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Changelog for bar-0.21-193.1.x86_64.rpm :
Sat Aug 18 14:00:00 2018 Torsten Rupp 0.20h
- fixed crash on connection to server
- fixed process file patterns
- fixed memory leak

Sun Jun 10 14:00:00 2018 Torsten Rupp 0.20g
- fixed blocked access database while job is running;
avoid long-running transactions
- fixed clean-up database at start
- improved locking database: avoid long running locks
- fixed add to index: deleted storages
- fixed continuous in-memory database
- upgrade SQLite 3.21
- fixed restore on network file system: print a warning
only if file attributes cannot be set
- log stack traces
- BARControl: fixed change server settings job directory
- BARControl: fixed possible concurrent access exception
- BARControl: fixed sorting entries by date/time

Fri Nov 10 13:00:00 2017 Torsten Rupp 0.20f
- fixed multiple schedule types for job
- mount before delete storages
- fixed list image entries
- BARControl: fixed possible null-pointer-exception in job tooltips
- BARControl: show warnings in storage tooltip
- BARControl: clear selection after deleting storages
- BARControl: change coloring of entities/storages
- BARControl: save show flags into barcontrol.cfg
- BARControl: fixed view cloned schedule
- BARControl: additional valdiation check for schedule
- BARControl: fixed busy dialog layout
- BARControl: fixed crypt password dialog

Wed Jul 19 14:00:00 2017 Torsten Rupp 0.20e
- added test for immutable/append-only files
- fixed manual: --no-stop-on-error
- fixed memory leak if archive is broken and cannot be read
completely
- fixed create/rename jobs: wrong name
- fixed overflow in database if internal id become greater
than 268435456

Mon May 1 14:00:00 2017 Torsten Rupp 0.20d
- fixed huge Sqlite WAL file: fixed starvation of recycling due
to long running internal database clean-up operations
- BARControl: fixed file request dialog when restore file to
specific destination directory
- BARControl: improved new/clone/rename job dialog. Close
dialog before execute the operation
- BARControl: fixed drag+drop of shortcuts in file requester
dialog
- BARControl: fixed flickering in progress bars

Sun Mar 5 13:00:00 2017 Torsten Rupp 0.20c
- fixed schedule edit: combo box entries
- fixed removed debug code: trap int3
- upgrade PCRE to 8.40
- fixed download of zlib
- fixed edit server configuration: log level
- fixed invalid memory access with LZO, LZ4 compress
- upgraded LZ4: fixed memory align bug
- upgraded and fixed link mxml: 2.10
- fixed race-condition in semaphore debug code
- fixed possible read-error on SSL connections
- BARControl: fixed file requester

Sat Dec 3 13:00:00 2016 Torsten Rupp 0.20b
- BARControl: fixed SSL encryption. Please re-generate
the BAR key files with bar-keygen (generate now a
self-signed certificate)
- BARControl: fixed delete storages (possible index
database error when entity/storage is selected)
- fixed error message when mount fail
- BARControl: fixed possible widget dispose error
- fixed \"archive-type\" unknown error when edit schedule
entry

Wed Nov 9 13:00:00 2016 Torsten Rupp 0.20a
- fixed restore into original path
- fixed purge old storages by size: may have caused an
index database error if entity was deleted
- fixed continuous backup of single file
- BARControl: fixed type error in archive name editor
- BARControl: clear encryption password if type set to
\"default\" or \"ask\"
- BARControl: fixed default restore path
- BARControl: fixed dead-lock when restore is aborted
- BARControl: fixed server settings dialog
- BARControl: fixed communication error when changing
archives (translation error)

Thu Oct 13 14:00:00 2016 Torsten Rupp 0.20
- added (semi-) continuous backup of changed files
- new index database with much better performance
- support full-text-search in index database
- started basic support of remote jobs
- BARControl: added dialog for major server settings;
support on-the-fly changes
- TLS port is now optional: if possible as SSL protected
connection is establed via the standard plain port
- added option --archive-file-mode: stop, append or
override; removed configurationm option
overwrite-archive-files (deprecated)
- delete empty directories when purge old storage files
- BARControl: file requester with remote file list
local file requester with CTRL+click
- BARControl: added support to connect to different servers;
added connect menu
- BARControl: added unit TByte/TB
- added option --log-format for log date format, standard
log date format is now YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
- improved delete database entries
- separate log for each executed job
- removed macro %last for archive names
- BARControl: removed \"connector\" button in restore tab;
search is automatically filtered by selected entities,
- BARControl: new restore dialog with list, destination
and directory content option
- Added test button for scripts
- added option --mount: mount/unmount devices before/after
execution of job
- deprecated option --mount-device
- added option --include-command, --exclude-command
- added configuration options include-file-command,
include-image-command, exclude-command
- add job option comment: free text comment
- added code-coverage analysis to build process
- moved database file /usr/lib/bar -> /var/lib/bar
- change option: --stop-on-error -> --no-stop-on-error,
--stop-on-error is now deprecated
- create temporary log file in system temporary directory
- improved parsing configuration files: reject unknown
values
- added option --server-max-connections: limit max.
number of concurrent server connections, default 8
- BARControl: added option --force-ssl
- upgrade libssh2: 1.7.0
- upgrade bzip2: 1.0.6
- added bar-sqlite3 tool
- added logrotate script, support for log rotate
- added options --blank, --(cd|dvd|bd|device)-blank to
blank medium before writing
- BARControl: added abort to load volume dialog
- BARControl: renamed option --index-database-storage-list
-> --index-database-storages-list, added option
--index-database-entities-list
- fixed crash with multiple connections from same host
and authetification failure
- fixed max. size for LZO/LZ4 compression when block cannot
be compressed
- fixed init script on CentOS
- fixed possible wrong error text
- fixed possible dead-lock when a specific error
occurred while executing a job
- fixed clean-up duplicate database entries: delete
storage index
- webDAV: fixed race condition in receive data
- fixed auto-index: search for .bar files
- BARControl: fixed login credentials on command line
- BARControl: fixed archive name editor %S, %s, _
- fixed storage of splitted hardlink-entries!
- fixed abort when there is an error when writing
a CD/DVD/BD

