571
57201-20-2002
573""""""""""
574v1.36-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
575- fixed v.minor bug in MakeFilelist()
576- in mondo-archive, replaced calls to Die() with calls to FatalError()
577- include .spec file in tarball
578- if cdrecord v1.8 or older then abort: inadequate for Mondo's needs
579- moved misc functions from mondo-archive to mondo-tarme.c
580- prettier interface when preparing and formatting boot+data disks
581- when editing mountlist, warn if formats !supported by kernel (B. Hartin)
582- don't try to run e2label on filesystems which aren't ext2 or ext3
583- don't write to tape if already burning to CD (Kosaku Nagasaka)
584- re-enabled and tested some CD-verifying code
585- added buffer to RPM/tarball requirements
586- set size is 4MB for tape users; 16MB for CD users
587- files <16MB aren't chopped
588- uses tmpfs for temp storage if backing up to tape
589- (rudimentary) selective formatting
590- log versions of afio, bzip2, etc.
591
592
59301-10-2002
594""""""""""
595v1.35-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
596- NFS backup+restore support
597- exclude Win2K hiberation file (Paul Rensing)
598- fixed filelist.full/filelist.blah typo (Paul Rensing)
599- unset TAPE at start of mondo-archive (Norm Crowfoot)
600- if bzip is <v0.99 then abort
601- if hard disk fills to capacity then abort
602- --post-nuke <tarball> will incorporate a tarball of tools and data files
603 of the user's choosing in the boot CD/floppies; the tarball must contain
604 an executable, 'post-nuke', which will be called at the end of Nuke Mode
605- --text-mode forces Mondo Archive to use text only (no newt or ncurses)
606- the deprecated scripts have now been disabled
607- boot floppy will use 'safe' LILO calls; boot CD will use 'fast' LILO calls
608 unless --broken-bios is supplied in call to Mondo
609- cdrecord's buffer is now 4 MB (was 16 MB)
610- tape support has been rewritten from ground up
611- set size is now 16MB for CD users and 48MB for tape users
612- don't let user change mountlist entry from regular mountpt to 'image'
613- mount -t (space was missing in mount_isodir())
614- all calls to afio now use blocks of TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE KB and RAM buf of 8 MB
615- added Peter Seidler <p.seidler@mail1.stofanet.dk>'s "Petris" game
616- --exclude-paths now drops the trailing '/' from param(s) if present
617- tab-align /etc/fstab after hacking it
618
619
62012-25-2001
621""""""""""
622v1.34-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
623- if /sbin or /usr/sbin are not in PATH then add them temporarily
624- if --broken-bios then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
625- tape users can boot from a single floppy now
626- when archiving/restoring/verifying tape, skip the first 32MB
627- fixed bugs in actually_verify_the_tapes()
628- fixed some popen/pclose mismatches
629- no longer run compare_a_biggiefile() right after restore_a_biggiefile(),
630 as it can upset the restoration of biggiefiles which are spread across CD's
631
632
63312-19-2001
634""""""""""
635v1.33-8 (DEVELOPMENT)
636- implemented --image-devs <dev> (<...>) switch
637- improved --verify switch's code
638- exclude Windows' win386.swp file, if found
639- fixed bug in unmount_all_devices()
640- include version of Mondo/Mindi in error log
641- updated the FAQ
642- when making differential backup, make sure to exclude nonexistent files
643- --use-lzo now applies lzo to big files as well as afio archives
644- changed all 'long long's to 'off_t's
645- no longer aborts if /etc/lilo.conf does not exist
646- moved FAQ's to FAQ file
647- archive bigfiles one slice at a time; much less wasteful of space
648- abort if user tries to backup a mounted partition as an _image_
649
650
65112-15-2001
652""""""""""
653v1.33-6 (DEVELOPMENT)
654- misc bugfixes
655
656
65712-14-2001
658""""""""""
659v1.33-5 (DEVELOPMENT)
660- improved error-reporting in the event of boot loader detection failure
661- improved tape verification code
662- experimental support for backing up and restoring devices as images
663
664
66512-13-2001
666""""""""""
667v1.33-4 (DEVELOPMENT)
668- updated FAQ
669- experimental GRUB support
670- when calculating checksums, tell user %done and time remaining
671- checksum catalog entry = filesize+mtime+ctime; don't call md5sum or cksum
672- compile mondo-filelistchop and mondo-checksum with -O2 optimization
673- when writing floppies, ask specifically for floppy #x (Randy Delfs)
674
675
67612-12-2001
677""""""""""
678v1.33-3 (DEVELOPMENT)
679- supports --boot-loader and --boot-device to let user specify them
680- fixed CDRW node autodetection bug
681- MONDO_PATH was misconfigured; is now "/usr/share/mondo"
682
68312-12-2001
684""""""""""
685v1.33-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
686- if user changes a partition's device, change it in raidtab too
687- don't extrapolate from /etc/raidtab to /tmp/mountlist; editor does it already
