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