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1# $Id: ChangeLog 635 2006-06-07 13:15:22Z bcornec $
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3MONDO CHANGES
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52.0.8-3 (2006-06-07)
6- Fix a bug in -I and -E handling !!
7 (Paolo Bernardoni <bernardoni_at_sysnet.it>/Bruno Cornec)
8- Fix permissions for autorun
9 (Bruno Cornec)
10- Fox delivery problems for tar files with too restrictive umask
11 (Bruno Cornec)
12- Fix parsing of DHCP information in start-nfs script
13 (Andree Leidenfrost)
14
152.0.8-2 (2006-06-02)
16- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment
17 (Bruno Cornec)
18
192.0.8-1 (2006-05-25)
20- new build process (Bruno Cornec)
21- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused)
22 (Bruno Cornec)
23- Support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost)
24- New mr_strtok functionn added and used for dm support (Andree Leidenfrost)
25- Complete doc is now a separate package. mondo still contains the
26 man pages and howto in minimal useful formats
27 (Bruno Cornec)
28- HOWTO now contains a new chapter on unattended support for mondo
29- Increase size (4 times) of include|exclude variables
30- Fix a bug on -I and -E not working with multiple parameters
31- Fix a bug in verify for NFS by swapping nfs_remote_dir and isodir when
32 assembling name for image file to verify
33 (Andree Leidenfrost)
34- Fix mondo when restoring filenames containing blanks
35 (still a problem for filenames with ')
36 (Bruno Cornec)
37- Fix a RPM generation bug for rh7.3 (i386-redhat-linux prefix for binaries)
38 (Bruno Cornec)
39
402.0.7 (2006-03-10)
41- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed
42 (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
43- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
44- Add the actual format to messages after calls to function
45 is_this_a_valid_disk_format() about unsupported formats.
46 (Andree Leidenfrost)
47- Abort|Warn when one of the include|exclude dirs (-I|-E) does not exist
48 (Bruno Cornec/Jeffs)
49- Replaced partimagehack with ntfsclone from ntfsprogs package.
50 (Andree Leidenfrost)
51- use df -P everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
52- Paypal incitations removed (Andree Leidenfrost)
53- mondo now uses /usr/share for the restore-scripts (Bruno Cornec)
54- rpmlint cleanups (Bruno Cornec)
55- no shared librairies and no X11 anymore (were useless) (Bruno Cornec)
56- files > 2GB are now really supported (Andree Leidenfrost)
57- new SGML based Mondo Rescue documentation + new Web site
58 (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
59- mondoarchive aborts when 'mindi --findkernel' gives a fatal error (See also Debian bug #352323.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
60- /tmp not excluded anymore from backup (Bruno Cornec)
61- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
62
63v2.06 (2005-12-23)
64- better error handling of failed commands/mindi (Andree Leidenfrost)
65- fix compiler warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
66- -p improvements for NFS/PXE/ISO modes (Bruno Cornec)
67- support of default route and netmask for PXE/NFS (Bruno Cornec)
68- fix for restoring mondo backups on md-raid systems (Philippe De Muyter)
69- remove excessive 'cat' commands (Philippe De Muyter)
70- fix to force growisofs to use speed=1 for DVD burning (Philippe De Muyter)
71- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
72- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images
73 (Andree Leidenfrost)
74- Add -P option to df calls (Andree Leidenfrost/Chuan-kai Lin)
75- fix usage of joint -B and -m options (Andree Leidenfrost/Efraim Feinstein)
76- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's filebrowser
77 (Andree Leidenfrost)
78- remove the renice of mondoarchive (Hugo Rabson)
79- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance)
80 (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
81- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball)
82 (Bruno Cornec)
83- disable x11 build by default (Bruno Cornec)
84- remove sbminst (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
85- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
86- exports MONDO_LIB (Bruno Cornec)
87- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0,
88 mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
89- interactive mode now asks for image size and prefix in NFS mode
90 (Gallig Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
91- iso-prefix should be read in iso mode even when -H not given (Stan Benoit)
92- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
93- many code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements
94 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
95
96v2.05 (2005-11-19)
97- -p options works better for NFS cases (Bruno Cornec)
98- ia64 is now working for rhel3 (Bruno Cornec)
99- delivery process to BerliOS improved (Bruno Cornec)
100- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
101
102v2.04_berlios
103- Add -p option to generate ISO images file names with prefix. The new default
104 name for ISO images is mondorescue-1.iso, ... For PXE environment, you have
105 to use the prefix option on the command line (read README.pxe)
106 (Bruno Cornec)
107- Mandrake 2005 support (Bruno Cornec)
108- NFS patches (Yann Aubert <technique@alixen.fr>)
109- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H
110 (this is an unattended mode) (Bruno Cornec)
111
112v2.04
113- made mondo more clever about finding its home. Avoids mondo considering
114 directories like '/usr/share/doc/momdo' as its home.
115
116
117v2.03
118- better SLES8 support
119- test user-specified temp dir's sanity
120
121
122v2.02
123- instead of using 'dd' to erase partition table, delete existing
124 partitions w/ the same call to fdisk that is used to create the
125 new partitions; this should avoids locking up the partition table
126- set bootable partition in the above same call to fdisk, for
127 the same reason (avoids locking up the partition table)
128- better software RAID support
129- mount ext3 partitions as ext2 when restoring - better for Debian
130- better star, ACL support
131- added ACL, xattr support for afio users
132
133
134v2.01
135- fixed cvs for SuSE systems
136- fixed NTFS backup/restore bug relating to partimagehack
137 log file overflow and NTFS v non-NTFS differentiation
138- more reliable extraction of config info from CDs, floppies
139- better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
140
141
142v2.00
143- first 2.0 release
144- updated grub-install.patched to support SuSE and Red Hat
145- added kdelibs as xmondo dependency (Joshua Oreman)
146- better find_cdrom_device(), to cope w/ multiple CD writers
147- added xmondo pixmap installation
148- fixed -m and -Vc flags
149- fixed NTFS support!
150- bootable CD uses native, not El Torito, support now
151- added -devel package
152- made xmondo a second package
153- added ability to specify --without xmondo at build time
154- Clean up, added spanish translation
155- Set prefix to be /usr
156- added/fixed Requires
157- remove CVS directories prior to building
158- added 2.6 kernel support
159- if 2.6 kernel, insist that the user specify CD device
160- drop Embleer; insist on ms-sys and parted if Windows partition
161- added support for boot/root multi floppies
162- call 'mt' to set block size to 32K before opening in/out tape
163- updated mondo-prep.c to create each disk's partitions all at once
164 (one call per drive) instead of one call to fdisk per partition
165- when extracting cfg file and mountlist from all.tar.gz (tape copy),
166 use block size of INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE, not TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE
167- added star and rudimentary SELinux support
168- fixed lots of bugs
169- all logging now goes to /var/log/mondo-archive.log, with symlink to
170 /tmp/mondo-restore.log for restore-time log-tracking
171- added grub-install.patched
172- removed embleer & other binaries
173- added '-b' to specify block size
174- added '-R' for star support
175
176
177v1.75
178- fixed chmod/chown bug (Jens Richter)
179- ask user to confirm NFS mountpoint in Interactive Mode
180- rewritten format_everything() to make sure LVMs, RAIDs and
181 regular partitions are prepped in the correct order
182- better magicdev support
183- rewritten external binary caller subroutine
184- DVD support added
185- better backup-time control gui; offer to exclude nfs if appl.