688- don't backup /tmp (somewhere in the v1.3x series, I stopped excluding /tmp)
689- cosmetic fixes to mondo-prep.c and mondo-newt.c
690- put quotes around chmod's parameter
691- subtract 5% from reported maximum storage capacity of drives, when checking
692 that the parttions will fit; some drives lie about their max cap
693- stablilo-me no longer tries to mark partitions as bootable
694- better exclusion of /var/log/pacct
695- tape users can now use --verify to verify archives w/o rebooting
696- checksum calculated for every file backed up - for future expansion
697- implemented a _real_ --differential switch, to backup all files changed
698 or added since the last complete backup
699
700
70112-09-2001
702""""""""""
703v1.32-2 (DEVELOPMENT)
704- if no RAID devices after editing mountlist then delete raidtab
705- don't try to mount RAID partitions (components of RAID dev)
706- don't add partitions to mountlist when extrapolating from mountlist
707 unless the partitions are not already present in mountlist
708- don't format partitions if partitioning failed
709- when user selects RAID level, establish whether said level is available
710
711
71212-09-2001
713""""""""""
714v1.32 (DEVELOPMENT)
715- if user creates ISO images, the default dest dir is /root/images/mondo now
716- log_it() makes sure it only writes one \n on the end of each logged line
717- detects if user is using GRUB/LILO/other; abort if neither LILO nor GRUB
718- passes the boot loader's name and device to Mindi, to be available at
719 boot-time
720- if user successfully restores using Nuke or Interactive w/o error then Mondo
721 generates a random message, basically saying, "Cool."
722- enlarged afio's "-M" parameter from 12M to 16M
723- if stablilo-me fails then restore the original lilo.conf and fstab before
724 offering user the opportunity to edit them (Dean Carpenter)
725- added ISO Mode, to let user restore from ISO images in directory
726- cosmetic fix to compare/restore phase windows
727- if backing up to ISO images then offer to write boot floppies too
728- changed some references to /tmp/raidtab, to /etc/raidtab
729- cleaned up compare + restore logging
730- scratchdir is now [path]/mondo.scratch.$$; was just [path]/mondo.scratch
731
732
73312-04-2001
734""""""""""
735v1.31 (DEVELOPMENT)
736- turned on '-Wall' to find cruft; found lots of it; cleaned it up
737- exclude each device's lost+found directory
738- mountlist editor now permits advanced editing of RAID devices
739- fixed a silly bug that was causing freeze-up on <1% of systems; if biggielist
740 was empty then sometimes mondo-archive would freeze when backing up big files
741 (cos there weren't any *g*)
742- partition and set type in 2-stage process (was 1-stage)
743- cleaned up Compare Mode's logging a bit, to make it more legible
744- don't report changed archives as 'errors' but as 'differences'
745- exclude ext3's .journal files from backup (yes, this time I really do)
746- '--my-kernel SUCKS' has been replaced with '--my-kernel FAILSAFE'
747- softlink mondo-restore to /usr/bin/ before calling Mindi, so that Mindi can
748 pick up mondo-restore and its depdendencies easily
749- copy mondo-restore to Mondo's temp dir before calling Mindi
750- don't try to compress MP3's, MPG's, WMV's or RA's
751- cleaned up mondo-newt.c; alphabetized the subroutines; moved some tools from
752 there to mondo-tools.c
753- mondo-tarme and mondo-restore are now compiled as dynamic executables; I
754 have amended install.sh and mondo-1.31.spec accordingly
755- now make boot/data floppies at end of backup, not beginning
756- backup in alphabetical order now, not reverse-alpha
757- if Compare Mode reports changed files /var/* and /etc/mtab only then tell
758 the user their archives are good despite the differneces
759- cut back on excessively verbose logging at backup-time
760- when vacuum-packing a partition, describe it as "(max size)", not "(0 MB)"
761- if swap is already mounted, don't abort: just say, 'swap already mounted'
762- when unmounting all devices, don't try to unmount something if it's not even
763 mounted; if it's not mounted, say so but don't try to unmount it: you'll
764 just end up looking very silly :)
765
766
76711-28-2001
768""""""""""
769v1.30 (DEVELOPMENT)
770- I have reorganized the C code, sorted the subroutines alphabetically, and
771 re-jigged Mondo's installation routines (inc. the RPM spec file) to reflect
772 the changes
773- check for mondo-restore's presence; if absent then abort & ask user to check
774 to see if Mondo was installed properly
775- always exclude /var/log/pacct from backup
776- optimal set size is now 24MB
777- install.sh will abort w/error if compilation of mondo-* fails
778- after creating the mountlist, put a copy in Mondo's tmp directory
779- each ext3 filesystem has a .journal file in its base directory; Mondo will
780 now exclude each of these journal files automatically
781- use the archived copy of LILO, not the copy from the restore-time ramdisk,
782 to configure the MBR
783- size_of_file() now returns long long, not long
