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 * configure.pl checks version of Encode.pm. Reported by Chris Stone.
26 * Several fixes to bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary from Stian Jordet.
28 * Fixed table width in backup browsing to avoid Firefox layout anomoly,
29 provided by Jono Woodhouse.
31 * CSS file updates from Jono Woodhouse. Priod (v2) version is included
32 as BackupPC_stnd_orig.css in case people prefer the old skin.
34 * More compact host summary, including disabled host indication,
37 * BackupPC.pid is now world readable, suggested by Casper Thomsen.
39 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
40 # Version 3.0.0beta1, 30 Jul 2006
41 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
43 * Fixed several Xfer charset conversions.
45 * Added some CGI utf8 conversions from Rodrigo Real and Vincent
48 * Host name is forced to lower case, to match 2.x.
50 * Fixed LOG file naming in BackupPC_restore and BackupPC_archive.
52 * GFK applied fr.pm corrections from Nicolas Stransky.
54 * Updated init.d/src scripts for FHS (ie: replaced __TOPDIR__/log
55 with __LOGDIR__ and __TOPDIR__/conf with __CONFDIR__). Patch
56 provided by Rodrigo Real.
58 * Added --log-dir and --conf-dir options to configure.pl.
59 Reported by Vincent Fleuranceau.
61 * Updated File::RsyncP version check in configure.pl, reported
62 by Vincent Fleuranceau. Changed File::RsyncP version to 0.64.
64 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
65 # Version 3.0.0beta0, 11 Jul 2006
66 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
68 * Added configuration and host CGI editor.
70 * Added rsync hardlink support. Requires latest version of
73 * Decoupled BackupPC_dump from BackupPC_nightly by making
74 asynchronous file linking/delete robust to race conditions.
75 Now only BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link are mutually
76 exclusive so only one runs at a time, and BackupPC_dump and
77 BackupPC_restore can run anytime.
79 * Added support for multi-level incrementals. In the style of dump(1),
80 the level of each incremental can be specified. Each incremental
81 backups up everything since the most recent backup of a lower level
82 (fulls are always level 0). Previous behavior was all incrementals
83 were level 1, meaning they backed up everything since the last full
84 (level 0). Default configuration is all incrementals are level 1.
86 * Server file names are now in utf8 and optional conversion
87 to/from client name charsets can be configured. All CGI pages
88 now use the utf8 charset.
90 * Backup metadata is now additionally saved to pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo,
91 in addition to pc/HOST/backups. In case pc/HOST/backups gets trashed,
92 then a new script BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary can read the per-backup
93 metadata from pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo and reconstruct the backups file.
94 Roberto Moreno also pointed out an early error in the CVS version.
96 * Added Storage module and Storage::Text which localizes all the
97 text data file reading/writing (eg: backups, restores, archives
98 and config.pl files). Added read verify after all write
99 operations for robustness. Additional backends (eg: SQL)
100 can be added in the future as new subclasses of the Storage
103 * Added Config module, and Config::Meta that contains meta data
104 about configuration parameters.
106 * Added RSS support from Rich Duzenbury.
108 * Translations of new 3.0 language strings from Guillaume Filion,
109 Reginaldo Ferreira, Ralph Passgang, Lieven Bridts, Guus Houtzager,
112 * Added optional checking of exit status of Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post
113 UserCmd, requested by Kiko Jover, Matthias Bertschy and others.
115 * For new installations configure.pl tries to comply with the file
116 system hierarchy standard, which means all the configuration files
117 below /etc/BackupPC and log files go below /var/log/BackupPC.
119 * Added Slackware init.d script from Tony Nelson.
121 * Fixed error reporting when restore/archive fail to write the
122 request file to the client directory.
124 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt for DumpPreShareCmd and DumpPostShareCmd.
126 * Apply patch from Pete Wenzel to add smbClientPath => $Conf{SmbClientPath}
127 to DumpPreUserCmd etc.
129 * Added Portuguese Brazillian pt_br.pm from Reginaldo Ferreira.
131 * Jean-Michel Beuken reported several bugs in configure.pl in CVS 3.0.0.
133 * Old backup email warnings now ignore partials requested by Samuel Bancal
135 * Applied patch to bin/BackupPC_sendEmail from Marc Prewitt that
136 ignores any file starting with "." in the pc directory when
137 it is generating warnings about old/unused files/directories.
139 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt to fix host queue order.
141 * Applied Lorenzo Cappelletti's it.pm patch.
143 * Applied Wander Winkelhorst's nl.pm patch.
145 * Applied Alberto Marconi's it.pm patch.
147 * Add NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT to pst read error check in
148 BackupPC_sendEmail to fix bug reported by Dale Renton.
150 * Added fixup of $ENV{REMOTE_USER} to lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm in the
151 case of using mod_authz_ldap; patch submitted by Alain Perrier.
153 * Added env LC_ALL=C to $Conf{TarClientCmd} and $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd}
154 to avoid locale problems, suggested by Ludovic Drolez.
156 * Changed ping output parsing to pick out average rtt time, based
157 on patch from Ron Bickers.
159 * Removed leading "./" and top-level "./" directory from
160 zip archives generated by BackupPC_zipCreate. Reported
161 by Josh (hecktarzuli).
163 * BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate now allow "@"
164 in share names. Reported by Robert Waldner.
166 * NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES is now a fatal error for
167 smbclient transfers, suggested by Brian Shand.
169 * Changed bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to use /bin/csh instead of
170 /bin/sh. That way any errors in the pipeline are reported
171 via the exit status, instead of just the last.
173 * Added $Conf{EMailHeaders} for additional email headers, requested
174 by Ludovic Gasc. If the Content-Type charset is set to utf8 then
175 the body of the email is sent in utf8 coding.
177 * Made shareName argument regexp checking more general to allow parens.
179 * Added some debian init.d instructions to init.d/README from
182 * Documentation updates from Richard Ames, JP Vossen, Torsten Finke.
