Commit fe7da6ef authored by ben's avatar ben

Various updates for 0.11.0


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@220 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent d3fd935b
New in v0.11.0 (2002/09/30)
New in v0.11.0 (2002/10/05)
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If get a socket error from trying to create a socket whose name is too
......@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Added --exclude-special-files switch, which excludes fifos, symlinks,
sockets, and device files.
--windows-mode is now short for --windows-time-format --chars-to-quote
A-Z: --exclude-special-files. Thanks to Paul-Erik Törrönen for some
helpful windows info.
A-Z: --no-hard-links --exclude-special-files. Thanks to Paul-Erik
Törrönen for some helpful windows info.
Multiple --include and --exclude statements can now be given in a
single file. See the documentation on
......@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ was specified with a trailing backslash.
Added a bit more logging so it should be apparent which file was being
processed when an error occurs (thanks to Gerd Knops for suggestion).
Fixed bug when using --chars-to-quote and directory deleted that has
quoted characters in it.
New in v0.10.1 (2002/09/16)
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......@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ syntax". What's happening?</a></li>
<li><a href="#windows">Does rdiff-backup run under Windows?</a></li>
<li><a href="#OSX">Does rdiff-backup run under Mac OS X?</a></li>
<li><a href="#remove_dir">My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don't want/need backed up. How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?</li>
<li><a href="#redhat">How do I install the RPMs on Redhat linux system?</a></li>
......@@ -111,15 +113,46 @@ some header files in the Makefile:
</pre>
Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup (or at least if you are backing up
to or restoring from a Windows system), use the
<strong>--windows-time-format</strong> switch, which will tell
rdiff-backup not to put a colon (":") in a filename (this option was
added after Jason posted his message). Finally, as Michael Muegel
points out, you have to exclude all files from the source directory
which have colons in them, so add something like the --exclude ".*:.*"
option. In the near future some quoting facility may be added to deal
with these issues.
Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup to back up from a unix system to
Windows, use the <strong>--windows-mode</strong> switch. This
compensates for some windows file systems' inability to store hard
links, symlinks, device files, sockets, fifos, case sensitive
filenames, and filenames with colons (":") in them. (Note: device
files, symlinks, fifos, and sockets will simply be skipped, and hard
link information will not be recorded.)
<p>If you are backing up one windows system to another, full
--windows-mode is not necessary, but you'll still need
<strong>--windows-time-format</strong>, which stops rdiff-backup from
trying to make increment files with colons in them.
</li>
<P>
<a name="OSX">
<li><strong>Does rdiff-backup run under Mac OS X?</strong>
<p>
Yes, but there may be some issues installing librsync. See this
message from Gerd Knops:
<pre>
From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 03:56:47 -0500 (01:56 PDT)
[parts of original message deleted]
these instructions build it fine with all tests running OK
(librsync-0.9.5.1 on OS X 10.2.1):
aclocal
autoconf
automake --foreign --add-missing
CFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp ./configure
make
make install
</pre>
Also, if you are backing up to a file system that is not case
sensitive you may need to use "--chars-to-quote A-Z".
</li>
<P>
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......@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Write some better selection test cases to test new Iterate_fast func.
Work on killtest code - avoid returning a failure when a file is
simply skipped.
Work on WindowsTest code - avoid returning failure because symlinks,
etc., are skipped.
Look at error code, make sure filename is always mentioned (see Knops
email).
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# rdiff-backup -- Mirror files while keeping incremental changes
# Version $version released September 16, 2002
# Version $version released October 5, 2002
# Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Ben Escoto <bescoto@stanford.edu>
#
# This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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......@@ -356,10 +356,11 @@ Print the current version and exit
.TP
.B --windows-mode
This option is short for "--chars to quote A-Z: --windows-time-format
--exclude-special-files" and is appropriate when backing a normal unix
file system to one that doesn't allow colons in filenames and is not
case sensitive. --windows-mode should not be necessary when backing
up one windows file system to another, although --windows-time-format
--no-hard-links --exclude-special-files" and is appropriate when
backing a normal unix file system to one that doesn't allow colons in
filenames, is not case sensitive, and cannot store special files or
hard links. --windows-mode should not be necessary when backing up
one windows file system to another, although --windows-time-format
would still be required.
.TP
.B --windows-time-format
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