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| 17 | <h1>Box Backup</h1> |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | <p>An open source, completely automatic on-line backup system for UNIX. |
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| 20 | <ul> |
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| 21 | <li>All backed up data is stored on the server in files on a filesystem -- no tape or archive devices are used |
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| 22 | <li>The server is trusted only to make files available when they are required -- all data is encrypted |
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| 23 | <li>A backup daemon runs on systems to be backed up, and copies encrypted data to the server when it notices changes |
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| 24 | <li>Only changes within files are sent to the server, just like rsync |
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| 25 | <li>Old versions of files on the server are stored as changes from the current version |
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| 26 | <li>Behaves like tape -- old versions and deleted files are available |
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| 27 | <li>Choice of backup behaviour, optimised for document or server backup |
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| 28 | <li>Designed to be easy and cheap to run a server. Portable implementation, and RAID implemented in |
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| 29 | userland for reliability without complex server setup or expensive hardware. (optional) |
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| 30 | </ul> |
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| 31 | </p> |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <p>Project status: <b>Stable</b>, but not feature complete</p> |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | <p><a href="description.html">More information</a>: what it is, and how it works.</p> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <p><a href="comparison.html">Comparisons to other backup systems</a></p> |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | <p>Distributed under a BSD license. Please read the <a href="license.html">license and commentary</a> now.</p> |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | <h2>Development team</h2> |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | <p>Main developers for 0.11: Martin Ebourne, Charles Lecklider, |
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| 44 | Gary Niemcewicz, James O'Gorman, Ben Summers, Chris Wilson</p> |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | <p>Main developers for 0.10: Martin Ebourne, Nick Knight, Jonathan Morton, |
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| 47 | Gary Niemcewicz, Ben Summers, Chris Wilson</p> |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | <p>Pre-0.10: Ben Summers, <a href="mailto:ben@fluffy.co.uk">ben@fluffy.co.uk</a></p> |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | <h2>Project status</h2> |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | <p>This project should be considered as <b>stable, but not feature |
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| 55 | complete</b>. Over 3 years of testing suggests it will be reliable enough |
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| 56 | to will back up your data, and make it available for restoration.</p> |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <p>It has always been possible to <a href="retrieve.html">retrieve old |
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| 59 | versions</a> of files. Planned features will implement marked versions |
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| 60 | of the store to emulute backing up onto sets of tapes in a controlled |
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| 61 | manner. This will make restoration of old versions much easier, although |
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| 62 | in the case of retrieving a single old file will not make much difference |
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| 63 | to the usability as the FTP-like utility is already effective.</p> |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | <p>Given that this is a backup system, we are being very conservative about |
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| 66 | when we consider it ready for production use. That said, we trust our |
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| 67 | data to it! However, as this is quite a young system compared to some |
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| 68 | of the alternatives, and operates in a slightly different manner, for |
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| 69 | production use I must recommend that you regularly |
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| 70 | <a href="restore.html">verify your backups</a>.</p> |
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| 71 | |
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| 72 | <p>The documentation is not yet complete, and the error messages you get when things |
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| 73 | go wrong are not as clear as they should be. (see the <a href="trouble.html">troubleshooting</a> page.) |
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| 74 | Please <b>follow the instructions</b> carefully and read everything to avoid problems -- following the |
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| 75 | instructions on this web site will result in a working installation.</p> |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <h2>Why online backup?</h2> |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | <p>Because tape is not a reliable solution, unless you...</p> |
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| 81 | <ul> |
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| 82 | <li>spend lots of money on hardware and tapes (cheap hardware is not reliable) |
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| 83 | <li>change the tape daily |
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| 84 | <li>store the tapes off-site |
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| 85 | </ul> |
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| 86 | <p>which is hardly likely to happen in real life.</p> |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | <p>Backing up to media such as CDROMs is not really a solution either. It needs to be something which |
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| 89 | just happens without user intervention, and without media which is liable to be corrupted.</p> |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | <p>So, for the same price as a decent tape backup system, you could buy a server with three big hard discs. |
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| 92 | And for the money you spend on tapes per year (you do replace them regularly, don't you?), you could host |
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| 93 | it in a nice data centre somewhere.</p> |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | <p>We all have internet connections these days, so connectivity isn't really a problem. |
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| 96 | Although it might be best to archive those |
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| 97 | static files, like MP3s and images, to CDROM or something.</p> |
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| 98 | |
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| 99 | <p>The costs are even less if you pool resources amongst a group of friends. Remember, you don't have |
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| 100 | to trust the server admin to not look at your files as they're encrypted. You just have to trust them to |
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| 101 | make the files available when you need them.</p> |
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| 102 | |
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| 103 | <h2>Mailing list</h2> |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | <p>Please join the project mailing list, boxbackup@boxbackup.org, for announcements of new versions |
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| 106 | and discussion of the system. Join at the <a href="http://lists.boxbackup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boxbackup">sign up page</a>.</p> |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | <!--p>Many thanks to <a href="http://www.warhead.org.uk">Alaric</a> for hosting this list.</p--> |
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| 109 | |
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| 110 | <h2>Implementation</h2> |
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| 111 | |
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| 112 | <p>There are three main elements</p> |
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| 113 | |
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| 114 | <ul> |
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| 115 | <li>bbstored -- backup store server. |
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| 116 | <li>bbackupd -- backup client daemon, which scans for changes and uploads them to the server. |
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| 117 | <li>bbackupquery -- backup query and restore tool. |
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| 118 | </ul> |
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| 119 | |
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| 120 | <p>Running the store server is a multi-step process, but the backup client is easy.</p> |
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| 121 | |
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| 122 | <p>TLS (SSL revised) is used to encrypt connections, and more importantly, to authenticate servers |
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| 123 | and clients with both server and client side certificates. Scripts are provided to generate and |
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| 124 | manage these certificates.</p> |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | <p>Stored files are encrypted using AES for file data and Blowfish for |
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| 127 | metadata. This does mean that the one thing you do need to back up |
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| 128 | off-site and look after is a 1k file containing your keys -- the data |
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| 129 | on the server is useless without it. But it never changes, so that's OK.</p> |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | <h2>Platforms</h2> |
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| 132 | |
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| 133 | <p>We develop and deploy on Linux, Darwin, Windows and OpenBSD. The software |
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| 134 | is designed to take advantage of BSD features where useful, but not to rely |
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| 135 | on them. It should be easily portable to other UNIX like operating |
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| 136 | systems. Ports are available for the following platforms:</p> |
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| 137 | |
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| 138 | <ul> |
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| 139 | <li><b>OpenBSD</b> (primary platform) |
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| 140 | <li><b>Linux</b> (primary platform) |
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| 141 | <li><b>Native Windows</b> (important platform, client only) |
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| 142 | <li><b>NetBSD</b> (minor issues with dates on symlinks) |
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| 143 | <li><b>FreeBSD</b> |
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| 144 | <li><b>Darwin</b> / Mac OS X 10.5 |
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| 145 | <li><b>Solaris</b> |
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| 146 | </ul> |
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| 147 | |
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| 148 | <p>On these platforms, the software compiles and the tests pass. Ben |
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| 149 | does all his deployment on OpenBSD, Chris on Linux and Windows, but we |
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| 150 | know of several people who have had good results under other OSes.</p> |
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| 151 | |
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| 152 | <p>More platforms will arrive over time. It takes in general a couple of |
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| 153 | hours to get it compiling on a BSD-like UNIX or Linux, and a bit longer on |
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| 154 | something like Solaris.</p> |
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| 155 | |
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| 156 | <p>We welcome patches for other platforms, and volunteers to look after |
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| 157 | ports for a particular platform. Programmers notes describing how |
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| 158 | everything works are included in the <tt>notes</tt> directory within |
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| 159 | the distribution archive.</p> |
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| 160 | |
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| 161 | <h2>Related projects</h2> |
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| 162 | |
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| 163 | <p>There are a number of separate projects which are related to Box Backup. These include:</p> |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | <p><b><a href="http://boxi.sourceforge.net/">Boxi</a></b> -- a cross platform native GUI front end |
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| 166 | for Box Backup, by Chris Wilson.</p> |
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| 167 | |
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| 168 | <p><b><a href="http://www.joonis.de/boxbackup-explorer">Box Backup Explorer</a></b> -- |
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| 169 | graphical web frontend for Box Backup, by Thimo Kraemer.</p> |
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| 170 | |
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| 171 | <h2>Download</h2> |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 | <p>The latest stable release is 0.11.1.</p> |
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| 174 | |
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| 175 | <p>See <a href="/trac/wiki/Installation">our Wiki</a> for the latest |
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| 176 | compilation and installation instructions.</p> |
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| 177 | |
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| 178 | <ul> |
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| 179 | <li><b>Stable Release: 0.11.1</b><br /> |
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| 180 | <tt><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boxbackup/boxbackup-0.11.1.tgz?download">boxbackup-0.11.1.tgz</a></tt><br /> |
