Changelog for rear-2.7-lp155.2.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Mon Sep 04 2023 ecsos - Update to 2.7:
* Sat Oct 16 2021 ecsos - Version upgrade to 2.6:
* Fri Jul 12 2019 ecsosAATTopensuse.org- Version upgrade to 2.5
* Enhancements to better support mmcblk/eMMC disks
* Now there is in default.conf MODULES=( \'all_modules\' ) which means that now by default all kernel modules get included in the recovery system.
* The new verify script layout/save/default/950_verify_disklayout_file.sh verifies the disklayout.conf file that is created by “rear mkrescue/mkbackup”.
* Basic support for EFISTUB booting: Via the new config variable EFI_STUB (see default.conf) the user can (and if needed must) specify that the recreated system should boot via EFISTUB.
* The whole ‘rear dump’ output format need to be changed to improve it to clearly distinguish array elements.
* Now during “rear mkrescue/mkbackup” md5sums are created for all regular files in in the recovery system and stored as /md5sums.txt in the recovery system.
* GRUB2 installation on x86 and ppc64le architecture was completely rewritten and enhanced by the new config variable GRUB2_INSTALL_DEVICES For detail see: http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/release-notes-2-5
* Fri Nov 02 2018 ecsosAATTopensuse.org- Version upgrade to 2.4
* Major rework and changed default behaviour how ReaR behaves in migration mode when partitions can or must be resized to fit on replacement disks with different size.
* Network setup was completely reworked to support bonding, bridges, vlans and teaming.
* Initial (limited) support for certain ARM based hardware.
* Simplified and enhanced TSM restore plus first draft of TSM backup.
* EMC Avamar support has been added.
* Duplicity backup has been seriously enhanced.
* Support for TCG Opal 2-compliant self-encrypting disks and RAWDISK output.
* YUM+backup adds the ability to backup and restore files to the YUM method. For detail see: http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/release-notes-2-4- Change Source0 from sourceforge to github, because in sourcefile from sourceforge are rpms and older sources from rear.
* Thu Dec 21 2017 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Using newest rear-2.3.tar.gz tarball from sourceforge cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1656
* Wed Dec 20 2017 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Version upgrade to 2.3 (fate#323930 fate#323931 fate#323932) New features and bigger enhancements:
* First steps towards running ReaR unattended in general
* SSH support in the recovery system is now secure by default
* Improved verification of the recovery system contents
* ReaR is now more safe against recreating on a wrong disk Possibly backward incompatible changes:
* In addition to STDERR now also STDOUT is redirected into the log file so that when programs prompt via STDOUT to get input the program\'s prompt could be no longer visible to the user
* There are no longer private SSH keys in the recovery system by default and a RSA key is generated from scratch when starting sshd during recovery system startup so that it does no longer work by default to use SSH in the recovery system via the SSH keys that exist on the original system
* By default it is now fatal when \'ldd\' reports a \'not found\' library for any file in a /bin/ or /sbin/ directory in the recovery system so that now \'rear mkrescue/mkbackup\' may fail where it had (blindly) worked before
* Improved autodetection when the disk layout looks ambiguous. Now \'rear recover\' switches by default more often into the MIGRATION_MODE where manual disk layout configuration happens via several user dialogs so that by default \'rear recover\' shows more often user dialogs A detailed list can be found in the rear-release-notes.txt file
* Wed Jul 26 2017 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Version upgrade to 2.2 A detailed list can be found in the rear-release-notes.txt file. Changes include (excerpt):
* Let the get_disk_size() function retry several times to be more fail-safe when udev needs some time until device files appear. This introduces the new generic helper function retry_command() plus the new config variables REAR_SLEEP_DELAY and REAR_MAX_RETRIES. For details see default.conf and lib/layout-functions.sh (issue #1370)
* ReaR failed to continue due incorrect check of presence of USB device (REAR-000) in /proc/mounts, despite foregoing script (060_mount_NETFS_path.sh) did mounting of this device (issue #1415)
* Add missing privilege separation dir to start sshd on Debian 9 (issue #1381)
* Redirect rsync verbose output to backup log (issue #1387)
* Load storage controllers in rescue system in same order as on host system (issue #1384): Copy over modules from initrd on SUSE LINUX and prevent sorting of MODULES_LOAD array to keep the order intended.
