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Current Version: 1.11.2
User-visible changes since 1.11.1:
o Changes in backup scripts
- cleaned up considerably; notices error conditions better over rsh
- DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in backup-specs
- new file dump-remind is an example of a DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT
o Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
o Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
o New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
o Several error messages are cleaned up.
o Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
o Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
for --info-script.
o Behave better with broken rmt servers.
o Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
o Several Makefile cleanups.
==============
Version 1.11.1
User-visible changes since 1.11:
o Many bug fixes
============
Version 1.11
User-visible changes since 1.10:
o Many bug fixes
o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
will eventually be removed.
o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
and causes -C to be ignored.
o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
they are added to the archive.
o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
the exit status.
o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
being read or written.
o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
omitted from the archive.
o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
around to the beginning.
o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
`:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
original values after dumping the file.
o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
to dump.
o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
modification and access times.
o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
long names to work.
=============
Version 1.10:
User-visible changes since 1.09:
Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
-g is now +incremental
-G is now +listed-incremental
Sparse files now work correctly.
+volume is now called +label.
+exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
+exclude used to do.
Exit status is now correct.
+totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
instead of waiting for a write error.
New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
at the FSF.