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Changelog for restic 0.9.0 (2018-05-21)
=======================================
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
Summary
-------
* Fix #1608: Respect time stamp for new backup when reading from stdin
* Fix #1652: Ignore/remove invalid lock files
* Fix #1730: Ignore sockets for restore
* Fix #1684: Fix backend tests for rest-server
* Fix #1745: Correctly parse the argument to --tls-client-cert
* Enh #1433: Support UTF-16 encoding and process Byte Order Mark
* Enh #1561: Allow using rclone to access other services
* Enh #1665: Improve cache handling for `restic check`
* Enh #1721: Add `cache` command to list cache dirs
* Enh #1758: Allow saving OneDrive folders in Windows
* Enh #549: Rework archiver code
* Enh #1552: Use Google Application Default credentials
* Enh #1477: Accept AWS_SESSION_TOKEN for the s3 backend
* Enh #1648: Ignore AWS permission denied error when creating a repository
* Enh #1649: Add illumos/Solaris support
* Enh #1676: Improve backup speed: Skip initial scan phase in quiet mode
* Enh #1709: Improve messages `restic check` prints
* Enh #827: Add --new-password-file flag for non-interactive password changes
* Enh #1735: Allow keeping a time range of snaphots
* Enh #1782: Use default AWS credentials chain for S3 backend
Details
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* Bugfix #1608: Respect time stamp for new backup when reading from stdin
When reading backups from stdin (via `restic backup --stdin`), restic now uses the time stamp
for the new backup passed in `--time`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1608
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1703
* Bugfix #1652: Ignore/remove invalid lock files
This corrects a bug introduced recently: When an invalid lock file in the repo is encountered
(e.g. if the file is empty), the code used to ignore that, but now returns the error. Now, invalid
files are ignored for the normal lock check, and removed when `restic unlock --remove-all` is
run.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1652
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1653
* Bugfix #1730: Ignore sockets for restore
We've received a report and correct the behavior in which the restore code aborted restoring a
directory when a socket was encountered. Unix domain socket files cannot be restored (they are
created on the fly once a process starts listening). The error handling was corrected, and in
addition we're now ignoring sockets during restore.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1730
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1731
* Bugfix #1684: Fix backend tests for rest-server
The REST server for restic now requires an explicit parameter (`--no-auth`) if no
authentication should be allowed. This is fixed in the tests.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1684
* Bugfix #1745: Correctly parse the argument to --tls-client-cert
Previously, the --tls-client-cert method attempt to read ARGV[1] (hardcoded) instead of the
argument that was passed to it. This has been corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1745
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1746
* Enhancement #1433: Support UTF-16 encoding and process Byte Order Mark
On Windows, text editors commonly leave a Byte Order Mark at the beginning of the file to define
which encoding is used (oftentimes UTF-16). We've added code to support processing the BOMs in
text files, like the exclude files, the password file and the file passed via `--files-from`.
This does not apply to any file being saved in a backup, those are not touched and archived as they
are.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1433
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1738
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1748
* Enhancement #1561: Allow using rclone to access other services
We've added the ability to use rclone to store backup data on all backends that it supports. This
was done in collaboration with Nick, the author of rclone. You can now use it to first configure a
service, then restic manages the rest (starting and stopping rclone). For details, please see
the manual.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1561
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1657
https://rclone.org
* Enhancement #1665: Improve cache handling for `restic check`
For safety reasons, restic does not use a local metadata cache for the `restic check` command,
so that data is loaded from the repository and restic can check it's in good condition. When the
cache is disabled, restic will fetch each tiny blob needed for checking the integrity using a
separate backend request. For non-local backends, that will take a long time, and depending on
the backend (e.g. B2) may also be much more expensive.
This PR adds a few commits which will change the behavior as follows:
* When `restic check` is called without any additional parameters, it will build a new cache in a
temporary directory, which is removed at the end of the check. This way, we'll get readahead for
metadata files (so restic will fetch the whole file when the first blob from the file is
requested), but all data is freshly fetched from the storage backend. This is the default
behavior and will work for almost all users.
* When `restic check` is called with `--with-cache`, the default on-disc cache is used. This
behavior hasn't changed since the cache was introduced.
* When `--no-cache` is specified, restic falls back to the old behavior, and read all tiny blobs
in separate requests.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1665
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1694
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1696
* Enhancement #1721: Add `cache` command to list cache dirs
The command `cache` was added, it allows listing restic's cache directoriers together with
the last usage. It also allows removing old cache dirs without having to access a repo, via
`restic cache --cleanup`
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1721
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1749
* Enhancement #1758: Allow saving OneDrive folders in Windows
Restic now contains a bugfix to two libraries, which allows saving OneDrive folders in
Windows. In order to use the newer versions of the libraries, the minimal version required to
compile restic is now Go 1.9.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1758
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1765
* Enhancement #549: Rework archiver code
The core archiver code and the complementary code for the `backup` command was rewritten
completely. This resolves very annoying issues such as 549. The first backup with this release
of restic will likely result in all files being re-read locally, so it will take a lot longer. The
next backup after that will be fast again.
