Backuppc v2.1.0.beta0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2004-03-20 // about 20 years ago-
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A failed full dump is now saved as a partial (incomplete) dump, provided it includes some files. This can be used for browsing, restoring etc, and will also form the basis of resuming full dumps. Only one partial is kept, and it is removed as soon as a successful full (or a new partial) is done.
➕ Added support for resuming a full dump for rsync. The partial full is kept, and to resume an incremental is done against the partial, and a full is done for the rest.
➕ Added support for Rsync checksum caching. Rsync checksum are appended to the compressed pool files. This means that block and file checksums do not need to be recomputed on the server when using rsync. Requires a patch to rsync to support fixed checksum seeds. This patch is included in the cygwin-rsyncd release on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
Major addition of Archive feature from Josh Marshall. Special clients can be configured to be archive targets (eg: tape drives, CD-R). Any subset of the backup clients can be selected and tar archives are created, optionally compressed and split and written to the output device. Logs are maintained and are browsable.
💅 Major changes from Ryan Kucera to add style sheets to the CGI interface, allowing easy customization. Added new icons and BackupPC logo. Numerous navigation improvements.
➕ Added directory history display to BackupPC_Admin, allowing the user to quickly see which files changed between backups on a per-directory basis.
➕ Added exponential expiry option for full dumps. This allows you to specify
- how many fulls to keep at intervals of $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by
- how many fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
- how many fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
- how many fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
- how many fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
and so on. This allows you, for example, to keep 4 weekly fulls, followed by 6 fulls every 4 weeks (approx 1 month) and 2 fulls at 16 weeks, for roughly 1 year of history. This works by deleting every other full as each expiry boundary is crossed. Suggested by David Cramblett.
➕ Added Italian language translation it.pm from Lorenzo Cappelletti.
⚡️ Major updates to language files for new features and tags changes. Updated makeDist to do pedantic consistency checking of language files.
➕ Addition of administration options from Paul Lukins. Initial page allows server to be started/stopped/reloaded. This still needs some i18n work. Currently the server start/stop is commented out.
Split BackupPC_Admin into a set of modules, one for each major action. Each action is now a seperate module in lib/BackupPC/CGI.
👍 Allow the blackout period begin/end to span midnight. Adapted from patch submitted by David Smith.
👍 Allow multiple blackout periods, with new config variable $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} that replaces the old variables $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin}, $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}, and $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}. Based on patch submitted by Lorenzo Cappelletti.
Disabled alarms after forks to avoid timeouts in children that do not reset their alarm. Prompted by ideas from James Leu.
➕ Added options for block size, buffer size and share wild-card to BackupPC_tarCreate. Also added negative backup number options that are relative to the last (so -1 is the last), suggested by William McKee and Carl Soderstrom.
The "Wrong user" message in BackupPC::Lib now goes to stderr, so that the user is more likely to see the error with BackupPC_tarCreate. Reported by Paul Fox.
➕ Add creation of per-PC directory in BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm in case it doesn't already exist.
➕ Added -q -x to all ssh commands in conf/config.pl. Suggested by SI Reasoning and Niranjan Ghate.
🔄 Changed restore code so that option #1 (direct restore) can be disabled if the restore command is undefined. Disabling direct restore is necessary if the share is read-only. Suggested by Rich B from SAIC.
🔄 Changed regexp in lib/BackupPC/Smb.pm to allow numbers with both a decimal point or comma for international versions of Samba. Patch submitted by Frank Gard.
Browsing and directory history now sort the files in a case-insensitive manner.
🔄 Changed exec() syntax to allow executing commands whose path contains spaces.
🚚 BackupPC_dump no longer removes backups if $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is zero or undefined. The protects the existing backups in the case of a bad config.pl file. Suggested by Christian Warden.
🚚 Swapped the Server and Hosts sections on the Nav bar. Moved the host search text box to the top of the hosts section. This was done to move the variable-length part of the Nav bar (when all hosts are displayed) to the bottom.
🛠 Fixed a bug in tar restore related to how the common prefix path is removed. Now ensure that the common path is at a directory boundary. Reported by Patrick Neuner.
➕ Added --chuid ${USER} to init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc. Suggested by SI Reasoning, Pascal Pochol, Michael Evanoff and others.
➕ Added Suse notes to init.d/README from Bruno Vernay.
➕ Added Apache 2 documentation fix from Michael Tuzi.
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