186- fixed multi-tape support
187- re-implemented -D and -J
188- fixed bug in extract_config_file_from_ramdisk() which
189 affected tape+floppy users
190- updated is_incoming_block_valid() to make it
191 return end-of-tape if >300 flotsam blocks
192- unmount CD-ROM before burning (necessary for RH8/9)
193- fixed some stray assert()'s
194- fixed bug in grub-MR (Christian)
195- make user remove floppy/CD before restoring interactively from tape
196- fixed bug in am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
197- added code to nuke_mode() to make sure NFS
198 (backup) share is mounted in Nuke Mode
199- improved tape device detection code
200- better GRUB support
201- better logging of changed bigfiles at compare-time
202- better NTFS support, thanks to partimagehack-static
203- better logging
204- rewrote tape-handling code, breaking compatibility w/ previous versions
205- fixed ISO/CD biggiefile verification bug in mondoarchive
206- fixed bug which stopped boot/compare-time changelist from popping up
207- replaced mondo-makefilelist with C code - faster, cleaner
208- tweaked GUI - better feedback
209
210
2111.74
212- fixed biggiefile atime/ctime restoration bug 73
213- fixed 'default boot loader' detection bug (Joshua Oreman)
214- use single-threaded make_afioballs_and_images() if FreeBSD
215- fixed mondoarchive -Vi multi-CD verify bug (Tom Mortell)
216- superior get_phys_size_of_drive() (Joshua Oreman)
217- fixed RAID-related bug in where_is_root_mounted()
218- ISO tweaks
219- fixed silly bug in load_filelist() which stopped
220 funny German filenames from being handled properly
221- misc fixes (Michael Hanscho's friend)
222- added rudimentary support for SME
223- added better label support
224- fixed various calls to popup_and_get_string()
225- fixed spec file
226- reject -E /
227- added partimagehack to the mix
228
229
2301.73
231- mark relevant partitions as bootable _after_ unmounting them
232- resolve boot device (-f) if softlink
233- post_param_configuration() --- store iso-dev and isodir
234- added post-nuke-sample.tgz to package
235- Nuke Mode now checks mountlist against hardware; offer user
236 opportunity to edit mountlist if insane; if user declines, abort
237- added lots of assert()'s and other checks
238- ran code thru Valgrind to catch & fix some memory leaks
239- made mondo-restore.c smaller by moving some subroutines to
240 common/libmondo-raid.c and mondorestore/mondo-rstr-compare.c
241- added '-Q' flag, to let user test mondoarchive's ability
242 to find their boot loader and type
243- improved which_boot_loader()
244- when burning or comparing to a CD, defeat autorun if it is
245 running, to avoid confusing mondoarchive and the user
246- if original backup media no longer available at boot-time
247 then offer user chance to choose another media source
248- when booting, type 'nuke noresize' to nuke w/o resizing
249 mountlist to fill your drives
250- add 'textonly' when booting, to avoid using Newt gui
251- run nice(20) to prioritize mondoarchive at start
252- don't pause and wait for next blank CD at backup-time
253 unless necessary (e.g. previous CD has not been removed)
254- get_phys_size_of_drive() --- better support of older drives
255- don't eject if "donteject" is in kernel's command line
256- cleaned up segfault-handling
257- added Conor's strip_path() to improve file list display
258- added Herman Kuster's multi-level bkp patch
259- added Joshua Oreman's FreeBSD patches x3
260- fixed interactive/textonly support
261- fixed support for subdir-within-NFS-mount
262- fixed "Can't backup if ramdisk not mounted" bug
263- try to work around eccentricities of multi-CD drive PCs
264- misc clean-ups (Steve Hindle)
265
266
267v1.72
268- LVM/RAID bugs fixed (Brian Borgeson)
269- major clean-up of code (Stan Benoit)
270- make-me-bootable fix (Juraj Ziegler)
271- fixed problem w/ multi-ISO verify cycle (Tom Mortell)
272- removed duplicate entry from makefile
273- if root is /dev/root then assume not a ramdisk
274- fixed potentially infinite loop in log_to_screen (Tom Mortell)
275- reject relative paths if -d flag (Alessandro Polverini)
276- add '/' to custom filelist as workaround for obscure bug
277- ask user speed of CDRW if writing to CD
278- find_cdrom_device() --- if nonexistent/not found then
279 make sure to return '' as dev str and 1 as res
280- tweaked restore scripts tgz
281- cleaned up find_cdrom_device()
282- if user creates /usr/share/mondo/payload.tgz then untar
283 payload to CD at backup-time
284- fixed insist_on_this_cd_number()
285- fixed am_i_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
286- misc clean-up (Tom Mortell)
287- made code more legible
288- fixed post-nuke support
289- fixed nfs support
290- fixed iso support
291- at restore-time, only sort mountlist internally,
292 in mount_all_devices() and unmount_all_devices()
293- fixed cosmetic bug in label-partitions-as-necessary
294- updated documentation
295- fixed fstab-hacking scripts
296
297
298v1.71
299- log newt, slang, ncurses info
300- updated man page
301- handle %% chars in issue.net properly (Heiko Schlittermann)
302- fixed serious NFS restore bug
303- changed various strcpy() calls to strncpy() calls
304- added mondo-makefilelist to makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
305- mount_cdrom() better at handling multiple CD drives
306- exclude /media/cdrom,cdrecorder,floppy
307- sensibly_set_tmpdir_and_scratchdir() --- exclude smb and smbfs
308- better logging by eval_call_to_make_ISO()
309- accept -J <fname> to let user provide their own fs catalog
310 instead of -I <paths> to backup
311- if dir excluded with -E or included with -I and dir is actually
312 a softlink then exclude/include the dir pointed to, as well
313- better location for manpage
314- adjusted block size of tarball at start of tape, to help
315 users w/ broken tape driver firmware
316- sort -u fstab after modifying it
317- if backup type is nfs then don't estimate noof media
318- fixed Makefile (Mikael Hultgren)
319- updated manpage
320- added -e support
321
322v1.70
323- new devel branch opened
324
325
326v1.52
327- fixed bug in multithreading
328- use new grub-MR instead of grub-install
329- wipe only the partition table (not MBR) when repartitioning drives
330- ignore lilo.conf.anaconda when looking for lilo.conf file
331- accepts '-l RAW' to backup/restore original boot sector instead
332 of running grub or lilo to init it after restoring
333- fixed&updated stabgrub-me script; software RAID + GRUB work now
334- mount/unmount /boot partition for Gentoo 1.2 users
335- re-enabled extra tape checksums
336- disabled spurious warnings
337- unmount/remount supermounts at start/end of live restore, if nec.
338- cleaned up mondo's tape block handling (now, TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE=128K
339 and I've added INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE=32K variable for buffering)
340- added Makefile
341- added -l RAW option, to backup and restore original MBR
342- cleaned up iso_mode() and nfs restoring
343- create /mnt/RESTORING/mnt/.boot.d for Gentoo users
344- made mondorestore CD bootable for ArkLinux users
345- if user runs as 'su' not 'su -' then work around
346
347
348v1.51
349- pop-up list of changed files, at end of verification phase
350- better handling of changed.files list at restore-time
351- lots of CD-related fixes
352- added '-N' flag --- to let user exclude all NFS-related mounts&devices
353- better handling of 'kill'
354- restructuring of code to ease integration of mondo w/XMondo
355- fixed obscure bug in find_and_mount_actual_cd()
356- fixed install.sh
357- updated documentation
358- fixed .spec file
359- if / or /root has <50MB free then abort & complain
360- commented code
361- updated man page
362- added -v / --version flag
363- replaced convoluted grep with wc (KP)
364- fixed bug affecting restoration of bigfiles from CD's created w/0 compression
365- fixed BurnProof-related bug
366- better at figuring out which is the best partition to use for temp/scratchdir
367- added do-not-compress-these (text file) to RPM
368- do not compress files of types listed in do-not-compress-these
369- dropped -U from call to afio - saves 20-30% runtime (Cosgrove)
370- added Cosgrove's do-not-compress-these list
371- included various patches from KP
372- chmod tmpdir, scratchdir to 700 before using
373- restore from specified backup device, even if its own cfg file disagrees
374- fixed multi-tape bug
375- fixed "Can't find first ISO when verifying nonbootable ISO" bug
376- multithreaded make_afioballs_and_images()
377- tmpdir and scratchdir set sensibly whether mondoarchive is called with
378 command-line parameters or not
379- fixed bug in strip_spaces() which stopped it from handling
380 small strings correctly - affected mountlist editor
381- create a repaired copy of grub-install which is RAID-friendly;
382 use it when initializing boot sector with run_grub()
383- fixed bug in mondo-makefilelist
384
385
38609/08/2002
387""""""""""
388v1.50
389- if restoring, don't try to find SCSI node of CD-ROM drive; find /dev entry
390- during selective restore, skip filesets which don't contain relevant archives
391- set /dev/null's perms to 777, just in case devfs-enabled kernel mangles it
392- remove /var/run/*.pid after restoring
393- move spurious lockfiles from /home/* to /home/*/.disabled
394- ask user to confirm the tape/CD device name
395- lots of multitape-related fixes
396- added code to autodetect the hardware of the user, when possible
397- if isodir does not exist then abort
398- doubled 'biggiefile' threshold... to 32MB
399- exclude /root/images/mindi
400- fixed multi-imagedev bug (Emmanuel Druon)
401- unmount/remount /mnt/floppy before/after backing up, if Mandrake
402- restructured the source files
403- fixed serious bug in line 1546 - should have been !=, not ==; stopped
404 mondorestore from correctly restoring big files
405- added '#include <signal.h>' to my-stuff.h
406- exclude "incheckentry xwait()" from changed.files
407- fixed minor bug in find_cdrom_device()
408- fixed bug in friendly_sizestring...
