[flexbackup-announce] flexbackup-1.2.0

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

New stable flexbackup release - 1.2.0. See http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net

To update from a 1.0.x version, please use a new copy of the config file and
tweak it for your setup.

To reiterate major feature changes over the 1.0.x versions:
                                                                                                     
  - New ways to spec the filesystems.  You can have arbitrarily named
    backup "sets" that act like the old "all".
  - Per-filesystem subtree pruning.
  - A "copy" type to make a directory tree mirror of the selected files
    rather than an archive file.
  - stdin/stdout pipe options
  - Package delta backup levels - only back up files which are "unowned" by
    packages or (optionally) have been modified from the distributed
    version.  The idea here is that there's no need to archive 99.5% of
    / and /usr most of the time if you have CD's handy, or can just go
    download the packages again.
  - A "filelist" backup type to help debug exclude patterns or levels.

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Log since last 1.1.x devel release:

Changes:
  - Merge devel -> stable
  - Added -pipe option to archive single directory to stdout,
    or list/extract/compare archive from stdin
  - No null padding necessary for reads, even with $pad_blocks true - only
    needed for writes.  Should take harmless warnings away from gzip,tar,
    and others when reading
  - Added -nodefaults option for debug
  - Allow compression for filelist type

Bugfixes/cleanup:
  - Fix FreeBSD find w/ prune regex
  - Truncate tar label to 99 chars
  - Error if -num flag with backup write mode or using file
  - Error if -erase with archive read mode or using file
  - Fix afio volume header print filehandle
  - Fix if on-disk backups, and "-rmfile all", the index for the keyfile
    was removed but not the keyfile itself
  - use $:: rather than $main:: for globals, its shorter...
                                                                                                 

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