184 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
185 # Version 2.1.2pl2, 18 Jun 2006
186 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
188 * In conf/config.pl, changed --devices to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}
189 and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to fix "fileListReceive failed" and
190 "Can't open .../f%2f for empty output" errors with rsync 2.6.7+.
191 Fix proposed by Justin Pessa and Vincent Ho, and confirmed by
194 * Added patch from Michael (mna.news) to ignore "file is unchanged"
195 message from tar 1.15.x during incremental backups.
197 * Fixed creation of .rsrc directories in bin/BackupPC_tarExtract
198 when used with xtar on MacOS. Reported by Samuel Bancal and
199 Matthew Radey, who helped with debugging.
201 * Fixed bug in BackupPC_tarExtract for files >8GB in size whose
202 lengths are multiples of 256. Reported by Jamie Myers and
203 Marko Tukiainen, who both helped debugging the problem.
205 * Fixed bug in lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm that caused
206 incorrected deleted attributes to be set in directories
207 where one of the files had an rsync phase 1 retry during
208 an incremental. Reported by Tony Nelson.
210 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
211 # Version 2.1.2, 5 Sep 2005
212 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
214 * Fixed simple but serious bug in bin/BackupPC_tarCreate that prevented
215 hardlinks being saved correctly. Debugged by Michael (mna.news)
216 with several other people.
218 * Fixed serious bug in bin/BackupPC_dump reported/debugged by Dan Niles
219 that can happen when multiple full backups are deleted after
220 $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is changed.
222 * Changed lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm so that link to "$TopDir/conf/$host.pl"
223 is displayed if it exists. Patch from Andreas Vögele.
225 * Applied daemonize patch to bin/BackupPC from:
226 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301057
228 * It's now a fatal error if $Conf{CompressLevel} is set, but
229 Compress::Zlib is not found. Before $Conf{CompressLevel} was
230 silently set to 0, which made all the backups uncompressed.
231 That meant the user never knew if they forget to install
232 Compress::Zlib but were expecting compression to be on.
234 * Finally increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to 72000 (20 hours).
236 * Added sleep 1 in restart() function in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc,
237 suggested by Jon Hood.
239 * Added $DestDir to the path of the CGI image directory in configure.pl.
240 Patch submitted by Andreas Vögele.
242 * Applied extensive patch to French translation from Frederic Lehobey.
244 * Minor change to Dutch language $Lang{Pool_Stat} from Wander Winkelhorst.
246 * Minor change to French language $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} and
247 $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupSubj} from Ludovic Gasc.
249 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
250 # Version 2.1.1, 13 Mar 2005
251 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
253 * Fixed bug in top-level restore using rsync XferMethod.
254 BackupPC::View was leaving an extra leading "/" at the start
255 of top-level directories, messing up the FileList sort order.
256 Reported and debugged by Gail Edwards.
258 * Added pathCreate() to BackupPC_tarExtract so that new directories
259 are created. Required for xtar on MacOSX since the virtual resource
260 fork directories (.rsrc) are not explicitly included in the tar
261 archive - just the files below .rsrc are.
263 * Changed $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt.* to $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt*
264 in $parCmd in bin/BackupPC_archiveHost.
266 * Fixed HostSortCompare() in BackupPC to correctly sort hosts so
267 those with the oldest backups get queued first.
269 * Changed test in BackupPC_sendEmail so that directories/files
270 starting with "." in $TopDir/pc are ignored, rather than
273 * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail to include NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT
274 in check for bad outlook files.
276 * Ensure that %Status and %StatusHost are empty if requesting
277 status on hosts in lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm GetStatusInfo().
278 Fixes problem with new hosts under mod_perl.
280 * Added images/icon-hardlink.gif so that hardlinks show file type icon.
282 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
283 # Version 2.1.0pl1, 15 Aug 2004
284 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
286 * Added fix to nl.pm from Lieven Bridts.
288 * Added patch from Tony Nelson to remove $Info{pid} before BackupPC
289 writes the status and shuts down.
291 * Changed BackupPC_nightly so that it doesn't call find() if the
292 directory doesn't exist. This avoids errors in certain versions
293 of perl. Reported by Bernd Rilling.
295 * Fixed BackupPC::CGI::Lib to correctly re-load config.pl for mod_perl.
296 Reported by Tony Nelson and Jimmy Liang.
298 * Explicitly untaint $In{host} in BackupPC::CGI::Lib to fix problem
299 reported by Thomas Tempé.
301 * Added newline to "...skipping because of user requested delay..."
302 log message in BackupPC_dump. Reported by Wayne Scott.
304 * Added read file size error checking to BackupPC_tarCreate.
305 Reported by Brandon Evans.
307 * Added check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO to ensure that when
308 compression is toggled on/off, a compressed backup doesn't link
309 to an uncompressed pool file (and an uncompressed backup doesn't
310 link to a compressed pool file). Reported by Brandon Evans.
312 * Updated documentation with new dirvish URL and a typo from
315 * Fix to BackupPC_sendEmail so that it correctly sends admin emails
316 for hosts that have failed backups. Reported by Simon Kuhn.
318 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
319 # Version 2.1.0, 20 Jun 2004
320 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
322 * Added Dutch translation from Lieven Bridts, with tweaks from
325 * Added PC-specific config file read in CGI/Archive.pm. Patch
328 * Added non-zero exit code to BackupPC_zcat when uncompress fails.
329 Patch from Pete Wenzel.
331 * Cosmetic changes to PC Summary and Log file language strings from
334 * BackupPC::Lib tries to be more careful when renaming the backups
335 file to backups.old. There have been reports of backups being
336 empty, perhaps when the BackupPC data file system fills up.
337 Now backups is not renamed to backups.old if backups is empty.
339 * BackupPC now closes stderr and stdout before renaming and
340 re-opening the log file.
342 * Pre/post backup/restore/archive commands now correctly set
343 "type" to either incr/full/restore/archive, and now cmdType
344 is the type of Pre/post backup/restore/archive command.
346 * BackupPC_archive correctly terminates archive processes on
349 * Updates to BackupPC_stnd.css with absolute font sizes instead
352 * BackupPC_dump now makes sure that the $Conf{FullAgeMax} check
353 also ensures the full backup is older than the maximum age
354 expected from $Conf{FullPeriod}.