409- insist on tape #1 when start verifying
410- added internal buffering, replacing the external 'buffer' exe
411- if differential backup then don't permit formatting or fdisking,
412 whether Interactive or Nuke mode
413- if mondorestore is run on live filesystem (or from ramdisk) without
414 parameters then mondorestore will ask which backup media (tape, CD, etc.)
415 was used; it will read the config file from the media and proceed from there
416- if tape streamer is softlink then resolve it first
417- incorporate post-nuke tarball
418- if user doesn't specify tape size, proceed anyway; behave intelligently
419 in the event of end-of-tape
420- prefix bkpinfo->restore_path to biggiefile fname before generating
421 checksum & comparing to archived biggiefile
422- if /etc/lilo.conf not found not /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda found
423 then create a softlink from the former to the latter, to work
424 around RH7.3's b0rken LILO support
425- LFS support (mharris, michele, hugo)
426- fixed verify bug --- CD#1 was being verified again & again & ...
427- differential mode fixed; supported again
428- ask user for boot loader + device if not detectible
429- list up to 512 files in file selection window at once (was 128)
430- better handling of bigfiles' checksums, perms and owns
431- delete final filelist if <=2 bytes long
432- if kernel not found and mondo in graphics mode then popup and ask
433 for kernel path+filename
434- misc clean-ups (Troff)
435- noninteractivity-related & misc clean-ups (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
436- RAID, feedback enhancements (Philippe de Muyter)
437- exclude /dev/* from changed.files
438- replaced large declarations with malloc()'s and free()'s
439- added lockfile
440- fixed bugs affecting tape users who backup+verify at same time
441- fixed bugs re: tape block size >32K (Troff)
442- added signal-trapping to mondoarchive and mondorestore
443- fixed bug in new '-s' code
444- added --isonuke and --mbr switches
445- cleaned up live filesystem restoration
446- permit '-0' (no compression) flag
447- if user restores selectively (picks some files to be restored) then
448 large files archived during '-L' (LZO) backup will now be restored properly
449- fixed bug in make-me-bootable
450- don't change /tmp's permissions unless it doesn't exist & has to be created
451- changed $i to $j in mondo-makefilelist (Karsten)
452- fixed 'I refuse to write floppy images to /dev/fd0 because its size is
453 not apparent from its filename' bug
454- disabled 'nr-failed-disks' entry in raidtab generator
455- added '-o' flag to let user choose LILO as CD/floppy's boot loader
456- fixed bug in --mbr
457
458
45906-04-2002
460""""""""""
461v1.43-7 (STABLE)
462- afio uses 16MB buffer when restoring, instead of 8MB buffer
463- mondorestore makes /var/run/console in case user excluded it
464- the -s switch now accepts multiple sizes, one per tape/CD
465- added -u switch for streaming to device; like -t (tape) but without
466 various error checks; use with caution
467- bugfixes; cleaned up code (Troff)
468- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
469- use dvdrecord instead of cdrecord, if available
470- don't alter /mnt/RESTORING/tmp's permissions if comparing
471- added -follow to search for home (Bruno Vidal)
472- unmount/remount CD-ROM at start/end if supermounted
473- delete old /tmp/filelist.full,biggielist.txt if restoring to
474 live filesystem
475- if Mindi aborted then show last 6 lines of its log before mondoarchive aborts
476- reformatted, redistributed source code (Stan Benoit)
477- replaced isolinux dependency with syslinux dependency
478- now shows the CDR(W)'s progress properly - 20%, 30%, etc.
479- changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
480
481
48204-12-2002
483""""""""""
484v1.42-3 (STABLE)
485- minor cosmetic enhancements
486- improved homedir-locating code
487
488
48904-07-2002
490""""""""""
491v1.42-1 (STABLE)
492- mondorestore may now be run on live filesystem, i.e. user does not
493 have to reboot in order to restore data; works for CD's and tapes;
494 NFS and ISO restores will be supported at a later date
495- fixed restore-time RAID-handling bugs
496- added -E patch to exclude files and/or dirs properly (Andy Glass)
497- cat /proc/cpuinfo and run uname -r; save output to logfile at backup-time
498- fixed minor bug in stablilo-me
499- if /tmp/fstab.new exists then use _it_ instead of /tmp/fstab to label
500 ext2 or ext3 partitions
501- bootable CD's now use SYSLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
502- don't pclose() tape after calling closein_tape(): the latter does it already
503- tarball installs to /usr/share/mondo by default; was /usr/local/share/mondo
504- numerous cosmetic enhancements
505- added '-m' (manual CD tray) flag
506
507
50803-21-2002
509""""""""""
510v1.41-1 (STABLE)
511- record hostname (Krzysztof Dubowik)
512
513
51403-10-2002
515""""""""""
516v1.40-7 (STABLE)
517- if '-L' then test for lzop; abort if not present
518- if Mondo cannot figure out which boot loader the user is using,
519 tell the user to read the manual and mention -l, -f switches
520- abort if ramdisk not available
521- updated man page (Mikael Hultgren)
522- support multiple -I params (Mikael Hultgren+Randy Delfs)
523- mkreiserfs -ff instead of -q (Andy Glass)
524
525
52603-03-2002
527""""""""""
528v1.40-6 (STABLE)
529- incorporated new config.guess, config.sub (H�tor Garc� �varez)
530- updated manual to explain tmpfs needs to be in kernel (Mikael Hultgren)
531- don't let non-root users run mondoarchive
532- allow up to 50 chars in popup_and_get_string()'s input field
533- tell user to use 'su -' instead of 'su' if they use 'su' by mistake
534- make mondo-makefilelist more SUN-friendly, re: fstab (Andy Glass)
535- modified 'Sliced bigfile #n' log entry to say '..#(n+1)'
536
537
53802-24-2002
539""""""""""
540v1.40-5 (STABLE)
541- improved the way Mondo installs itself (Mikael Hultgren)
542- updated manpage
543- touch /mnt/RESTORING/var/log/pacct after restoring
544- added updated docs (Cafeole, Randy Delfs, Stan Benoit et al)
545- added pico to restore-scripts.tgz; deprecated some scripts
546- if restoring to /dev/ida/* or /dev/cciss/* then drop the 'p'
547 before trying to discover the size of the partition itself
548- support pathnames containing spaces (KirkJT)
549- added -C switch, to treat CD burner almost as a tape streamer
550- run post-nuke script if it exists
551- put (char*)(&buf) instead of &buf when reading/writing biggiefiles' info
552
553
55402-17-2002
555""""""""""
556v1.40-3 (STABLE)
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
566
56702-11-2002
568""""""""""
569v1.40-2 (STABLE)
570- fixed typo in manpage (Mikael Hultgren)
571- exclude "#"*"#" and *~ from tarball and source RPM
572- updated manual (Randy Delfs)
573- put the correct version# in mondo/my-stuff.h
574- in Nuke Mode, expand/contract mountlist proportionately to fill hard disks
575- fix serious restore-time bug in tape/afio-handling code
576- cdrecord is only required if burning CD's
577
578
57902-10-2002
580""""""""""
581v1.40-1 (STABLE)
582- set partition(s) bootable w/fdisk if appropriate
583- cosmetic bugfixes
584- changed get_phys_size_of_drive() to read value from fdisk, not dmesg
585- if hard disk does not exist then warn user when editing mountlist
586- if boot+floppy disk images were not created then don't offer to write them
587 to disks; instead, mention the mindi.iso bootable CD images
588- exclude each partition's .autofsck from backup
589- fixed bug in CD restoration progress form
590- changed many tempfilenames from mojo-jojo* to sensible, random names
591- exclude win386.swp from backup (Cafeole)
592
593
59402-07-2002
595""""""""""
596v1.38-2 (DEVELOPMENT)
597- minor improvements to the NFS-handling code
598- mondo-restore now records Mondo's version# in log
599- fixed silly bug that makes 'current filelist #' progress form inaccurate
600- fix typo in '10 seconds to abort' line; also, made 20 seconds
601
602
60302-06-2002
604""""""""""
605v1.38-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
606- source code has been beautified (Stan Benoit)
607- makefile, Config implemented (Stan Benoit)
608- use /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg instead of all kinds of silly /tmp files
