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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG index fed3003..b431dca 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG +++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG @@ -1,16 +1,60 @@ New in v0.11.1 (2002/12/??) --------------------------- +**Warning** Various features have been removed from this version, so +this is not a safe upgrade. Also this version has less error +checking, and, if it crashes, this version may be more prone to leave +the destination directory in an inconsistent state. I plan to look at +these issues in the next version. Also, this version is quite +different from previous ones, so you cannot run version 0.11.1 on one +end of a connection and any previous version on the other side. + +The following features have been removed: + + --mirror-only option: If you just want to mirror something, use + rsync. (Or you could use rdiff-backup and then just delete the + rdiff-backup-data directory, and then update the root mtime.) + + --change-source-perms option: This feature was pretty complicated + to implement, and if something happened to rdiff-backup during a + transfer, the old permissions could not be restored. + + All "resume" related functionality, like --checkpoint-interval: + This was complicated to implement, and didn't seem to work all + that well. + + Directory statistics file: Although the session statistics file is + still generated, the directory statistics file no longer is, + because the new code structure makes it less inconvenient. + +Extensive refactoring. A lot of rdiff-backup's code was structured as +if it was still in one file, so it didn't make enough use of Python's +module system. + +Now rdiff-backup writes metadata (uid, gid, mtime, etc.) to a +compressed text file in the rdiff-backup-data directory. Here are +some ramifications: + + A user does not need root access on the destination side to record + file ownership information. + + Some files may be recognized as not having changed based on this + metadata, so it may not be necessary to traverse the whole mirror + directory. This can reduce file access on the destination side. + + + + + Fixed bug with the --{include|exclude}-globbing-filelist options (reported by Claus Herwig). Added --list-changed-since option to list the files changed since the -given date. +given date, and added Bud Bruegger's patch to that. The format and +information this option provides will probably change in the near +future. -Removed --mirror-only and --change-source-perms options. -Removed all "resume" related functionality, like ---checkpoint-interval. New in v0.11.0 (2002/10/05) |