Sat Jan 9 13:00:00 2016 Torsten Rupp 0.19d
- fixed include of multiple entries with pattern: store
- and foo/b.
* if exists
- fixed possible crash when files with % in name may not
be readable
- upgrade PCRE 8.38
- BARControl: fixed typing errors in translation
- fixed memory leak

Sun Dec 6 13:00:00 2015 Torsten Rupp 0.19c
- added user, group, permission to long list output
- fix get user/group name with large number of names
- BARControl: fixed parsing float number with different
locales
- BARControl: fixed edit pre/post-scripts on Windows:
replace line ending CRLR by LF.
- BARControl: improved restore dialog: show failed
entries, show total progress bar
- fixed assert in restore archives
- BARControl: fixed restore complete archives

Sun Nov 22 13:00:00 2015 Torsten Rupp 0.19b
- fixed reading job files with none-LF at end
- try to delete temporary directory also on Ctrl-C or
a crash
- fixed index auto-update: search for .bar files in
directory and all sub-directories
- BARControl: fixed possible null-pointer-exception
on Windows
- BARControl: fixed layout buttons
- BARControl: fixed translation
- BARControl: fixed multi language support (language files
were missing in distribution)
- fixed scanning for .bar-archives: scan in sub-directories,
too
- BARControl: fixed typing error in help
- BARControl: fixed null-pointer-exception when delete
entity in restore tab
- fixed init scripts

Sat Oct 31 13:00:00 2015 Torsten Rupp 0.19a
- changed upgrade database: do not lock database
- added support to output stacktraces! Press Ctrl-\\
or send signal SIGQUIT to BAR
- improved error handling in database
- always unmount mounted device if init storage fail
- fixed typing error in scp protocol init
- fixed init SSH default password
- fixed some compilation errors when packages are
disabled
- added barserver.service for systemd
- fixed init.d-start script for Fedora
- fixed install init-scripts
- fixed --quiet option
- upgraded libgpg-error to 1.20: fixed problem with
pre-processor and newer gcc versions
- upgraded libgcrypt to 1.6.4: fixed problem with
pre-processor and newer gcc versions
- improved error message when ssh login fail
- fixed possible dead-lock in server when file
.nobackup cannot be created
- improved error message when SSL authentification
fail
- fixed compiling ring buffer when no backtrace()
function is available
- removed wrong assert in server.c
- fixed compiling without ulong
- fixed unintialized data with unknown job UUIDs
- fixed unintialized data in database access
- BARControl: fixed number format exception when BAR
and BARControl use different locales
- fixed memory corruption when stringmaps are
enlarged
- fixed error message for wrong double config values
- fixed exitcode list archives
- fixed possible deadlock in server when started as
a daemon
- fixed possible crash when index database could not
be opened or is created
- BARControl: fixed output of --list
- fixed possible crash when decompress broken archive
compressed with LZO
- upgraded LZO to 2.09
- use LZO safe-decompress, fixed valgrind warning
- disabled test Serpient for CentOS 5: do not use!
Probably bug in gcc 4.1 together with -O2; solved
in newer versions of gcc.

Fri May 1 14:00:00 2015 Torsten Rupp 0.19
- added LZO compression
- added LZ4 compression
- fixed large file support: on some systems large files
(>4GB) could be incompletely written
- do not modify atime of files when creating or compare
archives (NO_ATIME)
- BARControl: added new/clone/rename/delete to status tab
option menu
- added pre-/post-command
- improved crash reporting: include symbol file
- improved logging
- BARControl: added different exclude types in
context menu (nodump, .nobackup, exclude)
- BARControl: added pre-/post scripts
- BARControl: added archive tree view to restore tab
- added \"entities\" for set of created storage files:
keep set of storage in the internal database and show
created backups in a tree view in BARControl
- BARControl: added function in restore tab context
menu to assign storage to some entity
- started localization support (English, German,
and Japanese! Thanks to Satoko Koiwa)
- added no-storage to schedule: schedule just to create
.bid file
- added min/max/age to schedule
- BARControl: show tooltip in restore tab in left
half of tree/table
- BARControl: show number of entries in entity and
storage (tooltip info)
- BARControl: add function in context menu to trigger
a specific schedule entry
- BARControl: improved statistic view of no-storage
job
- upgraded GMP to version 6.0.0a: fix usage of wrong
code on AMD architecture.
Thanks to Shane for his help to understand this bug!
- BARControl: added option --version
- fixed parsing compress algorithm names
- improved error when reading encryption algorithm from
archives
- fixed matching files with \\ in name (glob pattern)
- improved tests
- fixed delete files via webdav-protocol
- fixed error if entered passwords are not equal
- fixed listing, testing of content in directory:
support pattern matching
- fixed possible infinite recursion when processing
delta compressed files while searching for
delta sources
- improved error output for libcdio
- fixed parsing schedule data
- BARControl: fixed schedule dialog, removed \"
*\" archive
type
- fixed race-condition in init database (thanks to Shane)
- fixed restore: keep root (first /) when no directories
are stripped
- fixed sending data via scp: close and transmit last
data package
- fixed superfluous output on stdout of ftp+webdav
protocol

