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1# $Id: ChangeLog 1528 2007-07-06 11:21:46Z bruno $
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3MONDO CHANGES
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52.2.4 (2007-07-06)
6- Size of DVD is 4482 (or more surely 4480 to avoid problems - used everywhere) (Bruno Cornec)
7- New Hardware migration guide with P2V (Eric Montaut/Gallig/Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
8- Fix a memory allocation bug where strings were freed to early (Nick Hajek)
9- yum support added to ftp server (Mark Nienberg/Bruno Cornec)
10- Also computes number of media for NFS backups (Patrick Albert/Bruno Cornec)
11- Improve message around ISO directory (Patrick Albert/Bryan Gartner)
12- Improved Ubuntu support (Fix #159) (Bruno Cornec)
13- Improved VMWare ESX supoprt (Amaury Tanquerel/Bruno Cornec)
14- Fix a bug (hang #136) when no floppy available (Bruno Cornec)
15- Adds OCFS support in -N (Bruno Cornec)
16- Reduce log file verbosity in sort phase (Bruno Cornec)
17- Fix a spelling error (James Cameron/Bruno Cornec)
18- mondo rpm pkg depends on buffer and cdrecord (Vincen Danen/Bruno Cornec)
19- Adds -p option support to mondorestore (Fix #114) (Bruno Cornec)
20- Adds support for Boot loader in partitions (Fix #117) (Bruno Cornec)
21- Fix a bug where Unallocated space was considered as an error (Bruno Cornec)
22- MINDI_CACHE set to /var/cache/mindi new location of mindi images instead of /root/images/mindi (Andree Leidenfrost)
23- Fix bug #158 (cummings)
24- Do not use mindi-boot.2880.img (which may not exist) anymore in mondorestore (Bruno Cornec)
25- get_architecture now returns correctly the built arch used (Bruno Cornec)
26- Fix a bug in mondoarchive for UUID support of /boot (Bruno Cornec)
27- Fix a bug for mountlist creation (UUID wasn't printed)
28- Build process now creates yum and urpmi repositories for the respective rpm based distros (Bruno Cornec)
29
302.2.3 (2007-04-26)
31- Fix a critical bug where bzip2 files where not considered during restore (Dale Tronrud/Scott Cummings)
32
332.2.2 (2007-04-16)
34- Log files are now consistent: mondoarchive.log for mondoarchive (containing also mindi.log) and mondorestore.log for mondorestore (copied from /tmp (ram) to /var/log (disk) at the end of the restore) (Bruno Cornec)
35- Script label-partitions-as-necessary now works correctly for LABEL and UUID (Bruno Cornec)
36- Remove useless script compare-me (Bruno Cornec)
37- Some FreeBSD fixes (Bruno Cornec)
38- Fix a bug where losetup is called with only one parameter (#140) (Bruno Cornec)
39- Fix a core dumped when a Big file doesn't exist an can't be created (Nic Watson/Bruno Cornec)
40- support UUID in mondorestore (Fix #103) (Bruno Cornec)
41- Fix a bug in size computation for cciss and similar devices needing a p before their partition name (Bruno Cornec)
42- Fix 2 references to grep -x (Fix for #96) (Bruno Cornec)
43- Add build support for Mandriva 2007.1, RREL 5 and Debian 4.0 (Bruno Cornec)
44- Fix a bug on is_this_raid_personality_registered (John Pearson/Bruno Cornec)
45- Fix a bug with raid5 arrays synchronization (Rémi Bondoin)
46- Tape support improvements (Benoit Donnette/Michel Loiseleur)
47- Handle no compression + verify correctly (Scott Cummings)
48- various HOWTO fixes (Mike Kinney)
49- Fix temporarily a bug when a biggiefile > 32MB was compressed below the size
50of a slice (16MB) (Michel Loiseleur/Bruno Cornec)
51- Better module loading in insmod_crucial_modules (Andree Leidenfrost)
52- Improve Gentoo packaging (Linos)
53- Small typo fix for mondorestore man page (petes-bugs)
54- Small memory management improvements (Michel Loiseleur/Bruno Cornec)
55- Store NFS config only once (Bruno Cornec)
56- Fix a flaw in libmondo-mountlist.c (there since rev [1] !!) (Bruno Cornec)
57- Increased MAX_STR_LEN to 384 to make it divisible without remainder by eight
58for 64 bits platforms (Andree Leidenfrost)
59- Fix a bug where no bzip2 format file would be found when supporting gzip (Andy Wright)
60- CentOS fixes (Andy Wright)
61
622.2.1 (2006-12-23)
63- Fix a memory allocation bug in gen_aux_list (Klaus Ade Johnstad/Andree Leidenfrost)
64- fedora core 6 and suse 10.2 support added in build process (Bruno Cornec)
65- Fix a bug where grub.conf was a symlink (Bruno Cornec)
66- mondo now supports gzip compression format (-G option) (#113) (Bruno Cornec)
67- ACL and XATTR are now NOT backed up anymore by default. Should increase mondoarchive speed. To handle them as before, please use the -z option. Fix Bug #63 (Bruno Cornec)
68- Fix a bug in libmondo-fifo.c where potentially no buffer content could let mondo runni ng forever in case of an exception (Bruno Cornec)
69- Fix a bug where ps (busybox) and ps (system) do not give PID in the same column (Bruno Cornec)
70- TAG is now per package (Bruno Cornec)
71- Add CentOS build support (Andy Wright/Bruno Cornec)
72- Fix bug #89 (env var were queried too early, and not ncessarily in PXE mode) (Bruno Cornec)
73- fix #66 (setfacl not existing => no error) (Bruno Cornec)
74- Removal of grep -w|-x during restore as not supported by busybox fixes bug #101 (Alfred Chua/Bruno Cornec)
75- Fix a bug with DVD+RW format, when mondo asks for retry without success indifinitely (Mariano Aliaga)
76- Fix Bug #90 mondoarchive fails when using space in the prefix (Bruno Cornec)
77- Fix Bug #87 LABEL= swap does not come online after mondorestore (Bruno Cornec)
78- Source directory for mondo is now src (compatibility with trunk) (Bruno Cornec)
79
802.2.0 (2006-10-04)
81- start-nfs now exports variables taken from PXE command line to mondo to override parameters during archiving - Fix bug #21 (Bruno Cornec)
82- Fix for bug #71 mondo now works correctly on x86_64 (Brendan Bouffler/Bruno Cornec)
83- Fix for bug #4 (B. Baumer)
84- Fix PXE documentation (Brendan Bouffler)
85- Attempt to fix bug #25 - bonding support (Michael Shapiro/Bruno Cornec)
86- Write start and finish time to log - Fix bug #33 (Bruno Cornec)
87- New mr_stresc function to escape commands submitted to system and fixes [[debianBTS(379966)]] (Andree Leidenfrost)
88- New files mr_string.c and mr_string.h (v3.0 new organization) (Andree Leidenfrost)
89- Fix for [[debianBTS(320152)]] display problem in newt (Andree Leidenfrost)
90- Check for grub.conf being a symbolic link (Andree Leidenfrost)
91- AFS support (Andree Leidenfrost/Bruno Cornec)
92- Better post-nuke handling (first steps) (Andree Leidenfrost)
93- Icon for use in menus (Andree Leidenfrost)
94- Fix for bug #14 -E switch error (Bruno Cornec)
95- Fix for bug #6 mondorestore will ask for prefix during selectve restore (Bruno Cornec)
96- Fix for bug #21 prefix taken from PXE server first (Bruno Cornec)
97- Fix for bug #24 ps options (Bruno Cornec)
98
992.0.9 (2006-08-04)
100- Preliminary build process working for Debian and Gentoo (Bruno Cornec)
101- New NFS/PXE support. start-nfs is now a fixed script. Allow more possibilities at restore time (Bruno Cornec)
102- Fix some compiler warnings for 64bits mode (Andree Leidenfrost)
103- Fix various screen corruption for 'Configure LVM'/RAID sync (Andree Leidenfrost)
104- SuSE RPMS now use bzip2 (Lars Rupp/Bruno Cornec)
105- Exclude ClearCase mvfs type of filesystem from mondo backup (rzonum_at_gmail.com/Bruno Cornec)
106- Improved .spec Requires (Fedora/SuSE feedbacks) (Bruno Cornec)
