Activity for Dump/Restore ext2/3/4 filesystem backup

Bernhard M. Wiedemann posted a comment on merge request #4

Bernhard M. Wiedemann — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:07:03 -0000

Thanks. While there is still some time left, I'd like to encourage you to start planning for a solution this year. Experience shows that it takes a while (years) for new major versions to reach users. From release tarballs to rolling-release distributions to enterprise distributions to users that rarely update their systems (think of that forgotten box in some corner of the office doing its duty undisturbed).

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Add QFA tests now that tgt supports tell and seek

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Implement tell and seek in faketape-st

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Temporary add images

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

First part of fixing bitmaps across volumes

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Install packages for running tests

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Fix big endian extended attribute restore

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Move mkchecksum() into dump_globals

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Move dump globals into common file

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Move restore globals into common file

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Move msg/msgtail into shared_globals

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:52 -0000

Better debug logging handling.

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Move shared globals into common file

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Move indexer into dump

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Cleanup transformation setup

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Mark msg and quit as printf style functions

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Rename dumpmap to dumpinomap for restore

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Make global variables static where possible

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Dump: separate header for each c source file

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Restore: separate header for each c source file

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Drop support for oldstylefscript

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Remove RDUMP and RRESTORE defines

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Remove rcmd support

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Tim Woodall — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:09:51 -0000

Remove kerberos(4) support

Tim Woodall posted a comment on merge request #4

Tim Woodall — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:00:20 -0000

Thanks. I do intend to deal with this but it won't be quick. I've commented on the Y2038 issue here: https://sourceforge.net/p/dump/bugs/116/ It's harmless, but it's definitely not correct to change those odi_atime etc fields, They're from a legacy version of dump from a very long time ago. If there are negative times there they're genuinely reflecting times before the epoch. (They're not correctly mapped into the new_bsd_inode structure as that cannot represent times before 1970) That bug actually...

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Tim Woodall — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:50:05 -0000

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