Backuppc v2.1.0.pl1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2004-08-15 // almost 20 years ago
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    • βž• Added fix to nl.pm from Lieven Bridts.

    • βž• Added patch from Tony Nelson to remove $Info{pid} before BackupPC writes the status and shuts down.

    • πŸ”„ Changed BackupPC_nightly so that it doesn't call find() if the directory doesn't exist. This avoids errors in certain versions of perl. Reported by Bernd Rilling.

    • πŸ›  Fixed BackupPC::CGI::Lib to correctly re-load config.pl for mod_perl. Reported by Tony Nelson and Jimmy Liang.

    • Explicitly untaint $In{host} in BackupPC::CGI::Lib to fix problem reported by Thomas TempΓ©.

    • βž• Added newline to "...skipping because of user requested delay..." log message in BackupPC_dump. Reported by Wayne Scott.

    • βž• Added read file size error checking to BackupPC_tarCreate. Reported by Brandon Evans.

    • βž• Added check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO to ensure that when compression is toggled on/off, a compressed backup doesn't link to an uncompressed pool file (and an uncompressed backup doesn't link to a compressed pool file). Reported by Brandon Evans.

    • πŸ“š Updated documentation with new dirvish URL and a typo from Todd Curry.

    • πŸ›  Fix to BackupPC_sendEmail so that it correctly sends admin emails for hosts that have failed backups. Reported by Simon Kuhn.

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