107- Indication for users of IDE burners and 2.6 kernels (Christopher Moriarity/Bruno Cornec)
108- remove df -P during restore as busybox doesn't support it (Bruno Cornec)
109- nfsmount option added to allow redeployment from another NFS server (Bruno Cornec)
110- This version should work a bit better with files having special char bug #7421 - but more to come (Bruno Cornec)
111- Fix [[debianBTS(369321)]] by increasing MAX_TAPECATALOG_ENTRIES to 8192 and bkpinfo->optimal_set_size to 16MB (Andree Leidenfrost)
112- Fix problem with BurnProof+DVD (Andree Leidenfrost)
113- Fix bug #7820: mondo should now support files > 2GB (taps23_at_yahoo.com/Bruno Cornec)
114- Replaced all occurrences of egrep with 'grep -E' and of fgrep with 'grep -F' (Andree Leidenfrost)
115- Optimize grep usage - fixes [[debianBTS(222052)]] (Andree Leidenfrost)
116- Avoid false alerts about growisofs not running under sudo (Andree Leidenfrost)
117- Increase PPCFG_RAMDISK_SIZE to 350 MB (Thomas Börkel/Bruno Cornec)
118- Removed useless mondo-makefilelist (Andree Leidenfrost)
119- Fix a segmentation fault in parse_mdstat() (Andree Leidenfrost)
120- Fix gcc 4.1.2 warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
121
1222.0.8-3 (2006-06-07)
123- Fix a bug in -I and -E handling !! (Paolo Bernardoni <bernardoni_at_sysnet.it>/Bruno Cornec)
124- Fix permissions for autorun (Bruno Cornec)
125- Fox delivery problems for tar files with too restrictive umask (Bruno Cornec)
126- Fix parsing of DHCP information in start-nfs script (Andree Leidenfrost)
127
1282.0.8-2 (2006-06-02)
129- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment (Bruno Cornec)
130
1312.0.8-1 (2006-05-25)
132- new build process (Bruno Cornec)
133- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused) (Bruno Cornec)
134- Support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost)
135- New mr_strtok functionn added and used for dm support (Andree Leidenfrost)
136- Complete doc is now a separate package. mondo still contains the man pages and howto in minimal useful formats (Bruno Cornec)
137- HOWTO now contains a new chapter on unattended support for mondo
138- Increase size (4 times) of include|exclude variables
139- Fix a bug on -I and -E not working with multiple parameters
140- Fix a bug in verify for NFS by swapping nfs_remote_dir and isodir when assembling name for image file to verify (Andree Leidenfrost)
141- Fix mondo when restoring filenames containing blanks (still a problem for filenames with ') (Bruno Cornec)
142- Fix a RPM generation bug for rh7.3 (i386-redhat-linux prefix for binaries) (Bruno Cornec)
143
1442.0.7 (2006-03-10)
145- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
146- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
147- Add the actual format to messages after calls to function is_this_a_valid_disk_format() about unsupported formats. (Andree Leidenfrost)
148- Abort|Warn when one of the include|exclude dirs (-I|-E) does not exist (Bruno Cornec/Jeffs)
149- Replaced partimagehack with ntfsclone from ntfsprogs package. (Andree Leidenfrost)
150- use df -P everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
151- Paypal incitations removed (Andree Leidenfrost)
152- mondo now uses /usr/share for the restore-scripts (Bruno Cornec)
153- rpmlint cleanups (Bruno Cornec)
154- no shared librairies and no X11 anymore (were useless) (Bruno Cornec)
155- files > 2GB are now really supported (Andree Leidenfrost)
156- new SGML based Mondo Rescue documentation + new Web site (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
157- mondoarchive aborts when 'mindi --findkernel' gives a fatal error (See also [[debianBTS(352323)]].) (Andree Leidenfrost)
158- /tmp not excluded anymore from backup (Bruno Cornec)
159- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
160
161v2.06 (2005-12-23)
162- better error handling of failed commands/mindi (Andree Leidenfrost)
163- fix compiler warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
164- -p improvements for NFS/PXE/ISO modes (Bruno Cornec)
165- support of default route and netmask for PXE/NFS (Bruno Cornec)
166- fix for restoring mondo backups on md-raid systems (Philippe De Muyter)
167- remove excessive 'cat' commands (Philippe De Muyter)
168- fix to force growisofs to use speed=1 for DVD burning (Philippe De Muyter)
169- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
170- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images (Andree Leidenfrost)
171- Add -P option to df calls (Andree Leidenfrost/Chuan-kai Lin)
172- fix usage of joint -B and -m options (Andree Leidenfrost/Efraim Feinstein)
173- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's filebrowser (Andree Leidenfrost)
174- remove the renice of mondoarchive (Hugo Rabson)
175- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
176- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball) (Bruno Cornec)
177- disable x11 build by default (Bruno Cornec)
178- remove sbminst (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
179- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
180- exports MONDO_LIB (Bruno Cornec)
181- 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)
182- interactive mode now asks for image size and prefix in NFS mode (Gallig Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
183- iso-prefix should be read in iso mode even when -H not given (Stan Benoit)
184- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
185- many code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
186
187v2.05 (2005-11-19)
188- -p options works better for NFS cases (Bruno Cornec)
189- ia64 is now working for rhel3 (Bruno Cornec)
190- delivery process to BerliOS improved (Bruno Cornec)
191- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
192
193v2.04_berlios (2005-10-30)
194- 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)
195- Mandrake 2005 support (Bruno Cornec)
196- NFS patches (Yann Aubert <technique@alixen.fr>)
197- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H (this is an unattended mode) (Bruno Cornec)
198
199v2.04 (2005-05-03)
200- made mondo more clever about finding its home. Avoids mondo considering directories like '/usr/share/doc/momdo' as its home.
201
202v2.03 (2004-09-29)
203- better SLES8 support
204- test user-specified temp dir's sanity
205
206v2.02 (2004-07-21)
207- 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
208- set bootable partition in the above same call to fdisk, for the same reason (avoids locking up the partition table)
209- better software RAID support
210- mount ext3 partitions as ext2 when restoring - better for Debian
211- better star, ACL support
212- added ACL, xattr support for afio users
213
214v2.01 (2004-06-21)
215- fixed cvs for SuSE systems
216- fixed NTFS backup/restore bug relating to partimagehack log file overflow and NTFS v non-NTFS differentiation
217- more reliable extraction of config info from CDs, floppies
218- better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
219
220v2.00 (2004-06-18)
221- first 2.0 release
222- updated grub-install.patched to support SuSE and Red Hat
223- added kdelibs as xmondo dependency (Joshua Oreman)
224- better find_cdrom_device(), to cope w/ multiple CD writers
225- added xmondo pixmap installation
226- fixed -m and -Vc flags
227- fixed NTFS support!
228- bootable CD uses native, not El Torito, support now
229- added -devel package
230- made xmondo a second package
231- added ability to specify --without xmondo at build time
232- Clean up, added spanish translation
233- Set prefix to be /usr
234- added/fixed Requires
235- remove CVS directories prior to building
236- added 2.6 kernel support
237- if 2.6 kernel, insist that the user specify CD device
238- drop Embleer; insist on ms-sys and parted if Windows partition
239- added support for boot/root multi floppies
240- call 'mt' to set block size to 32K before opening in/out tape
241- 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
242- when extracting cfg file and mountlist from all.tar.gz (tape copy), use block size of INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE, not TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE
243- added star and rudimentary SELinux support
244- fixed lots of bugs
245- all logging now goes to /var/log/mondo-archive.log, with symlink to /tmp/mondo-restore.log for restore-time log-tracking
246- added grub-install.patched
247- removed embleer & other binaries
248- added '-b' to specify block size
249- added '-R' for star support
250
251v1.75 (2004-03-29)
252- fixed chmod/chown bug (Jens Richter)
253- ask user to confirm NFS mountpoint in Interactive Mode
254- rewritten format_everything() to make sure LVMs, RAIDs and regular partitions are prepped in the correct order
255- better magicdev support
256- rewritten external binary caller subroutine
257- DVD support added
258- better backup-time control gui; offer to exclude nfs if appl.
259- fixed multi-tape support
260- re-implemented -D and -J
261- fixed bug in extract_config_file_from_ramdisk() which affected tape+floppy users
262- updated is_incoming_block_valid() to make it return end-of-tape if >300 flotsam blocks
263- unmount CD-ROM before burning (necessary for RH8/9)
264- fixed some stray assert()'s
265- fixed bug in grub-MR (Christian)
266- make user remove floppy/CD before restoring interactively from tape
267- fixed bug in am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
268- added code to nuke_mode() to make sure NFS (backup) share is mounted in Nuke Mode
269- improved tape device detection code
270- better GRUB support
271- better logging of changed bigfiles at compare-time
272- better NTFS support, thanks to partimagehack-static
273- better logging
274- rewrote tape-handling code, breaking compatibility w/ previous versions
275- fixed ISO/CD biggiefile verification bug in mondoarchive
276- fixed bug which stopped boot/compare-time changelist from popping up
277- replaced mondo-makefilelist with C code - faster, cleaner
278- tweaked GUI - better feedback
279
2801.74 (2003-09-24)
281- fixed biggiefile atime/ctime restoration bug 73
282- fixed 'default boot loader' detection bug (Joshua Oreman)
283- use single-threaded make_afioballs_and_images() if FreeBSD
284- fixed mondoarchive -Vi multi-CD verify bug (Tom Mortell)
285- superior get_phys_size_of_drive() (Joshua Oreman)
286- fixed RAID-related bug in where_is_root_mounted()
287- ISO tweaks
288- fixed silly bug in load_filelist() which stopped funny German filenames from being handled properly
289- misc fixes (Michael Hanscho's friend)
290- added rudimentary support for SME
291- added better label support
292- fixed various calls to popup_and_get_string()
293- fixed spec file
294- reject -E /
295- added partimagehack to the mix
296
2971.73 (2003-05-04)
298- mark relevant partitions as bootable _after_ unmounting them
299- resolve boot device (-f) if softlink
300- post_param_configuration() --- store iso-dev and isodir
301- added post-nuke-sample.tgz to package
302- Nuke Mode now checks mountlist against hardware; offer user opportunity to edit mountlist if insane; if user declines, abort
303- added lots of assert()'s and other checks
304- ran code thru Valgrind to catch & fix some memory leaks
305- made mondo-restore.c smaller by moving some subroutines to common/libmondo-raid.c and mondorestore/mondo-rstr-compare.c
306- added '-Q' flag, to let user test mondoarchive's ability to find their boot loader and type
307- improved which_boot_loader()
308- when burning or comparing to a CD, defeat autorun if it is running, to avoid confusing mondoarchive and the user
309- if original backup media no longer available at boot-time then offer user chance to choose another media source
310- when booting, type 'nuke noresize' to nuke w/o resizing mountlist to fill your drives
311- add 'textonly' when booting, to avoid using Newt gui
312- run nice(20) to prioritize mondoarchive at start
313- don't pause and wait for next blank CD at backup-time unless necessary (e.g. previous CD has not been removed)
314- get_phys_size_of_drive() --- better support of older drives
315- don't eject if "donteject" is in kernel's command line
316- cleaned up segfault-handling
317- added Conor's strip_path() to improve file list display
318- added Herman Kuster's multi-level bkp patch
319- added Joshua Oreman's FreeBSD patches x3
320- fixed interactive/textonly support
321- fixed support for subdir-within-NFS-mount
322- fixed "Can't backup if ramdisk not mounted" bug
323- try to work around eccentricities of multi-CD drive PCs
324- misc clean-ups (Steve Hindle)
325
326v1.72 (2003-04-23)
327- LVM/RAID bugs fixed (Brian Borgeson)
328- major clean-up of code (Stan Benoit)
329- make-me-bootable fix (Juraj Ziegler)
330- fixed problem w/ multi-ISO verify cycle (Tom Mortell)
331- removed duplicate entry from makefile
332- if root is /dev/root then assume not a ramdisk
333- fixed potentially infinite loop in log_to_screen (Tom Mortell)
334- reject relative paths if -d flag (Alessandro Polverini)
335- add '/' to custom filelist as workaround for obscure bug
336- ask user speed of CDRW if writing to CD
337- find_cdrom_device() --- if nonexistent/not found then make sure to return '' as dev str and 1 as res
338- tweaked restore scripts tgz
339- cleaned up find_cdrom_device()
340- if user creates /usr/share/mondo/payload.tgz then untar payload to CD at backup-time
341- fixed insist_on_this_cd_number()
342- fixed am_i_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
343- misc clean-up (Tom Mortell)
344- made code more legible
345- fixed post-nuke support
346- fixed nfs support
347- fixed iso support
348- at restore-time, only sort mountlist internally, in mount_all_devices() and unmount_all_devices()
349- fixed cosmetic bug in label-partitions-as-necessary
350- updated documentation
351- fixed fstab-hacking scripts
352
353v1.71 (2003-04-04)
354- log newt, slang, ncurses info
355- updated man page
356- handle %% chars in issue.net properly (Heiko Schlittermann)
357- fixed serious NFS restore bug
358- changed various strcpy() calls to strncpy() calls
359- added mondo-makefilelist to makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
360- mount_cdrom() better at handling multiple CD drives
361- exclude /media/cdrom,cdrecorder,floppy
362- sensibly_set_tmpdir_and_scratchdir() --- exclude smb and smbfs
363- better logging by eval_call_to_make_ISO()
364- accept -J <fname> to let user provide their own fs catalog instead of -I <paths> to backup
365- if dir excluded with -E or included with -I and dir is actually a softlink then exclude/include the dir pointed to, as well
366- better location for manpage
367- adjusted block size of tarball at start of tape, to help users w/ broken tape driver firmware
368- sort -u fstab after modifying it
369- if backup type is nfs then don't estimate noof media
370- fixed Makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
371- updated manpage
372- added -e support
373
374v1.70 (2003-04-04)
375- new devel branch opened
376
377v1.52 (2002-12-08)
378- fixed bug in multithreading
379- use new grub-MR instead of grub-install
380- wipe only the partition table (not MBR) when repartitioning drives
381- ignore lilo.conf.anaconda when looking for lilo.conf file
382- accepts '-l RAW' to backup/restore original boot sector instead of running grub or lilo to init it after restoring
383- fixed&updated stabgrub-me script; software RAID + GRUB work now
384- mount/unmount /boot partition for Gentoo 1.2 users
385- re-enabled extra tape checksums
386- disabled spurious warnings
387- unmount/remount supermounts at start/end of live restore, if nec.
