This new release has been made truly ready for the future, with move to GitHub, Python 3 support, automated CI/CD pipeline on Travis, availability on PyPI and no known regression bug compared to version 1.2.8/1.3.3.
We even found the time to add a few features for you (details in the change log):
- sparse files handling has become more efficient on file systems which support it
- more compressed file formats are kept as-is
- have a look at the
--no-fsyncoption to improve speed of backup (at the slight risk of data loss) - reproducible builds are possible
- verbosity can be set via environment variable
RDIFF_BACKUP_VERBOSITY
On the down side, we have to say that due to the many changes, rdiff-backup 2.x can't communicate with older versions 1.x in client-server mode (but the repository formats remain compatible), so you'll need to upgrade client and server at once.
Which brings us to the installation, described in details in the read me, but here the quick version:
- Linux, trust on your distro to provide the latest version of rdiff-backup "soon-ish"
- On Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, you may use Frank's COPR repo
- On Ubuntu, you may use Otto's PPA repo
- Windows, download the asset
rdiff-backup-2.0.0.win32exe.zipfrom here and unpack it somewhere in yourPATH. - Any supported Platform, use
pip install rdiff-backup(or download and install the proper asset from here).
If you encounter issues, contact us on the rdiff-backup-users mailing list and/or report an issue.
Happy backup, and remember: no backup, no pity!