Mon Nov 10 13:00:00 2014 Torsten Rupp 0.18e
- removed nice-level in init scripts
- BARControl: fixed selection and storage of
file names via file dialog
- BARControl: fixed restore destination directory
bug + overwrite flag

Mon Sep 29 14:00:00 2014 Torsten Rupp 0.18d
- fix not closed file when --no-storage is specified

Fri Sep 26 14:00:00 2014 Torsten Rupp 0.18c
- fixed server network connection wait time in pselect();
may caused network trouble on some Linux systems.
Thanks to Daniel Webb for his help to find this bug!
- BARControl: upgraded to SWT 4.4 to fix a crash on
close when a combo widget is disposed.
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372560)
Thanks to Daniel Webb for his help to find this bug!
- Upgraded LZMA library to version 5.0.7

Fri May 9 14:00:00 2014 Torsten Rupp 0.18b
- fixed server start script BAR server for Debian
- do not download epm, breakpad by default
- fix compilation some third party package: m4 required

Thu May 1 14:00:00 2014 Torsten Rupp 0.18a
- upgraded OpenSSL to 1.0.1g (fix for Heartbleed bug)
- fixed replaced storage archives in database
- BARControl: fixed possible exception when session id key
data cannot be parsed (NumberFormatException)
- BARControl: fix delete database index entries
- BARControl: fixed possible exception when insert
new element into exclude list, compress exclude list
- fix compile non-debug version without stacktrace function
- install BAR binary in /usr/bin
- fixed install of man-page
- fixed include bar-keygen in base package
- fixed man page
- BARControl: improved error message when a SSL connection
cannot be established
- BARControl: fixed error handling
- fixed free resources when creating image archives

Fri Mar 21 13:00:00 2014 Torsten Rupp 0.18
- added multi-core compression/encryption support!
- dramatic speed-up when creating archives!
- added automatic delete of duplicate index entries when
server is started
- store and restore extended file attributes (EAs)
- improved FTP access: replaced FTPLib by curl+c-areas
- added support for WebDAV protocol
- added support for crash dump tool Breakpad
- integrated a scan-mode which will scan partially broken
archives for still readable parts
- server protocol changes: replaced list of values by value map
for easier extension of protocol. Note: you _must_ update
both server and clients with this change.
- added uuid to jobs
- added custom text to schedule entries
- added macros %uuid, %text to storage name template
- added options --[ftp|ssh|webdav]-max-connections: limit
number of concurrent network connections for server
- BARControl: added time macros %U2, %U4, %W, %W2 and %W4,
added macros %T, %uuid, %text
- BARControl: added file selector button to storage name
input
- support listing remote directory content
- start support cross-compilation Linux -> Windows
- upgrade gpg-error 1.10, gcrypt 1.5.0, gnutls 3.1.18, libcdio 0.92,
pcre 8.34
- fixed create index: do not delete index which is currently
updated
- fixed output in verbose/quiet mode
- fixed restore: list files when \"only newest\" is disabled
- fixed duplicate archive entries when multiple include options
are specified (thanks to Stefan A.)
- fixed writing .bid file when no directory is given
- BARControl: fixed duplicate job
- BARControl: added insert/edit/delete keyboard shortcuts
- BARControl: passwords sent to the BAR daemon are now RSA
encrypted! This makes it much harder to steal plain text
passwords even when no TLS encrypted network connection is
used.
- improved tests: added special testcode to execute error
handling code in tests
- using gcc to compile is now mandatory (required because of
improved error-handling with using closure like code)
- improved defense against denial-of-service-attack: force
delay for clients with multiple authorization failure
- changed schedule entry in job configuration: use a section.
Entries in the old format are still read, but not created
anymore.
- avoid console input in non-interactive mode
- fixed BARControl: list storage ignoring case
- fixed BARControl: delete storage files

Sun May 5 14:00:00 2013 Torsten Rupp 0.17b
- fixed parsing of storage specifier (ftp, scp/sftp,
cd/dvd/bd): user name
- fixed dialog text when password is requested
- improved checking host name for ftp/scp/sftp login
- fixed lost string resource

Sat Jan 26 13:00:00 2013 Torsten Rupp 0.17a
- fixed writing CD/DVD/BD: do not write an empty last medium
- improved database index
- fixed parsing CD/DVD/BD/device specifier: last character was
missing
- fixed logging of skipped own files