* Add /yaboot to ISO_FILE when running SUSE ppc64 (issue #1414)
* Add SSL cert directories so we can interact with Google Cloud Storage (issue #1402)
* Modified the \"unattended\" into \"automatic\" with ISO_DEFAULT required for automated recovery tests (issue #1397)
* Use the original fds when ReaR was launched (which are now saved as fd6, fd7, and fd8 for stdin, stdout, and stderr respectively) for actually intended user input and user output. To keep backward compatible behaviour all old deprecated usage of \'>&8\' is converted into \'>/dev/null\' but /dev/null usage in general should be cleaned up later (issues #887, #1395)
* Added new generic UserInput and UserOutput plus LogUserOutput functions that are intended to replace current user input functionality that calls select or read directly. For the next ReaR version 2.3 it is planned to also redirect stdout into the log file in addition to stderr (issues #885, #1366, #1398, #1399)
* The \'make rpm\' now relies on \'make srpm\' which creates the src.rpm package first. This src.rpm package can then be easily copied to another computer to rebuild a rpm package from it without needed the sources itself (or git checkout) (issue #1389)
* Replaced some perl regexp with grep native extended regexp (issue #1376)
* Introducing SECURE_BOOT_BOOTLOADER variable in default.conf This variable should enable users booting with Secure Boot, to use whatever custom signed boot loader they like, and removes hard coded entry \"shim.efi\" from ReaRs code (issue #1374)
* Enhanced and cleaned up making ISO on POWER (ppc64/ppc64le). Now the backup can be stored in the ISO (via BACKUP_URL=iso...) and even multiple ISOs work on POWER now (issues #697, #1383)
* Create multipath.conf only during migration (from non-mulitpath to multipath), and always copy /etc/multipath/bindings to the TARGET_FS_ROOT (issues #1382, #1393)- Version upgrade to 2.1 A detailed list can be found in the rear-release-notes.txt file. Changes include (excerpt):
* Support for Grub2 installation with software RAID1 on Linux on POWER (ppc64/ppc64le) (issue #1369)
* REBUILD_INITRAMFS variable was introduced. The new default.conf setting REBUILD_INITRAMFS=\"yes\" rebuilds the initramfs/initrd during \"rear recover\" to be more on the safe side. With REBUILD_INITRAMFS=\"\" the old behaviour can still be specified (issue #1321)
* ISO_RECOVER_MODE=unattended mode (issue #1351) - required for automated ReaR testing with OUTPUT=ISO
* MODULES variable supports now special values like \'all_modules\', \'loaded_modules\', \'no_modules\' (issues #1202, #1355)
* Include systemd/network to preserve \"Predictable Network Interface Names\" (issue #1349)
* Various improvements regarding multipath (issues #1190, #1309, #1310, #1311, #1314, #1315, #1324, [#1325], #1328, #1329, #1344, #1346)
* Show OUTPUT variables in rear dump (issue #1337)
* Added support for \"grub PXE style\" via PXE_CONFIG_GRUB_STYLE and PXE_TFTP_IP on non x86 platform (issue #1339)
* Try \'wipefs -force\' and use \'dd\' as fallback to better clean up disk partitions (issue #1327)
* Reorganized \"finalize\" scripts ordering and cleanup of the PPC bootloader installation (issue #1323)
* Avoid long default wait in \'dig\' when DNS servers are not set (issue #1319)
* Fail-safe calculations in partitioning code (issues #1269, #1307)
* Improved support on ppc/ppc64/ppc64le architectures (issues #1178, #1311, #1313, #1322)
* Define hostname in both /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hostname in rescue image (for Arch) (issue #1316)
* Rename network interface when MAC not present in udev (issue #1312)
* Added support for \'nano\' editor (in addition to \'vi\') (issues #1298, #1306)
* mmcblk disk types are now supported (issues #1301, #1302)
* NETFS_RESTORE_CAPABILITIES variable was introduced to restore file capabilities in a proper way (issue #1283)
* Added required libs and files for \'curl\' with HTTPs by default (issues #1267, #1279)
* More precise XFS file system creation during rear recover (issues #1208, #1213, #1276)
* DRLM management and security improvements (issue #1252)
* Improved BOOTLOADER support (issue #1242)
* DRLM support for multiple backups via multiple config files (issue #1229)
