1 #========================================================================
3 # ChangeLog - change log for BackupPC.
6 # Revision history for BackupPC, detailing significant changes between
7 # versions, most recent first.
10 # Craig Barratt <cbarratt@users.sourceforge.net>
12 #========================================================================
14 # Version __VERSION__, released __RELEASEDATE__.
16 # See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
18 #========================================================================
20 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
21 # Version __VERSION__, __RELEASEDATE__
22 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
24 * Removed default paths from conf/config.pl so configure.pl will
25 determine the correct ones at install time. Avoids problem of
26 the config editor complaining about bad executable paths the
27 first time you use it.
29 * Changed first byte of compressed files with rsync checksums appended
30 to 0xd7 to allow correct protocol_version >= 27 md4 checksums to be
31 written. Old cached checksum files have a first byte 0xd6 and are
32 now considered to be uncached. They will be automatically updated
35 * BackupPC_tarPCCopy now handles all file types correctly. Reported
38 * Fixes for rsync restore where hardlink is to file outside of the
39 top-level restore directory. Reported by George Avrunin, who helped
42 * Fixes for checksum mismatch on restore for certain file sizes.
43 Reported by George Avrunin and others.
45 * Fix for config.pl writing code to handle multi-line expressions.
46 Reported by David Relson and others.
48 * Fix for CGI editor when deleting hash entries whose keys are
49 non alphanumeric. Report by David Relson and Aaron Ciarlotta.
51 * Two fixes to configure.pl from Andreas Vögele.
53 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
54 # Version 3.0.0beta2, 18 Nov 2006
55 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
57 * Fix for final md4 digest check on rsync transfers >= 512MB when protocol
58 version >= 27 and checksums are not cached. Reported by Garith Dugmore
61 * Config Editor "Save" button is now always visible, but greyed out
62 until there are changes to save.
64 * Config editor allows other tabs to be selected when there is an
65 error, which allows you to fix an error (eg: missing binary) in
66 an exiting config file. Errors are now displayed at the top of
67 the page in addition to next to the erroneous setting.
69 * configure.pl checks version of Encode.pm. Reported by Chris Stone.
71 * Several fixes to bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary from Stian Jordet.
73 * Fixed config.pl editor writing to solve bug with multi-line text
74 strings ending in newline. Reported and root caused by Les Stott
77 * Fixed error recovery case in BackupPC::PoolWrite, reported by
80 * Fixed table width in backup browsing to avoid Firefox layout anomoly,
81 provided by Jono Woodhouse.
83 * CSS file updates from Jono Woodhouse. Prior (v2) version is included
84 as BackupPC_stnd_orig.css in case people prefer the old skin.
86 * More compact host summary, including disabled host indication,
89 * New directory/file/hardlink and symlink image icons from Sean Cameron
90 and Jono Woodhouse, making directory browse more compact.
92 * BackupPC.pid is now world readable, suggested by Casper Thomsen.
94 * Reordered the Server navigation bar links, suggested by David Relson.
96 * Fixed typos in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc, configure.pl and config.pl
97 reported by David Relson.
99 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
100 # Version 3.0.0beta1, 30 Jul 2006
101 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
103 * Fixed several Xfer charset conversions.
105 * Added some CGI utf8 conversions from Rodrigo Real and Vincent
108 * Rsync transfers now correctly handle file names with \n or \r.
110 * Host name is forced to lower case, to match 2.x.
112 * Fixed LOG file naming in BackupPC_restore and BackupPC_archive.
114 * GFK applied fr.pm corrections from Nicolas Stransky.
116 * Updated init.d/src scripts for FHS (ie: replaced __TOPDIR__/log
117 with __LOGDIR__ and __TOPDIR__/conf with __CONFDIR__). Patch
118 provided by Rodrigo Real.
120 * Added --log-dir and --conf-dir options to configure.pl.
121 Reported by Vincent Fleuranceau.
123 * Updated File::RsyncP version check in configure.pl, reported
124 by Vincent Fleuranceau. Changed File::RsyncP version to 0.64.
126 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
127 # Version 3.0.0beta0, 11 Jul 2006
128 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
130 * Added configuration and host CGI editor.
132 * Added rsync hardlink support. Requires latest version of
135 * Decoupled BackupPC_dump from BackupPC_nightly by making
136 asynchronous file linking/delete robust to race conditions.
137 Now only BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link are mutually
138 exclusive so only one runs at a time, and BackupPC_dump and
139 BackupPC_restore can run anytime.
141 * Added support for multi-level incrementals. In the style of dump(1),
142 the level of each incremental can be specified. Each incremental
143 backups up everything since the most recent backup of a lower level
144 (fulls are always level 0). Previous behavior was all incrementals
145 were level 1, meaning they backed up everything since the last full
146 (level 0). Default configuration is all incrementals are level 1.
148 * Server file names are now in utf8 and optional conversion
149 to/from client name charsets can be configured. All CGI pages
150 now use the utf8 charset.
152 * Backup metadata is now additionally saved to pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo,
153 in addition to pc/HOST/backups. In case pc/HOST/backups gets trashed,
154 then a new script BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary can read the per-backup
155 metadata from pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo and reconstruct the backups file.
156 Roberto Moreno also pointed out an early error in the CVS version.
158 * Added Storage module and Storage::Text which localizes all the
159 text data file reading/writing (eg: backups, restores, archives
160 and config.pl files). Added read verify after all write
161 operations for robustness. Additional backends (eg: SQL)
162 can be added in the future as new subclasses of the Storage
165 * Added Config module, and Config::Meta that contains meta data
166 about configuration parameters.
168 * Added RSS support from Rich Duzenbury.
170 * Translations of new 3.0 language strings from Guillaume Filion,
171 Reginaldo Ferreira, Ralph Passgang, Lieven Bridts, Guus Houtzager,
174 * Added optional checking of exit status of Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post
175 UserCmd, requested by Kiko Jover, Matthias Bertschy and others.
177 * For new installations configure.pl tries to comply with the file
178 system hierarchy standard, which means all the configuration files
179 below /etc/BackupPC and log files go below /var/log/BackupPC.
181 * Added Slackware init.d script from Tony Nelson.
183 * Fixed error reporting when restore/archive fail to write the
184 request file to the client directory.
186 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt for DumpPreShareCmd and DumpPostShareCmd.
