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New in v1.3.3 (2009/03/16)
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Improve handling of incorrect permissions on backup repository during restore
operation. Closes Ubuntu bug #329722. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't crash on zlib errors. Closes Debian bug #518531. (Andrew Ferguson)
Make sticky bit warnings quieter while determining file system abilities.
Closes Savannah bug #25788. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix situation where destination file cannot be opened because of an access
error. Thanks to Dean Cording for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix --compare-hash options on Windows. Thanks to Serge Zub for the fix.
New in v1.3.2 (2009/03/02)
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Don't crash when filesystem can't set ACL. Thanks to Matt Thompson for the bug
report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix Security Error when performing non-backup operations on Windows. Thanks to
Tommy Keene for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Properly disable hardlinks by default on Windows.
Fix Python 2.2 compatibility. Closes Savannah bug #25529. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix typo which caused failure when checking if another rdiff-backup process is
running on Windows. Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Disable hardlinks by default on Windows when performing operations such as
--compare, etc. Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Change --min-file-size and --max-file-size to agree with man page. These
options no longer include files, and will only apply to regular files. Thanks
to Johannes Jensen for the suggestion. (Andrew Ferguson)
Improve error message if regress operation fails due to Security Violation.
Thanks to Grzegorz Marszalek for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.3.1 (2009/01/27)
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Improve support for handling too long filenames under Windows. Too long
directory names and paths are still a problem. (Andrew Ferguson)
Print more helpful error messages when the remote command cannot be started
on Windows. Thanks to Dominic for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix --test-server option when used with remote Windows clients. Thanks to
Thanos Diacakis for testing. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix --override-chars-to-quote option. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix typo in robust.py which broke error reporting. Closes Savannah bug #25255.
Ignore Windows errors caused by too long filenames; the files are not yet
backed-up, but the backup process is no longer halted. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.3.0 (2009/01/03)
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New option: --use-compatible-timestamps, which causes rdiff-backup to use - as
the hour/minute/second separator instead of :. Enabled by default on systems
which require : to be escaped. (Oliver Mulatz)
Allow rdiff-backup to backup files which it cannot read, but can change
the permissions of. (Andrew Ferguson)
Take start and end times from same system so that the elapsed time printed in
the statistics is not affected by time zone. (Andrew Ferguson)
Properly fix escaping DOS devices and trailing periods and spaces; now supports
native Windows and Linxu/FAT32. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.2.4 (2009/01/01)
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Disable escaping trailing spaces and periods for now since it broke remote
restores. Thanks to Dominic for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.2.3 (2008/12/28)
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The official Windows build now includes the librsync patch for files > 4GB.
This requires the Visual C++ 2008 redistributable, available from Microsoft.
The epoch is now a valid date. Closes Savannah bug #24814. (Andrew Ferguson)
Report that connection has dropped if filesystem operation returns ENOTCONN.
Closes Ubuntu bug #219920. (Andrew Ferguson)
Print a more helpful error message if we get an error while reading an old
current_mirror marker. This can happen because it has been locked or deleted
by a just-finished rdiff-backup process. Closes Ubuntu bugs #88140 and
#284506. (Andrew Ferguson)
Do not backup reparse points on native Windows. Thanks to John Covici for
reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
Support comments in rdiff-backup's ACL files and quote the quoting character
properly if user changed it. (Patch from Oliver Mulatz)
Print a more helpful error message if we cannot read the backup destination.
Closes Ubuntu bug #292586 (again). (Andrew Ferguson)
Print a more helpful error message if we cannot write to the backup
destination. (Andrew Ferguson)
Add ETIMEDOUT to the list of recoverable errors; when irrecoverable, a
ConnectionError is raised. Closes Ubuntu bug #304659. (Andrew Ferguson)
Suppress warnings about the deprecated sha module in Python 2.6. We'll remove
this after rdiff-backup is ported to Python 3. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Test for symlink permissions now produces a functioning symlink. Thanks to
Julien Poffet for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix for crash when deleting read-only files on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Fix for Python 2.2 in win_acls.py (Closes Savannah bug #24922).