* FIRMWARE_FILES support to exclude firmware files in rescue image to reduce the size of image (issue #1216)
* Enable SELinux in the rescue image for tar internal backup method if BACKUP_SELINUX_DISABLE=0 (issue #1215)
* BOOT_OVER_SAN is now fully supported (issues #1190, #1309, #1314, #1315, #1325, #1329, #1344)
* NVME disks are now fully supported (issue #1191)
* Some initial basic support for new backup type ZYPPER was added (issues #1085, #1209)
* Finding UEFI boot loaders on non standard places (issues #1204, #1225, #1293)
* The USB UEFI partition size USB_UEFI_PART_SIZE for kernel image has been increased from 100 to 200 MB (issue #1205)
* REAR_INITRD_COMPRESSION variable was introduced to specify initrd compression (e.g. \'lzma\' for PPC64) (issues #1142, #1218, #1290)
* New backup type BLOCKCLONE was added to backup non-Linux partitions (e.g. Windows NTFS partitions) (issues #1078, #1162, #1172, #1180)
* Bareos 16.2 is now supported (issue #1169)
* New USB_PARTITION_ALIGN_BLOCK_SIZE and USB_DEVICE_FILESYSTEM_PARAMS variables were added (issue #1217)
* Improved the USB backup selection menu during the recovery via USB (issue #1166)
* USB_SUFFIX variable was introduced to align backup on USB with backup on NFS (issues #1164, #1160, #1145)
* Forbid incremental backup to work on BACKUP_URL=usb:// (issue #1146)
* The USB_DEVICE_PARTED_LABEL=gpt setting is now honered while formatting the USB disk (issue #1153)- Version upgrade to 2.0 Backward incompatible change: ReaR 2.00 introduced the 3-digits scripts instead of the 2-digits script. This means all scripts must begin with 3 digits, e.g. 010-my-script.sh instead of 10-my-script. Therefore, if you wrote your own scripts make sure to renumber these. A detailed list can be found in the rear-release-notes.txt file. Changes include (excerpt):
* Bareos support: add missing directory /var/run/bareos in recovery system (issue #1148)
* Forbid BACKUP_URL=usb for BACKUP_TYPE=incremental/differential (issues #1141 and #1145)
* Improved and added new example configurations (issue #1068, #1058)
* Modified/Improved the exit code messages of ReaR (issues #1089, #1133)
* Fix documentation regarding OUTPUT_URL=null (issues #734, #1130)
* Better and fail safe progress messages while tar backup restore (issue #1116)
* Implement simulation mode with simulation with the workflows validate and shell (issue #1098)
* Update 11-multiple-backups.adoc : Multiple backups are in general not supported for BACKUP_TYPE=incremental or BACKUP_TYPE=differential (issues #1074 and #1123)
* Using RUNTIME_LOGFILE in all scripts as needed (issue #1119)
* New Backup method was added - BORG (issues #1030, #1037, #1046, #1048, #1118)
* Multiple backups are now possible (issues #1088, #1102, #1096) see the documentation page (New)
* Support partitioning and formatting huge USB devices (issue #1105)
* Skip remount async when systemd is used (issue #1097)
* Fixed and enhanced code for multiple ISOs (issue #1081)
* BACKUP_TYPE=incremental (New) and BACKUP_TYPE=differential were updated (issues #974, #1069)
* Added support for setting a UUID on XFS with enabled CRC (RHEL 7) (issue #1065)
* Fix for ISO not bootable for SLES11 ppc64 with root LVM (issue #1061)
* PXE booting enhancement with new style of uploading the boot files (issue #193)
* Renumbering the ReaR scripts from 2-digits to 3-digits (issue #1051)
* Improved boot loader detection (issue #1038)
* Tue Nov 22 2016 ecsosAATTopensuse.org- Version upgrade to 1.19 A detailed list can be found in the rear-release-notes.txt file. Changes include (excerpt):
* Save bootloader info from POWER architecture and rebuild initrd after migration (issues #1029, #1031)
* Improved documentation and man page in general (issues #918, [#930], #1004, #1007, #1008)
* New SLE12-SP2-btrfs-example.conf file because since SLES12-SP2 btrfs quota setup for snapper via \"snapper setup-quota\" is needed (issue #999)
* Simplified reboot halt poweroff and shutdown in the rescue/recovery system in case of systemd (issue #953)
* If TSM parameters contain a dot, the dot is replaced by an underscore in the TSM_SYS variable names (issue #985 and #986)
* Check if /dev/disk/by-label/RELAXRECOVER exist (issue #979 and #326)