188 * Apply patch from Pete Wenzel to add smbClientPath => $Conf{SmbClientPath}
189 to DumpPreUserCmd etc.
191 * Added Portuguese Brazillian pt_br.pm from Reginaldo Ferreira.
193 * Jean-Michel Beuken reported several bugs in configure.pl in CVS 3.0.0.
195 * Old backup email warnings now ignore partials requested by Samuel Bancal
197 * Applied patch to bin/BackupPC_sendEmail from Marc Prewitt that
198 ignores any file starting with "." in the pc directory when
199 it is generating warnings about old/unused files/directories.
201 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt to fix host queue order.
203 * Applied Lorenzo Cappelletti's it.pm patch.
205 * Applied Wander Winkelhorst's nl.pm patch.
207 * Applied Alberto Marconi's it.pm patch.
209 * Add NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT to pst read error check in
210 BackupPC_sendEmail to fix bug reported by Dale Renton.
212 * Added fixup of $ENV{REMOTE_USER} to lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm in the
213 case of using mod_authz_ldap; patch submitted by Alain Perrier.
215 * Added env LC_ALL=C to $Conf{TarClientCmd} and $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd}
216 to avoid locale problems, suggested by Ludovic Drolez.
218 * Changed ping output parsing to pick out average rtt time, based
219 on patch from Ron Bickers.
221 * Removed leading "./" and top-level "./" directory from
222 zip archives generated by BackupPC_zipCreate. Reported
223 by Josh (hecktarzuli).
225 * BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate now allow "@"
226 in share names. Reported by Robert Waldner.
228 * NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES is now a fatal error for
229 smbclient transfers, suggested by Brian Shand.
231 * Changed bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to use /bin/csh instead of
232 /bin/sh. That way any errors in the pipeline are reported
233 via the exit status, instead of just the last.
235 * Added $Conf{EMailHeaders} for additional email headers, requested
236 by Ludovic Gasc. If the Content-Type charset is set to utf8 then
237 the body of the email is sent in utf8 coding.
239 * Made shareName argument regexp checking more general to allow parens.
241 * Added some debian init.d instructions to init.d/README from
244 * Documentation updates from Richard Ames, JP Vossen, Torsten Finke.
246 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
247 # Version 2.1.2pl2, 18 Jun 2006
248 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
250 * In conf/config.pl, changed --devices to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}
251 and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to fix "fileListReceive failed" and
252 "Can't open .../f%2f for empty output" errors with rsync 2.6.7+.
253 Fix proposed by Justin Pessa and Vincent Ho, and confirmed by
256 * Added patch from Michael (mna.news) to ignore "file is unchanged"
257 message from tar 1.15.x during incremental backups.
259 * Fixed creation of .rsrc directories in bin/BackupPC_tarExtract
260 when used with xtar on MacOS. Reported by Samuel Bancal and
261 Matthew Radey, who helped with debugging.
263 * Fixed bug in BackupPC_tarExtract for files >8GB in size whose
264 lengths are multiples of 256. Reported by Jamie Myers and
265 Marko Tukiainen, who both helped debugging the problem.
267 * Fixed bug in lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm that caused
268 incorrected deleted attributes to be set in directories
269 where one of the files had an rsync phase 1 retry during
270 an incremental. Reported by Tony Nelson.
272 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
273 # Version 2.1.2, 5 Sep 2005
274 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
276 * Fixed simple but serious bug in bin/BackupPC_tarCreate that prevented
277 hardlinks being saved correctly. Debugged by Michael (mna.news)
278 with several other people.
280 * Fixed serious bug in bin/BackupPC_dump reported/debugged by Dan Niles
281 that can happen when multiple full backups are deleted after
282 $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is changed.
284 * Changed lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm so that link to "$TopDir/conf/$host.pl"
285 is displayed if it exists. Patch from Andreas Vögele.
287 * Applied daemonize patch to bin/BackupPC from:
288 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301057
290 * It's now a fatal error if $Conf{CompressLevel} is set, but
291 Compress::Zlib is not found. Before $Conf{CompressLevel} was
292 silently set to 0, which made all the backups uncompressed.
293 That meant the user never knew if they forget to install
294 Compress::Zlib but were expecting compression to be on.
296 * Finally increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to 72000 (20 hours).
298 * Added sleep 1 in restart() function in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc,
299 suggested by Jon Hood.
301 * Added $DestDir to the path of the CGI image directory in configure.pl.
302 Patch submitted by Andreas Vögele.
304 * Applied extensive patch to French translation from Frederic Lehobey.
306 * Minor change to Dutch language $Lang{Pool_Stat} from Wander Winkelhorst.
308 * Minor change to French language $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} and
309 $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupSubj} from Ludovic Gasc.
311 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
312 # Version 2.1.1, 13 Mar 2005
313 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
315 * Fixed bug in top-level restore using rsync XferMethod.
316 BackupPC::View was leaving an extra leading "/" at the start
317 of top-level directories, messing up the FileList sort order.
318 Reported and debugged by Gail Edwards.
320 * Added pathCreate() to BackupPC_tarExtract so that new directories
321 are created. Required for xtar on MacOSX since the virtual resource
322 fork directories (.rsrc) are not explicitly included in the tar
323 archive - just the files below .rsrc are.
325 * Changed $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt.* to $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt*
326 in $parCmd in bin/BackupPC_archiveHost.
328 * Fixed HostSortCompare() in BackupPC to correctly sort hosts so
329 those with the oldest backups get queued first.
331 * Changed test in BackupPC_sendEmail so that directories/files
332 starting with "." in $TopDir/pc are ignored, rather than
335 * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail to include NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT
336 in check for bad outlook files.
338 * Ensure that %Status and %StatusHost are empty if requesting
339 status on hosts in lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm GetStatusInfo().
340 Fixes problem with new hosts under mod_perl.
342 * Added images/icon-hardlink.gif so that hardlinks show file type icon.
344 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
345 # Version 2.1.0pl1, 15 Aug 2004
346 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
348 * Added fix to nl.pm from Lieven Bridts.
350 * Added patch from Tony Nelson to remove $Info{pid} before BackupPC
351 writes the status and shuts down.
353 * Changed BackupPC_nightly so that it doesn't call find() if the
354 directory doesn't exist. This avoids errors in certain versions
355 of perl. Reported by Bernd Rilling.
357 * Fixed BackupPC::CGI::Lib to correctly re-load config.pl for mod_perl.
