Restic 0.7.1 released (please upgrade from 0.7.0!)

[fd0 (Alexander Neumann)]

After weeks of work we’re proud to release restic 0.7.0! As always, please let us know any feedback you got, by creating an issue on GitHub.

Important Changes in 0.7.0

• New “swift” backend: A new backend for the OpenStack Swift cloud storage protocol has been added, https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/975 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/648

• New “b2” backend: A new backend for Backblaze B2 cloud storage service has been added, https://www.backblaze.com https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/512 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/978

• Improved performance for the find command: Restic recognizes paths it has already checked for the files in question, so the number of backend requests is reduced a lot. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/989 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/993

• Improved performance for the fuse mount: Listing directories which contain large files now is significantly faster. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/998

• The default layout for the s3 backend is now default (instead of s3legacy). Also, there’s a new migrate command to convert an existing repo, it can be run like this: restic migrate s3_layout https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/965 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1004

• The fuse mount now has two more directories: tags contains a subdir for each tag, which in turn contains only the snapshots that have this tag. The subdir hosts contains a subdir for each host that has a snapshot, and the subdir contains the snapshots for that host. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/636 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1050

Small changes

• For the s3 backend we’re back to using the high-level API the s3 client library for uploading data, a few users reported dropped connections (which the library will automatically retry now). https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1013 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1023 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1025

• The prune command has been improved and will now remove invalid pack files, for example files that have not been uploaded completely because a backup was interrupted. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1029 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1036

• restic now tries to detect when an invalid/unknown backend is used and returns an error message. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1021 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1070

[fd0 (Alexander Neumann)]

And here’s an update: We’ve just released restic 0.7.1:

Important Changes in 0.7.1

• The migrate command for chaning the s3legacy layout to the default layout for s3 backends has been improved: It can now be restarted with restic migrate --force s3_layout and automatically retries operations on error. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1073 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1075

Small changes

• The local and sftp backends now create the subdirs below data/ on open/init. This way, restic makes sure that they always exist. This is connected to an issue for the sftp server: https://github.com/restic/rest-server/pull/11#issuecomment-309879710 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1055 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1077 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1105

• When no S3 credentials are specified in the environment variables, restic now tries to load credentials from an IAM instance profile when the s3 backend is used. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1067 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1086

• On Darwin and FreeBSD, restic now prints stats when SIGINFO is received (usually when ctrl+t is pressed). https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1082

• The dependencies have been updated. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1108 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1124

• A bug was found (and corrected) in the index rebuilding after prune, which led to indexes which include blobs that were not present in the repo any more. There were already checks in place which detected this situation and aborted with an error message. A new run of either prune or rebuild-index corrected the index files. This is now fixed and a test has been added to detect this. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1115

• Errors for chmod() on Unix for filesystems which do not support it (e.g. smb mounted via gvfs) are now ignored. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1080 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1112

• The semantic for the --tags option to forget and snapshots was clarified: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1081 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1090

[fd0 (Alexander Neumann)]

Please upgrade to 0.7.1 if you still use restic 0.7.0, we’ve found a serious bug. Background story is here: https://restic.github.io/blog/2017-07-25/please-upgrade-to-0.7.1