Throttle verbosity of listattr() warning messages from 3 to 4. (Andrew Ferguson)
Escape trailing spaces and periods on systems which require it, such as
Windows and modern Linux with FAT32. (Andrew Ferguson)
Print nicer error messages in rdiff-backup-statistics (without tracebacks).
Closes Ubuntu bug #292586. (Andrew Ferguson)
Properly handle EINVAL "Invalid argument" errors when setting extended
attributes. Thanks to Kevin Fenzi for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
Add warning message if pyxattr is below version 0.2.2. (Andrew Ferguson)
Add "Stale NFS file handle" (ESTALE) to the list of recoverable errors. Thanks
to Guillaume Vachon for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
Workaround for broken support for symlink extended attributes in pyxattr <
0.2.2. Thanks to Leo Bergolth for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
Handle ELOOP ("Too many levels of symbolic links") error when reading extended
attributes from symlinks. Closes Savannah bug #24790. (Andrew Ferguson)
Inform the user of which file has failed if an exception occurs during a
rename operation. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.2.2 (2008/10/19)
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Automatically resume after a failed initial backup. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Improve compatibility between Unix and remote native Windows client. It is now
possible to use SSH daemons other than Putty on Windows. (Andrew Ferguson)
Print a more informative error message if the user's remote shell prints
extraneous information before rdiff-backup runs. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't backup Windows ACLs if the --no-acls option is specified. Thanks to
Richard Metzger for reporting the issue. (Andrew Ferguson)
Add error handling and logging to Windows ACL support; fixes Windows backup to
SMB share. Improve test in fs_abilities to determine if Windows ACLs are
supported. (Andrew Ferguson)
Add a warning message if extended attributes support is broken by the
filesystem (such as with older EncFS versions). (Andrew Ferguson)
Improve handling of Windows ACLs by switching to API functions which
understand inherited ACEs; fixes support for Windows 2000. (Andrew Ferguson)
Support extended attributes on symbolic links. (Andrew Ferguson)
On Mac OS X, read the com.apple.FinderInfo extended attribute since it is the
only storage location for the 'busy' (Z) Finder attribute. (Andrew Ferguson)
Properly fix "AttributeError: RPath instance has no attribute 'inc_compressed'"
bug. Fix in 1.1.12 was in correct place, but wrong solution. (Andrew Ferguson)
Improve support for Python 2.5, which refactored the built-in exceptions so
that SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt no longer derive from Exception.
Closes support request #106504. (Andrew Ferguson)
Adjust --exclude-if-present option to support directories, symlinks, device
files, etc. Closes bug #24192. Thanks to Vadim Zeitlin for the suggestion.
New in v1.2.1 (2008/08/24)
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Produce a new binary for Windows which includes the Python for Windows
Extensions. Thanks to Shohn Trojacek for reporting the problem.
Disable hardlinks by default when backup source or restore destination is
on Windows. (Andrew Ferguson)
Properly catch KeyboardInterrupt on Python 2.5. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't crash if a CacheIndexable tries to clear a non-existent cache entry,
since the entry must already be cleared. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.2.0 (2008/07/27)
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Fall back on the Python make_file_dict function when the filename contains
non-ASCII characters. (Andrew Ferguson)
Ignore Extended Attributes which have Unicode characters outside the current
system representation. These will be correctly handled when rdiff-backup
switches to Python 3, which will have full Unicode support. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.1.17 (2008/07/17)
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Move make_file_dict_python so that it is run on the remote end instead of
the local end. This improves performance for Windows hosts since it eliminates
the lag due to checking os.name. It also makes the Windows design parallel
to the Posix design, since the Windows method now returns a dictionary across
the wire. (Andrew Ferguson)
Catch EPERM error when trying to write extended attributes. (Andrew Ferguson)
Allow rdiff-backup to be built into a single executable on Windows using
py2exe ("setup.py py2exe --single-file"). (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Properly handle uid/gid comparison when the metadata about a destination
file has become corrupt. Closes Debian bug #410586. (Andrew Ferguson)
Properly handle hardlink comparison when the metadata about a destination
hardlink has become corrupt. Closes Debian bug #486653. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix typo in fs_abilities noticed by Martin Krafft. Add EILSEQ ("Invalid or
incomplete multibyte or wide character") to the list of recoverable errors.