784- find mondo-archive and set MONDO_PATH accordingly
785- scratchdir is /home/mondo.scratch by default
786- at backup-time, run mondo-restore in test mode to make sure that the
787 executable is sane & will run OK at restore-time
788
789
79011-14-2001
791""""""""""
792v1.19
793- tested on Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2; backup,wipe,restore went OK
794- fixed a bug in is_this_device_mounted()
795- at restore-time, always check for presence of decompressor; abort if notfound
796- run 'chmod -r 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp' after restoring
797- fixed bugs in Compare Mode:-
798 - missing else{}
799 - erroneous 'cannot add archive' error; res+=retval should have read
800 retval+=res (Tony Kim)
801- use 'umount /mnt/cdrom' instead of 'umount /dev/cdrom', to make it compatible
802 with busybox's umount command
803- fixed bug in mondo-archive which stopped Mondo from pausing to retry if the
804 CD/ISO fails the verification phase
805- modified compare_all_tarballs() in mondo-restore.c
806- if running interactively then offer to modify fstab and lilo.conf if user
807 says s/he has modified the mountlist
808- if mondo-tarme segfaults (as it does, on a _very_ few systems) then Mondo
809 picks up on the fact & reports it
810- when restoring, create /mnt/RESTORING/tmp before _and_ after restoring data,
811 just in case it is necessary; also set permissions okay
812- C code is now compiled 'O0' (without optimizations)
813- each CD's slices were being listed to screen; now, piped to /dev/null
814
815
81610-28-2001
817""""""""""
818v1.18
819- changed minor error in documentation (mondo-archive's --help output)
820- improved Mondo's compare phase for tape users
821
822
82310-20-2001
824""""""""""
825v1.17
826- the deprecated scripts now work with LZO
827- if mondo-restore cannot mount all devices, it will _unmount_ whatever it did
828 mount, before it returns an error
829- works with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
830- cosmetic change to output (no more 'burning first/last CD' msgs)
831- abort if user uses '--use-lzo' but doesn't install LZO(P) first
832- changed --differential's \( and \) to ( and ) <-- thanks, Michael Moellney)
833- added Marcus Oberhumer's LZO to Mindi and Mondo; use '--use-lzo' switch
834 to activate this groovy new compression algorithm; it is not as efficient
835 as bzip2 but it is can take up to 50% less time than bzip2 to compress data
836- incorporated Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch
837- at restore-time, set biggiefiles to +x
838- set optimal fileset size to 16MB (was 8MB)
839- don't report non-existent differences/errors between archives and filesystem
840- fixed bug in --differential switch (Michael Moellney)
841- scripts will no longer function unless gawk and printf are included in
842 Mindi's deplist.txt; add them if you want to use the scripts
843
844
84510-10-2001
846""""""""""
847v1.16
848- default scratchdir is `pwd`/mondo.scratch.$$ (was mondo.scratch)
849- when asking user to send me a log file, warn them that the log file may
850 contain information which they do not want me to see but point out that I
851 cannot help much unless I have a copy of their log file
852- when comparing to or restoring from tape, only update the progree form
853 if/when I've just restored files; otherwise, I would screw up the time est.s
854- increase afio's block count from 256 to 1024 when restoring from tape
855- plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
856- when restoring or comparing, track progress by the archive# (N out of M),
857 not by the file#; the former is more reliable and useful than the latter
858- has been tested successfully with the following distros
859 - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel --- tape / CDR
860 - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel --- tape / CDR
861- tape streamers are now supported; use the '--write-tapes <dev> <sizeMB>'
862 switch, e.g. --write-tapes /dev/st0 4096
863- LVM support is stabilizing
864- when mounting/unmounting partitions to be restored, don't forget to
865 mount/unmount the swap partitions
866- when zeroing a drive, use plain old C fopen/fputc/fclose, not 'dd'
867- after restoring data and running LILO, unmount (as usual) and then run
868 label-partitions-as-necessary, to set the ext2fs LABELs if it is appropriate
869- fixed bugs in selective restoration scripts and executable
870- fixed silly bug in hack-lilo; bug was triggered when I moved to Mandrake 8.1;
871 bug caused '/dev/fd0' entry in lilo.conf to become corrupted
872- if user tries to make a bootable rescue CD with the '--no-bkpath' switch then
873 politely direct them to Mindi :-)
874
875
87609-28-2001
877""""""""""
878v1.15
879- serialized the call to mondo-filelistchop.c; helps to improve visual feedback
880 (yeah, sounds weird but it's true)
881- the switches --differential and --exclude-paths should play nicely now