* Added PRE_BACKUP_SCRIPT and POST_BACKUP_SCRIPT to be able to do custom tasks in the mkbackup/mkbackuponly workflows (issue #977)
* Make TMPDIR work in compliance with Unix standards (issue #969)
* USE_STATIC_NETWORKING now really overrides USE_DHCLIENT (issue #964)
* Make it safe against wrong btrfs subvolumes on SLES12 (issue #963, #966)
* Encrypted incremental backup cannot read the tar label (issue #952)
* Introduction of the NETWORKING_PREPARATION_COMMANDS variable to prepare network setup in the rescue/recovery system (issue #960)
* After migration fs_uuid for root partition wasn\'t changed in ELILO config file /etc/elilo.conf (issue #956)
* Clarified rear man page and default.conf file around BACKUP_URL=rsync: (issues #930 and #918)
* Make \"rear recover\" work with default btrfs on SLES12-SP2 (issue #944)
* Dropped GRUB_SUPERUSER and GRUB_RESCUE_PASSWORD to avoid that GRUB_RESCUE could change the behaviour of the GRUB2 bootloader in the currently running system in unexpected ways. With the new optional GRUB_RESCUE_USER setting GRUB_RESCUE works in compliance with the existing GRUB2 configuration (issues #938, #942)
* Bail out if not enough disk space for GRUB and GRUB2 rescue image (issue #913)
* Use BACKUP_PROG_COMPRESS_OPTIONS as an array so that one can use it to provide more complex values (issue #904)
* Add /usr/lib/syslinux/bios to the search path for mbr.bin (issue #908)
* Always load modules in /etc/modules (issue #905)
* Ask user for EFI partition size on USB disk (issue #849)
* Insure /etc/rear/mappings directory exists before doing a recovery (issue #861)
* First steps for rescue/recovery system update support via RECOVERY_UPDATE_URL (issue #841)
* NFS mount points are not recreated after a recover (issue #818)
* Correcting rear return code handling in auto recover mode (issue #893)
* Added NFSv4 support for security \'sys\' only so far (issue #754)
* Changed the usage of \'rpcinfo -p\' a bit to have the same outcome of different Linux flavours (issue #889)
* RSYNC: /boot/efi needs -relative rsync option (issue #871)
* New variables added for Bareos: BAREOS_RESTORE_JOB and BAREOS_FILESET
* Multipath partition not found in rhel7.2 (issue #875)
* Adding support for ppc64le PowerNV (non-virtualized aka Bare-Metal) (issue #863)
* First steps to support new ftpfs BACKUP_URL scheme (issue #845)
* Clean up \'url_host()\' (issue #856)
* Fix that libaio (needed for multipath) could be missing in rescue/recovery system because libaio can be located in different directories (issue #852)
* Improved the Relax-and-Recover menu for GRUB2 (issues #844, #849, #850)
* Check for valid BACKUP_URL schemes (issue #842)
* USB UEFI boot support (issue #831)
* Mitigate the problem that btrfs subvolums are not restored by default via TSM (issue #833)
* Determine EFI virtual disk size automatically (issue #816)
* ebiso image size is too small if BACKUP=TSM (issue #811)
* Improving the logics around ebiso usage in UEFI mode (issue #801)
* Fix for wrong UUID in initrd for bootfs (issues #649 and #851)
* Tue Mar 22 2016 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Version upgrade to 1.18 A detailed list can be found in the rear-release-notes.txt file. Changes include (excerpt):
* Support was added for NVME SSD type of disk devices (issue #787)
* Script 99_sysreqs.sh was added to save the minimal system requirements necessary for cloning a system in a remote DRP data center (issue #798)
* New 99_move_away_restored_files.sh to remove restored files after recover (issue #799) New array was introduced to make this - BACKUP_RESTORE_MOVE_AWAY_FILES=()
* Add example configuration for NetBackup Master/Media server
* Added backup capabilities; getcap and setcap are used to backup and restore (issue #771)
* Added support for new backup method Novastor NovaBACKUP DC (+BACKUP=NBKDC+) (issue #669)
* Code was improved to have network teaming support (issue #655)
* Example configuration to put backup and rescue image on same ISO image, eg. DVD (issue #430)
* /mnt/local became a global variable TARGET_FS_ROOT (issue #708)
* Copy rear.log from recovery into /var/log/rear/recovery/ directory after \"rear recover\" (issue #706)
* wipefs will be used when available (issue #649)