358 Reported by Tony Nelson and Jimmy Liang.
360 * Explicitly untaint $In{host} in BackupPC::CGI::Lib to fix problem
361 reported by Thomas Tempé.
363 * Added newline to "...skipping because of user requested delay..."
364 log message in BackupPC_dump. Reported by Wayne Scott.
366 * Added read file size error checking to BackupPC_tarCreate.
367 Reported by Brandon Evans.
369 * Added check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO to ensure that when
370 compression is toggled on/off, a compressed backup doesn't link
371 to an uncompressed pool file (and an uncompressed backup doesn't
372 link to a compressed pool file). Reported by Brandon Evans.
374 * Updated documentation with new dirvish URL and a typo from
377 * Fix to BackupPC_sendEmail so that it correctly sends admin emails
378 for hosts that have failed backups. Reported by Simon Kuhn.
380 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
381 # Version 2.1.0, 20 Jun 2004
382 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
384 * Added Dutch translation from Lieven Bridts, with tweaks from
387 * Added PC-specific config file read in CGI/Archive.pm. Patch
390 * Added non-zero exit code to BackupPC_zcat when uncompress fails.
391 Patch from Pete Wenzel.
393 * Cosmetic changes to PC Summary and Log file language strings from
396 * BackupPC::Lib tries to be more careful when renaming the backups
397 file to backups.old. There have been reports of backups being
398 empty, perhaps when the BackupPC data file system fills up.
399 Now backups is not renamed to backups.old if backups is empty.
401 * BackupPC now closes stderr and stdout before renaming and
402 re-opening the log file.
404 * Pre/post backup/restore/archive commands now correctly set
405 "type" to either incr/full/restore/archive, and now cmdType
406 is the type of Pre/post backup/restore/archive command.
408 * BackupPC_archive correctly terminates archive processes on
411 * Updates to BackupPC_stnd.css with absolute font sizes instead
414 * BackupPC_dump now makes sure that the $Conf{FullAgeMax} check
415 also ensures the full backup is older than the maximum age
416 expected from $Conf{FullPeriod}.
418 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
419 # Version 2.1.0beta2pl1, 30 May 2004
420 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
422 * Fixed bug in rsync checksum caching code in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest.
424 * BackupPC_zipCreate now ensures the earliest mtime is 1/1/1980,
425 since zip file formats don't support earlier dates. Reported
428 * CGI restore via zip and tar now makes sure stderr is ignored
429 when BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate are run.
430 Previously any stderr output would get mixed in the archive,
431 corrupting it. Reported by Dan Niles.
433 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
434 # Version 2.1.0beta2, 23 May 2004
435 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
437 * $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} now apply
438 to every share, rather than just the first, in the case where
439 they are arrays and there are multiple shares. Suggested
442 * On the phase 2 retry pass with rsync, verify the cached checksums
443 if checksum caching is turned on. This will catch the case of
444 cached checksums being incorrectly appended to the compressed
445 pool file. Added new config parameter $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb}
446 so that cached checksums are verified with a selectable probability.
447 Also, increased File::RsyncP version number to 0.51.
449 * configure.pl now supports an optional batch mode. Command-line
450 options are used to specify all the information that configure.pl
451 needs. This is useful for building auto-install packages.
452 Also, configure.pl now includes pod documentation, so you can do
453 "perldoc configure.pl" to see all the command-line options.
454 Suggested, tested and tweaked by Stuart Herbert for possible
457 * At each wakeup, clients are now queued based on how old the most
458 recent backup is. Clients with errors are queued first, with
459 the oldest error times going first. The rest of the clients are
460 queued next, with the clients with the oldest backup going first.
461 Previously the clients were simply queued in alphabetic order.
462 Suggested by Mike Trisko and Tony Nelson.
464 * Added config parameter $Conf{PartialAgeMax} that controls whether
465 partials are saved at all, and if so, whether the partial will be
466 ignored at the next full backup if it is too old.
468 * BackupPC_tarExtract now allows empty archives without reporting
469 an error. Reported by Don Silvia.
471 * Removed Browse Backups link from Nav Bar in Archive Info display.
472 Reported by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
474 * Fixed documentation display for regular users. Reported by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
476 * Status and PC Summary now work for regular users and only show
477 that user's hosts. Server general status information only appears
478 for admins. Suggested by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
480 * Moved the last three navigation-bar links (docs, FAQ and SF) to
481 a new config parameter $Conf{CgiNavBarLinks}. This allows
482 these links to be locally configured. Based on a patch
483 submitted by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
485 * Allow the navigation bar search box to be disabled by
486 setting $Conf{CgiSearchBoxEnable} to 0. Based on a patch
487 submitted by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
489 * Updates to de.pm from Ralph PaĂŸgang.
491 * Made the BackupPC icon a link to the SF BackupPC project page.
493 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
494 # Version 2.1.0beta1, 4 Apr 2004
495 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
497 * The CSS definition has been removed from the config.pl file and
498 is now a separate file, BackupPC_stnd.css. A new config variable,
499 $Conf{CgiCSSFile}, gives the name of the CSS file to use.
500 Suggested by Ender Mathias.
502 * Fixed the filling of the host name select box for admins.
503 The default $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} is now 1.
504 Reported by Doug Lytle.
506 * Cleaned up warning message for restore using rsync when checksum
507 caching is on, but when file didn't have cached checksums.
509 * Fixed BackupPC_archiveHost to support par2 (par2cmdline).
510 Patch submitted by Jaco Bongers and adapted by Josh Marshall.
512 * Improved stat() usage in BackupPC_nightly, plus some other cleanup,
513 giving a significant performance improvement. Patch submitted by
516 * Allow several BackupPC_nightly processes to run in parallel based
517 on new $Conf{BackupPCNightlyJobs} setting. This speeds up the
518 traversal of the pool, reducing the overall run time for
521 * Allow BackupPC_nightly to split the pool traversal across several
522 nightly runs. This improves the running time per night, at the expense
523 of a slight increase in disk storage as unused pool files might not
524 be deleted for a couple of days. Controller by new config setting
525 $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}.
527 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
528 # Version 2.1.0beta0, 20 Mar 2004
529 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
531 * A failed full dump is now saved as a partial (incomplete) dump,
532 provided it includes some files. This can be used for browsing,
533 restoring etc, and will also form the basis of resuming full
534 dumps. Only one partial is kept, and it is removed as soon
535 as a successful full (or a new partial) is done.
