Backuppc v3.2.0.beta0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2009-04-05 // about 15 years ago-
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➕ Added BackupPC::Xfer::Protocol as a common class for each Xfer method. This simplifies some of the xfer specific code. Implemented by Paul Mantz.
➕ Added FTP xfer method, implemented by Paul Mantz.
➕ Added BackupPC::Xfer module to provide a common interface to the different xfer methods. Implemented by Paul Mantz.
🚚 Moved setting of $bpc->{PoolDir} and $bpc->{CPoolDir} after the config file is read in BackupPC::Lib. Fix proposed by Tim Taylor and Joe Krahn, and rediscovered by several others including Holger Parplies.
Create $TopDir and related data directories in BackupPC_dump prior to hardlink test. Requested by Les Stott.
🛠 Fixed encoding of email subject header in bin/BackupPC_sendEmail as suggested by Jean-Claude Repetto. Also changed $Conf{EMailHeaders} charset to utf-8. Also changed bin/BackupPC_sendEmail to not send any per-client email if $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set.
Modified bin/BackupPC_dump to fix the case of a single partial backup followed by a successful incremental resulting in a full backup of level 1, rather than level 0. Reported by Jeff Kosowsky.
🛠 Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite to always create the parent directory. This fixed a case with rsync/rsyncd where a file like "-i" in the top-level directory sorts before ".", which meant the directory creation is after the file creation. Also PoolWrite errors now increment xferError count. Reported by Jeff Kosowsky.
BackupPC now gives a more useful error message if BackupPC_nightly takes more than 24 hours (ie: when the next one is meant to start). Reported by Tony Schreiner.
🛠 Fixed IO::Dirent run-time check. Reported by Bernhard Ott and Tino Schwarze debugged it.
➕ Added more options to server backup command: rather than just forcing an incremental or full backup, a regular (auto) backup can be queued (ie: do nothing/incr/full based on schedule), as well as doing just an incremental or full or nothing based on the client schedule. Based on patches submitted by Joe Digilio.
Modified lib/BackupPC/CGI/RSS.pm to replace \n with \r\n in the RSS http response headers. Patch submitted by Thomas Eckhardt.
Modified bin/BackupPC_archive to allow the archive request file name to contain spaces and dashes, requested by Tim Massey.
🛠 Fix to configure.pl for --no-fhs case to initialize ConfigDir from Dan Pritts. Also changed perl path to #!/usr/bin/env perl.
Modified bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to shell escape the output file name. That allows it to contain spaces and other special characters. Requested by Toni Van Remortel. Also updated bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to shell escape and check other arguments.
➕ Added $Conf{CmdQueueNice} to specify nice level for command queue commands (eg: BackupPC_link and BackupPC_nightly). Suggested by Carl Soderstrom.
➕ Added --config-override to configure.pl, allow config settings to be set on the command line. Proposed by Les Stott and Holger Parplies.
🚚 Moved call to NmbLookupFindHostCmd in BackupPC_dump to after the check of whether a backup needs to be done. This makes wakeonlan work correctly, rather than waking up the client every WakeupSchedule. Reported by David Lasker.
👌 Improved settings for compression and compext in BackupPC_archiveStart based on compression type, as proposed by Paul Dugas. compext is now empty, .gz or .bz2 based on ArchiveComp.
🔄 Changed bin/BackupPC_dump to not ping or lookup the host if $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set. Requested by John Rouillard.
🔄 Changed BackupPC_tarCreate to disable output of final nulls in tar archive when -l or -L option is used. Reported by John Rouillard.
➕ Added error check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO after call to BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest->digestStart(), reported by Jeff Kosowsky.
➕ Added variable substitution for host, confDir, client in RsyncArgs, and also added option RsyncArgsExtra to allow more easy customization of RsyncArgs on a per-client basis. Proposed (with patch) by Raman Gupta.
➕ Added Xfer error column to the host summary table in the CGI interface. Based on patch submitted by Jan Kratochvíl.
🖨 Minor fix to sprintf arguments in BackupPC::Attrib, reported by Jonathan Kamens.
🛠 Fixed sort compareLOGName syntax in bin/BackupPC for perl 5.10.x, reported by Jeff Kosowsky and Holger Parplies.
🛠 Fixed bin/BackupPC_archiveStart to set compression correctly, and also set the file extension to .gz when compression is on. Reported by Stephen Vaughan.
🛠 Fixed netbios name comparison in bin/BackupPC_dump and bin/BackupPC_restore to just use the first 15 characters of the host name. Patch from Dan MacNeil.
🛠 Fixed nmblookup parsing in BackupPC::Lib::NetBiosInfoGet to ignore entries with the tag. Based on patch from Dan MacNeil.
🛠 Fixed BackupPC_dump so that the XferLOG file is saved when DumpPreUserCmd fails. Reported by John Rouillard.
⚡️ Updated BackupPC.pod for $Conf{BackupsDisable}, reported by Nils Breunese.
➕ Added alternate freebsd-backuppc2 init.d script that is more compact. Submitted by Dan Niles.
⚡️ Minor updates to lib/BackupPC/Lang/fr.pm from Nicolas STRANSKY applied by GFK, and also from Vincent Fleuranceau.
⚡️ Minor updates to lib/BackupPC/Lang/de.pm from Klaus Weidenbach.
⚡️ Updates to makeDist for command-line setting of version and release date from Paul Mantz.
➕ Add output from Pre/Post commands to per-client LOG file, in addition to existing output in the XferLOG file. Patch from Stuart Teasdale.
lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm now increments xferErrCnt on NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED and ERRnoaccess errors from smbclient. Reported by Jesús Martel.
✂ Removed BackupPC_compressPool and BackupPC::Xfer::BackupPCd.
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