Wed Oct 3 14:00:00 2012 Torsten Rupp 0.17
- finally: added support for xdelta compression!
Note: integrating this was really a _hard_ work.
- added support for libcdio to read content of CD/DVD/BD
devices/images without mounting
- upgraded used libssh2 to version 1.4.2
- use libssh2 send64() when available to be able to
send large files, too
- added check for file permission of config files. Should
be 400 or 600.
- improved error handling with public/private keys
- fixed handling of error case when asymmetric encrypted
archive cannot be read
- print fragment info if file is incomplete on verbose
level >= 2
- fix header information in sources
- improved logging for not stored files
- support no-dump file attribute, add option
--ignore-no-dump (see lsattr, chattr)
- set default ssh keys to $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub,
$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa
- fix string free bug in restore
- fix file-seek bug in restore
- BARControl: add warning when minor protocol version do
not match
- BARControl: ask for FTP/SSH password on restore if
required
- added internal debug code for list allocations
- added hidden option --server-debug for automated test
of server functions
- improved valgrind tests
- output percentage info if verbose level >= 2
- output test/compare/restore info if verbose level >= 1
- improved processing speed: implemented ring buffers
for compress/decompress
- fixed compare of images: only compare used blocks
- fixed creating FAT images: in some cases one block was
missing in the archive
- improved tests: added more tests for images
- stop support of Reiser 4: file system is not supported
anymore by all Linux versions
- if an encryption password is specified on the command
line do not ask for another password if decryption fail
- clean-up of BAR manual
- improved console output with multiple threads: avoid
mixing output of lines in interactive mode
- renamed command line option --database-file -> --database-index
- renamed command line option --no-auto-update-database-index
-> --database-index-auto-update
- renamed config option database-file -> index-database
- renamed config option no-auto-update-database-index
-> index-database-auto-update
WARNING: modify your bar.cfg file!
- added command line/config option --datbase-index-keep-time
- set example for log-post-command to (removed quotes):
sh -c \'cat %file|mail -s \"Backup log\" root\'
- fix parsing configuration files: strings must not be quoted
explicitly
- improved error output when log-post command cannot be executed:
show last 5 lines of stderr
- fixed usage of libcrypt: enabled multi-thread-support
- set read-timeout for SSH connections to avoid possible infinite
blocking in libssh2-code when remote side may close socket
unexpected
- BARControl: add ellipsis character to menus/buttons which
require further user input
- BARControl: added schedule copy menu entry/button
- BARControl: show tool tip in tree view only when mouse is
in the left side to avoid that tooltip is shown all the
time
- BARControl: add functions to clear stored passwords on
server
- BARControl: renamed option --index-add -> --index-database-add,
renamed option --index-remove -> --index-database-move
- BARControl: renamed config option pause-index-update ->
pause-index-database-update
- fixed possible crash in log file post processor
- BARControl: fix abort job. Set last executed time.
- BARControl: fix parsing storage name when login name is not given
- BARControl: fixed cloning of schedule entries
- BARControl: added path selector in include/exclude dialogs
- BARControl: added confirmation dialog when include/exclude entry
should be removed
- BARControl: fixed schedule hour setting, show 00..23
- BARControl: added function to delete storage files in context menu
in restore tab
- added configuration option index-database-max-band-width: limit the
used band width for background index updates
- improved band width limitation: specify either a value or name of an
external file
- fixed scheduler: do not start job immediately again when execution
time was longer than time period of scheduling
- added optional time range to max-band-width,
index-database-max-band-width options to support different limits
depending on date/time
- support external file for max-band-width,
index-database-max-band-width options
- fixed memory leak in server

Sat Jan 14 13:00:00 2012 Torsten Rupp 0.16g
- fix restore: do not create empty parent directories
- fix restoring archive entries without directory part
- added verbose level 5, output ssh debug messages for
level 4 and 5
- fixed crash when archive on CD/DVD/BD/device should
be listed/tested/extracted directly. Please mount
a CD/DVD/BD/device and use the file operations instead.
Next version of BAR will support reading CD/DVD/BD
directly
- fixed memory leaks

Sat Sep 10 14:00:00 2011 Torsten Rupp 0.16f
- re-added option --volume-size, fixed setting CD/DVD/BD
volume size
- added check for Java version
- improved error messages
- do not print passwords which may be included in FTP
specifier when creating/list/restore entries
- BARControl: ask for crypt password when restoring
single archive entries
- fixed URI parser: clear port number if not set
- improved index database: do not set error state when
connection to server cannot be opened
- fixed memory leaks
- back-ported file handle debug code
- do not set index state to error if archive cannot be
decrypted because of missing password
- fix bug in ftplib: listing directory did not close
temporary file

Sun Jul 31 14:00:00 2011 Torsten Rupp 0.16e
- create sub-directories when storing to file system or
ftp server
- fix creating directories: to not set parent directory
permissions if permissions are already set
- BARControl: do not close new job dialog on error
- BARControl: fixed setting crypt type radio buttons with
default value
- save job file immediately after creating a new one
- fix lost error state when writing file to a server
- improved FTP transmission, added patch to set timeout
for receiving data in FTPLib
- fixed possible infinite loop when executing external
command, e. g. sending the log file via log-post-command
- fixed error in pre-defined log-post-command in bar.cfg
- fix losing failure error
- create job files with read/write permission for owner only
- do not print passwords to log/screen which may be included
in FTP specifier
- fixed missing delete temporary file on error in incremental
mode
- fixed adding index of FTP content to local archive database
- fixed string parser: parse \\x as x if outside of \" or \'
- BARControl: fixed null-pointer-exception when server password
is not set
- improved FTP read: try to read all data when the network
connection is bad
- fix CD/DVD/BD write command: must be %directory, not %file
- BARControl: add command to remove all archives with error
state in tab restore
- BARControl: fixed possible null-pointer-exception on communication
error
- BARControl: improved usability. Use tagged+selected entries
entries to remove/refresh in tab restore.
- add log type \"index\"
- BARControl: fixed list of storage archives when removing an
entry
- BARControl: ask for crypt password when starting job with
crypt password mode \"ask\"
- BARControl: give visual feedback when entered passwords in
password dialog are not equal
- show date/time for directories entries in list, too
- changed DVD write image command: removed sectors, added
-dvd-compat
- output stdout/stderr of external commands with verbose level 4
- BARControl: added some warnings when selection of part size/
medium size/error correction codes may not fit to create a
CD/DVD/BD

Tue May 31 14:00:00 2011 Torsten Rupp 0.16d
- BARControl: fix parsing of ftp/scp/sftp archive names
- fix parsing of ftp archive names
- support for non-passive/passive ftp connections
- fixed wrong free of resources when archive entry could
not be read
- fixed numbers for compress/crypt type: must be a real
constant (self-assigned enum may change)

