Dump/restore 0.4b35 released

From: Stelian Pop (stelian_at_popies.net)
Date: 12/21/03

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    Hi everybody,

    A new version of dump/restore, the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem
    backup utilities, has been released today.

    This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes (build fixes
    for 64 bit platforms, man page clarifications) and additions
    (possibility to exclude an unlimited number of inodes, make restore
    build on Solaris, make QFA work both on local and remote tapes).
    See the full changelog below for more details.

    You can download the new version at dump/restore's homepage:
            http://dump.sourceforge.net

    Enjoy,

    Stelian.

    Changes between versions 0.4b34 and 0.4b35 (released December 21, 2003)
    =======================================================================

    1. Added a note in the dump man page saying that the default
            blocksize can be 32 if -d is used with a high density argument.
            Thanks to Antonios Christofides (A.Christofides@itia.ntua.gr)
            for the patch.

    2. Fixed configure to correctly understand CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS,
            LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Arcady Genkin
            (antipode@users.sourceforge.net) for reporting the bug.

    3. Made -e/-E options of dump accept an unlimited number of inodes
            to be excluded, rather than a hardcoded maximum. Thanks to
            Dietrich Rothe (d-rothe@users.sourceforge.net) for the patch.

    4. Updated the autoconf system to 2.50. Forced the -D_BSD_SOURCE
            and -D_USE_BSD_SIGNAL defines in configure in order to solve
            64bit build problems because quad_t is redifined with a
            different signature. Thanks to Mike Harris (mharris@redhat.com)
            for reporting this bug.

    5. Made restore build on Solaris, making possible to
            restore Linux's "enhanced" tapes. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
            (uwe@ugsoft.de) for the patch.

    6. Made an extension in the dump tape format capable of saving
            MacOSX specific inode extensions. Uwe Gohlke (uwe@ugsoft.de)
            wrote the extension and contributed the restore code back
            into this codebase. The same extension mechanism will be
            used in the future to save ACLs...

    7. Made rmt work correctly with regard to QFA and local/remote
            files and tapes. The remote access will however work only
            when the dump provided rmt version is used. If you want to
            use another rmt server, please do not use the QFA feature.
            Thanks to Uwe Gohlke (uwe@ugsoft.de) for the patch. 

    -- 
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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