356 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
357 # Version 2.1.0beta2pl1, 30 May 2004
358 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
360 * Fixed bug in rsync checksum caching code in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest.
362 * BackupPC_zipCreate now ensures the earliest mtime is 1/1/1980,
363 since zip file formats don't support earlier dates. Reported
366 * CGI restore via zip and tar now makes sure stderr is ignored
367 when BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate are run.
368 Previously any stderr output would get mixed in the archive,
369 corrupting it. Reported by Dan Niles.
371 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
372 # Version 2.1.0beta2, 23 May 2004
373 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
375 * $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} now apply
376 to every share, rather than just the first, in the case where
377 they are arrays and there are multiple shares. Suggested
380 * On the phase 2 retry pass with rsync, verify the cached checksums
381 if checksum caching is turned on. This will catch the case of
382 cached checksums being incorrectly appended to the compressed
383 pool file. Added new config parameter $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb}
384 so that cached checksums are verified with a selectable probability.
385 Also, increased File::RsyncP version number to 0.51.
387 * configure.pl now supports an optional batch mode. Command-line
388 options are used to specify all the information that configure.pl
389 needs. This is useful for building auto-install packages.
390 Also, configure.pl now includes pod documentation, so you can do
391 "perldoc configure.pl" to see all the command-line options.
392 Suggested, tested and tweaked by Stuart Herbert for possible
395 * At each wakeup, clients are now queued based on how old the most
396 recent backup is. Clients with errors are queued first, with
397 the oldest error times going first. The rest of the clients are
398 queued next, with the clients with the oldest backup going first.
399 Previously the clients were simply queued in alphabetic order.
400 Suggested by Mike Trisko and Tony Nelson.
402 * Added config parameter $Conf{PartialAgeMax} that controls whether
403 partials are saved at all, and if so, whether the partial will be
404 ignored at the next full backup if it is too old.
406 * BackupPC_tarExtract now allows empty archives without reporting
407 an error. Reported by Don Silvia.
409 * Removed Browse Backups link from Nav Bar in Archive Info display.
410 Reported by Ralph Paßgang.
412 * Fixed documentation display for regular users. Reported by Ralph Paßgang.
414 * Status and PC Summary now work for regular users and only show
415 that user's hosts. Server general status information only appears
416 for admins. Suggested by Ralph Paßgang.
418 * Moved the last three navigation-bar links (docs, FAQ and SF) to
419 a new config parameter $Conf{CgiNavBarLinks}. This allows
420 these links to be locally configured. Based on a patch
421 submitted by Ralph Paßgang.
423 * Allow the navigation bar search box to be disabled by
424 setting $Conf{CgiSearchBoxEnable} to 0. Based on a patch
425 submitted by Ralph Paßgang.
427 * Updates to de.pm from Ralph Paßgang.
429 * Made the BackupPC icon a link to the SF BackupPC project page.
431 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
432 # Version 2.1.0beta1, 4 Apr 2004
433 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
435 * The CSS definition has been removed from the config.pl file and
436 is now a separate file, BackupPC_stnd.css. A new config variable,
437 $Conf{CgiCSSFile}, gives the name of the CSS file to use.
438 Suggested by Ender Mathias.
440 * Fixed the filling of the host name select box for admins.
441 The default $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} is now 1.
442 Reported by Doug Lytle.
444 * Cleaned up warning message for restore using rsync when checksum
445 caching is on, but when file didn't have cached checksums.
447 * Fixed BackupPC_archiveHost to support par2 (par2cmdline).
448 Patch submitted by Jaco Bongers and adapted by Josh Marshall.
450 * Improved stat() usage in BackupPC_nightly, plus some other cleanup,
451 giving a significant performance improvement. Patch submitted by
454 * Allow several BackupPC_nightly processes to run in parallel based
455 on new $Conf{BackupPCNightlyJobs} setting. This speeds up the
456 traversal of the pool, reducing the overall run time for
459 * Allow BackupPC_nightly to split the pool traversal across several
460 nightly runs. This improves the running time per night, at the expense
461 of a slight increase in disk storage as unused pool files might not
462 be deleted for a couple of days. Controller by new config setting
463 $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}.
465 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
466 # Version 2.1.0beta0, 20 Mar 2004
467 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
469 * A failed full dump is now saved as a partial (incomplete) dump,
470 provided it includes some files. This can be used for browsing,
471 restoring etc, and will also form the basis of resuming full
472 dumps. Only one partial is kept, and it is removed as soon
473 as a successful full (or a new partial) is done.
475 * Added support for resuming a full dump for rsync. The partial
476 full is kept, and to resume an incremental is done against the
477 partial, and a full is done for the rest.
479 * Added support for Rsync checksum caching. Rsync checksum are
480 appended to the compressed pool files. This means that block
481 and file checksums do not need to be recomputed on the server
482 when using rsync. Requires a patch to rsync to support fixed
483 checksum seeds. This patch is included in the cygwin-rsyncd
484 release on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
486 * Major addition of Archive feature from Josh Marshall. Special
487 clients can be configured to be archive targets (eg: tape drives,
488 CD-R). Any subset of the backup clients can be selected and tar
489 archives are created, optionally compressed and split and written
490 to the output device. Logs are maintained and are browsable.
492 * Major changes from Ryan Kucera to add style sheets to the CGI
493 interface, allowing easy customization. Added new icons and
494 BackupPC logo. Numerous navigation improvements.
496 * Added directory history display to BackupPC_Admin, allowing the
497 user to quickly see which files changed between backups on a
500 * Added exponential expiry option for full dumps. This allows you
503 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by
504 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
505 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
506 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
507 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
509 and so on. This allows you, for example, to keep 4 weekly fulls,
510 followed by 6 fulls every 4 weeks (approx 1 month) and 2 fulls at
511 16 weeks, for roughly 1 year of history. This works by deleting
512 every other full as each expiry boundary is crossed. Suggested
515 * Added Italian language translation it.pm from Lorenzo Cappelletti.