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| 181 | (1.8 MB, MD5 c4c4786a918a9c026f80833614c40a6b, released 2 August 2011, |
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| 182 | download via SourceForge)</li> |
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| 183 | </ul> |
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| 184 | |
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| 185 | <h3>Code Signatures</h3> |
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| 186 | |
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| 187 | <p>New releases are signed by Chris Wilson (key ID 31197862). |
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| 188 | <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x31197862">Download |
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| 189 | the key</a> or fetch with:</p> |
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| 190 | |
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| 191 | <pre> |
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| 192 | gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 31197862 |
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| 193 | </pre> |
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| 194 | |
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| 195 | <h3>Upgrading</h3> |
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| 196 | |
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| 197 | <ul> |
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| 198 | <li><a href="/trac/wiki/011">From 0.10 to 0.11</a></li> |
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| 199 | <li><a href="006-007.html">From 0.06 to 0.07</a></li> |
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| 200 | <li><a href="005-006.html">From 0.05 to 0.06</a></li> |
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| 201 | <li><a href="004-005.html">From 0.04 to 0.05</a></li> |
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| 202 | </ul> |
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| 203 | |
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| 204 | <p><b>A 0.10 or later server requires all clients to be version 0.10 or |
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| 205 | later too.</b> Existing backup store accounts are compatible with 0.10, |
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| 206 | and do not require conversion.</p> |
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| 207 | |
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| 208 | <h3>Changes</h3> |
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| 209 | |
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| 210 | <dl> |
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| 211 | <dt>0.11rc4 (14 September 2009)</dt> |
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| 212 | <dd> |
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| 213 | |
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| 214 | For a full change log since 0.10, see |
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| 215 | <a href="https://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/011">the Wiki</a>.<br /> |
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| 216 | |
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| 217 | Changes in 0.11rc4 can be found by searching for <code>0.11rc4</code> |
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| 218 | on that page, or by checking the |
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| 219 | <a href="https://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/011?action=diff&version=31&old_version=27">diffs</a>. |
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| 220 | |
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| 221 | </dd> |
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| 222 | |
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| 223 | <dl> |
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| 224 | <dt>0.11rc2 (29 January 2008)</dt> |
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| 225 | <dd> |
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| 226 | Fix build and tests on Solaris. Silence const char warnings.<br /> |
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| 227 | |
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| 228 | Fix raidfile tests on FreeBSD 7, thanks to James O'Gorman and |
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| 229 | Mikael Syska.<br /> |
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| 230 | |
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| 231 | Don't warn about mounted directories which are explicitly |
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| 232 | excluded, reported by Matt Brown.<br /> |
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| 233 | |
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| 234 | Added Solaris SMF framework scripts by Ben Summers.<br /> |
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| 235 | |
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| 236 | Fully support configuring with a prefix, sysconfdir and |
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| 237 | localstatedir, building them into all the relevant files, |
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| 238 | to help packagers and porters.<br /> |
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| 239 | |
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| 240 | Fix harmless error message in install scripts, reported by |
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| 241 | Guno Heitman.<br /> |
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| 242 | |
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| 243 | Fix support for debian buildds, thanks to Reinhard Tartler |
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| 244 | for providing access to them.<br /> |
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| 245 | |
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| 246 | Reformatted usage messages from bbackupd-config, bbstored-config |
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| 247 | and raidfile-config scripts for readability.<br /> |
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| 248 | |
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| 249 | Update version and contact email address in configure.ac.<br /> |
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| 250 | |
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| 251 | Update copyright year to 2008. |
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| 252 | </dd> |
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| 253 | <dt>0.11rc1 (12 January 2008)</dt> |
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| 254 | <dd> |
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| 255 | Fixed some bugs with backing up, restoring and comparing |
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| 256 | files over 2GB in compressed size.<br /> |
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| 257 | |
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| 258 | Added new logging infrastructure, allows more control over |
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| 259 | whether messages are sent to the console or system logs, |
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| 260 | and at what level of detail.<br /> |
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| 261 | |
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| 262 | Changed keepalive and diff timers to run in real time, |
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| 263 | not CPU time.<br /> |
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| 264 | |
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| 265 | Enable KeepAlive time by default on new installations, |