Sun Apr 17 14:00:00 2011 Torsten Rupp 0.16c
- renamed macro %file -> %directory for cd/dvd/bd/device-commands
- fixed typing error in code when FTP is not available
- added options --file-write-pre|post-command,
--ftp-write-pre|post-command, --scp-write-pre|post-command,
--sftp-write-pre|post-command
- added option --always-create-image
- fixed creating CDs: use mkisofs+cdrecord
- removed double linefeed for log entries
- fixed log entries when creating database index: avoid
creating huge log files
- only write log file in daemon/server mode
- add missing MacOSX JARs to distribution
- renewed man page, improved manual

Sun Apr 10 14:00:00 2011 Torsten Rupp 0.16b
- fix error handling when password is wrong
- create jobs directory if it does not exists
- enable creating index database by default
- BARControl: fix file name editor drag+drop
- BARControl: ask for password on restore
- fix memory leak when reading archive directory entries
- fixed deinit error when password is wrong
- fixed reading file names which contain \\ or LF/CR
- BARControl: fix discarding first character for archive target cd:, bd:
- BARControl: fixed file listing
- fix error handling when calling external tool for CD/DVD/BD
- BARControl: add year two digits in archive file name editor, fixed
century
- BARControl: fix enabling restore-button
- improved documentation: added archive file name macros, add more
entries to FAQ, small fixes

Thu Dec 30 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.16a
- fix wrong storage name in database
- BARControl: fix start/abort button enable/disable for
incremental/differential/dry-run jobs
- BARControl: fix tab restore storage filter: edit+reset
- clean-up

Fri Dec 17 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.16
- do not store content of directories and sub-directories
when file .nobackup or .NOBACKUP exists
- add option --ignore-no-backup-file
- support hard links: add new chunk types HLN0, HENT, HNAM,
HDAT
- rewrite chunk code: add init and done, moved clean-up
code down to chunk code, improve error handling
- fix wrong data parsing in index database for directories,
links, special files
- improved error handling
- fix typing errors in error messages
- improved tests
- added -o as shortcut for --overwrite-archive-files
- added option --dry-run: do all operations, but do not
compress, encrypt and store files, do not write incremental
data lists, do not write on CD/DVD/BD/devices
- fixed --no-storage: incremental data list was not written
- fixed possible deadlock in server when archive files cannot
be transmitted to a remote server and local hard disk becomes
full
- added option --compress-exclude to disable compression for
files, images and hard links which match to the specified
pattern
- BARControl: added exclude list in storage tab under compress
- fixed memory leak
- support building Debian/Ubuntu packages with SuSE build
service!
- fix install: add bar-keygen
- added option --differential: differential storage. Like
--incremental, but incremental data is not updated
- fixed creating parent directories when restoring files:
use default file mask to create parent directories
- fix restoring splitted files which are read only
- fixed typing error in bar.cfg entry \"schedule\": must be Apr,
not Arp. Note: please fix this in your jobs files in /etc/bar/jobs,
too, when you created a job which should be scheduled in April!
- fixed SigSegV with option -g: internal sorting of list was wrong

Sun Dec 5 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15f
- fix SigSegV in string.c:formatString() which can occur on
AMD 64bit systems

Thu Dec 2 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15e
- BARControl: fix exception when running BARControl under
Windows and connecting to a Linux server (file separator
is different on Windows and Linux; this is a temporary fix
which will be improved in version 0.16)
- BARControl: made columns size, modified, state in restore
tab, storage list resizable, too
- fixed wrong BAR binary path in SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, Fedora
start scripts
- fixed wrong BAR config path in SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, Fedora
start scripts
- BARControl: fixed some table column widths (automatic setting
seems to be different on Windows)
- BARControl: fix arguments in start script BARControl.bat

Mon Nov 29 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15d
- fix SigSegV when deleting a storage archive from
the database via BARControl

Thu Nov 18 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15c
- fixes for MacOSX:
- fix SWT start thread problem
- use \"java\" without any path
- fix out-dated JAR archives
- added missing documentation images to distribution
- fix creation of BARControl/BARControl
*.jar
- fix error message when archive file already exists

Wed Nov 17 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15b
- BARControl: fix sorting of columns
- BARControl: fix not working context menu \"exclude\", \"none\" in
status tab, files list, removed debug code
- fix archive file name for CD/DVD/BD
- BARControl: fix sorting of columns in jobs tab file/device tree
- BARControl: fix calculating directory size (context menu in
file list in jobs tab)
- fixed parsing of storage specification for cd/dvd/bd

Tue Oct 26 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15a
- fix compilation problems with LONG_LONG_MAX
- fix typecast in strings.c for 64bit systems
- fix man create install path
- support build service (thanks to lalalu42)
- add make variable DIST, SYSTEM to install
- update download-script: gnutls 2.10.2
- fix typing error in strings debug code
- use getpwnam_r and getgrnam_r to avoid multi-threaded problems
- fixed wrong locking code in semaphore read-lock
- fixed possible infinite blocking in index update (ssh read)
- fixed memory leak in index thread
- fixed test for large file support on 64bit systems
- fixed ssh-communication problem (\"bad record mac\" in BARControl),
improved error messages
- added different BAR daemon start scripts, fixed start script
- enable dynamic linkage of system internal libraries
- clean-up Makefile file