Thanks to Hanno Stock for catching that. (Andrew Ferguson)
Catch another reasonable error when reading EAs. (Andrew Ferguson)
Use the Python os.lstat() on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Support for Windows ACLs. (Patch from Josh Nisly and Fred Gansevles)
Fix user_group.py to run on native Windows, which lacks grp and pwd Python
modules. (Patch from Fred Gansevles)
Optimize --check-destination and other functions by determining the increment
files server-side instead of client-side. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Actually make rdiff-backup robust to failure to read an ACL because the file
cannot be found. (Andrew Ferguson)
Get makedist working on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
New in v1.1.16 (2008/06/17)
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Properly preserve hard links when the destination does not support them.
Thanks to Andreas Olsson for noticing the problem. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix another case where rdiff-backup fails because it has insufficient
permissions on a file it owns. Thanks to Peter Schuller for the test
case. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't abort if can't read extended attributes or ACL because the path is
considered bad by the EA/ACL subsystem; print a warning instead. Problem
reported by Farkas Levente. (Andrew Ferguson)
rdiff-backup-statistics enhancements suggested by James Marsh: flush stdout
before running other commands, and add a --quiet option to suppress printing
the "Processing statistics from session..." lines. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't set modification times for directories on Windows. Also, assume
that user has access to all files on Windows since there is no support
for getuid(). (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Add Windows-specific logic for checking if another rdiff-backup process
is running. Do not try to handle non-existant SIGHUP and SIGQUIT signals
on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Do not use inode numbers on Windows and gracefully handle attempts to
rename over existing files on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Finally fix 'No such file or directory' bug when attempting to regress after
a failed backup. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Improve Unicode support by escaping Unicode characters in filenames
when printing them in log messages from eas_acls.py. (Fix from
Saptarshi Guha)
Handle Windows' lack of getuid(), getgid(), hardlinks and symlinks in
fs_abilities.py. Use subproces.Popen() on Windows since it does not support
os.popen2(). (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Let setup.py accept arguments on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Get cmodule.c building natively on Windows. (Patch from Josh Nisly)
Don't give up right away if we can't open a file. Try chmod'ing it even
if we aren't root or don't own it, since that can sometimes work on AFS
and NFS. Closes Savannah bug #21202. (Andrew Ferguson)
Correctly handle updates to nested directories with unreadable permissions.
Thanks to John Goerzen for the bug report. Closes Debian bugs #389134 and
#411849. (Andrew Ferguson)
Manpage improvements from Justin Pryzby.
Improve the handling of directories with many small files when backing-up
over a network connection. Thanks to Austin Clements for the test case.
(Andrew Ferguson)
Change high-bit permissions test to check both files and directories.
Improves rdiff-backup's support for AFS and closes Debian bug #450409.
(Patch from Marc Horowitz)
rdiff-backup-statistics now supports quoted repositories. Closes Savannah
bug #21813. (Andrew Ferguson)
Add EBADF to the list of recoverable errors when fsync() is called. This
fixes an rdiff-backup error on AIX and IRIX. Closes Savannah bug #15839.
(Fix from Peter O'Gorman)
Properly initialize new QuotedRPaths. Fixes --list-at-time, etc. when
the target is remote. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.1.15 (2008/01/03)
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New feature: If quoting requirements change, rdiff-backup can requote the
entire repository if user specifies the --force option. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't print the warning message about unsupported hard links if the user
has specified the --no-hard-links option. (Suggested by Andreas Olsson)
Print a more helpful error message when we get a "Result too large"
error when trying to copy a file. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix bug where rdiff-backup fails after all increments are removed. Closes
Savannah bug #20291. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't assume that a file cannot be read simply becasue of the access
permissions -- eg, NFS with (rw,all_squash) options. Closes Savannah
bug #21202. (Based on patch from Marc Horowitz)
restore_set_root should check if it can read a particular directory
before checking if "rdiff-backup-data" is contained in it. Closes
Savannah bug #21106. (Patch from Alex Chapman)
Regress.restore_orig_regfile should check if directories can be fsync'd
before doing so. Fixes Savannah bug #21546. (Patch from Marc Horowitz)
Rewrite quoting logic to independently check for escaping Windows special
characters, non-ASCII chars, and uppercase chars. (Andrew Ferguson)
Permit Unicode log messages. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.1.14 (2007/08/13)
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New release to work around Python bug. EFTYPE is not defined in Python's
errno module, but is necessary to check on BSD's. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.1.13 (2007/08/12)
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Properly pickle QuotedRPaths. Fixes regress operation on quoted filesystems.