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| 266 | set to 120 seconds.<br /> |
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| 267 | |
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| 268 | Added bbackupctl commands for improved scripting of syncs. |
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| 269 | <br /> |
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| 270 | |
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| 271 | Fixed a bug with restoring symlinks to directories |
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| 272 | outside of the backed-up location (thanks to Hans-Joachim |
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| 273 | Baader)<br /> |
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| 274 | |
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| 275 | Ported unit tests for Windows.<br /> |
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| 276 | |
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| 277 | Added full unit tests for keep-alives and diff timer on |
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| 278 | most platforms.<br /> |
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| 279 | |
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| 280 | Fixed a <a href="/trac/wiki/WindowsClientReleases">number of |
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| 281 | bugs</a> in the Windows port.<br /> |
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| 282 | |
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| 283 | Added option to send Extended Logs to a file instead |
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| 284 | of to system logs.<br /> |
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| 285 | |
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| 286 | Added option to log <b>all</b> file access, for debugging |
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| 287 | when a file is not backed up or causes the backup to fail |
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| 288 | mysteriously.<br /> |
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| 289 | |
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| 290 | Improved error messages to identify the causes of some |
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| 291 | errors which were difficult to track down before.<br /> |
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| 292 | |
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| 293 | Added bbackupd option to set the length of time before |
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| 294 | unused locations are deleted.<br /> |
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| 295 | |
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| 296 | Changed default location of bbackupd.conf on Windows |
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| 297 | to the same directory as bbackupd.exe.<br /> |
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| 298 | |
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| 299 | Fixed a bug where bbstoreaccounts could modify an |
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| 300 | account while it was locked by a running backup.<br /> |
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| 301 | |
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| 302 | Improved command-line option handling.<br /> |
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| 303 | |
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| 304 | Added command-line help (-h option) to bbackupd and |
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| 305 | bbstored.<br /> |
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| 306 | |
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| 307 | Add a new -F option for daemons, which runs in the |
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| 308 | foreground but still accepts multiple connections, |
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| 309 | which is what SINGLEPROCESS used to do.<br /> |
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| 310 | |
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| 311 | Fixed compare of timestamps on filesystems which cannot |
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| 312 | set them more accurately than 1 second.<br /> |
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| 313 | |
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| 314 | Added new backup-start and backup-finish events to the |
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| 315 | NotifyScript, which can be used to implement more advanced |
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| 316 | functionality such as snapshotting databases.<br /> |
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| 317 | |
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| 318 | Added a new sample NotifySysAdmin script for Windows, |
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| 319 | written by James O'Gorman in VBscript.<br /> |
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| 320 | |
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| 321 | Added support for multiple Box Backup (bbackupd) services |
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| 322 | on Windows, with different service names and named pipe names, |
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| 323 | to implement redundancy.<br /> |
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| 324 | |
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| 325 | Fixed bbackupd mysteriously failing to back up if one |
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| 326 | of the location paths did not exist.<br /> |
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| 327 | |
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| 328 | Fixed entering of international characters into |
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| 329 | bbackupquery on Windows |
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| 330 | (<a href="/trac/wiki/CharacterEncoding">instructions</a>) |
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| 331 | and Unixes with editline.<br /> |
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| 332 | |
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| 333 | Improve Makefiles by reducing verbosity during build, |
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| 334 | so that any errors and warnings can be seen more easily.<br /> |
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| 335 | |
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| 336 | Added saving of the list of unused root directory entries |
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| 337 | to the StoreObjectInfoFile, so that they will persist across |
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| 338 | restarts of bbackup (thanks to Gary Niemcewicz).<br /> |
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| 339 | |
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| 340 | Updated built-in documentation |
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| 341 | (<a href="/man-html/">program manuals</a>, |
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| 342 | <a href="/instguide/">installation guide</a> and |
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| 343 | <a href="/adminguide/">administrator's guide</a>).<br /> |
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| 344 | |
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| 345 | Improved build targets (thanks to James O'Gorman).<br /> |
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| 346 | </dd> |
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| 347 | <dt>0.10 (23 February 2006)</dt> |
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| 348 | <dd>Optimised diffing algorithm -- massive speed improvements<br> |