882- improved the logging a bit, esp. when ejecting or unmounting CD's
883- improved the visual feedback (specifically, the bar and percentage figures
884 indicating time spent & remaining)
885- experimental LVM support
886- fixed 'cannot eject CD' bug, which was caused by busybox's sync & umount
887- fixed mount-me to allow for mountlists with >1 spaces between columns
888- fixed documentation; param is --my-kernel <path>, not kernel-path <path>
889- fail if user runs mondo-archive _from CD_; this is for the user's protection
890- fixed silly bug in mount-me (a crucial line was disabled)
891- working on stablilo-me, hack-lilo and hack-fstab to make sure they work
892 with the new, busybox-based Mindi v0.41
893- Mindi v0.41 is very different from v0.40, internally anyway; so, I had to do
894 a lot of testing to make sure Mondo would play nicely with the new Mindi
895
896
89709-18-2001
898""""""""""
899v1.14
900- if verify is enabled then verify each CD/ISO after writing it
901- fixed a quasi-bug in mondo/mount-me; this script used 'sort +1' which is
902 not supported by busybox; I've changed it to just plain old 'sort'
903- Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
904- fixed bug in 'biggify-me' script; now, checksums will be verified
905- fixed bug in checksum comparison code (mondo-restore.c)
906- reimplemented '--verify' switch; now, user can verify ISO's or CD's against
907 the live filesystem, just for 'belt and braces' emotional security
908- improved the error-reporting at restore-time (if tarball cannot be accessed)
909- if user does not specify CD-R(W) drive's speed or device then Mondo will
910 try to locate the drive and will assume 4x speed
911- user may now type 'edit-mountlist' after booting, if they want to edit the
912 mountlist without risking accidentally wiping their hard disks
913- fixed a few silly typos in the error messages in mondo-tarme
914- updated the FAQ
915- added code to verify ISO images
916- used 'blank=fast' instead of '-blank fast' for backward-compatibility with
917 older versions of cdrecord
918- if nonzero value returned by Mondo, then Mondo creates a mondo.err.$$.tgz
919 tarball containing log files & stuff, which it tells the user to e-mail me
920- when debugging, don't pause before running mondo-tarme; just run it
921- automatically exclude any file including '/vmmhiber.w9x' in its pathname
922- added Minix support (although I doubt anyone needs it)
923- ported mondo-tarme to C
924 - prettier interface at run-time (backup), giving better feedback
925 - obviates a mysterious, intermittent bug in bash itself
926 - shows '% done' when burning CD
927- afio now has a 12MB FIFO buffer (was 16MB)
928- cdrecord now has a 20MB FIFO buffer (was 24MB)
929- wipe [CD]/usr/share/mondo, as well as floppy images, if CD #2 or later
930- up to 19 CD's may be created now
931- fixed the 'stderr.txt not found' loop error in mondo-tarme.c
932- fixed the weird 'segfault on finish() after archiving' bug
933- modularized the install.sh and mondo-1.14-x.i386.rpm compilation sections
934
935
93609-01-2001
937""""""""""
938v1.13
939- fixed some compiler warnings in mondo-newt.c; rearranged some code
940- mondo-tarme now uses -M 16m -t 4k in its call to afio, to improve performance
941- fixed mondo-restore.c's mkreiserfs call; ditto, prep-me's mkreiserfs call
942- fixed mondo-restore.c's compare_a_biggiefile() subroutine, which would
943 generate erroneous error messages
944- fixed mondo-archive.c's restore_a_biggiefile() and restore_all_biggiefiles()
945 subroutines; I can't get them to break but others can, so I've streamlined
946 the code to make them easier to debug and in theory more stable too
947- fixed 'hack-fstab' to make sure that non-LABELed partitions are correctly
948 moved/changed, etc.
949- fixed the 'space in big filename' bug (I think)
950- make Interactive Mode sort the mountlist (by partition size) before creating
951 the dirs and mounting the partitions to them
952- fixed a slew of bugs related to Red Hat's LABEL= extensions
953- cleaned up mondo-restore.c and mondo-newt.c; replaced lots of arbitrary
954 limits and lengths with a small number of #define's
955- added some sample RAID0/1/5 raidtab (config) files to restore-scripts.tgz,
956 which will be restored to the ramdisk's /etc dir when the user boots from
957 the CD; this will only take up an extra 50K or so & will help any user
958 who is moving from non-RAID to RAID
959- changed FIFO size to 20MB
960- only use the VFAT kludge on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1; otherwise, even if
961 the partition type is VFAT, do a regular mkfs.vfat
962- if mkfs.vfat doesn't exist, use mkfs.dos
963- only try to add 'LABEL=' to ext2 and ext3 partitions
964- moved a bunch of scripts from Mindi's rootfs.tgz to our restore-scripts.tgz
965- fixed bugs in mondo-restore.c, which would sometimes just sit there when
966 trying to compare or restore big files that were spread across CD's
967- Interactive Mode goes straight to 'mondo-restore --interactive' now, i.e.