Wed Oct 13 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.15
- added command line option --job to execute a job from a job
file with BAR
- clean-up BAR command line options:
- replaced -a|--crypt-asymmetric -> --crypt-type=
- added option --normal to select normal archive type
(required to overwrite setting in job file)
- fixed ordering of options in help
- added support for CD and BD (options --cd-.../--bd-... and configuration
entries cd-.../bd-...)
- clean-up BARControl command line options:
renamed --job-mode -> --archive-type
- fixed name of option --dvd-write-image-command
- BARControl: fix option --key-file
- renamed command line option --no-bar-on-dvd -> --no-bar-on-medium and
configuration file entry no-bar-on-dvd -> no-bar-on-medium
- set key valid time to 365 days when created with openssl
- BARControl: added tool tips help
- BARControl: complete redesign of restore tab
- added database of stored files to BAR (sqlite based)
- search for created archives in database
- search for stored files in archives in database
- restore archives or single files
- automatic indexing of already created archives which are stored
in file system or on an external server
Note: to use this new feature, you must add the database-
*
configuration options in bar.cfg!
- temporary base directory is now named bar-XXXXXX
- BARControl: improved pause-function: settings for create, storage,
restore and update index. See menu in BARControl. By default create
and restored are paused only
- BARControl: add destination types \"cd\" and \"bd\", add different images
sizes for cd/bd
- BARControl: clean-up layout, rearranged some buttons
- BARControl: updated to SWT 3.6.1
- create package bar-gui-
*.zip with compiled GUI only
- documentation: renewed screen shots, added documentation of
new options, fixed documentation of some options, clean-up
- updated man-page

Wed Jul 28 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.14
- added command line control functions to BARControl:
--list, --job, --job-mode, --abort, --ping, --pause,
--suspend, --continue
- improved BARControl command line parser
- BARControl: added file selector buttons for ssh keys, device name
- fixed BARControl restore tab: listing path names
- fix C string parser: %s and %S can be empty strings
- BARControl: fixed abort in restore dialog, some clean-up. Note:
The restore tab will be improved in some of the next releases.
- BARControl: fixed parsing of archive part size (job was ignored
when number was bigger than 32bit; now 63bit are allowed)
- fixed display of archive/device sizes: units are G,M,K
- add warning when no BAR server password given
- BAR server: added support to list image entries
- updated manual
- clean-up

Sat Jul 24 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.13d
- fix wrong installation path \"/man/man7\" man pages: now
/usr/share/man/man7

Fri Jun 11 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.13c
- fix bar-keygen which caused broken Debian package: wrong template
file names
- fix bar-keygen: create bar.jsk in /etc/bar by default
- improved bar-keygen: check if keys exists, add option --force
- improved BAR server: additional check /etc/ssl/private for
bar.jks
- fix some typing errors in manual
- fix Makefile of BARControl: SWT JAR version

Sun May 23 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.13b
- fix assert-error in options -#/-!
- improved test of file functions (added -#, -!)
- fix on-the-fly compiling of libgcrypt: use provided libgpg-error
instead of system-libraries (which may not exists)
- fixed and improved download of zlib: download recent version
- small fixes in manual

Sat Apr 10 14:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.13a
- fix typing error in \"owner\"
- fix wrong parsing of \"owner\" in server
- fix memory leak in server
- BARControl: fix opening directories in file tree
- added epm to download third-party script

Sun Mar 21 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.13
- implemented device image functions: create images from devices
- implemented support for images with ext2/ext3, fat12/fat16/fat32
file systems
- renamed option --directory to --destination, use it for
destination of images, too
IMPORTANT: please edit your files in /etc/bar/jobs and
replaced \"directory = ...\" by \"destination = ...\"!
- verify if server TLS certificate expired; output error
message
- fix halt on some not implemented functions when
restoring files
- added stack backtrace output in string-debug functions
- fix lost string when directory cannot be created
- added option --owner
- BARControl: added support for 64bit systems
- fixed some C compiler warnings
- fixed creating directory when writing incremental file list
- improved error messages
- fixed memory leak
- improved valgrind suppression rules
- fixed compilation warnings
- improved and clean-up command line/config value parsing
- set socket timeout in BARControl (20s)
- improved error messages in BARControl
- updated SWT JAR to 3.6 (this fix a bug with GTK versions
>= 2.18)
- added 64bit SWT JAR for Windows
- added SWT JAR for MacOSX (experimental)
- fixed C stacktrace output in debug mode: print function names
- added option -L = --long-format
- added option --human-format, -H: print sizes in human readable
format (size+unit)
- added first version of a manual!
- improved configure checks for doc tools

Fri Jan 1 13:00:00 2010 Torsten Rupp 0.12d
- fixed wrong usage of vprintf in log function (caused SigSegV
on 64bit systems)

Tue Oct 20 14:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.12c
- fixes in configure: fix large file support for some system
- fixes in configure: add libcrypto only if available (required
for some older libssh2 implementations)

Sat Oct 17 14:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.12b
- added option --owner to overwriting settings for
user/group of restored files
- fixed creating directories: use default user creation
mask for parent directories
- revert error to warning when permission/owner ship
cannot be set if --stop-on-error is not given
- fixed configure check for EPM: do not try to detect
version if no EPM installed
- fixed configure check for gcrypt version

Tue Sep 15 14:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.12a
- clean-up design of progress bars
- fixed layout of part-editor (canvas widget)