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| 349 | Improved diff timeout<br> |
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| 350 | Bug fixes<br> |
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| 351 | Solaris support<br> |
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| 352 | Portability improvements, including new autoconf based build<br> |
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| 353 | xattr support (on Linux and Darwin -- backs up resource forks under Mac OS X)<br> |
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| 354 | Readline usage clarified for licensing.<br> |
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| 355 | <i>Experimental</i>: Keep-alive on long diffing operations<br> |
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| 356 | <i>Experimental</i>: Save state for non-server use, speeds up first sync after bbackupd starts (not enabled by default)<br> |
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| 357 | <i>Experimental</i>: Native win32 port integrated into main source tree, fixes and improved build<br> |
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| 358 | <i>Experimental</i>: Support for MinGW and MSVC under Win32<br> |
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| 359 | <b>NOTE</b> Features are marked as experimental if no automated test exists. However, the developers have |
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| 360 | been running them on live systems. Win32 support is not totally complete. |
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| 361 | |
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| 362 | <dt>0.09 (06 December 2004) |
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| 363 | <dd>Maintenance release<br> |
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| 364 | Bug fixes and reliability changes<br> |
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| 365 | Add support for large files under Linux<br> |
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| 366 | Compile on new platforms<br> |
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| 367 | Solaris and Win32 ports for testing |
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| 368 | |
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| 369 | <dt>0.08 (23 September 2004) |
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| 370 | <dd>Minor bug fixes<br> |
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| 371 | Server stores old versions of files as patches from the current version<br> |
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| 372 | Adjust behaviour of client<br> |
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| 373 | Works under 64bit systems<br> |
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| 374 | Client recovers cleanly from corruption of its working files<br> |
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| 375 | Improvements to build system<br> |
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| 376 | Add contributed code for building RPMs |
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| 377 | |
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| 378 | <dt>0.07 (28 June 2004) |
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| 379 | <dd>Minor bug fixes<br> |
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| 380 | Improvements to build process, including better detection of environment on Linux, especially SuSE 9.x<br> |
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| 381 | Fix wrong space used sizes on store with non-RAID (<a href="006-007.html">see notes</a>)<br> |
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| 382 | Be more paranoid about crypto startup<br> |
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| 383 | Extra checking for file modifications<br> |
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| 384 | SyncAllowScript to allow temporary disabling of syncs, eg only backup from a laptop on certain network connections<br> |
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| 385 | Add force-sync command to bbackupctl, like sync but ignores AllowSyncScript |
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| 386 | |
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| 387 | <dt>0.06 (21 May 2004) |
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| 388 | <dd>Bug fixes<br> |
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| 389 | Use AES for file data<br> |
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| 390 | Cygwin port of client<br> |
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| 391 | Add usage command to bbackupquery<br> |
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| 392 | Add delete [yes] command to bbstoreaccounts<br> |
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| 393 | Add check [fix] [quiet] command to bbstoreaccounts<br> |
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| 394 | Deleted locations in conf file get deleted from server |
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| 395 | |
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| 396 | <dt>0.05 (10 Apr 2004) |
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| 397 | <dd>Bug fixes<br> |
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| 398 | Added configurable "max diffing time" parameter, improved speed of diffing algorithm in edge cases<br> |
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| 399 | Added support for old versions of OpenSSL -- experimental only (but appears to work fine)<br> |
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| 400 | Read errors on files and directories are reported neatly, and no longer abort the backup scan<br> |
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| 401 | NetBSD port fixed<br> |
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| 402 | Server more tolerant of being unexpectedly aborted |
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| 403 | |
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| 404 | <dt>0.04 (16 Mar 2004) |
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| 405 | <dd>Bug fixes and code clean up<br> |
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| 406 | Change to standard BSD license<br> |
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| 407 | Expanded error messages<br> |
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| 408 | Improved flexibility with backup timing, including the ability to do snapshot backups<br> |
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| 409 | Exclude files explictly or with regular expressions<br> |
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| 410 | More work arounds for memory issues with STL in gcc 2.95.x (the gcc 3 version is fine)<br> |
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| 411 | In bbackupquery, add a 'ls' alias, and include 'help' command to document all commands<br> |
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| 412 | The *-config programs are improved and validates options and the configuration more to catch common problems<br> |
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| 413 | bbackupd-config excludes keys file if it might be backed up<br> |
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| 414 | Add bbackupctl program for controlling bbackupd daemon<br> |
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| 415 | bbstoreaccounts takes sizes in blocks, Mb or Gb with unit suffix<br> |
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| 416 | Start and end of last sync recorded in bbackupd working dir<br> |
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| 417 | bbackupquery compares check last modification time to see if this explains any difference<br> |