388- cleaned up mondo's tape block handling (now, TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE=128K and I've added INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE=32K variable for buffering)
389- added Makefile
390- added -l RAW option, to backup and restore original MBR
391- cleaned up iso_mode() and nfs restoring
392- create /mnt/RESTORING/mnt/.boot.d for Gentoo users
393- made mondorestore CD bootable for ArkLinux users
394- if user runs as 'su' not 'su -' then work around
395
396v1.51 (2002-11-17)
397- pop-up list of changed files, at end of verification phase
398- better handling of changed.files list at restore-time
399- lots of CD-related fixes
400- added '-N' flag --- to let user exclude all NFS-related mounts&devices
401- better handling of 'kill'
402- restructuring of code to ease integration of mondo w/XMondo
403- fixed obscure bug in find_and_mount_actual_cd()
404- fixed install.sh
405- updated documentation
406- fixed .spec file
407- if / or /root has <50MB free then abort & complain
408- commented code
409- updated man page
410- added -v / --version flag
411- replaced convoluted grep with wc (KP)
412- fixed bug affecting restoration of bigfiles from CD's created w/0 compression
413- fixed BurnProof-related bug
414- better at figuring out which is the best partition to use for temp/scratchdir
415- added do-not-compress-these (text file) to RPM
416- do not compress files of types listed in do-not-compress-these
417- dropped -U from call to afio - saves 20-30% runtime (Cosgrove)
418- added Cosgrove's do-not-compress-these list
419- included various patches from KP
420- chmod tmpdir, scratchdir to 700 before using
421- restore from specified backup device, even if its own cfg file disagrees
422- fixed multi-tape bug
423- fixed "Can't find first ISO when verifying nonbootable ISO" bug
424- multithreaded make_afioballs_and_images()
425- tmpdir and scratchdir set sensibly whether mondoarchive is called with command-line parameters or not
426- fixed bug in strip_spaces() which stopped it from handling small strings correctly - affected mountlist editor
427- create a repaired copy of grub-install which is RAID-friendly; use it when initializing boot sector with run_grub()
428- fixed bug in mondo-makefilelist
429
430v1.50 (2002-09-08)
431- if restoring, don't try to find SCSI node of CD-ROM drive; find /dev entry
432- during selective restore, skip filesets which don't contain relevant archives
433- set /dev/null's perms to 777, just in case devfs-enabled kernel mangles it
434- remove /var/run/*.pid after restoring
435- move spurious lockfiles from /home/* to /home/*/.disabled
436- ask user to confirm the tape/CD device name
437- lots of multitape-related fixes
438- added code to autodetect the hardware of the user, when possible
439- if isodir does not exist then abort
440- doubled 'biggiefile' threshold... to 32MB
441- exclude /root/images/mindi
442- fixed multi-imagedev bug (Emmanuel Druon)
443- unmount/remount /mnt/floppy before/after backing up, if Mandrake
444- restructured the source files
445- fixed serious bug in line 1546 - should have been !=, not ==; stopped mondorestore from correctly restoring big files
446- added '#include <signal.h>' to my-stuff.h
447- exclude "incheckentry xwait()" from changed.files
448- fixed minor bug in find_cdrom_device()
449- fixed bug in friendly_sizestring...
450- insist on tape #1 when start verifying
451- added internal buffering, replacing the external 'buffer' exe
452- if differential backup then don't permit formatting or fdisking, whether Interactive or Nuke mode
453- 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
454- if tape streamer is softlink then resolve it first
455- incorporate post-nuke tarball
456- if user doesn't specify tape size, proceed anyway; behave intelligently in the event of end-of-tape
457- prefix bkpinfo->restore_path to biggiefile fname before generating checksum & comparing to archived biggiefile
458- 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
459- LFS support (mharris, michele, hugo)
460- fixed verify bug --- CD#1 was being verified again & again & ...
461- differential mode fixed; supported again
462- ask user for boot loader + device if not detectible
463- list up to 512 files in file selection window at once (was 128)
464- better handling of bigfiles' checksums, perms and owns
465- delete final filelist if <=2 bytes long
466- if kernel not found and mondo in graphics mode then popup and ask for kernel path+filename
467- misc clean-ups (Troff)
468- noninteractivity-related & misc clean-ups (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
469- RAID, feedback enhancements (Philippe de Muyter)
470- exclude /dev/* from changed.files
471- replaced large declarations with malloc()'s and free()'s
472- added lockfile
473- fixed bugs affecting tape users who backup+verify at same time
474- fixed bugs re: tape block size >32K (Troff)
475- added signal-trapping to mondoarchive and mondorestore
476- fixed bug in new '-s' code
477- added --isonuke and --mbr switches
478- cleaned up live filesystem restoration
479- permit '-0' (no compression) flag
480- if user restores selectively (picks some files to be restored) then large files archived during '-L' (LZO) backup will now be restored properly
481- fixed bug in make-me-bootable
482- don't change /tmp's permissions unless it doesn't exist & has to be created
483- changed $i to $j in mondo-makefilelist (Karsten)
484- fixed 'I refuse to write floppy images to /dev/fd0 because its size is not apparent from its filename' bug
485- disabled 'nr-failed-disks' entry in raidtab generator
486- added '-o' flag to let user choose LILO as CD/floppy's boot loader
487- fixed bug in --mbr
488
489v1.43-7 (2002-06-04)
490- afio uses 16MB buffer when restoring, instead of 8MB buffer
491- mondorestore makes /var/run/console in case user excluded it
492- the -s switch now accepts multiple sizes, one per tape/CD
493- added -u switch for streaming to device; like -t (tape) but without various error checks; use with caution
494- bugfixes; cleaned up code (Troff)
495- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
496- use dvdrecord instead of cdrecord, if available
497- don't alter /mnt/RESTORING/tmp's permissions if comparing
498- added -follow to search for home (Bruno Vidal)
499- unmount/remount CD-ROM at start/end if supermounted
500- delete old /tmp/filelist.full,biggielist.txt if restoring to live filesystem
501- if Mindi aborted then show last 6 lines of its log before mondoarchive aborts
502- reformatted, redistributed source code (Stan Benoit)
503- replaced isolinux dependency with syslinux dependency
504- now shows the CDR(W)'s progress properly - 20%, 30%, etc.
505- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
506
507v1.42-3 (2002-04-12)
508- minor cosmetic enhancements
509- improved homedir-locating code
510
511v1.42-1 (2002-04-07)
512- 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
513- fixed restore-time RAID-handling bugs
514- added -E patch to exclude files and/or dirs properly (Andy Glass)
515- cat /proc/cpuinfo and run uname -r; save output to logfile at backup-time
516- fixed minor bug in stablilo-me
517- if /tmp/fstab.new exists then use _it_ instead of /tmp/fstab to label ext2 or ext3 partitions
518- bootable CD's now use SYSLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
519- don't pclose() tape after calling closein_tape(): the latter does it already
520- tarball installs to /usr/share/mondo by default; was /usr/local/share/mondo
521- numerous cosmetic enhancements
522- added '-m' (manual CD tray) flag
523
524v1.41-1 (2002-03-21)
525- record hostname (Krzysztof Dubowik)
526
527v1.40-7 (2002-03-10)
528- if '-L' then test for lzop; abort if not present
529- if Mondo cannot figure out which boot loader the user is using, tell the user to read the manual and mention -l, -f switches
530- abort if ramdisk not available
531- updated man page (Mikael Hultgren)
532- support multiple -I params (Mikael Hultgren+Randy Delfs)
533- mkreiserfs -ff instead of -q (Andy Glass)
534
535v1.40-6 (2002-03-03)
536- incorporated new config.guess, config.sub (H�tor Garc� �varez)
537- updated manual to explain tmpfs needs to be in kernel (Mikael Hultgren)
538- don't let non-root users run mondoarchive
539- allow up to 50 chars in popup_and_get_string()'s input field
540- tell user to use 'su -' instead of 'su' if they use 'su' by mistake
541- make mondo-makefilelist more SUN-friendly, re: fstab (Andy Glass)
542- modified 'Sliced bigfile #n' log entry to say '..#(n+1)'
543
544v1.40-5 (2002-02-24)
545- improved the way Mondo installs itself (Mikael Hultgren)
546- updated manpage
547- touch /mnt/RESTORING/var/log/pacct after restoring
548- added updated docs (Cafeole, Randy Delfs, Stan Benoit et al)
549- added pico to restore-scripts.tgz; deprecated some scripts
550- if restoring to /dev/ida/* or /dev/cciss/* then drop the 'p' before trying to discover the size of the partition itself
551- support pathnames containing spaces (KirkJT)
552- added -C switch, to treat CD burner almost as a tape streamer
553- run post-nuke script if it exists
554- put (char*)(&buf) instead of &buf when reading/writing biggiefiles' info
555
556v1.40-3 (2002-02-17)
557- let user exclude devices from mountlist with (e.g.) -E /dev/hda1
558- handle one-letter dirs properly (Ian Kent)
559- when making ext3 fs, don't specify journal size (Cafeole)
560- add tmp.mondo.NNNN to tempdir path, if tempdir is specified by user
561- add mondo.scratch.NNN to scratchdir path, if scratchdir is specified by user
562- beefed up RAID-related logging a bit
563- exclude .journal files properly
564- Italian patch (Michael Baldessari)
565
566v1.40-2 (2002-02-11)
567- fixed typo in manpage (Mikael Hultgren)
568- exclude "#"*"#" and *~ from tarball and source RPM
569- updated manual (Randy Delfs)
570- put the correct version# in mondo/my-stuff.h
571- in Nuke Mode, expand/contract mountlist proportionately to fill hard disks
572- fix serious restore-time bug in tape/afio-handling code
573- cdrecord is only required if burning CD's
574
575v1.40-1 (2002-02-10)
576- set partition(s) bootable w/fdisk if appropriate
577- cosmetic bugfixes
578- changed get_phys_size_of_drive() to read value from fdisk, not dmesg
579- if hard disk does not exist then warn user when editing mountlist
580- 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
581- exclude each partition's .autofsck from backup
582- fixed bug in CD restoration progress form
583- changed many tempfilenames from mojo-jojo* to sensible, random names
584- exclude win386.swp from backup (Cafeole)
585
586v1.38-2 (2002-02-07)
587- minor improvements to the NFS-handling code
588- mondo-restore now records Mondo's version# in log
589- fixed silly bug that makes 'current filelist #' progress form inaccurate
590- fix typo in '10 seconds to abort' line; also, made 20 seconds
591
592v1.38-1 (2002-02-06)
593- source code has been beautified (Stan Benoit)
594- makefile, Config implemented (Stan Benoit)
595- 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
596- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
597- patch to make it easier to install Mondo almost anywhere (Ian Mortimer)
598- proper, one-char switches replace the long-winded multi-char switches of 1.36 and earlier
599- migrating from lots of /tmp files in ramdisk to a single configuration file on ramdisk, at /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg
600- estimates the number of media required by this backup session
601- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
602- records+restores biggiefiles' permissions+ownership properly
603
604v1.37-1 (2002-01-25)
605- proper 'selective restore' interface implemented
606- if the user specifies boot loader or device, record those settings
607- fixed cdrecord-related bug in .spec file
608- 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
609- user's BIOS is assumed not to be able to handle LILO's sector-seek merging
610- switches --broken-bios, --debug and --chunk-size have been removed
611- if user calls with --burn-cds 2 (nothing else) then find CDRW and continue
612- if CD writer's speed is not specified then assume 2x
613- better autodetection of CD writer
614- set size is 5MB for tape users and CD users alike
615- exclude /root/images/mondo from backup
616- added --skip-floppies switch
617- abort if PC has <32MB of RAM at backup-time; warn if <64MB
618
619v1.36-1 (2002-01-20)
620- fixed v.minor bug in MakeFilelist()
621- in mondo-archive, replaced calls to Die() with calls to FatalError()
622- include .spec file in tarball
623- if cdrecord v1.8 or older then abort: inadequate for Mondo's needs
624- moved misc functions from mondo-archive to mondo-tarme.c
625- prettier interface when preparing and formatting boot+data disks
626- when editing mountlist, warn if formats !supported by kernel (B. Hartin)
627- don't try to run e2label on filesystems which aren't ext2 or ext3
628- don't write to tape if already burning to CD (Kosaku Nagasaka)
629- re-enabled and tested some CD-verifying code
630- added buffer to RPM/tarball requirements
631- set size is 4MB for tape users; 16MB for CD users
632- files <16MB aren't chopped
633- uses tmpfs for temp storage if backing up to tape
634- (rudimentary) selective formatting
635- log versions of afio, bzip2, etc.
636
637v1.35-1 (2002-01-10)
638- NFS backup+restore support
639- exclude Win2K hiberation file (Paul Rensing)
640- fixed filelist.full/filelist.blah typo (Paul Rensing)
641- unset TAPE at start of mondo-archive (Norm Crowfoot)
642- if bzip is <v0.99 then abort
643- if hard disk fills to capacity then abort
644- --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
645- --text-mode forces Mondo Archive to use text only (no newt or ncurses)
646- the deprecated scripts have now been disabled
647- boot floppy will use 'safe' LILO calls; boot CD will use 'fast' LILO calls unless --broken-bios is supplied in call to Mondo
648- cdrecord's buffer is now 4 MB (was 16 MB)
649- tape support has been rewritten from ground up
650- set size is now 16MB for CD users and 48MB for tape users
651- don't let user change mountlist entry from regular mountpt to 'image'
652- mount -t (space was missing in mount_isodir())
653- all calls to afio now use blocks of TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE KB and RAM buf of 8 MB
654- added Peter Seidler <p.seidler@mail1.stofanet.dk>'s "Petris" game
655- --exclude-paths now drops the trailing '/' from param(s) if present
656- tab-align /etc/fstab after hacking it
657
658v1.34-1 (2001-12-25)
659- if /sbin or /usr/sbin are not in PATH then add them temporarily
660- if --broken-bios then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
661- tape users can boot from a single floppy now
662- when archiving/restoring/verifying tape, skip the first 32MB
663- fixed bugs in actually_verify_the_tapes()
664- fixed some popen/pclose mismatches
665- 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
666
667v1.33-8 (2001-12-19)
668- implemented --image-devs <dev> (<...>) switch
669- improved --verify switch's code
670- exclude Windows' win386.swp file, if found
671- fixed bug in unmount_all_devices()
672- include version of Mondo/Mindi in error log
673- updated the FAQ
674- when making differential backup, make sure to exclude nonexistent files
675- --use-lzo now applies lzo to big files as well as afio archives
676- changed all 'long long's to 'off_t's
677- no longer aborts if /etc/lilo.conf does not exist
678- moved FAQ's to FAQ file
679- archive bigfiles one slice at a time; much less wasteful of space
680- abort if user tries to backup a mounted partition as an _image_
681
682v1.33-6 (2001-12-15)
683- misc bugfixes
684
685v1.33-5 (2001-12-14)
686- improved error-reporting in the event of boot loader detection failure
687- improved tape verification code
688- experimental support for backing up and restoring devices as images
689
690v1.33-4 (2001-12-13)
691- updated FAQ
692- experimental GRUB support
693- when calculating checksums, tell user %done and time remaining
694- checksum catalog entry = filesize+mtime+ctime; don't call md5sum or cksum
695- compile mondo-filelistchop and mondo-checksum with -O2 optimization
696- when writing floppies, ask specifically for floppy #x (Randy Delfs)
697
698v1.33-3 (2001-12-12)
699- supports --boot-loader and --boot-device to let user specify them
700- fixed CDRW node autodetection bug
701- MONDO_PATH was misconfigured; is now "/usr/share/mondo"
702
703v1.33-1 (2001-12-12)
704- if user changes a partition's device, change it in raidtab too
705- don't extrapolate from /etc/raidtab to /tmp/mountlist; editor does it already
706- don't backup /tmp (somewhere in the v1.3x series, I stopped excluding /tmp)
707- cosmetic fixes to mondo-prep.c and mondo-newt.c
708- put quotes around chmod's parameter
709- subtract 5% from reported maximum storage capacity of drives, when checking that the parttions will fit; some drives lie about their max cap
710- stablilo-me no longer tries to mark partitions as bootable
711- better exclusion of /var/log/pacct
712- tape users can now use --verify to verify archives w/o rebooting
713- checksum calculated for every file backed up - for future expansion
714- implemented a _real_ --differential switch, to backup all files changed or added since the last complete backup
715
716v1.32-2 (2001-12-09)
717- if no RAID devices after editing mountlist then delete raidtab
718- don't try to mount RAID partitions (components of RAID dev)
719- don't add partitions to mountlist when extrapolating from mountlist unless the partitions are not already present in mountlist
720- don't format partitions if partitioning failed
721- when user selects RAID level, establish whether said level is available
722
723v1.32 (2001-12-09)
724- if user creates ISO images, the default dest dir is /root/images/mondo now
725- log_it() makes sure it only writes one \n on the end of each logged line
726- detects if user is using GRUB/LILO/other; abort if neither LILO nor GRUB
727- passes the boot loader's name and device to Mindi, to be available at boot-time
728- if user successfully restores using Nuke or Interactive w/o error then Mondo generates a random message, basically saying, "Cool."