609 at boot-time; slowly migrating to a proper /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg file
610- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
611- patch to make it easier to install Mondo almost anywhere (Ian Mortimer)
612- proper, one-char switches replace the long-winded multi-char switches
613 of 1.36 and earlier
614- migrating from lots of /tmp files in ramdisk to a single configuration
615 file on ramdisk, at /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg
616- estimates the number of media required by this backup session
617- changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
618- records+restores biggiefiles' permissions+ownership properly
619
620
62101-25-2002
622""""""""""
623v1.37-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
624- proper 'selective restore' interface implemented
625- if the user specifies boot loader or device, record those settings
626- fixed cdrecord-related bug in .spec file
627- if backing up specific paths - e.g. /usr/local/bin - then include
628 /usr and /usr/local/ in filelist; don't backup /usr/* but do recreate
629 /usr and /usr/local/; this is to help the selective restore subroutine
630- user's BIOS is assumed not to be able to handle LILO's sector-seek merging
631- switches --broken-bios, --debug and --chunk-size have been removed
632- if user calls with --burn-cds 2 (nothing else) then find CDRW and continue
633- if CD writer's speed is not specified then assume 2x
634- better autodetection of CD writer
635- set size is 5MB for tape users and CD users alike
636- exclude /root/images/mondo from backup
637- added --skip-floppies switch
638- abort if PC has <32MB of RAM at backup-time; warn if <64MB
639
640
64101-20-2002
642""""""""""
643v1.36-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
644- fixed v.minor bug in MakeFilelist()
645- in mondo-archive, replaced calls to Die() with calls to FatalError()
646- include .spec file in tarball
647- if cdrecord v1.8 or older then abort: inadequate for Mondo's needs
648- moved misc functions from mondo-archive to mondo-tarme.c
649- prettier interface when preparing and formatting boot+data disks
650- when editing mountlist, warn if formats !supported by kernel (B. Hartin)
651- don't try to run e2label on filesystems which aren't ext2 or ext3
652- don't write to tape if already burning to CD (Kosaku Nagasaka)
653- re-enabled and tested some CD-verifying code
654- added buffer to RPM/tarball requirements
655- set size is 4MB for tape users; 16MB for CD users
656- files <16MB aren't chopped
657- uses tmpfs for temp storage if backing up to tape
658- (rudimentary) selective formatting
659- log versions of afio, bzip2, etc.
660
661
66201-10-2002
663""""""""""
664v1.35-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
665- NFS backup+restore support
666- exclude Win2K hiberation file (Paul Rensing)
667- fixed filelist.full/filelist.blah typo (Paul Rensing)
668- unset TAPE at start of mondo-archive (Norm Crowfoot)
669- if bzip is <v0.99 then abort
670- if hard disk fills to capacity then abort
671- --post-nuke <tarball> will incorporate a tarball of tools and data files
672 of the user's choosing in the boot CD/floppies; the tarball must contain
673 an executable, 'post-nuke', which will be called at the end of Nuke Mode
674- --text-mode forces Mondo Archive to use text only (no newt or ncurses)
675- the deprecated scripts have now been disabled
676- boot floppy will use 'safe' LILO calls; boot CD will use 'fast' LILO calls
677 unless --broken-bios is supplied in call to Mondo
678- cdrecord's buffer is now 4 MB (was 16 MB)
679- tape support has been rewritten from ground up
680- set size is now 16MB for CD users and 48MB for tape users
681- don't let user change mountlist entry from regular mountpt to 'image'
682- mount -t (space was missing in mount_isodir())
683- all calls to afio now use blocks of TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE KB and RAM buf of 8 MB
684- added Peter Seidler <p.seidler@mail1.stofanet.dk>'s "Petris" game
685- --exclude-paths now drops the trailing '/' from param(s) if present
686- tab-align /etc/fstab after hacking it
687
688
68912-25-2001
690""""""""""
691v1.34-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
692- if /sbin or /usr/sbin are not in PATH then add them temporarily
693- if --broken-bios then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
694- tape users can boot from a single floppy now
695- when archiving/restoring/verifying tape, skip the first 32MB
696- fixed bugs in actually_verify_the_tapes()
697- fixed some popen/pclose mismatches
698- no longer run compare_a_biggiefile() right after restore_a_biggiefile(),
699 as it can upset the restoration of biggiefiles which are spread across CD's
700
701
70212-19-2001
703""""""""""
704v1.33-8 (DEVELOPMENT)
705- implemented --image-devs <dev> (<...>) switch
706- improved --verify switch's code
707- exclude Windows' win386.swp file, if found
708- fixed bug in unmount_all_devices()
709- include version of Mondo/Mindi in error log
710- updated the FAQ
711- when making differential backup, make sure to exclude nonexistent files
712- --use-lzo now applies lzo to big files as well as afio archives
713- changed all 'long long's to 'off_t's
714- no longer aborts if /etc/lilo.conf does not exist
715- moved FAQ's to FAQ file
716- archive bigfiles one slice at a time; much less wasteful of space
717- abort if user tries to backup a mounted partition as an _image_
718
719
72012-15-2001
721""""""""""
722v1.33-6 (DEVELOPMENT)
723- misc bugfixes
724
725
72612-14-2001
727""""""""""
728v1.33-5 (DEVELOPMENT)
729- improved error-reporting in the event of boot loader detection failure
730- improved tape verification code
731- experimental support for backing up and restoring devices as images
732
733
73412-13-2001
735""""""""""
736v1.33-4 (DEVELOPMENT)
737- updated FAQ
738- experimental GRUB support
739- when calculating checksums, tell user %done and time remaining
740- checksum catalog entry = filesize+mtime+ctime; don't call md5sum or cksum
741- compile mondo-filelistchop and mondo-checksum with -O2 optimization
742- when writing floppies, ask specifically for floppy #x (Randy Delfs)
743
744
74512-12-2001
746""""""""""
747v1.33-3 (DEVELOPMENT)
748- supports --boot-loader and --boot-device to let user specify them
749- fixed CDRW node autodetection bug
750- MONDO_PATH was misconfigured; is now "/usr/share/mondo"
751
75212-12-2001
753""""""""""
754v1.33-1 (DEVELOPMENT)
755- if user changes a partition's device, change it in raidtab too
756- don't extrapolate from /etc/raidtab to /tmp/mountlist; editor does it already
757- don't backup /tmp (somewhere in the v1.3x series, I stopped excluding /tmp)
758- cosmetic fixes to mondo-prep.c and mondo-newt.c
759- put quotes around chmod's parameter
760- subtract 5% from reported maximum storage capacity of drives, when checking
761 that the parttions will fit; some drives lie about their max cap
762- stablilo-me no longer tries to mark partitions as bootable
763- better exclusion of /var/log/pacct
764- tape users can now use --verify to verify archives w/o rebooting
765- checksum calculated for every file backed up - for future expansion
766- implemented a _real_ --differential switch, to backup all files changed
767 or added since the last complete backup
768
769
77012-09-2001
771""""""""""
772v1.32-2 (DEVELOPMENT)
773- if no RAID devices after editing mountlist then delete raidtab
774- don't try to mount RAID partitions (components of RAID dev)
775- don't add partitions to mountlist when extrapolating from mountlist
776 unless the partitions are not already present in mountlist
777- don't format partitions if partitioning failed
778- when user selects RAID level, establish whether said level is available
779
780
78112-09-2001
782""""""""""
783v1.32 (DEVELOPMENT)
784- if user creates ISO images, the default dest dir is /root/images/mondo now
785- log_it() makes sure it only writes one \n on the end of each logged line
786- detects if user is using GRUB/LILO/other; abort if neither LILO nor GRUB
787- passes the boot loader's name and device to Mindi, to be available at
788 boot-time
789- if user successfully restores using Nuke or Interactive w/o error then Mondo
790 generates a random message, basically saying, "Cool."
