While it is true borg started as a fork of Attic, this is ancient history.
'attic fork' confused me, suggesting this was some custom fork of borgbackup
instead of the regular version.
Version 1.1.11 (2020-03-08)
Compatibility notes:
When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:
read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.
borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.
borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.
your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.
1.1.11 removes WSL autodetection (Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux). If WSL still has a problem with sync_file_range, you need to set BORG_WORKAROUNDS=basesyncfile in the borg process environment to work around the WSL issue.
Fixes:
fixed potential index corruption / data loss issue due to bug in hashindex_set, #4829 Please read and follow the more detailled notes close to the top of this document.
upgrade bundled xxhash to 0.7.3, #4891 0.7.2 is the minimum requirement for correct operations on ARMv6 in non-fixup mode, where unaligned memory accesses cause bus errors. 0.7.3 adds some speedups and libxxhash 0.7.3 even has a pkg-config file now.
upgrade bundled lz4 to 1.9.2
upgrade bundled zstd to 1.4.4
fix crash when upgrading erroneous hints file, #4922
extract:
fix KeyError for "partial" extraction, #4607
fix "partial" extract for hardlinked contentless file types, #4725
fix preloading for old (0.xx) remote servers, #4652
fix confusing output of borg extract --list --strip-components, #4934
delete: after double-force delete, warn about necessary repair, #4704
create: give invalid repo error msg if repo config not found, #4411
mount: fix FUSE mount missing st_birthtime, #4763#4767
check: do not stumble over invalid item key, #4845
info: if the archive doesn't exist, print a pretty message, #4793
SecurityManager.known(): check all files, #4614
Repository.open: use stat() to check for repo dir, #4695
Repository.check_can_create_repository: use stat() to check, #4695
fix invalid archive error message
fix optional/non-optional location arg, #4541
commit-time free space calc: ignore bad compact map entries, #4796
ignore EACCES (errno 13) when hardlinking the old config, #4730
--prefix / -P: fix processing, avoid argparse issue, #4769
New features:
enable placeholder usage in all extra archive arguments
new BORG_WORKAROUNDS mechanism, basesyncfile, #4710
recreate: support --timestamp option, #4745
support platforms without os.link (e.g. Android with Termux), #4901 if we don't have os.link, we just extract another copy instead of making a hardlink.
support linux platforms without sync_file_range (e.g. Android 7 with Termux), #4905
Other:
ignore --stats when given with --dry-run, but continue, #4373
add some ProgressIndicator msgids to code / fix docs, #4935
elaborate on "Calculating size" message
argparser: always use REPOSITORY in metavar, also use more consistent help phrasing.
check: improve error output for matching index size, see #4829
docs:
changelog: add advisory about hashindex_set bug #4829
better describe BORG_SECURITY_DIR, BORG_CACHE_DIR, #4919
infos about cache security assumptions, #4900
add FAQ describing difference between a local repo vs. repo on a server.
document how to test exclusion patterns without performing an actual backup
timestamps in the files cache are now usually ctime, #4583
fix bad reference to borg compact (does not exist in 1.1), #4660
create: borg 1.1 is not future any more
extract: document limitation "needs empty destination", #4598
how to supply a passphrase, use crypto devices, #4549
fix osxfuse github link in installation docs
add example of exclude-norecurse rule in help patterns
update macOS Brew link
add note about software for automating backups, #4581
AUTHORS: mention copyright+license for bundled msgpack
fix various code blocks in the docs, #4708
updated docs to cover use of temp directory on remote, #4545
add restore docs, #4670
add a pull backup / push restore how-to, #1552
add FAQ how to retain original paths, #4532
explain difference between --exclude and --pattern, #4118
add FAQs for SSH connection issues, #3866
improve password FAQ, #4591
reiterate that 'file cache names are absolute' in FAQ
tests:
cope with ANY error when importing pytest into borg.testsuite, #4652
fix broken test that relied on improper zlib assumptions
test_fuse: filter out selinux xattrs, #4574
travis / vagrant:
misc python versions removed / changed (due to openssl 1.1 compatibility) or added (3.7 and 3.8, for better borg compatibility testing)
binary building is on python 3.5.9 now
vagrant:
add new boxes: ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, debian 10
update boxes: openindiana, darwin, netbsd
remove old boxes: centos 6
darwin: updated osxfuse to 3.10.4
use debian/ubuntu pip/virtualenv packages
rather use python 3.6.2 than 3.6.0, fixes coverage/sqlite3 issue
use requirements.d/development.lock.txt to avoid compat issues
travis:
darwin: backport some install code / order from master
remove deprecated keyword "sudo" from travis config
allow osx builds to fail, #4955 this is due to travis-ci frequently being so slow that the OS X builds just fail because they exceed 50 minutes and get killed by travis.
The llfuse package depends on fuse which refuses to build on darwin. But
according to a comment in the setup.py of borgbackup [1] it's ok to leave it out
if it's not available. Most of borgbackup should work without it. Would be great
to make it work on darwin but i am not sure if it's possible to get fuse to work
on darwin. I do not know enough about it ;)
After this modification at least the "borg mount" subcommand is broken due to
the missing llfuse module. But the rest seems to work normally.
[1] 72232a9bd5/setup.py (L32)
The acl libraray is only required by the borgbackup package if building on a
linux platform. Adding it only in this case should be fine. Also see the
conditional in the setup.py at [1].
[1] 72232a9bd5/setup.py (L768)
tox/detox are removed; they are used to test multiple python
implementations in parallel, which isn't really appropriate for a Nix
install check. Also, because these were added to the propagated build
inputs, lots of unnecessary stuff ended up in the resulting closure.
Note that removing tox does not imply tests are not run; they never were
to begin with; this is a separate issue.
This fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16171
Also, for "correctness" ordinary build-time dependencies are added to
`buildInputs`; only inputs that are to be added to the python path are
added to `propagatedBuildInputs`.