Closes Savannah bug #20570 reported by Morgan Read. (Andrew Ferguson)
Warn if can't write extended attribute. (Andrew Ferguson)
Gracefully handle situations where rdiff-backup tries to set the sticky
bit on non-directory files on systems that don't support that action.
Thanks to Jim Nasby for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)
Prevent the extended filenames / UTF-8 test from raising an exception
on broken CIFS configurations which transform some characters to '?'.
Problem reported by Luca Cappe. (Andrew Ferguson)
Cygwin on FAT32 hangs when trying to open a file named "aux". Change
the escape DOS devices test to use "con" instead. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix symlink behavior when filesystem is mounted via CIFS. Closes
Savannah bug #20342. (Andrew Ferguson)
Fix "too many open files" bug when handling large directories. Patch
from Anonymous in Savannah bug #20528.
New options: --tempdir and --remote-tempdir. The first one sets the
directory that rdiff-backup uses for temporary files on the local system.
The second adds the --tempdir option with the given path when invoking
rdiff-backup on remote systems. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't run the extended attributes test if rdiff-backup is run with
the --no-eas option. Prevents hang in isolated cases. (Andrew Ferguson)
Don't throw an error when clearing extended attributes if they are not
supported on the file. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.1.12 (2007/07/12)
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Use .dll as library file extension on Cygwin and Windows. (Andrew Ferguson)
Avoid setting permissions to 000 because they're out of sync. (Andrew Ferguson)
listxattr() can also throw EPERM error if not supported. (Andrew Ferguson)
Do something sensible if we get an IOError while trying to appropriately
log another exception. (Andrew Ferguson)
Handle exception when get permission denied on a file while trying
to establish case sensitivity on read-only side. (Andrew Ferguson)
Finally solve AttributeError due to no 'inc_compressed' attribute
that occured during some regress operations. (Andrew Ferguson)
Squash bug where --check-destination-dir or regress operation failed
after crash when --force option was not used. RPath's are now
properly pickled. (Andrew Ferguson)
Workaround for tempfile.TemporaryFile() having different behavior
on Windows/Cygwin. (Andrew Ferguson)
Make --check-destination-dir handle quoted situations. (Andrew Ferguson)
Handle quoted current_mirror markers and clean-up the listing of
increments with quoted names. (Andrew Ferguson)
Warn if file modification time is before 1970. (Andrew Ferguson)
New in v1.1.11 (2007/06/15)
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Fix typo in Main.py introduced in 1.1.9 (Andrew Ferguson)
FIFOs don't have extended attributes -- don't try to access them.
(Andrew Ferguson)
Fix for bug #19612 -- Incorrect line broke --no-compression option.
(Fix by Thiago in bug comment)
Fix for bug #19896 -- symlink() doesn't work on a CIFS-mounted Windows
share. (Jonathan Hankins)
Fix for bug #19895 -- eliminate traceback for special file detection
on CIFS mounts. (Jonathan Hankins)
New in v1.1.10 (2007/05/12)
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New --exclude-if-present option (i.e. --exclude-if-present .nobackup).
(Jeff Strunk).
Use signal 0 rather than signal.NSIG when testing if another rdiff-backup
is still running. (Patch from Sébastien Maret)
Sockets don't have extended attributes -- don't try to access them.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
Fix restore from read-only bug -- rx perms on a repository directory are
enough, no need for write perms when restoring. (patch from Andrew Price)
Fix --list-increments bug in set_must_escape_dos_devices.