791- enlarged afio's "-M" parameter from 12M to 16M
792- if stablilo-me fails then restore the original lilo.conf and fstab before
793 offering user the opportunity to edit them (Dean Carpenter)
794- added ISO Mode, to let user restore from ISO images in directory
795- cosmetic fix to compare/restore phase windows
796- if backing up to ISO images then offer to write boot floppies too
797- changed some references to /tmp/raidtab, to /etc/raidtab
798- cleaned up compare + restore logging
799- scratchdir is now [path]/mondo.scratch.$$; was just [path]/mondo.scratch
800
801
80212-04-2001
803""""""""""
804v1.31 (DEVELOPMENT)
805- turned on '-Wall' to find cruft; found lots of it; cleaned it up
806- exclude each device's lost+found directory
807- mountlist editor now permits advanced editing of RAID devices
808- fixed a silly bug that was causing freeze-up on <1% of systems; if biggielist
809 was empty then sometimes mondo-archive would freeze when backing up big files
810 (cos there weren't any *g*)
811- partition and set type in 2-stage process (was 1-stage)
812- cleaned up Compare Mode's logging a bit, to make it more legible
813- don't report changed archives as 'errors' but as 'differences'
814- exclude ext3's .journal files from backup (yes, this time I really do)
815- '--my-kernel SUCKS' has been replaced with '--my-kernel FAILSAFE'
816- softlink mondo-restore to /usr/bin/ before calling Mindi, so that Mindi can
817 pick up mondo-restore and its depdendencies easily
818- copy mondo-restore to Mondo's temp dir before calling Mindi
819- don't try to compress MP3's, MPG's, WMV's or RA's
820- cleaned up mondo-newt.c; alphabetized the subroutines; moved some tools from
821 there to mondo-tools.c
822- mondo-tarme and mondo-restore are now compiled as dynamic executables; I
823 have amended install.sh and mondo-1.31.spec accordingly
824- now make boot/data floppies at end of backup, not beginning
825- backup in alphabetical order now, not reverse-alpha
826- if Compare Mode reports changed files /var/* and /etc/mtab only then tell
827 the user their archives are good despite the differneces
828- cut back on excessively verbose logging at backup-time
829- when vacuum-packing a partition, describe it as "(max size)", not "(0 MB)"
830- if swap is already mounted, don't abort: just say, 'swap already mounted'
831- when unmounting all devices, don't try to unmount something if it's not even
832 mounted; if it's not mounted, say so but don't try to unmount it: you'll
833 just end up looking very silly :)
834
835
83611-28-2001
837""""""""""
838v1.30 (DEVELOPMENT)
839- I have reorganized the C code, sorted the subroutines alphabetically, and
840 re-jigged Mondo's installation routines (inc. the RPM spec file) to reflect
841 the changes
842- check for mondo-restore's presence; if absent then abort & ask user to check
843 to see if Mondo was installed properly
844- always exclude /var/log/pacct from backup
845- optimal set size is now 24MB
846- install.sh will abort w/error if compilation of mondo-* fails
847- after creating the mountlist, put a copy in Mondo's tmp directory
848- each ext3 filesystem has a .journal file in its base directory; Mondo will
849 now exclude each of these journal files automatically
850- use the archived copy of LILO, not the copy from the restore-time ramdisk,
851 to configure the MBR
852- size_of_file() now returns long long, not long
853- find mondo-archive and set MONDO_PATH accordingly
854- scratchdir is /home/mondo.scratch by default
855- at backup-time, run mondo-restore in test mode to make sure that the
856 executable is sane & will run OK at restore-time
857
858
85911-14-2001
860""""""""""
861v1.19
862- tested on Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2; backup,wipe,restore went OK
863- fixed a bug in is_this_device_mounted()
864- at restore-time, always check for presence of decompressor; abort if notfound
865- run 'chmod -r 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp' after restoring
866- fixed bugs in Compare Mode:-
867 - missing else{}
868 - erroneous 'cannot add archive' error; res+=retval should have read
869 retval+=res (Tony Kim)
870- use 'umount /mnt/cdrom' instead of 'umount /dev/cdrom', to make it compatible
871 with busybox's umount command
872- fixed bug in mondo-archive which stopped Mondo from pausing to retry if the
873 CD/ISO fails the verification phase
874- modified compare_all_tarballs() in mondo-restore.c
875- if running interactively then offer to modify fstab and lilo.conf if user
876 says s/he has modified the mountlist
877- if mondo-tarme segfaults (as it does, on a _very_ few systems) then Mondo
878 picks up on the fact & reports it
879- when restoring, create /mnt/RESTORING/tmp before _and_ after restoring data,
880 just in case it is necessary; also set permissions okay
881- C code is now compiled 'O0' (without optimizations)
882- each CD's slices were being listed to screen; now, piped to /dev/null
883
884
88510-28-2001
886""""""""""
887v1.18
888- changed minor error in documentation (mondo-archive's --help output)
889- improved Mondo's compare phase for tape users
890
891
89210-20-2001
893""""""""""
894v1.17
895- the deprecated scripts now work with LZO
896- if mondo-restore cannot mount all devices, it will _unmount_ whatever it did
897 mount, before it returns an error
898- works with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
899- cosmetic change to output (no more 'burning first/last CD' msgs)
900- abort if user uses '--use-lzo' but doesn't install LZO(P) first
901- changed --differential's \( and \) to ( and ) <-- thanks, Michael Moellney)
902- added Marcus Oberhumer's LZO to Mindi and Mondo; use '--use-lzo' switch
903 to activate this groovy new compression algorithm; it is not as efficient
904 as bzip2 but it is can take up to 50% less time than bzip2 to compress data
905- incorporated Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch
906- at restore-time, set biggiefiles to +x
907- set optimal fileset size to 16MB (was 8MB)
908- don't report non-existent differences/errors between archives and filesystem
909- fixed bug in --differential switch (Michael Moellney)
910- scripts will no longer function unless gawk and printf are included in
911 Mindi's deplist.txt; add them if you want to use the scripts
912
913
91410-10-2001
915""""""""""
916v1.16
917- default scratchdir is `pwd`/mondo.scratch.$$ (was mondo.scratch)
918- when asking user to send me a log file, warn them that the log file may
919 contain information which they do not want me to see but point out that I
920 cannot help much unless I have a copy of their log file
921- when comparing to or restoring from tape, only update the progree form
922 if/when I've just restored files; otherwise, I would screw up the time est.s
923- increase afio's block count from 256 to 1024 when restoring from tape
924- plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
925- when restoring or comparing, track progress by the archive# (N out of M),
926 not by the file#; the former is more reliable and useful than the latter
927- has been tested successfully with the following distros
928 - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel --- tape / CDR
929 - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel --- tape / CDR
930- tape streamers are now supported; use the '--write-tapes <dev> <sizeMB>'
931 switch, e.g. --write-tapes /dev/st0 4096
932- LVM support is stabilizing
933- when mounting/unmounting partitions to be restored, don't forget to
934 mount/unmount the swap partitions
935- when zeroing a drive, use plain old C fopen/fputc/fclose, not 'dd'
936- after restoring data and running LILO, unmount (as usual) and then run
937 label-partitions-as-necessary, to set the ext2fs LABELs if it is appropriate
938- fixed bugs in selective restoration scripts and executable