Sun Jul 19 14:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.12
- disabled -fschedule-insns2 optimization. This cause with my
gcc 3.3 a problem in String_parse() when a boolean value
should be read. It seems the address of the variable become
wrong when -fno-schedule-insns2 is not given (thus
schedule-insns2 optimization is enabled). Is this a gcc
bug?
- added crypt password in jobs-storage-tab: password can be
default (read from configuration file), interactive input
(ask) or specified password
- BARControl: added check if JDK key file is valid
- BARControl: improved password dialog
- BARControl: added password dialog when crypt password mode
is \"ask\"
- fixed statics of skipped/error files
- BARControl; added pause button with timeout (default
60min)
- added support for lzma compression
- added script for simple download of additional packages
- added support to build additional packages when compiling
BAR (extract packages to specific sub-directories or use
links)
- BARControl: added copy job button
- BARControl: check if job exists for new, copy, rename

Sun Apr 12 14:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.11b
- BARControl: improved volume dialog: unload tray button
- fixed handling of DVDs
- BARControl: fixed progress BAR for volume
- BARControl/server: fixed writing crypt-type entry (was empty)

Tue Mar 31 14:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.11a
- fixed accidently removed save/cancel button in
storage part edit dialog
- BARControl: fixed URI parsing
- fixed string-error in DVD functions

Sun Mar 22 13:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.11
- added selection of multiple days to schedule days
configuration, e. g. you can specify \"Mon,Tue,Sat\"
- BARControl: fixed quit (internal threads blocked quit)
- BARControl: changed names of buttons in file tree
- BARControl: added button to open all included directories
in file tree list (green directory symbol at the bottom
right side)
- BARControl: added function to detect sizes of directories;
when \"directory info\" checkbox is enabled and a
sub-directory is opened the sizes of the directories are
detected in the background
- internal change in protocol BAR/BARControl
- fixed some lost strings
- improved speed: inline some function calls
- BARControl: added version number in about-dialog
- fixed parsing of schedule data (type was missing)
- fixed detection of size of current archive (was always 0)
- new scheme to build a incremental file name from an
archive file name if no incremental file name is given:
- discard all %-macros
- discard all #
- remove - and _ between macros
- replace file name extension .bar by .bid
A name like backup/system-%type-%a-####%last.bar will
be transformed to backup/system.bid
- improved error messages
- fixed debug function in string library: limit number of
entries in string-free-list.
- fixed problem with \"broken pipe\" error in network code
- added support for openssl command in bar-keygen
- fixed generating Java SSL key
- added creating RPM and DEB packages

Sat Feb 14 13:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.10a
- fixed layout of login dialog
- fixed missing BARControl.bat.in in distribution

Wed Feb 11 13:00:00 2009 Torsten Rupp 0.10
- fixed some not freed resources
- fixed error message when password is not given or wrong
- improved input password: ask for password if not given
in some configuration file when mode is \"default\"
- added option --group: group equals files in list; limit
output to most recent entries if not given option --all.
Add archive name in group mode. Usage: find most recent
file \'foo\' in a set of backups, e. g.
- .bar -# \"
*/foo\" -g
- added option --all: list all entries in group
- BARControl: fixed Java exception when scheduling date/time
can not be parsed
- BARControl: added \"normal\" type to start-dialog
- default value for ssh port is now 22
- do not ask for a password if BAR is started server- or
batch mode
- BARControl: flush not written configuration data to disk
when terminating BARControl
- BARControl: fixed reseting port number
- BARControl: set default sort mode to \"weekday\" for scheduling
list
- BARControl: try to login with preset server name and login
password. Open login-dialog only when login fail or when option
--login-dialog is given.
- delete old archive files (only possible for file, ftp, sftp).
Can be disabled by --keep-old-archive-files
- BARControl: fixed bug when double-clicking file entry in file
- fixed default login name/password for ftp, ssh: use command line
options if not set otherwise
- fixed default device name: use command line options if not set
otherwise
- fix problem with infinite backup when temporary directory is
included in file list. The BAR temporary directory and all
created files are now not included in a backup. Note: this cannot
work when two instances of BAR are running doing a backup of
each other.
- added BAR man page (finally!)
- improved GUI layout manager
- added animated busy-dialogs to restore, added abort-function
- added confirmation dialog to abort job button

Wed Dec 10 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09i
- fixed creating pid file: when server is detached write pid of
running process, not of terminated parent (thanks to Matthias
Albert)

Tue Dec 9 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09h
- fixed problem with internal data alignment on 64bit systems
- added test data to distribution
- added chunk BAR0 to archive files as indicator for a BAR file;
chunk is skipped when reading an archive

Tue Dec 9 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09g
- added option --pid-file

Sun Dec 7 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09f
- small fix in \"make install\"

Thu Dec 4 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09e
- changed FTP URL to :AATT/
- improved password input: check if connection to ftp/ssh-server is
possible in advance; select the right password
- BARControl: change FTP field names, added password field
- fixed problem when writing incremental file list and current
directory is not writable: create the temporary file in the same
directory like the destination file
- removed some debug code
- BARControl: fixed error handling when authorization fail
- BARControl: fixed internal protocol data parser when data contain
a negative number
- fixed some wrong file names in \"make install\"
- added BAR server start script for Debian (Thanks to Matthias Albert)
- fixed lost string
- run BAR as daemon in background; added option -D to disable detach
mode
- fixed missing server result when new job cannot be created

Wed Dec 3 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09d
- fixed missing server-jobs-directory in BAR server
- fixed wrong path to bar+bar.cfg binary when installing
- fix installation when BARControl was not built

Mon Dec 1 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09c
- BARControl: fixed #-parsing in archive name editor
- fixed missing BARControl.in, BARControl.bat.in, BARControl.xml source
- fixed creation of scripts from
*.in files
- completed bar-keygen
- no external SWT jar needed anymore to compile (but can still be used
optional)