537 * Added support for resuming a full dump for rsync. The partial
538 full is kept, and to resume an incremental is done against the
539 partial, and a full is done for the rest.
541 * Added support for Rsync checksum caching. Rsync checksum are
542 appended to the compressed pool files. This means that block
543 and file checksums do not need to be recomputed on the server
544 when using rsync. Requires a patch to rsync to support fixed
545 checksum seeds. This patch is included in the cygwin-rsyncd
546 release on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
548 * Major addition of Archive feature from Josh Marshall. Special
549 clients can be configured to be archive targets (eg: tape drives,
550 CD-R). Any subset of the backup clients can be selected and tar
551 archives are created, optionally compressed and split and written
552 to the output device. Logs are maintained and are browsable.
554 * Major changes from Ryan Kucera to add style sheets to the CGI
555 interface, allowing easy customization. Added new icons and
556 BackupPC logo. Numerous navigation improvements.
558 * Added directory history display to BackupPC_Admin, allowing the
559 user to quickly see which files changed between backups on a
562 * Added exponential expiry option for full dumps. This allows you
565 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by
566 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
567 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
568 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
569 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
571 and so on. This allows you, for example, to keep 4 weekly fulls,
572 followed by 6 fulls every 4 weeks (approx 1 month) and 2 fulls at
573 16 weeks, for roughly 1 year of history. This works by deleting
574 every other full as each expiry boundary is crossed. Suggested
577 * Added Italian language translation it.pm from Lorenzo Cappelletti.
579 * Major updates to language files for new features and tags changes.
580 Updated makeDist to do pedantic consistency checking of language
583 * Addition of administration options from Paul Lukins. Initial
584 page allows server to be started/stopped/reloaded. This still
585 needs some i18n work. Currently the server start/stop is
588 * Split BackupPC_Admin into a set of modules, one for each major action.
589 Each action is now a seperate module in lib/BackupPC/CGI.
591 * Allow the blackout period begin/end to span midnight. Adapted
592 from patch submitted by David Smith.
594 * Allow multiple blackout periods, with new config variable
595 $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} that replaces the old variables
596 $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin}, $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}, and
597 $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}. Based on patch submitted by
600 * Disabled alarms after forks to avoid timeouts in children that
601 do not reset their alarm. Prompted by ideas from James Leu.
603 * Added options for block size, buffer size and share wild-card to
604 BackupPC_tarCreate. Also added negative backup number options
605 that are relative to the last (so -1 is the last), suggested by
606 William McKee and Carl Soderstrom.
608 * The "Wrong user" message in BackupPC::Lib now goes to stderr, so that
609 the user is more likely to see the error with BackupPC_tarCreate.
610 Reported by Paul Fox.
612 * Add creation of per-PC directory in BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm in
613 case it doesn't already exist.
615 * Added -q -x to all ssh commands in conf/config.pl. Suggested by
616 SI Reasoning and Niranjan Ghate.
618 * Changed restore code so that option #1 (direct restore) can be
619 disabled if the restore command is undefined. Disabling direct
620 restore is necessary if the share is read-only. Suggested by
623 * Changed regexp in lib/BackupPC/Smb.pm to allow numbers with both
624 a decimal point or comma for international versions of Samba.
625 Patch submitted by Frank Gard.
627 * Browsing and directory history now sort the files in a
628 case-insensitive manner.
630 * Changed exec() syntax to allow executing commands whose path
633 * BackupPC_dump no longer removes backups if $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
634 is zero or undefined. The protects the existing backups in the
635 case of a bad config.pl file. Suggested by Christian Warden.
637 * Swapped the Server and Hosts sections on the Nav bar. Moved the
638 host search text box to the top of the hosts section. This was
639 done to move the variable-length part of the Nav bar (when all
640 hosts are displayed) to the bottom.
642 * Fixed a bug in tar restore related to how the common prefix path is
643 removed. Now ensure that the common path is at a directory boundary.
644 Reported by Patrick Neuner.
646 * Added --chuid ${USER} to init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc. Suggested by
647 SI Reasoning, Pascal Pochol, Michael Evanoff and others.
649 * Added Suse notes to init.d/README from Bruno Vernay.
651 * Added Apache 2 documentation fix from Michael Tuzi.
653 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
654 # Version 2.0.2, 6 Oct 2003
655 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
657 * Fixed stupid last-minute change in octal size conversion in
660 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
661 # Version 2.0.1, 5 Oct 2003
662 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
664 * Fixed handling of >= 8GB files in BackupPC_tarExtract and >= 4GB
665 files in BackupPC_tarCreate.
667 * Removed smbclient size repair in BackupPC_tarExtract for files
668 between 2GB and 4GB. This means that BackupPC_tarExtract 2.0.1
669 doesn't behave the same as 2.0.0 for file sizes between 2GB and 4GB
670 extacted using smbclient 2.2.x. If you have problems backing up
671 files whose size is between 2GB and 4GB using smbclient 2.2.x
672 you should upgrade smbclient to 3.0, since it now generates
675 * Replace PingClientPath with PingPath in configure.pl.
677 * Removed -T (taint mode) on binaries installed in configure.pl.
679 * Added support for smbclient from samba version 3.0.0.
681 * Fixed $Conf{HardLinkMax} limit check in BackupPC::Lib; reported
684 * In BackupPC_Admin, default REMOTE_USER to $Conf{BackupPCUser}
685 if it is not defined. This allows the CGI interface to work
686 when AdminUsers = '*'. Reported by Quentin Arce.
688 * For SMB, code that detected files with a read-locked region (eg:
689 outlook .pst files), removed them and then tried to link with an
690 earlier version was broken. This code missed a step of mangling
691 the file names. This is now fixed. Reported by Pierre Bourgin.
693 * A backup of a share that has zero files is now considered
694 fatal. This is used to catch miscellaneous Xfer errors that
695 result in no files being backed up. A new config parameter
696 $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} (defaults to 1) and can be set to
697 zero to turn off this check. Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
698 Additional change: this check only applies to a full dump.
700 * SMB: now detect NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on entire share or BackupFilesOnly
701 (also ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) for older versions of
702 smbclient.) Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
704 * SMB: now detects "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME" and
705 the dump is considered failed.
707 * Rsync: Previously BackupFilesOnly = '/' did --include '/' --exclude '/*',
708 which just included the '/' directory and nothing below. Now it
709 does just --include '/', which should include everything.
712 * Add hostError to DumpPostUserCmd variable substitutions for both dump
715 * Verbose output in Lib.pm goes to STDERR, not STDOUT. This now
716 makes BackupPC_dump -v work better.
718 * Don't allow browsing with ".." in directory in case a user tries
719 to trick BackupPC_Admin into displaying directories outside where
722 * Required File::RsyncP version is now 0.44, since File::RsyncP 0.44
723 fixes large file (>2GB) bugs. Large file bugs reported by Steve
726 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
727 # Version 2.0.0, 14 Jun 2003
728 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
730 * Minor tweaks to disable utf8 on utf8-capable machines (eg: RH8+).
731 Added "no utf8" to all programs, and added binmode() to relevant
734 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
735 # Version 2.0.0beta3, 1 Jun 2003
736 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
738 * Several improvements to restore: cancel now reports the correct
739 message and cleans up correctly.
741 * Rsync with whitespace and wildcard excludes fixed by replacing
742 argList with argList+ in config.pl plus a fix to Lib.pm for
743 shell escaping array arguments.
745 * Fixed rsync restore for character and block special devices
746 (major and minor device numbers weren't correctly restored).
748 * Fixed typo in bin/BackupPC_restore (XferLOG -> RestoreLOG).
750 * (Re)-fixed "Bad command" in log file when restore via tar or zip
751 file download is done.
753 * Added untaint to exec in Lib.pm to avoid tainted errors.
755 * Applied additional tweak to hilight patch from Tim Demarest.
757 * $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = '*' now allows privileged even with REMOTE_USER
760 * Don't display RsyncdPasswd when displaying config.pl files.
762 * Replace pipe with socketpair in bin/BackupPC_dump and bin/BackupPC_restore,
763 which increases typical buffering from 4K to 16K-64K. This improves the
766 * Add check on $ENV{LANG} setting do configure.pl: if LANG includes utf
767 then a warning is printed.
769 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
770 # Version 2.0.0beta2, 11 May 2003
771 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
773 * Added German translation, provided by Manfred Herrmann.
775 * Fixed large-file problem with rsync, reported by Manfred Herrmann.
777 * Fixed zip and tar file download from CGI under mod_perl. Reported
778 by Pierre Bourgin and Paul Lukins.
780 * Fixed directory browsing and top-level directory browsing in 2.0.0beta0.
781 Reported by several users.
783 * Added -v option to BackupPC_dump for verbose output (useful when
784 you run the command manually). Added messages for all exits.
786 * If nmblookup returns multiple IP addresses, NetBiosHostIPFind()
787 now returns the first IP address that matches the subnet mask.
788 Suggested by Tim Demarest.
790 * Fixed BackupPC::View so the top-level directory is handled correctly.
791 This allows the top-level share/directory to be restored via the
792 CGI interface. Reported by several users.
794 * Fixed RsyncFileIO failures on certain large files by replacing seek()
795 with sysseek(). Reported by Manfred Herrmann.
797 * Added configurable highlighting of PC status in the CGI summary
798 screen; submitted by Tim Demarest.
800 * Fixed command queue CGI display; submitted by Tim Demarest.
802 * BackupPC_trashClean now logs an error if it can't remove all the
803 trash and then goes back to sleep, rather than continually trying.
805 * Moved correct user (uid) check into BackupPC::Lib so that all
806 applications do a user check if $Cong{BackupPCUserVerify} is
807 set. The avoids the risk of manually running BackupPC_dump as
810 * Loss of blackout now applies to "host not found" as well as no ping.
811 Reported by Dale Renton.
813 * "Host not found" is now treated in a similar manner to "no ping".
815 * Added suse-linux init.d script from Leon Letto.
817 * Added Gentoo linux init.d script from Tim Demarest.
819 * Applied additional i18n strings from GFK and the translation team.
821 * Fixed option parsing so that getopts errors are reported and we exit.
823 * Changed reporting of Xfer PIDs so that rsync cancel works correctly.
825 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
826 # Version 2.0.0beta1, 30 Mar 2003
827 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
829 * Added Spanish translation es.pm from Javier Gonzalez.
831 * Fixed CGI browse navigation bug that causes BackupPC_Admin to wedge
832 when directories were selected in a certain order.
834 * Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite so that it can recover when the initial
835 file size is wrong. This is needed since rsync could write a file
836 whose size is different from the initial size returned in the
837 file list when that file is updated while rsync is running.
839 * Added binmode(STDIN) to BackupPC_tarExtract, suggested by Pat LoPresti
840 to fix a problem a RedHat8 with perl 5.8.0. It's unclear why this
841 helps, but it should be benign. See:
842 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1853018&forum_id=503
844 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
845 # Version 2.0.0beta0, 23 Feb 2003
846 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
848 * Support for rsync and rsyncd backup and restore. Changes to
849 BackupPC_dump, BackupPC_restore, and new modules BackupPC::Xfer::Rsync
850 and BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO.
852 * Added internationalization (i18n) code from Xavier Nicollet,
853 with additions from Guillaume Filion. Voila! BackupPC_Admin
854 now supports English and French, and adding more languages is
855 now easy. New config paramater $Conf{Language} sets the language.
857 * Added optional user-defined pre/post dump/restore commands, allowing
858 things like database shutdown/startup for dumps.
860 * Changed the way hosts are found.
862 * Added $Conf{ClientNameAlias}, which allows the name of the physical
863 client machine to be set. This allows several different backup
864 "hosts" to all refer to the same physical machine, which is
865 convenient if several different types of data need to be backed
866 up, or if different parameters are needed for different parts of
869 * Replaced $Conf{PingArgs} with $Conf{PingCmd}, added $Conf{DfCmd},
870 $Conf{NmbLookupCmd} allowing all these commands to be fully
871 configured. Also, all commands can also now be fragments of
874 * Moved all smbclient commands into the config.pl file so the specific
875 arguments can be customized. New config parameters are
876 $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}, $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} and
877 $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd}.
879 * Added new BackupPC::View module that creates views of backups
880 (handling merging etc). Updated BackupPC_Admin, BackupPC_zipCreate
881 and BackupPC_tarCreate to use BackupPC::View. This removes lots
882 of merging and mangling code from the higher-level code.