968 the user doesn't have to choose Interactive once at boot and once within
969 mondo-restore
970- better post-run clean-up
971- improved mondo-restore.c's error-reporting a little bit
972- stablilo-me (the script) now supports Red Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to
973 /etc/fstab, via the script, 'label-partitions-as-necessary'
974- added a user-friendly mountlist editor to mondo-restore.c
975- added lots of sanity-checking to mountlist editor
976
977
97808-18-2001
979""""""""""
980v1.12
981- changed cdrecord's FIFO size to 8MB
982- removed -pad and -sort from the call to mkisofs
983- amended the .spec file to be saner when building RPM's
984- archives are named '.afio.bz2' instead of '.tar.bz2'
985- mondo-archive, mondo-tarme, mondo-restore.c and the DEPRECATED scripts have
986 been amended accordingly
987- should be able to create up to 20 CD-R's per backup set now
988- moved a line within prep-me that was in the wrong place (thanks, Fran Boon!)
989- runs 'df -m' and saves it to a text file 'df.txt' on the CD
990- added 10-second delay before mondo-restore's Nuke Mode, to let the user abort
991- really fixed the '/mnt/RESTORING/tmp' permissions bug (thanks, Ang Tan!)
992- sometimes, bash gets all screwed up & won't let the user type 'continue' when
993 Mondo asks them to; if that happens, Mondo will detect it & use a different
994 kind of mondo-askme; the new mondo-askme will check every 10 minutes for a
995 blank CD; if it's there, then the burn continues
996- abort if isodir or scratchdir is a softlink
997- replaced mondo-askme with a good shell script, to work around flaws in
998 bash and/or kernel (don't know which)
999- added a failsafe kernel to Mindi, which means you don't have to make sure
1000 your kernel is suitable for a boot disk; you can just use Mindi's instead
1001- make+chop filelist _after_ calling Mindi
1002- updated the FAQ
1003
1004
100508-12-2001
1006""""""""""
1007v1.10
1008- changed cdrecord's FIFO size back to 4MB
1009- added -pad -sort to the call to mkisofs
1010- stop saying, "N files differ so far" after comparing each tarball
1011- updated the FAQ, to remind users that they can boot from floppy images if
1012 their kernel does not have the right support of CD-ROM's, filesystems, etc.
1013- erroneous error-reporting by /mondo/biggify-me; fixed (David Granz)
1014- don't estimate the time remaining unless >20 sets processed already
1015- default set size (uncompressed) is now 8MB (was 12MB); when 8MB, seems
1016 to run more smoothly & a little quicker, too, at restore-time
1017- chmod 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp after restoring/creating /tmp
1018- dropped mondo-askme.c; using regular 'read' instead
1019- mondo-restore.c uses newt instead of ncurses; much prettier that way
1020- cdrecord now uses a 16MB FIFO buffer (was 8MB)
1021- fixed floating point error in mondo-restore (when showing progress)
1022- when mondo-restore is called without params (e.g. by Interactive Mode), it
1023 lets the user choose between nuke, interactive or compare (or abort)
1024- updated the FAQ
1025- working on Cuckoo Mode...