(Marc Dyksterhouse)
New in v1.1.9 (2007/01/29)
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Cygwin generates OSError when changing permissions on partitions.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
Fix fs_abilities.py patch error with set_escape_dos_devices.
(Marc Dyksterhouse)
Glob escaping support via backslash. (Andrew Price)
New in v1.1.8 (2007/01/29)
--------------------------
Cygwin generates EACCESS on fsync -- so accept it rather than dieing.
(Marc Dyksterhouse).
Add "FilenameMapping.set_init_quote_vals" security exception.
(Marc Dyksterhouse)
Escape DOS device filenames when necessary. Adjust DOS filename
quoting to work properly with cygwin. (Marc Dyksterhouse)
Allow for preservation of FinderInfo for folders and fix typo
in Time.py. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
Test for symlink permissions support to avoid unncessary syscalls on
platforms that don't support them. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
RPM specfile update from Gordon Rowell.
New in v1.1.7 (2006/11/12)
--------------------------
Fix showstopper problem on OSX handling pre-1.1.6 rdiff-backup metadata.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
New in v1.1.6 (2006/11/11)
--------------------------
Man page update from roland <devzero@web.de>.
--min-file-size/--max-file-size support. (Patch from Wout Mertens.)
Mac OS X Extended Attributes support. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
Preserve Mac OS X 'Creation Date' field across backups. (Patch from Andrew
Ferguson.)
Set symlink permissions properly. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)
Selection fix: empty directories could sometimes be improperly
excluded if certain include expressions involving a non-trailing '**'
were used. Bug reported by Toni Price.
A few minor changes to help rdiff-backup back up to an SMB/CIFS share.
Thanks to Cengiz Gunay for testing.
Fix a traceback due to an off-by-1 error in "--remove-older-than nB".
Fix a security violation when restoring from a remote repository.
(Patch from Charles Duffy.)
Added times like "Mon Jun 5 11:00:23 1997" to the recognized time
strings. (Suggested by Wolfgang Dautermann.)
New in v1.1.5 (2006/01/01)
--------------------------
rdiff-backup will now exit by default if it thinks another
rdiff-backup process is currently working on the same repository.
Empty error_log, mirror_metadata, extended_attribute, and
access_control_lists files will no longer be gzipped (suggestion by
Hans F. Nordhaug).
Fix for restoring files in directories with really long names.
Added supplementary rdiff-backup-statistics utility for parsing
rdiff-backup's statistics files (originally based off perl script by
Dean Gaudet).
rdiff-backup should now use much less memory than v1.1.1-1.1.4 if you
have lots of hard links.
New in v1.1.4 (2005/12/13)
--------------------------
Quoting should be enabled only as needed between case-sensitive and
non-case-sensitive systems (thanks for Andrew Ferguson for report).
Files with ACLs will not be unnecessarily marked as changed (bug
report by Carsten Lorenz).
Fix for common KeyError bug introduced in v1.1.3.
New in v1.1.3 (2005/11/25)
--------------------------
Regression metadata bug introduced with 1.1.1/1.1.2 fixed.
rdiff-backup should now give a clean error message (no stack traces!)
when aborted with control-C, killed with a signal, or when the
connection is lost.
When removing older than, delete empty increments directories
Long filename bug finally fixed (phew). rdiff-backup should now
correctly mirror any file that it can read.
Due to very detailed error report from Yoav, fixed a "Directory not
empty" error that can arise on emulated filesystems like NFS and
EncFS.
Cleaned up remove older than report, and also stopped it from deleting
current data files if you specify a time later than the current
mirror.
New in v1.1.2 (2005/11/06)
--------------------------
This version corrects a packaging error in v1.1.1, which was totally
broken.
New in v1.1.1 (2005/11/05)
--------------------------
rdiff-backup now writes SHA1 sums into its mirror_metadata file for
all regular files, and checks them when restoring.
The above greatly increases the size of the mirror_metadata files, so
diff them for space efficiency, as suggested by Dean Gaudet.
