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• rsback 0.6.4 file released: rsback-0.6.4.tar.gz

  Changelog -- rsback Version 0.6.4 (2008-01-10) o Minor bug fix: rsback logs 'rsync error <result> ignored' in case of rsync errors, despite the exit code of the result was not in the list of ignore_rsync_errors. The error handling was correct, but the word 'ignored' was wrong. o Archives won't be rotated if the temporary backup set doesn't exist after the rsync job. This can happen if certain rsnync exit codes have been ignored before (parameter 'ingnore_rsync_errors'). Rotation in such cases can result in loss of archives, otherwise. o Backup date/time of fresh archive are logged now during rotation. o History file will be rebuild if entries are missing. Version 0.6.3 (2007-12-07) o Bug fix: The parameter use_link_dest was not evaluated correctly under certain circumstances. As a side effect a strange behavior in mode = link could be the result. This bug contained in versions 0.6.0 thru 0.6.2 was fixed. Version 0.6.2 (2007-11-25) o New parameter update = <task> (in mode = rsync) This causes just a "simple" rsync on the most recent backup set of the refered task (no rotation). There are no other parameters necessary, they are taken from the refered task section. Background: To get consistent backups of live systems (data bases, virtual machines, ...) these have to be shutdown before. To speedup backups of such systems, this procedure may help in some cases: Step 1: Run a backup task of the running system (live-backup). Use 'ignore_rsync_errors = 24' (vanished source files). Step 2: Shutdown the system. Step 3: Run a task with 'update = live-backup' to take an update snapshot of the backup from Step 2. Step 4: Restart the system. The downtime (during step 3) should be considerably shorter compared to step 1 because only those files which have changed in the meantime have to be transfered. o Warnings are now written to STDOUT, too. This may be helpful if rsback is lauched by cron jobs with commands like rsback -vc /etc/rsback-mywork.config >> /var/log/rsback/mywork.log In this case, usually the owner of the job will be informed by mail if something went wrong (was written to STDERR). But errors have not been written to the log file (STDOUT) which made debugging often difficult. This can now be changed with warnings_to_stdout = yes o Re-sorted CANGELOG. last entry first now. Version 0.6.1rc1 (2007-05-06) o some Bug fixes + entry for backup.0 removed from histroy file + make sure that before moving (during rotation) destination directories are empty Version 0.6.1 (2007-07-28) o rsync exit values as clear text messages o added a script which updates repositories made with rsback-0.5.x and before o some typos fixed o code cleaning Version 0.6.0 (2007-04-??) / Proof of concept o Support for rsync --link-dest Parameter: use_link_dest = yes|no may be used in [global] or [some_task] o Schema of backup repository has changed: Index of backup sets is now 1, 2, 3, ... Using backup repositories made with older versions one has to rotate once "manually": Supposed we have 5 backup sets (0 .. 4), we have to rotate... # mv backup.4 backup.5 # mv backup.3 backup.4 # mv backup.2 backup.3 # mv backup.1 backup.2 # mv backup.0 backup.1 Version 0.5.0rc4 (2006-03-20) o Bugfix: Reported exit values of system/shell commands should now be correct. o Bugfix: non-existing paramter 'global:backup' with option -i changed to 'global:tasks' o Bugfix: Trailing white space removed from config parameters o Bugfix: Parameter lists containing quotation marks; things like rsync_options = -al --delete --delete-excluded \ --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa" \ -vv --stats should work now. o Continuation lines as in the examples above may be used now. o A couple of new features/parameters: - global:rsync_options is now mandatory - Locking mechanism to avoid race conditions of backup tasks global:lock_dir = /path/to/lock-files if_locked_retry = 3 10min - Error handling + Continue with next task in case of errors? global:if_error_continue = yes + Ignore certain rsync errors ignore_rsync_errors = 12 24 + Undo (rotate back) in case of errors? if_error_undo = yes - Suspend tasks (temporarily) suspend_file = /var/work/_dont_backup_now_ - Trigger tasks (once only) trigger_file = /home/fritz/_backup_please_ This trigger_file should be writetable by rsback, because it will be removed after succefull backup Version 0.4.2 (2002-10-26) o The example configuration files under ../etc contained trailing CRs in each line. Customized configs based on these examples may have produced weird problems at runtime. This was fixed. Version 0.4.1 (2002-07-27) o First published version o Some minor changes o Documentation added Version 0.4.0 (2002-07-16) o Previous backup sets will now be back-rotated if the backup has not been finished successfully. Thus old backup sets remain untouched if the backup fails. o If `rsync_options=--dry-run' (simulation) and `mode=rsync' is selected, rotation of previous backup sets will be skipped. Version 0.3.2 (2002-07-16) o Removed some relicts from former debug runs. o Output changed, to make it better readable in mixed rsback/rsync logs. o Header line added to history files. o New paramter `rsync_options' to specify additonal rsync options in the config file. Version 0.3.1 (2002-07-12) o First beta used in production environment

  posted 669 days ago

• File released: /rsback/0.6.4/rsback-0.6.4.tar.gz

  posted 669 days ago

• rsback-0.6.4 is out

  Don't use versions 0.6.0 thru 0.6.2 anymore!

  posted by hjb 702 days ago

• rsback 0.6.3 file released: rsback-0.6.3.tar.gz

  Changelog -- rsback Version 0.6.3 (2007-12-07) o Bug fix: The parameter use_link_dest was not evaluated correctly und certain circumstances. As a side effect a strange behavior in mode = link could be the result. This bug contained in versions 0.6.0 thru 0.6.2 was fixed. Version 0.6.2 (2007-11-25) o New parameter update = <task> (in mode = rsync) This causes just a "simple" rsync on the most recent backup set of the refered task (no rotation). There are no other parameters necessary, they are taken from the refered task section. Background: To get consistent backups of live systems (data bases, virtual machines, ...) these have to be shutdown before. To speedup backups of such systems, this procedure may help in some cases: Step 1: Run a backup task of the running system (live-backup). Use 'ignore_rsync_errors = 24' (vanished source files). Step 2: Shutdown the system. Step 3: Run a task with 'update = live-backup' to take an update snapshot of the backup from Step 2. Step 4: Restart the system. The downtime (during step 3) should be considerably shorter compared to step 1 because only those files which have changed in the meantime have to be transfered. o Warnings are now written to STDOUT, too. This may be helpful if rsback is lauched by cron jobs with commands like rsback -vc /etc/rsback-mywork.config >> /var/log/rsback/mywork.log In this case, usually the owner of the job will be informed by mail if something went wrong (was written to STDERR). But errors have not been written to the log file (STDOUT) which made debugging often difficult. This can now be changed with warnings_to_stdout = yes o Re-sorted CANGELOG. last entry first now. Version 0.6.1rc1 (2007-05-06) o some Bug fixes + entry for backup.0 removed from histroy file + make sure that before moving (during rotation) destination directories are empty Version 0.6.1 (2007-07-28) o rsync exit values as clear text messages o added a script which updates repositories made with rsback-0.5.x and before o some typos fixed o code cleaning Version 0.6.0 (2007-04-??) / Proof of concept o Support for rsync --link-dest Parameter: use_link_dest = yes|no may be used in [global] or [some_task] o Schema of backup repository has changed: Index of backup sets is now 1, 2, 3, ... Using backup repositories made with older versions one has to rotate once "manually": Supposed we have 5 backup sets (0 .. 4), we have to rotate... # mv backup.4 backup.5 # mv backup.3 backup.4 # mv backup.2 backup.3 # mv backup.1 backup.2 # mv backup.0 backup.1 Version 0.5.0rc4 (2006-03-20) o Bugfix: Reported exit values of system/shell commands should now be correct. o Bugfix: non-existing paramter 'global:backup' with option -i changed to 'global:tasks' o Bugfix: Trailing white space removed from config parameters o Bugfix: Parameter lists containing quotation marks; things like rsync_options = -al --delete --delete-excluded \ --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa" \ -vv --stats should work now. o Continuation lines as in the examples above may be used now. o A couple of new features/parameters: - global:rsync_options is now mandatory - Locking mechanism to avoid race conditions of backup tasks global:lock_dir = /path/to/lock-files if_locked_retry = 3 10min - Error handling + Continue with next task in case of errors? global:if_error_continue = yes + Ignore certain rsync errors ignore_rsync_errors = 12 24 + Undo (rotate back) in case of errors? if_error_undo = yes - Suspend tasks (temporarily) suspend_file = /var/work/_dont_backup_now_ - Trigger tasks (once only) trigger_file = /home/fritz/_backup_please_ This trigger_file should be writetable by rsback, because it will be removed after succefull backup Version 0.4.2 (2002-10-26) o The example configuration files under ../etc contained trailing CRs in each line. Customized configs based on these examples may have produced weird problems at runtime. This was fixed. Version 0.4.1 (2002-07-27) o First published version o Some minor changes o Documentation added Version 0.4.0 (2002-07-16) o Previous backup sets will now be back-rotated if the backup has not been finished successfully. Thus old backup sets remain untouched if the backup fails. o If `rsync_options=--dry-run' (simulation) and `mode=rsync' is selected, rotation of previous backup sets will be skipped. Version 0.3.2 (2002-07-16) o Removed some relicts from former debug runs. o Output changed, to make it better readable in mixed rsback/rsync logs. o Header line added to history files. o New paramter `rsync_options' to specify additonal rsync options in the config file. Version 0.3.1 (2002-07-12) o First beta used in production environment