* SAN related improvements with btrfs (issue #695)
* Support for shim.efi (UEFI booting) added (issue #702)
* Added support for elilo (used by SLES 11/12) (issue #583, #691, #692, #693)
* Bareos team added BAREOS_FILESET and ISO_DEFAULT to default.conf (for automated DR tests executed by Bareos team; issue #686, #719)
* New SLE11-SLE12-SAP-HANA-UEFI-example.conf (issue #683)
* usr/share/rear/conf/examples/SLE12-SP1-btrfs-example.conf added as an example configuration file
* Added support for the SUSE specific gpt_sync_mbr partitioning scheme (issue #544)
* Improved btrfs snapshot support with SLES 12 (issue #556)
* Unload scsi_debug driver in recovery mode (issue #626)
* Saved the current mount points and permissions; in order to improve and avoid missing mount points after recovery (issue #619)
* grub support for ppc64 (issue #673)
* grub2 supported was added for ppc64 (issue #672)
* ppc64le support was added into the rear.spec (issue #665)
* Network code partially rewritten to improve teaming (issue #662)
* Changed default value of USE_CFG2HTML from 1 to empty (means do not run cfg2html by default) (issue #643)
* Move the 50_selinux_autorelabel.sh script to the default location so it gets picked up by all backup methods. This was required for RHEL 7 (issue #650)
* Check via NSR if the ISO image is not obsolete (issue #653)
* Added ebiso support within rear (required for UEFI booting with SLES 11 & 12 (issue #657)
* FDR/Upstream (BACKUP=FDRUPSTREAM) (NEW!) (issue #659)- SLE11-ext3-example.conf, SLE12-SP1-btrfs-example.conf, and SLE12-btrfs-example.conf are now provided in the upstream sources.- SLE12-SP1-btrfs.patch and rear1172a-gpt_sync_mbr.patch are obsolete because it is now implemented in the upstream sources.
* Tue Nov 03 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Create a separate directory /usr/share/rear/conf/examples/ for example config files, see https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/681 and install the SUSE example config files there - i.e.: /usr/share/rear/conf/examples/SLE11-ext3-example.conf /usr/share/rear/conf/examples/SLE12-btrfs-example.conf /usr/share/rear/conf/examples/SLE12-SP1-btrfs-example.conf
* Wed Oct 28 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- rear1172a-gpt_sync_mbr.patch adds support for the SUSE specific gpt_sync_mbr partitioning see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/544 (bsc#950610).
* Fri Oct 16 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Enhanced SLE12-SP1-btrfs.patch so that for mounted btrfs subvolumes that have the \'no copy on write\' attribute set those btrfs subvolumes are recreated with that attribute set (by using \'chattr\' on the btrfs subvolume directory), see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/556 (bsc#946006 fate#318701).- Enhanced SLE12-SP1-btrfs-example.conf so that also lsattr is in the recovery system (useful but not strictly required).
* Thu Oct 08 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Version 1.17.2.a is rear 1.17.2 with SLE12-SP1-btrfs.patch that makes it work specifically for the default btrfs structure in SLE12-SP1, see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/556 (bsc#946006 fate#318701).- SLE12-SP1-btrfs-example.conf is an example for SLE12-SP1 with default btrfs subvolumes that gets installed as /usr/share/rear/conf/SLE12-SP1-btrfs-example.conf- Warning for users who upgrade Relax-and-Recover (rear): Users who already use it must re-validate that their particular disaster recovery procedure still works. See in particular \"Version upgrades\" at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery Automatic version upgrades are not possible in practice. The user must explicitly specify his intended rear version. For one product like SLE11 or SLE12 we provide several versions in parallel so that users where version N does not support their particular needs can upgrade to version M but on the other hand users who have a working disaster recovery procedure with version N do not need to upgrade. Therefore the package name contains the version and all packages conflict with each other to avoid that an installed version gets accidentally replaced with another version.
