Bugfix release for stable 0.11 series available
Written for sbackup by Jean-Peer Lorenz on 2013-01-21
I'm happy to announce the fifth bugfix release 0.11.5 of the 0.11 series of
the sbackup suite.
This release in particular contains:
* bug fixes
* [Fix] LP: #1000171 make it backwards compatible because upgrade-backups
is incredibly slow and not reliable:
added restore utility which provides legacy support
using the 0.10.5 algorithm. Command must be
executed from terminal: 'sbackup-
BACKUP_PATH FILE_OR_
or for more ease of use with GTK gui:
* [Fix] LP: #1097465 Regular expressions defined in default configuration
can be improved:
-do not exclude specific types of files e.g. mp3, avi
-fix regex for .gvfs, trash, cache etc. so these apply
to 'top-level' directories
-add a default regex for lock directories
(e.g. $HOME/.
-add a default regex for $HOME/.cache directory
* [Fix] LP: #785512 Backup files are not protect from local user access:
make the snapshot directories RWX only by owner
(existing snapshots are not affected by this fix).
* [Fix] LP: #330680 fails if target path contains #:
fixed by not allowing fragments when parsing target
path and using quote/unquote to escape # properly
(FIXME: this fix does not cover target paths containing
special chars ; or ?)
* [Fix] LP: #980786 Don't complain about non-accessable excluded files:
order of checks when inspecting file system revised. It
is now first checked whether a file is excluded before
it is actually accessed.
Thanks for Bernd Wurst for the suggestion.
* [Fix] LP: #670646 sbackup-gtk crashes while starting: invalid literal
for int():
ignore ValueError from urlparse when parsing port
* [Fix] LP: #888367 TypeError: argument of type 'int' is not iterable:
Try to fix type error by not using interpolation when
getting items From ConfigParser.
* [Fix] LP: #173490 Pre/Post backup script hooks:
applied patch suggested by Derek Ditch
* [Fix] LP: #918099 System menu names should include 'admin' or similar:
applied patch suggested by Anton (feenstra)
* [Fix] LP: #875634 sbackup's tar very slow due to erroneous backup size
calculation:
Sometimes the calculation of the space required goes
badly wrong and we could end-up With _checkp=1 for
30GB to save, making tar VERY slow.
Fixed by setting minimum value to 100. Thanks to
Thibault Godouet for the patch.
* [Fix] LP: #768080 incremental snapshots store more files than needed:
* remove 'backup upgrade' feature and 'rebase snapshot' feature since it
is not reliable and can cause severe user data loss and added restore
utility which provides legacy support using the 0.10.5 algorithm.
Command must be executed from terminal:
'sbackup-
or for more ease of use with GTK gui:
'sbackup-
* Pre/Post backup script hooks:
I've applied patch suggested by Derek Ditch and added this feature to
sbackup series 0.11 (sorry for the delay...)
It is completely optional. To use it, please add following options to your configuration file:
...
[hooks]
pre-backup = <path to pre-backup script>
post-backup = <path to pre-backup script>
...
You only need to specify scripts that should run, just leave it out if not
required! Please note, the script must be executable (chmod +x) and will be
run with same privileges as your backup process. So, be careful!
* improved regular expressions defined in default configuration
-do not exclude specific types of files e.g. mp3, avi
-fix regex for .gvfs, trash, cache etc. so these apply
to 'top-level' directories
-add a default regex for lock directories
(e.g. $HOME/.
-add a default regex for $HOME/.cache directory
* translations updated
See the changelog on the download page for more information.
Thanks to all who contributed to this release with coding, sending patches, testing, reporting bugs and translating!
Series 0.11.x finally replaces the old-fashioned Simple Backup 0.10.5 with code that was developed in (Not So) Simple Backup in the meantime. It adds some very interesting features and is ready for daily use.
