This release contains several new features and some bug fixes.
New features include:
- 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 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
BackupPC 4.0.0 is a significant improvement over 3.x in terms of
performance and storage efficiency. It is backward compatible with
3.x pool storage, so it can be used to upgrade an existing installation
as well as for brand new installs.
Problems found with existing digests:
Package memconf distfile memconf-2.16/memconf.gz
b6f4b736cac388dddc5070670351cf7262aba048 [recorded]
95748686a5ad8144232f4d4abc9bf052721a196f [calculated]
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package dc-tools: missing distfile dc-tools/abs0-dc-burn-netbsd-1.5-0-gae55ec9
Package ipw-firmware: missing distfile ipw2100-fw-1.2.tgz
Package iwi-firmware: missing distfile ipw2200-fw-2.3.tgz
Package nvnet: missing distfile nvnet-netbsd-src-20050620.tgz
Package syslog-ng: missing distfile syslog-ng-3.7.2.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up *NIX,
Windows and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly
configurable and easy to install and maintain.
BackupPC does not require any agent software to be installed on the client
systems as it operates over SSH/rsync, Samba or ftp.