1026
1027
102808-02-2001
1029""""""""""
1030v1.09
1031- default compression level is now 3 (was 2)
1032- retry/fail/abort loop bug fixed
1033- calls mindi with "--custom $TMP $scratchdir/images" to force mindi to use
1034 my temp dir and to put the images in my 'images' folder
1035
1036
103707-28-2001
1038""""""""""
1039v1.08
1040- offer to Retry/Fail/Abort if an error occurs when Mondo tries to burn a CD-R
1041- warn if kernel is 2.4.[0-5] (could have buggy loopfs code)
1042- tested with RAID-5 --- works fine :-)
1043
1044
104507-22-2001
1046""""""""""
1047v1.07
1048- fixed cosmetic mistake in an error msg in mondo-tarme ('continue'-related)
1049- hack-fstab now uses "defaults 0 0" instead of "default 1 3" when making
1050 a new entry in /etc/fstab
1051- /mondo/restore-me always makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp; so does mondo-restore.c
1052- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore.c's screen output
1053- RAID-related enhancements to mondo-restore.c
1054 - RAID bkp/restore appears to be stable
1055 - it is possible to move from non-RAID to RAID by backing up, wiping,
1056 creating /etc/raidtab, modifying /tmp/mountlist.txt and then restoring
1057 - mondo-restore.c works well
1058 - the only weakness is that the kernel's messages are written to the
1059 current console, not to a separate console... HELP? :-)
1060- updated README (esp. FAQ) and TODO
1061- tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
1062- mondo-1.07.spec and install.sh compile every C program with -lncurses, just
1063 in case some programs (besides mondo-restore.c) need the NCURSES library
1064- mondo-restore.c is now compiled statically
1065
1066
106707-19-2001
1068""""""""""
1069v1.06
1070- now software-RAID compatible
1071- install.sh only compiles mondo-restore.c once now
1072- if scratchdir or isodir contain more than one path (each), abort
1073- mondo-restore.c creates dummy partitions if the user starts the official
1074 etc/fstab table at /dev/hda7 or something; so, partitioning should work,
1075 even if the mountlist has some gaps
1076- for each /dev/md* device in the mountlist, run raidstop before mkraid
1077
1078
107907-16-2001
1080""""""""""
1081v1.05
1082- patch from DoJ to make install.sh compile with -O2, not -O
1083- cosmetic changes to the biggiefile-slicing code
1084- fixed install.sh
1085
1086
108707-15-2001
1088""""""""""
1089v1.04
1090- make-me-bootable only "boot-makes" each partition ONCE now
1091- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore's logfile output
1092- mondo-restore.c makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp if necessary
1093- should be able to cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" messages in /etc/fstab
1094
1095
109607-14-2001
1097""""""""""
1098v1.03
1099- looks for /etc/lilo.conf; aborts if it cannot locate it
1100- abort if burning CD's & verify level>=2 (must be 1 or 0 if burning CD's)
1101- catch errors in MakeIsoFS, if any
1102- added 'mondo-restore.c'
1103 - C program, to replace the old restore scripts
1104 - Mindi will incorporate it in the data disks, if it can find Mondo
1105 - Mindi will also incorporate the old restore scripts (from Mondo)
1106 just in case the new C program doesn't work
1107 - calls the script, 'stablilo-me' to run LILO if desired
1108- added 'restore-scripts.tgz', which contains the /mondo scripts that used
1109 to live in Mindi; now, Mindi grabs them from here if necessary
1110- cleared up Mode-related scripts & the executable to replace them
1111- if mkisofs fails, ABORT, don't just warn
1112- added '--differential' option, to backup the files changed during the
1113 last N days (N specified by user)
1114
1115
111607-07-2001
1117""""""""""
1118v1.02
1119- retract the CD tray after asking user to enter 'continue' (PauseAndAskForCDR)
1120- uses C program instead of bash loop for PauseAndAskForCDR; some bash versions
1121 go into an infinite loop for no reason; hopefully, outsourcing to C will help
1122- when slicing, indicate progress ("N slices...")
1123- when told to '--burn-cds', Mondo pipes mkisofs's output to cdrecord, instead
1124 of saving the ISO file to disk first; this change will save time and space
1125 (not in the Star Trek sense, however *smile*)
1126- default set size (native) is now 12MB
1127- copy /usr/share/mondo to correct directory within CD
1128- all calls to gawk have been replaced with calls to awk
1129- RPM and SRPM published
1130- delete $TMP at end; don't just delete $TMP/*
1131- can accept multiple parameters in the '--bkpath' switch
1132
113307-04-2001
1134""""""""""
1135v1.00
1136- thanks to recent changes to Mindi, Mondo is now compatible with the
1137 filesystem formats JFS, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 (if your own kernel is)
