dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (01/03/89)
I am currently testing the next release of of my backup/restore program. These are the changes made so far 2.02 -> 2.03 (for those of you who are using it). Please feel free to send me mail commenting on other features/fixes you would like to see! Remember that 2.00 had major bugs in it and you should not use it if you haven't gotten 2.01 or beyond. -Matt V2.03: Restore: a file named the same as its parent directory didn't get restored if restore had to create that parent directory. i.e. ram:etc/etc (the last etc being a file name) would not get restored. Restore now properly restores things into the directory specified by the -o option. Before it would only do that if a volume (blah:) was specified as the first path segment. Restore now creates the directory specified by -o if it does not already exist. Also, lines like this: restore -oblah relative_path would fail w/ restore not being able to find the relative path (it had already cd'd somewhere else). Backup: Empty directory trees are now saved. Before backup would not save them. However, if -U is specified empty directory trees are not saved. (i.e. the master backup has the whole directory structure while incremental backups have only the structure pertaining to newly saved files). -Cpat New option, add pattern to list of patterns that will no be compressed if -c is given. -0 (Restore): Causes all files to be restored to the current (or -o) directory. V2.02: More minor bug fixes V2.01: Fixed bugs in restore (did not restore files into the proper directories), and in backup (-a append flag did not work) V2.00: First release of V2 major bugs here!