517 * Major updates to language files for new features and tags changes.
518 Updated makeDist to do pedantic consistency checking of language
521 * Addition of administration options from Paul Lukins. Initial
522 page allows server to be started/stopped/reloaded. This still
523 needs some i18n work. Currently the server start/stop is
526 * Split BackupPC_Admin into a set of modules, one for each major action.
527 Each action is now a seperate module in lib/BackupPC/CGI.
529 * Allow the blackout period begin/end to span midnight. Adapted
530 from patch submitted by David Smith.
532 * Allow multiple blackout periods, with new config variable
533 $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} that replaces the old variables
534 $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin}, $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}, and
535 $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}. Based on patch submitted by
538 * Disabled alarms after forks to avoid timeouts in children that
539 do not reset their alarm. Prompted by ideas from James Leu.
541 * Added options for block size, buffer size and share wild-card to
542 BackupPC_tarCreate. Also added negative backup number options
543 that are relative to the last (so -1 is the last), suggested by
544 William McKee and Carl Soderstrom.
546 * The "Wrong user" message in BackupPC::Lib now goes to stderr, so that
547 the user is more likely to see the error with BackupPC_tarCreate.
548 Reported by Paul Fox.
550 * Add creation of per-PC directory in BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm in
551 case it doesn't already exist.
553 * Added -q -x to all ssh commands in conf/config.pl. Suggested by
554 SI Reasoning and Niranjan Ghate.
556 * Changed restore code so that option #1 (direct restore) can be
557 disabled if the restore command is undefined. Disabling direct
558 restore is necessary if the share is read-only. Suggested by
561 * Changed regexp in lib/BackupPC/Smb.pm to allow numbers with both
562 a decimal point or comma for international versions of Samba.
563 Patch submitted by Frank Gard.
565 * Browsing and directory history now sort the files in a
566 case-insensitive manner.
568 * Changed exec() syntax to allow executing commands whose path
571 * BackupPC_dump no longer removes backups if $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
572 is zero or undefined. The protects the existing backups in the
573 case of a bad config.pl file. Suggested by Christian Warden.
575 * Swapped the Server and Hosts sections on the Nav bar. Moved the
576 host search text box to the top of the hosts section. This was
577 done to move the variable-length part of the Nav bar (when all
578 hosts are displayed) to the bottom.
580 * Fixed a bug in tar restore related to how the common prefix path is
581 removed. Now ensure that the common path is at a directory boundary.
582 Reported by Patrick Neuner.
584 * Added --chuid ${USER} to init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc. Suggested by
585 SI Reasoning, Pascal Pochol, Michael Evanoff and others.
587 * Added Suse notes to init.d/README from Bruno Vernay.
589 * Added Apache 2 documentation fix from Michael Tuzi.
591 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
592 # Version 2.0.2, 6 Oct 2003
593 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
595 * Fixed stupid last-minute change in octal size conversion in
598 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
599 # Version 2.0.1, 5 Oct 2003
600 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
602 * Fixed handling of >= 8GB files in BackupPC_tarExtract and >= 4GB
603 files in BackupPC_tarCreate.
605 * Removed smbclient size repair in BackupPC_tarExtract for files
606 between 2GB and 4GB. This means that BackupPC_tarExtract 2.0.1
607 doesn't behave the same as 2.0.0 for file sizes between 2GB and 4GB
608 extacted using smbclient 2.2.x. If you have problems backing up
609 files whose size is between 2GB and 4GB using smbclient 2.2.x
610 you should upgrade smbclient to 3.0, since it now generates
613 * Replace PingClientPath with PingPath in configure.pl.
615 * Removed -T (taint mode) on binaries installed in configure.pl.
617 * Added support for smbclient from samba version 3.0.0.
619 * Fixed $Conf{HardLinkMax} limit check in BackupPC::Lib; reported
622 * In BackupPC_Admin, default REMOTE_USER to $Conf{BackupPCUser}
623 if it is not defined. This allows the CGI interface to work
624 when AdminUsers = '*'. Reported by Quentin Arce.
626 * For SMB, code that detected files with a read-locked region (eg:
627 outlook .pst files), removed them and then tried to link with an
628 earlier version was broken. This code missed a step of mangling
629 the file names. This is now fixed. Reported by Pierre Bourgin.
631 * A backup of a share that has zero files is now considered
632 fatal. This is used to catch miscellaneous Xfer errors that
633 result in no files being backed up. A new config parameter
634 $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} (defaults to 1) and can be set to
635 zero to turn off this check. Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
636 Additional change: this check only applies to a full dump.
638 * SMB: now detect NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on entire share or BackupFilesOnly
639 (also ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) for older versions of
640 smbclient.) Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
642 * SMB: now detects "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME" and
643 the dump is considered failed.
645 * Rsync: Previously BackupFilesOnly = '/' did --include '/' --exclude '/*',
646 which just included the '/' directory and nothing below. Now it
647 does just --include '/', which should include everything.
650 * Add hostError to DumpPostUserCmd variable substitutions for both dump
653 * Verbose output in Lib.pm goes to STDERR, not STDOUT. This now
654 makes BackupPC_dump -v work better.
656 * Don't allow browsing with ".." in directory in case a user tries
657 to trick BackupPC_Admin into displaying directories outside where
660 * Required File::RsyncP version is now 0.44, since File::RsyncP 0.44
661 fixes large file (>2GB) bugs. Large file bugs reported by Steve
664 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
665 # Version 2.0.0, 14 Jun 2003
666 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
668 * Minor tweaks to disable utf8 on utf8-capable machines (eg: RH8+).
669 Added "no utf8" to all programs, and added binmode() to relevant
672 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
673 # Version 2.0.0beta3, 1 Jun 2003
674 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
676 * Several improvements to restore: cancel now reports the correct
677 message and cleans up correctly.
679 * Rsync with whitespace and wildcard excludes fixed by replacing
680 argList with argList+ in config.pl plus a fix to Lib.pm for
681 shell escaping array arguments.
