[maemo-developers] Duplicity 0.6.02 Has Been Released

[From: Kenneth Loafman]

Hopefully, I'll be able to put a GUI around it sometime in the near
future.  Been concentrating on the details more than presentation.

...Ken

Benoît HERVIER wrote:
> A great backup commands line apps :)
> 
> 2009/7/11 George Farris <farrisg at shaw.ca>:
>> This is great but nowhere do you even mention what Duplicity is...
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 09:12 +0200, Benoît HERVIER wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> 2009/7/8 Kenneth Loafman <kenneth at loafman.com>:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Even though the list is short, this is a fairly important bug fix
>>>> release.  Plus, we have completed the process of making the cache
>>>> consistent with the remote by adding a step that removes any spurious
>>>> files left over from a previous duplicity run.
>>>>
>>>> ...Thanks,
>>>> ...Ken
>>>>
>>>> New in v0.6.02 (2009/07/07)
>>>> ---------------------------
>>>> Duplicity will now remove any spurious files left in the cache from
>>>> a previous run.  This will keep the metadata cache in sync with the
>>>> remote storage metadata.
>>>>
>>>> Bugs fixed this release:
>>>> 394629  Hang on first collection-status
>>>> 379386  Fix 'list-current-files' with missing archive dir
>>>> 395826  "No such file or directory" when backing up second time
>>>> 394627  User-friendly archive dir print
>>>> 388699  Manifest mismatch error
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> And since it looks like I did not announce 0.6.01, here it is...
>>>>
>>>> This is the first release from Launchpad, and I'm glad I made the move.
>>>> The website is still on Savannah, but that will be changing.
>>>>
>>>> Lots of fixes and some good changes.  The major change is that duplicity
>>>> will synchronize the archive directory with the remote store on startup.
>>>>  This fixes a number of issues that occurred when upgrading from the
>>>> 0.5.x series.  Please read the release notes below for details.
>>>>
>>>> You can get it from https://launchpad.net/duplicity/trunk/0.6.01.
>>>>
>>>> ...Thanks,
>>>> ...Ken
>>>>
>>>> New in v0.6.01 (2009/07/01)
>>>> ---------------------------
>>>> Fixed issues in Checkpoint/Restart:
>>>> * The --name backupname" option was added to allow the
>>>>  user to separate one archive from another.  If not
>>>>  specified, the default is an MD5 hash of the target
>>>>  URL, which should suffice for most uses.
>>>>
>>>> * The archive_dir (cache) is now stored in a standard
>>>>  location, defaulting to ~/.cache/duplicity.  See
>>>>  http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
>>>>
>>>> * The interaction between the --archive-dir option and
>>>>  the --name option allows for four possible results
>>>>  for the location of the archive dir.
>>>>    + neither specified (default)
>>>>        ~/.cache/duplicity/hash-of-url
>>>>    + --archive-dir=~/arch, no --name
>>>>        ~/arch/hash-of-url
>>>>    + no --archive-dir, --name=foo
>>>>        ~/.cache/duplicity/foo
>>>>    + --archive-dir=~/arch, --name=foo
>>>>        ~/arch/foo
>>>>
>>>> * duplicity will now copy needed metadata from the
>>>>  remote store to the local cache as needed.  This
>>>>  means that the first use after upgraded from 0.5.x
>>>>  will have the metadata copied to the local archive
>>>>  dir in order to sync both.
>>>>
>>>> * cleanup will now work correctly with the archive
>>>>  dir and separates the local from the remote files.
>>>>
>>>> Bugs fixed this release:
>>>> * 388034     Unable to backup
>>>> * 378940     python2-6 issue / UTF-8 charset / Ubuntu 9.04
>>>> * 379386     Fix list-current-files w/ missing archive dir
>>>> * 387102     Asynchronous upload not working properly
>>>> * 387218     Make scp/ssh into sftp-only backend
>>>> * 388992     List of Orphaned Files Growing
>>>> * 392905     NoneType object has no attribute 'startswith'
>>>> * 393372     Error creating directory
>>>> * 383412     Add InfoCodes for upload events
>>>> * 383419     Add gio backend
>>>>
>>>>
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