Thu Nov 27 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09b
- fixed drag+drop in archive name editor
- added crypt public key field in storage tab
- added CRC to public/private-key to avoid SigSegV in gcrypt-library
when key is invalid. Sorry this also mean the key data format
changed, thus you have to generate a new public/private key pair.
Note: you cannot open old archives with the new keys!
- added option -h/--help to BARControl
- BARControl: read default server name/password/ports from
$HOME/.bar/BARControl.cfg (if this file exists)
- renamed option --job-directory into --server-jobs-directory
- improved check of options: output error if temporary directory
cannot be written to
- BARControl: add field for port to scp/sftp connections
- change format for archive-file names. Use now URL like names:
ftp://AATT/
scp://AATT:/
sftp://AATT:/
dvd:///
device:///

- improved error messages
- fixed linker problem: link libdl, too

Fri Nov 21 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09a
- small fixes in make files
- fixes archive name generator: do not add part number of splitting
of archive is not enabled
- passwords can now also be read from a non-terminal input, e. g.
a redirected file
- fixed test

Tue Nov 18 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.09
- implemented a Java front end! This replaces the TclTk front end -
please enjoy!
- fixed bug in server password authorization: password was not
checked until end

Tue Sep 23 14:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.08a
- fixed double usage of va_args variable
- fixed problems with 64bit
- fixed typing error in bar.cfg (thank to Matthias)

Mon Sep 8 14:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.08
- added asymmetric encryption with public-key
- improved estimation of files/s, bytes/s, stored bytes/s and rest
time
- fixed input of password via SSH_ASKPASS
- fixed exit code on create archive

Sun Aug 17 14:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.07b
- added option --long-format
- added date/time to -l
- fixed file filters \"
*\" and \"-! ...\"

Sun Jun 29 14:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.07a
- fixed executing of external programs: handle signals
- use /dev/dvd as default device for writing dvds
- added storage bytes/s value to BARControl.tcl
- implemented rename job in BARControl.tcl

Sat May 24 14:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.07
- integrated scheduler in BAR
- added pause/continue of jobs
- some internal bug fixes
- improved response time of BARControl.tcl by read/write-locking
of shared data structures in server
- implemented archive name editor in BARControl.tcl
- clean-up BARControl.tcl
- added FTP protocol
- changed some option names for better consistency

Sat Mar 8 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.06
- added option --debug to BARControl.tcl; output debug info
in server
- fixed memory leak in server
- improved several error messages

Mon Jan 21 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.05c
- fixed SigSegV when reading broken/wrong archive
- added retry (3) in storage via SSH

Sat Jan 19 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.05b
- fixed static linkage
- support none bz2
- TclTk TLS package is now optional
- import support for non-ssh, non-crypt, non-bz2
- added option --no-bar-on-dvd; store by default a copy of BAR
executable on created DVDs
- fixed wrong string when creating DVD

Fri Jan 18 13:00:00 2008 Torsten Rupp 0.05a
- improved checks in configure
- added configure option --disable-ssh
- fixed static linkage

Mon Dec 31 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.05
- added macros %type, %last to archive file name
- fixed path in bid-file name
- removed option create-list-file; option --full create a list
file, --incremental use the list and no option generate a
standard archive (without an incremental list)
- added options --full and --incremental to BARControl.tcl.
With these options the settings in a configuration can be
overwritten, e. g. useful to make incremental backups
(define full-backup in configuration file; use --incremental
to create a incremental backup on-the-fly)
- do not write bid-file if archive cannot be stored
- added file name editor in BARControl (check the \"folder\"-image
right to the file name!)
- fixed missing lock in debug-code of strings.c
- renamed option --priority -> --nice-level; set nice level
not thread priority
- added password input dialog in case password does not match
or no password is defined in the configuration files

Tue Dec 18 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.04c
- fixed creating of directories on restore of single files
- fixed DVD burn commands (removed option \"-dry-run\" - sorry)

Sun Dec 16 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.04b
- fixed typing error in secure password memory

Sun Dec 16 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.04a
- fixed double free of a string
- added check in string library for duplicate free
- fixed abort
- use base name of archive file name for incremental list file

Sat Dec 15 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.04
- added create-dialog to BARControl.tcl
- added incremental backup
- fixed bug in --request-volume-command (wrong command string)
- fixed bug when executing external command (reading i/o)
- fixed messages printed on console
- replaced --enable-static-link by --enable-dynamic-link in
configure and made static linkage to the default
- added store/restore of special devices (character, block, fifo,
socket)
- fixed some small problems in restore
- by the way: by accident BAR got his crucial test! I crashed
my system partition and I could restore it with BAR!
Nevertheless there is still a lot of work to do...

Sat Dec 1 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.03a
- fixed thread termination for \"create\" command

Sat Dec 1 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.03
- added option/configure value \'priority\'
- added log file support

Wed Nov 28 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.02c
- improved handling of DVDs
- added configure to scanx TCL extension
- improved making of distribution
- added option --wait-first-volume

Tue Nov 27 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.02b
- improved handling of DVDs
- started FAQ

Mon Nov 26 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.02a
- bug fix

Sun Nov 25 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.02
- implemented DVD support
- fixed ssh connections
- implemented more functions in BARControl.tcl
- added install for scanx, mclistbox.tcl (needed for BARControl.tcl)
- added config parser
- added multiple server/device sections in config file
- WARNING: changed usage of crypt password: encryption
key is not filled with password anymore. Thus password
\"foo\" is now different from \"foofoo\".
Before upgrading BAR restore all archives!
- added input of ssh/crypt password if not specified in config

Thu Nov 1 13:00:00 2007 Torsten Rupp 0.01
- initial release

-- Torsten Rupp Thu Nov 01 2007


 
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