* Mon Sep 07 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Update to version 1.17.2
* Fixed the NTP startup script (issue #641)
* Fixed the vfat label issue (issue #647)
* Improved the DUPLICITY method with finding all required libraries and python scripts
* Added the /run directory to the list of recreating missing directories (issue #619)
* Fix issue with USB disk and rsync as internal backup program (issue #645)
* Fix rsync restore: -anchored invalid rsync option (issue #642)
* A new variable was introduced NSR_POOLNAME (issue #640)
* Replaced almost all temporary files from /tmp/ to $TMP_DIR/ (issue #607) Related to security recommendations for Fedora and RHEL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239009 (f22) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238843 (rhel 7.2)
* In script 27_hpraid_layout.sh added the missing HPSSACLI_BIN_INSTALLATION_DIR variable to the COPY_AS_IS array (issue #630)
* Syslinux version > 5.00 is now supported (ISO and USB output) works on Debian 8, Ubuntu 15.04 (issue #624)
* Bail out when syslinux/modules are not found in lib/ bootloader-functions.sh (issues #467 and #596) You could also define a variable SYSLINUX_MODULES_DIR if rear cannot find it automatically (should not be necessary)
* Support was added for SLES11 on PPC64 hardware (issues #616 and #628)
* Support was added for new hardware - PPC64LE - RHEL and Ubuntu (issue # 627)
* FIX the hashed password (SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD variable) and added a missing library libfreeblpriv3 (issue #560)
* Insert a 3 seconds sleep after a volume group restauration to give udevd or systemd-udevd time to create needed devices (issue #608 and #617)
* Variable MANUAL_INCLUDE=YES has been introduced to work with array BACKUP_PROG_INCLUDE (issue #597)
* Add new variable NSR_DEFAULT_POOL_NAME (defaulting to Default) to use a different default pool name. Renamed the RETENTION_TIME variable to NSR_RETENTION_TIME (issue #640)
* new document 10-integrating-external-backup.adoc which explains the steps to take for a new backup integration into rear
* All AsciiDoc documentation changed extention from .txt to .adoc- Known restrictions on openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise (in general see https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery):
* rear 1.17.2 will not work with default btrfs on SLES12-SP1 because support for btrfs in rear explicitly excludes snapshot subvolumes but on SLES12-SP1 what is mounted at \'/\' will be a btrfs snapshot subvolume (issue #556)
* rear 1.17.2 does not work with UEFI because of various different reasons (issues #588 #585 #583 #229 #214)
* rear does not support partitions of type \'gpt_sync_mbr\' aka. \'hybrid (synced) MBR\' (issue #544)
* Thu Sep 03 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Use \"ExclusiveArch: %ix86 x86_64 ppc ppc64 ppc64le\" instead of \"BuildArch: noarch\" in the spec file. rear contains only bash scripts plus documentation so that on first glance it could be \"BuildArch: noarch\" but actually it is not \"noarch\" because it only works on those architectures that are explicitly supported. Of course the rear bash scripts can be installed on any architecture just as any binaries can be installed on any architecture. But the meaning of architecture dependent packages should be on what architectures they will work. Therefore only those architectures that are actually supported are explicitly listed. This avoids that rear can be \"just installed\" on architectures that are actually not supported (e.g. ARM or IBM z Systems). Furthermore for some architectures it requires architecture dependent packages (like syslinux for x86 and x86_64) so that rear must be architecture dependent. See the GitHub issue https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/629
* Tue Jun 30 2015 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Update to version 1.17.1
* Removed the plain password in the logs (and output) coming from BACKUP_PROG_CRYPT_KEY to avoid crib (issue #568)
* Mount vfat file system without special mount options seems to work much better then with these options in recovery mode, therefore, we do not use these anymore (especially for /boot/efi) (issue #576)
* Elilo support has been added for SLES (not fully tested yet) - issue #583
* Grub2 rescue menu has been added (enable this feature with GRUB_RESCUE=y) - issue #589
* splitted script 31_include_uefi_tools.sh in two pieces: 31_include_uefi_tools.sh: to grab the UEFI tools (as long as /boot/efi is mounted), and 32_include_uefi_env.sh: to dig deeper into the configuration when UEFI is active (related to issue #214). This is necessary to have to UEFI tools on SLES 11/12 where we cannot create an UEFI bootable ISO image. We must boot in BIOS mode, and need the UEFI tools to make the system bootable over UEFI.
* It is now possible to format an USB disk with a vfat and ext3 partition (for UEFI booting) - issue #593 rear -v format -- --efi /dev/ However, UEFI booting from an USB disk has not been implemented yet (sponsoring?).
