BackupPC 4.4.0 Feature und Bugfix Release

BackupPC ist eine Open Source Lösung für die Datensicherung von Dateien und Verzeichnissen mit Features wie Deduplikation und weiteren Funktionen. Heute ist die neue Version 4.4.0 erschienen. Diese bringt 7 neue Funktionen und korrigiert fast 30 Fehler.

BackupPC 4.4.0 Release Notes

• any full/filled backup can be marked for keeping, which prevents any expiry or deletion
• any backup can be annotated with a comment (eg, „prior to upgrade of xyz“)
• added metrics CGI (thanks to @jooola) that replaces RSS and adds Prometheus support
• tar XferMethod now supports xattrs and acls
• rsync XferMethod now correctly supports xattrs on directories and symlinks
• nightly pool scanning now verifies the md5 digests of a configurable fraction of pool files
• code runs through perltidy so format is now uniform (thanks to @jooola, with help from @shancock9 and @moisseev)

Changes

• Merged pull requests #325, #326, #329, #330, #334, #336, #337, #338, #342, #343, #344, #345, #347, #348, #349
• Filled/Full backups can now be marked as „keep“, which excludes them from any expiry/deletion. Also, a backup-specific comment can be added to any backup to capture any important information about that backup (eg, „pre-upgrade of xyz“).
• Added metrics CGI, which adds Prometheus support and replaces RSS, by @joola (#344, #347)
• Tar XferMethod now supports xattrs and acls; xattrs should be compatible with rsync XferMethod, but acls are not
• Sort open directories to top when browsing backup tree
• Format code using perltidy, and included in pre-commit flow, by @joola (#334, #337, #342, #343, #345). Thanks to @joola and @shancock9 (perltidy author) for significant effort and support, plus improvements in perltidy, to make this happen.
• Added $Conf{PoolNightlyDigestCheckPercent}, which checks the md5 digest of this fraction of the pool files each night.
• $Conf{ClientShareName2Path} is saved in backups file and the share to client path mapping is now displayed when you browse a backup so you know the actual client backup path for each share, if different from the share name
• configure.pl now checks the per-host config.pl in a V3 upgrade to warn the user if $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} or $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} are used for that host, so that the new settings $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} and $Conf{RsyncClientPath} can be manually updated.
• Fixed host mutex handling for dhcp hosts; shifted initial mutex requests to client programs
• Updated webui icon, logo and favicon, by @moisseev (#325, #326, #329, #330)
• Added $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgsExtra} for host-specific restore settings
• Language files are now all use utf8 charsets
• Bumped required version of BackupPC::XS to 0.62 and rsync-bpc to 3.0.9.15.
• Ping failure message only written to stdout only if verbose
• BackupPC_backupDelete removes partial v3 backup in HOST/new; fixes #324 reported by @thalueng
• BackupPC_backupDelete adds -f option to over keep, if set
• BackupPC_nightly: change -f to -F when running BackupPC_refCountUpdate during fsck
• Better formatting of eval cmd result in cmdSystemOrEvalLong()
• Remove zero count entries in per-backup and per-host poolCnt files
• Add a fake version parameter to the CSS URL to overcome caching
• Fixed ALRM typo in BackupPC_dump, by @rhansen (#348)
• Fixed command name in error message in BackupPC_archive, by @rhansen (#349)
• lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm skips adding –iconv option when $conf->{ClientCharset} is utf8 or empty, to avoid a long-standing rsync bug
• lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm provides a more informative warning when the client rsync exits with an IO error, and also includes the IO error in the xferErr count
• lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm recognizes NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE error
• Increase text length in config editor fields, by @moisseev (#336)
• Typo fix in config.pl, by @cure (#338)
• Minor documentation updates, removing old SourceForge links

Quelle: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.4.0