  posted 703 days ago

• File released: /rsback/0.6.3/rsback-0.6.3.tar.gz

  posted 703 days ago

• File released: /rsback/0.6.2/rsback-0.6.2.tar.gz

  posted 714 days ago

• rsback 0.6.2 file released: rsback-0.6.2.tar.gz

  Changelog -- rsback Version 0.6.2 (2007-11-25) o New parameter update = <task> (in mode = rsync) This causes just a "simple" rsync on the most recent backup set of the refered task (no rotation). There are no other parameters necesarry, they are taken from the refered task section. Background: To get consistent backups of live systems (data bases, virtual machines, ...) these have to be shutdown before. To speedup backups of such systems, this procedure may help in some cases: Step 1: Run a backup task of the running system (live-backup). Use 'ignore_rsync_errors = 24' (vanished source files). Step 2: Shutdown the system. Step 3: Run a task with 'update = live-backup' to take an update snapshot of the backup from Step 2. Step 4: Restart the system. The downtime (during step 3) should be considerably shorter compared to step 1 because only those files which have changed in the meantime have to be transfered. o Warnings are now written to STDOUT, too. This may be helpful if rsback is lauched by cron jobs with commands like rsback -vc /etc/rsback-mywork.config >> /var/log/rsback/mywork.log In this case, usually the owner of the job will be informed by mail if something went wrong (was written to STDERR). But errors have not been written to the log file (STDOUT) which made debugging often difficult. This can now be changed with warnings_to_stdout = yes o Re-sorted CANGELOG. last entry first now. Version 0.6.1rc1 (2007-05-06) o some Bug fixes + entry for backup.0 removed from histroy file + make sure that before moving (during rotation) destination directories are empty Version 0.6.1 (2007-07-28) o rsync exit values as clear text messages o added a script which updates repositories made with rsback-0.5.x and before o some typos fixed o code cleaning Version 0.6.0 (2007-04-??) / Proof of concept o Support for rsync --link-dest Parameter: use_link_dest = yes|no may be used in [global] or [some_task] o Schema of backup repository has changed: Index of backup sets is now 1, 2, 3, ... Using backup repositories made with older versions one has to rotate once "manually": Supposed we have 5 backup sets (0 .. 4), we have to rotate... # mv backup.4 backup.5 # mv backup.3 backup.4 # mv backup.2 backup.3 # mv backup.1 backup.2 # mv backup.0 backup.1 Version 0.5.0rc4 (2006-03-20) o Bugfix: Reported exit values of system/shell commands should now be correct. o Bugfix: non-existing paramter 'global:backup' with option -i changed to 'global:tasks' o Bugfix: Trailing white space removed from config parameters o Bugfix: Parameter lists containing quotation marks; things like rsync_options = -al --delete --delete-excluded \ --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa" \ -vv --stats should work now. o Continuation lines as in the examples above may be used now. o A couple of new features/parameters: - global:rsync_options is now mandatory - Locking mechanism to avoid race conditions of backup tasks global:lock_dir = /path/to/lock-files if_locked_retry = 3 10min - Error handling + Continue with next task in case of errors? global:if_error_continue = yes + Ignore certain rsync errors ignore_rsync_errors = 12 24 + Undo (rotate back) in case of errors? if_error_undo = yes - Suspend tasks (temporarily) suspend_file = /var/work/_dont_backup_now_ - Trigger tasks (once only) trigger_file = /home/fritz/_backup_please_ This trigger_file should be writetable by rsback, because it will be removed after succefull backup Version 0.4.2 (2002-10-26) o The example configuration files under ../etc contained trailing CRs in each line. Customized configs based on these examples may have produced weird problems at runtime. This was fixed. Version 0.4.1 (2002-07-27) o First published version o Some minor changes o Documentation added Version 0.4.0 (2002-07-16) o Previous backup sets will now be back-rotated if the backup has not been finished successfully. Thus old backup sets remain untouched if the backup fails. o If `rsync_options=--dry-run' (simulation) and `mode=rsync' is selected, rotation of previous backup sets will be skipped. Version 0.3.2 (2002-07-16) o Removed some relicts from former debug runs. o Output changed, to make it better readable in mixed rsback/rsync logs. o Header line added to history files. o New paramter `rsync_options' to specify additonal rsync options in the config file. Version 0.3.1 (2002-07-12) o First beta used in production environment