683 * Fixed rsync restore for character and block special devices
684 (major and minor device numbers weren't correctly restored).
686 * Fixed typo in bin/BackupPC_restore (XferLOG -> RestoreLOG).
688 * (Re)-fixed "Bad command" in log file when restore via tar or zip
689 file download is done.
691 * Added untaint to exec in Lib.pm to avoid tainted errors.
693 * Applied additional tweak to hilight patch from Tim Demarest.
695 * $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = '*' now allows privileged even with REMOTE_USER
698 * Don't display RsyncdPasswd when displaying config.pl files.
700 * Replace pipe with socketpair in bin/BackupPC_dump and bin/BackupPC_restore,
701 which increases typical buffering from 4K to 16K-64K. This improves the
704 * Add check on $ENV{LANG} setting do configure.pl: if LANG includes utf
705 then a warning is printed.
707 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
708 # Version 2.0.0beta2, 11 May 2003
709 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
711 * Added German translation, provided by Manfred Herrmann.
713 * Fixed large-file problem with rsync, reported by Manfred Herrmann.
715 * Fixed zip and tar file download from CGI under mod_perl. Reported
716 by Pierre Bourgin and Paul Lukins.
718 * Fixed directory browsing and top-level directory browsing in 2.0.0beta0.
719 Reported by several users.
721 * Added -v option to BackupPC_dump for verbose output (useful when
722 you run the command manually). Added messages for all exits.
724 * If nmblookup returns multiple IP addresses, NetBiosHostIPFind()
725 now returns the first IP address that matches the subnet mask.
726 Suggested by Tim Demarest.
728 * Fixed BackupPC::View so the top-level directory is handled correctly.
729 This allows the top-level share/directory to be restored via the
730 CGI interface. Reported by several users.
732 * Fixed RsyncFileIO failures on certain large files by replacing seek()
733 with sysseek(). Reported by Manfred Herrmann.
735 * Added configurable highlighting of PC status in the CGI summary
736 screen; submitted by Tim Demarest.
738 * Fixed command queue CGI display; submitted by Tim Demarest.
740 * BackupPC_trashClean now logs an error if it can't remove all the
741 trash and then goes back to sleep, rather than continually trying.
743 * Moved correct user (uid) check into BackupPC::Lib so that all
744 applications do a user check if $Cong{BackupPCUserVerify} is
745 set. The avoids the risk of manually running BackupPC_dump as
748 * Loss of blackout now applies to "host not found" as well as no ping.
749 Reported by Dale Renton.
751 * "Host not found" is now treated in a similar manner to "no ping".
753 * Added suse-linux init.d script from Leon Letto.
755 * Added Gentoo linux init.d script from Tim Demarest.
757 * Applied additional i18n strings from GFK and the translation team.
759 * Fixed option parsing so that getopts errors are reported and we exit.
761 * Changed reporting of Xfer PIDs so that rsync cancel works correctly.
763 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
764 # Version 2.0.0beta1, 30 Mar 2003
765 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
767 * Added Spanish translation es.pm from Javier Gonzalez.
769 * Fixed CGI browse navigation bug that causes BackupPC_Admin to wedge
770 when directories were selected in a certain order.
772 * Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite so that it can recover when the initial
773 file size is wrong. This is needed since rsync could write a file
774 whose size is different from the initial size returned in the
775 file list when that file is updated while rsync is running.
777 * Added binmode(STDIN) to BackupPC_tarExtract, suggested by Pat LoPresti
778 to fix a problem a RedHat8 with perl 5.8.0. It's unclear why this
779 helps, but it should be benign. See:
780 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1853018&forum_id=503
782 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
783 # Version 2.0.0beta0, 23 Feb 2003
784 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
786 * Support for rsync and rsyncd backup and restore. Changes to
787 BackupPC_dump, BackupPC_restore, and new modules BackupPC::Xfer::Rsync
788 and BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO.
790 * Added internationalization (i18n) code from Xavier Nicollet,
791 with additions from Guillaume Filion. Voila! BackupPC_Admin
792 now supports English and French, and adding more languages is
793 now easy. New config paramater $Conf{Language} sets the language.
795 * Added optional user-defined pre/post dump/restore commands, allowing
796 things like database shutdown/startup for dumps.
798 * Changed the way hosts are found.
800 * Added $Conf{ClientNameAlias}, which allows the name of the physical
801 client machine to be set. This allows several different backup
802 "hosts" to all refer to the same physical machine, which is
803 convenient if several different types of data need to be backed
804 up, or if different parameters are needed for different parts of
807 * Replaced $Conf{PingArgs} with $Conf{PingCmd}, added $Conf{DfCmd},
808 $Conf{NmbLookupCmd} allowing all these commands to be fully
809 configured. Also, all commands can also now be fragments of
812 * Moved all smbclient commands into the config.pl file so the specific
813 arguments can be customized. New config parameters are
814 $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}, $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} and
815 $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd}.
817 * Added new BackupPC::View module that creates views of backups
818 (handling merging etc). Updated BackupPC_Admin, BackupPC_zipCreate
819 and BackupPC_tarCreate to use BackupPC::View. This removes lots
820 of merging and mangling code from the higher-level code.
822 * Added code from Toby Johnson that allows additional users to be
823 specified in the hosts file; these users can also view/start/stop
824 and restore backups for that host. Also added a new config
825 setting $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} that allows all hosts to
826 be listed in the left nav bar for admins.
828 * Added $Conf{HardLinkMax} (default 31999) which sets the limit on
829 the maximum number of hardlinks per file in the pool. If a file
830 ever gets to this number of links a new pool file is created to
831 handle additional links.
833 * Added $Conf{PerlModuleLoad}, which allows optional additional perl
834 modules to be loaded.
836 * Added $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} and other EMail config settings to
837 allow language-specific default messages to be overridden.
839 * Added BPC_FTYPE_DELETED to lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm, allowing deleted
840 files to be represented in the attrib file correctly.
