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 #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 ------- * 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 #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) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.8.3 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1633: Fixed unexpected 'pack file cannot be listed' error * Fix #1641: Ignore files with invalid names in the repo * Fix #1638: Handle errors listing files in the backend * Enh #1497: Add --read-data-subset flag to check command * Enh #1560: Retry all repository file download errors * Enh #1623: Don't check for presence of files in the backend before writing * Enh #1634: Upgrade B2 client library, reduce HTTP requests Details ------- * Bugfix #1633: Fixed unexpected 'pack file cannot be listed' error Due to a regression introduced in 0.8.2, the `rebuild-index` and `prune` commands failed to read pack files with size of 587, 588, 589 or 590 bytes. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1633 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1635 * Bugfix #1641: Ignore files with invalid names in the repo The release 0.8.2 introduced a bug: when restic encounters files in the repo which do not have a valid name, it tries to load a file with a name of lots of zeroes instead of ignoring it. This is now resolved, invalid file names are just ignored. 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 A user reported in the forum that restic completes a backup although a concurrent `prune` operation was running. A few error messages were printed, but the backup was attempted and completed successfully. No error code was returned. This should not happen: The repository is exclusively locked during `prune`, so when `restic backup` is run in parallel, it should abort and return an error code instead. It was found that the bug was in the code introduced only recently, which retries a List() 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 This change introduces ability to check integrity of a subset of repository data packs. This can be used to spread integrity check of larger repositories over a period of time. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1497 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1556 * Enhancement #1560: Retry all repository file download errors Restic will now retry failed downloads, similar to other operations. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1560 * Enhancement #1623: Don't check for presence of files in the backend before writing 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, so we've relaxed this requeriment, which saves one additional HTTP request per newly added file. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1623 * Enhancement #1634: Upgrade B2 client library, reduce HTTP requests We've upgraded the B2 client library restic uses to access BackBlaze B2. This reduces the number of HTTP requests needed to upload a new file from two to one, which should improve throughput to B2. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1634 Changelog for restic 0.8.2 (2018-02-17) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.8.2 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1506: Limit bandwith at the http.RoundTripper for HTTP based backends * Fix #1512: Restore directory permissions as the last step * Fix #1528: Correctly create missing subdirs in data/ * Fix #1590: Strip spaces for lines read via --files-from * Fix #1589: Complete intermediate index upload * Fix #1594: Google Cloud Storage: Use generic HTTP transport * Fix #1595: Backup: Remove bandwidth display * Enh #1522: Add support for TLS client certificate authentication * Enh #1541: Reduce number of remote requests during repository check * Enh #1567: Reduce number of backend requests for rebuild-index and prune * Enh #1507: Only reload snapshots once per minute for fuse mount * Enh #1538: Reduce memory allocations for querying the index * Enh #1549: Speed up querying across indices and scanning existing files * Enh #1554: Fuse/mount: Correctly handle EOF, add template option * Enh #1564: Don't terminate ssh on SIGINT * Enh #1579: Retry Backend.List() in case of errors * Enh #1584: Limit index file size Details ------- * Bugfix #1506: Limit bandwith at the http.RoundTripper for HTTP based backends https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1506 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1511 * Bugfix #1512: Restore directory permissions as the last step This change allows restoring into directories that were not writable during backup. Before, restic created the directory, set the read-only mode and then failed to create files in the directory. This change now restores the directory (with its permissions) as the very last step. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1512 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1536 * Bugfix #1528: Correctly create missing subdirs in data/ https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1528 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1529 * Bugfix #1590: Strip spaces for lines read via --files-from Leading and trailing spaces in lines read via `--files-from` are now stripped, so it behaves the same as with lines read via `--exclude-file`. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1590 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1613 * Bugfix #1589: Complete intermediate index upload After a user posted a comprehensive report of what he observed, we were able to find a bug and correct it: During backup, restic uploads so-called "intermediate" index files. When the backup finishes during a transfer of such an intermediate index, the upload is cancelled, but the backup is finished without an error. This leads to an inconsistent state, where the snapshot references data that is contained in the repo, but is not referenced in any index. The situation can be resolved by building a new index with `rebuild-index`, but looks very confusing at first. Since all the data got uploaded to the repo successfully, there was no risk 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 It was discovered that the Google Cloud Storage backend did not use the generic HTTP transport, so things such as bandwidth limiting with `--limit-upload` did not work. This is resolved now. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1594 * Bugfix #1595: Backup: Remove bandwidth display 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 the new archiver code is ready. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1595 * Enhancement #1522: Add support for TLS client certificate authentication Support has been added for using a TLS client certificate for authentication to HTTP based backend. A file containing the PEM encoded private key and certificate can be set using the `--tls-client-cert` option. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1522 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1524 * Enhancement #1541: Reduce number of remote requests during repository check This change eliminates redundant remote repository calls and significantly improves repository check time. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1541 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1548 * Enhancement #1567: Reduce number of backend requests for rebuild-index and prune We've found a way to reduce then number of backend requests for the `rebuild-index` and `prune` operations. This significantly speeds up the operations for high-latency backends. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1567 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1574 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1575 * Enhancement #1507: Only reload snapshots once per minute for fuse mount https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1507 * Enhancement #1538: Reduce memory allocations for querying the index This change reduces the internal memory allocations when the index data structures in memory are queried if a blob (part of a file) already exists in the repo. It should speed up backup a bit, and maybe even reduce RAM usage. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1538 * Enhancement #1549: Speed up querying across indices and scanning existing files This change increases the whenever a blob (part of a file) is searched for in a restic repository. This will reduce cpu usage some when backing up files already backed up by restic. Cpu usage is further decreased when scanning files. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1549 * Enhancement #1554: Fuse/mount: Correctly handle EOF, add template option We've added the `--snapshot-template` string, which can be used to specify a template for a snapshot directory. In addition, accessing data after the end of a file via the fuse mount is now handled correctly. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1554 * Enhancement #1564: Don't terminate ssh on SIGINT We've reworked the code which runs the `ssh` login for the sftp backend so that it can prompt for a password (if needed) but does not exit when the user presses CTRL+C (SIGINT) e.g. during backup. This allows restic to properly shut down when it receives SIGINT and remove the lock file from the repo, afterwards exiting the `ssh` process. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1564 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1588 * Enhancement #1579: Retry Backend.List() in case of errors https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1579 * Enhancement #1584: Limit index file size Before, restic would create a single new index file on `prune` or `rebuild-index`, this may lead to memory problems when this huge index is created and loaded again. We're now limiting the size of the index file, and split newly created index files into several smaller ones. This allows restic to be more memory-efficient. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1412 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/979 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/526 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1584 Changelog for restic 0.8.1 (2017-12-27) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.8.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1457: Improve s3 backend with DigitalOcean Spaces * Fix #1454: Correct cache dir location for Windows and Darwin * Fix #1459: Disable handling SIGPIPE * Chg #1452: Do not save atime by default * Enh #1436: Add code to detect old cache directories * Enh #1439: Improve cancellation logic * Enh #11: Add the `diff` command Details ------- * Bugfix #1457: Improve s3 backend with DigitalOcean Spaces https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1457 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1459 * Bugfix #1454: Correct cache dir location for Windows and Darwin The cache directory on Windows and Darwin was not correct, instead the directory `.cache` was used. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1454 * Bugfix #1459: Disable handling SIGPIPE We've disabled handling SIGPIPE again. Turns out, writing to broken TCP connections also raised SIGPIPE, so restic exits on the first write to a broken connection. Instead, restic should retry the request. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1457 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1466 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1459 * Change #1452: Do not save atime by default By default, the access time for files and dirs is not saved any more. It is not possible to reliably disable updating the access time during a backup, so for the next backup the access time is different again. This means a lot of metadata is saved. If you want to save the access time anyway, pass `--with-atime` to the `backup` command. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1452 * Enhancement #1436: Add code to detect old cache directories We've added code to detect old cache directories of repositories that haven't been used in a long time, restic now prints a note when it detects that such dirs exist. Also, the option `--cleanup-cache` was added to automatically remove such directories. That's not a problem because the cache will be rebuild once a repo is accessed again. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1436 * Enhancement #1439: Improve cancellation logic The cancellation logic was improved, restic can now shut down cleanly when requested to do so (e.g. via ctrl+c). https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1439 * Enhancement #11: Add the `diff` command The command `diff` was added, it allows comparing two snapshots and listing all differences. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/11 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1460 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1462 Changelog for restic 0.8.0 (2017-11-26) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.8.0 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Sec #1445: Prevent writing outside the target directory during restore * Fix #1256: Re-enable workaround for S3 backend * Fix #1291: Reuse backend TCP connections to BackBlaze B2 * Fix #1317: Run prune when `forget --prune` is called with just snapshot IDs * Fix #1437: Remove implicit path `/restic` for the s3 backend * Enh #1102: Add subdirectory `ids` to fuse mount * Enh #1114: Add `--cacert` to specify TLS certificates to check against * Enh #1216: Add upload/download limiting * Enh #1271: Cache results for excludes for `backup` * Enh #1274: Add `generate` command, replaces `manpage` and `autocomplete` * Enh #1367: Allow comments in files read from via `--file-from` * Enh #448: Sftp backend prompts for password * Enh #510: Add `dump` command * Enh #1040: Add local metadata cache * Enh #1249: Add `latest` symlink in fuse mount * Enh #1269: Add `--compact` to `forget` command * Enh #1281: Google Cloud Storage backend needs less permissions * Enh #1319: Make `check` print `no errors found` explicitly * Enh #1353: Retry failed backend requests Details ------- * Security #1445: Prevent writing outside the target directory during restore A vulnerability was found in the restic restorer, which allowed attackers in special circumstances to restore files to a location outside of the target directory. Due to the circumstances we estimate this to be a low-risk vulnerability, but urge all users to upgrade to the latest version of restic. Exploiting the vulnerability requires a Linux/Unix system which saves backups via restic and a Windows systems which restores files from the repo. In addition, the attackers need to be able to create create files with arbitrary names which are then saved to the restic repo. For example, by creating a file named "..\test.txt" (which is a perfectly legal filename on Linux) and restoring a snapshot containing this file on Windows, it would be written to the parent of the target directory. We'd like to thank Tyler Spivey for reporting this responsibly! https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1445 * Bugfix #1256: Re-enable workaround for S3 backend We've re-enabled a workaround for `minio-go` (the library we're using to access s3 backends), this reduces memory usage. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1256 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1267 * Bugfix #1291: Reuse backend TCP connections to BackBlaze B2 A bug was discovered in the library we're using to access Backblaze, it now reuses already established TCP connections which should be a lot faster and not cause network failures any more. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1291 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1301 * Bugfix #1317: Run prune when `forget --prune` is called with just snapshot IDs A bug in the `forget` command caused `prune` not to be run when `--prune` was specified without a policy, e.g. when only snapshot IDs that should be forgotten are listed manually. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1317 * Bugfix #1437: Remove implicit path `/restic` for the s3 backend The s3 backend used the subdir `restic` within a bucket if no explicit path after the bucket name was specified. Since this version, restic does not use this default path any more. If you created a repo on s3 in a bucket without specifying a path within the bucket, you need to add `/restic` at the end of the repository specification to access your repo: `s3:s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/restic` https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1292 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1437 * Enhancement #1102: Add subdirectory `ids` to fuse mount The fuse mount now has an `ids` subdirectory which contains the snapshots below their (short) IDs. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1102 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1299 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1320 * Enhancement #1114: Add `--cacert` to specify TLS certificates to check against We've added the `--cacert` option which can be used to pass one (or more) CA certificates to restic. These are used in addition to the system CA certificates to verify HTTPS certificates (e.g. for the REST backend). https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1114 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1276 * Enhancement #1216: Add upload/download limiting We've added support for rate limiting through `--limit-upload` and `--limit-download` flags. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1216 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1336 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1358 * Enhancement #1271: Cache results for excludes for `backup` The `backup` command now caches the result of excludes for a directory. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1271 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1326 * Enhancement #1274: Add `generate` command, replaces `manpage` and `autocomplete` The `generate` command has been added, which replaces the now removed commands `manpage` and `autocomplete`. This release of restic contains the most recent manpages in `doc/man` and the auto-completion files for bash and zsh in `doc/bash-completion.sh` and `doc/zsh-completion.zsh` https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1274 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1282 * Enhancement #1367: Allow comments in files read from via `--file-from` When the list of files/dirs to be saved is read from a file with `--files-from`, comment lines (starting with `#`) are now ignored. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1367 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1368 * Enhancement #448: Sftp backend prompts for password The sftp backend now prompts for the password if a password is necessary for login. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/448 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1270 * Enhancement #510: Add `dump` command We've added the `dump` command which prints a file from a snapshot to stdout. This can e.g. be used to restore files read with `backup --stdin`. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/510 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1346 * Enhancement #1040: Add local metadata cache We've added a local cache for metadata so that restic doesn't need to load all metadata (snapshots, indexes, ...) from the repo each time it starts. By default the cache is active, but there's a new global option `--no-cache` that can be used to disable the cache. By deafult, the cache a standard cache folder for the OS, which can be overridden with `--cache-dir`. The cache will automatically populate, indexes and snapshots are saved as they are loaded. Cache directories for repos that haven't been used recently can automatically be removed by restic with the `--cleanup-cache` option. A related change was to by default create pack files in the repo that contain either data or metadata, not both mixed together. This allows easy caching of only the metadata files. The next run of `restic prune` will untangle mixed files automatically. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/29 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/738 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/282 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1040 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1287 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1436 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1265 * Enhancement #1249: Add `latest` symlink in fuse mount The directory structure in the fuse mount now exposes a symlink `latest` which points to the latest snapshot in that particular directory. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1249 * Enhancement #1269: Add `--compact` to `forget` command The option `--compact` was added to the `forget` command to provide the same compact view as the `snapshots` command. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1269 * Enhancement #1281: Google Cloud Storage backend needs less permissions The Google Cloud Storage backend no longer requires the service account to have the `storage.buckets.get` permission ("Storage Admin" role) in `restic init` if the bucket already exists. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1281 * Enhancement #1319: Make `check` print `no errors found` explicitly The `check` command now explicetly prints `No errors were found` when no errors could be found. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1303 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1319 * Enhancement #1353: Retry failed backend requests https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1353 Changelog for restic 0.7.3 (2017-09-20) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.7.3 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1246: List all files stored in Google Cloud Storage Details ------- * Bugfix #1246: List all files stored in Google Cloud Storage For large backups stored in Google Cloud Storage, the `prune` command fails because listing only returns the first 1000 files. This has been corrected, no data is lost in the process. In addition, a plausibility check was added to `prune`. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1246 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1247 Changelog for restic 0.7.2 (2017-09-13) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.7.2 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1167: Do not create a local repo unless `init` is used * Fix #1164: Make the `key remove` command behave as documented * Fix #1191: Make sure to write profiling files on interrupt * Enh #1132: Make `key` command always prompt for a password * Enh #1179: Resolve name conflicts, append a counter * Enh #1218: Add `--compact` to `snapshots` command * Enh #317: Add `--exclude-caches` and `--exclude-if-present` * Enh #697: Automatically generate man pages for all restic commands * Enh #1044: Improve `restore`, do not traverse/load excluded directories * Enh #1061: Add Dockerfile and official Docker image * Enh #1126: Use the standard Go git repository layout, use `dep` for vendoring * Enh #1134: Add support for storing backups on Google Cloud Storage * Enh #1144: Properly report errors when reading files with exclude patterns * Enh #1149: Add support for storing backups on Microsoft Azure Blob Storage * Enh #1196: Add `--group-by` to `forget` command for flexible grouping * Enh #1203: Print stats on all BSD systems when SIGINFO (ctrl+t) is received * Enh #1205: Allow specifying time/date for a backup with `--time` Details ------- * Bugfix #1167: Do not create a local repo unless `init` is used When a restic command other than `init` is used with a local repository and the repository directory does not exist, restic creates the directory structure. That's an error, only the `init` command should create the dir. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1167 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1182 * Bugfix #1164: Make the `key remove` command behave as documented https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1164 * Bugfix #1191: Make sure to write profiling files on interrupt Since a few releases restic had the ability to write profiling files for memory and CPU usage when `debug` is enabled. It was discovered that when restic is interrupted (ctrl+c is pressed), the proper shutdown hook is not run. This is now corrected. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1191 * Enhancement #1132: Make `key` command always prompt for a password The `key` command now prompts for a password even if the original password to access a repo has been specified via the `RESTIC_PASSWORD` environment variable or a password file. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1132 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1133 * Enhancement #1179: Resolve name conflicts, append a counter https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1179 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1209 * Enhancement #1218: Add `--compact` to `snapshots` command The option `--compact` was added to the `snapshots` command to get a better overview of the snapshots in a repo. It limits each snapshot to a single line. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1218 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1223 * Enhancement #317: Add `--exclude-caches` and `--exclude-if-present` A new option `--exclude-caches` was added that allows excluding cache directories (that are tagged as such). This is a special case of a more generic option `--exclude-if-present` which excludes a directory if a file with a specific name (and contents) is present. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/317 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1170 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1224 * Enhancement #697: Automatically generate man pages for all restic commands https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/697 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1147 * Enhancement #1044: Improve `restore`, do not traverse/load excluded directories https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1044 * Enhancement #1061: Add Dockerfile and official Docker image https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1061 * Enhancement #1126: Use the standard Go git repository layout, use `dep` for vendoring The git repository layout was changed to resemble the layout typically used in Go projects, we're not using `gb` for building restic any more and vendoring the dependencies is now taken care of by `dep`. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1126 * Enhancement #1134: Add support for storing backups on Google Cloud Storage https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/211 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1134 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1052 * Enhancement #1144: Properly report errors when reading files with exclude patterns https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1144 * Enhancement #1149: Add support for storing backups on Microsoft Azure Blob Storage The library we're using to access the service requires Go 1.8, so restic now needs at least Go 1.8. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/609 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1149 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1059 * Enhancement #1196: Add `--group-by` to `forget` command for flexible grouping https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1196 * 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#issuecomment-326279920 * Enhancement #1205: Allow specifying time/date for a backup with `--time` https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1205 Changelog for restic 0.7.1 (2017-07-22) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.7.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1115: Fix `prune`, only include existing files in indexes * Enh #1055: Create subdirs below `data/` for local/sftp backends * Enh #1067: Allow loading credentials for s3 from IAM * Enh #1073: Add `migrate` cmd to migrate from `s3legacy` to `default` layout * Enh #1081: Clarify semantic for `--tasg` for the `forget` command * Enh #1080: Ignore chmod() errors on filesystems which do not support it * Enh #1082: Print stats on SIGINFO on Darwin and FreeBSD (ctrl+t) Details ------- * Bugfix #1115: Fix `prune`, only include existing files in indexes A bug was found (and corrected) in the index rebuilding after prune, which led to indexes which include blobs that were not present in the repo any more. There were already checks in place which detected this situation and aborted with an error message. A new run of either `prune` or `rebuild-index` corrected the index files. This is now fixed and a test has been added to detect this. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1115 * 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. 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 * Enhancement #1067: Allow loading credentials for s3 from IAM When no S3 credentials are specified in the environment variables, restic now tries to load credentials from an IAM instance profile when the s3 backend is used. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1067 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1086 * Enhancement #1073: Add `migrate` cmd to migrate from `s3legacy` to `default` layout The `migrate` command for changing the `s3legacy` layout to the `default` layout for s3 backends has been improved: It can now be restarted with `restic migrate --force s3_layout` and automatically retries operations on error. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1073 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1075 * Enhancement #1081: Clarify semantic for `--tasg` for the `forget` command https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1081 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1090 * Enhancement #1080: Ignore chmod() errors on filesystems which do not support it https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1080 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1112 * Enhancement #1082: Print stats on SIGINFO on Darwin and FreeBSD (ctrl+t) https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1082 Changelog for restic 0.7.0 (2017-07-01) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.7.0 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Fix #1013: Switch back to using the high-level minio-go API for s3 * Fix #965: Switch to `default` repo layout for the s3 backend * Enh #1021: Detect invalid backend name and print error * Enh #1029: Remove invalid pack files when `prune` is run * Enh #512: Add Backblaze B2 backend * Enh #636: Add dirs `tags` and `hosts` to fuse mount * Enh #989: Improve performance of the `find` command * Enh #975: Add new backend for OpenStack Swift * Enh #998: Improve performance of the fuse mount Details ------- * Bugfix #1013: Switch back to using the high-level minio-go API for s3 For the s3 backend we're back to using the high-level API the s3 client library for uploading data, a few users reported dropped connections (which the library will automatically retry now). https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1013 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1023 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1025 * Bugfix #965: Switch to `default` repo layout for the s3 backend The default layout for the s3 backend is now `default` (instead of `s3legacy`). Also, there's a new `migrate` command to convert an existing repo, it can be run like this: `restic migrate s3_layout` https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/965 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1004 * Enhancement #1021: Detect invalid backend name and print error Restic now tries to detect when an invalid/unknown backend is used and returns an error message. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1021 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1070 * Enhancement #1029: Remove invalid pack files when `prune` is run The `prune` command has been improved and will now remove invalid pack files, for example files that have not been uploaded completely because a backup was interrupted. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1029 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1036 * Enhancement #512: Add Backblaze B2 backend https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/512 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/978 * Enhancement #636: Add dirs `tags` and `hosts` to fuse mount The fuse mount now has two more directories: `tags` contains a subdir for each tag, which in turn contains only the snapshots that have this tag. The subdir `hosts` contains a subdir for each host that has a snapshot, and the subdir contains the snapshots for that host. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/636 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1050 * Enhancement #989: Improve performance of the `find` command Improved performance for the `find` command: Restic recognizes paths it has already checked for the files in question, so the number of backend requests is reduced a lot. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/989 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/993 * Enhancement #975: Add new backend for OpenStack Swift https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/975 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/648 * Enhancement #998: Improve performance of the fuse mount Listing directories which contain large files now is significantly faster. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/998 Changelog for restic 0.6.1 (2017-06-01) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.6.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Enh #985: Allow multiple parallel idle HTTP connections * Enh #981: Remove temporary path from binary in `build.go` * Enh #974: Remove regular status reports Details ------- * Enhancement #985: Allow multiple parallel idle HTTP connections Backends based on HTTP now allow several idle connections in parallel. This is especially important for the REST backend, which (when used with a local server) may create a lot connections and exhaust available ports quickly. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/985 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/986 * Enhancement #981: Remove temporary path from binary in `build.go` The `build.go` now strips the temporary directory used for compilation from the binary. This is the first step in enabling reproducible builds. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/981 * Enhancement #974: Remove regular status reports Regular status report: We've removed the status report that was printed every 10 seconds when restic is run non-interactively. You can still force reporting the current status by sending a `USR1` signal to the process. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/974 Changelog for restic 0.6.0 (2017-05-29) ======================================= The following sections list the changes in restic 0.6.0 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary ------- * Enh #957: Make `forget` consistent * Enh #966: Unify repository layout for all backends * Enh #962: Improve memory and runtime for the s3 backend Details ------- * Enhancement #957: Make `forget` consistent The `forget` command was corrected to be more consistent in which snapshots are to be forgotten. It is possible that the new code removes more snapshots than before, so please review what would be deleted by using the `--dry-run` option. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/953 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/957 * Enhancement #966: Unify repository layout for all backends Up to now the s3 backend used a special repository layout. We've decided to unify the repository layout and implemented the default layout also for the s3 backend. For creating a new repository on s3 with the default layout, use `restic -o s3.layout=default init`. For further commands the option is not necessary any more, restic will automatically detect the correct layout to use. A future version will switch to the default layout for new repositories. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/965 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/966 * Enhancement #962: Improve memory and runtime for the s3 backend We've updated the library used for accessing s3, switched to using a lower level API and added caching for some requests. This lead to a decrease in memory usage and a great speedup. In addition, we added benchmark functions for all backends, so we can track improvements over time. The Continuous Integration test service we're using (Travis) now runs the s3 backend tests not only against a Minio server, but also against the Amazon s3 live service, so we should be notified of any regressions much sooner. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/962 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/960 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/946 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/938 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/883