Before, all backend implementations were required to return an error if
the file that is to be written already exists in the backend. For most
backends, that means making a request (e.g. via HTTP) and returning an
error when the file already exists.
This is not accurate, the file could have been created between the HTTP
request testing for it, and when writing starts. In addition, apart from
the `config` file in the repo, all other file names have pseudo-random
names with a very very low probability of a collision. And even if a
file name is written again, the way the restic repo is structured this
just means that the same content is placed there again. Which is not a
problem, just not very efficient.
So, this commit relaxes the requirement to return an error when the file
in the backend already exists, which allows reducing the number of API
requests and thereby the latency for remote backends.
We've reworked calens[1] a bit, the changelog/releases file is not
needed any more. Insteady, the release date is stored in the dir name
which contains the changelog entries.
[1] https://github.com/restic/calens
In #1590, it was mentioned that while lines read from exclude files via
`--exclude-file` have leading and trailing spaces stripped, this is not
the case for lines read via `--files-from`. This commit fixes that,
spaces are always stripped.
Go can cross compile to older ARM architectures (e.g. v5). In order to
do so one needs to use the GOARM parameter as documented in
https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm
This commit removes the bandwidth displayed during backup process. It is
misleading and seldomly correct, because it's neither the "read
bandwidth" (only for the very first backup) nor the "upload bandwidth".
Many users are confused about (and rightly so), c.f. #1581, #1033, #1591
We'll eventually replace this display with something more relevant when
#1494 is done.
During the development of #1524 I discovered that the Google Cloud
Storage backend did not yet use the HTTP transport, so things such as
bandwidth limiting did not work. This commit does the necessary magic to
make the GS library use our HTTP transport.