842 * Added support for environment variable BPC_SMB_PASSWD, which is the
843 client's smb password. This overrides the old environment variable
846 * Added taint cleanup for perl5.8 to lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
848 * Changed $tar_unpack_header format in BackupPC_tarExtract to correctly
849 handle files with trailing spaces.
851 * Added catching of SIG_PIPE to BackupPC_dump, and changed catch_signal
852 to ignore multiple signals of the same type.
854 * Added reporting of the largest number of hardlinks in the pool to the
857 * Adding reporting of syntax errors in the per-PC config.pl file.
859 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to handle language-specific email messages.
861 * Allow client (host) names to contain spaces. Spaces in host names
862 need to be escaped via "\" in the hosts file. The user of spaces in
863 host names is discouraged, but they should work. One feature that
864 doesn't work with host names that contain spaces is the highlighting
865 of that name in the log file display in the CGI interface. There are
866 no plans to fix this.
868 * Renamed $Conf{SmbClientTimeout} to $Conf{ClientTimeout}.
870 * Fixed all open() calls to use 3 argument form to fix handling of file
871 names with trailing whitespace. Also fixed CGI interface so these
872 file names are displayed correctly.
874 * Fixed new 2.0.0 CGI navigation bug that causes the top-level directory
875 to have a URL "&share=//boot&dir=" instead of "&share=/boot&dir=/".
876 Reported by Pascal Schelcher. Fixed similar problem reported by
879 * Added "PerlTaintCheck On" to the mod_perl section in the docs,
880 suggested by Tim Demarest.
882 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
883 # Version 1.5.0, 2 Aug 2002
884 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
886 * Changed conf/config.pl so that $Conf{TarIncrArgs} uses the --newer
887 option instead of --newer-mtime. Also removed --atime-preserve from
888 $Conf{TarClientCmd}. This makes the default settings work better
891 * Fixed configure.pl so it correctly detects a running BackupPC <= v1.4.0
892 so it can correctly warn the user to stop it before upgrading. Reported
895 * Added missing ";" to entity escape in EscapeHTML in BackupPC_Admin.
896 Reported by Guillaume Filion.
898 * Added LDAP setup to documentation from David Holland.
900 * Tar.pm now adds a "." to file paths that start with "/", so that all
901 tar paths are relative. From Ludovic Drolez.
903 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
904 # Version 1.5.0beta0, 30 Jun 2002
905 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
907 * A full set of restore options is now supported, including direct
908 restore via smbclient or tar or downloading a zip or tar file.
910 * Major additions to CGI script to support better directory navigation,
911 restore features and mod_perl. Also, file downloads from the CGI
912 interface now correctly preserve the file name and provide the
913 correct Content-Type for the most common types of files. Improved
914 directory navigation was contributed by Ryan Kucera.
916 * New script BackupPC_zipCreate (contributed by Guillaume Filion) is the
917 zip analog of BackupPC_tarCreate. BackupPC_zipCreate can be used to
918 create a zip archive of any portion of a backup.
920 * Substantial additions to BackupPC_tarCreate to support restore,
921 including modifying path names, handling hardlinks, fixing
922 support of old backups without attributes (pre-v1.4.0). Plus
923 BackupPC_tarCreate is now an offical part of the release.
924 (Lack of support for hardlinks was reported by John Stanley.)
926 * BackupPC_tarExtract now supports hardlinks and fixed pooling of
929 * A unix domain socket is now used for communication between the CGI
930 interface and BackupPC. The original TCP socket is optional. Sockets
931 are correctly re-initialized if config.pl is updated with new socket
934 * For improved security messages over the unix or TCP socket are protected
935 via an MD5 digest based on a shared secret, a sequence number, a time
936 stamp and a unique per-connection number.
938 * Additions to configure.pl to support install of directory navigation
941 * Fixed case where $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} or $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
942 were set to a single string or list (in v1.4.0 only the case of
943 hash worked correctly). Reported by Phillip Bertolus.
945 * Fixed case of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} == 0. This setting now makes the
946 client always subject to blackout, matching the comments in config.pl.
947 Also fixed handling of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} < 0 in the CGI script
948 reported by Pascal Schelcher.
950 * Fixed byte and file totals for tar backups, reported by several users.
952 * Fixed --newer-mtime date/timestamp format to make it ISO 8601 compliant,
953 suggested by Erminio Baranzini.
955 * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} in BackupPC::Xfer::Tar.pm, as
956 well as shell escaping of tar arguments.
958 * Fixed entity encoding of 8-bit characters in the CGI interface.
960 * Added optional CGI headers in $Conf{CgiHeaders} that by default
961 is set to a no-cache pragma. Suggested by Benno Zuure.
963 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
964 # Version 1.4.0, 16 Mar 2002
965 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
967 * BackupPC now supports tar (in addition to smb) for extracting host
968 data. This is the most convenient option for linux/unix hosts.
969 Tar can be configured to run over ssh, rsh or to backup a local
970 nfs mount from the host.
972 * Support for special files, including symbolic links, fifo, character
973 and block device files has been added, so that all native linux/unix
974 file types can be correctly backed up when using tar transport.
975 Special files are all stored as regular files and the type attributes
976 are used to remember the original file type.
978 * All unix file attributes are now saved (and pooled when possible).
979 This includes user and group ownership, permissions, and modification
980 time. Smbclient also does a reasonable job of emulating unix
981 permissions (such as mtime), and these attributes get saved too.
983 * The new default is to not fill incremental dumps. configure.pl
984 automatically sets $Conf{IncrFill} to 0. The default was 1
985 (incrementals were filled with hardlinks). Since the CGI
986 script does filling at browsing time, there is no need to
987 fill incremental dumps.