729- enlarged afio's "-M" parameter from 12M to 16M
730- if stablilo-me fails then restore the original lilo.conf and fstab before offering user the opportunity to edit them (Dean Carpenter)
731- added ISO Mode, to let user restore from ISO images in directory
732- cosmetic fix to compare/restore phase windows
733- if backing up to ISO images then offer to write boot floppies too
734- changed some references to /tmp/raidtab, to /etc/raidtab
735- cleaned up compare + restore logging
736- scratchdir is now [path]/mondo.scratch.$$; was just [path]/mondo.scratch
737
738v1.31 (2001-12-04)
739- turned on '-Wall' to find cruft; found lots of it; cleaned it up
740- exclude each device's lost+found directory
741- mountlist editor now permits advanced editing of RAID devices
742- 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*)
743- partition and set type in 2-stage process (was 1-stage)
744- cleaned up Compare Mode's logging a bit, to make it more legible
745- don't report changed archives as 'errors' but as 'differences'
746- exclude ext3's .journal files from backup (yes, this time I really do)
747- '--my-kernel SUCKS' has been replaced with '--my-kernel FAILSAFE'
748- softlink mondo-restore to /usr/bin/ before calling Mindi, so that Mindi can 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 there to mondo-tools.c
752- mondo-tarme and mondo-restore are now compiled as dynamic executables; I have amended install.sh and mondo-1.31.spec accordingly
753- now make boot/data floppies at end of backup, not beginning
754- backup in alphabetical order now, not reverse-alpha
755- if Compare Mode reports changed files /var/* and /etc/mtab only then tell the user their archives are good despite the differneces
756- cut back on excessively verbose logging at backup-time
757- when vacuum-packing a partition, describe it as "(max size)", not "(0 MB)"
758- if swap is already mounted, don't abort: just say, 'swap already mounted'
759- 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 :)
760
761v1.30 (2001-11-28)
762- 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
763- check for mondo-restore's presence; if absent then abort & ask user to check to see if Mondo was installed properly
764- always exclude /var/log/pacct from backup
765- optimal set size is now 24MB
766- install.sh will abort w/error if compilation of mondo-* fails
767- after creating the mountlist, put a copy in Mondo's tmp directory
768- each ext3 filesystem has a .journal file in its base directory; Mondo will now exclude each of these journal files automatically
769- use the archived copy of LILO, not the copy from the restore-time ramdisk, to configure the MBR
770- size_of_file() now returns long long, not long
771- find mondo-archive and set MONDO_PATH accordingly
772- scratchdir is /home/mondo.scratch by default
773- at backup-time, run mondo-restore in test mode to make sure that the executable is sane & will run OK at restore-time
774
775v1.19 (2001-11-14)
776- tested on Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2; backup,wipe,restore went OK
777- fixed a bug in is_this_device_mounted()
778- at restore-time, always check for presence of decompressor; abort if notfound
779- run 'chmod -r 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp' after restoring
780- fixed bugs in Compare Mode:- - missing else{} - erroneous 'cannot add archive' error; res+=retval should have read retval+=res (Tony Kim)
781- use 'umount /mnt/cdrom' instead of 'umount /dev/cdrom', to make it compatible with busybox's umount command
782- fixed bug in mondo-archive which stopped Mondo from pausing to retry if the CD/ISO fails the verification phase
783- modified compare_all_tarballs() in mondo-restore.c
784- if running interactively then offer to modify fstab and lilo.conf if user says s/he has modified the mountlist
785- if mondo-tarme segfaults (as it does, on a _very_ few systems) then Mondo picks up on the fact & reports it
786- when restoring, create /mnt/RESTORING/tmp before _and_ after restoring data, just in case it is necessary; also set permissions okay
787- C code is now compiled 'O0' (without optimizations)
788- each CD's slices were being listed to screen; now, piped to /dev/null
789
790v1.18 (2001-10-28)
791- changed minor error in documentation (mondo-archive's --help output)
792- improved Mondo's compare phase for tape users
793
794v1.17 (2001-10-20)
795- the deprecated scripts now work with LZO
796- if mondo-restore cannot mount all devices, it will _unmount_ whatever it did mount, before it returns an error
797- works with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
798- cosmetic change to output (no more 'burning first/last CD' msgs)
799- abort if user uses '--use-lzo' but doesn't install LZO(P) first
800- changed --differential's \( and \) to ( and ) <-- thanks, Michael Moellney)
801- 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
802- incorporated Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch
803- at restore-time, set biggiefiles to +x
804- set optimal fileset size to 16MB (was 8MB)
805- don't report non-existent differences/errors between archives and filesystem
806- fixed bug in --differential switch (Michael Moellney)
807- 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
808
809v1.16 (2001-10-10)
810- default scratchdir is `pwd`/mondo.scratch.$$ (was mondo.scratch)
811- 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
812- 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
813- increase afio's block count from 256 to 1024 when restoring from tape
814- plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
815- 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
816- 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
817- tape streamers are now supported; use the '--write-tapes <dev> <sizeMB>' switch, e.g. --write-tapes /dev/st0 4096
818- LVM support is stabilizing
819- when mounting/unmounting partitions to be restored, don't forget to mount/unmount the swap partitions
820- when zeroing a drive, use plain old C fopen/fputc/fclose, not 'dd'
821- 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
822- fixed bugs in selective restoration scripts and executable
823- 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
824- if user tries to make a bootable rescue CD with the '--no-bkpath' switch then politely direct them to Mindi :-)
825
826v1.15 (2001-09-28)
827- serialized the call to mondo-filelistchop.c; helps to improve visual feedback (yeah, sounds weird but it's true)
828- the switches --differential and --exclude-paths should play nicely now
829- improved the logging a bit, esp. when ejecting or unmounting CD's
830- improved the visual feedback (specifically, the bar and percentage figures indicating time spent & remaining)
831- experimental LVM support
832- fixed 'cannot eject CD' bug, which was caused by busybox's sync & umount
833- fixed mount-me to allow for mountlists with >1 spaces between columns
834- fixed documentation; param is --my-kernel <path>, not kernel-path <path>
835- fail if user runs mondo-archive _from CD_; this is for the user's protection
836- fixed silly bug in mount-me (a crucial line was disabled)
837- working on stablilo-me, hack-lilo and hack-fstab to make sure they work with the new, busybox-based Mindi v0.41
838- 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
839
840v1.14 (2001-09-18)
841- if verify is enabled then verify each CD/ISO after writing it
842- 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'
843- Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
844- fixed bug in 'biggify-me' script; now, checksums will be verified
845- fixed bug in checksum comparison code (mondo-restore.c)
846- reimplemented '--verify' switch; now, user can verify ISO's or CD's against the live filesystem, just for 'belt and braces' emotional security
847- improved the error-reporting at restore-time (if tarball cannot be accessed)
848- 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
849- user may now type 'edit-mountlist' after booting, if they want to edit the mountlist without risking accidentally wiping their hard disks
850- fixed a few silly typos in the error messages in mondo-tarme
851- updated the FAQ
852- added code to verify ISO images
853- used 'blank=fast' instead of '-blank fast' for backward-compatibility with older versions of cdrecord
854- 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
855- when debugging, don't pause before running mondo-tarme; just run it
856- automatically exclude any file including '/vmmhiber.w9x' in its pathname
857- added Minix support (although I doubt anyone needs it)
858- 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
859- afio now has a 12MB FIFO buffer (was 16MB)
860- cdrecord now has a 20MB FIFO buffer (was 24MB)
861- wipe [CD]/usr/share/mondo, as well as floppy images, if CD #2 or later
862- up to 19 CD's may be created now
863- fixed the 'stderr.txt not found' loop error in mondo-tarme.c
864- fixed the weird 'segfault on finish() after archiving' bug
865- modularized the install.sh and mondo-1.14-x.i386.rpm compilation sections
866
867v1.13 (2001-09-01)
868- fixed some compiler warnings in mondo-newt.c; rearranged some code
869- mondo-tarme now uses -M 16m -t 4k in its call to afio, to improve performance
870- fixed mondo-restore.c's mkreiserfs call; ditto, prep-me's mkreiserfs call
871- fixed mondo-restore.c's compare_a_biggiefile() subroutine, which would generate erroneous error messages
872- 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
873- fixed 'hack-fstab' to make sure that non-LABELed partitions are correctly moved/changed, etc.
