From 6b12b92339b199dd7f72f831b0dad569d5d24106 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Neumann Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:53:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry to changelog --- changelog/unreleased/issue-549 | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/issue-549 diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..01cb38144 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-549 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Enhancement: 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. + +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). + +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