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