Rdiff-backup v0.11.2 Release Notes
Release Date: 2003-03-01 // about 21 years ago-
🛠 Fixed seg fault bug reported by a couple sparc/openbsd users. Thanks ✅ to Dave Steinberg for giving me an account on his system for testing.
🏁 Re-enabled --windows-mode and filename quoting.
🛠 Fixed selection bug: In 0.11.1, files which were included in one backup would be automatically included in the next. Now you can include/exclude files session-by-session.
🛠 Fixed ownership compare bug: In 0.11.1, backups where the destination side was not root would preserve ownership information by recording it 📇 in the metadata file. However, mere ownership changes would not 🛠 trigger creation of new increments. This has been fixed.
➕ Added the --no-inode-compare switch. You probably don't need to use it though.
If a special file cannot be created on the destination side, a 0 length regular file will be written instead as a placeholder. 📇 (Restores should work fine because of the metadata file.)
Yet another error handling strategy (hopefully this is the last one for a while, because this stuff isn't very exciting, and takes a long time to write):
All recoverable errors are classified into one of three groups: ListErrors, UpdateErrors, and SpecialFileErrors. rdiff-backup's reaction to each error is more formally defined (see the error policy page, currently at http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/error_policy.html). rdiff-backup makes no attempt to recover or clean up after unrecoverable errors. However, it now uses fsync() to increment the destination directory in a reversable way. If there is an error, the next backup will regress the destination directory into its state before the aborted backup. The above process can be done without a backup with the --check-destination-dir option.👌 Improved error logging. Instead of the old haphazard reporting method, which sometimes didn't indicate the file an error occurred on, now all recoverable errors are reported in a standard format and also written to the error_log..data file in the rdiff-backup-data directory. Thanks to Dean Gaudet and others for repeatedly bugging me about this.