874- fixed the 'space in big filename' bug (I think)
875- make Interactive Mode sort the mountlist (by partition size) before creating the dirs and mounting the partitions to them
876- fixed a slew of bugs related to Red Hat's LABEL= extensions
877- cleaned up mondo-restore.c and mondo-newt.c; replaced lots of arbitrary limits and lengths with a small number of #define's
878- 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
879- changed FIFO size to 20MB
880- only use the VFAT kludge on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1; otherwise, even if the partition type is VFAT, do a regular mkfs.vfat
881- if mkfs.vfat doesn't exist, use mkfs.dos
882- only try to add 'LABEL=' to ext2 and ext3 partitions
883- moved a bunch of scripts from Mindi's rootfs.tgz to our restore-scripts.tgz
884- 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
885- 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
886- better post-run clean-up
887- improved mondo-restore.c's error-reporting a little bit
888- stablilo-me (the script) now supports Red Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to /etc/fstab, via the script, 'label-partitions-as-necessary'
889- added a user-friendly mountlist editor to mondo-restore.c
890- added lots of sanity-checking to mountlist editor
891
892v1.12 (2001-08-18)
893- changed cdrecord's FIFO size to 8MB
894- removed -pad and -sort from the call to mkisofs
895- amended the .spec file to be saner when building RPM's
896- archives are named '.afio.bz2' instead of '.tar.bz2'
897- mondo-archive, mondo-tarme, mondo-restore.c and the DEPRECATED scripts have been amended accordingly
898- should be able to create up to 20 CD-R's per backup set now
899- moved a line within prep-me that was in the wrong place (thanks, Fran Boon!)
900- runs 'df -m' and saves it to a text file 'df.txt' on the CD
901- added 10-second delay before mondo-restore's Nuke Mode, to let the user abort
902- really fixed the '/mnt/RESTORING/tmp' permissions bug (thanks, Ang Tan!)
903- 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
904- abort if isodir or scratchdir is a softlink
905- replaced mondo-askme with a good shell script, to work around flaws in bash and/or kernel (don't know which)
906- 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
907- make+chop filelist _after_ calling Mindi
908- updated the FAQ
909
910v1.10 (2001-08-12)
911- changed cdrecord's FIFO size back to 4MB
912- added -pad -sort to the call to mkisofs
913- stop saying, "N files differ so far" after comparing each tarball
914- 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.
915- erroneous error-reporting by /mondo/biggify-me; fixed (David Granz)
916- don't estimate the time remaining unless >20 sets processed already
917- default set size (uncompressed) is now 8MB (was 12MB); when 8MB, seems to run more smoothly & a little quicker, too, at restore-time
918- chmod 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp after restoring/creating /tmp
919- dropped mondo-askme.c; using regular 'read' instead
920- mondo-restore.c uses newt instead of ncurses; much prettier that way
921- cdrecord now uses a 16MB FIFO buffer (was 8MB)
922- fixed floating point error in mondo-restore (when showing progress)
923- when mondo-restore is called without params (e.g. by Interactive Mode), it lets the user choose between nuke, interactive or compare (or abort)
924- updated the FAQ
925- working on Cuckoo Mode...
926
927v1.09 (2001-08-02)
928- default compression level is now 3 (was 2)
929- retry/fail/abort loop bug fixed
930- calls mindi with "--custom $TMP $scratchdir/images" to force mindi to use my temp dir and to put the images in my 'images' folder
931
932v1.08 (2001-07-28)
933- offer to Retry/Fail/Abort if an error occurs when Mondo tries to burn a CD-R
934- warn if kernel is 2.4.[0-5] (could have buggy loopfs code)
935- tested with RAID-5 --- works fine :-)
936
937v1.07 (2001-07-22)
938- fixed cosmetic mistake in an error msg in mondo-tarme ('continue'-related)
939- hack-fstab now uses "defaults 0 0" instead of "default 1 3" when making a new entry in /etc/fstab
940- /mondo/restore-me always makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp; so does mondo-restore.c
941- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore.c's screen output
942- 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? :-)
943- updated README (esp. FAQ) and TODO
944- tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
945- 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
946- mondo-restore.c is now compiled statically
947
948v1.06 (2001-07-19)
949- now software-RAID compatible
950- install.sh only compiles mondo-restore.c once now
951- if scratchdir or isodir contain more than one path (each), abort
952- 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
953- for each /dev/md* device in the mountlist, run raidstop before mkraid
954
955v1.05 (2001-07-16)
956- patch from DoJ to make install.sh compile with -O2, not -O
957- cosmetic changes to the biggiefile-slicing code
958- fixed install.sh
959
960v1.04 (2001-07-15)
961- make-me-bootable only "boot-makes" each partition ONCE now
962- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore's logfile output
963- mondo-restore.c makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp if necessary
964- should be able to cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" messages in /etc/fstab
965
966v1.03 (2001-07-14)
967- looks for /etc/lilo.conf; aborts if it cannot locate it
968- abort if burning CD's & verify level>=2 (must be 1 or 0 if burning CD's)
969- catch errors in MakeIsoFS, if any
970- added 'mondo-restore.c'
971 - C program, to replace the old restore scripts
972 - 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
973 - calls the script, 'stablilo-me' to run LILO if desired
974- added 'restore-scripts.tgz', which contains the /mondo scripts that used to live in Mindi; now, Mindi grabs them from here if necessary
975- cleared up Mode-related scripts & the executable to replace them
976- if mkisofs fails, ABORT, don't just warn
977- added '--differential' option, to backup the files changed during the last N days (N specified by user)
978
979v1.02 (2001-07-07)
980- retract the CD tray after asking user to enter 'continue' (PauseAndAskForCDR)
981- 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
982- when slicing, indicate progress ("N slices...")