* Simplified the code for ext
* fs and added StopIfError calls to prevent divide by zero during recovery (issue #598)
* Syslinux version >6 requires some special handling due to splitting up the package (Ubuntu 15.04) (issue #584)
* Debian 8 support added with ISO booting with latest syslinux release as well (issues #596, #599 and #600)
* Changed the behavior of SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD - now saved as MD5 hash password, but backwards compatibility is still respected (issue #560)
* For EMC NetWorker server/client we added some exclude items to COPY_AS_IS_EXCLUDE_NSR (issue #571)
* Removed the Warning message from main rear script as it was misleading (issues #563 and #564)
* output/ISO/Linux-i386/80_create_isofs.sh: make sure ISO_FILES[AATT] are copied to isofs directory (issue #569)- SLE11-ext3-example.conf is an example for SLE11 with default ext3 filesystem that gets installed as /usr/share/rear/conf/SLE11-ext3-example.conf- SLE12-btrfs-example.conf is an example for SLE12 with default btrfs subvolumes that gets installed as /usr/share/rear/conf/SLE12-btrfs-example.conf- Have config(noreplace) also for all files in /usr/share/rear/ to avoid that RPM package update overwrites user edited files because Relax-and-Recover (rear) is meant to be adapted and enhanced by the user according to his particular needs (see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery).- Added rear-rpmlintrc to filter the following false positives rpmlint warning messages:
* non-etc-or-var-file-marked-as-conffile because config(noreplace) is intentionally for all files in /usr/share/rear/ (see above)
* systemd-service-without-service_del_preun systemd-service-without-service_del_postun systemd-service-without-service_add_pre systemd-service-without-service_add_post because the systemd unit files in /usr/share/rear/skel/ are not meant to be used in the running system. They are used to build the rear recovery system ISO image.
* Sun Mar 15 2015 p.drouandAATTgmail.com- Update to version 1.17.0
* rear 1.17 introduced a new stage directory (init) which is called before any workflow. Can be used for extra initialization code, custom configurations and other stuff that should happen each time that ReaR is used (was added especially for DRLM as plugin for their DRLM variables) (issue #557)
* RHEL 5 could not mount NFS share as portmap daemon was not started yet. Reason was that script verify/NETFS/default/08_start_required_daemons.sh was executed after the mount test instead of before. (issue #547)
* RHEL 6 on PPC64 architecture has problems with seclabel mount option. There was a fix which cuts the seclabel mount option (as rear is by default not using SELinux) (issue #545)
* Disaster Recovery Linux Manager (DRLM) is a new Open Source project to centrally manage Disaster Recovery for Linux. ReaR 1.17 adds support for DRLM with a new configuration option DRLM_MANAGED=y (issue #522)
* Adding /etc/crypto-policies/ when openssl is requested (prep/NETFS/default/09_check_encrypted_backup.sh) - required for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179239 (issue #523)
* Introduced USING_UEFI_BOOTLOADER in default.conf file and modified all the involved scripts to follow the logic (issue #214)
* Archicture PPC64 has been enhanced (partition recognition issue #536, console #537)
* TSM restore filespace has been enhanced (issue #535)
* Correct the usage of set -e and StopIfError function (issue #534, #541)
* With BACKUP_TYPE=incremental disable variable NETFS_KEEP_OLD_BACKUP_COPY (mutual exclusive with this mode) (issue #143)
* Increased to start variable from 32768 to 2097152 in script 10_include_partition_code.sh (issue #492)
* Adding /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf (Ubuntu) to rear image when found (issue #520)
* When using /etc/rear/mappings/ip_addresses IPADDR/cidr must be translated into IPADDR and NETMASK (for RHEL 5 and 6) (issue #460)
* mdadm layout code was changed in RHEL 7; code to deal with it (issue #518)
* Adding missing driver xhci_hcd to GNU/Linux.conf (issue #519)
* Adding findmnt command to GNU/Linux.conf file; request from https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908854
* BTRFS code has been rewritten by J. Meixner to get SUSE rear116 fork back into our master tree of rear. BTRFS is now properly recreated on Fedora 20 and 21 and on SLES 12 and openSUSE 13 (issue #233, #497, #538) See also https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908854