939- fixed silly bug in hack-lilo; bug was triggered when I moved to Mandrake 8.1;
940 bug caused '/dev/fd0' entry in lilo.conf to become corrupted
941- if user tries to make a bootable rescue CD with the '--no-bkpath' switch then
942 politely direct them to Mindi :-)
943
944
94509-28-2001
946""""""""""
947v1.15
948- serialized the call to mondo-filelistchop.c; helps to improve visual feedback
949 (yeah, sounds weird but it's true)
950- the switches --differential and --exclude-paths should play nicely now
951- improved the logging a bit, esp. when ejecting or unmounting CD's
952- improved the visual feedback (specifically, the bar and percentage figures
953 indicating time spent & remaining)
954- experimental LVM support
955- fixed 'cannot eject CD' bug, which was caused by busybox's sync & umount
956- fixed mount-me to allow for mountlists with >1 spaces between columns
957- fixed documentation; param is --my-kernel <path>, not kernel-path <path>
958- fail if user runs mondo-archive _from CD_; this is for the user's protection
959- fixed silly bug in mount-me (a crucial line was disabled)
960- working on stablilo-me, hack-lilo and hack-fstab to make sure they work
961 with the new, busybox-based Mindi v0.41
962- Mindi v0.41 is very different from v0.40, internally anyway; so, I had to do
963 a lot of testing to make sure Mondo would play nicely with the new Mindi
964
965
96609-18-2001
967""""""""""
968v1.14
969- if verify is enabled then verify each CD/ISO after writing it
970- fixed a quasi-bug in mondo/mount-me; this script used 'sort +1' which is
971 not supported by busybox; I've changed it to just plain old 'sort'
972- Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
973- fixed bug in 'biggify-me' script; now, checksums will be verified
974- fixed bug in checksum comparison code (mondo-restore.c)
975- reimplemented '--verify' switch; now, user can verify ISO's or CD's against
976 the live filesystem, just for 'belt and braces' emotional security
977- improved the error-reporting at restore-time (if tarball cannot be accessed)
978- if user does not specify CD-R(W) drive's speed or device then Mondo will
979 try to locate the drive and will assume 4x speed
980- user may now type 'edit-mountlist' after booting, if they want to edit the
981 mountlist without risking accidentally wiping their hard disks
982- fixed a few silly typos in the error messages in mondo-tarme
983- updated the FAQ
984- added code to verify ISO images
985- used 'blank=fast' instead of '-blank fast' for backward-compatibility with
986 older versions of cdrecord
987- if nonzero value returned by Mondo, then Mondo creates a mondo.err.$$.tgz
988 tarball containing log files & stuff, which it tells the user to e-mail me
989- when debugging, don't pause before running mondo-tarme; just run it
990- automatically exclude any file including '/vmmhiber.w9x' in its pathname
991- added Minix support (although I doubt anyone needs it)
992- ported mondo-tarme to C
993 - prettier interface at run-time (backup), giving better feedback
994 - obviates a mysterious, intermittent bug in bash itself
995 - shows '% done' when burning CD
996- afio now has a 12MB FIFO buffer (was 16MB)
997- cdrecord now has a 20MB FIFO buffer (was 24MB)
998- wipe [CD]/usr/share/mondo, as well as floppy images, if CD #2 or later
999- up to 19 CD's may be created now
1000- fixed the 'stderr.txt not found' loop error in mondo-tarme.c
1001- fixed the weird 'segfault on finish() after archiving' bug
1002- modularized the install.sh and mondo-1.14-x.i386.rpm compilation sections
1003
1004
100509-01-2001
1006""""""""""
1007v1.13
1008- fixed some compiler warnings in mondo-newt.c; rearranged some code
1009- mondo-tarme now uses -M 16m -t 4k in its call to afio, to improve performance
1010- fixed mondo-restore.c's mkreiserfs call; ditto, prep-me's mkreiserfs call
1011- fixed mondo-restore.c's compare_a_biggiefile() subroutine, which would
1012 generate erroneous error messages
1013- fixed mondo-archive.c's restore_a_biggiefile() and restore_all_biggiefiles()
1014 subroutines; I can't get them to break but others can, so I've streamlined
1015 the code to make them easier to debug and in theory more stable too
1016- fixed 'hack-fstab' to make sure that non-LABELed partitions are correctly
1017 moved/changed, etc.
1018- fixed the 'space in big filename' bug (I think)
1019- make Interactive Mode sort the mountlist (by partition size) before creating
1020 the dirs and mounting the partitions to them
1021- fixed a slew of bugs related to Red Hat's LABEL= extensions
1022- cleaned up mondo-restore.c and mondo-newt.c; replaced lots of arbitrary
1023 limits and lengths with a small number of #define's
1024- added some sample RAID0/1/5 raidtab (config) files to restore-scripts.tgz,
1025 which will be restored to the ramdisk's /etc dir when the user boots from
1026 the CD; this will only take up an extra 50K or so & will help any user
1027 who is moving from non-RAID to RAID
1028- changed FIFO size to 20MB
1029- only use the VFAT kludge on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1; otherwise, even if
1030 the partition type is VFAT, do a regular mkfs.vfat
1031- if mkfs.vfat doesn't exist, use mkfs.dos
1032- only try to add 'LABEL=' to ext2 and ext3 partitions
1033- moved a bunch of scripts from Mindi's rootfs.tgz to our restore-scripts.tgz
1034- fixed bugs in mondo-restore.c, which would sometimes just sit there when
1035 trying to compare or restore big files that were spread across CD's
1036- Interactive Mode goes straight to 'mondo-restore --interactive' now, i.e.
1037 the user doesn't have to choose Interactive once at boot and once within
1038 mondo-restore
1039- better post-run clean-up
1040- improved mondo-restore.c's error-reporting a little bit
1041- stablilo-me (the script) now supports Red Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to
1042 /etc/fstab, via the script, 'label-partitions-as-necessary'
1043- added a user-friendly mountlist editor to mondo-restore.c
1044- added lots of sanity-checking to mountlist editor
1045
1046
104708-18-2001
1048""""""""""
1049v1.12
1050- changed cdrecord's FIFO size to 8MB
1051- removed -pad and -sort from the call to mkisofs
1052- amended the .spec file to be saner when building RPM's
1053- archives are named '.afio.bz2' instead of '.tar.bz2'
1054- mondo-archive, mondo-tarme, mondo-restore.c and the DEPRECATED scripts have
1055 been amended accordingly
1056- should be able to create up to 20 CD-R's per backup set now
1057- moved a line within prep-me that was in the wrong place (thanks, Fran Boon!)
1058- runs 'df -m' and saves it to a text file 'df.txt' on the CD
1059- added 10-second delay before mondo-restore's Nuke Mode, to let the user abort
1060- really fixed the '/mnt/RESTORING/tmp' permissions bug (thanks, Ang Tan!)
1061- sometimes, bash gets all screwed up & won't let the user type 'continue' when
1062 Mondo asks them to; if that happens, Mondo will detect it & use a different
1063 kind of mondo-askme; the new mondo-askme will check every 10 minutes for a
1064 blank CD; if it's there, then the burn continues
1065- abort if isodir or scratchdir is a softlink
1066- replaced mondo-askme with a good shell script, to work around flaws in
1067 bash and/or kernel (don't know which)
1068- added a failsafe kernel to Mindi, which means you don't have to make sure
1069 your kernel is suitable for a boot disk; you can just use Mindi's instead
1070- make+chop filelist _after_ calling Mindi
1071- updated the FAQ
1072
1073
107408-12-2001
1075""""""""""
1076v1.10
1077- changed cdrecord's FIFO size back to 4MB
1078- added -pad -sort to the call to mkisofs
1079- stop saying, "N files differ so far" after comparing each tarball
1080- updated the FAQ, to remind users that they can boot from floppy images if
1081 their kernel does not have the right support of CD-ROM's, filesystems, etc.
