Rdiff-backup v2.0.1.rc0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-05-05 // about 4 years ago-
🔄 Changes
- CHG: return error code 2 instead of number of failed files during repo verification to have a consistent return code (1 would be any other kind of error, or 0 if everything is well), closes #338
- 🛠 FIX: Added backticks to
<file>in develop docs so missing word is shown, closes #303 - 🛠 FIX: allow again to backup from and to Windows shares, closes #337
- 🛠 FIX: avoid bytes/str object issue under MacOS/X while checking forks FS abilities, closes #320
- 🛠 FIX: avoid charmap encoding errors during logging on Windows due to extended characters, closes #344
- 🛠 FIX: avoid IndexError: string index out of range error when using accentuated characters in exclude/include patterns, closes #340
- 🛠 FIX: avoid test error when using librsync >= 2.2 by adding -R rollsum to rdiff call in librsynctest, closes #304
- 🛠 FIX: fail with meaningful error message on metadata mirror files with duplicate timestamps, closes #322
- 🛠 FIX: sequence of exception leading to abort when logging tuple of bytes because of unreachable directory, closes #310
- 🆕 NEW: Create a new rdiff-backup-delete script which can remove a file and all its history from a backup repository (use with care).
- 🆕 NEW: option --allow-duplicate-timestamps to only warn about duplicate timestamps in metadata mirror files, use this option with care and only to clean an impacted backup repository.
- DOC: add Fedora and RHEL to installation instructions, and evoke Raspbian, closes #316
- ⚡️ DOC: Update installation steps to make them clearer to users
- 📚 DOC: improved installation and contributors documentation
- 🚀 DEV: clarify version tag pattern and their influence on releases, closes #326
- 🏁 DEV: much better automated installation of Windows development VM via Vagrant/Ansible
- ✅ DEV: errorsrecovertest test script to test recovering from old errors.
Authors
- albert-github
- dominicraf
- Eric L
- Otto Kekäläinen
- Patrik Dufresne
- Trevor Harmon