884 * Added code from Toby Johnson that allows additional users to be
885 specified in the hosts file; these users can also view/start/stop
886 and restore backups for that host. Also added a new config
887 setting $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} that allows all hosts to
888 be listed in the left nav bar for admins.
890 * Added $Conf{HardLinkMax} (default 31999) which sets the limit on
891 the maximum number of hardlinks per file in the pool. If a file
892 ever gets to this number of links a new pool file is created to
893 handle additional links.
895 * Added $Conf{PerlModuleLoad}, which allows optional additional perl
896 modules to be loaded.
898 * Added $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} and other EMail config settings to
899 allow language-specific default messages to be overridden.
901 * Added BPC_FTYPE_DELETED to lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm, allowing deleted
902 files to be represented in the attrib file correctly.
904 * Added support for environment variable BPC_SMB_PASSWD, which is the
905 client's smb password. This overrides the old environment variable
908 * Added taint cleanup for perl5.8 to lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
910 * Changed $tar_unpack_header format in BackupPC_tarExtract to correctly
911 handle files with trailing spaces.
913 * Added catching of SIG_PIPE to BackupPC_dump, and changed catch_signal
914 to ignore multiple signals of the same type.
916 * Added reporting of the largest number of hardlinks in the pool to the
919 * Adding reporting of syntax errors in the per-PC config.pl file.
921 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to handle language-specific email messages.
923 * Allow client (host) names to contain spaces. Spaces in host names
924 need to be escaped via "\" in the hosts file. The user of spaces in
925 host names is discouraged, but they should work. One feature that
926 doesn't work with host names that contain spaces is the highlighting
927 of that name in the log file display in the CGI interface. There are
928 no plans to fix this.
930 * Renamed $Conf{SmbClientTimeout} to $Conf{ClientTimeout}.
932 * Fixed all open() calls to use 3 argument form to fix handling of file
933 names with trailing whitespace. Also fixed CGI interface so these
934 file names are displayed correctly.
936 * Fixed new 2.0.0 CGI navigation bug that causes the top-level directory
937 to have a URL "&share=//boot&dir=" instead of "&share=/boot&dir=/".
938 Reported by Pascal Schelcher. Fixed similar problem reported by
941 * Added "PerlTaintCheck On" to the mod_perl section in the docs,
942 suggested by Tim Demarest.
944 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
945 # Version 1.5.0, 2 Aug 2002
946 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
948 * Changed conf/config.pl so that $Conf{TarIncrArgs} uses the --newer
949 option instead of --newer-mtime. Also removed --atime-preserve from
950 $Conf{TarClientCmd}. This makes the default settings work better
953 * Fixed configure.pl so it correctly detects a running BackupPC <= v1.4.0
954 so it can correctly warn the user to stop it before upgrading. Reported
957 * Added missing ";" to entity escape in EscapeHTML in BackupPC_Admin.
958 Reported by Guillaume Filion.
960 * Added LDAP setup to documentation from David Holland.
962 * Tar.pm now adds a "." to file paths that start with "/", so that all
963 tar paths are relative. From Ludovic Drolez.
965 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
966 # Version 1.5.0beta0, 30 Jun 2002
967 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
969 * A full set of restore options is now supported, including direct
970 restore via smbclient or tar or downloading a zip or tar file.
972 * Major additions to CGI script to support better directory navigation,
973 restore features and mod_perl. Also, file downloads from the CGI
974 interface now correctly preserve the file name and provide the
975 correct Content-Type for the most common types of files. Improved
976 directory navigation was contributed by Ryan Kucera.
978 * New script BackupPC_zipCreate (contributed by Guillaume Filion) is the
979 zip analog of BackupPC_tarCreate. BackupPC_zipCreate can be used to
980 create a zip archive of any portion of a backup.
982 * Substantial additions to BackupPC_tarCreate to support restore,
983 including modifying path names, handling hardlinks, fixing
984 support of old backups without attributes (pre-v1.4.0). Plus
985 BackupPC_tarCreate is now an offical part of the release.
986 (Lack of support for hardlinks was reported by John Stanley.)
988 * BackupPC_tarExtract now supports hardlinks and fixed pooling of
991 * A unix domain socket is now used for communication between the CGI
992 interface and BackupPC. The original TCP socket is optional. Sockets
993 are correctly re-initialized if config.pl is updated with new socket
996 * For improved security messages over the unix or TCP socket are protected
997 via an MD5 digest based on a shared secret, a sequence number, a time
998 stamp and a unique per-connection number.
1000 * Additions to configure.pl to support install of directory navigation
1003 * Fixed case where $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} or $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
1004 were set to a single string or list (in v1.4.0 only the case of
1005 hash worked correctly). Reported by Phillip Bertolus.
1007 * Fixed case of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} == 0. This setting now makes the
1008 client always subject to blackout, matching the comments in config.pl.
1009 Also fixed handling of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} < 0 in the CGI script
1010 reported by Pascal Schelcher.
1012 * Fixed byte and file totals for tar backups, reported by several users.
1014 * Fixed --newer-mtime date/timestamp format to make it ISO 8601 compliant,
1015 suggested by Erminio Baranzini.
1017 * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} in BackupPC::Xfer::Tar.pm, as
1018 well as shell escaping of tar arguments.
1020 * Fixed entity encoding of 8-bit characters in the CGI interface.
1022 * Added optional CGI headers in $Conf{CgiHeaders} that by default
1023 is set to a no-cache pragma. Suggested by Benno Zuure.
1025 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1026 # Version 1.4.0, 16 Mar 2002
1027 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1029 * BackupPC now supports tar (in addition to smb) for extracting host
1030 data. This is the most convenient option for linux/unix hosts.
1031 Tar can be configured to run over ssh, rsh or to backup a local
1032 nfs mount from the host.
1034 * Support for special files, including symbolic links, fifo, character
1035 and block device files has been added, so that all native linux/unix
1036 file types can be correctly backed up when using tar transport.
1037 Special files are all stored as regular files and the type attributes
1038 are used to remember the original file type.
1040 * All unix file attributes are now saved (and pooled when possible).
1041 This includes user and group ownership, permissions, and modification
1042 time. Smbclient also does a reasonable job of emulating unix
1043 permissions (such as mtime), and these attributes get saved too.