  posted 715 days ago

• rsback 0.6.1 file released: rsback-sample.conf

  Changelog -- rsback Version 0.3.1 (2002-07-12) o First beta used in production environment Version 0.3.2 (2002-07-16) o Removed some relicts from former debug runs. o Output changed, to make it better readable in mixed rsback/rsync logs. o Header line added to history files. o New paramter `rsync_options' to specify additonal rsync options in the config file. Version 0.4.0 (2002-07-16) o Previous backup sets will now be back-rotated if the backup has not been finished successfully. Thus old backup sets remain untouched if the backup fails. o If `rsync_options=--dry-run' (simulation) and `mode=rsync' is selected, rotation of previous backup sets will be skipped. Version 0.4.1 (2002-07-27) o First published version o Some minor changes o Documentation added Version 0.4.2 (2002-10-26) o The example configuration files under ../etc contained trailing CRs in each line. Customized configs based on these examples may have produced weird problems at runtime. This was fixed. Version 0.5.0rc4 (2006-03-20) o Bugfix: Reported exit values of system/shell commands should now be correct. o Bugfix: non-existing paramter 'global:backup' with option -i changed to 'global:tasks' o Bugfix: Trailing white space removed from config parameters o Bugfix: Parameter lists containing quotation marks; things like rsync_options = -al --delete --delete-excluded \ --rsh="ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa" \ -vv --stats should work now. o Continuation lines as in the examples above may be used now. o A couple of new features/parameters: - global:rsync_options is now mandatory - Locking mechanism to avoid race conditions of backup tasks global:lock_dir = /path/to/lock-files if_locked_retry = 3 10min - Error handling + Continue with next task in case of errors? global:if_error_continue = yes + Ignore certain rsync errors ignore_rsync_errors = 12 24 + Undo (rotate back) in case of errors? if_error_undo = yes - Suspend tasks (temporarily) suspend_file = /var/work/_dont_backup_now_ - Trigger tasks (once only) trigger_file = /home/fritz/_backup_please_ This trigger_file should be writetable by rsback, because it will be removed after succefull backup Version 0.6.0 (2007-04-??) / Proof of concept o Support for rsync --link-dest Parameter: use_link_dest = yes|no may be used in [global] or [some_task] o Schema of backup repository has changed: Index of backup sets is now 1, 2, 3, ... Using backup repositories made with older versions one has to rotate once "manually": Supposed we have 5 backup sets (0 .. 4), we have to rotate... # mv backup.4 backup.5 # mv backup.3 backup.4 # mv backup.2 backup.3 # mv backup.1 backup.2 # mv backup.0 backup.1 Version 0.6.1rc1 (2007-05-06) o some Bug fixes + entry for backup.0 removed from histroy file + make sure that before moving (during rotation) destination directories are empty Version 0.6.1 (2007-07-28) o rsync exit values as clear text messages o added a script which updates repositories made with rsback-0.5.x and before o some typos fixed o code cleaning

  posted 760 days ago

• File released: /rsback/0.6.1/rsback-sample.conf

  posted 760 days ago

• File released: /rsback/0.6.1/README.upgrade-0.6

  posted 760 days ago