989 * Backup file names are now stored in "mangled" form. Each node of a
990 path is preceded by "f", and special characters (\n, \r, % and /) are
991 URI-encoded as "%xx", where xx is the ascii character's hex value. So
992 c:/craig/example.txt is now stored as fc/fcraig/fexample.txt. This
993 was done mainly so meta-data could be stored alongside the backup
994 files without name collisions. In particular, the attributes for the
995 files in a directory are stored in a file called "attrib", and
996 mangling avoids file name collisions (I discarded the idea of having
997 a duplicate directory tree for every backup just to store the
998 attributes). Other meta-data (eg: rsync checksums) could be stored in
999 file names preceded by, eg, "c". There are two other benefits to
1000 mangling: the share name might contain "/" (eg: "/home/craig" for tar
1001 transport), and I wanted that represented as a single level in the
1002 storage tree. Secondly, as files are written to NewFileList for later
1003 processing by BackupPC_link, embedded newlines in the file's path
1004 will cause problems which are avoided by mangling.
1006 The CGI script undoes the mangling, so it is invisibe to the user.
1007 Of course, old (unmangled) backups are still supported by the CGI
1010 * Various changes to the CGI interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1012 + Added button that allows users to manually start a full dump in
1013 addition to the existing incremental dump.
1015 + Added display of file attributes when browsing backups.
1017 + Added an optional holdoff time specified by the user when canceling
1018 a backup. BackupPC will not attempt any new backups for at least the
1019 specified time. This holdoff time can be changed whether or not a
1022 + Added supports for file mangling, and correct merging of unfilled
1023 backups from mangled or unmangled (and compressed or uncompressed)
1024 fulls when browsing or restoring.
1026 + Only displays a "Start Incr Backup" button if there are already some
1029 + For DHCP hosts, when a user tries to manually start a backup, add
1030 a check for the netbios name of both the host the request came
1031 from (REMOTE_ADDR) and the last known DHCP address for that host
1032 to see if either address matches the host. If not, an error
1033 message is display. The previous behavior was that only requests
1034 from the client itself succeeded, and requests from other machines
1037 * Changed the version numbering to X.Y.Z, instead of X.0Y. This release
1038 is 1.4.0. The first digit is for major new releases, the middle digit
1039 is for significant feature releases and improvements, and the last
1040 digit is for bug fixes. You should think of the old 1.00, 1.01, 1.02
1041 and 1.03 as 1.0.0, ..., 1.3.0.
1043 * BackupPC and the CGI script BackupPC_Admin now check that the effective
1044 user id is correct to avoid accidentally launching BackupPC as the
1045 wrong user or detecting CGI configuration problems. This behavior
1046 can be turned off using the $Conf{BackupPCUserVerify} option.
1048 * In numerous places changed "Smb" to "Xfer" (eg: log file names) to
1049 support generic names for both smb and tar transport methods. The
1050 CGI script checks for old names for backward compatibility.
1052 * Major changed to Backup_dump to support new tar transport. All transport
1053 specific code moved into BackupPC::Xfer::Smb and BackupPC::Xfer::Tar
1056 * Added workaround for a bug in Samba's smbclient for files between 2GB
1057 and 4GB. The file size in the tar header is incorrect. This allows
1058 files up to 4GB to work with smbclient, rather than 2GB. To support
1059 files larger than 2GB you must make sure perl is compiled with the
1060 uselargefiles option (use "perl -V | egrep largefiles" to check) and
1061 the pool directory must be on a file system that supports large files.
1063 * Moved the pool writing code into a module BackupPC::PoolWrite. This
1064 allows the clever file pool checking (digest, uncompressing, comparing
1065 etc with minimum disk IO) to be used easily in multiple places (eg: it
1066 is now used for writing attribute files so they can be pooled).
1068 * Changed MD5 to Digest::MD5 to avoid use of the depreceated MD5 module.
1070 * Shortened default $Conf{MyPath} so that perl's taint mode is more likely
1071 to be happy. The old $Conf{MyPath} contained /usr/local/bin, which
1072 on one user's machine was world writable and perl -T correctly
1073 complained about it.
1075 * Fixed ping command options in Lib.pm so that it works on OpenBSD.
1076 Thanks to Kyle Amon for sending the fix. Decided to move the
1077 ping options from Lib.pm into config.pl (as $Conf{PingArgs}) and
1078 now configure.pl tries to come up with a sensible default based on
1081 * Fixed argument checking in BackupPC_tarExtract to allow '$' in the
1082 share name (eg: C$). Thanks to Jules Agee for this fix. Also
1083 changed the default config.pl so that single quotes are used
1084 everywhere so that people don't get tripped up putting '$' inside
1085 double-quoted strings.
1087 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1088 # Version 1.03, 9 Dec 2001
1089 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1091 * BackupPC now has full support for compression. There are now two
1092 pool areas, the original pool for uncompressed files, and cpool for
1093 compressed files. The compression is done by Compress::Zlib.
1094 Compression reduces the pool disk usage by around 40%, although your
1095 mileage may vary. Compression is optional and can also be specified on
1096 a per-PC basis (although this will cost more pool storage since many
1097 backup files will have to be stored in both compressed and
1100 * A new script, BackupPC_compressPool, can be run to compress the entire
1101 pool. This is used once to migrate all the pool data from uncompressed
1102 to compressed on existing installations. Read the documentation
1103 (Installing BackupPC/Compressing an existing pool) before running
1104 BackupPC_compressPool!
1106 Alternatively, compression can simply be turned on and all new backups
1107 will be compressed. Both old (uncompressed) and new (compressed)
1108 backups can be browsed and viewed. Eventually, the old backups will
1109 expire and all the pool data will be compressed. However, until the
1110 old backups expire, this approach could require 60% or more additional
1111 pool storage space to store both uncompressed and compressed versions
1112 of the backup files.
1114 * Significant improvements to the cgi interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1116 - much better layout navigation
1117 - handles compressed backup files and compressed log files
1118 - handles unfilled incremental dumps
1119 - better backup directory browsing navigation
1120 - reports compression statistics
1121 - $Conf{CgiDateFormatMMDD} allows you to set date format (MM/DD or DD/MM)
1122 - Additional customization with $Conf{CgiHeaderFontType},
1123 $Conf{CgiHeaderFontSize}, $Conf{CgiNavBarBgColor}, and
1124 $Conf{CgiHeaderBgColor}.
