dar-backup v2 Stable 1.1.1 released - small fixes & a heads up

• Heads up:
  • Backup definition names are now validated. Allowed characters: letters, numbers, spaces, and hyphens. Underscores are rejected by default. Use --allow-unsafe-definition-names to skip this validation if you need legacy names.
• various smaller fixes

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dar-backup v2 Stable 1.1.0 released (PITR)

New feature: Point In Time Restore (PITR)

• Utilizing dar_manager's catalogs PITR is implemented for easy restore to a specific time.
• manager --relocate-archive-path can be used to move paths around in the catalog, if archives change path.
  • quite useful as a system evolves, like mine :-)

Other improvements:

• release.sh now much stricter. It run test-report.sh which drops test results into v2/doc/test-report/
• test suite expanded to 550+ unit and integration tests

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dar-backup v2 Stable 1.0.2 released

• This release improves stability on large backups (TB size) by keeping memory usage at reasonable levels.
• A bugfix to restore-tests
• Bump to Python 3.11 to fix an xml parser issue
• A trace log file
• more ....

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dar-backup v2 Stable 1.0.1 released

This release contains many improvements, a security fix, and more test cases.

• PAR2 redundancy files can now be stored away from the archives
• Discord webhooks can be used to get notifications
• Filters used for restore tests, to avoid files changing frequently
• Safe delete in cleanup, thanks to a Snyk finding
• dar-backup can now find it's config via an env var
• more

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dar-backup v2 Stable 1.0 released

This is a promotion of v2-beta-0.8.4 to v2 Stable 1.0 :-)

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dar-backup 2.0 Beta (v0.8.4) – only use -D when restoring FULL

This is a maintenance release with a restore fix:

• Dar-backup now only uses "-D" when restoring FULL
  • A test case on my dar-backup-image repo does not delete a lone file in a directory if -D is used restoring from a DIFF.

The issue was found while working on a backup/restore Action test on my dar-backup-image repo.

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dar-backup 2.0 Beta (v0.8.3) – overwrite / remove files on restore

This is a maintenance release with a restore fix:

• Dar-backup now deletes files if noted as "removed" in the archive catalog for DIFF and INCR backups.
  • This ensures a restore of a FULL + DIFF + INCR matches the files in the source directories.
  • Options '-wa' & '-/ Oo' added to the restore command.

The issue was found while working on a backup/restore Action test on my dar-backup-image repo.

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dar-backup 2.0 Beta (v0.8.2) – security hardening (input sanitizer)

This release is a feature improvement in the security department :-)

• Security hardening: CommandRunner now performs strict command-line sanitization

  • Disallows potentially dangerous characters (e.g. ;, &, |) in command arguments
  • Prevents injection-style misuse when restoring specific files or invoking custom commands

• Documentation:

  • New README section explains filename restrictions and safe workarounds (e.g. restoring directly with dar, if needed)
  • Includes a Markdown table listing all disallowed characters

• Test suite:

  • Existing test cases updated to comply with the new sanitization rules
  • Additional tests ensure CommandRunner handles large binary output and edge cases cleanly

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dar-backup 2.0 Beta (v0.8.1) – 1 FIX

This is a maintenance release with 1 FIX.

• FIX to CommandRunner + 2 test cases

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dar-backup 2.0 Beta (v0.8.0) – celebrate 1000 clones, closing in on `1.0`

Beta Release of dar-backup

dar-back has today been cloned 1000+ times since I started counting. To me that is a milestone worth celebrating :-)

Notable Changes in v2-beta-0.8.0

Modified clone dashboard generator to produce easier to read dashboard and be more robust.
Dir_traversal sanitation: clean_log.py now only accepts files in configured log directory to `--file` option.

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Associated repos:

ClonePulse

I have had fun making a small focused (spinoff from this) template repo ClonePulse which features:

• fetch Github clone stats and store in a json file in the repo
• auto annotations of "daily max"
• Badge generation
• Dashboard generator of 12 weeks of clone stats
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dar-backup-image

I have also started a fun litlle repo dar-backup-image, which is about putting dar-backup in a Docker image.