Added two new comparison modes: full file (using the --compare-full or
--compare-full-at-time) or by hash (--compare-hash and
--compare-hash-at-time).
Applied Alec Berryman's patch to update the no-compression regexp.
Alec Berryman's fs_abilities patch is supposed to help with AFS.
Fixed filename-too-long crash when quoting.
Patched carbonfile support, re-enabled it by default.
New in v1.1.0 (2005/10/24)
--------------------------
Refactored fs_abilities for more flexibility. In particular, avoid
quoting if both source and destination file systems are
case-insensitive.
Increased buffer sizes by factor of 4, because everyone probably has 4
times as much RAM now as when I originally picked those values.
When possible, fsync using a writable file descriptor. This may help
with cygwin. (Requested/tested by Dave Kempe.)
Support req 104755: Added --preserve-numerical-ids option, which makes
rdiff-backup preserve uids/gids instead of unames/gnames. (Suggested
by Wiebe Cazemier)
Fix for bug #14799 reported by Bob McKay: Crash when backing up files
with high permissions (like suid) to some FAT systems.
New in v1.0.2 (2005/10/24)
--------------------------
Fix for spurious security violation from --create-full-path (reported
by Mike Bydalek).
Fix for bug 14545 which was introduced in version 1.0.1: Quoting
caused a spurious security violation. (Important for Mac OS X)
An error reading carbonfile data on Mac OS X should no longer cause a
crash. (Thanks to Kevin Horton for testing.)
Carbonfile support now defaults to off, even if the system appears to
support it. It can be manually enabled with the --carbonfile switch.
If you know something about Mac OS X and want to look at the
carbonfile code so it can be re-enabled by default, please do so :)
(help available from list)
New in v1.0.1 (2005/09/10)
--------------------------
Fix for "'filetype' of type exceptions.KeyError" error when restoring.
Test case provided by Davy Durham. (The problem was the
mirror_metadata file could become un-synced when a file is deleted
when rdiff-backup is running and later the directory that file is in
gets deleted.)
Librsync signature blocksize now based on square root of file length.
rdiff-backup now writes its PID to current_mirror marker (suggested by
Kevin Spicer).
fsync_directories defaults to None, to avoid errors in testing
(suggestion by Charles Duffy).
bug#14209: Security bug with --restrict-read-only and
--restrict-update-only allowed file statting and directory listing
outside path. Bug with --restrict option allowed writes outside path.
(Reported by Charles Duffy.)
bug #14304: Python 2.2 compatibility spoiled by device files.
lchown no longer required, which is good news for Mac OS X 10.3.
New in v1.0.0 (2005/08/14)
--------------------------
Handle cases of junk uid/gids better on 64bit systems. (Bug report by
Nick Bailey)
Filenames in the file_statistics*gz files are now quoted the same way
as filenames in the metadata file (LF => \n and \ => \\).
Fix from Paul P Komkoff Jr for uid typo in text_to_entrytuple.
bug#12726: fix regressing of devices while running as non-root -- zero
length files are created as placeholders.
bug#13476: must always compare device numbers when we compare inode
numbers -- fix a non-fatal problem with hardlinks when a filesystem is
moved to another device (and the inodes don't change).
bug#13475: correct an UpdateError when backing up hardlinks with EAs
and/or ACLs.
debian bug#306798: SELinux security attributes can not be removed and
rdiff-backup should not fail when it fails to remove them from temp
files. fix from Konrad Podloucky.
bug#12949: eliminate an exception during fs abilities testing on OS X 10.4.
fix from Daniel Westermann-Clark.
patch#4136: OSX filename/rsrc has been deprecated for some time, and as of OSX
10.4 it causes log spam. the new proper use is filename/..namedfork/rsrc. fix
from Daniel Westermann-Clark.
Log EACCES from listxattr rather than raising an exception -- this can happen
when the repository has permission problems.
Added Keith Edmunds patch adding the --create-full-path option.
