Rdiff-backup v0.7.4 Release Notes
Release Date: 2002-05-11 // almost 22 years ago-
➕ Added new restore syntax and corresponding -r and --restore-as-of options. For instance, "rdiff-backup -r 1/3/2002 /backup/foo out" ⏪ will try to restore /backup/foo (a file on the mirror directory) to 👀 out, as it was January 3rd, 2002. See man page for more information.
directory_statistics..data files will now be created in the directories underneath rdiff-backup-data/increments. Just look at one 👀 to see what's inside.
➕ Added extra options --chars-to-quote, --quoting-char, and 🏁 --windows-mode, mostly to allow files whose names have colons (:) in 🏁 them to be backed up to windows machines.
Now the -l and --list-increments switches can list the increments corresponding to any mirror file, not just the root directory. Also the option --parsable-output was added to control whether the 💻 --list-increments output looks better for a human, or computer.
👌 Improved remove-earlier-than handling so it should run approximately as fast locally and remotely.
🛠 Probably fixed bug noticed by Erminio Baranzini which caused rdiff-backup to try to preserve access times unnecessarily (the 0️⃣ default is not preserve access times).
Rewrote a few large chunks of code for clarity and simplicity.
👍 Allow extended time strings for the --remove-older-than option.
➕ Added RESTORING section to the manual page because there seemed to be some general confusion about this.
hardlink_data, current_mirror, and a few other files now carry the .data extension (instead of .snapshot), to make it clearer they are not copies of source files.