Basically, with the old code, restic took the last path component of each to-be-saved file or
directory as the top-level file/directory within the snapshot. This meant that when called as
`restic backup /home/user/foo`, the snapshot would contain the files in the directory
`/home/user/foo` as `/foo`.
This is not the case any more with the new archiver code. Now, restic works very similar to what
`tar` does: When restic is called with an absolute path to save, then it'll preserve the
directory structure within the snapshot. For the example above, the snapshot would contain
the files in the directory within `/home/user/foo` in the snapshot. For relative
directories, it only preserves the relative path components. So `restic backup user/foo`
will save the files as `/user/foo` in the snapshot.
While we were at it, the status display and notification system was completely rewritten. By
default, restic now shows which files are currently read (unless `--quiet` is specified) in a
multi-line status display.
The `backup` command also gained a new option: `--verbose`. It can be specified once (which
prints a bit more detail what restic is doing) or twice (which prints a line for each
file/directory restic encountered, together with some statistics).
Another issue that was resolved is the new code only reads two files at most. The old code would
read way too many files in parallel, thereby slowing down the backup process on spinning discs a
lot.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/549
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1286
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/446
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1344
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1416
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1456
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1145
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1160
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1494
* Enhancement #1552: Use Google Application Default credentials
Google provide libraries to generate appropriate credentials with various fallback
sources. This change uses the library to generate our GCS client, which allows us to make use of
these extra methods.
This should be backward compatible with previous restic behaviour while adding the
additional capabilities to auth from Google's internal metadata endpoints. For users
running restic in GCP this can make authentication far easier than it was before.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1552
https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials
* Enhancement #1477: Accept AWS_SESSION_TOKEN for the s3 backend
Before, it was not possible to use s3 backend with AWS temporary security credentials(with
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN). This change gives higher priority to credentials.EnvAWS credentials
provider.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1477
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1479
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1647
* Enhancement #1648: Ignore AWS permission denied error when creating a repository
It's not possible to use s3 backend scoped to a subdirectory(with specific permissions).
Restic doesn't try to create repository in a subdirectory, when 'bucket exists' of parent
directory check fails due to permission issues.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1648
* Enhancement #1649: Add illumos/Solaris support
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1649
* Enhancement #1676: Improve backup speed: Skip initial scan phase in quiet mode
We've improved the backup speed when the quiet flag (`-q` or `--quiet`) is set by skipping the
initial scan which gathers information for displaying the progress bar and the ETA
estimation.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1160
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1676
* Enhancement #1709: Improve messages `restic check` prints
Some messages `restic check` prints are not really errors, so from now on restic does not treat
them as errors any more and exits cleanly.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1709
https://forum.restic.net/t/what-is-the-standard-procedure-to-follow-if-a-backup-or-restore-is-interrupted/571/2
* Enhancement #827: Add --new-password-file flag for non-interactive password changes
This makes it possible to change a repository password without being prompted.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/827
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1720
https://forum.restic.net/t/changing-repo-password-without-prompt/591
* Enhancement #1735: Allow keeping a time range of snaphots
We've added the `--keep-within` option to the `forget` command. It instructs restic to keep
all snapshots within the given duration since the newest snapshot. For example, running
`restic forget --keep-within 5m7d` will keep all snapshots which have been made in the five
months and seven days since the latest snapshot.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1735
* Enhancement #1782: Use default AWS credentials chain for S3 backend
Adds support for file credentials to the S3 backend (e.g. ~/.aws/credentials), and reorders
the credentials chain for the S3 backend to match AWS's standard, which is static credentials,
env vars, credentials file, and finally remote.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1782
Changelog for restic 0.8.3 (2018-02-26)
=======================================
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https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1641
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1643
https://forum.restic.net/t/help-fixing-repo-no-such-file/485/3
* Bugfix #1638: Handle errors listing files in the backend
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operation on the backend should that fail. It is now corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1638
https://forum.restic.net/t/restic-backup-returns-0-exit-code-when-already-locked/484
* Enhancement #1497: Add --read-data-subset flag to check command
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of data loss, just minor inconvenience for our users.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1589
https://forum.restic.net/t/error-loading-tree-check-prune-and-forget-gives-error-b2-backend/406
* Bugfix #1594: Google Cloud Storage: Use generic HTTP transport
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* Enhancement #1203: Print stats on all BSD systems when SIGINFO (ctrl+t) is received
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1203
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1082
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1082#issuecomment-326279920
* Enhancement #1205: Allow specifying time/date for a backup with `--time`
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* Enhancement #1055: Create subdirs below `data/` for local/sftp backends
The local and sftp backends now create the subdirs below `data/` on open/init. This way, restic
makes sure that they always exist. This is connected to an issue for the sftp server:
makes sure that they always exist. This is connected to an issue for the sftp server.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1055
https://github.com/restic/rest-server/pull/11#issuecomment-309879710
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1077
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1105
https://github.com/restic/rest-server/pull/11#issuecomment-309879710
* Enhancement #1067: Allow loading credentials for s3 from IAM