2 - LOCAL DATABASE CHANGE: A checksums file is now written out along
3 with the snapshot descriptor that contains checksums of segments
4 used in a snapshot. This will allow quick integrity checks of a
5 snapshot, without needing to decompress or decrypt the segment
6 files. The local database schema was modified to store the
7 checksums for segments.
8 - Build dependence on libtar has been dropped. All necessary
9 support for writing TAR files is now directly included with the
11 - The snapshot format is now documented, at least in part. See
13 - Snapshots now include link count and inode number for files with
14 multiple hard links, so that a restore program could determine
15 which files should be hard linked on restore. The reference
16 restore.pl script does not use this.
17 - Bugfix: Print a help message instead of crashing if no files are
19 - Bugfix: File descriptors of files being backed up were closed
20 twice. In some cases this might have led to an unrelated file
21 being closed (if the file descriptor was quickly re-used).
24 - Update reference restore.pl script to handle octal/hexadecimal
25 (format change introduced in 0.2).
26 - Better support for mixing multiple backup schemes: the statcache
27 file is now per-scheme, so performance should be better in cases
28 where multiple different backups (of different source directories)
29 are made, all sharing the same local database directory.
32 - Bugfix: Do not print an error when only one directory is specified
36 - SNAPSHOT FORMAT CHANGE: Metadata logs in backups can now contain
37 octal and hexadecimal values. Old restore programs may not be
38 able to read these new backups. The reference restore.pl script
39 has not yet been updated.
40 - LOCAL DATABASE CHANGE: Backups may be assigned a name with the
41 --scheme= command-line option, to allow different backup sets to
42 be mixed in the same directory. The database schema for the local
44 - Improved selection (inclusion/exclusion) of files to be included
46 - Device major/minor numbers are dumped for block and character