1138- CDs [2-N] do not have boot floppy images on them; only CD#1 does (although
1139 CDs [2-N] do have the El Torito boot image, just in case...)
1140- modified the --burn-cds switch; now it takes 3rd param, 'cdrw' (optional) to
1141 let you wipe and rewrite CDRWs instead of wasting CDRs ;-)
1142- removed that PID thing; doesn't work; please don't run Mondo twice at once :)
1143- removed that "filenames contain '|'" error & associated problems
1144- got rid of 'UNSAFE' warning/shortcut
1145- removed --xerox-dev, --include-tarball, --skip-tildes, --ide-opt, --use-bzip2
1146- mondo-archive doesn't make/hack/edit mountlist anymore; that's Mindi's job
1147- uses Mindi Linux to make boot disks & data disks based on your distro
1148- boot&data stuff goes in $scratchdir/images now
1149- bzip2 is used by default to compress archives
1150- don't make MD5 checksums if verify_level==0
1151- when archiving, make N.tar.bz2 and cklist.txt (tarball+checksums) in parallel
1152- at end of mondo-archive, remove scratchdir and TMP completely IF they were
1153 created by Mondo (e.g. /home/mondo.scratch or /home/tmp.mondo.12345)
1154- fill CD/image up to 1MB less than its max size; was being filled up to about
1155 8MB less than its max size, which wasted 8-10MB of storage space per disk
1156
1157
115803-15-2001
1159""""""""""
1160v0.99
1161- /proc and /tmp removed --- i.e. added to exclude list :)
1162- Mondo now uses 2.4-series kernel and modules (Bruno Cornec)
1163- minor typos fixed (Bruno Cornec)
1164- older, restore-related fixes merged w/Bruce's work (Maciej Kulasa)
1165- better RPM spec file (Bruno Cornec)
1166- incorporated Mondo v0.977's restore scripts' bugfixes (Maciej Kulasa)
1167
1168
116903-06-2001
1170""""""""""
1171v0.981
1172- put 'dd' in coolstuff.tgz (Art Wells)
1173
1174
117502-26-2001
1176""""""""""
1177v0.98
1178- INSTALL script renamed to install.sh
1179- tarball cleaned up and re-tarred (Art Wells)
1180- trailing CR/LF's cleaned from scripts (Art Wells)
1181- work is underway to make Mondo compatible with the Linux kernel's 2.4 series
1182
118302-28-2001
1184""""""""""
1185v0.977
1186- based on v0.976
1187- missing subs and silly typos fixed in restore scripts (Maciej Kulasa)
1188- fstab files containing NFS mounts are handled properly (Petre Scheie)
1189- Mondo is being actively developed again (yippee!)
1190
119109-01-2000
1192""""""""""
1193v0.976
1194- technical changes
1195 - 12MB ramdisk
1196 - repackaged: now, Mondo comes in big tarball/RPM with all overhead-files
1197 - each Mondo CD has a 15MB administrative overhead; used to be 50-60MB
1198 - definitely 386-compatible now (RH 6.2 binaries)
1199 - Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (2.2.16) kernel w/ReiserFS & Supermount
1200 - modules.conf / conf.modules support (whichever you've got)
1201 - user may include their own copies of modules, if Mondo doesn't come with
1202 the requisite modules already
1203- extra facilities
1204 - ReiserFS support
1205 - '--load-modules <foo> <bar> ...' will allow you to force Mondo to load
1206 key modules at boot-time, e.g. aic7xxx for SCSI-only users
1207- bugfixes
1208 - path-exclusion code (mondo-backup)
1209 - bogus 'flaws=1' message has been eradicated
1210 - CDRW-finding code is now much better at finding the CDRW correctly
1211 - dummy burn mode is working again
1212 - fixed security hole (thanks, Matija); now, user will be warned if Mondo
1213 is configured to execute /tmp/mondo-tarme
1214 - changed lots of 'grep " $string "' to 'grep -w "$string"' (thanks, Matija)
1215
121607-03-2000
1217""""""""""
1218v0.975 published
1219- made mondo-tarme use 'ask-me-a-question' to pause for new, blank CD-Rs
1220- don't deeply search isodir for ISO files to wipe: maxdepth should be 1
1221- 386-compatible kernel and modules (should be, anyway...)
1222- applied Doug Nordwall's calc-disk-size patch to fix SCSI hdd size calc'n bug
1223- applied Michael Ralph Pape's SCSI (2nd floppy) patch
1224- removed devdump from overhead-list
1225- mkisofs no longer called with '-quiet' switch
1226- changed '--burn-cds' format: now it's --burn-cds <speed> (<device>)
1227- added '-L' to LILO's call, so that >8GB hard disks overcome 1024-blk limit
1228- mondo-compare runs check-mountlist-sanity before mounting partitions
1229- ramdisk is now 14MB
1230
123106-16-2000
1232""""""""""
1233v0.972 published
1234- auto-archive, mondo-archive and mondo-tarme updated to make them more
1235 friendly towards mult-disk sets
1236- if multiple CDRW drives, user is asked which mondo-archive should use
1237
123806-14-2000
1239""""""""""
1240v0.971 published
1241- auto-archive now passes CD size to mondo-archive
1242- mondo-tarme, in conjunction with auto-archive, now handles CDRW boot/burn
1243 sharing much better than before
