3 User-visible changes since 1.10:
7 o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
9 o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
10 will eventually be removed.
12 o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
13 and causes -C to be ignored.
15 o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
16 they are added to the archive.
18 o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
21 o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
22 being read or written.
24 o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
25 omitted from the archive.
27 o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
28 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
30 o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
31 not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
33 o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
34 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
35 around to the beginning.
37 o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
38 `:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
39 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
41 o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
42 original values after dumping the file.
44 o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
47 o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
48 modification and access times.
50 o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
51 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
52 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
58 User-visible changes since 1.09:
60 Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
61 Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
63 -g is now +incremental
64 -G is now +listed-incremental
66 Sparse files now work correctly.
68 +volume is now called +label.
70 +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
73 Exit status is now correct.
75 +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
77 When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
79 New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
80 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
81 instead of waiting for a write error.
83 New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
84 people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
85 need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups