Backuppc v4.4.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-06-20 // almost 5 years ago-
🚀 This release contains several new features and some bug fixes. New features include:
- any full/filled backup can be marked for keeping, which prevents any expiry or deletion
- ⬆️ any backup can be annotated with a comment (eg, "prior to upgrade of xyz")
- ➕ added metrics CGI (thanks to @jooola) that replaces RSS and adds Prometheus support
- 👍 tar XferMethod now supports xattrs and acls
- 👍 rsync XferMethod now correctly supports xattrs on directories and symlinks
- 🔧 nightly pool scanning now verifies the md5 digests of a configurable fraction of pool files
- 👀 code runs through perltidy so format is now uniform (thanks to @jooola, with help from @shancock9 and @moisseev)
🆕 New versions of BackupPC::XS (0.62) and rsync-bpc (3.0.9.15, 3.1.2.2 or 3.1.3beta0) are required.
🚀 Thanks to Jeff Kosowsky for extensive testing and debugging for this release, particularly around xattrs.
Here are the more detailed changes:
- 🔀 Merged pull requests #325, #326, #329, #330, #334, #336, #337, #338, #342, #343, #344, #345, #347, #348, #349
- ⬆️ Filled/Full backups can now be marked as "keep", which excludes them from any expiry/deletion. Also, a backup-specific comment can be added to any backup to capture any important information about that backup (eg, "pre-upgrade of xyz").
- ➕ Added metrics CGI, which adds Prometheus support and replaces RSS, by @joola (#344, #347)
- 👍 Tar XferMethod now supports xattrs and acls; xattrs sbould be compatible with rsync XferMethod, but acls are not
- Sort open directories to top when browsing backup tree
- 👍 Format code using perltidy, and included in pre-commit flow, by @joola (#334, #337, #342, #343, #345). Thanks to @joola and @shancock9 (perltidy author) for significant effort and support, plus improvements in perltidy, to make this happen.
- ➕ Added $Conf{PoolNightlyDigestCheckPercent}, which checks the md5 digest of this fraction of the pool files each night.
- $Conf{ClientShareName2Path} is saved in backups file and the share to client path mapping is now displayed when you browse a backup so you know the actual client backup path for each share, if different from the share name
- ⚡️ configure.pl now checks the per-host config.pl in a V3 upgrade to warn the user if $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} or $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} are used for that host, so that the new settings $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} and $Conf{RsyncClientPath} can be manually updated.
- 🛠 Fixed host mutex handling for dhcp hosts; shifted initial mutex requests to client programs
- ⚡️ Updated webui icon, logo and favicon, by @moisseev (#325, #326, #329, #330)
- ➕ Added $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgsExtra} for host-specific restore settings
- Language files are now all use utf8 charsets
- ⬆️ Bumped required version of BackupPC::XS to 0.62 and rsync-bpc to 3.0.9.15.
- Ping failure message only written to stdout only if verbose
- 🚚 BackupPC_backupDelete removes partial v3 backup in HOST/new; fixes #324 reported by @thalueng
- BackupPC_backupDelete adds -f option to over keep, if set
- BackupPC_nightly: change -f to -F when running BackupPC_refCountUpdate during fsck
- 👍 Better formatting of eval cmd result in cmdSystemOrEvalLong()
- ✂ Remove zero count entries in per-backup and per-host poolCnt files
- ➕ Add a fake version parameter to the CSS URL to overcome caching
- 🛠 Fixed ALRM typo in BackupPC_dump, by @rhansen (#348)
- 🛠 Fixed command name in error message in BackupPC_archive, by @rhansen (#349)
- lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm skips adding --iconv option when $conf->{ClientCharset} is utf8 or empty, to avoid a long-standing rsync bug
- ⚠ lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm provides a more informative warning when the client rsync exits with an IO error, and also includes the IO error in the xferErr count
- lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm recognizes NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE error
- 👀 Increase text length in config editor fields, by @moisseev (#336)
- Typo fix in config.pl, by @cure (#338)
- 📚 Minor documentation updates, removing old SourceForge links
Previous changes from v4.3.2
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🚀 This release contains several bug fixes and a few minor features:
- 🔀 Merged pull requests #278, #281, #289, #295, #297, #307, #308, #311, #312, #313, #314.
- ➕ Added per-host read/write exclusivity to worker programs, so command-line programs don't collide with backups or other operations; reported by @hamster65 (issue #299)
- ➕ Added $Conf{RsyncIncrArgsExtra} (issue #284)
- ➕ Added $Conf{ClientShareName2Path}, which allows mapping of share names/path to real paths on the client (eg, to backup a snapshot that's in a different directory to the share name path)
- Fixed v3 digest calculation in bin/BackupPC_backupDuplicate and bin/BackupPC_migrateV3toV4; reported by @palmtop (issue #291)
- 👌 Improved handling of BackupPC_nightly running for more than 24 hours: drop next queued run, and provide better log messages; reported by @guestisp (issue #303)
- 👌 Improved error checking on $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}, and update $Info->{NightlyPhase} if it's larger than $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}; reported by @guestisp (issue #304)
- 🛠 Fixed warnings in bin/BackupPC, submitted by @moisseev (#278)
- ⚡️ Avoid rrd updates using the same time stamp, submitted by @moisseev (#311, issue #305)
- ✂ Removed unused counting of renamed files, submitted by @moisseev (#281)
- 📜 Make tar xfer output parsing compatible with FreeBSD tar, submitted by @haarp (#289)
- 🛠 Fix daemon stdin open to read mode, submitted by @moisseev (#308)
- Hosts config editor table layout CGI fix, submitted by @steven-de-wit (#297)
- 🛠 Fixes to French translation, submitted by @pjoubert- (#295)
- 🛠 Fixes to Italian translation, submitted by @guestisp (#314)
- ⚡️ Updated comments for Apache 2.4 config in httpd/src/BackupPC.conf, submitted by @NotAProfessionalDeveloper (#307)
- 📚 Documentation update for SCGI prerequisite, submitted by @guestisp (#312)
- 📚 Documentation update for nginx config, submitted by @guestisp (#313)