Rdiff-backup v0.9.3 Release Notes
Release Date: 2002-07-15 // almost 22 years ago-
➕ Added --sleep-ratio option after hearing that rdiff-backup was too hard on hard disks (thanks to Steve Alexander for the suggestion). Quick example: --sleep-ratio 0.25 makes rdiff-backup sleep about 25% of the time. Maybe this will help on bandwidth usage also.
🛠 Fixed -m/--mirror-only option.
➕ Added --exclude-other-filesystems option. Thanks to Paul Wouters for the suggestion.
➕ Added convenience field TotalDestinationSizeChange (total change in destination directory - mirror change + increments change) to session_statistics file.
🖐 Handle a particular situation better where a file changes in a certain way while rdiff-backup is processing it. Before rdiff-backup would just crash; now it skips the file. Thanks to Scott Bender for the bug report.
🚚 A couple interface fixes to --remove-older-than.
➕ Added some security features to the protocol, so rdiff-backup will now 🔒 only allow commands from remote connections. The extra security will be enabled automatically on the client (it knows what to expect), but ⚡️ the extra switches --restrict, --restrict-update-only, and --restrict-read-only have been added for use with --server.