1244
124506-10-2000
1246""""""""""
1247v0.970 published
1248- kernel now creates 12MB ramdrive (was 16MB)
1249- lots of silly bugs & overhead problems fixed; 2nd floppy closer to working
1250- restore scripts all log to /var/log/mondo-restore.log
1251- auto-archive:-
1252 - offers Low, Medium or High compression
1253 - no longer needs a spare hard drive for scratch space; uses loopfs on
1254 existing hard drive (if possible) instead
1255 - handles weird (multi-CDROM) PCs more gracefully now
1256 - handles PCs with CDRW but without CDROM more gracefully now
1257 - deletes each ISO after burning it to a CD-R (if it _is_ burning them)
1258 - asks if PC is old & crappy; if it is, IDE optimizations are disabled
1259 at backup-time and restore-time
1260 - lets user use CDRW for booting _and_ burning, thanks to reroute-softlinks
1261- selective restore is finally fixed
1262- nicer help screens on boot floppy
1263
126406-03-2000
1265""""""""""
1266v0.965 released
1267- 2MB of space left empty at end of every CD (e.g. 650MB is only 648MB full)
1268- Suzhe & Lonius's SmartBootManager (sbminst) is used instead of Win98's MBR
1269- Mondo may now resize Windows-only backups when restoring
1270- silly bugs in prep-me... fixed
1271
127206-02-2000
1273""""""""""
1274v0.964 released
1275- VFAT partitions >8GB handled OK now
1276- 2nd floppy (optionally) created for SCSI users <--- not working yet
1277- better calc-disk-size algorithm (thanks, Doug Nordwall)
1278- Mondo can now backup and restore Windows-only PCs! :-)
1279- silly prep-me and format-and-kludge-vfat bugs fixed
1280- 'resize hack' retitled as 'vacuum-pack'
1281
128205-31-2000
1283""""""""""
1284v0.963 released
1285- ISO images are no longer padded
1286- all currently-loaded modules are backed up to custom hboot.img & installed
1287 at restore-time before CD is accessed
1288- '--burn-cd <speed>' switch added
1289- '--no-opt' switch added; use it in the call to mondo-archive if you don't
1290 want IDE optimization when restoring
1291- lots of work done on auto-archive
1292- mondo-extras-1.5 created; excludes mondo-zfile but includes hlib.tar.bz2
1293- boot floppy image now includes kernel w/lots of SCSI stuff
1294- slice* deleted (WipeArchives); was 'slices*' (bug!)
1295- restore scripts all use 'lastbit-me' to find the 'X' part of '/dev/X' device;
1296 this will make it easier to port Mondo to kernel 2.4.x
1297- I cannot make SCSI-based CDROMs boot from Mondo CDs properly... but SCSI
1298 hard drives and ZIP drives should be handled ok from now on
1299- with a little coaxing, Mondo will backup Windows-only PCs (as well as
1300 Lin/Win and Linux-only PCs)
1301
130205-25-2000
1303""""""""""
1304v0.962 released
1305- silly bug in mondo-checksum fixed
1306- stale tmp dirs are now definitely deleted (bug fixed)
1307- "Job is %d complete. hh:ss to go." --- much better 'progress' string
1308- 'buffer' is gone again :) thank goodness
1309- only 1st ISO is padded; the rest aren't.
1310- working on implementing an easy 'cdrecord' shortcut-call-thingy
1311- mondo-archive doesn't try to delete loopfs unless it exists
1312- mondo-restore's "hack-softlinks" - silly bug ($1/ missing) fixed
1313- boot floppy image now includes mkdir and rmdir
1314- user may specify temp directory using '--tempdir <path>'
1315- mondo-archive now includes a copy of 'buffer' for future use
1316- Mondo will now archive and restore Linux AND LinWin systems ok. W00H00! :-)
1317
131805-23-2000
1319""""""""""
1320v0.961 released
1321- mondo-checksum ignores files <2k in length
1322- default compression level is 4
1323- default verify level is 2
1324- files <3k in size aren't compressed
1325- filelist no longer includes bashbug, dosfsck or dir
1326- bs-me is disabled in mondo-restore
1327- fixed bug in 'hack-fstab' which stopped processing fstab if blank line found
1328
132905-22-2000
1330""""""""""
1331v0.960 released
1332- mondo-vfat-1.0 package released, to provide kludging for VFAT bootables
1333- logfile now saved at /var/log/mondo-archive.log (not `pwd`/mondo-archive.log)
1334- pid registered/checked _after_ command line processed... so you can do --help
1335 without being shouted at ;)
1336- restore-me broken into 2 scripts: untar-me and biggify-me
1337- restore-subroutine-me now renamed untar-subroutine-me
1338- bzip2 decompression should work again ;) ... a missing '-Z' was added to
1339 the afio call, and the usr/lib/libbz* libraries are now included on CD ISOs
1340- fixed hack-lilo to ignore blank lines
1341- really ugly boot kludge has been implemented, using embleer files
1342 to make newly-formatted VFAT partitions bootable
1343
1344[snip]
1345...see CHANGES.pre-v0.96 for the rest (if you can find it)
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