1082- erroneous error-reporting by /mondo/biggify-me; fixed (David Granz)
1083- don't estimate the time remaining unless >20 sets processed already
1084- default set size (uncompressed) is now 8MB (was 12MB); when 8MB, seems
1085 to run more smoothly & a little quicker, too, at restore-time
1086- chmod 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp after restoring/creating /tmp
1087- dropped mondo-askme.c; using regular 'read' instead
1088- mondo-restore.c uses newt instead of ncurses; much prettier that way
1089- cdrecord now uses a 16MB FIFO buffer (was 8MB)
1090- fixed floating point error in mondo-restore (when showing progress)
1091- when mondo-restore is called without params (e.g. by Interactive Mode), it
1092 lets the user choose between nuke, interactive or compare (or abort)
1093- updated the FAQ
1094- working on Cuckoo Mode...
1095
1096
109708-02-2001
1098""""""""""
1099v1.09
1100- default compression level is now 3 (was 2)
1101- retry/fail/abort loop bug fixed
1102- calls mindi with "--custom $TMP $scratchdir/images" to force mindi to use
1103 my temp dir and to put the images in my 'images' folder
1104
1105
110607-28-2001
1107""""""""""
1108v1.08
1109- offer to Retry/Fail/Abort if an error occurs when Mondo tries to burn a CD-R
1110- warn if kernel is 2.4.[0-5] (could have buggy loopfs code)
1111- tested with RAID-5 --- works fine :-)
1112
1113
111407-22-2001
1115""""""""""
1116v1.07
1117- fixed cosmetic mistake in an error msg in mondo-tarme ('continue'-related)
1118- hack-fstab now uses "defaults 0 0" instead of "default 1 3" when making
1119 a new entry in /etc/fstab
1120- /mondo/restore-me always makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp; so does mondo-restore.c
1121- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore.c's screen output
1122- RAID-related enhancements to mondo-restore.c
1123 - RAID bkp/restore appears to be stable
1124 - it is possible to move from non-RAID to RAID by backing up, wiping,
1125 creating /etc/raidtab, modifying /tmp/mountlist.txt and then restoring
1126 - mondo-restore.c works well
1127 - the only weakness is that the kernel's messages are written to the
1128 current console, not to a separate console... HELP? :-)
1129- updated README (esp. FAQ) and TODO
1130- tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
1131- mondo-1.07.spec and install.sh compile every C program with -lncurses, just
1132 in case some programs (besides mondo-restore.c) need the NCURSES library
1133- mondo-restore.c is now compiled statically
1134
1135
113607-19-2001
1137""""""""""
1138v1.06
1139- now software-RAID compatible
1140- install.sh only compiles mondo-restore.c once now
1141- if scratchdir or isodir contain more than one path (each), abort
1142- mondo-restore.c creates dummy partitions if the user starts the official
1143 etc/fstab table at /dev/hda7 or something; so, partitioning should work,
1144 even if the mountlist has some gaps
1145- for each /dev/md* device in the mountlist, run raidstop before mkraid
1146
1147
114807-16-2001
1149""""""""""
1150v1.05
1151- patch from DoJ to make install.sh compile with -O2, not -O
1152- cosmetic changes to the biggiefile-slicing code
1153- fixed install.sh
1154
1155
115607-15-2001
1157""""""""""
1158v1.04
1159- make-me-bootable only "boot-makes" each partition ONCE now
1160- cosmetic changes to mondo-restore's logfile output
1161- mondo-restore.c makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp if necessary
1162- should be able to cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" messages in /etc/fstab
1163
1164
116507-14-2001
1166""""""""""
1167v1.03
1168- looks for /etc/lilo.conf; aborts if it cannot locate it
1169- abort if burning CD's & verify level>=2 (must be 1 or 0 if burning CD's)
1170- catch errors in MakeIsoFS, if any
1171- added 'mondo-restore.c'
1172 - C program, to replace the old restore scripts
1173 - Mindi will incorporate it in the data disks, if it can find Mondo
1174 - Mindi will also incorporate the old restore scripts (from Mondo)
1175 just in case the new C program doesn't work
1176 - calls the script, 'stablilo-me' to run LILO if desired
1177- added 'restore-scripts.tgz', which contains the /mondo scripts that used
1178 to live in Mindi; now, Mindi grabs them from here if necessary
1179- cleared up Mode-related scripts & the executable to replace them
1180- if mkisofs fails, ABORT, don't just warn
1181- added '--differential' option, to backup the files changed during the
1182 last N days (N specified by user)
1183
1184
118507-07-2001
1186""""""""""
1187v1.02
1188- retract the CD tray after asking user to enter 'continue' (PauseAndAskForCDR)
1189- uses C program instead of bash loop for PauseAndAskForCDR; some bash versions
1190 go into an infinite loop for no reason; hopefully, outsourcing to C will help
1191- when slicing, indicate progress ("N slices...")
1192- when told to '--burn-cds', Mondo pipes mkisofs's output to cdrecord, instead
1193 of saving the ISO file to disk first; this change will save time and space
1194 (not in the Star Trek sense, however *smile*)
1195- default set size (native) is now 12MB
1196- copy /usr/share/mondo to correct directory within CD
1197- all calls to gawk have been replaced with calls to awk
1198- RPM and SRPM published
1199- delete $TMP at end; don't just delete $TMP/*
1200- can accept multiple parameters in the '--bkpath' switch
1201
120207-04-2001
1203""""""""""
1204v1.00
1205- thanks to recent changes to Mindi, Mondo is now compatible with the
1206 filesystem formats JFS, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 (if your own kernel is)
1207- CDs [2-N] do not have boot floppy images on them; only CD#1 does (although
1208 CDs [2-N] do have the El Torito boot image, just in case...)
1209- modified the --burn-cds switch; now it takes 3rd param, 'cdrw' (optional) to
1210 let you wipe and rewrite CDRWs instead of wasting CDRs ;-)
1211- removed that PID thing; doesn't work; please don't run Mondo twice at once :)
1212- removed that "filenames contain '|'" error & associated problems
1213- got rid of 'UNSAFE' warning/shortcut
1214- removed --xerox-dev, --include-tarball, --skip-tildes, --ide-opt, --use-bzip2
1215- mondo-archive doesn't make/hack/edit mountlist anymore; that's Mindi's job
1216- uses Mindi Linux to make boot disks & data disks based on your distro
1217- boot&data stuff goes in $scratchdir/images now
1218- bzip2 is used by default to compress archives
1219- don't make MD5 checksums if verify_level==0
1220- when archiving, make N.tar.bz2 and cklist.txt (tarball+checksums) in parallel
1221- at end of mondo-archive, remove scratchdir and TMP completely IF they were
1222 created by Mondo (e.g. /home/mondo.scratch or /home/tmp.mondo.12345)
1223- fill CD/image up to 1MB less than its max size; was being filled up to about
1224 8MB less than its max size, which wasted 8-10MB of storage space per disk
1225
1226
122703-15-2001
1228""""""""""
1229v0.99
1230- /proc and /tmp removed --- i.e. added to exclude list :)
1231- Mondo now uses 2.4-series kernel and modules (Bruno Cornec)
1232- minor typos fixed (Bruno Cornec)
1233- older, restore-related fixes merged w/Bruce's work (Maciej Kulasa)
1234- better RPM spec file (Bruno Cornec)
1235- incorporated Mondo v0.977's restore scripts' bugfixes (Maciej Kulasa)
1236
1237
123803-06-2001
1239""""""""""
1240v0.981
1241- put 'dd' in coolstuff.tgz (Art Wells)
1242
1243
124402-26-2001
1245""""""""""
1246v0.98
1247- INSTALL script renamed to install.sh
1248- tarball cleaned up and re-tarred (Art Wells)
1249- trailing CR/LF's cleaned from scripts (Art Wells)
1250- work is underway to make Mondo compatible with the Linux kernel's 2.4 series
1251
125202-28-2001
1253""""""""""
1254v0.977
1255- based on v0.976
1256- missing subs and silly typos fixed in restore scripts (Maciej Kulasa)
1257- fstab files containing NFS mounts are handled properly (Petre Scheie)
1258- Mondo is being actively developed again (yippee!)