* Enhanced the systemd start-up of udev daemons which is different on Fedora 20 and 21 (issue #507, #531)
* BACKUP_PROG_OPTIONS=\"anchored\" became a default option in default.conf (issue #475)
* Fixed an issue with auto-detection of the client name in BAREOS (issue #542)
* Ubuntu 14.04 did not detect /dev/sda automatically - added upstart script 99-makedev.sh to create missing block devices like sda (issue #446)
* New script usr/share/rear/layout/save/GNU/Linux/34_false_blacklisted.sh added as work-around. Sometimes we might see the HP Smart Storage Array disk listed as a multipath device. Most likely this device was not blacklisted in the blacklist section of the /etc/multipath.conf file (do not forget to rebuilt the initial ramdisk after this) e.g. falsempathdev=$( multipath -l | grep \"HP,LOGICAL\" | awk \'{print $1}\' ) [#] mpatha
* Added a systemd service script for SEP Sesam to start sesam client automatically (issue #498)
* Disk Layout Generation with HP SmartArray with more than one Logical Drive correction introduced by issue #208 (issue #455)
* OUTPUT_URL=null was added to avoid 2 ISO images on the local system (issue #501, #419)
* Fix drbd restore code so it can handle multiple volumes in single resource (issue #495)
* Function get_device_name was enhanced to properly translate /dev/vg/lv to /dev/mapper/vg-lv (issue #494)
* Fixed the \"lvm wait yes\" problem (issue #493)
* Device name conflict when grep disklayout file without proper space (issue #491)
* Several fixes with mdadm code (issue #480, #489, #490, #508, #539)
* Several fixes in the 10_include_partition_code.sh script (issue #487, #492)
* Being a bit more careful when deleting the outputfs directory when rear finishes (issue #465)
* Add a new config option USE_STATIC_NETWORKING (issue #488)
* Resolving library search with duply (issue #482)
* Improved the RPM package build for SLES, removed the lsb requirement (issue #479)
* Integrated the patch skip_sysconfig_kernel_if_not_exist.diff from SUSE (issue #477)
* Debian 7 reference to grub.conf was corrected (issue #473)
* Debian packing was improved (issue #474, #484)
* Commercial backup solution Galaxy 10 support added to rear (issue #471) Also, point in time recovery was implemented (issue #472)
* Fixed the error \"unary operator expected with BACKUP_TYPE\" (issue #422)
* lvm release 2.02.72 had already the knowledge of norestorefile (issue #462)
* Add prefix $OUTPUT_PREFIX to all PXE related files (issue #464)
* 55-migrate-network-devices.sh: fixed type with /sys/class/net (issue #459)
* Removed Get_Start_Date function with Netbackup because (depending on backup strategy) it led to partial restore only (issue #456)
* 26_crypt_layout.sh: fixed issue when cypher contains : (issue #425)
* 55-migrate-network-devices.sh: rebuild the array instead of unset (issue #452)
* skel/default/etc/scripts/system-setup : change uname -n by $HOSTNAME to avoid short/long hostname problems (issue #439)
* Added a mkdir for $VAR_DIR/output if dir does not exist (issue #440)
* 95_check_missing_programs.sh to find REQUIRED_PROGS before proceeding (issue #418)
* Added a fix for autorizing and recognizong the boot flag in the partition (issue #443)
* udev showing error message during startup (issue #442)
* Prevent \"ntpd -q\" from waiting forever if, for example, no network is available, by killing it after 10 seconds (issue #438)
* Several improvements around duply and duplicity [Debian related] (issues #426, #478)
* 95_copy_result_files.sh uses now [
*] instead of [AATT] with array (issue #431)
* New variable introduced for TSM in default.conf file called LANG_RECOVER (issue #424)
* Added Pre check script for removing older releases first during upgrade (RPM - issue #361)
* Prevent udev rule rewrites if systemd-udevd is running issue #405
* Fix \"Networker backup fails if pool name contains spaces\" (issue #427 and #429)
* Fix the \"More than 128 partitions is not supported\" problem (issue #373 and #428) during recreating the partition layout
* A new configuration option, USE_STATIC_NETWORKING=y, will cause statically configured network settings to be applied even when USE_DHCLIENT is in effect (issue #447).- Remove rear-release-notes.txt-1.16; rear-release-notes.txt has been updated- Remove traditional_style_for_bash_3.diff; merged on upstream release