983- 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*)
984- default set size (native) is now 12MB
985- copy /usr/share/mondo to correct directory within CD
986- all calls to gawk have been replaced with calls to awk
987- RPM and SRPM published
988- delete $TMP at end; don't just delete $TMP/*
989- can accept multiple parameters in the '--bkpath' switch
990
991v1.00 (2001-07-04)
992- 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)
993- 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...)
994- modified the --burn-cds switch; now it takes 3rd param, 'cdrw' (optional) to let you wipe and rewrite CDRWs instead of wasting CDRs ;-)
995- removed that PID thing; doesn't work; please don't run Mondo twice at once :)
996- removed that "filenames contain '|'" error & associated problems
997- got rid of 'UNSAFE' warning/shortcut
998- removed --xerox-dev, --include-tarball, --skip-tildes, --ide-opt, --use-bzip2
999- mondo-archive doesn't make/hack/edit mountlist anymore; that's Mindi's job
1000- uses Mindi Linux to make boot disks & data disks based on your distro
1001- boot&data stuff goes in $scratchdir/images now
1002- bzip2 is used by default to compress archives
1003- don't make MD5 checksums if verify_level==0
1004- when archiving, make N.tar.bz2 and cklist.txt (tarball+checksums) in parallel
1005- 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)
1006- 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
1007
1008v0.99 (2001-03-15)
1009- /proc and /tmp removed --- i.e. added to exclude list :)
1010- Mondo now uses 2.4-series kernel and modules (Bruno Cornec)
1011- minor typos fixed (Bruno Cornec)
1012- older, restore-related fixes merged w/Bruce's work (Maciej Kulasa)
1013- better RPM spec file (Bruno Cornec)
1014- incorporated Mondo v0.977's restore scripts' bugfixes (Maciej Kulasa)
1015
1016v0.981 (2001-03-06)
1017- put 'dd' in coolstuff.tgz (Art Wells)
1018
1019v0.98 (2001-02-28)
1020- INSTALL script renamed to install.sh
1021- tarball cleaned up and re-tarred (Art Wells)
1022- trailing CR/LF's cleaned from scripts (Art Wells)
1023- work is underway to make Mondo compatible with the Linux kernel's 2.4 series
1024
1025v0.977 (2001-02-26)
1026- based on v0.976
1027- missing subs and silly typos fixed in restore scripts (Maciej Kulasa)
1028- fstab files containing NFS mounts are handled properly (Petre Scheie)
1029- Mondo is being actively developed again (yippee!)
1030
1031v0.976 (2000-09-01)
1032- 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
1033- 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
1034- 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)
1035
1036v0.975 (2000-07-03)
1037- made mondo-tarme use 'ask-me-a-question' to pause for new, blank CD-Rs
1038- don't deeply search isodir for ISO files to wipe: maxdepth should be 1
1039- 386-compatible kernel and modules (should be, anyway...)
1040- applied Doug Nordwall's calc-disk-size patch to fix SCSI hdd size calc'n bug
1041- applied Michael Ralph Pape's SCSI (2nd floppy) patch
1042- removed devdump from overhead-list
1043- mkisofs no longer called with '-quiet' switch
1044- changed '--burn-cds' format: now it's --burn-cds <speed> (<device>)
1045- added '-L' to LILO's call, so that >8GB hard disks overcome 1024-blk limit
1046- mondo-compare runs check-mountlist-sanity before mounting partitions
1047- ramdisk is now 14MB
1048
1049v0.972 (2000-06-16)
1050- auto-archive, mondo-archive and mondo-tarme updated to make them more friendly towards mult-disk sets
1051- if multiple CDRW drives, user is asked which mondo-archive should use
1052
1053v0.971 (2000-06-14)
1054- auto-archive now passes CD size to mondo-archive
1055- mondo-tarme, in conjunction with auto-archive, now handles CDRW boot/burn sharing much better than before
1056
1057v0.970 (2000-06-10)
1058- kernel now creates 12MB ramdrive (was 16MB)
1059- lots of silly bugs & overhead problems fixed; 2nd floppy closer to working
1060- restore scripts all log to /var/log/mondo-restore.log
1061- 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
1062- selective restore is finally fixed
1063- nicer help screens on boot floppy
1064
1065v0.965 (2000-06-03)
1066- 2MB of space left empty at end of every CD (e.g. 650MB is only 648MB full)
1067- Suzhe & Lonius's SmartBootManager (sbminst) is used instead of Win98's MBR
1068- Mondo may now resize Windows-only backups when restoring
1069- silly bugs in prep-me... fixed
1070
1071v0.964 (2000-06-02)
1072- VFAT partitions >8GB handled OK now
1073- 2nd floppy (optionally) created for SCSI users <--- not working yet
1074- better calc-disk-size algorithm (thanks, Doug Nordwall)
1075- Mondo can now backup and restore Windows-only PCs! :-)
1076- silly prep-me and format-and-kludge-vfat bugs fixed
1077- 'resize hack' retitled as 'vacuum-pack'
1078
1079v0.963 (2000-05-31)
1080- ISO images are no longer padded
1081- all currently-loaded modules are backed up to custom hboot.img & installed at restore-time before CD is accessed
1082- '--burn-cd <speed>' switch added
1083- '--no-opt' switch added; use it in the call to mondo-archive if you don't want IDE optimization when restoring
1084- lots of work done on auto-archive
1085- mondo-extras-1.5 created; excludes mondo-zfile but includes hlib.tar.bz2
1086- boot floppy image now includes kernel w/lots of SCSI stuff
1087- slice* deleted (WipeArchives); was 'slices*' (bug!)
1088- 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
1089- 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
1090- with a little coaxing, Mondo will backup Windows-only PCs (as well as Lin/Win and Linux-only PCs)
1091
1092v0.962 (2000-05-25)
1093- silly bug in mondo-checksum fixed
1094- stale tmp dirs are now definitely deleted (bug fixed)
1095- "Job is %d complete. hh:ss to go." --- much better 'progress' string
1096- 'buffer' is gone again :) thank goodness
1097- only 1st ISO is padded; the rest aren't.
1098- working on implementing an easy 'cdrecord' shortcut-call-thingy
1099- mondo-archive doesn't try to delete loopfs unless it exists
1100- mondo-restore's "hack-softlinks" - silly bug ($1/ missing) fixed
1101- boot floppy image now includes mkdir and rmdir
1102- user may specify temp directory using '--tempdir <path>'
1103- mondo-archive now includes a copy of 'buffer' for future use
1104- Mondo will now archive and restore Linux AND LinWin systems ok. W00H00! :-)
1105
1106v0.961 (2000-05-23)
1107- mondo-checksum ignores files <2k in length
1108- default compression level is 4
1109- default verify level is 2
1110- files <3k in size aren't compressed
1111- filelist no longer includes bashbug, dosfsck or dir
1112- bs-me is disabled in mondo-restore
1113- fixed bug in 'hack-fstab' which stopped processing fstab if blank line found
1114
1115v0.960 (2000-05-22)
1116- mondo-vfat-1.0 package released, to provide kludging for VFAT bootables
1117- logfile now saved at /var/log/mondo-archive.log (not `pwd`/mondo-archive.log)
1118- pid registered/checked _after_ command line processed... so you can do --help without being shouted at ;)
1119- restore-me broken into 2 scripts: untar-me and biggify-me
1120- restore-subroutine-me now renamed untar-subroutine-me
1121- 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
1122- fixed hack-lilo to ignore blank lines
1123- really ugly boot kludge has been implemented, using embleer files to make newly-formatted VFAT partitions bootable
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