1045 * The new default is to not fill incremental dumps. configure.pl
1046 automatically sets $Conf{IncrFill} to 0. The default was 1
1047 (incrementals were filled with hardlinks). Since the CGI
1048 script does filling at browsing time, there is no need to
1049 fill incremental dumps.
1051 * Backup file names are now stored in "mangled" form. Each node of a
1052 path is preceded by "f", and special characters (\n, \r, % and /) are
1053 URI-encoded as "%xx", where xx is the ascii character's hex value. So
1054 c:/craig/example.txt is now stored as fc/fcraig/fexample.txt. This
1055 was done mainly so meta-data could be stored alongside the backup
1056 files without name collisions. In particular, the attributes for the
1057 files in a directory are stored in a file called "attrib", and
1058 mangling avoids file name collisions (I discarded the idea of having
1059 a duplicate directory tree for every backup just to store the
1060 attributes). Other meta-data (eg: rsync checksums) could be stored in
1061 file names preceded by, eg, "c". There are two other benefits to
1062 mangling: the share name might contain "/" (eg: "/home/craig" for tar
1063 transport), and I wanted that represented as a single level in the
1064 storage tree. Secondly, as files are written to NewFileList for later
1065 processing by BackupPC_link, embedded newlines in the file's path
1066 will cause problems which are avoided by mangling.
1068 The CGI script undoes the mangling, so it is invisibe to the user.
1069 Of course, old (unmangled) backups are still supported by the CGI
1072 * Various changes to the CGI interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1074 + Added button that allows users to manually start a full dump in
1075 addition to the existing incremental dump.
1077 + Added display of file attributes when browsing backups.
1079 + Added an optional holdoff time specified by the user when canceling
1080 a backup. BackupPC will not attempt any new backups for at least the
1081 specified time. This holdoff time can be changed whether or not a
1084 + Added supports for file mangling, and correct merging of unfilled
1085 backups from mangled or unmangled (and compressed or uncompressed)
1086 fulls when browsing or restoring.
1088 + Only displays a "Start Incr Backup" button if there are already some
1091 + For DHCP hosts, when a user tries to manually start a backup, add
1092 a check for the netbios name of both the host the request came
1093 from (REMOTE_ADDR) and the last known DHCP address for that host
1094 to see if either address matches the host. If not, an error
1095 message is display. The previous behavior was that only requests
1096 from the client itself succeeded, and requests from other machines
1099 * Changed the version numbering to X.Y.Z, instead of X.0Y. This release
1100 is 1.4.0. The first digit is for major new releases, the middle digit
1101 is for significant feature releases and improvements, and the last
1102 digit is for bug fixes. You should think of the old 1.00, 1.01, 1.02
1103 and 1.03 as 1.0.0, ..., 1.3.0.
1105 * BackupPC and the CGI script BackupPC_Admin now check that the effective
1106 user id is correct to avoid accidentally launching BackupPC as the
1107 wrong user or detecting CGI configuration problems. This behavior
1108 can be turned off using the $Conf{BackupPCUserVerify} option.
1110 * In numerous places changed "Smb" to "Xfer" (eg: log file names) to
1111 support generic names for both smb and tar transport methods. The
1112 CGI script checks for old names for backward compatibility.
1114 * Major changed to Backup_dump to support new tar transport. All transport
1115 specific code moved into BackupPC::Xfer::Smb and BackupPC::Xfer::Tar
1118 * Added workaround for a bug in Samba's smbclient for files between 2GB
1119 and 4GB. The file size in the tar header is incorrect. This allows
1120 files up to 4GB to work with smbclient, rather than 2GB. To support
1121 files larger than 2GB you must make sure perl is compiled with the
1122 uselargefiles option (use "perl -V | egrep largefiles" to check) and
1123 the pool directory must be on a file system that supports large files.
1125 * Moved the pool writing code into a module BackupPC::PoolWrite. This
1126 allows the clever file pool checking (digest, uncompressing, comparing
1127 etc with minimum disk IO) to be used easily in multiple places (eg: it
1128 is now used for writing attribute files so they can be pooled).
1130 * Changed MD5 to Digest::MD5 to avoid use of the depreceated MD5 module.
1132 * Shortened default $Conf{MyPath} so that perl's taint mode is more likely
1133 to be happy. The old $Conf{MyPath} contained /usr/local/bin, which
1134 on one user's machine was world writable and perl -T correctly
1135 complained about it.
1137 * Fixed ping command options in Lib.pm so that it works on OpenBSD.
1138 Thanks to Kyle Amon for sending the fix. Decided to move the
1139 ping options from Lib.pm into config.pl (as $Conf{PingArgs}) and
1140 now configure.pl tries to come up with a sensible default based on
1143 * Fixed argument checking in BackupPC_tarExtract to allow '$' in the
1144 share name (eg: C$). Thanks to Jules Agee for this fix. Also
1145 changed the default config.pl so that single quotes are used
1146 everywhere so that people don't get tripped up putting '$' inside
1147 double-quoted strings.
1149 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1150 # Version 1.03, 9 Dec 2001
1151 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1153 * BackupPC now has full support for compression. There are now two
1154 pool areas, the original pool for uncompressed files, and cpool for
1155 compressed files. The compression is done by Compress::Zlib.
1156 Compression reduces the pool disk usage by around 40%, although your
1157 mileage may vary. Compression is optional and can also be specified on
1158 a per-PC basis (although this will cost more pool storage since many
1159 backup files will have to be stored in both compressed and
1162 * A new script, BackupPC_compressPool, can be run to compress the entire
1163 pool. This is used once to migrate all the pool data from uncompressed
1164 to compressed on existing installations. Read the documentation
1165 (Installing BackupPC/Compressing an existing pool) before running
1166 BackupPC_compressPool!
1168 Alternatively, compression can simply be turned on and all new backups
1169 will be compressed. Both old (uncompressed) and new (compressed)
1170 backups can be browsed and viewed. Eventually, the old backups will
1171 expire and all the pool data will be compressed. However, until the
1172 old backups expire, this approach could require 60% or more additional
1173 pool storage space to store both uncompressed and compressed versions
1174 of the backup files.
1176 * Significant improvements to the cgi interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1178 - much better layout navigation
1179 - handles compressed backup files and compressed log files
1180 - handles unfilled incremental dumps
1181 - better backup directory browsing navigation
1182 - reports compression statistics
1183 - $Conf{CgiDateFormatMMDD} allows you to set date format (MM/DD or DD/MM)
1184 - Additional customization with $Conf{CgiHeaderFontType},
1185 $Conf{CgiHeaderFontSize}, $Conf{CgiNavBarBgColor}, and
1186 $Conf{CgiHeaderBgColor}.