Fixed selection bug reported by Daniel Richard G.
bug#13576: You can now back ACLs to a computer that doesn't have the
posix1e module.
bug#13613: Fix for overflow error that could happen when backing up
files with dates far in the future on a 64bit machine to a 32 bit one.
Symlink ownership should be preserved now. Reported by Naoki
Takebayashi and others.
New in v0.13.6 (2005/04/07)
---------------------------
Fixed timezone bug. Hopefully this is the last one. (Thanks to
Randall Nortman for bug report.)
Added fix for listing/restoring certain bad archives made when there
was a timezone bug. (Thanks to Stephen Isard)
************** Serious bug fix ******************
If a directory in the source directory was replaced by certain
symlinks, then if later backups failed they could cause files in the
directory that the symlink pointed to to be deleted! Much thanks to
Alistair Popple for pointing this bug out and providing a test case.
New in v0.13.5 (2005/03/28)
---------------------------
Added error-correcting fsync suggestion by Antoine Perdaens.
rdiff-backup may work better with NFS now.
Fix by Dean Gaudet for --calculate-average mode (it broke somewhere in
0.13.x).
Fix for regress warning code: rdiff-backup should warn you if you are
trying to back up a directory into itself.
Fix for restoring certain directories when not run as root.
Now when determining group permissions check supplementary groups as
well as main group. (Bug report by Ryan Castle.)
Fixed bug which could cause crash when backing up 3 or more hard
linked files and the first gets deleted during processing. (Thanks to
Dean Gaudet for bug report.)
Fixed user/group restoring error noticed by Fran Firman.
Checked in Robert Shaw's --chars-to-quote patch
Treated hard link permission problem on Mac OS X by applying
suggestion by David Vasilevsky
Dean Gaudet's patch fixes "--restrict /" option.
Added Robert Shaw's --exclude-fifo, --include-symbolic-links,
etc. options.
Added Maximilian Mehnert's fix for too many open files bug.
New in v0.13.4 (2004/01/31)
---------------------------
Checked in patch by John Goerzen to support Mac OS X Finder
information. As John says:
> Specifically, it adds storage of:
>
> * 4-byte creator
> * 4-byte type
> * integer flags
> * dual integer location
Much thanks to John for adding this useful feature all by himself!
Added --compare and --compare-at-time switches for comparing a
directory with the backup information saved about it. Thanks to Erik
Forsberg, who noticed that this feature was missing.
Regressing and restoring should now take less memory when processing
large directories (noticed by Luke Mewburn and others).
When regressing, remove mirror_metadata and similar increments first.
This will hopefully help regressing a backup that failed because disk
was full (reported by Erik Forsberg).
Fixed remote quoting errors found by Daniel Drucker.
Fixed handling of (lack of) daylight savings time. Earlier bug would
cause some files to be marked an hour later. Thanks to Troels Arvin
and Farkas Levente for bug report.
Altered file selection when restoring so excluded files will not be
deleted from the target dir. The old behavior was technically
intended and documented but not very convenient. Thanks to Oliver
Kaltenecker for bug report.
Fixed error when --restrict path given with trailing backslash. Bug
report by Åke Brännström.
Fixed many functions like --list-increments, --remove-older-than,
etc. which previously didn't work with filename quoting. Thanks to
Vinod Kurup for detailed bug report.
New in v0.13.3 (2003/10/14)
---------------------------
Fixed some of the --restrict options which would cause spurious
violation errors.
--list-changed-since and --list-at-time now work remotely.
Thanks to Morten Werner Olsen for bug report.
Fixed logic bug that could make restoring extremely slow and waste
memory. Thanks for Jacques Botha for report.
Fixed bug restoring some directories when mirror_metadata file was
missing (as when made by 0.10.x version).
Regressing and restoring as non-root user now works on directories
that contain unreadable files and directories as long as they are
owned by that user. Bug report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz. Hopefully
this is the last of the unreadable file bugs...
Rewrote hard link tracking system. New way should use less memory.
Fixed bug causing rdiff-backup to crash when backing up from system
supporting EAs/ACLs to one that didn't.
New in v0.13.2 (2003/09/16)
---------------------------
Change ownership policy and added --user-mapping-file and
--group-mapping-file switches. See man page for more information.