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| 418 | bbackupd will run a script run to alert administator that store is full (the default script sends an email) |
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| 419 | |
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| 420 | <dt>0.03 (27 Jan 2004) |
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| 421 | <dd>Improvements to the build system, especially configuring for random Linux systems.<br> |
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| 422 | Worked round an issue with the gcc 2.95.x libraries which meant that the backup daemon |
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| 423 | slowly used more and more memory.<br> |
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| 424 | Efficiency improvements. |
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| 425 | |
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| 426 | <dt>0.02 (22 Jan 2004) |
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| 427 | <dd>First public release |
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| 428 | </dl> |
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| 429 | |
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| 430 | <h2>Documentation</h2> |
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| 431 | |
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| 432 | <div style="border:2px solid gray; padding:4px"> |
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| 433 | The <a href="/trac/wiki">Box Backup wiki</a> contains user contributed |
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| 434 | documentation, based on the documents below. Please use it for up to date information about |
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| 435 | Box Backup. |
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| 436 | </div> |
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| 437 | |
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| 438 | <p>This is basic documentation, which will be improved. Note that configuration uses a number |
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| 439 | of scripts to do the hard work -- these all output a lot of detailed instructions on exactly |
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| 440 | what to do. Please read it.</p> |
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| 441 | <ul> |
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| 442 | <li><a href="license.html">License and commentary</a> -- please read |
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| 443 | <li><a href="install.html">Compilation and installation</a> |
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| 444 | <li><a href="client.html">Configuring a client</a> |
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| 445 | <li><a href="server.html">Configuring a server</a> |
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| 446 | <li><a href="accounts.html">Certificates and accounts management</a> |
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| 447 | <li><a href="restore.html">Verify and restore backups</a> |
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| 448 | <li><a href="retrieve.html">Retrieving deleted and old files</a> |
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| 449 | <li><a href="bbackupctl.html">Controlling a backup client</a> |
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| 450 | <li><a href="space.html">Checking the storage space used on the server</a> |
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| 451 | <li><a href="serverfix.html">Fixing problems with corruption on the server</a> |
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| 452 | <li><a href="nonroot.html">Running without root</a> |
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| 453 | <li><b><a href="trouble.html">Troubleshooting</a></b> |
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| 454 | </ul> |
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| 455 | |
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| 456 | |
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| 457 | <p>Programmers notes on how the system works can be found within the notes directory inside the |
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| 458 | distribution archive. In particular, read <tt>notes/backup_encryption.txt</tt> for details of how |
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| 459 | the encryption scheme works, and where to look in the code to verify it.</p> |
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| 460 | |
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| 461 | <h2>Planned future work</h2> |
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| 462 | |
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| 463 | <ul> |
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| 464 | <li>Mark state (marks the current state of the filesystem, to emulate a tape change and restoring from that tape later) |
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| 465 | <li>Bandwidth throttling with timed limits |
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| 466 | <li>Make a OpenBSD "port" for easy installation, when the system is stable enough for general use |
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| 467 | </ul> |
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| 468 | |
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| 469 | <h2>Thanks</h2> |
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| 470 | |
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| 471 | <p>In addition to the developer credits for each release, we would like to |
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| 472 | thank:</p> |
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| 473 | |
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| 474 | <ul> |
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| 475 | <li>Stuart Hickinbottom, "Mark", Nestor Arocha Rodriguez, Chris Smith and |
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| 476 | James Stark for code contributions.</li> |
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| 477 | <li>Reinhard Tartler for maintaining Debian packages and providing us with |
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| 478 | access to the Debian automated build system.</li> |
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| 479 | <li>Pierre-Henri Lavigne for maintaining fink packages.</li> |
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| 480 | <li>Eric Cronin for maintaining the Macports port.</li> |
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| 481 | <li>James O'Gorman for hosting our website and bug tracker, and maintaining |
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| 482 | the FreeBSD port.</li> |
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| 483 | <li>Per Thomsen for writing the Docbook documentation.</li> |
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| 484 | <li>Many users on the mailing lists for finding and reporting problems |
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| 485 | and helping to test fixes, in particular Tobias Balle-Petersen, |
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| 486 | Dave Bamford, Torsten Boob, Matt Brown, Pete Jalajas, Mikael Syska |
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| 487 | (alphabetical order)</li> |
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| 488 | </ul> |
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| 489 | |
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| 490 | <p>Content © Ben Summers and Chris Wilson, 2003-2011</p> |
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| 491 | <p>Web design by <a href="http://www.wpdfd.com">Joe Gillespie</a></p> |
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| 492 | </div> |
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