1188 * Eliminated BackupPC_queueAll. BackupPC directly reads the hosts
1189 file and queues the PCs itself. Like config.pl, BackupPC will
1190 re-read the hosts file on each wakeup if its modification time
1191 changes, or upon a SIGHUP. This also makes for better behavior
1192 when adding a host: if you add hosts, simply send a SIGHUP to
1193 BackupPC or wait for the next wakeup.
1195 * BackupPC_dump now compresses the SmbLOG file if compression is enabled.
1197 * BackupPC_dump keeps track of compressed file sizes so that compression
1198 statistics can be reported by the cgi interface.
1200 * Aging of old log files now handles compressed log files (.z extension).
1202 * Added configuration option $Conf{IncrFill} to specify whether
1203 incremental dumps should be filled in. Old behavior was that
1204 filling was on. Now it's optional. See config.pl for more
1207 * BackupPC_nightly now cleans and generates statistics for both
1208 the uncompressed pool and compressed pool (cpool).
1210 * Added new utility script BackupPC_zcat that can be used to
1211 uncompresses BackupPC files.
1213 * configure.pl offers various options related to compression,
1214 depending upon whether this is a new install or upgrade,
1215 and whether or not Compress::Zlib is installed.
1217 * configure.pl now makes a backup copy of config.pl before
1218 config.pl is updated.
1220 * added three new fields to the backups file to handle optional
1221 filling and compression stats.
1223 * Added -e option to BackupPC_dump. BackupPC now invokes BackupPC_dump -e
1224 on each dhcp host once each night to verify that very old backups are
1225 expired. This ensures that very old backups are expired even if
1226 the dhcp host has not been on the network for a long time.
1228 * fixed bug in BackupPC::FileZIO.pm that required Compress::Zlib,
1229 even if compression was off. Thanks to Steve Holmes for reporting
1232 * fixed bug that caused a BackupPC queue to get blocked when a backup
1233 cancel attempt was made during the BackupPC_link phase.
1235 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1236 # Version 1.02, 28 Oct 2001.
1237 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1239 * Added new script BackupPC_tarExtract to extract the smbclient tar
1240 archive. This reduces disk writes by perhaps 90-95% and disk reads by
1241 50%. Previously, tar was used to extract and write everything to disk.
1242 Then BackupPC_dump would read enough of each file to compute the MD5
1243 digest, and then compare the full file with candidate pool files. So
1244 for each 1MB file that matches a single file in the pool, there would
1245 be 1MB of disk writes and 2MB of disk reads (to compare two 1MB files).
1247 BackupPC_tarExtract instead extracts the archive using a 1MB memory
1248 buffer. This allows the MD5 digest to be computed without touching the
1249 disk. Next, any potential pool file compares are done by comparing the
1250 pool file against the incoming tar data in memory, which only requires
1251 the pool file to be read. So for each 1MB file that matches a single
1252 file in the pool, there are now no disk writes, and only 1MB of reads.
1253 BackupPC_tarExtract handles arbitrary size files and repeated
1254 potential pool matches. If the incoming file doesn't match the pool
1255 then it is written to disk (once the pool is mature this happens maybe
1258 * Substantial changes to BackupPC_dump:
1260 + BackupPC_tarExtract is now used in place of tar.
1262 + BackupPC_dump now reads the output from both smbclient and
1263 BackupPC_tarExtract and merges them into SmbLOG.
1265 + Named pipes are no longer used to connect smbclient to tar
1266 (now BackupPC_tarExtract). Regular pipes are used instead.
1267 This avoids the need to system mknod or mkfifo.
1269 + Locked files on the client that can't be read by smbclient
1270 previously were filled with 0x0 bytes by smbclient, meaning
1271 tar extracted a useless file filled with 0x0 bytes. Now,
1272 BackupPC_dump watches the output of smbclient and removes
1273 any files that smbclient couldn't read. This avoids storing
1274 useless files. It tries to replace such files with a hard link
1275 to a previous dump. These actions appear in the log file.
1277 * added new module lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm. This handles pool file
1278 I/O and is used by BackupPC_tarExtract. BackupPC::FileIO supports
1279 reading and writing compressed and regular files and provides all the
1280 hooks for compression support in BackupPC (should be supported in next
1281 version). BackupPC::FileIO also does efficient writing of files that
1282 contain leading 0x0 bytes (by seeking past the 0x0 bytes). This is
1283 helpful when smbclient reads a locked file, and it fills the tar
1284 output with a file of the correct size but all 0x0. Such files will be
1285 later removed by BackupPC_dump. But in the meantime, BackupPC::FileIO
1286 writes such files efficiently (as sparse files), meaning just a few
1287 blocks of disk space will be needed even if the file is large.
1289 * alive/dead counting for blackout now works correctly for DHCP hosts.
1291 * BackupPC resets activeJob on startup, to fix bug when BackupPC was
1292 killed and restarted with backups running.
1294 * added extra non blocking select() in BackupPC to make sure the socket
1297 * BackupPC avoids queuing multiple BackupPC_queueAll's on the CmdQueue.
1299 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to correctly parse the locked file
1300 error from 2.2.1a smbclient, so that missing Outlook file emails
1301 can be correctly sent.
1303 * Changed HostInfoRead() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm to lowercase the
1304 hostname read from the hosts file.
1306 * BackupPC_Admin provides general summary when the host name is empty.
1308 * configure.pl (and BackupPC) now requires perl 5.6.0 or later.
1310 * configure.pl complains if BackupPC is already running, reminding you
1311 to stop it before upgrading.
1313 * updated documentation, and fixed auto-insertion of config.pl into
1314 BackupPC.pod (previously the last config parameter was left out of
1317 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1318 # Version 1.01, 30 Sep 2001
1319 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1321 * Documentation cleanup in README, doc/BackupPC.pod, conf/config.pl.
1323 * BackupPC_sendMail now reads the optional per-PC config file, allowing
1324 email configuration parameters to be set on a per-PC basis.
1326 * Removed the unused 4096-length MD5 digest code in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
1328 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1329 # Version 1.00, 21 Sep 2001
1330 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1332 * Initial release of BackupPC on sourceforge.net.