Added option --never-drop-acls to cause fatal error instead of
dropping any acls or acl entries. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for
suggestion.
Specified socket type as SOCK_STREAM. (Error reported by Erik
Forsberg.)
Fixed bug backing up unreadable regular files and directories when
rdiff-backup is run by root on the source site and non-root on the
destination side. (Reported by Troels Arvin and Arkadiusz
Miskiewicz.)
If there is data missing from the destination dir (for instance if a
user mistakenly deletes it), only warn when restoring, instead of
exiting with error.
Fixed bug in EA/ACL restoring, noticed by Greg Freemyer.
Updated quoting of filenames and extended attributes names to match
forthcoming attr/facl utilities. Strange characters should now be
properly escaped.
Fixed problems with --restrict options that would cause proper
sessions to fail. Thanks to Randall Nortman for error report.
Added new time specification by backup number. So now you can
'--remove-older-than 2B' or '--list-at-time 0B'. Original suggestion
by Alan Bailward.
File examples.html added to distribution; examples section removed
from man page.
Removed option --no-change-dir-inc-perms. Instead when copying
permissions to directory increments, mask with 0777.
New in v0.13.1 (2003/08/08)
---------------------------
Restore of archives made by 0.10.x and earlier fixed, although hard
link information is not restored unless it is current in the mirror.
(Bug reported by Jeff Lessem.)
Fixed problem with door files locally when repository is remote.
(Reported by Robert Weber.)
Patch by Jeffrey Marshall fixes socket/fifo recognition on Mac OS X
(which apparently has buggy macros).
Patch by Jeffrey Marshall fixes --calculate-average mode, which seems
to have broken recently.
rdiff-backup should now work and build with python 2.3. Thanks to
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz and Arkadiusz Patyk for bug reports and a patch.
rdiff-backup now builds and requires librsync 0.9.6. This version
should be much better than the old one and everyone should probably
upgrade. Much thanks to Donovan Baarda for all the work that went
into this release.
New in v0.13.0 (2003/07/22)
---------------------------
To prevent the buildup of confusing and error-prone options, the
capabilities of the source and destination file systems are now
autodetected. Detected features include allowed characters, extended
attributes, access control lists, hard links, ownership, and directory
fsyncing. Options such as --windows-mode, --chars-to-quote,
--quoting-char, and --windows-restore-mode have been removed.
Now rdiff-backup supports user extended attributes (EAs). To take
advantage of this you will need the python module pyxattr and a file
system that supports EAs. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
discussion.
Support for access control lists (ACLs) was also added. An ACL
capable file system and the python package pylibacl (which exports the
posix1e module) are required. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
discussion.
Thanks to patches by Daniel Hazelbaker, rdiff-backup now reads and
writes Mac OS X style resource forks!
****** Warning ****** The above features are new to this development
release, and it is difficult to test all the possibly combinations of
source and destination file systems. They should not be considered
stable. However, help would be appreciated testing these new
features.
****** Warning #2 ****** rdiff-backup records ACL and EA information
in files designed to be compatible with the utilities "getfacl" and
"getfattr". However, there is a possible security hole in both these
formats (see
http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2003-June/001498.html).
rdiff-backup's format will be fixed when getf{attr|acl}'s is.
Added --list-increment-sizes switch, which tells you how much space
the various backup files take up. (Suggested by Andrew Bressen)
Although it should be detected automatically, can avoid copying
permissions to directory increments with --no-change-dir-inc-perms.
(Problem on FreeBSD when backing up sticky directories reported by
Troels Arvin.)
Fixed bug with --check-destination and --windows-mode reported by
Tucker Sylvestro.
The librsync blocksize is now chosen based on filesize. This should
make operations on large files faster (in some cases, orders of
magnitude faster). Thanks to Ty! Boyack for bringing this issue to my
attention.
New in v0.12.0 (2003/06/26)
---------------------------
Fixed (?) bug that caused crash when file changes type from regular
file in middle of download (reported by Ty! Boyack).
Failure to construct regular file in regression/restoration only