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Rsnapshot v1.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-07-01 // almost 9 years ago
    • Tidy the code with perltidy
    • 🛠 Fix --rsh command line option The --rsh option of rsync got errornously quoted (Debian Bug #743310)
    • Define traps to unmount LVM parts after fail If you use LVM snapshots and rsnapshot fails, rsnapshot will unmount and remove the snapshot, too.
    • cd to home before executing a command
    • if($use_lazy_deletes): remove lockfile in any case
    • Bail on failing cmd_(pre|post)exec If one of those commands fails, rsnapshot will exit with exit code != 0
    • 🖨 Capture output from rsync and print/log if level is >=4
    • 🖨 Print rsnpashot's PID when logging to syslog, instead of the logger's PID.
    • 👉 make script uses pod2man instead of /usr/bin/pod2man
    • 🚚 rsnapshot-diff: Fixed removed files reported as addition (+ mark)
    • Introduction of backup_exec resource for running unix commands interspersed with backup and backup_script jobs.
    • check for SIGPIPE, mainly in case cron fails when trying to mail (this is probably why rsnapshot dies mysteriously if it outputs when called by cron on a system which does not have mail working).
    • ➕ add test case for -t showing --link-dest when there is only one snapshot
    • if gnu_cp_al fails, test out a simple cp -al command before suggesting that the cp does not support -al.
    • When snapshot_root does not exist, check existence of parent directories.
    • include_conf command now strips backticks before execution (bug fix based on suggestion from David Osborn).
    • 🚚 Ignore extraneous output from lvremove command. (patch by Tim Connors)
    • ⚡️ Update current maintainer status in Authors section of man page. (David Cantrell stepped down between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1.)
    • ✂ Remove some old (1.1.x -> 1.2.0) upgrade notices from man page.
    • Allow linux_lvm_cmd_* in config file to have options also.
    • 👍 Allow backticks with options in include_conf.
    • 🛠 Fix inaccurate omission of --link-dest in test-mode output
    • rsnapshot-diff: Add -s option to show size of each file.