1259
126009-01-2000
1261""""""""""
1262v0.976
1263- technical changes
1264 - 12MB ramdisk
1265 - repackaged: now, Mondo comes in big tarball/RPM with all overhead-files
1266 - each Mondo CD has a 15MB administrative overhead; used to be 50-60MB
1267 - definitely 386-compatible now (RH 6.2 binaries)
1268 - Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (2.2.16) kernel w/ReiserFS & Supermount
1269 - modules.conf / conf.modules support (whichever you've got)
1270 - user may include their own copies of modules, if Mondo doesn't come with
1271 the requisite modules already
1272- extra facilities
1273 - ReiserFS support
1274 - '--load-modules <foo> <bar> ...' will allow you to force Mondo to load
1275 key modules at boot-time, e.g. aic7xxx for SCSI-only users
1276- bugfixes
1277 - path-exclusion code (mondo-backup)
1278 - bogus 'flaws=1' message has been eradicated
1279 - CDRW-finding code is now much better at finding the CDRW correctly
1280 - dummy burn mode is working again
1281 - fixed security hole (thanks, Matija); now, user will be warned if Mondo
1282 is configured to execute /tmp/mondo-tarme
1283 - changed lots of 'grep " $string "' to 'grep -w "$string"' (thanks, Matija)
1284
128507-03-2000
1286""""""""""
1287v0.975 published
1288- made mondo-tarme use 'ask-me-a-question' to pause for new, blank CD-Rs
1289- don't deeply search isodir for ISO files to wipe: maxdepth should be 1
1290- 386-compatible kernel and modules (should be, anyway...)
1291- applied Doug Nordwall's calc-disk-size patch to fix SCSI hdd size calc'n bug
1292- applied Michael Ralph Pape's SCSI (2nd floppy) patch
1293- removed devdump from overhead-list
1294- mkisofs no longer called with '-quiet' switch
1295- changed '--burn-cds' format: now it's --burn-cds <speed> (<device>)
1296- added '-L' to LILO's call, so that >8GB hard disks overcome 1024-blk limit
1297- mondo-compare runs check-mountlist-sanity before mounting partitions
1298- ramdisk is now 14MB
1299
130006-16-2000
1301""""""""""
1302v0.972 published
1303- auto-archive, mondo-archive and mondo-tarme updated to make them more
1304 friendly towards mult-disk sets
1305- if multiple CDRW drives, user is asked which mondo-archive should use
1306
130706-14-2000
1308""""""""""
1309v0.971 published
1310- auto-archive now passes CD size to mondo-archive
1311- mondo-tarme, in conjunction with auto-archive, now handles CDRW boot/burn
1312 sharing much better than before
1313
131406-10-2000
1315""""""""""
1316v0.970 published
1317- kernel now creates 12MB ramdrive (was 16MB)
1318- lots of silly bugs & overhead problems fixed; 2nd floppy closer to working
1319- restore scripts all log to /var/log/mondo-restore.log
1320- auto-archive:-
1321 - offers Low, Medium or High compression
1322 - no longer needs a spare hard drive for scratch space; uses loopfs on
1323 existing hard drive (if possible) instead
1324 - handles weird (multi-CDROM) PCs more gracefully now
1325 - handles PCs with CDRW but without CDROM more gracefully now
1326 - deletes each ISO after burning it to a CD-R (if it _is_ burning them)
1327 - asks if PC is old & crappy; if it is, IDE optimizations are disabled
1328 at backup-time and restore-time
1329 - lets user use CDRW for booting _and_ burning, thanks to reroute-softlinks
1330- selective restore is finally fixed
1331- nicer help screens on boot floppy
1332
133306-03-2000
1334""""""""""
1335v0.965 released
1336- 2MB of space left empty at end of every CD (e.g. 650MB is only 648MB full)
1337- Suzhe & Lonius's SmartBootManager (sbminst) is used instead of Win98's MBR
1338- Mondo may now resize Windows-only backups when restoring
1339- silly bugs in prep-me... fixed
1340
134106-02-2000
1342""""""""""
1343v0.964 released
1344- VFAT partitions >8GB handled OK now
1345- 2nd floppy (optionally) created for SCSI users <--- not working yet
1346- better calc-disk-size algorithm (thanks, Doug Nordwall)
1347- Mondo can now backup and restore Windows-only PCs! :-)
1348- silly prep-me and format-and-kludge-vfat bugs fixed
1349- 'resize hack' retitled as 'vacuum-pack'
1350
135105-31-2000
1352""""""""""
1353v0.963 released
1354- ISO images are no longer padded
1355- all currently-loaded modules are backed up to custom hboot.img & installed
1356 at restore-time before CD is accessed
1357- '--burn-cd <speed>' switch added
1358- '--no-opt' switch added; use it in the call to mondo-archive if you don't
1359 want IDE optimization when restoring
1360- lots of work done on auto-archive
1361- mondo-extras-1.5 created; excludes mondo-zfile but includes hlib.tar.bz2
1362- boot floppy image now includes kernel w/lots of SCSI stuff
1363- slice* deleted (WipeArchives); was 'slices*' (bug!)
1364- restore scripts all use 'lastbit-me' to find the 'X' part of '/dev/X' device;
1365 this will make it easier to port Mondo to kernel 2.4.x
1366- I cannot make SCSI-based CDROMs boot from Mondo CDs properly... but SCSI
1367 hard drives and ZIP drives should be handled ok from now on
1368- with a little coaxing, Mondo will backup Windows-only PCs (as well as
1369 Lin/Win and Linux-only PCs)
1370
137105-25-2000
1372""""""""""
1373v0.962 released
1374- silly bug in mondo-checksum fixed
1375- stale tmp dirs are now definitely deleted (bug fixed)
1376- "Job is %d complete. hh:ss to go." --- much better 'progress' string
1377- 'buffer' is gone again :) thank goodness
1378- only 1st ISO is padded; the rest aren't.
1379- working on implementing an easy 'cdrecord' shortcut-call-thingy
1380- mondo-archive doesn't try to delete loopfs unless it exists
1381- mondo-restore's "hack-softlinks" - silly bug ($1/ missing) fixed
1382- boot floppy image now includes mkdir and rmdir
1383- user may specify temp directory using '--tempdir <path>'
1384- mondo-archive now includes a copy of 'buffer' for future use
1385- Mondo will now archive and restore Linux AND LinWin systems ok. W00H00! :-)
1386
138705-23-2000
1388""""""""""
1389v0.961 released
1390- mondo-checksum ignores files <2k in length
1391- default compression level is 4
1392- default verify level is 2
1393- files <3k in size aren't compressed
1394- filelist no longer includes bashbug, dosfsck or dir
1395- bs-me is disabled in mondo-restore
1396- fixed bug in 'hack-fstab' which stopped processing fstab if blank line found
1397
139805-22-2000
1399""""""""""
1400v0.960 released
1401- mondo-vfat-1.0 package released, to provide kludging for VFAT bootables
1402- logfile now saved at /var/log/mondo-archive.log (not `pwd`/mondo-archive.log)
1403- pid registered/checked _after_ command line processed... so you can do --help
1404 without being shouted at ;)
1405- restore-me broken into 2 scripts: untar-me and biggify-me
1406- restore-subroutine-me now renamed untar-subroutine-me
1407- bzip2 decompression should work again ;) ... a missing '-Z' was added to
1408 the afio call, and the usr/lib/libbz* libraries are now included on CD ISOs
1409- fixed hack-lilo to ignore blank lines
1410- really ugly boot kludge has been implemented, using embleer files
1411 to make newly-formatted VFAT partitions bootable
1412
1413[snip]
1414...see CHANGES.pre-v0.96 for the rest (if you can find it)
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