From the upstream announcement: From: Stelian Pop <stelian> To: dump-announce.net Subject: [Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b38 released. Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:09:53 +0100 Hi everybody. A new version of of dump/restore, the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem backup utilities, has been released today. This release features several small bug fixes and a number of performance enhancements, see the full ChangeLog below for full details. The next version of dump/restore will feature EA/ACL support, and there is already a beta patch implementing this. If you use EA/ACLs, please do test this patch and report back (get the patch from dump's homepage). The dump/restore's homepage is located at: http://dump.sourceforge.net Happy new year ! Stelian. Changes between versions 0.4b37 and 0.4b38 (released January 7, 2005) ===================================================================== 1. Fix a couple of troff syntax bugs in the man pages. Thanks to Eric Raymond <esr> for the patch. 2. Made restore use either libncurses or libtermcap, depending on which one is available at configure time. 3. Fixed restore negative size display bug when comparing a dump containing files over 2GB. Thanks to Steve Bonds <sbonds.net> for the bug report. 4. Do not save directory entries to non-dumped inodes (excluded from dump). This will eliminate the 'missing file' warnings when doing 'restore -C'. 5. Fix dump crash when backuping a huge (2TB) filesystem, due to a bogus calculation on the inode map size. Thanks to Kevin B. Haines <K.B.Haines.uk> for submitting the bug and testing the fix. 6. Fix a problem in restore where the final \0 in the symbolic link names could have been lost, generating corrupt filenames. Thanks to Kyle Wilson <kyle.wilson> for reporting the bug. 7. Implemented a hash list for the directory names in restore. The linear list used before caused problems in interactive restores when dealing with directories having thousands of entries. Thanks to Brian Ristuccia <bristuccia> for reporting the bug. 8. Improved restore -C, this time including the directory attributes into the comparision. 9. Made restore understand tapes containing EA/ACLs (which will be dumped by the next version of dump). In this version extended attributes on the tape are ignored, for full EA/ACL support wait for the next version or try the experimental EA patch. -- Stelian Pop <stelian> ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Dump-announce mailing list Dump-announce.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dump-announce
FYI, I'm currently running the upstream RPM with the EA patch on FC2. It builds fine and I'll cc any reports of problems here.
Hold off on this one. I just ran into problems with restore -C (compare) trying to actually restore files, not a good thing.
Kenneth, thanks for the update announce. I built dump-0.4b38 including the experimental patch to devel. I'm going to build updates for FC2, FC3 likely without the patch.