1 Current Version: 1.11.1
3 User-visible changes since 1.11:
7 User-visible changes since 1.10:
11 o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
13 o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
14 will eventually be removed.
16 o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
17 and causes -C to be ignored.
19 o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
20 they are added to the archive.
22 o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
25 o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
26 being read or written.
28 o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
29 omitted from the archive.
31 o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
32 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
34 o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
35 not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
37 o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
38 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
39 around to the beginning.
41 o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
42 `:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
43 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
45 o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
46 original values after dumping the file.
48 o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
51 o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
52 modification and access times.
54 o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
55 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
56 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
62 User-visible changes since 1.09:
64 Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
65 Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
67 -g is now +incremental
68 -G is now +listed-incremental
70 Sparse files now work correctly.
72 +volume is now called +label.
74 +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
77 Exit status is now correct.
79 +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
81 When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
83 New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
84 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
85 instead of waiting for a write error.
87 New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
88 people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
89 need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups