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# Table of Contents
* [Changelog for 0.17.1](#changelog-for-restic-0171-2024-09-05)
* [Changelog for 0.17.0](#changelog-for-restic-0170-2024-07-26)
* [Changelog for 0.16.5](#changelog-for-restic-0165-2024-07-01)
* [Changelog for 0.16.4](#changelog-for-restic-0164-2024-02-04)
* [Changelog for 0.16.3](#changelog-for-restic-0163-2024-01-14)
* [Changelog for 0.16.2](#changelog-for-restic-0162-2023-10-29)
* [Changelog for 0.16.1](#changelog-for-restic-0161-2023-10-24)
* [Changelog for 0.16.0](#changelog-for-restic-0160-2023-07-31)
* [Changelog for 0.15.2](#changelog-for-restic-0152-2023-04-24)
* [Changelog for 0.15.1](#changelog-for-restic-0151-2023-01-30)
* [Changelog for 0.15.0](#changelog-for-restic-0150-2023-01-12)
* [Changelog for 0.14.0](#changelog-for-restic-0140-2022-08-25)
* [Changelog for 0.13.0](#changelog-for-restic-0130-2022-03-26)
* [Changelog for 0.12.1](#changelog-for-restic-0121-2021-08-03)
* [Changelog for 0.12.0](#changelog-for-restic-0120-2021-02-14)
* [Changelog for 0.11.0](#changelog-for-restic-0110-2020-11-05)
* [Changelog for 0.10.0](#changelog-for-restic-0100-2020-09-19)
* [Changelog for 0.9.6](#changelog-for-restic-096-2019-11-22)
* [Changelog for 0.9.5](#changelog-for-restic-095-2019-04-23)
* [Changelog for 0.9.4](#changelog-for-restic-094-2019-01-06)
* [Changelog for 0.9.3](#changelog-for-restic-093-2018-10-13)
* [Changelog for 0.9.2](#changelog-for-restic-092-2018-08-06)
* [Changelog for 0.9.1](#changelog-for-restic-091-2018-06-10)
* [Changelog for 0.9.0](#changelog-for-restic-090-2018-05-21)
* [Changelog for 0.8.3](#changelog-for-restic-083-2018-02-26)
* [Changelog for 0.8.2](#changelog-for-restic-082-2018-02-17)
* [Changelog for 0.8.1](#changelog-for-restic-081-2017-12-27)
* [Changelog for 0.8.0](#changelog-for-restic-080-2017-11-26)
* [Changelog for 0.7.3](#changelog-for-restic-073-2017-09-20)
* [Changelog for 0.7.2](#changelog-for-restic-072-2017-09-13)
* [Changelog for 0.7.1](#changelog-for-restic-071-2017-07-22)
* [Changelog for 0.7.0](#changelog-for-restic-070-2017-07-01)
* [Changelog for 0.6.1](#changelog-for-restic-061-2017-06-01)
* [Changelog for 0.6.0](#changelog-for-restic-060-2017-05-29)
# Changelog for restic 0.17.1 (2024-09-05)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.17.1 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2004: Correctly handle volume names in `backup` command on Windows
* Fix #4945: Include missing backup error text with `--json`
* Fix #4953: Correctly handle long paths on older Windows versions
* Fix #4957: Fix delayed cancellation of certain commands
* Fix #4958: Don't ignore metadata-setting errors during restore
* Fix #4969: Correctly restore timestamp for files with resource forks on macOS
* Fix #4975: Prevent `backup --stdin-from-command` from panicking
* Fix #4980: Skip extended attribute processing on unsupported Windows volumes
* Fix #5004: Fix spurious "A Required Privilege Is Not Held by the Client" error
* Fix #5005: Fix rare failures to retry locking a repository
* Fix #5018: Improve HTTP/2 support for REST backend
* Chg #4953: Also back up files with incomplete metadata
* Enh #4795: Display progress bar for `restore --verify`
* Enh #4934: Automatically clear removed snapshots from cache
* Enh #4944: Print JSON-formatted errors during `restore --json`
* Enh #4959: Return exit code 12 for "bad password" errors
* Enh #4970: Make timeout for stuck requests customizable
## Details
* Bugfix #2004: Correctly handle volume names in `backup` command on Windows
On Windows, when the specified backup target only included the volume name
without a trailing slash, for example, `C:`, then restoring the resulting
snapshot would result in an error. Note that using `C:\` as backup target worked
correctly.
Specifying volume names is now handled correctly. To restore snapshots created
before this bugfix, use the <snapshot>:<subpath> syntax. For example, to restore
a snapshot with ID `12345678` that backed up `C:`, use the following command:
```
restic restore 12345678:/C/C:./ --target output/folder
```
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2004
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5028
* Bugfix #4945: Include missing backup error text with `--json`
Previously, when running a backup with the `--json` option, restic failed to
include the actual error message in the output, resulting in `"error": {}` being
displayed.
This has now been fixed, and restic now includes the error text in JSON output.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4945
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4946
* Bugfix #4953: Correctly handle long paths on older Windows versions
On older Windows versions, like Windows Server 2012, restic 0.17.0 failed to
back up files with long paths. This problem has now been resolved.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4953
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4954
* Bugfix #4957: Fix delayed cancellation of certain commands
Since restic 0.17.0, some commands did not immediately respond to cancellation
via Ctrl-C (SIGINT) and continued running for a short period. The most affected
commands were `diff`,`find`, `ls`, `stats` and `rewrite`. This is now resolved.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4957
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4960
* Bugfix #4958: Don't ignore metadata-setting errors during restore
Previously, restic used to ignore errors when setting timestamps, attributes, or
file modes during a restore. It now reports those errors, except for permission
related errors when running without root privileges.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4958
* Bugfix #4969: Correctly restore timestamp for files with resource forks on macOS
On macOS, timestamps were not restored for files with resource forks. This has
now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4969
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5006
* Bugfix #4975: Prevent `backup --stdin-from-command` from panicking
Restic would previously crash if `--stdin-from-command` was specified without
providing a command. This issue has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4975
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4976
* Bugfix #4980: Skip extended attribute processing on unsupported Windows volumes
With restic 0.17.0, backups of certain Windows paths, such as network drives,
failed due to errors while fetching extended attributes.
Restic now skips extended attribute processing for volumes where they are not
supported.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4955
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4950
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4980
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4998
* Bugfix #5004: Fix spurious "A Required Privilege Is Not Held by the Client" error
On Windows, creating a backup could sometimes trigger the following error:
```
error: nodeFromFileInfo [...]: get named security info failed with: a required privilege is not held by the client.
```
This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5004
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5019
* Bugfix #5005: Fix rare failures to retry locking a repository
Restic 0.17.0 could in rare cases fail to retry locking a repository if one of
the lock files failed to load, resulting in the error:
```
unable to create lock in backend: circuit breaker open for file <lock/1234567890>
```
This issue has now been addressed. The error handling now properly retries the
locking operation. In addition, restic waits a few seconds between locking
retries to increase chances of successful locking.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5005
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5011
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5012
* Bugfix #5018: Improve HTTP/2 support for REST backend
If `rest-server` tried to gracefully shut down an HTTP/2 connection still in use
by the client, it could result in the following error:
```
http2: Transport: cannot retry err [http2: Transport received Server's graceful shutdown GOAWAY] after Request.Body was written; define Request.GetBody to avoid this error
```
This issue has now been resolved.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5018
https://forum.restic.net/t/receiving-http2-goaway-messages-with-windows-restic-v0-17-0/8367
* Change #4953: Also back up files with incomplete metadata
If restic failed to read extended metadata for a file or folder during a backup,
then the file or folder was not included in the resulting snapshot. Instead, a
warning message was printed along with returning exit code 3 once the backup was
finished.
Now, restic also includes items for which the extended metadata could not be
read in a snapshot. The warning message has been updated to:
```
incomplete metadata for /path/to/file: <details about error>
```
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4953
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4977
* Enhancement #4795: Display progress bar for `restore --verify`
When the `restore` command is run with `--verify`, it now displays a progress
bar while the verification step is running. The progress bar is not shown when
the `--json` flag is specified.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4795
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4989
* Enhancement #4934: Automatically clear removed snapshots from cache
Previously, restic only removed snapshots from the cache on the host where the
`forget` command was executed. On other hosts that use the same repository, the
old snapshots remained in the cache.
Restic now automatically clears old snapshots from the local cache of the
current host.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4934
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4981
* Enhancement #4944: Print JSON-formatted errors during `restore --json`
Restic used to print any `restore` errors directly to the console as freeform
text messages, even when using the `--json` option.
Now, when `--json` is specified, restic prints them as JSON formatted messages.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4944
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4946
* Enhancement #4959: Return exit code 12 for "bad password" errors
Restic now returns exit code 12 when it cannot open the repository due to an
incorrect password.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4959
* Enhancement #4970: Make timeout for stuck requests customizable
Restic monitors connections to the backend to detect stuck requests. If a
request does not return any data within five minutes, restic assumes the request
is stuck and retries it. However, for large repositories this timeout might be
insufficient to collect a list of all files, causing the following error:
`List(data) returned error, retrying after 1s: [...]: request timeout`
It is now possible to increase the timeout using the `--stuck-request-timeout`
option.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4970
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5014
# Changelog for restic 0.17.0 (2024-07-26)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.17.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #3600: Handle unreadable xattrs in folders above `backup` source
* Fix #4209: Fix slow SFTP upload performance
* Fix #4503: Correct hardlink handling in `stats` command
* Fix #4568: Prevent `forget --keep-tags <invalid>` from deleting all snapshots
* Fix #4615: Make `find` not sometimes ignore directories
* Fix #4656: Properly report ID of newly added keys
* Fix #4703: Shutdown cleanly when receiving SIGTERM
* Fix #4709: Correct `--no-lock` handling of `ls` and `tag` commands
* Fix #4760: Fix possible error on concurrent cache cleanup
* Fix #4850: Handle UTF-16 password files in `key` command correctly
* Fix #4902: Update snapshot summary on `rewrite`
* Chg #956: Return exit code 10 and 11 for non-existing and locked repository
* Chg #4540: Require at least ARMv6 for ARM binaries
* Chg #4602: Deprecate legacy index format and `s3legacy` repository layout
* Chg #4627: Redesign backend error handling to improve reliability
* Chg #4707: Disable S3 anonymous authentication by default
* Chg #4744: Include full key ID in JSON output of `key list`
* Enh #662: Optionally skip snapshot creation if nothing changed
* Enh #693: Include snapshot size in `snapshots` output
* Enh #805: Add bitrot detection to `diff` command
* Enh #828: Improve features of the `repair packs` command
* Enh #1786: Support repositories with empty password
* Enh #2348: Add `--delete` option to `restore` command
* Enh #3067: Add extended options to configure Windows Shadow Copy Service
* Enh #3406: Improve `dump` performance for large files
* Enh #3806: Optimize and make `prune` command resumable
* Enh #4006: (alpha) Store deviceID only for hardlinks
* Enh #4048: Add support for FUSE-T with `mount` on macOS
* Enh #4251: Support reading backup from a command's standard output
* Enh #4287: Support connection to rest-server using unix socket
* Enh #4354: Significantly reduce `prune` memory usage
* Enh #4437: Make `check` command create non-existent cache directory
* Enh #4472: Support AWS Assume Role for S3 backend
* Enh #4547: Add `--json` option to `version` command
* Enh #4549: Add `--ncdu` option to `ls` command
* Enh #4573: Support rewriting host and time metadata in snapshots
* Enh #4583: Ignore `s3.storage-class` archive tiers for metadata
* Enh #4590: Speed up `mount` command's error detection
* Enh #4601: Add support for feature flags
* Enh #4611: Back up more file metadata on Windows
* Enh #4664: Make `ls` use `message_type` field in JSON output
* Enh #4676: Make `key` command's actions separate sub-commands
* Enh #4678: Add `--target` option to the `dump` command
* Enh #4708: Back up and restore SecurityDescriptors on Windows
* Enh #4733: Allow specifying `--host` via environment variable
* Enh #4737: Include snapshot ID in `reason` field of `forget` JSON output
* Enh #4764: Support forgetting all snapshots
* Enh #4768: Allow specifying custom User-Agent for outgoing requests
* Enh #4781: Add `restore` options to read include/exclude patterns from files
* Enh #4807: Support Extended Attributes on Windows NTFS
* Enh #4817: Make overwrite behavior of `restore` customizable
* Enh #4839: Add dry-run support to `restore` command
## Details
* Bugfix #3600: Handle unreadable xattrs in folders above `backup` source
When backup sources are specified using absolute paths, `backup` also includes
information about the parent folders of the backup sources in the snapshot.
If the extended attributes for some of these folders could not be read due to
missing permissions, this caused the backup to fail. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3600
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4668
https://forum.restic.net/t/parent-directories-above-the-snapshot-source-path-fatal-error-permission-denied/7216
* Bugfix #4209: Fix slow SFTP upload performance
Since restic 0.12.1, the upload speed of the sftp backend to a remote server has
regressed significantly. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4209
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4782
* Bugfix #4503: Correct hardlink handling in `stats` command
If files on different devices had the same inode ID, the `stats` command did not
correctly calculate the snapshot size. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4503
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4006
https://forum.restic.net/t/possible-bug-in-stats/6461/8
* Bugfix #4568: Prevent `forget --keep-tags <invalid>` from deleting all snapshots
Running `forget --keep-tags <invalid>`, where `<invalid>` is a tag that does not
exist in the repository, would remove all snapshots. This is especially
problematic if the tag name contains a typo.
The `forget` command now fails with an error if all snapshots in a snapshot
group would be deleted. This prevents the above example from deleting all
snapshots.
It is possible to temporarily disable the new check by setting the environment
variable `RESTIC_FEATURES=safe-forget-keep-tags=false`. Note that this feature
flag will be removed in the next minor restic version.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4568
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4764
* Bugfix #4615: Make `find` not sometimes ignore directories
In some cases, the `find` command ignored empty or moved directories. This has
now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4615
* Bugfix #4656: Properly report ID of newly added keys
`restic key add` now reports the ID of the newly added key. This simplifies
selecting a specific key using the `--key-hint key` option.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4656
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4657
* Bugfix #4703: Shutdown cleanly when receiving SIGTERM
Previously, when restic received the SIGTERM signal it would terminate
immediately, skipping cleanup and potentially causing issues like stale locks
being left behind. This primarily effected containerized restic invocations that
use SIGTERM, but could also be triggered via a simple `killall restic`.
This has now been fixed, such that restic shuts down cleanly when receiving the
SIGTERM signal.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4703
* Bugfix #4709: Correct `--no-lock` handling of `ls` and `tag` commands
The `ls` command never locked the repository. This has now been fixed, with the
old behavior still being supported using `ls --no-lock`. The latter invocation
also works with older restic versions.
The `tag` command erroneously accepted the `--no-lock` command. This command now
always requires an exclusive lock.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4709
* Bugfix #4760: Fix possible error on concurrent cache cleanup
If multiple restic processes concurrently cleaned up no longer existing files
from the cache, this could cause some of the processes to fail with an `no such
file or directory` error. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4760
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4761
* Bugfix #4850: Handle UTF-16 password files in `key` command correctly
Previously, `key add` and `key passwd` did not properly decode UTF-16 encoded
passwords read from a password file. This has now been fixed to correctly match
the encoding when opening a repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4850
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4851
* Bugfix #4902: Update snapshot summary on `rewrite`
Restic previously did not recalculate the total number of files and bytes
processed when files were excluded from a snapshot by the `rewrite` command.
This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4902
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4905
* Change #956: Return exit code 10 and 11 for non-existing and locked repository
If a repository does not exist or cannot be locked, restic previously always
returned exit code 1. This made it difficult to distinguish these cases from
other errors.
Restic now returns exit code 10 if the repository does not exist, and exit code
11 if the repository could be not locked due to a conflicting lock.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/956
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4884
* Change #4540: Require at least ARMv6 for ARM binaries
The official release binaries of restic now require at least ARMv6 support for
ARM platforms.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4540
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4542
* Change #4602: Deprecate legacy index format and `s3legacy` repository layout
Support for the legacy index format used by restic before version 0.2.0 has been
deprecated and will be removed in the next minor restic version. You can use
`restic repair index` to update the index to the current format.
It is possible to temporarily reenable support for the legacy index format by
setting the environment variable `RESTIC_FEATURES=deprecate-legacy-index=false`.
Note that this feature flag will be removed in the next minor restic version.
Support for the `s3legacy` repository layout used for the S3 backend before
restic 0.7.0 has been deprecated and will be removed in the next minor restic
version. You can migrate your S3 repository to the current layout using
`RESTIC_FEATURES=deprecate-s3-legacy-layout=false restic migrate s3_layout`.
It is possible to temporarily reenable support for the `s3legacy` layout by
setting the environment variable
`RESTIC_FEATURES=deprecate-s3-legacy-layout=false`. Note that this feature flag
will be removed in the next minor restic version.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4602
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4724
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4743
* Change #4627: Redesign backend error handling to improve reliability
Restic now downloads pack files in large chunks instead of using a streaming
download. This prevents failures due to interrupted streams. The `restore`
command now also retries downloading individual blobs that could not be
retrieved.
HTTP requests that are stuck for more than two minutes while uploading or
downloading are now forcibly interrupted. This ensures that stuck requests are
retried after a short timeout.
Attempts to access a missing or truncated file will no longer be retried. This
avoids unnecessary retries in those cases. All other backend requests are
retried for up to 15 minutes. This ensures that temporarily interrupted network
connections can be tolerated.
If a download yields a corrupt file or blob, then the download will be retried
once.
Most parts of the new backend error handling can temporarily be disabled by
setting the environment variable `RESTIC_FEATURES=backend-error-redesign=false`.
Note that this feature flag will be removed in the next minor restic version.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4627
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4193
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4515
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1523
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4605
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4792
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4520
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4800
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4784
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4844
* Change #4707: Disable S3 anonymous authentication by default
When using the S3 backend with anonymous authentication, it continuously tried
to retrieve new authentication credentials, causing bad performance.
Now, to use anonymous authentication, it is necessary to pass the extended
option `-o s3.unsafe-anonymous-auth=true` to restic.
It is possible to temporarily revert to the old behavior by setting the
environment variable `RESTIC_FEATURES=explicit-s3-anonymous-auth=false`. Note
that this feature flag will be removed in the next minor restic version.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4707
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4908
* Change #4744: Include full key ID in JSON output of `key list`
The JSON output of the `key list` command has changed to include the full key ID
instead of just a shortened version of the ID, as the latter can be ambiguous in
some rare cases. To derive the short ID, please truncate the full ID down to
eight characters.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4744
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4745
* Enhancement #662: Optionally skip snapshot creation if nothing changed
The `backup` command always created a snapshot even if nothing in the backup set
changed compared to the parent snapshot.
Restic now supports the `--skip-if-unchanged` option for the `backup` command,
which omits creating a snapshot if the new snapshot's content would be identical
to that of the parent snapshot.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/662
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4816
* Enhancement #693: Include snapshot size in `snapshots` output
The `snapshots` command now prints the size for snapshots created using this or
a future restic version. To achieve this, the `backup` command now stores the
backup summary statistics in the snapshot.
The text output of the `snapshots` command only shows the snapshot size. The
other statistics are only included in the JSON output. To inspect these
statistics use `restic snapshots --json` or `restic cat snapshot <snapshotID>`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/693
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4705
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4913
* Enhancement #805: Add bitrot detection to `diff` command
The output of the `diff` command now includes the modifier `?` for files to
indicate bitrot in backed up files. The `?` will appear whenever there is a
difference in content while the metadata is exactly the same.
Since files with unchanged metadata are normally not read again when creating a
backup, the detection is only effective when the right-hand side of the diff has
been created with `backup --force`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/805
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4526
* Enhancement #828: Improve features of the `repair packs` command
The `repair packs` command has been improved to also be able to process
truncated pack files. The `check` and `check --read-data` command will provide
instructions on using the command if necessary to repair a repository. See the
guide at https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/077_troubleshooting.html for
further instructions.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/828
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4644
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4882
* Enhancement #1786: Support repositories with empty password
Restic previously required a password to create or operate on repositories.
Using the new option `--insecure-no-password` it is now possible to disable this
requirement. Restic will not prompt for a password when using this option.
For security reasons, the option must always be specified when operating on
repositories with an empty password, and specifying `--insecure-no-password`
while also passing a password to restic via a CLI option or environment variable
results in an error.
The `init` and `copy` commands add the related `--from-insecure-no-password`
option, which applies to the source repository. The `key add` and `key passwd`
commands add the `--new-insecure-no-password` option to add or set an empty
password.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1786
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4326
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4698
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4808
* Enhancement #2348: Add `--delete` option to `restore` command
The `restore` command now supports a `--delete` option that allows removing
files and directories from the target directory that do not exist in the
snapshot. This option also allows files in the snapshot to replace non-empty
directories having the same name.
To check that only expected files are deleted, add the `--dry-run --verbose=2`
options.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2348
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4881
* Enhancement #3067: Add extended options to configure Windows Shadow Copy Service
Previous, restic always used a 120 seconds timeout and unconditionally created
VSS snapshots for all volume mount points on disk. This behavior can now be
fine-tuned by the following new extended options (available only on Windows):
- `-o vss.timeout`: Time that VSS can spend creating snapshot before timing out
(default: 120s) - `-o vss.exclude-all-mount-points`: Exclude mountpoints from
snapshotting on all volumes (default: false) - `-o vss.exclude-volumes`:
Semicolon separated list of volumes to exclude from snapshotting - `-o
vss.provider`: VSS provider identifier which will be used for snapshotting
For example, change VSS timeout to five minutes and disable snapshotting of
mount points on all volumes:
Restic backup --use-fs-snapshot -o vss.timeout=5m -o
vss.exclude-all-mount-points=true
Exclude drive `d:`, mount point `c:\mnt` and a specific volume from
snapshotting:
Restic backup --use-fs-snapshot -o
vss.exclude-volumes="d:\;c:\mnt\;\\?\Volume{e2e0315d-9066-4f97-8343-eb5659b35762}"
Uses 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0' instead of the default
provider:
Restic backup --use-fs-snapshot -o
vss.provider={b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3067
* Enhancement #3406: Improve `dump` performance for large files
The `dump` command now retrieves the data chunks for a file in parallel. This
improves the download performance by up to as many times as the configured
number of parallel backend connections.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3406
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4796
* Enhancement #3806: Optimize and make `prune` command resumable
Previously, if the `prune` command was interrupted, a later `prune` run would
start repacking pack files from the start, as `prune` did not update the index
while repacking.
The `prune` command now supports resuming interrupted prune runs. The update of
the repository index has also been optimized to use less memory and only rewrite
parts of the index that have changed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3806
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4812
* Enhancement #4006: (alpha) Store deviceID only for hardlinks
Set `RESTIC_FEATURES=device-id-for-hardlinks` to enable this alpha feature. The
feature flag will be removed after repository format version 3 becomes available
or be replaced with a different solution.
When creating backups from a filesystem snapshot, for example created using
BTRFS subvolumes, the deviceID of the filesystem changes compared to previous
snapshots. This prevented restic from deduplicating the directory metadata of a
snapshot.
When this alpha feature is enabled, the deviceID is only stored for hardlinks,
which significantly reduces the metadata duplication for most backups.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4006
* Enhancement #4048: Add support for FUSE-T with `mount` on macOS
The restic `mount` command now supports creating FUSE mounts using FUSE-T on
macOS.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4048
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4825
* Enhancement #4251: Support reading backup from a command's standard output
The `backup` command now supports the `--stdin-from-command` option. When using
this option, the arguments to `backup` are interpreted as a command instead of
paths to back up. `backup` then executes the given command and stores the
standard output from it in the backup, similar to the what the `--stdin` option
does. This also enables restic to verify that the command completes with exit
code zero. A non-zero exit code causes the backup to fail.
Note that the `--stdin` option does not have to be specified at the same time,
and that the `--stdin-filename` option also applies to `--stdin-from-command`.
Example: `restic backup --stdin-from-command --stdin-filename dump.sql mysqldump
[...]`
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4251
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4410
* Enhancement #4287: Support connection to rest-server using unix socket
Restic now supports using a unix socket to connect to a rest-server version
0.13.0 or later. This allows running restic as follows:
```
rest-server --listen unix:/tmp/rest.socket --data /path/to/data &
restic -r rest:http+unix:///tmp/rest.socket:/my_backup_repo/ [...]
```
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4287
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4655
* Enhancement #4354: Significantly reduce `prune` memory usage
The `prune` command has been optimized to use up to 60% less memory. The memory
usage should now be roughly similar to creating a backup.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4354
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4812
* Enhancement #4437: Make `check` command create non-existent cache directory
Previously, if a custom cache directory was specified for the `check` command,
but the directory did not exist, `check` continued with the cache disabled.
The `check` command now attempts to create the cache directory before
initializing the cache.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4437
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4805
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4883
* Enhancement #4472: Support AWS Assume Role for S3 backend
Previously only credentials discovered via the Minio discovery methods were used
to authenticate.
However, there are many circumstances where the discovered credentials have
lower permissions and need to assume a specific role. This is now possible using
the following new environment variables:
- RESTIC_AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN - RESTIC_AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME -
RESTIC_AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_EXTERNAL_ID - RESTIC_AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_REGION (defaults to
us-east-1) - RESTIC_AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_POLICY - RESTIC_AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_STS_ENDPOINT
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4472
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4474
* Enhancement #4547: Add `--json` option to `version` command
Restic now supports outputting restic version along with the Go version, OS and
architecture used to build restic in JSON format using `version --json`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4547
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4553
* Enhancement #4549: Add `--ncdu` option to `ls` command
NCDU (NCurses Disk Usage) is a tool to analyse disk usage of directories. It has
an option to save a directory tree and analyse it later.
The `ls` command now supports outputting snapshot information in the NCDU format
using the `--ncdu` option. Example usage: `restic ls latest --ncdu | ncdu -f -`
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4549
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4550
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4911
* Enhancement #4573: Support rewriting host and time metadata in snapshots
The `rewrite` command now supports rewriting the host and/or time metadata of a
snapshot using the new `--new-host` and `--new-time` options.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4573
* Enhancement #4583: Ignore `s3.storage-class` archive tiers for metadata
Restic used to store all files on S3 using the specified `s3.storage-class`.
Now, restic will only use non-archive storage tiers for metadata, to avoid
problems when accessing a repository. To restore any data, it is still necessary
to manually warm up the required data beforehand.
NOTE: There is no official cold storage support in restic, use this option at
your own risk.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4583
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4584
* Enhancement #4590: Speed up `mount` command's error detection
The `mount` command now checks for the existence of the mountpoint before
opening the repository, leading to quicker error detection.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4590
* Enhancement #4601: Add support for feature flags
Restic now supports feature flags that can be used to enable and disable
experimental features. The flags can be set using the environment variable
`RESTIC_FEATURES`. To get a list of currently supported feature flags, use the
`features` command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4601
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4666
* Enhancement #4611: Back up more file metadata on Windows
Previously, restic did not back up all common Windows-specific metadata.
Restic now stores file creation time and file attributes like the hidden,
read-only and encrypted flags when backing up files and folders on Windows.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4611
* Enhancement #4664: Make `ls` use `message_type` field in JSON output
The `ls` command was the only restic command that used the `struct_type` field
in its JSON output format to specify the message type.
The JSON output of the `ls` command now also includes the `message_type` field,
which is consistent with other commands. The `struct_type` field is still
included, but now deprecated.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4664
* Enhancement #4676: Make `key` command's actions separate sub-commands
Each of the `add`, `list`, `remove` and `passwd` actions provided by the `key`
command is now a separate sub-command and have its own documentation which can
be invoked using `restic key <add|list|remove|passwd> --help`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4676
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4685
* Enhancement #4678: Add `--target` option to the `dump` command
Restic `dump` always printed to the standard output. It now supports specifying
a `--target` file to write its output to.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4678
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4682
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4692
* Enhancement #4708: Back up and restore SecurityDescriptors on Windows
Restic now backs up and restores SecurityDescriptors for files and folders on
Windows which includes owner, group, discretionary access control list (DACL)
and system access control list (SACL).
This requires the user to be a member of backup operators or the application
must be run as admin. If that is not the case, only the current user's owner,
group and DACL will be backed up, and during restore only the DACL of the backed
up file will be restored, with the current user's owner and group being set on
the restored file.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4708
* Enhancement #4733: Allow specifying `--host` via environment variable
Restic commands that operate on snapshots, such as `restic backup` and `restic
snapshots`, support the `--host` option to specify the hostname for grouping
snapshots.
Such commands now also support specifying the hostname via the environment
variable `RESTIC_HOST`. Note that `--host` still takes precedence over the
environment variable.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4733
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4734
* Enhancement #4737: Include snapshot ID in `reason` field of `forget` JSON output
The JSON output of the `forget` command now includes `id` and `short_id` of
snapshots in the `reason` field.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4737
* Enhancement #4764: Support forgetting all snapshots
The `forget` command now supports the `--unsafe-allow-remove-all` option, which
removes all snapshots in the repository.
This option must always be combined with a snapshot filter (by host, path or
tag). For example, the command `forget --tag example --unsafe-allow-remove-all`
removes all snapshots with the tag "example".
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4764
* Enhancement #4768: Allow specifying custom User-Agent for outgoing requests
Restic now supports setting a custom `User-Agent` for outgoing HTTP requests
using the global option `--http-user-agent` or the `RESTIC_HTTP_USER_AGENT`
environment variable.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4768
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4810
* Enhancement #4781: Add `restore` options to read include/exclude patterns from files
Restic now supports reading include and exclude patterns from files using the
`--include-file`, `--exclude-file`, `--iinclude-file` and `--iexclude-file`
options of the `restore` command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4781
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4811
* Enhancement #4807: Support Extended Attributes on Windows NTFS
Restic now backs up and restores Extended Attributes for files and folders on
Windows NTFS.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4807
* Enhancement #4817: Make overwrite behavior of `restore` customizable
The `restore` command now supports an `--overwrite` option to configure whether
already existing files are overwritten. The overwrite behavior can be configured
using the following option values:
- `--overwrite always` (default): Always overwrites already existing files. The
`restore` command will verify the existing file content and only restore
mismatching parts to minimize downloads. Updates the metadata of all files. -
`--overwrite if-changed`: Like `always`, but speeds up the file content check by
assuming that files with matching size and modification time (mtime) are already
up to date. In case of a mismatch, the full file content is verified like with
`always`. Updates the metadata of all files. - `--overwrite if-newer`: Like
`always`, but only overwrites existing files when the file in the snapshot has a
newer modification time (mtime) than the existing file. - `--overwrite never`:
Never overwrites existing files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4817
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/200
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/407
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2662
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4837
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4838
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4864
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4921
* Enhancement #4839: Add dry-run support to `restore` command
The `restore` command now supports the `--dry-run` option to perform a dry run.
Pass the `--verbose=2` option to see which files would remain unchanged, and
which would be updated or freshly restored.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4839
# Changelog for restic 0.16.5 (2024-07-01)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.5 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Enh #4799: Add option to force use of Azure CLI credential
* Enh #4873: Update dependencies
## Details
* Enhancement #4799: Add option to force use of Azure CLI credential
A new environment variable `AZURE_FORCE_CLI_CREDENTIAL=true` allows forcing the
use of Azure CLI credential, ignoring other credentials like managed identity.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4799
* Enhancement #4873: Update dependencies
A few potentially vulnerable dependencies were updated.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4873
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4878
# Changelog for restic 0.16.4 (2024-02-04)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.4 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #4677: Downgrade zstd library to fix rare data corruption at max. compression
* Enh #4529: Add extra verification of data integrity before upload
## Details
* Bugfix #4677: Downgrade zstd library to fix rare data corruption at max. compression
In restic 0.16.3, backups where the compression level was set to `max` (using
`--compression max`) could in rare and very specific circumstances result in
data corruption due to a bug in the library used for compressing data. Restic
0.16.1 and 0.16.2 were not affected.
Restic now uses the previous version of the library used to compress data, the
same version used by restic 0.16.2. Please note that the `auto` compression
level (which restic uses by default) was never affected, and even if you used
`max` compression, chances of being affected by this issue are small.
To check a repository for any corruption, run `restic check --read-data`. This
will download and verify the whole repository and can be used at any time to
completely verify the integrity of a repository. If the `check` command detects
anomalies, follow the suggested steps.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4677
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4679
* Enhancement #4529: Add extra verification of data integrity before upload
Hardware issues, or a bug in restic or its dependencies, could previously cause
corruption in the files restic created and stored in the repository. Detecting
such corruption previously required explicitly running the `check --read-data`
or `check --read-data-subset` commands.
To further ensure data integrity, even in the case of hardware issues or
software bugs, restic now performs additional verification of the files about to
be uploaded to the repository.
These extra checks will increase CPU usage during backups. They can therefore,
if absolutely necessary, be disabled using the `--no-extra-verify` global
option. Please note that this should be combined with more active checking using
the previously mentioned check commands.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4529
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4681
# Changelog for restic 0.16.3 (2024-01-14)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.3 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #4560: Improve errors for irregular files on Windows
* Fix #4574: Support backup of deduplicated files on Windows again
* Fix #4612: Improve error handling for `rclone` backend
* Fix #4624: Correct `restore` progress information if an error occurs
* Fix #4626: Improve reliability of restoring large files
## Details
* Bugfix #4560: Improve errors for irregular files on Windows
Since Go 1.21, most filesystem reparse points on Windows are considered to be
irregular files. This caused restic to show an `error: invalid node type ""`
error message for those files.
This error message has now been improved and includes the relevant file path:
`error: nodeFromFileInfo path/to/file: unsupported file type "irregular"`. As
irregular files are not required to behave like regular files, it is not
possible to provide a generic way to back up those files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4560
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4620
https://forum.restic.net/t/windows-backup-error-invalid-node-type/6875
* Bugfix #4574: Support backup of deduplicated files on Windows again
With the official release builds of restic 0.16.1 and 0.16.2, it was not
possible to back up files that were deduplicated by the corresponding Windows
Server feature. This also applied to restic versions built using Go
1.21.0-1.21.4.
The Go version used to build restic has now been updated to fix this.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4574
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4621
* Bugfix #4612: Improve error handling for `rclone` backend
Since restic 0.16.0, if rclone encountered an error while listing files, this
could in rare circumstances cause restic to assume that there are no files.
Although unlikely, this situation could result in data loss if it were to happen
right when the `prune` command is listing existing snapshots.
Error handling has now been improved to detect and work around this case.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4612
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4618
* Bugfix #4624: Correct `restore` progress information if an error occurs
If an error occurred while restoring a snapshot, this could cause the `restore`
progress bar to show incorrect information. In addition, if a data file could
not be loaded completely, then errors would also be reported for some already
restored files.
Error reporting of the `restore` command has now been made more accurate.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4624
https://forum.restic.net/t/errors-restoring-with-restic-on-windows-server-s3/6943
* Bugfix #4626: Improve reliability of restoring large files
In some cases restic failed to restore large files that frequently contain the
same file chunk. In combination with certain backends, this could result in
network connection timeouts that caused incomplete restores.
Restic now includes special handling for such file chunks to ensure reliable
restores.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4626
https://forum.restic.net/t/errors-restoring-with-restic-on-windows-server-s3/6943
# Changelog for restic 0.16.2 (2023-10-29)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.2 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #4540: Restore ARMv5 support for ARM binaries
* Fix #4545: Repair documentation build on Read the Docs
## Details
* Bugfix #4540: Restore ARMv5 support for ARM binaries
The official release binaries for restic 0.16.1 were accidentally built to
require ARMv7. The build process is now updated to restore support for ARMv5.
Please note that restic 0.17.0 will drop support for ARMv5 and require at least
ARMv6.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4540
* Bugfix #4545: Repair documentation build on Read the Docs
For restic 0.16.1, no documentation was available at
https://restic.readthedocs.io/ .
The documentation build process is now updated to work again.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4545
# Changelog for restic 0.16.1 (2023-10-24)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.1 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #4513: Make `key list` command honor `--no-lock`
* Fix #4516: Do not try to load password on command line autocomplete
* Fix #4523: Update zstd library to fix possible data corruption at max. compression
* Chg #4532: Update dependencies and require Go 1.19 or newer
* Enh #229: Show progress bar while loading the index
* Enh #4128: Automatically set `GOMAXPROCS` in resource-constrained containers
* Enh #4480: Allow setting REST password and username via environment variables
* Enh #4511: Include inode numbers in JSON output for `find` and `ls` commands
* Enh #4519: Add config option to set SFTP command arguments
## Details
* Bugfix #4513: Make `key list` command honor `--no-lock`
The `key list` command now supports the `--no-lock` options. This allows
determining which keys a repo can be accessed by without the need for having
write access (e.g., read-only sftp access, filesystem snapshot).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4513
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4514
* Bugfix #4516: Do not try to load password on command line autocomplete
The command line autocompletion previously tried to load the repository
password. This could cause the autocompletion not to work. Now, this step gets
skipped.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4516
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4526
* Bugfix #4523: Update zstd library to fix possible data corruption at max. compression
In restic 0.16.0, backups where the compression level was set to `max` (using
`--compression max`) could in rare and very specific circumstances result in
data corruption due to a bug in the library used for compressing data.
Restic now uses the latest version of the library used to compress data, which
includes a fix for this issue. Please note that the `auto` compression level
(which restic uses by default) was never affected, and even if you used `max`
compression, chances of being affected by this issue were very small.
To check a repository for any corruption, run `restic check --read-data`. This
will download and verify the whole repository and can be used at any time to
completely verify the integrity of a repository. If the `check` command detects
anomalies, follow the suggested steps.
To simplify any needed repository repair and minimize data loss, there is also a
new and experimental `repair packs` command that salvages all valid data from
the affected pack files (see `restic help repair packs` for more information).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4523
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4530
* Change #4532: Update dependencies and require Go 1.19 or newer
We have updated all dependencies. Since some libraries require newer Go standard
library features, support for Go 1.18 has been dropped, which means that restic
now requires at least Go 1.19 to build.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4532
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4533
* Enhancement #229: Show progress bar while loading the index
Restic did not provide any feedback while loading index files. Now, there is a
progress bar that shows the index loading progress.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/229
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4419
* Enhancement #4128: Automatically set `GOMAXPROCS` in resource-constrained containers
When running restic in a Linux container with CPU-usage limits, restic now
automatically adjusts `GOMAXPROCS`. This helps to reduce the memory consumption
on hosts with many CPU cores.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4128
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4485
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4531
* Enhancement #4480: Allow setting REST password and username via environment variables
Previously, it was only possible to specify the REST-server username and
password in the repository URL, or by using the `--repository-file` option. This
meant it was not possible to use authentication in contexts where the repository
URL is stored in publicly accessible way.
Restic now allows setting the username and password using the
`RESTIC_REST_USERNAME` and `RESTIC_REST_PASSWORD` variables.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4480
* Enhancement #4511: Include inode numbers in JSON output for `find` and `ls` commands
Restic used to omit the inode numbers in the JSON messages emitted for nodes by
the `ls` command as well as for matches by the `find` command. It now includes
those values whenever they are available.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4511
* Enhancement #4519: Add config option to set SFTP command arguments
When using the `sftp` backend, scenarios where a custom identity file was needed
for the SSH connection, required the full command to be specified: `-o
sftp.command='ssh user@host:port -i /ssh/my_private_key -s sftp'`
Now, the `-o sftp.args=...` option can be passed to restic to specify custom
arguments for the SSH command executed by the SFTP backend. This simplifies the
above example to `-o sftp.args='-i /ssh/my_private_key'`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4241
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4519
# Changelog for restic 0.16.0 (2023-07-31)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.16.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2565: Support "unlimited" in `forget --keep-*` options
* Fix #3311: Support non-UTF8 paths as symlink target
* Fix #4199: Avoid lock refresh issues on slow network connections
* Fix #4274: Improve lock refresh handling after standby
* Fix #4319: Correctly clean up status bar output of the `backup` command
* Fix #4333: `generate` and `init` no longer silently ignore unexpected arguments
* Fix #4400: Ignore missing folders in `rest` backend
* Chg #4176: Fix JSON message type of `scan_finished` for the `backup` command
* Chg #4201: Require Go 1.20 for Solaris builds
* Enh #426: Show progress bar during restore
* Enh #719: Add `--retry-lock` option
* Enh #1495: Sort snapshots by timestamp in `restic find`
* Enh #1759: Add `repair index` and `repair snapshots` commands
* Enh #1926: Allow certificate paths to be passed through environment variables
* Enh #2359: Provide multi-platform Docker images
* Enh #2468: Add support for non-global Azure clouds
* Enh #2679: Reduce file fragmentation for local backend
* Enh #3328: Reduce memory usage by up to 25%
* Enh #3397: Improve accuracy of ETA displayed during backup
* Enh #3624: Keep oldest snapshot when there are not enough snapshots
* Enh #3698: Add support for Managed / Workload Identity to `azure` backend
* Enh #3871: Support `<snapshot>:<subfolder>` syntax to select subfolders
* Enh #3941: Support `--group-by` for backup parent selection
* Enh #4130: Cancel current command if cache becomes unusable
* Enh #4159: Add `--human-readable` option to `ls` and `find` commands
* Enh #4188: Include restic version in snapshot metadata
* Enh #4220: Add `jq` binary to Docker image
* Enh #4226: Allow specifying region of new buckets in the `gs` backend
* Enh #4375: Add support for extended attributes on symlinks
## Details
* Bugfix #2565: Support "unlimited" in `forget --keep-*` options
Restic would previously forget snapshots that should have been kept when a
negative value was passed to the `--keep-*` options. Negative values are now
forbidden. To keep all snapshots, the special value `unlimited` is now
supported. For example, `--keep-monthly unlimited` will keep all monthly
snapshots.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2565
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4234
* Bugfix #3311: Support non-UTF8 paths as symlink target
Earlier restic versions did not correctly `backup` and `restore` symlinks that
contain a non-UTF8 target. Note that this only affected systems that still use a
non-Unicode encoding for filesystem paths.
The repository format is now extended to add support for such symlinks. Please
note that snapshots must have been created with at least restic version 0.16.0
for `restore` to correctly handle non-UTF8 symlink targets when restoring them.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3311
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3802
* Bugfix #4199: Avoid lock refresh issues on slow network connections
On network connections with a low upload speed, backups and other operations
could fail with the error message `Fatal: failed to refresh lock in time`.
This has now been fixed by reworking the lock refresh handling.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4199
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4304
* Bugfix #4274: Improve lock refresh handling after standby
If the restic process was stopped or the host running restic entered standby
during a long running operation such as a backup, this previously resulted in
the operation failing with `Fatal: failed to refresh lock in time`.
This has now been fixed such that restic first checks whether it is safe to
continue the current operation and only throws an error if not.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4274
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4374
* Bugfix #4319: Correctly clean up status bar output of the `backup` command
Due to a regression in restic 0.15.2, the status bar of the `backup` command
could leave some output behind. This happened if filenames were printed that are
wider than the current terminal width. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4319
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4318
* Bugfix #4333: `generate` and `init` no longer silently ignore unexpected arguments
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4333
* Bugfix #4400: Ignore missing folders in `rest` backend
If a repository accessed via the REST backend was missing folders, then restic
would fail with an error while trying to list the data in the repository. This
has been now fixed.
https://github.com/restic/rest-server/issues/235
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4400
* Change #4176: Fix JSON message type of `scan_finished` for the `backup` command
Restic incorrectly set the `message_type` of the `scan_finished` message to
`status` instead of `verbose_status`. This has now been corrected so that the
messages report the correct type.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4176
* Change #4201: Require Go 1.20 for Solaris builds
Building restic on Solaris now requires Go 1.20, as the library used to access
Azure uses the mmap syscall, which is only available on Solaris starting from Go
1.20. All other platforms however continue to build with Go 1.18.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4201
* Enhancement #426: Show progress bar during restore
The `restore` command now shows a progress report while restoring files.
Example: `[0:42] 5.76% 23 files 12.98 MiB, total 3456 files 23.54 GiB`
JSON output is now also supported.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/426
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3413
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3627
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3991
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4314
https://forum.restic.net/t/progress-bar-for-restore/5210
* Enhancement #719: Add `--retry-lock` option
This option allows specifying a duration for which restic will wait if the
repository is already locked.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/719
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2214
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4107
* Enhancement #1495: Sort snapshots by timestamp in `restic find`
The `find` command used to print snapshots in an arbitrary order. Restic now
prints snapshots sorted by timestamp.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1495
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4409
* Enhancement #1759: Add `repair index` and `repair snapshots` commands
The `rebuild-index` command has been renamed to `repair index`. The old name
will still work, but is deprecated.
When a snapshot was damaged, the only option up to now was to completely forget
the snapshot, even if only some unimportant files in it were damaged and other
files were still fine.
Restic now has a `repair snapshots` command, which can salvage any non-damaged
files and parts of files in the snapshots by removing damaged directories and
missing file contents. Please note that the damaged data may still be lost and
see the "Troubleshooting" section in the documentation for more details.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1759
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1714
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1798
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2334
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2876
https://forum.restic.net/t/corrupted-repo-how-to-repair/799
https://forum.restic.net/t/recovery-options-for-damaged-repositories/1571
* Enhancement #1926: Allow certificate paths to be passed through environment variables
Restic will now read paths to certificates from the environment variables
`RESTIC_CACERT` or `RESTIC_TLS_CLIENT_CERT` if `--cacert` or `--tls-client-cert`
are not specified.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1926
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4384
* Enhancement #2359: Provide multi-platform Docker images
The official Docker images are now built for the architectures linux/386,
linux/amd64, linux/arm and linux/arm64.
As an alternative to the Docker Hub, the Docker images are also available on
ghcr.io, the GitHub Container Registry.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2359
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4269
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4364
* Enhancement #2468: Add support for non-global Azure clouds
The `azure` backend previously only supported storages using the global domain
`core.windows.net`. This meant that backups to other domains such as Azure China
(`core.chinacloudapi.cn`) or Azure Germany (`core.cloudapi.de`) were not
supported. Restic now allows overriding the global domain using the environment
variable `AZURE_ENDPOINT_SUFFIX`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2468
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4387
* Enhancement #2679: Reduce file fragmentation for local backend
Before this change, local backend files could become fragmented. Now restic will
try to preallocate space for pack files to avoid their fragmentation.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2679
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3261
* Enhancement #3328: Reduce memory usage by up to 25%
The in-memory index has been optimized to be more garbage collection friendly.
Restic now defaults to `GOGC=50` to run the Go garbage collector more
frequently.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3328
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4352
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4353
* Enhancement #3397: Improve accuracy of ETA displayed during backup
Restic's `backup` command displayed an ETA that did not adapt when the rate of
progress made during the backup changed during the course of the backup.
Restic now uses recent progress when computing the ETA. It is important to
realize that the estimate may still be wrong, because restic cannot predict the
future, but the hope is that the ETA will be more accurate in most cases.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3397
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3563
* Enhancement #3624: Keep oldest snapshot when there are not enough snapshots
The `forget` command now additionally preserves the oldest snapshot if fewer
snapshots than allowed by the `--keep-*` parameters would otherwise be kept.
This maximizes the amount of history kept within the specified limits.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3624
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4366
https://forum.restic.net/t/keeping-yearly-snapshots-policy-when-backup-began-during-the-year/4670/2
* Enhancement #3698: Add support for Managed / Workload Identity to `azure` backend
Restic now additionally supports authenticating to Azure using Workload Identity
or Managed Identity credentials, which are automatically injected in several
environments such as a managed Kubernetes cluster.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3698
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4029
* Enhancement #3871: Support `<snapshot>:<subfolder>` syntax to select subfolders
Commands like `diff` or `restore` always worked with the full snapshot. This did
not allow comparing only a specific subfolder or only restoring that folder
(`restore --include subfolder` filters the restored files, but still creates the
directories included in `subfolder`).
The commands `diff`, `dump`, `ls` and `restore` now support the
`<snapshot>:<subfolder>` syntax, where `snapshot` is the ID of a snapshot (or
the string `latest`) and `subfolder` is a path within the snapshot. The commands
will then only work with the specified path of the snapshot. The `subfolder`
must be a path to a folder as returned by `ls`. Two examples:
`restic restore -t target latest:/some/path` `restic diff 12345678:/some/path
90abcef:/some/path`
For debugging purposes, the `cat` command now supports `cat tree
<snapshot>:<subfolder>` to return the directory metadata for the given
subfolder.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3871
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4334
* Enhancement #3941: Support `--group-by` for backup parent selection
Previously, the `backup` command by default selected the parent snapshot based
on the hostname and the backup paths. When the backup path list changed, the
`backup` command was unable to determine a suitable parent snapshot and had to
read all files again.
The new `--group-by` option for the `backup` command allows filtering snapshots
for the parent selection by `host`, `paths` and `tags`. It defaults to
`host,paths` which selects the latest snapshot with hostname and paths matching
those of the backup run. This matches the behavior of prior restic versions.
The new `--group-by` option should be set to the same value as passed to `forget
--group-by`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3941
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4081
* Enhancement #4130: Cancel current command if cache becomes unusable
If the cache directory was removed or ran out of space while restic was running,
this would previously cause further caching attempts to fail and thereby
drastically slow down the command execution. Now, the currently running command
is instead canceled.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4130
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4166
* Enhancement #4159: Add `--human-readable` option to `ls` and `find` commands
Previously, when using the `-l` option with the `ls` and `find` commands, the
displayed size was always in bytes, without an option for a more human readable
format such as MiB or GiB.
The new `--human-readable` option will convert longer size values into more
human friendly values with an appropriate suffix depending on the output size.
For example, a size of `14680064` will be shown as `14.000 MiB`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4159
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4351
* Enhancement #4188: Include restic version in snapshot metadata
The restic version used to backup a snapshot is now included in its metadata and
shown when inspecting a snapshot using `restic cat snapshot <snapshotID>` or
`restic snapshots --json`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4188
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4378
* Enhancement #4220: Add `jq` binary to Docker image
The Docker image now contains `jq`, which can be useful to process JSON data
output by restic.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4220
* Enhancement #4226: Allow specifying region of new buckets in the `gs` backend
Previously, buckets used by the Google Cloud Storage backend would always get
created in the "us" region. It is now possible to specify the region where a
bucket should be created by using the `-o gs.region=us` option.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4226
* Enhancement #4375: Add support for extended attributes on symlinks
Restic now supports extended attributes on symlinks when backing up, restoring,
or FUSE-mounting snapshots. This includes, for example, the `security.selinux`
xattr on Linux distributions that use SELinux.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4375
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4379
# Changelog for restic 0.15.2 (2023-04-24)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.15.2 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Sec #4275: Update golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2022-41723
* Fix #2260: Sanitize filenames printed by `backup` during processing
* Fix #4211: Make `dump` interpret `--host` and `--path` correctly
* Fix #4239: Correct number of blocks reported in mount point
* Fix #4253: Minimize risk of spurious filesystem loops with `mount`
* Enh #4180: Add release binaries for riscv64 architecture on Linux
* Enh #4219: Upgrade Minio to version 7.0.49
## Details
* Security #4275: Update golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2022-41723
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4275
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4213
* Bugfix #2260: Sanitize filenames printed by `backup` during processing
The `backup` command would previously not sanitize the filenames it printed
during processing, potentially causing newlines or terminal control characters
to mangle the status output or even change the state of a terminal.
Filenames are now checked and quoted if they contain non-printable or
non-Unicode characters.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2260
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4191
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4192
* Bugfix #4211: Make `dump` interpret `--host` and `--path` correctly
A regression in restic 0.15.0 caused `dump` to confuse its `--host=<host>` and
`--path=<path>` options: it looked for snapshots with paths called `<host>` from
hosts called `<path>`. It now treats the options as intended.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4211
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4212
* Bugfix #4239: Correct number of blocks reported in mount point
Restic mount points reported an incorrect number of 512-byte (POSIX standard)
blocks for files and links due to a rounding bug. In particular, empty files
were reported as taking one block instead of zero.
The rounding is now fixed: the number of blocks reported is the file size (or
link target size) divided by 512 and rounded up to a whole number.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4239
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4240
* Bugfix #4253: Minimize risk of spurious filesystem loops with `mount`
When a backup contains a directory that has the same name as its parent, say
`a/b/b`, and the GNU `find` command was run on this backup in a restic mount,
`find` would refuse to traverse the lowest `b` directory, instead printing `File
system loop detected`. This was due to the way the restic mount command
generates inode numbers for directories in the mount point.
The rule for generating these inode numbers was changed in 0.15.0. It has now
been changed again to avoid this issue. A perfect rule does not exist, but the
probability of this behavior occurring is now extremely small.
When it does occur, the mount point is not broken, and scripts that traverse the
mount point should work as long as they don't rely on inode numbers for
detecting filesystem loops.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4253
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4255
* Enhancement #4180: Add release binaries for riscv64 architecture on Linux
Builds for the `riscv64` architecture on Linux are now included in the release
binaries.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4180
* Enhancement #4219: Upgrade Minio to version 7.0.49
The upgraded version now allows use of the `ap-southeast-4` region (Melbourne).
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4219
# Changelog for restic 0.15.1 (2023-01-30)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.15.1 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #3750: Remove `b2_download_file_by_name: 404` warning from B2 backend
* Fix #4147: Make `prune --quiet` not print progress bar
* Fix #4163: Make `self-update --output` work with new filename on Windows
* Fix #4167: Add missing ETA in `backup` progress bar
* Enh #4143: Ignore empty lock files
## Details
* Bugfix #3750: Remove `b2_download_file_by_name: 404` warning from B2 backend
In some cases the B2 backend could print `b2_download_file_by_name: 404: :
b2.b2err` warnings. These are only debug messages and can be safely ignored.
Restic now uses an updated library for accessing B2, which removes the warning.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3750
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4144
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4146
* Bugfix #4147: Make `prune --quiet` not print progress bar
A regression in restic 0.15.0 caused `prune --quiet` to show a progress bar
while deciding how to process each pack files. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4147
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4153
* Bugfix #4163: Make `self-update --output` work with new filename on Windows
Since restic 0.14.0 the `self-update` command did not work when a custom output
filename was specified via the `--output` option. This has now been fixed.
As a workaround, either use an older restic version to run the self-update or
create an empty file with the output filename before updating e.g. using CMD:
`type nul > new-file.exe` `restic self-update --output new-file.exe`
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4163
https://forum.restic.net/t/self-update-windows-started-failing-after-release-of-0-15/5836
* Bugfix #4167: Add missing ETA in `backup` progress bar
A regression in restic 0.15.0 caused the ETA to be missing from the progress bar
displayed by the `backup` command. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4167
* Enhancement #4143: Ignore empty lock files
With restic 0.15.0 the checks for stale locks became much stricter than before.
In particular, empty or unreadable locks were no longer silently ignored. This
made restic to complain with `Load(<lock/1234567812>, 0, 0) returned error,
retrying after 552.330144ms: load(<lock/1234567812>): invalid data returned` and
fail in the end.
The error message is now clarified and the implementation changed to ignore
empty lock files which are sometimes created as the result of a failed uploads
on some backends.
Please note that unreadable lock files still have to cleaned up manually. To do
so, you can run `restic unlock --remove-all` which removes all existing lock
files. But first make sure that no other restic process is currently using the
repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4143
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4152
# Changelog for restic 0.15.0 (2023-01-12)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.15.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2015: Make `mount` return exit code 0 after receiving Ctrl-C / SIGINT
* Fix #2578: Make `restore` replace existing symlinks
* Fix #2591: Don't read password from stdin for `backup --stdin`
* Fix #3161: Delete files on Backblaze B2 more reliably
* Fix #3336: Make SFTP backend report no space left on device
* Fix #3567: Improve handling of interrupted syscalls in `mount` command
* Fix #3897: Fix stuck `copy` command when `-o <backend>.connections=1`
* Fix #3918: Correct prune statistics for partially compressed repositories
* Fix #3951: Make `ls` return exit code 1 if snapshot cannot be loaded
* Fix #4003: Make `backup` no longer hang on Solaris when seeing a FIFO file
* Fix #4016: Support ExFAT-formatted local backends on macOS Ventura
* Fix #4085: Make `init` ignore "Access Denied" errors when creating S3 buckets
* Fix #4100: Make `self-update` enabled by default only in release builds
* Fix #4103: Don't generate negative UIDs and GIDs in tar files from `dump`
* Chg #2724: Include full snapshot ID in JSON output of `backup`
* Chg #3929: Make `unlock` display message only when locks were actually removed
* Chg #4033: Don't print skipped snapshots by default in `copy` command
* Chg #4041: Update dependencies and require Go 1.18 or newer
* Enh #14: Implement `rewrite` command
* Enh #79: Restore files with long runs of zeros as sparse files
* Enh #1078: Support restoring symbolic links on Windows
* Enh #1734: Inform about successful retries after errors
* Enh #1866: Improve handling of directories with duplicate entries
* Enh #2134: Support B2 API keys restricted to hiding but not deleting files
* Enh #2152: Make `init` open only one connection for the SFTP backend
* Enh #2533: Handle cache corruption on disk and in downloads
* Enh #2715: Stricter repository lock handling
* Enh #2750: Make backup file read concurrency configurable
* Enh #3029: Add support for `credential_process` to S3 backend
* Enh #3096: Make `mount` command support macOS using macFUSE 4.x
* Enh #3124: Support JSON output for the `init` command
* Enh #3899: Optimize prune memory usage
* Enh #3905: Improve speed of parent snapshot detection in `backup` command
* Enh #3915: Add compression statistics to the `stats` command
* Enh #3925: Provide command completion for PowerShell
* Enh #3931: Allow `backup` file tree scanner to be disabled
* Enh #3932: Improve handling of ErrDot errors in rclone and sftp backends
* Enh #3943: Ignore additional/unknown files in repository
* Enh #3955: Improve `backup` performance for small files
## Details
* Bugfix #2015: Make `mount` return exit code 0 after receiving Ctrl-C / SIGINT
To stop the `mount` command, a user has to press Ctrl-C or send a SIGINT signal
to restic. This used to cause restic to exit with a non-zero exit code.
The exit code has now been changed to zero as the above is the expected way to
stop the `mount` command and should therefore be considered successful.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2015
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3894
* Bugfix #2578: Make `restore` replace existing symlinks
When restoring a symlink, restic used to report an error if the target path
already existed. This has now been fixed such that the potentially existing
target path is first removed before the symlink is restored.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2578
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3780
* Bugfix #2591: Don't read password from stdin for `backup --stdin`
The `backup` command when used with `--stdin` previously tried to read first the
password, then the data to be backed up from standard input. This meant it would
often confuse part of the data for the password.
From now on, it will instead exit with the message `Fatal: cannot read both
password and data from stdin` unless the password is passed in some other way
(such as `--restic-password-file`, `RESTIC_PASSWORD`, etc).
To enter the password interactively a password command has to be used. For
example on Linux, `mysqldump somedatabase | restic backup --stdin
--password-command='sh -c "systemd-ask-password < /dev/tty"'` securely reads the
password from the terminal.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2591
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4011
* Bugfix #3161: Delete files on Backblaze B2 more reliably
Restic used to only delete the latest version of files stored in B2. In most
cases this worked well as there was only a single version of the file. However,
due to retries while uploading it is possible for multiple file versions to be
stored at B2. This could lead to various problems for files that should have
been deleted but still existed.
The implementation has now been changed to delete all versions of files, which
doubles the amount of Class B transactions necessary to delete files, but
assures that no file versions are left behind.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3161
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3885
* Bugfix #3336: Make SFTP backend report no space left on device
Backing up to an SFTP backend would spew repeated SSH_FX_FAILURE messages when
the remote disk was full. Restic now reports "sftp: no space left on device" and
exits immediately when it detects this condition.
A fix for this issue was implemented in restic 0.12.1, but unfortunately the fix
itself contained a bug that prevented it from taking effect.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3336
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3345
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4075
* Bugfix #3567: Improve handling of interrupted syscalls in `mount` command
Accessing restic's FUSE mount could result in "input/output" errors when using
programs in which syscalls can be interrupted. This is for example the case for
Go programs. This has now been fixed by improved error handling of interrupted
syscalls.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3567
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3694
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3875
* Bugfix #3897: Fix stuck `copy` command when `-o <backend>.connections=1`
When running the `copy` command with `-o <backend>.connections=1` the command
would be infinitely stuck. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3897
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3898
* Bugfix #3918: Correct prune statistics for partially compressed repositories
In a partially compressed repository, one data blob can exist both in an
uncompressed and a compressed version. This caused the `prune` statistics to
become inaccurate and e.g. report a too high value for the unused size, such as
"unused size after prune: 16777215.991 TiB". This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3918
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3980
* Bugfix #3951: Make `ls` return exit code 1 if snapshot cannot be loaded
The `ls` command used to show a warning and return exit code 0 when failing to
load a snapshot. This has now been fixed such that it instead returns exit code
1 (still showing a warning).
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3951
* Bugfix #4003: Make `backup` no longer hang on Solaris when seeing a FIFO file
The `backup` command used to hang on Solaris whenever it encountered a FIFO file
(named pipe), due to a bug in the handling of extended attributes. This bug has
now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4003
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4053
* Bugfix #4016: Support ExFAT-formatted local backends on macOS Ventura
ExFAT-formatted disks could not be used as local backends starting from macOS
Ventura. Restic commands would fail with an "inappropriate ioctl for device"
error. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4016
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4021
* Bugfix #4085: Make `init` ignore "Access Denied" errors when creating S3 buckets
In restic 0.9.0 through 0.13.0, the `init` command ignored some permission
errors from S3 backends when trying to check for bucket existence, so that
manually created buckets with custom permissions could be used for backups.
This feature became broken in 0.14.0, but has now been restored again.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4085
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4086
* Bugfix #4100: Make `self-update` enabled by default only in release builds
The `self-update` command was previously included by default in all builds of
restic as opposed to only in official release builds, even if the `selfupdate`
tag was not explicitly enabled when building.
This has now been corrected, and the `self-update` command is only available if
restic was built with `-tags selfupdate` (as done for official release builds by
`build.go`).
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4100
* Bugfix #4103: Don't generate negative UIDs and GIDs in tar files from `dump`
When using a 32-bit build of restic, the `dump` command could in some cases
create tar files containing negative UIDs and GIDs, which cannot be read by GNU
tar. This corner case especially applies to backups from stdin on Windows.
This is now fixed such that `dump` creates valid tar files in these cases too.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4103
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4104
* Change #2724: Include full snapshot ID in JSON output of `backup`
We have changed the JSON output of the backup command to include the full
snapshot ID instead of just a shortened version, as the latter can be ambiguous
in some rare cases. To derive the short ID, please truncate the full ID down to
eight characters.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2724
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3993
* Change #3929: Make `unlock` display message only when locks were actually removed
The `unlock` command used to print the "successfully removed locks" message
whenever it was run, regardless of lock files having being removed or not.
This has now been changed such that it only prints the message if any lock files
were actually removed. In addition, it also reports the number of removed lock
files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3929
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3935
* Change #4033: Don't print skipped snapshots by default in `copy` command
The `copy` command used to print each snapshot that was skipped because it
already existed in the target repository. The amount of this output could
practically bury the list of snapshots that were actually copied.
From now on, the skipped snapshots are by default not printed at all, but this
can be re-enabled by increasing the verbosity level of the command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4033
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4066
* Change #4041: Update dependencies and require Go 1.18 or newer
Most dependencies have been updated. Since some libraries require newer language
features, support for Go 1.15-1.17 has been dropped, which means that restic now
requires at least Go 1.18 to build.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4041
* Enhancement #14: Implement `rewrite` command
Restic now has a `rewrite` command which allows to rewrite existing snapshots to
remove unwanted files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/14
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2731
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4079
* Enhancement #79: Restore files with long runs of zeros as sparse files
When using `restore --sparse`, the restorer may now write files containing long
runs of zeros as sparse files (also called files with holes), where the zeros
are not actually written to disk.
How much space is saved by writing sparse files depends on the operating system,
file system and the distribution of zeros in the file.
During backup restic still reads the whole file including sparse regions, but
with optimized processing speed of sparse regions.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/79
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3903
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2601
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3854
https://forum.restic.net/t/sparse-file-support/1264
* Enhancement #1078: Support restoring symbolic links on Windows
The `restore` command now supports restoring symbolic links on Windows. Because
of Windows specific restrictions this is only possible when running restic with
the `SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege` privilege or as an administrator.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1078
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2699
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2875
* Enhancement #1734: Inform about successful retries after errors
When a recoverable error is encountered, restic shows a warning message saying
that it's retrying, e.g.:
`Save(<data/956b9ced99>) returned error, retrying after 357.131936ms: ...`
This message can be confusing in that it never clearly states whether the retry
is successful or not. This has now been fixed such that restic follows up with a
message confirming a successful retry, e.g.:
`Save(<data/956b9ced99>) operation successful after 1 retries`
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1734
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2661
* Enhancement #1866: Improve handling of directories with duplicate entries
If for some reason a directory contains a duplicate entry, the `backup` command
would previously fail with a `node "path/to/file" already present` or `nodes are
not ordered got "path/to/file", last "path/to/file"` error.
The error handling has been improved to only report a warning in this case. Make
sure to check that the filesystem in question is not damaged if you see this!
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1866
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3937
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3880
* Enhancement #2134: Support B2 API keys restricted to hiding but not deleting files
When the B2 backend does not have the necessary permissions to permanently
delete files, it now automatically falls back to hiding files. This allows using
restic with an application key which is not allowed to delete files. This can
prevent an attacker from deleting backups with such an API key.
To use this feature create an application key without the `deleteFiles`
capability. It is recommended to restrict the key to just one bucket. For
example using the `b2` command line tool:
`b2 create-key --bucket <bucketName> <keyName>
listBuckets,readFiles,writeFiles,listFiles`
Alternatively, you can use the S3 backend to access B2, as described in the
documentation. In this mode, files are also only hidden instead of being deleted
permanently.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2134
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2398
* Enhancement #2152: Make `init` open only one connection for the SFTP backend
The `init` command using the SFTP backend used to connect twice to the
repository. This could be inconvenient if the user must enter a password, or
cause `init` to fail if the server does not correctly close the first SFTP
connection.
This has now been fixed by reusing the first/initial SFTP connection opened.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2152
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3882
* Enhancement #2533: Handle cache corruption on disk and in downloads
In rare situations, like for example after a system crash, the data stored in
the cache might be corrupted. This could cause restic to fail and required
manually deleting the cache.
Restic now automatically removes broken data from the cache, allowing it to
recover from such a situation without user intervention. In addition, restic
retries downloads which return corrupt data in order to also handle temporary
download problems.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2533
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3521
* Enhancement #2715: Stricter repository lock handling
Previously, restic commands kept running even if they failed to refresh their
locks in time. This could be a problem e.g. in case the client system running a
backup entered the standby power mode while the backup was still in progress
(which would prevent the client from refreshing its lock), and after a short
delay another host successfully runs `unlock` and `prune` on the repository,
which would remove all data added by the in-progress backup. If the backup
client later continues its backup, even though its lock had expired in the
meantime, this would lead to an incomplete snapshot.
To address this, lock handling is now much stricter. Commands requiring a lock
are canceled if the lock is not refreshed successfully in time. In addition, if
a lock file is not readable restic will not allow starting a command. It may be
necessary to remove invalid lock files manually or use `unlock --remove-all`.
Please make sure that no other restic processes are running concurrently before
doing this, however.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2715
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3569
* Enhancement #2750: Make backup file read concurrency configurable
The `backup` command now supports a `--read-concurrency` option which allows
tuning restic for very fast storage like NVMe disks by controlling the number of
concurrent file reads during the backup process.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2750
* Enhancement #3029: Add support for `credential_process` to S3 backend
Restic now uses a newer library for the S3 backend, which adds support for the
`credential_process` option in the AWS credential configuration.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3029
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4034
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4025
* Enhancement #3096: Make `mount` command support macOS using macFUSE 4.x
Restic now uses a different FUSE library for mounting snapshots and making them
available as a FUSE filesystem using the `mount` command. This adds support for
macFUSE 4.x which can be used to make this work on recent macOS versions.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3096
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4024
* Enhancement #3124: Support JSON output for the `init` command
The `init` command used to ignore the `--json` option, but now outputs a JSON
message if the repository was created successfully.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3124
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3132
* Enhancement #3899: Optimize prune memory usage
The `prune` command needs large amounts of memory in order to determine what to
keep and what to remove. This is now optimized to use up to 30% less memory.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3899
* Enhancement #3905: Improve speed of parent snapshot detection in `backup` command
Backing up a large number of files using `--files-from-verbatim` or
`--files-from-raw` options could require a long time to find the parent
snapshot. This has been improved.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3905
* Enhancement #3915: Add compression statistics to the `stats` command
When executed with `--mode raw-data` on a repository that supports compression,
the `stats` command now calculates and displays, for the selected repository or
snapshots: the uncompressed size of the data; the compression progress
(percentage of data that has been compressed); the compression ratio of the
compressed data; the total space saving.
It also takes into account both the compressed and uncompressed data if the
repository is only partially compressed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3915
* Enhancement #3925: Provide command completion for PowerShell
Restic already provided generation of completion files for bash, fish and zsh.
Now powershell is supported, too.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3925/files
* Enhancement #3931: Allow `backup` file tree scanner to be disabled
The `backup` command walks the file tree in a separate scanner process to find
the total size and file/directory count, and uses this to provide an ETA. This
can slow down backups, especially of network filesystems.
The command now has a new option `--no-scan` which can be used to disable this
scanning in order to speed up backups when needed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3931
* Enhancement #3932: Improve handling of ErrDot errors in rclone and sftp backends
Since Go 1.19, restic can no longer implicitly run relative executables which
are found in the current directory (e.g. `rclone` if found in `.`). This is a
security feature of Go to prevent against running unintended and possibly
harmful executables.
The error message for this was just "cannot run executable found relative to
current directory". This has now been improved to yield a more specific error
message, informing the user how to explicitly allow running the executable using
the `-o rclone.program` and `-o sftp.command` extended options with `./`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3932
https://pkg.go.dev/os/exec#hdr-Executables_in_the_current_directory
https://go.dev/blog/path-security
* Enhancement #3943: Ignore additional/unknown files in repository
If a restic repository had additional files in it (not created by restic),
commands like `find` and `restore` could become confused and fail with an
`multiple IDs with prefix "12345678" found` error. These commands now ignore
such additional files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3943
https://forum.restic.net/t/which-protocol-should-i-choose-for-remote-linux-backups/5446/17
* Enhancement #3955: Improve `backup` performance for small files
When backing up small files restic was slower than it could be. In particular
this affected backups using maximum compression.
This has been fixed by reworking the internal parallelism of the backup command,
making it back up small files around two times faster.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3955
# Changelog for restic 0.14.0 (2022-08-25)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.14.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2248: Support `self-update` on Windows
* Fix #3428: List snapshots in backend at most once to resolve snapshot IDs
* Fix #3432: Fix rare 'not found in repository' error for `copy` command
* Fix #3681: Fix rclone (shimmed by Scoop) and sftp not working on Windows
* Fix #3685: The `diff` command incorrectly listed some files as added
* Fix #3716: Print "wrong password" to stderr instead of stdout
* Fix #3720: Directory sync errors for repositories accessed via SMB
* Fix #3736: The `stats` command miscalculated restore size for multiple snapshots
* Fix #3772: Correctly rebuild index for legacy repositories
* Fix #3776: Limit number of key files tested while opening a repository
* Fix #3861: Yield error on invalid policy to `forget`
* Chg #1842: Support debug log creation in release builds
* Chg #3295: Deprecate `check --check-unused` and add further checks
* Chg #3680: Update dependencies and require Go 1.15 or newer
* Chg #3742: Replace `--repo2` option used by `init`/`copy` with `--from-repo`
* Enh #21: Add compression support
* Enh #1153: Support pruning even when the disk is full
* Enh #2162: Adaptive IO concurrency based on backend connections
* Enh #2291: Allow pack size customization
* Enh #2295: Allow use of SAS token to authenticate to Azure
* Enh #2351: Use config file permissions to control file group access
* Enh #2696: Improve backup speed with many small files
* Enh #2907: Make snapshot directory structure of `mount` command customizable
* Enh #2923: Improve speed of `copy` command
* Enh #3114: Optimize handling of duplicate blobs in `prune`
* Enh #3465: Improve handling of temporary files on Windows
* Enh #3475: Allow limiting IO concurrency for local and SFTP backend
* Enh #3484: Stream data in `check` and `prune` commands
* Enh #3709: Validate exclude patterns before backing up
* Enh #3729: Display full IDs in `check` warnings
* Enh #3773: Optimize memory usage for directories with many files
* Enh #3819: Validate include/exclude patterns before restoring
* Enh #3837: Improve SFTP repository initialization over slow links
## Details
* Bugfix #2248: Support `self-update` on Windows
Restic `self-update` would fail in situations where the operating system locks
running binaries, including Windows. The new behavior works around this by
renaming the running file and swapping the updated file in place.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2248
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3675
* Bugfix #3428: List snapshots in backend at most once to resolve snapshot IDs
Many commands support specifying a list of snapshot IDs which are then used to
determine the snapshots to be processed by the command. To resolve snapshot IDs
or `latest`, and check that these exist, restic previously listed all snapshots
stored in the repository. Depending on the backend this could be a slow and/or
expensive operation.
Restic now lists the snapshots only once and remembers the result in order to
resolve all further snapshot IDs swiftly.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3428
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3570
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3395
* Bugfix #3432: Fix rare 'not found in repository' error for `copy` command
In rare cases `copy` (and other commands) would report that `LoadTree(...)`
returned an `id [...] not found in repository` error. This could be caused by a
backup or copy command running concurrently. The error was only temporary;
running the failed restic command a second time as a workaround did resolve the
error.
This issue has now been fixed by correcting the order in which restic reads data
from the repository. It is now guaranteed that restic only loads snapshots for
which all necessary data is already available.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3432
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3570
* Bugfix #3681: Fix rclone (shimmed by Scoop) and sftp not working on Windows
In #3602 a fix was introduced to address the problem of `rclone` prematurely
exiting when Ctrl+C is pressed on Windows. The solution was to create the
subprocess with its console detached from the restic console.
However, this solution failed when using `rclone` installed by Scoop or using
`sftp` with a passphrase-protected private key. We've now fixed this by using a
different approach to prevent Ctrl-C from passing down too early.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3681
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3692
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3696
* Bugfix #3685: The `diff` command incorrectly listed some files as added
There was a bug in the `diff` command, causing it to always show files in a
removed directory as added. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3685
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3686
* Bugfix #3716: Print "wrong password" to stderr instead of stdout
If an invalid password was entered, the error message was printed on stdout and
not on stderr as intended. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3716
https://forum.restic.net/t/4965
* Bugfix #3720: Directory sync errors for repositories accessed via SMB
On Linux and macOS, accessing a repository via a SMB/CIFS mount resulted in
restic failing to save the lock file, yielding the following errors:
Save(<lock/071fe833f0>) returned error, retrying after 552.330144ms: sync
/repo/locks: no such file or directory Save(<lock/bf789d7343>) returned error,
retrying after 552.330144ms: sync /repo/locks: invalid argument
This has now been fixed by ignoring the relevant error codes.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3720
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3751
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3752
* Bugfix #3736: The `stats` command miscalculated restore size for multiple snapshots
Since restic 0.10.0 the restore size calculated by the `stats` command for
multiple snapshots was too low. The hardlink detection was accidentally applied
across multiple snapshots and thus ignored many files. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3736
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3740
* Bugfix #3772: Correctly rebuild index for legacy repositories
After running `rebuild-index` on a legacy repository containing mixed pack files
(that is, pack files which store both metadata and file data), `check` printed
warnings like `pack 12345678 contained in several indexes: ...`. This warning
was not critical, but has now nonetheless been fixed by properly handling mixed
pack files while rebuilding the index.
Running `prune` for such legacy repositories will also fix the warning by
reorganizing the pack files which caused it.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3772
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3884
https://forum.restic.net/t/5044/13
* Bugfix #3776: Limit number of key files tested while opening a repository
Previously, restic tested the password against every key in the repository when
opening a repository. The more keys there were in the repository, the slower
this operation became.
Restic now tests the password against up to 20 key files in the repository.
Alternatively, you can use the `--key-hint=<key ID>` option to specify a
specific key file to use instead.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3776
* Bugfix #3861: Yield error on invalid policy to `forget`
The `forget` command previously silently ignored invalid/unsupported units in
the duration options, such as e.g. `--keep-within-daily 2w`.
Specifying an invalid/unsupported duration unit now results in an error.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3861
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3862
* Change #1842: Support debug log creation in release builds
Creating a debug log was only possible in debug builds which required users to
manually build restic. We changed the release builds to allow creating debug
logs by simply setting the environment variable `DEBUG_LOG=logname.log`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1842
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3826
* Change #3295: Deprecate `check --check-unused` and add further checks
Since restic 0.12.0, it is expected to still have unused blobs after running
`prune`. This made the `--check-unused` option of the `check` command rather
useless and tended to confuse users. This option has been deprecated and is now
ignored.
The `check` command now also warns if a repository is using either the legacy S3
layout or mixed pack files with both tree and data blobs. The latter is known to
cause performance problems.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3295
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3730
* Change #3680: Update dependencies and require Go 1.15 or newer
We've updated most dependencies. Since some libraries require newer language
features we're dropping support for Go 1.14, which means that restic now
requires at least Go 1.15 to build.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3680
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3883
* Change #3742: Replace `--repo2` option used by `init`/`copy` with `--from-repo`
The `init` and `copy` commands can read data from another repository. However,
confusingly `--repo2` referred to the repository *from* which the `init` command
copies parameters, but for the `copy` command `--repo2` referred to the copy
*destination*.
We've introduced a new option, `--from-repo`, which always refers to the source
repository for both commands. The old parameter names have been deprecated but
still work. To create a new repository and copy all snapshots to it, the
commands are now as follows:
```
restic -r /srv/restic-repo-copy init --from-repo /srv/restic-repo --copy-chunker-params
restic -r /srv/restic-repo-copy copy --from-repo /srv/restic-repo
```
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3742
https://forum.restic.net/t/5017
* Enhancement #21: Add compression support
We've added compression support to the restic repository format. To create a
repository using the new format run `init --repository-version 2`. Please note
that the repository cannot be read by restic versions prior to 0.14.0.
You can configure whether data is compressed with the option `--compression`. It
can be set to `auto` (the default, which will compress very fast), `max` (which
will trade backup speed and CPU usage for better compression), or `off` (which
disables compression). Each setting is only applied for the current run of
restic and does *not* apply to future runs. The option can also be set via the
environment variable `RESTIC_COMPRESSION`.
To upgrade in place run `migrate upgrade_repo_v2` followed by `prune`. See the
documentation for more details. The migration checks the repository integrity
and upgrades the repository format, but will not change any data. Afterwards,
prune will rewrite the metadata to make use of compression.
As an alternative you can use the `copy` command to migrate snapshots; First
create a new repository using `init --repository-version 2 --copy-chunker-params
--repo2 path/to/old/repo`, and then use the `copy` command to copy all snapshots
to the new repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3779
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3666
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3704
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3733
* Enhancement #1153: Support pruning even when the disk is full
When running out of disk space it was no longer possible to add or remove data
from a repository. To help with recovering from such a deadlock, the prune
command now supports an `--unsafe-recover-no-free-space` option to recover from
these situations. Make sure to read the documentation first!
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1153
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3481
* Enhancement #2162: Adaptive IO concurrency based on backend connections
Many commands used hard-coded limits for the number of concurrent operations.
This prevented speed improvements by increasing the number of connections used
by a backend.
These limits have now been replaced by using the configured number of backend
connections instead, which can be controlled using the `-o
<backend-name>.connections=5` option. Commands will then automatically scale
their parallelism accordingly.
To limit the number of CPU cores used by restic, you can set the environment
variable `GOMAXPROCS` accordingly. For example to use a single CPU core, use
`GOMAXPROCS=1`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2162
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1467
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3611
* Enhancement #2291: Allow pack size customization
Restic now uses a target pack size of 16 MiB by default. This can be customized
using the `--pack-size size` option. Supported pack sizes range between 4 and
128 MiB.
It is possible to migrate an existing repository to _larger_ pack files using
`prune --repack-small`. This will rewrite every pack file which is significantly
smaller than the target size.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2291
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3731
* Enhancement #2295: Allow use of SAS token to authenticate to Azure
Previously restic only supported AccountKeys to authenticate to Azure storage
accounts, which necessitates giving a significant amount of access.
We added support for Azure SAS tokens which are a more fine-grained and
time-limited manner of granting access. Set the `AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME` and
`AZURE_ACCOUNT_SAS` environment variables to use a SAS token for authentication.
Note that if `AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY` is set, it will take precedence.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2295
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3661
* Enhancement #2351: Use config file permissions to control file group access
Previously files in a local/SFTP repository would always end up with very
restrictive access permissions, allowing access only to the owner. This
prevented a number of valid use-cases involving groups and ACLs.
We now use the permissions of the config file in the repository to decide
whether group access should be given to newly created repository files or not.
We arrange for repository files to be created group readable exactly when the
repository config file is group readable.
To opt-in to group readable repositories, a simple `chmod -R g+r` or equivalent
on the config file can be used. For repositories that should be writable by
group members a tad more setup is required, see the docs.
Posix ACLs can also be used now that the group permissions being forced to zero
no longer masks the effect of ACL entries.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2351
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3419
https://forum.restic.net/t/1391
* Enhancement #2696: Improve backup speed with many small files
We have restructured the backup pipeline to continue reading files while all
upload connections are busy. This allows the backup to already prepare the next
data file such that the upload can continue as soon as a connection becomes
available. This can especially improve the backup performance for high latency
backends.
The upload concurrency is now controlled using the `-o
<backend-name>.connections=5` option.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2696
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3489
* Enhancement #2907: Make snapshot directory structure of `mount` command customizable
We've added the possibility to customize the snapshot directory structure of the
`mount` command using templates passed to the `--snapshot-template` option. The
formatting of snapshots' timestamps is now controlled using `--time-template`
and supports subdirectories to for example group snapshots by year. Please see
`restic help mount` for further details.
Characters in tag names which are not allowed in a filename are replaced by
underscores `_`. For example a tag `foo/bar` will result in a directory name of
`foo_bar`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2907
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2913
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3691
* Enhancement #2923: Improve speed of `copy` command
The `copy` command could require a long time to copy snapshots for non-local
backends. This has been improved to provide a throughput comparable to the
`restore` command.
Additionally, `copy` now displays a progress bar.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2923
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3513
* Enhancement #3114: Optimize handling of duplicate blobs in `prune`
Restic `prune` always used to repack all data files containing duplicate blobs.
This effectively removed all duplicates during prune. However, as a consequence
all these data files were repacked even if the unused repository space threshold
could be reached with less work.
This is now changed and `prune` works nice and fast even when there are lots of
duplicate blobs.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3114
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3290
* Enhancement #3465: Improve handling of temporary files on Windows
In some cases restic failed to delete temporary files, causing the current
command to fail. This has now been fixed by ensuring that Windows automatically
deletes the file. In addition, temporary files are only written to disk when
necessary, reducing disk writes.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3465
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1551
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3610
* Enhancement #3475: Allow limiting IO concurrency for local and SFTP backend
Restic did not support limiting the IO concurrency / number of connections for
accessing repositories stored using the local or SFTP backends. The number of
connections is now limited as for other backends, and can be configured via the
`-o local.connections=2` and `-o sftp.connections=5` options. This ensures that
restic does not overwhelm the backend with concurrent IO operations.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3475
* Enhancement #3484: Stream data in `check` and `prune` commands
The commands `check --read-data` and `prune` previously downloaded data files
into temporary files which could end up being written to disk. This could cause
a large amount of data being written to disk.
The pack files are now instead streamed, which removes the need for temporary
files. Please note that *uploads* during `backup` and `prune` still require
temporary files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3710
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3484
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3717
* Enhancement #3709: Validate exclude patterns before backing up
Exclude patterns provided via `--exclude`, `--iexclude`, `--exclude-file` or
`--iexclude-file` previously weren't validated. As a consequence, invalid
patterns resulted in files that were meant to be excluded being backed up.
Restic now validates all patterns before running the backup and aborts with a
fatal error if an invalid pattern is detected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3709
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3734
* Enhancement #3729: Display full IDs in `check` warnings
When running commands to inspect or repair a damaged repository, it is often
necessary to supply the full IDs of objects stored in the repository.
The output of `check` now includes full IDs instead of their shortened variant.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3729
* Enhancement #3773: Optimize memory usage for directories with many files
Backing up a directory with hundreds of thousands or more files caused restic to
require large amounts of memory. We've now optimized the `backup` command such
that it requires up to 30% less memory.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3773
* Enhancement #3819: Validate include/exclude patterns before restoring
Patterns provided to `restore` via `--exclude`, `--iexclude`, `--include` and
`--iinclude` weren't validated before running the restore. Invalid patterns
would result in error messages being printed repeatedly, and possibly unwanted
files being restored.
Restic now validates all patterns before running the restore, and aborts with a
fatal error if an invalid pattern is detected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3819
* Enhancement #3837: Improve SFTP repository initialization over slow links
The `init` command, when used on an SFTP backend, now sends multiple `mkdir`
commands to the backend concurrently. This reduces the waiting times when
creating a repository over a very slow connection.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3837
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3840
# Changelog for restic 0.13.0 (2022-03-26)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.13.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1106: Never lock repository for `list locks`
* Fix #2345: Make cache crash-resistant and usable by multiple concurrent processes
* Fix #2452: Improve error handling of repository locking
* Fix #2738: Don't print progress for `backup --json --quiet`
* Fix #3382: Make `check` command honor `RESTIC_CACHE_DIR` environment variable
* Fix #3488: `rebuild-index` failed if an index file was damaged
* Fix #3518: Make `copy` command honor `--no-lock` for source repository
* Fix #3556: Fix hang with Backblaze B2 on SSL certificate authority error
* Fix #3591: Fix handling of `prune --max-repack-size=0`
* Fix #3601: Fix rclone backend prematurely exiting when receiving SIGINT on Windows
* Fix #3619: Avoid choosing parent snapshots newer than time of new snapshot
* Fix #3667: The `mount` command now reports symlinks sizes
* Chg #3519: Require Go 1.14 or newer
* Chg #3641: Ignore parent snapshot for `backup --stdin`
* Enh #233: Support negative include/exclude patterns
* Enh #1542: Add `--dry-run`/`-n` option to `backup` command
* Enh #2202: Add upload checksum for Azure, GS, S3 and Swift backends
* Enh #2388: Add warning for S3 if partial credentials are provided
* Enh #2508: Support JSON output and quiet mode for the `diff` command
* Enh #2594: Speed up the `restore --verify` command
* Enh #2656: Add flag to disable TLS verification for self-signed certificates
* Enh #2816: The `backup` command no longer updates file access times on Linux
* Enh #2880: Make `recover` collect only unreferenced trees
* Enh #3003: Atomic uploads for the SFTP backend
* Enh #3127: Add xattr (extended attributes) support for Solaris
* Enh #3429: Verify that new or modified keys are stored correctly
* Enh #3436: Improve local backend's resilience to (system) crashes
* Enh #3464: Skip lock creation on `forget` if `--no-lock` and `--dry-run`
* Enh #3490: Support random subset by size in `check --read-data-subset`
* Enh #3508: Cache blobs read by the `dump` command
* Enh #3511: Support configurable timeout for the rclone backend
* Enh #3541: Improve handling of temporary B2 delete errors
* Enh #3542: Add file mode in symbolic notation to `ls --json`
* Enh #3593: Improve `copy` performance by parallelizing IO
## Details
* Bugfix #1106: Never lock repository for `list locks`
The `list locks` command previously locked to the repository by default. This
had the problem that it wouldn't work for an exclusively locked repository and
that the command would also display its own lock file which can be confusing.
Now, the `list locks` command never locks the repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1106
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3665
* Bugfix #2345: Make cache crash-resistant and usable by multiple concurrent processes
The restic cache directory (`RESTIC_CACHE_DIR`) could end up in a broken state
in the event of restic (or the OS) crashing. This is now less likely to occur as
files are downloaded to a temporary location before being moved to their proper
location.
This also allows multiple concurrent restic processes to operate on a single
repository without conflicts. Previously, concurrent operations could cause
segfaults because the processes saw each other's partially downloaded files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2345
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2838
* Bugfix #2452: Improve error handling of repository locking
Previously, when the lock refresh failed to delete the old lock file, it forgot
about the newly created one. Instead it continued trying to delete the old
(usually no longer existing) lock file and thus over time lots of lock files
accumulated. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2452
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2473
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2562
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3512
* Bugfix #2738: Don't print progress for `backup --json --quiet`
Unlike the text output, the `--json` output format still printed progress
information even in `--quiet` mode. This has now been fixed by always disabling
the progress output in quiet mode.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2738
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3264
* Bugfix #3382: Make `check` command honor `RESTIC_CACHE_DIR` environment variable
Previously, the `check` command didn't honor the `RESTIC_CACHE_DIR` environment
variable, which caused problems in certain system/usage configurations. This has
now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3382
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3474
* Bugfix #3488: `rebuild-index` failed if an index file was damaged
Previously, the `rebuild-index` command would fail with an error if an index
file was damaged or truncated. This has now been fixed.
On older restic versions, a (slow) workaround is to use `rebuild-index
--read-all-packs` or to manually delete the damaged index.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3488
* Bugfix #3518: Make `copy` command honor `--no-lock` for source repository
The `copy` command previously did not respect the `--no-lock` option for the
source repository, causing failures with read-only storage backends. This has
now been fixed such that the option is now respected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3518
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3589
* Bugfix #3556: Fix hang with Backblaze B2 on SSL certificate authority error
Previously, if a request failed with an SSL unknown certificate authority error,
the B2 backend retried indefinitely and restic would appear to hang.
This has now been fixed and restic instead fails with an error message.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3556
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2355
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3571
* Bugfix #3591: Fix handling of `prune --max-repack-size=0`
Restic ignored the `--max-repack-size` option when passing a value of 0. This
has now been fixed.
As a workaround, `--max-repack-size=1` can be used with older versions of
restic.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3591
* Bugfix #3601: Fix rclone backend prematurely exiting when receiving SIGINT on Windows
Previously, pressing Ctrl+C in a Windows console where restic was running with
rclone as the backend would cause rclone to exit prematurely due to getting a
`SIGINT` signal at the same time as restic. Restic would then wait for a long
time for time with "unexpected EOF" and "rclone stdio connection already closed"
errors.
This has now been fixed by restic starting the rclone process detached from the
console restic runs in (similar to starting processes in a new process group on
Linux), which enables restic to gracefully clean up rclone (which now never gets
the `SIGINT`).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3601
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3602
* Bugfix #3619: Avoid choosing parent snapshots newer than time of new snapshot
The `backup` command, when a `--parent` was not provided, previously chose the
most recent matching snapshot as the parent snapshot. However, this didn't make
sense when the user passed `--time` to create a new snapshot older than the most
recent snapshot.
Instead, `backup` now chooses the most recent snapshot which is not newer than
the snapshot-being-created's timestamp, to avoid any time travel.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3619
* Bugfix #3667: The `mount` command now reports symlinks sizes
Symlinks used to have size zero in restic mountpoints, confusing some
third-party tools. They now have a size equal to the byte length of their target
path, as required by POSIX.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3667
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3668
* Change #3519: Require Go 1.14 or newer
Restic now requires Go 1.14 to build. This allows it to use new standard library
features instead of an external dependency.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3519
* Change #3641: Ignore parent snapshot for `backup --stdin`
Restic uses a parent snapshot to speed up directory scanning when performing
backups, but this only wasted time and memory when the backup source is stdin
(using the `--stdin` option of the `backup` command), since no directory
scanning is performed in this case.
Snapshots made with `backup --stdin` no longer have a parent snapshot, which
allows restic to skip some startup operations and saves a bit of resources.
The `--parent` option is still available for `backup --stdin`, but is now
ignored.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3641
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3645
* Enhancement #233: Support negative include/exclude patterns
If a pattern starts with an exclamation mark and it matches a file that was
previously matched by a regular pattern, the match is cancelled. Notably, this
can be used with `--exclude-file` to cancel the exclusion of some files.
It works similarly to `.gitignore`, with the same limitation; Once a directory
is excluded, it is not possible to include files inside the directory.
Example of use as an exclude pattern for the `backup` command:
$HOME/**/* !$HOME/Documents !$HOME/code !$HOME/.emacs.d !$HOME/games # [...]
node_modules *~ *.o *.lo *.pyc # [...] $HOME/code/linux/* !$HOME/code/linux/.git
# [...]
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/233
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2311
* Enhancement #1542: Add `--dry-run`/`-n` option to `backup` command
Testing exclude filters and other configuration options was error prone as wrong
filters could cause files to be uploaded unintentionally. It was also not
possible to estimate beforehand how much data would be uploaded.
The `backup` command now has a `--dry-run`/`-n` option, which performs all the
normal steps of a backup without actually writing anything to the repository.
Passing -vv will log information about files that would be added, allowing for
verification of source and exclusion options before running the real backup.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1542
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2308
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3210
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3300
* Enhancement #2202: Add upload checksum for Azure, GS, S3 and Swift backends
Previously only the B2 and partially the Swift backends verified the integrity
of uploaded (encrypted) files. The verification works by informing the backend
about the expected hash of the uploaded file. The backend then verifies the
upload and thereby rules out any data corruption during upload.
We have now added upload checksums for the Azure, GS, S3 and Swift backends,
which besides integrity checking for uploads also means that restic can now be
used to store backups in S3 buckets which have Object Lock enabled.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2202
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2700
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3023
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3246
* Enhancement #2388: Add warning for S3 if partial credentials are provided
Previously restic did not notify about incomplete credentials when using the S3
backend, instead just reporting access denied.
Restic now checks that both the AWS key ID and secret environment variables are
set before connecting to the remote server, and reports an error if not.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2388
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3532
* Enhancement #2508: Support JSON output and quiet mode for the `diff` command
The `diff` command now supports outputting machine-readable output in JSON
format. To enable this, pass the `--json` option to the command. To only print
the summary and suppress detailed output, pass the `--quiet` option.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2508
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3592
* Enhancement #2594: Speed up the `restore --verify` command
The `--verify` option lets the `restore` command verify the file content after
it has restored a snapshot. The performance of this operation has now been
improved by up to a factor of two.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2594
* Enhancement #2656: Add flag to disable TLS verification for self-signed certificates
There is now an `--insecure-tls` global option in restic, which disables TLS
verification for self-signed certificates in order to support some development
workflows.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2656
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2657
* Enhancement #2816: The `backup` command no longer updates file access times on Linux
When reading files during backup, restic used to cause the operating system to
update the files' access times. Note that this did not apply to filesystems with
disabled file access times.
Restic now instructs the operating system not to update the file access time, if
the user running restic is the file owner or has root permissions.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2816
* Enhancement #2880: Make `recover` collect only unreferenced trees
Previously, the `recover` command used to generate a snapshot containing *all*
root trees, even those which were already referenced by a snapshot.
This has been improved such that it now only processes trees not already
referenced by any snapshot.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2880
* Enhancement #3003: Atomic uploads for the SFTP backend
The SFTP backend did not upload files atomically. An interrupted upload could
leave an incomplete file behind which could prevent restic from accessing the
repository. This has now been fixed and uploads in the SFTP backend are done
atomically.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3003
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3524
* Enhancement #3127: Add xattr (extended attributes) support for Solaris
Restic now supports xattr for the Solaris operating system.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3127
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3628
* Enhancement #3429: Verify that new or modified keys are stored correctly
When adding a new key or changing the password of a key, restic used to just
create the new key (and remove the old one, when changing the password). There
was no verification that the new key was stored correctly and works properly. As
the repository cannot be decrypted without a valid key file, this could in rare
cases cause the repository to become inaccessible.
Restic now checks that new key files actually work before continuing. This can
protect against some (rare) cases of hardware or storage problems.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3429
* Enhancement #3436: Improve local backend's resilience to (system) crashes
Restic now ensures that files stored using the `local` backend are created
atomically (that is, files are either stored completely or not at all). This
ensures that no incomplete files are left behind even if restic is terminated
while writing a file.
In addition, restic now tries to ensure that the directory in the repository
which contains a newly uploaded file is also written to disk. This can prevent
missing files if the system crashes or the disk is not properly unmounted.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3436
* Enhancement #3464: Skip lock creation on `forget` if `--no-lock` and `--dry-run`
Restic used to silently ignore the `--no-lock` option of the `forget` command.
It now skips creation of lock file in case both `--dry-run` and `--no-lock` are
specified. If `--no-lock` option is specified without `--dry-run`, restic prints
a warning message to stderr.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3464
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3623
* Enhancement #3490: Support random subset by size in `check --read-data-subset`
The `--read-data-subset` option of the `check` command now supports a third way
of specifying the subset to check, namely `nS` where `n` is a size in bytes with
suffix `S` as k/K, m/M, g/G or t/T.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3490
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3548
* Enhancement #3508: Cache blobs read by the `dump` command
When dumping a file using the `dump` command, restic did not cache blobs in any
way, so even consecutive runs of the same blob were loaded from the repository
again and again, slowing down the dump.
Now, the caching mechanism already used by the `fuse` command is also used by
the `dump` command. This makes dumping much faster, especially for sparse files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3508
* Enhancement #3511: Support configurable timeout for the rclone backend
A slow rclone backend could cause restic to time out while waiting for the
repository to open. Restic now offers an `-o rclone.timeout` option to make this
timeout configurable.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3511
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3514
* Enhancement #3541: Improve handling of temporary B2 delete errors
Deleting files on B2 could sometimes fail temporarily, which required restic to
retry the delete operation. In some cases the file was deleted nevertheless,
causing the retries and ultimately the restic command to fail. This has now been
fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3541
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3544
* Enhancement #3542: Add file mode in symbolic notation to `ls --json`
The `ls --json` command now provides the file mode in symbolic notation (using
the `permissions` key), aligned with `find --json`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3542
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3573
https://forum.restic.net/t/restic-ls-understanding-file-mode-with-json/4371
* Enhancement #3593: Improve `copy` performance by parallelizing IO
Restic copy previously only used a single thread for copying blobs between
repositories, which resulted in limited performance when copying small blobs
to/from a high latency backend (i.e. any remote backend, especially b2).
Copying will now use 8 parallel threads to increase the throughput of the copy
operation.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3593
# Changelog for restic 0.12.1 (2021-08-03)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.12.1 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2742: Improve error handling for rclone and REST backend over HTTP2
* Fix #3111: Fix terminal output redirection for PowerShell
* Fix #3184: `backup --quiet` no longer prints status information
* Fix #3214: Treat an empty password as a fatal error for repository init
* Fix #3267: `copy` failed to copy snapshots in rare cases
* Fix #3296: Fix crash of `check --read-data-subset=x%` run for an empty repository
* Fix #3302: Fix `fdopendir: not a directory` error for local backend
* Fix #3305: Fix possibly missing backup summary of JSON output in case of error
* Fix #3334: Print `created new cache` message only on a terminal
* Fix #3380: Fix crash of `backup --exclude='**'`
* Fix #3439: Correctly handle download errors during `restore`
* Chg #3247: Empty files now have size of 0 in `ls --json` output
* Enh #2780: Add release binaries for s390x architecture on Linux
* Enh #3167: Allow specifying limit of `snapshots` list
* Enh #3293: Add `--repository-file2` option to `init` and `copy` command
* Enh #3312: Add auto-completion support for fish
* Enh #3336: SFTP backend now checks for disk space
* Enh #3377: Add release binaries for Apple Silicon
* Enh #3414: Add `--keep-within-hourly` option to restic forget
* Enh #3426: Optimize read performance of mount command
* Enh #3427: `find --pack` fallback to index if data file is missing
* Enh #3456: Support filtering and specifying untagged snapshots
## Details
* Bugfix #2742: Improve error handling for rclone and REST backend over HTTP2
When retrieving data from the rclone / REST backend while also using HTTP2
restic did not detect when no data was returned at all. This could cause for
example the `check` command to report the following error:
Pack ID does not match, want [...], got e3b0c442
This has been fixed by correctly detecting and retrying the incomplete download.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2742
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3453
https://forum.restic.net/t/http2-stream-closed-connection-reset-context-canceled/3743/10
* Bugfix #3111: Fix terminal output redirection for PowerShell
When redirecting the output of restic using PowerShell on Windows, the output
contained terminal escape characters. This has been fixed by properly detecting
the terminal type.
In addition, the mintty terminal now shows progress output for the backup
command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3111
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3325
* Bugfix #3184: `backup --quiet` no longer prints status information
A regression in the latest restic version caused the output of `backup --quiet`
to contain large amounts of backup progress information when run using an
interactive terminal. This is fixed now.
A workaround for this bug is to run restic as follows: `restic backup --quiet
[..] | cat -`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3184
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3186
* Bugfix #3214: Treat an empty password as a fatal error for repository init
When attempting to initialize a new repository, if an empty password was
supplied, the repository would be created but the init command would return an
error with a stack trace. Now, if an empty password is provided, it is treated
as a fatal error, and no repository is created.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3214
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3283
* Bugfix #3267: `copy` failed to copy snapshots in rare cases
The `copy` command could in rare cases fail with the error message
`SaveTree(...) returned unexpected id ...`. This has been fixed.
On Linux/BSDs, the error could be caused by backing up symlinks with non-UTF-8
target paths. Note that, due to limitations in the repository format, these are
not stored properly and should be avoided if possible.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3267
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3310
* Bugfix #3296: Fix crash of `check --read-data-subset=x%` run for an empty repository
The command `restic check --read-data-subset=x%` crashed when run for an empty
repository. This has been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3296
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3309
* Bugfix #3302: Fix `fdopendir: not a directory` error for local backend
The `check`, `list packs`, `prune` and `rebuild-index` commands failed for the
local backend when the `data` folder in the repository contained files. This has
been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3302
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3308
* Bugfix #3305: Fix possibly missing backup summary of JSON output in case of error
When using `--json` output it happened from time to time that the summary output
was missing in case an error occurred. This has been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3305
* Bugfix #3334: Print `created new cache` message only on a terminal
The message `created new cache` was printed even when the output wasn't a
terminal. That broke piping `restic dump` output to tar or zip if cache
directory didn't exist. The message is now only printed on a terminal.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3334
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3343
* Bugfix #3380: Fix crash of `backup --exclude='**'`
The exclude filter `**`, which excludes all files, caused restic to crash. This
has been corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3380
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3393
* Bugfix #3439: Correctly handle download errors during `restore`
Due to a regression in restic 0.12.0, the `restore` command in some cases did
not retry download errors and only printed a warning. This has been fixed by
retrying incomplete data downloads.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3439
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3449
* Change #3247: Empty files now have size of 0 in `ls --json` output
The `ls --json` command used to omit the sizes of empty files in its output. It
now reports a size of zero explicitly for regular files, while omitting the size
field for all other types.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3247
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3257
* Enhancement #2780: Add release binaries for s390x architecture on Linux
We've added release binaries for Linux using the s390x architecture.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2780
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3452
* Enhancement #3167: Allow specifying limit of `snapshots` list
The `--last` option allowed limiting the output of the `snapshots` command to
the latest snapshot for each host. The new `--latest n` option allows limiting
the output to the latest `n` snapshots.
This change deprecates the option `--last` in favour of `--latest 1`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3167
* Enhancement #3293: Add `--repository-file2` option to `init` and `copy` command
The `init` and `copy` command can now be used with the `--repository-file2`
option or the `$RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FILE2` environment variable. These to options
are in addition to the `--repo2` flag and allow you to read the destination
repository from a file.
Using both `--repository-file` and `--repo2` options resulted in an error for
the `copy` or `init` command. The handling of this combination of options has
been fixed. A workaround for this issue is to only use `--repo` or `-r` and
`--repo2` for `init` or `copy`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3293
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3294
* Enhancement #3312: Add auto-completion support for fish
The `generate` command now supports fish auto completion.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3312
* Enhancement #3336: SFTP backend now checks for disk space
Backing up over SFTP previously spewed multiple generic "failure" messages when
the remote disk was full. It now checks for disk space before writing a file and
fails immediately with a "no space left on device" message.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3336
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3345
* Enhancement #3377: Add release binaries for Apple Silicon
We've added release binaries for macOS on Apple Silicon (M1).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3377
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3394
* Enhancement #3414: Add `--keep-within-hourly` option to restic forget
The `forget` command allowed keeping a given number of hourly backups or to keep
all backups within a given interval, but it was not possible to specify keeping
hourly backups within a given interval.
The new `--keep-within-hourly` option now offers this functionality. Similar
options for daily/weekly/monthly/yearly are also implemented, the new options
are:
--keep-within-hourly <1y2m3d4h> --keep-within-daily <1y2m3d4h>
--keep-within-weekly <1y2m3d4h> --keep-within-monthly <1y2m3d4h>
--keep-within-yearly <1y2m3d4h>
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3414
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3416
https://forum.restic.net/t/forget-policy/4014/11
* Enhancement #3426: Optimize read performance of mount command
Reading large files in a mounted repository may be up to five times faster. This
improvement primarily applies to repositories stored at a backend that can be
accessed with low latency, like e.g. the local backend.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3426
* Enhancement #3427: `find --pack` fallback to index if data file is missing
When investigating a repository with missing data files, it might be useful to
determine affected snapshots before running `rebuild-index`. Previously, `find
--pack pack-id` returned no data as it required accessing the data file. Now, if
the necessary data is still available in the repository index, it gets retrieved
from there.
The command now also supports looking up multiple pack files in a single `find`
run.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3427
https://forum.restic.net/t/missing-packs-not-found/2600
* Enhancement #3456: Support filtering and specifying untagged snapshots
It was previously not possible to specify an empty tag with the `--tag` and
`--keep-tag` options. This has now been fixed, such that `--tag ''` and
`--keep-tag ''` now matches snapshots without tags. This allows e.g. the
`snapshots` and `forget` commands to only operate on untagged snapshots.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3456
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3457
# Changelog for restic 0.12.0 (2021-02-14)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.12.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1681: Make `mount` not create missing mount point directory
* Fix #1800: Ignore `no data available` filesystem error during backup
* Fix #2563: Report the correct owner of directories in FUSE mounts
* Fix #2688: Make `backup` and `tag` commands separate tags by comma
* Fix #2739: Make the `cat` command respect the `--no-lock` option
* Fix #3014: Fix sporadic stream reset between rclone and restic
* Fix #3087: The `--use-fs-snapshot` option now works on windows/386
* Fix #3100: Do not require gs bucket permissions when running `init`
* Fix #3111: Correctly detect output redirection for `backup` command on Windows
* Fix #3151: Don't create invalid snapshots when `backup` is interrupted
* Fix #3152: Do not hang until foregrounded when completed in background
* Fix #3166: Improve error handling in the `restore` command
* Fix #3232: Correct statistics for overlapping backup sources
* Fix #3249: Improve error handling in `gs` backend
* Chg #3095: Deleting files on Google Drive now moves them to the trash
* Enh #909: Back up mountpoints as empty directories
* Enh #2186: Allow specifying percentage in `check --read-data-subset`
* Enh #2433: Make the `dump` command support `zip` format
* Enh #2453: Report permanent/fatal backend errors earlier
* Enh #2495: Add option to let `backup` trust mtime without checking ctime
* Enh #2528: Add Alibaba/Aliyun OSS support in the `s3` backend
* Enh #2706: Configurable progress reports for non-interactive terminals
* Enh #2718: Improve `prune` performance and make it more customizable
* Enh #2941: Speed up the repacking step of the `prune` command
* Enh #2944: Add `backup` options `--files-from-{verbatim,raw}`
* Enh #3006: Speed up the `rebuild-index` command
* Enh #3048: Add more checks for index and pack files in the `check` command
* Enh #3083: Allow usage of deprecated S3 `ListObjects` API
* Enh #3099: Reduce memory usage of `check` command
* Enh #3106: Parallelize scan of snapshot content in `copy` and `prune`
* Enh #3130: Parallelize reading of locks and snapshots
* Enh #3147: Support additional environment variables for Swift authentication
* Enh #3191: Add release binaries for MIPS architectures
* Enh #3250: Add several more error checks
* Enh #3254: Enable HTTP/2 for backend connections
## Details
* Bugfix #1681: Make `mount` not create missing mount point directory
When specifying a non-existent directory as mount point for the `mount` command,
restic used to create the specified directory automatically.
This has now changed such that restic instead gives an error when the specified
directory for the mount point does not exist.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1681
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3008
* Bugfix #1800: Ignore `no data available` filesystem error during backup
Restic was unable to backup files on some filesystems, for example certain
configurations of CIFS on Linux which return a `no data available` error when
reading extended attributes. These errors are now ignored.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1800
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3034
* Bugfix #2563: Report the correct owner of directories in FUSE mounts
Restic 0.10.0 changed the FUSE mount to always report the current user as the
owner of directories within the FUSE mount, which is incorrect.
This is now changed back to reporting the correct owner of a directory.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2563
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3141
* Bugfix #2688: Make `backup` and `tag` commands separate tags by comma
Running `restic backup --tag foo,bar` previously created snapshots with one
single tag containing a comma (`foo,bar`) instead of two tags (`foo`, `bar`).
Similarly, the `tag` command's `--set`, `--add` and `--remove` options would
treat `foo,bar` as one tag instead of two tags. This was inconsistent with other
commands and often unexpected when one intended `foo,bar` to mean two tags.
To be consistent in all commands, restic now interprets `foo,bar` to mean two
separate tags (`foo` and `bar`) instead of one tag (`foo,bar`) everywhere,
including in the `backup` and `tag` commands.
NOTE: This change might result in unexpected behavior in cases where you use the
`forget` command and filter on tags like `foo,bar`. Snapshots previously backed
up with `--tag foo,bar` will still not match that filter, but snapshots saved
from now on will match that filter.
To replace `foo,bar` tags with `foo` and `bar` tags in old snapshots, you can
first generate a list of the relevant snapshots using a command like:
Restic snapshots --json --quiet | jq '.[] | select(contains({tags:
["foo,bar"]})) | .id'
And then use `restic tag --set foo --set bar snapshotID [...]` to set the new
tags. Please adjust the commands to include real tag names and any additional
tags, as well as the list of snapshots to process.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2688
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2690
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3197
* Bugfix #2739: Make the `cat` command respect the `--no-lock` option
The `cat` command would not respect the `--no-lock` flag. This is now fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2739
* Bugfix #3014: Fix sporadic stream reset between rclone and restic
Sometimes when using restic with the `rclone` backend, an error message similar
to the following would be printed:
Didn't finish writing GET request (wrote 0/xxx): http2: stream closed
It was found that this was caused by restic closing the connection to rclone to
soon when downloading data. A workaround has been added which waits for the end
of the download before closing the connection.
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2598
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3014
* Bugfix #3087: The `--use-fs-snapshot` option now works on windows/386
Restic failed to create VSS snapshots on windows/386 with the following error:
GetSnapshotProperties() failed: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)
This is now fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3087
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3090
* Bugfix #3100: Do not require gs bucket permissions when running `init`
Restic used to require bucket level permissions for the `gs` backend in order to
initialize a restic repository.
It now allows a `gs` service account to initialize a repository if the bucket
does exist and the service account has permissions to write/read to that bucket.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3100
* Bugfix #3111: Correctly detect output redirection for `backup` command on Windows
On Windows, since restic 0.10.0 the `backup` command did not properly detect
when the output was redirected to a file. This caused restic to output terminal
control characters. This has been fixed by correcting the terminal detection.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3111
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3150
* Bugfix #3151: Don't create invalid snapshots when `backup` is interrupted
When canceling a backup run at a certain moment it was possible that restic
created a snapshot with an invalid "null" tree. This caused `check` and other
operations to fail. The `backup` command now properly handles interruptions and
never saves a snapshot when interrupted.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3151
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3164
* Bugfix #3152: Do not hang until foregrounded when completed in background
On Linux, when running in the background restic failed to stop the terminal
output of the `backup` command after it had completed. This caused restic to
hang until moved to the foreground. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3152
https://forum.restic.net/t/restic-alpine-container-cron-hangs-epoll-pwait/3334
* Bugfix #3166: Improve error handling in the `restore` command
The `restore` command used to not print errors while downloading file contents
from the repository. It also incorrectly exited with a zero error code even when
there were errors during the restore process. This has all been fixed and
`restore` now returns with a non-zero exit code when there's an error.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3166
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3207
* Bugfix #3232: Correct statistics for overlapping backup sources
A user reported that restic's statistics and progress information during backup
was not correctly calculated when the backup sources (files/dirs to save)
overlap. For example, consider a directory `foo` which contains (among others) a
file `foo/bar`. When `restic backup foo foo/bar` was run, restic counted the
size of the file `foo/bar` twice, so the completeness percentage as well as the
number of files was wrong. This is now corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3232
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3243
* Bugfix #3249: Improve error handling in `gs` backend
The `gs` backend did not notice when the last step of completing a file upload
failed. Under rare circumstances, this could cause missing files in the backup
repository. This has now been fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3249
* Change #3095: Deleting files on Google Drive now moves them to the trash
When deleting files on Google Drive via the `rclone` backend, restic used to
bypass the trash folder required that one used the `-o rclone.args` option to
enable usage of the trash folder. This ensured that deleted files in Google
Drive were not kept indefinitely in the trash folder. However, since Google
Drive's trash retention policy changed to deleting trashed files after 30 days,
this is no longer needed.
Restic now leaves it up to rclone and its configuration to use or not use the
trash folder when deleting files. The default is to use the trash folder, as of
rclone 1.53.2. To re-enable the restic 0.11 behavior, set the
`RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_TRASH` environment variable or change the rclone
configuration. See the rclone documentation for more details.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3095
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3102
* Enhancement #909: Back up mountpoints as empty directories
When the `--one-file-system` option is specified to `restic backup`, it ignores
all file systems mounted below one of the target directories. This means that
when a snapshot is restored, users needed to manually recreate the mountpoint
directories.
Restic now backs up mountpoints as empty directories and therefore implements
the same approach as `tar`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/909
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3119
* Enhancement #2186: Allow specifying percentage in `check --read-data-subset`
We've enhanced the `check` command's `--read-data-subset` option to also accept
a percentage (e.g. `2.5%` or `10%`). This will check the given percentage of
pack files (which are randomly selected on each run).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2186
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3038
* Enhancement #2433: Make the `dump` command support `zip` format
Previously, restic could dump the contents of a whole folder structure only in
the `tar` format. The `dump` command now has a new flag to change output format
to `zip`. Just pass `--archive zip` as an option to `restic dump`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2433
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3081
* Enhancement #2453: Report permanent/fatal backend errors earlier
When encountering errors in reading from or writing to storage backends, restic
retries the failing operation up to nine times (for a total of ten attempts). It
used to retry all backend operations, but now detects some permanent error
conditions so that it can report fatal errors earlier.
Permanent failures include local disks being full, SSH connections dropping and
permission errors.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2453
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3180
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3170
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3181
* Enhancement #2495: Add option to let `backup` trust mtime without checking ctime
The `backup` command used to require that both `ctime` and `mtime` of a file
matched with a previously backed up version to determine that the file was
unchanged. In other words, if either `ctime` or `mtime` of the file had changed,
it would be considered changed and restic would read the file's content again to
back up the relevant (changed) parts of it.
The new option `--ignore-ctime` makes restic look at `mtime` only, such that
`ctime` changes for a file does not cause restic to read the file's contents
again.
The check for both `ctime` and `mtime` was introduced in restic 0.9.6 to make
backups more reliable in the face of programs that reset `mtime` (some Unix
archivers do that), but it turned out to often be expensive because it made
restic read file contents even if only the metadata (owner, permissions) of a
file had changed. The new `--ignore-ctime` option lets the user restore the
0.9.5 behavior when needed. The existing `--ignore-inode` option already turned
off this behavior, but also removed a different check.
Please note that changes in files' metadata are still recorded, regardless of
the command line options provided to the backup command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2495
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2558
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2819
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2823
* Enhancement #2528: Add Alibaba/Aliyun OSS support in the `s3` backend
A new extended option `s3.bucket-lookup` has been added to support
Alibaba/Aliyun OSS in the `s3` backend. The option can be set to one of the
following values:
- `auto` - Existing behaviour - `dns` - Use DNS style bucket access - `path` -
Use path style bucket access
To make the `s3` backend work with Alibaba/Aliyun OSS you must set
`s3.bucket-lookup` to `dns` and set the `s3.region` parameter. For example:
Restic -o s3.bucket-lookup=dns -o s3.region=oss-eu-west-1 -r
s3:https://oss-eu-west-1.aliyuncs.com/bucketname init
Note that `s3.region` must be set, otherwise the MinIO SDK tries to look it up
and it seems that Alibaba doesn't support that properly.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2528
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2535
* Enhancement #2706: Configurable progress reports for non-interactive terminals
The `backup`, `check` and `prune` commands never printed any progress reports on
non-interactive terminals. This behavior is now configurable using the
`RESTIC_PROGRESS_FPS` environment variable. Use for example a value of `1` for
an update every second, or `0.01666` for an update every minute.
The `backup` command now also prints the current progress when restic receives a
`SIGUSR1` signal.
Setting the `RESTIC_PROGRESS_FPS` environment variable or sending a `SIGUSR1`
signal prints a status report even when `--quiet` was specified.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2706
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3194
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3199
* Enhancement #2718: Improve `prune` performance and make it more customizable
The `prune` command is now much faster. This is especially the case for remote
repositories or repositories with not much data to remove. Also the memory usage
of the `prune` command is now reduced.
Restic used to rebuild the index from scratch after pruning. This could lead to
missing packs in the index in some cases for eventually consistent backends such
as e.g. AWS S3. This behavior is now changed and the index rebuilding uses the
information already known by `prune`.
By default, the `prune` command no longer removes all unused data. This behavior
can be fine-tuned by new options, like the acceptable amount of unused space or
the maximum size of data to reorganize. For more details, please see
https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html .
Moreover, `prune` now accepts the `--dry-run` option and also running `forget
--dry-run --prune` will show what `prune` would do.
This enhancement also fixes several open issues, e.g.: -
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1140 -
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1599 -
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1985 -
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2112 -
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2227 -
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2305
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2718
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2842
* Enhancement #2941: Speed up the repacking step of the `prune` command
The repack step of the `prune` command, which moves still used file parts into
new pack files such that the old ones can be garbage collected later on, now
processes multiple pack files in parallel. This is especially beneficial for
high latency backends or when using a fast network connection.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2941
* Enhancement #2944: Add `backup` options `--files-from-{verbatim,raw}`
The new `backup` options `--files-from-verbatim` and `--files-from-raw` read a
list of files to back up from a file. Unlike the existing `--files-from` option,
these options do not interpret the listed filenames as glob patterns; instead,
whitespace in filenames is preserved as-is and no pattern expansion is done.
Please see the documentation for specifics.
These new options are highly recommended over `--files-from`, when using a
script to generate the list of files to back up.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2944
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3013
* Enhancement #3006: Speed up the `rebuild-index` command
We've optimized the `rebuild-index` command. Now, existing index entries are
used to minimize the number of pack files that must be read. This speeds up the
index rebuild a lot.
Additionally, the option `--read-all-packs` has been added, implementing the
previous behavior.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3006
https://github.com/restic/restic/issue/2547
* Enhancement #3048: Add more checks for index and pack files in the `check` command
The `check` command run with the `--read-data` or `--read-data-subset` options
used to only verify only the pack file content - it did not check if the blobs
within the pack are correctly contained in the index.
A check for the latter is now in place, which can print the following error:
Blob ID is not contained in index or position is incorrect
Another test is also added, which compares pack file sizes computed from the
index and the pack header with the actual file size. This test is able to detect
truncated pack files.
If the index is not correct, it can be rebuilt by using the `rebuild-index`
command.
Having added these tests, `restic check` is now able to detect non-existing
blobs which are wrongly referenced in the index. This situation could have lead
to missing data.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3048
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3082
* Enhancement #3083: Allow usage of deprecated S3 `ListObjects` API
Some S3 API implementations, e.g. Ceph before version 14.2.5, have a broken
`ListObjectsV2` implementation which causes problems for restic when using their
API endpoints. When a broken server implementation is used, restic prints errors
similar to the following:
List() returned error: Truncated response should have continuation token set
As a temporary workaround, restic now allows using the older `ListObjects`
endpoint by setting the `s3.list-objects-v1` extended option, for instance:
Restic -o s3.list-objects-v1=true snapshots
Please note that this option may be removed in future versions of restic.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3083
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3085
* Enhancement #3099: Reduce memory usage of `check` command
The `check` command now requires less memory if it is run without the
`--check-unused` option.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3099
* Enhancement #3106: Parallelize scan of snapshot content in `copy` and `prune`
The `copy` and `prune` commands used to traverse the directories of snapshots
one by one to find used data. This snapshot traversal is now parallelized which
can speed up this step several times.
In addition the `check` command now reports how many snapshots have already been
processed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3106
* Enhancement #3130: Parallelize reading of locks and snapshots
Restic used to read snapshots sequentially. For repositories containing many
snapshots this slowed down commands which have to read all snapshots.
Now the reading of snapshots is parallelized. This speeds up for example
`prune`, `backup` and other commands that search for snapshots with certain
properties or which have to find the `latest` snapshot.
The speed up also applies to locks stored in the backup repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3130
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3174
* Enhancement #3147: Support additional environment variables for Swift authentication
The `swift` backend now supports the following additional environment variables
for passing authentication details to restic: `OS_USER_ID`, `OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID`,
`OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID` and `OS_TRUST_ID`
Depending on the `openrc` configuration file these might be required when the
user and project domains differ from one another.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3147
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3158
* Enhancement #3191: Add release binaries for MIPS architectures
We've added a few new architectures for Linux to the release binaries: `mips`,
`mipsle`, `mips64`, and `mip64le`. MIPS is mostly used for low-end embedded
systems.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3191
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3208
* Enhancement #3250: Add several more error checks
We've added a lot more error checks in places where errors were previously
ignored (as hinted by the static analysis program `errcheck` via
`golangci-lint`).
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3250
* Enhancement #3254: Enable HTTP/2 for backend connections
Go's HTTP library usually automatically chooses between HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2
depending on what the server supports. But for compatibility this mechanism is
disabled if DialContext is used (which is the case for restic). This change
allows restic's HTTP client to negotiate HTTP/2 if supported by the server.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3254
# Changelog for restic 0.11.0 (2020-11-05)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.11.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1212: Restore timestamps and permissions on intermediate directories
* Fix #1756: Mark repository files as read-only when using the local backend
* Fix #2241: Hide password in REST backend repository URLs
* Fix #2319: Correctly dump directories into tar files
* Fix #2491: Don't require `self-update --output` placeholder file
* Fix #2834: Fix rare cases of backup command hanging forever
* Fix #2938: Fix manpage formatting
* Fix #2942: Make --exclude-larger-than handle disappearing files
* Fix #2951: Restic generate, help and self-update no longer check passwords
* Fix #2979: Make snapshots --json output [] instead of null when no snapshots
* Enh #340: Add support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows
* Enh #1458: New option --repository-file
* Enh #2849: Authenticate to Google Cloud Storage with access token
* Enh #2969: Optimize check for unchanged files during backup
* Enh #2978: Warn if parent snapshot cannot be loaded during backup
## Details
* Bugfix #1212: Restore timestamps and permissions on intermediate directories
When using the `--include` option of the restore command, restic restored
timestamps and permissions only on directories selected by the include pattern.
Intermediate directories, which are necessary to restore files located in sub-
directories, were created with default permissions. We've fixed the restore
command to restore timestamps and permissions for these directories as well.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1212
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1402
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2906
* Bugfix #1756: Mark repository files as read-only when using the local backend
Files stored in a local repository were marked as writable on the filesystem for
non-Windows systems, which did not prevent accidental file modifications outside
of restic. In addition, the local backend did not work with certain filesystems
and network mounts which do not permit modifications of file permissions.
Restic now marks files stored in a local repository as read-only on the
filesystem on non-Windows systems. The error handling is improved to support
more filesystems.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1756
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2157
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2989
* Bugfix #2241: Hide password in REST backend repository URLs
When using a password in the REST backend repository URL, the password could in
some cases be included in the output from restic, e.g. when initializing a repo
or during an error.
The password is now replaced with "***" where applicable.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2241
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2658
* Bugfix #2319: Correctly dump directories into tar files
The dump command previously wrote directories in a tar file in a way which can
cause compatibility problems. This caused, for example, 7zip on Windows to not
open tar files containing directories. In addition it was not possible to dump
directories with extended attributes. These compatibility problems are now
corrected.
In addition, a tar file now includes the name of the owner and group of a file.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2319
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3039
* Bugfix #2491: Don't require `self-update --output` placeholder file
`restic self-update --output /path/to/new-restic` used to require that
new-restic was an existing file, to be overwritten. Now it's possible to
download an updated restic binary to a new path, without first having to create
a placeholder file.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2491
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2937
* Bugfix #2834: Fix rare cases of backup command hanging forever
We've fixed an issue with the backup progress reporting which could cause restic
to hang forever right before finishing a backup.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2834
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2963
* Bugfix #2938: Fix manpage formatting
The manpage formatting in restic v0.10.0 was garbled, which is fixed now.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2938
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2977
* Bugfix #2942: Make --exclude-larger-than handle disappearing files
There was a small bug in the backup command's --exclude-larger-than option where
files that disappeared between scanning and actually backing them up to the
repository caused a panic. This is now fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2942
* Bugfix #2951: Restic generate, help and self-update no longer check passwords
The commands `restic cache`, `generate`, `help` and `self-update` don't need
passwords, but they previously did run the RESTIC_PASSWORD_COMMAND (if set in
the environment), prompting users to authenticate for no reason. They now skip
running the password command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2951
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2987
* Bugfix #2979: Make snapshots --json output [] instead of null when no snapshots
Restic previously output `null` instead of `[]` for the `--json snapshots`
command, when there were no snapshots in the repository. This caused some minor
problems when parsing the output, but is now fixed such that `[]` is output when
the list of snapshots is empty.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2979
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2984
* Enhancement #340: Add support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows
Volume Shadow Copy Service allows read access to files that are locked by
another process using an exclusive lock through a filesystem snapshot. Restic
was unable to backup those files before. This update enables backing up these
files.
This needs to be enabled explicitly using the --use-fs-snapshot option of the
backup command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/340
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2274
* Enhancement #1458: New option --repository-file
We've added a new command-line option --repository-file as an alternative to -r.
This allows to read the repository URL from a file in order to prevent certain
types of information leaks, especially for URLs containing credentials.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1458
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2900
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2910
* Enhancement #2849: Authenticate to Google Cloud Storage with access token
When using the GCS backend, it is now possible to authenticate with OAuth2
access tokens instead of a credentials file by setting the GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN
environment variable.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2849
* Enhancement #2969: Optimize check for unchanged files during backup
During a backup restic skips processing files which have not changed since the
last backup run. Previously this required opening each file once which can be
slow on network filesystems. The backup command now checks for file changes
before opening a file. This considerably reduces the time to create a backup on
network filesystems.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2969
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2970
* Enhancement #2978: Warn if parent snapshot cannot be loaded during backup
During a backup restic uses the parent snapshot to check whether a file was
changed and has to be backed up again. For this check the backup has to read the
directories contained in the old snapshot. If a tree blob cannot be loaded,
restic now warns about this problem with the backup repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2978
# Changelog for restic 0.10.0 (2020-09-19)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.10.0 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1863: Report correct number of directories processed by backup
* Fix #2254: Fix tar issues when dumping `/`
* Fix #2281: Handle format verbs like '%' properly in `find` output
* Fix #2298: Do not hang when run as a background job
* Fix #2389: Fix mangled json output of backup command
* Fix #2390: Refresh lock timestamp
* Fix #2429: Backup --json reports total_bytes_processed as 0
* Fix #2469: Fix incorrect bytes stats in `diff` command
* Fix #2518: Do not crash with Synology NAS sftp server
* Fix #2531: Fix incorrect size calculation in `stats --mode restore-size`
* Fix #2537: Fix incorrect file counts in `stats --mode restore-size`
* Fix #2592: SFTP backend supports IPv6 addresses
* Fix #2607: Honor RESTIC_CACHE_DIR environment variable on Mac and Windows
* Fix #2668: Don't abort the stats command when data blobs are missing
* Fix #2674: Add stricter prune error checks
* Fix #2899: Fix possible crash in the progress bar of check --read-data
* Chg #1597: Honor the --no-lock flag in the mount command
* Chg #2482: Remove vendored dependencies
* Chg #2546: Return exit code 3 when failing to backup all source data
* Chg #2600: Update dependencies, require Go >= 1.13
* Enh #323: Add command for copying snapshots between repositories
* Enh #551: Use optimized library for hash calculation of file chunks
* Enh #1570: Support specifying multiple host flags for various commands
* Enh #1680: Optimize `restic mount`
* Enh #2072: Display snapshot date when using `restic find`
* Enh #2175: Allow specifying user and host when creating keys
* Enh #2195: Simplify and improve restore performance
* Enh #2277: Add support for ppc64le
* Enh #2328: Improve speed of check command
* Enh #2395: Ignore sync errors when operation not supported by local filesystem
* Enh #2423: Support user@domain parsing as user
* Enh #2427: Add flag `--iexclude-file` to backup command
* Enh #2569: Support excluding files by their size
* Enh #2571: Self-heal missing file parts during backup of unchanged files
* Enh #2576: Improve the chunking algorithm
* Enh #2598: Improve speed of diff command
* Enh #2599: Slightly reduce memory usage of prune and stats commands
* Enh #2733: S3 backend: Add support for WebIdentityTokenFile
* Enh #2773: Optimize handling of new index entries
* Enh #2781: Reduce memory consumption of in-memory index
* Enh #2786: Optimize `list blobs` command
* Enh #2790: Optimized file access in restic mount
* Enh #2840: Speed-up file deletion in forget, prune and rebuild-index
* Enh #2858: Support filtering snapshots by tag and path in the stats command
## Details
* Bugfix #1863: Report correct number of directories processed by backup
The directory statistics calculation was fixed to report the actual number of
processed directories instead of always zero.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1863
* Bugfix #2254: Fix tar issues when dumping `/`
We've fixed an issue with dumping either `/` or files on the first sublevel e.g.
`/foo` to tar. This also fixes tar dumping issues on Windows where this issue
could also happen.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2254
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2357
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2255
* Bugfix #2281: Handle format verbs like '%' properly in `find` output
The JSON or "normal" output of the `find` command can now deal with file names
that contain substrings which the Golang `fmt` package considers "format verbs"
like `%s`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2281
* Bugfix #2298: Do not hang when run as a background job
Restic did hang on exit while restoring the terminal configuration when it was
started as a background job, for example using `restic ... &`. This has been
fixed by only restoring the terminal configuration when restic is interrupted
while reading a password from the terminal.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2298
* Bugfix #2389: Fix mangled json output of backup command
We've fixed a race condition in the json output of the backup command that could
cause multiple lines to get mixed up. We've also ensured that the backup summary
is printed last.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2389
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2545
* Bugfix #2390: Refresh lock timestamp
Long-running operations did not refresh lock timestamp, resulting in locks
becoming stale. This is now fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2390
* Bugfix #2429: Backup --json reports total_bytes_processed as 0
We've fixed the json output of total_bytes_processed. The non-json output was
already fixed with pull request #2138 but left the json output untouched.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2429
* Bugfix #2469: Fix incorrect bytes stats in `diff` command
In some cases, the wrong number of bytes (e.g. 16777215.998 TiB) were reported
by the `diff` command. This is now fixed.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2469
* Bugfix #2518: Do not crash with Synology NAS sftp server
It was found that when restic is used to store data on an sftp server on a
Synology NAS with a relative path (one which does not start with a slash), it
may go into an endless loop trying to create directories on the server. We've
fixed this bug by using a function in the sftp library instead of our own
implementation.
The bug was discovered because the Synology sftp server behaves erratic with
non-absolute path (e.g. `home/restic-repo`). This can be resolved by just using
an absolute path instead (`/home/restic-repo`). We've also added a paragraph in
the FAQ.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2518
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2363
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2530
* Bugfix #2531: Fix incorrect size calculation in `stats --mode restore-size`
The restore-size mode of stats was counting hard-linked files as if they were
independent.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2531
* Bugfix #2537: Fix incorrect file counts in `stats --mode restore-size`
The restore-size mode of stats was failing to count empty directories and some
files with hard links.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2537
* Bugfix #2592: SFTP backend supports IPv6 addresses
The SFTP backend now supports IPv6 addresses natively, without relying on
aliases in the external SSH configuration.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2592
* Bugfix #2607: Honor RESTIC_CACHE_DIR environment variable on Mac and Windows
On Mac and Windows, the RESTIC_CACHE_DIR environment variable was ignored. This
variable can now be used on all platforms to set the directory where restic
stores caches.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2607
* Bugfix #2668: Don't abort the stats command when data blobs are missing
Running the stats command in the blobs-per-file mode on a repository with
missing data blobs previously resulted in a crash.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2668
* Bugfix #2674: Add stricter prune error checks
Additional checks were added to the prune command in order to improve resiliency
to backend, hardware and/or networking issues. The checks now detect a few more
cases where such outside factors could potentially cause data loss.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2674
* Bugfix #2899: Fix possible crash in the progress bar of check --read-data
We've fixed a possible crash while displaying the progress bar for the check
--read-data command. The crash occurred when the length of the progress bar
status exceeded the terminal width, which only happened for very narrow terminal
windows.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2899
https://forum.restic.net/t/restic-rclone-pcloud-connection-issues/2963/15
* Change #1597: Honor the --no-lock flag in the mount command
The mount command now does not lock the repository if given the --no-lock flag.
This allows to mount repositories which are archived on a read only
backend/filesystem.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1597
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2821
* Change #2482: Remove vendored dependencies
We've removed the vendored dependencies (in the subdir `vendor/`). When building
restic, the Go compiler automatically fetches the dependencies. It will also
cryptographically verify that the correct code has been fetched by using the
hashes in `go.sum` (see the link to the documentation below).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2482
https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_downloading_and_verification
* Change #2546: Return exit code 3 when failing to backup all source data
The backup command used to return a zero exit code as long as a snapshot could
be created successfully, even if some of the source files could not be read (in
which case the snapshot would contain the rest of the files).
This made it hard for automation/scripts to detect failures/incomplete backups
by looking at the exit code. Restic now returns the following exit codes for the
backup command:
- 0 when the command was successful - 1 when there was a fatal error (no
snapshot created) - 3 when some source data could not be read (incomplete
snapshot created)
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/956
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2064
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2526
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2364
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2546
* Change #2600: Update dependencies, require Go >= 1.13
Restic now requires Go to be at least 1.13. This allows simplifications in the
build process and removing workarounds.
This is also probably the last version of restic still supporting mounting
repositories via fuse on macOS. The library we're using for fuse does not
support macOS any more and osxfuse is not open source any more.
https://github.com/bazil/fuse/issues/224
https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/590
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2600
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2852
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2927
* Enhancement #323: Add command for copying snapshots between repositories
We've added a copy command, allowing you to copy snapshots from one repository
to another.
Note that this process will have to read (download) and write (upload) the
entire snapshot(s) due to the different encryption keys used on the source and
destination repository. Also, the transferred files are not re-chunked, which
may break deduplication between files already stored in the destination repo and
files copied there using this command.
To fully support deduplication between repositories when the copy command is
used, the init command now supports the `--copy-chunker-params` option, which
initializes the new repository with identical parameters for splitting files
into chunks as an already existing repository. This allows copied snapshots to
be equally deduplicated in both repositories.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/323
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2606
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2928
* Enhancement #551: Use optimized library for hash calculation of file chunks
We've switched the library used to calculate the hashes of file chunks, which
are used for deduplication, to the optimized Minio SHA-256 implementation.
Depending on the CPU it improves the hashing throughput by 10-30%. Modern x86
CPUs with the SHA Extension should be about two to three times faster.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/551
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2709
* Enhancement #1570: Support specifying multiple host flags for various commands
Previously commands didn't take more than one `--host` or `-H` argument into
account, which could be limiting with e.g. the `forget` command.
The `dump`, `find`, `forget`, `ls`, `mount`, `restore`, `snapshots`, `stats` and
`tag` commands will now take into account multiple `--host` and `-H` flags.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1570
* Enhancement #1680: Optimize `restic mount`
We've optimized the FUSE implementation used within restic. `restic mount` is
now more responsive and uses less memory.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1680
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2587
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2787
* Enhancement #2072: Display snapshot date when using `restic find`
Added the respective snapshot date to the output of `restic find`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2072
* Enhancement #2175: Allow specifying user and host when creating keys
When adding a new key to the repository, the username and hostname for the new
key can be specified on the command line. This allows overriding the defaults,
for example if you would prefer to use the FQDN to identify the host or if you
want to add keys for several different hosts without having to run the key add
command on those hosts.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2175
* Enhancement #2195: Simplify and improve restore performance
Significantly improves restore performance of large files (i.e. 50M+):
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2074
https://forum.restic.net/t/restore-using-rclone-gdrive-backend-is-slow/1112/8
https://forum.restic.net/t/degraded-restore-performance-s3-backend/1400
Fixes "not enough cache capacity" error during restore:
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2244
NOTE: This new implementation does not guarantee order in which blobs are
written to the target files and, for example, the last blob of a file can be
written to the file before any of the preceding file blobs. It is therefore
possible to have gaps in the data written to the target files if restore fails
or interrupted by the user.
The implementation will try to preallocate space for the restored files on the
filesystem to prevent file fragmentation. This ensures good read performance for
large files, like for example VM images. If preallocating space is not supported
by the filesystem, then this step is silently skipped.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2195
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2893
* Enhancement #2277: Add support for ppc64le
Adds support for ppc64le, the processor architecture from IBM.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2277
* Enhancement #2328: Improve speed of check command
We've improved the check command to traverse trees only once independent of
whether they are contained in multiple snapshots. The check command is now much
faster for repositories with a large number of snapshots.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2284
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2328
* Enhancement #2395: Ignore sync errors when operation not supported by local filesystem
The local backend has been modified to work with filesystems which doesn't
support the `sync` operation. This operation is normally used by restic to
ensure that data files are fully written to disk before continuing.
For these limited filesystems, saving a file in the backend would previously
fail with an "operation not supported" error. This error is now ignored, which
means that e.g. an SMB mount on macOS can now be used as storage location for a
repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2395
https://forum.restic.net/t/sync-errors-on-mac-over-smb/1859
* Enhancement #2423: Support user@domain parsing as user
Added the ability for user@domain-like users to be authenticated over SFTP
servers.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2423
* Enhancement #2427: Add flag `--iexclude-file` to backup command
The backup command now supports the flag `--iexclude-file` which is a
case-insensitive version of `--exclude-file`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2427
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2898
* Enhancement #2569: Support excluding files by their size
The `backup` command now supports the `--exclude-larger-than` option to exclude
files which are larger than the specified maximum size. This can for example be
useful to exclude unimportant files with a large file size.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2569
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2914
* Enhancement #2571: Self-heal missing file parts during backup of unchanged files
We've improved the resilience of restic to certain types of repository
corruption.
For files that are unchanged since the parent snapshot, the backup command now
verifies that all parts of the files still exist in the repository. Parts that
are missing, e.g. from a damaged repository, are backed up again. This
verification was already run for files that were modified since the parent
snapshot, but is now also done for unchanged files.
Note that restic will not backup file parts that are referenced in the index but
where the actual data is not present on disk, as this situation can only be
detected by restic check. Please ensure that you run `restic check` regularly.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2571
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2827
* Enhancement #2576: Improve the chunking algorithm
We've updated the chunker library responsible for splitting files into smaller
blocks. It should improve the chunking throughput by 5-15% depending on the CPU.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2820
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2576
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2845
* Enhancement #2598: Improve speed of diff command
We've improved the performance of the diff command when comparing snapshots with
similar content. It should run up to twice as fast as before.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2598
* Enhancement #2599: Slightly reduce memory usage of prune and stats commands
The prune and the stats command kept directory identifiers in memory twice while
searching for used blobs.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2599
* Enhancement #2733: S3 backend: Add support for WebIdentityTokenFile
We've added support for EKS IAM roles for service accounts feature to the S3
backend.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2703
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2733
* Enhancement #2773: Optimize handling of new index entries
Restic now uses less memory for backups which add a lot of data, e.g. large
initial backups. In addition, we've improved the stability in some edge cases.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2773
* Enhancement #2781: Reduce memory consumption of in-memory index
We've improved how the index is stored in memory. This change can reduce memory
usage for large repositories by up to 50% (depending on the operation).
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2781
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2812
* Enhancement #2786: Optimize `list blobs` command
We've changed the implementation of `list blobs` which should be now a bit
faster and consume almost no memory even for large repositories.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2786
* Enhancement #2790: Optimized file access in restic mount
Reading large (> 100GiB) files from restic mountpoints is now faster, and the
speedup is greater for larger files.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2790
* Enhancement #2840: Speed-up file deletion in forget, prune and rebuild-index
We've sped up the file deletion for the commands forget, prune and
rebuild-index, especially for remote repositories. Deletion was sequential
before and is now run in parallel.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2840
* Enhancement #2858: Support filtering snapshots by tag and path in the stats command
We've added filtering snapshots by `--tag tagList` and by `--path path` to the
`stats` command. This includes filtering of only 'latest' snapshots or all
snapshots in a repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2858
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2859
https://forum.restic.net/t/stats-for-a-host-and-filtered-snapshots/3020
# Changelog for restic 0.9.6 (2019-11-22)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.6 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2063: Allow absolute path for filename when backing up from stdin
* Fix #2174: Save files with invalid timestamps
* Fix #2249: Read fresh metadata for unmodified files
* Fix #2301: Add upper bound for t in --read-data-subset=n/t
* Fix #2321: Check errors when loading index files
* Enh #2179: Use ctime when checking for file changes
* Enh #2306: Allow multiple retries for interactive password input
* Enh #2330: Make `--group-by` accept both singular and plural
* Enh #2350: Add option to configure S3 region
## Details
* Bugfix #2063: Allow absolute path for filename when backing up from stdin
When backing up from stdin, handle directory path for `--stdin-filename`. This
can be used to specify the full path for the backed-up file.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2063
* Bugfix #2174: Save files with invalid timestamps
When restic reads invalid timestamps (year is before 0000 or after 9999) it
refused to read and archive the file. We've changed the behavior and will now
save modified timestamps with the year set to either 0000 or 9999, the rest of
the timestamp stays the same, so the file will be saved (albeit with a bogus
timestamp).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2174
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1173
* Bugfix #2249: Read fresh metadata for unmodified files
Restic took all metadata for files which were detected as unmodified, not taking
into account changed metadata (ownership, mode). This is now corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2249
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2252
* Bugfix #2301: Add upper bound for t in --read-data-subset=n/t
256 is the effective maximum for t, but restic would allow larger values,
leading to strange behavior.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2301
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2304
* Bugfix #2321: Check errors when loading index files
Restic now checks and handles errors which occur when loading index files, the
missing check leads to odd errors (and a stack trace printed to users) later.
This was reported in the forum.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2321
https://forum.restic.net/t/check-rebuild-index-prune/1848/13
* Enhancement #2179: Use ctime when checking for file changes
Previously, restic only checked a file's mtime (along with other non-timestamp
metadata) to decide if a file has changed. This could cause restic to not notice
that a file has changed (and therefore continue to store the old version, as
opposed to the modified version) if something edits the file and then resets the
timestamp. Restic now also checks the ctime of files, so any modifications to a
file should be noticed, and the modified file will be backed up. The ctime check
will be disabled if the --ignore-inode flag was given.
If this change causes problems for you, please open an issue, and we can look in
to adding a separate flag to disable just the ctime check.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2179
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2212
* Enhancement #2306: Allow multiple retries for interactive password input
Restic used to quit if the repository password was typed incorrectly once.
Restic will now ask the user again for the repository password if typed
incorrectly. The user will now get three tries to input the correct password
before restic quits.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2306
* Enhancement #2330: Make `--group-by` accept both singular and plural
One can now use the values `host`/`hosts`, `path`/`paths` and `tag` / `tags`
interchangeably in the `--group-by` argument.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2330
* Enhancement #2350: Add option to configure S3 region
We've added a new option for setting the region when accessing an S3-compatible
service. For some providers, it is required to set this to a valid value. You
can do that either by setting the environment variable `AWS_DEFAULT_REGION` or
using the option `s3.region`, e.g. like this: `-o s3.region="us-east-1"`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2350
# Changelog for restic 0.9.5 (2019-04-23)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.5 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #2135: Return error when no bytes could be read from stdin
* Fix #2181: Don't cancel timeout after 30 seconds for self-update
* Fix #2203: Fix reading passwords from stdin
* Fix #2224: Don't abort the find command when a tree can't be loaded
* Enh #1895: Add case insensitive include & exclude options
* Enh #1937: Support streaming JSON output for backup
* Enh #2037: Add group-by option to snapshots command
* Enh #2124: Ability to dump folders to tar via stdout
* Enh #2139: Return error if no bytes could be read for `backup --stdin`
* Enh #2155: Add Openstack application credential auth for Swift
* Enh #2184: Add --json support to forget command
* Enh #2205: Add --ignore-inode option to backup cmd
* Enh #2220: Add config option to set S3 storage class
## Details
* Bugfix #2135: Return error when no bytes could be read from stdin
We assume that users reading backup data from stdin want to know when no data
could be read, so now restic returns an error when `backup --stdin` is called
but no bytes could be read. Usually, this means that an earlier command in a
pipe has failed. The documentation was amended and now recommends setting the
`pipefail` option (`set -o pipefail`).
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2135
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2139
* Bugfix #2181: Don't cancel timeout after 30 seconds for self-update
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2181
* Bugfix #2203: Fix reading passwords from stdin
Passwords for the `init`, `key add`, and `key passwd` commands can now be read
from non-terminal stdin.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2203
* Bugfix #2224: Don't abort the find command when a tree can't be loaded
Change the find command so that missing trees don't result in a crash. Instead,
the error is logged to the debug log, and the tree ID is displayed along with
the snapshot it belongs to. This makes it possible to recover repositories that
are missing trees by forgetting the snapshots they are used in.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2224
* Enhancement #1895: Add case insensitive include & exclude options
The backup and restore commands now have --iexclude and --iinclude flags as case
insensitive variants of --exclude and --include.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1895
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2032
* Enhancement #1937: Support streaming JSON output for backup
We've added support for getting machine-readable status output during backup,
just pass the flag `--json` for `restic backup` and restic will output a stream
of JSON objects which contain the current progress.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1937
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1944
* Enhancement #2037: Add group-by option to snapshots command
We have added an option to group the output of the snapshots command, similar to
the output of the forget command. The option has been called "--group-by" and
accepts any combination of the values "host", "paths" and "tags", separated by
commas. Default behavior (not specifying --group-by) has not been changed. We
have added support of the grouping to the JSON output.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2037
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2087
* Enhancement #2124: Ability to dump folders to tar via stdout
We've added the ability to dump whole folders to stdout via the `dump` command.
Restic now requires at least Go 1.10 due to a limitation of the standard library
for Go <= 1.9.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2123
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2124
* Enhancement #2139: Return error if no bytes could be read for `backup --stdin`
When restic is used to backup the output of a program, like `mysqldump | restic
backup --stdin`, it now returns an error if no bytes could be read at all. This
catches the failure case when `mysqldump` failed for some reason and did not
output any data to stdout.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2139
* Enhancement #2155: Add Openstack application credential auth for Swift
Since Openstack Queens Identity (auth V3) service supports an application
credential auth method. It allows to create a technical account with the limited
roles. This commit adds an application credential authentication method for the
Swift backend.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2155
* Enhancement #2184: Add --json support to forget command
The forget command now supports the --json argument, outputting the information
about what is (or would-be) kept and removed from the repository.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2184
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2185
* Enhancement #2205: Add --ignore-inode option to backup cmd
This option handles backup of virtual filesystems that do not keep fixed inodes
for files, like Fuse-based, pCloud, etc. Ignoring inode changes allows to
consider the file as unchanged if last modification date and size are unchanged.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1631
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2205
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2047
* Enhancement #2220: Add config option to set S3 storage class
The `s3.storage-class` option can be passed to restic (using `-o`) to specify
the storage class to be used for S3 objects created by restic.
The storage class is passed as-is to S3, so it needs to be understood by the
API. On AWS, it can be one of `STANDARD`, `STANDARD_IA`, `ONEZONE_IA`,
`INTELLIGENT_TIERING` and `REDUCED_REDUNDANCY`. If unspecified, the default
storage class is used (`STANDARD` on AWS).
You can mix storage classes in the same bucket, and the setting isn't stored in
the restic repository, so be sure to specify it with each command that writes to
S3.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/706
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2220
# Changelog for restic 0.9.4 (2019-01-06)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.4 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1989: Google Cloud Storage: Respect bandwidth limit
* Fix #2040: Add host name filter shorthand flag for `stats` command
* Fix #2068: Correctly return error loading data
* Fix #2095: Consistently use local time for snapshots times
* Enh #1605: Concurrent restore
* Enh #2017: Mount: Enforce FUSE Unix permissions with allow-other
* Enh #2070: Make all commands display timestamps in local time
* Enh #2085: Allow --files-from to be specified multiple times
* Enh #2089: Increase granularity of the "keep within" retention policy
* Enh #2094: Run command to get password
* Enh #2097: Add key hinting
## Details
* Bugfix #1989: Google Cloud Storage: Respect bandwidth limit
The GCS backend did not respect the bandwidth limit configured, a previous
commit accidentally removed support for it.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1989
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2100
* Bugfix #2040: Add host name filter shorthand flag for `stats` command
The default value for `--host` flag was set to 'H' (the shorthand version of the
flag), this caused the lookup for the latest snapshot to fail.
Add shorthand flag `-H` for `--host` (with empty default so if these flags are
not specified the latest snapshot will not filter by host name).
Also add shorthand `-H` for `backup` command.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2040
* Bugfix #2068: Correctly return error loading data
In one case during `prune` and `check`, an error loading data from the backend
is not returned properly. This is now corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1999#issuecomment-433737921
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2068
* Bugfix #2095: Consistently use local time for snapshots times
By default snapshots created with restic backup were set to local time, but when
the --time flag was used the provided timestamp was parsed as UTC. With this
change all snapshots times are set to local time.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2095
* Enhancement #1605: Concurrent restore
This change significantly improves restore performance, especially when using
high-latency remote repositories like B2.
The implementation now uses several concurrent threads to download and process
multiple remote files concurrently. To further reduce restore time, each remote
file is downloaded using a single repository request.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1605
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1719
* Enhancement #2017: Mount: Enforce FUSE Unix permissions with allow-other
The fuse mount (`restic mount`) now lets the kernel check the permissions of the
files within snapshots (this is done through the `DefaultPermissions` FUSE
option) when the option `--allow-other` is specified.
To restore the old behavior, we've added the `--no-default-permissions` option.
This allows all users that have access to the mount point to access all files
within the snapshots.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2017
* Enhancement #2070: Make all commands display timestamps in local time
Restic used to drop the timezone information from displayed timestamps, it now
converts timestamps to local time before printing them so the times can be
easily compared to.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2070
* Enhancement #2085: Allow --files-from to be specified multiple times
Before, restic took only the last file specified with `--files-from` into
account, this is now corrected.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2085
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2086
* Enhancement #2089: Increase granularity of the "keep within" retention policy
The `keep-within` option of the `forget` command now accepts time ranges with an
hourly granularity. For example, running `restic forget --keep-within 3d12h`
will keep all the snapshots made within three days and twelve hours from the
time of the latest snapshot.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2089
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2090
* Enhancement #2094: Run command to get password
We've added the `--password-command` option which allows specifying a command
that restic runs every time the password for the repository is needed, so it can
be integrated with a password manager or keyring. The option can also be set via
the environment variable `$RESTIC_PASSWORD_COMMAND`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2094
* Enhancement #2097: Add key hinting
Added a new option `--key-hint` and corresponding environment variable
`RESTIC_KEY_HINT`. The key hint is a key ID to try decrypting first, before
other keys in the repository.
This change will benefit repositories with many keys; if the correct key hint is
supplied then restic only needs to check one key. If the key hint is incorrect
(the key does not exist, or the password is incorrect) then restic will check
all keys, as usual.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2097
# Changelog for restic 0.9.3 (2018-10-13)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.3 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1935: Remove truncated files from cache
* Fix #1978: Do not return an error when the scanner is slower than backup
* Enh #1766: Restore: suppress lchown errors when not running as root
* Enh #1777: Improve the `find` command
* Enh #1876: Display reason why forget keeps snapshots
* Enh #1891: Accept glob in paths loaded via --files-from
* Enh #1909: Reject files/dirs by name first
* Enh #1920: Vendor dependencies with Go 1.11 Modules
* Enh #1940: Add directory filter to ls command
* Enh #1949: Add new command `self-update`
* Enh #1953: Ls: Add JSON output support for restic ls cmd
* Enh #1962: Stream JSON output for ls command
* Enh #1967: Use `--host` everywhere
* Enh #2028: Display size of cache directories
## Details
* Bugfix #1935: Remove truncated files from cache
When a file in the local cache is truncated, and restic tries to access data
beyond the end of the (cached) file, it used to return an error "EOF". This is
now fixed, such truncated files are removed and the data is fetched directly
from the backend.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1935
* Bugfix #1978: Do not return an error when the scanner is slower than backup
When restic makes a backup, there's a background task called "scanner" which
collects information on how many files and directories are to be saved, in order
to display progress information to the user. When the backup finishes faster
than the scanner, it is aborted because the result is not needed any more. This
logic contained a bug, where quitting the scanner process was treated as an
error, and caused restic to print an unhelpful error message ("context
canceled").
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1978
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1991
* Enhancement #1766: Restore: suppress lchown errors when not running as root
Like "cp" and "rsync" do, restic now only reports errors for changing the
ownership of files during restore if it is run as root, on non-Windows
operating systems. On Windows, the error is reported as usual.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1766
* Enhancement #1777: Improve the `find` command
We've updated the `find` command to support multiple patterns.
`restic find` is now able to list the snapshots containing a specific tree or
blob, or even the snapshots that contain blobs belonging to a given pack. A list
of IDs can be given, as long as they all have the same type.
The command `find` can also display the pack IDs the blobs belong to, if the
`--show-pack-id` flag is provided.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1777
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1780
* Enhancement #1876: Display reason why forget keeps snapshots
We've added a column to the list of snapshots `forget` keeps which details the
reasons to keep a particular snapshot. This makes debugging policies for forget
much easier. Please remember to always try things out with `--dry-run`!
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1876
* Enhancement #1891: Accept glob in paths loaded via --files-from
Before that, behaviour was different if paths were appended to command line or
from a file, because wild card characters were expanded by shell if appended to
command line, but not expanded if loaded from file.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1891
* Enhancement #1909: Reject files/dirs by name first
The current scanner/archiver code had an architectural limitation: it always ran
the `lstat()` system call on all files and directories before a decision to
include/exclude the file/dir was made. This lead to a lot of unnecessary system
calls for items that could have been rejected by their name or path only.
We've changed the archiver/scanner implementation so that it now first rejects
by name/path, and only runs the system call on the remaining items. This reduces
the number of `lstat()` system calls a lot (depending on the exclude settings).
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1909
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1912
* Enhancement #1920: Vendor dependencies with Go 1.11 Modules
Until now, we've used `dep` for managing dependencies, we've now switch to using
Go modules. For users this does not change much, only if you want to compile
restic without downloading anything with Go 1.11, then you need to run: `go
build -mod=vendor build.go`
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1920
* Enhancement #1940: Add directory filter to ls command
The ls command can now be filtered by directories, so that only files in the
given directories will be shown. If the --recursive flag is specified, then ls
will traverse subfolders and list their files as well.
It used to be possible to specify multiple snapshots, but that has been replaced
by only one snapshot and the possibility of specifying multiple directories.
Specifying directories constrains the walk, which can significantly speed up the
listing.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1940
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1941
* Enhancement #1949: Add new command `self-update`
We have added a new command called `self-update` which downloads the latest
released version of restic from GitHub and replaces the current binary with it.
It does not rely on any external program (so it'll work everywhere), but still
verifies the GPG signature using the embedded GPG public key.
By default, the `self-update` command is hidden behind the `selfupdate` built
tag, which is only set when restic is built using `build.go` (including official
releases). The reason for this is that downstream distributions will then not
include the command by default, so users are encouraged to use the
platform-specific distribution mechanism.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1949
* Enhancement #1953: Ls: Add JSON output support for restic ls cmd
We've implemented listing files in the repository with JSON as output, just pass
`--json` as an option to `restic ls`. This makes the output of the command
machine readable.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1953
* Enhancement #1962: Stream JSON output for ls command
The `ls` command now supports JSON output with the global `--json` flag, and
this change streams out JSON messages one object at a time rather than en entire
array buffered in memory before encoding. The advantage is it allows large
listings to be handled efficiently.
Two message types are printed: snapshots and nodes. A snapshot object will
precede node objects which belong to that snapshot. The `struct_type` field can
be used to determine which kind of message an object is.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1962
* Enhancement #1967: Use `--host` everywhere
We now use the flag `--host` for all commands which need a host name, using
`--hostname` (e.g. for `restic backup`) still works, but will print a
deprecation warning. Also, add the short option `-H` where possible.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1967
* Enhancement #2028: Display size of cache directories
The `cache` command now by default shows the size of the individual cache
directories. It can be disabled with `--no-size`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2028
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2033
# Changelog for restic 0.9.2 (2018-08-06)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.2 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1854: Allow saving files/dirs on different fs with `--one-file-system`
* Fix #1861: Fix case-insensitive search with restic find
* Fix #1870: Fix restore with --include
* Fix #1880: Use `--cache-dir` argument for `check` command
* Fix #1893: Return error when exclude file cannot be read
* Enh #874: Add stats command to get information about a repository
* Enh #1477: S3 backend: accept AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
* Enh #1772: Add restore --verify to verify restored file content
* Enh #1853: Add JSON output support to `restic key list`
* Enh #1901: Update the Backblaze B2 library
* Enh #1906: Add support for B2 application keys
## Details
* Bugfix #1854: Allow saving files/dirs on different fs with `--one-file-system`
Restic now allows saving files/dirs on a different file system in a subdir
correctly even when `--one-file-system` is specified.
The first thing the restic archiver code does is to build a tree of the target
files/directories. If it detects that a parent directory is already included
(e.g. `restic backup /foo /foo/bar/baz`), it'll ignore the latter argument.
Without `--one-file-system`, that's perfectly valid: If `/foo` is to be
archived, it will include `/foo/bar/baz`. But with `--one-file-system`,
`/foo/bar/baz` may reside on a different file system, so it won't be included
with `/foo`.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1854
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1855
* Bugfix #1861: Fix case-insensitive search with restic find
We've fixed the behavior for `restic find -i PATTERN`, which was broken in
v0.9.1.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1861
* Bugfix #1870: Fix restore with --include
We fixed a bug which prevented restic to restore files with an include filter.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1870
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1900
* Bugfix #1880: Use `--cache-dir` argument for `check` command
`check` command now uses a temporary sub-directory of the specified directory if
set using the `--cache-dir` argument. If not set, the cache directory is created
in the default temporary directory as before. In either case a temporary cache
is used to ensure the actual repository is checked (rather than a local copy).
The `--cache-dir` argument was not used by the `check` command, instead a cache
directory was created in the temporary directory.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1880
* Bugfix #1893: Return error when exclude file cannot be read
A bug was found: when multiple exclude files were passed to restic and one of
them could not be read, an error was printed and restic continued, ignoring even
the existing exclude files. Now, an error message is printed and restic aborts
when an exclude file cannot be read.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1893
* Enhancement #874: Add stats command to get information about a repository
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/874
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1729
* Enhancement #1477: S3 backend: accept AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
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 #1772: Add restore --verify to verify restored file content
Restore will print error message if restored file content does not match
expected SHA256 checksum
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1772
* Enhancement #1853: Add JSON output support to `restic key list`
This PR enables users to get the output of `restic key list` in JSON in addition
to the existing table format.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1853
* Enhancement #1901: Update the Backblaze B2 library
We've updated the library we're using for accessing the Backblaze B2 service to
0.5.0 to include support for upcoming so-called "application keys". With this
feature, you can create access credentials for B2 which are restricted to e.g. a
single bucket or even a sub-directory of a bucket.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1901
https://github.com/kurin/blazer
* Enhancement #1906: Add support for B2 application keys
Restic can now use so-called "application keys" which can be created in the B2
dashboard and were only introduced recently. In contrast to the "master key",
such keys can be restricted to a specific bucket and/or path.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1906
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1914
# Changelog for restic 0.9.1 (2018-06-10)
The following sections list the changes in restic 0.9.1 relevant to
restic users. The changes are ordered by importance.
## Summary
* Fix #1801: Add limiting bandwidth to the rclone backend
* Fix #1822: Allow uploading large files to MS Azure
* Fix #1825: Correct `find` to not skip snapshots
* Fix #1833: Fix caching files on error
* Fix #1834: Resolve deadlock
## Details
* Bugfix #1801: Add limiting bandwidth to the rclone backend
The rclone backend did not respect `--limit-upload` or `--limit-download`.
Oftentimes it's not necessary to use this, as the limiting in rclone itself
should be used because it gives much better results, but in case a remote
instance of rclone is used (e.g. called via ssh), it is still relevant to limit
the bandwidth from restic to rclone.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1801
* Bugfix #1822: Allow uploading large files to MS Azure
Sometimes, restic creates files to be uploaded to the repository which are quite
large, e.g. when saving directories with many entries or very large files. The
MS Azure API does not allow uploading files larger that 256MiB directly, rather
restic needs to upload them in blocks of 100MiB. This is now implemented.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1822
* Bugfix #1825: Correct `find` to not skip snapshots
Under certain circumstances, the `find` command was found to skip snapshots
containing directories with files to look for when the directories haven't been
modified at all, and were already printed as part of a different snapshot. This
is now corrected.
In addition, we've switched to our own matching/pattern implementation, so now
things like `restic find "/home/user/foo/**/main.go"` are possible.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1825
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1823
* Bugfix #1833: Fix caching files on error
During `check` it may happen that different threads access the same file in the
backend, which is then downloaded into the cache only once. When that fails,
only the thread which is responsible for downloading the file signals the
correct error. The other threads just assume that the file has been downloaded
successfully and then get an error when they try to access the cached file.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1833
* Bugfix #1834: Resolve deadlock
When the "scanning" process restic runs to find out how much data there is does
not finish before the backup itself is done, restic stops doing anything. This
is resolved now.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1834
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1835
# 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 #1684: Fix backend tests for rest-server
* Fix #1730: Ignore sockets for restore
* Fix #1745: Correctly parse the argument to --tls-client-cert
* Enh #549: Rework archiver code
* Enh #827: Add --new-password-file flag for non-interactive password changes
* Enh #1433: Support UTF-16 encoding and process Byte Order Mark
* Enh #1477: Accept AWS_SESSION_TOKEN for the s3 backend
* Enh #1552: Use Google Application Default credentials
* Enh #1561: Allow using rclone to access other services
* Enh #1648: Ignore AWS permission denied error when creating a repository
* Enh #1649: Add illumos/Solaris support
* Enh #1665: Improve cache handling for `restic check`
* Enh #1709: Improve messages `restic check` prints
* Enh #1721: Add `cache` command to list cache dirs
* Enh #1735: Allow keeping a time range of snapshots
* Enh #1758: Allow saving OneDrive folders in Windows
* 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #1735: Allow keeping a time range of snapshots
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 #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 #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 #1638: Handle errors listing files in the backend
* Fix #1641: Ignore files with invalid names in the repo
* 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 #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
* 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
* 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 requirement,
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 bandwidth 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 #1589: Complete intermediate index upload
* Fix #1590: Strip spaces for lines read via --files-from
* Fix #1594: Google Cloud Storage: Use generic HTTP transport
* Fix #1595: Backup: Remove bandwidth display
* Enh #1507: Only reload snapshots once per minute for fuse mount
* Enh #1522: Add support for TLS client certificate authentication
* Enh #1538: Reduce memory allocations for querying the index
* Enh #1541: Reduce number of remote requests during repository check
* 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 #1567: Reduce number of backend requests for rebuild-index and prune
* Enh #1579: Retry Backend.List() in case of errors
* Enh #1584: Limit index file size
## Details
* Bugfix #1506: Limit bandwidth 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 #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 #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 #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 seldom 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 #1507: Only reload snapshots once per minute for fuse mount
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1507
* 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #1454: Correct cache dir location for Windows and Darwin
* Fix #1457: Improve s3 backend with DigitalOcean Spaces
* Fix #1459: Disable handling SIGPIPE
* Chg #1452: Do not save atime by default
* Enh #11: Add the `diff` command
* Enh #1436: Add code to detect old cache directories
* Enh #1439: Improve cancellation logic
## Details
* 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 #1457: Improve s3 backend with DigitalOcean Spaces
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1457
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1459
* 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 #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
* 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
# 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 #448: Sftp backend prompts for password
* Enh #510: Add `dump` command
* Enh #1040: Add local metadata cache
* 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 #1249: Add `latest` symlink in fuse mount
* Enh #1269: Add `--compact` to `forget` command
* Enh #1271: Cache results for excludes for `backup`
* Enh #1274: Add `generate` command, replaces `manpage` and `autocomplete`
* Enh #1281: Google Cloud Storage backend needs less permissions
* Enh #1319: Make `check` print `no errors found` explicitly
* Enh #1353: Retry failed backend requests
* Enh #1367: Allow comments in files read from via `--file-from`
## 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 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 #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 default, 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 explicitly 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
* 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
# 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 #1164: Make the `key remove` command behave as documented
* Fix #1167: Do not create a local repo unless `init` is used
* Fix #1191: Make sure to write profiling files on interrupt
* 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 #1132: Make `key` command always prompt for a password
* 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 #1179: Resolve name conflicts, append a counter
* 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`
* Enh #1218: Add `--compact` to `snapshots` command
## Details
* Bugfix #1164: Make the `key remove` command behave as documented
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1164
* 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #1179: Resolve name conflicts, append a counter
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1179
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1209
* 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
* 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
# 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 #1080: Ignore chmod() errors on filesystems which do not support it
* Enh #1081: Clarify semantic for `--tag` for the `forget` command
* 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 #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 #1081: Clarify semantic for `--tag` for the `forget` command
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1081
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1090
* 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 #965: Switch to `default` repo layout for the s3 backend
* Fix #1013: Switch back to using the high-level minio-go API for s3
* Enh #512: Add Backblaze B2 backend
* Enh #636: Add dirs `tags` and `hosts` to fuse mount
* Enh #975: Add new backend for OpenStack Swift
* Enh #989: Improve performance of the `find` command
* Enh #998: Improve performance of the fuse mount
* Enh #1021: Detect invalid backend name and print error
* Enh #1029: Remove invalid pack files when `prune` is run
## Details
* 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
* 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
* 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 #975: Add new backend for OpenStack Swift
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/975
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/648
* 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 #998: Improve performance of the fuse mount
Listing directories which contain large files now is significantly faster.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/998
* 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
# 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 #974: Remove regular status reports
* Enh #981: Remove temporary path from binary in `build.go`
* Enh #985: Allow multiple parallel idle HTTP connections
## Details
* 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
* 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 #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
# 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 #962: Improve memory and runtime for the s3 backend
* Enh #966: Unify repository layout for all backends
## 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 #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
* 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
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