1126 * Eliminated BackupPC_queueAll. BackupPC directly reads the hosts
1127 file and queues the PCs itself. Like config.pl, BackupPC will
1128 re-read the hosts file on each wakeup if its modification time
1129 changes, or upon a SIGHUP. This also makes for better behavior
1130 when adding a host: if you add hosts, simply send a SIGHUP to
1131 BackupPC or wait for the next wakeup.
1133 * BackupPC_dump now compresses the SmbLOG file if compression is enabled.
1135 * BackupPC_dump keeps track of compressed file sizes so that compression
1136 statistics can be reported by the cgi interface.
1138 * Aging of old log files now handles compressed log files (.z extension).
1140 * Added configuration option $Conf{IncrFill} to specify whether
1141 incremental dumps should be filled in. Old behavior was that
1142 filling was on. Now it's optional. See config.pl for more
1145 * BackupPC_nightly now cleans and generates statistics for both
1146 the uncompressed pool and compressed pool (cpool).
1148 * Added new utility script BackupPC_zcat that can be used to
1149 uncompresses BackupPC files.
1151 * configure.pl offers various options related to compression,
1152 depending upon whether this is a new install or upgrade,
1153 and whether or not Compress::Zlib is installed.
1155 * configure.pl now makes a backup copy of config.pl before
1156 config.pl is updated.
1158 * added three new fields to the backups file to handle optional
1159 filling and compression stats.
1161 * Added -e option to BackupPC_dump. BackupPC now invokes BackupPC_dump -e
1162 on each dhcp host once each night to verify that very old backups are
1163 expired. This ensures that very old backups are expired even if
1164 the dhcp host has not been on the network for a long time.
1166 * fixed bug in BackupPC::FileZIO.pm that required Compress::Zlib,
1167 even if compression was off. Thanks to Steve Holmes for reporting
1170 * fixed bug that caused a BackupPC queue to get blocked when a backup
1171 cancel attempt was made during the BackupPC_link phase.
1173 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1174 # Version 1.02, 28 Oct 2001.
1175 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1177 * Added new script BackupPC_tarExtract to extract the smbclient tar
1178 archive. This reduces disk writes by perhaps 90-95% and disk reads by
1179 50%. Previously, tar was used to extract and write everything to disk.
1180 Then BackupPC_dump would read enough of each file to compute the MD5
1181 digest, and then compare the full file with candidate pool files. So
1182 for each 1MB file that matches a single file in the pool, there would
1183 be 1MB of disk writes and 2MB of disk reads (to compare two 1MB files).
1185 BackupPC_tarExtract instead extracts the archive using a 1MB memory
1186 buffer. This allows the MD5 digest to be computed without touching the
1187 disk. Next, any potential pool file compares are done by comparing the
1188 pool file against the incoming tar data in memory, which only requires
1189 the pool file to be read. So for each 1MB file that matches a single
1190 file in the pool, there are now no disk writes, and only 1MB of reads.
1191 BackupPC_tarExtract handles arbitrary size files and repeated
1192 potential pool matches. If the incoming file doesn't match the pool
1193 then it is written to disk (once the pool is mature this happens maybe
1196 * Substantial changes to BackupPC_dump:
1198 + BackupPC_tarExtract is now used in place of tar.
1200 + BackupPC_dump now reads the output from both smbclient and
1201 BackupPC_tarExtract and merges them into SmbLOG.
1203 + Named pipes are no longer used to connect smbclient to tar
1204 (now BackupPC_tarExtract). Regular pipes are used instead.
1205 This avoids the need to system mknod or mkfifo.
1207 + Locked files on the client that can't be read by smbclient
1208 previously were filled with 0x0 bytes by smbclient, meaning
1209 tar extracted a useless file filled with 0x0 bytes. Now,
1210 BackupPC_dump watches the output of smbclient and removes
1211 any files that smbclient couldn't read. This avoids storing
1212 useless files. It tries to replace such files with a hard link
1213 to a previous dump. These actions appear in the log file.
1215 * added new module lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm. This handles pool file
1216 I/O and is used by BackupPC_tarExtract. BackupPC::FileIO supports
1217 reading and writing compressed and regular files and provides all the
1218 hooks for compression support in BackupPC (should be supported in next
1219 version). BackupPC::FileIO also does efficient writing of files that
1220 contain leading 0x0 bytes (by seeking past the 0x0 bytes). This is
1221 helpful when smbclient reads a locked file, and it fills the tar
1222 output with a file of the correct size but all 0x0. Such files will be
1223 later removed by BackupPC_dump. But in the meantime, BackupPC::FileIO
1224 writes such files efficiently (as sparse files), meaning just a few
1225 blocks of disk space will be needed even if the file is large.
1227 * alive/dead counting for blackout now works correctly for DHCP hosts.
1229 * BackupPC resets activeJob on startup, to fix bug when BackupPC was
1230 killed and restarted with backups running.
1232 * added extra non blocking select() in BackupPC to make sure the socket
1235 * BackupPC avoids queuing multiple BackupPC_queueAll's on the CmdQueue.
1237 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to correctly parse the locked file
1238 error from 2.2.1a smbclient, so that missing Outlook file emails
1239 can be correctly sent.
1241 * Changed HostInfoRead() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm to lowercase the
1242 hostname read from the hosts file.
1244 * BackupPC_Admin provides general summary when the host name is empty.
1246 * configure.pl (and BackupPC) now requires perl 5.6.0 or later.
1248 * configure.pl complains if BackupPC is already running, reminding you
1249 to stop it before upgrading.
1251 * updated documentation, and fixed auto-insertion of config.pl into
1252 BackupPC.pod (previously the last config parameter was left out of
1255 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1256 # Version 1.01, 30 Sep 2001
1257 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1259 * Documentation cleanup in README, doc/BackupPC.pod, conf/config.pl.
1261 * BackupPC_sendMail now reads the optional per-PC config file, allowing
1262 email configuration parameters to be set on a per-PC basis.
1264 * Removed the unused 4096-length MD5 digest code in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
1266 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1267 # Version 1.00, 21 Sep 2001
1268 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1270 * Initial release of BackupPC on sourceforge.net.