A new function ./gravity-sync.sh backup will now perform a SQLITE3 operated backup of the gravity.db on the local Pi-hole. This can be run at any time you wish, but can also be automated by the ./gravity-sync.sh automate function to run once a day. New and existing users will be prompted to configure both during this task. If can also disable both using the automate function, or just automate one or the other, by setting the value to 0 during setup.
New users will automatically have their local settings backed up after completion of the initial setup, before the first run of any sync tasks.
By default, 7 days worth of backups will be retained in the backup folder. You can adjust the retention length by changing the BACKUP_RETAIN function in your gravity-sync.conf file. See the ADVANCED.md file for more information on setting these custom configuration options.
There are also enhancements to the ./gravity-sync.sh restore function, where as previously this task would only restore the previous copy of the database that is made during sync operations, now this will ask you to select a previous backup copy (by date) and will use that file to restore. This will stop the Pi-hole services on the local server while the task is completed. After a successful restoration, you will now also be prompted to perform a push operation of the restored database to the primary Pi-hole server.
It's suggested to make sure your local restore was successful before completing the restore operation with the push job.
Deprecation
Support for the the Dropbear SSH client/server (which was added in 1.7.6) will be removed in an upcoming version of Gravity Sync. If you are using this instead of OpenSSH (common with DietPi) please reconfigure your installation to use OpenSSH. You will want to delete your existing ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub files and run ./gravity-sync.sh configure again to generate a new key and copy it to the primary Pi-hole.
The ./gravity-sync.sh update and version functions will look for the dbclient binary on the local system and warn users about the upcoming changes.