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