New in v0.12.4 (2003/09/13)
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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 problems with --restrict options that would cause proper
sessions to fail. Thanks to Randall Nortman for error report.
File examples.html added to distribution; examples section removed
from man page.
Inspired by FreeBSD "ports".
Fix the PLISTs accordingly.
Also, while at it, remove now obsolete compileall.py calls in post-install
targets and insure that extension.mk is in included before builinlinks of
other Python modules.
Discussed with/ok'ed by drochner@.
- Over 1500 lines of changelog since 0.10.2
- Now rdiff-backup writes metadata (uid, gid, mtime, etc.) to a
compressed text file in the rdiff-backup-data directory
- No longer seems compelled to send symlinks every time
Provided in PR 18577 by David.S at idiom dot com, some modifications
by me to use buildlink2 files, and to specify the correct version of
python required.
Rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra
reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory,
so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine
the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. Rdiff-backup also
preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid
ownership (if it is running as root), and modification times. Finally,
rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like
rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive
up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted.
