Important notes

This section provides information about security and corruption issues.

Pre-1.1.11 potential index corruption / data loss issue

A bug was discovered in our hashtable code, see issue #4829. The code is used for the client-side chunks cache and the server-side repo index.

Although borg uses the hashtables very heavily, the index corruption did not happen too frequently, because it needed specific conditions to happen.

Data loss required even more specific conditions, so it should be rare (and also detectable via borg check).

You might be affected if borg crashed with / complained about:

• AssertionError: Corrupted segment reference count - corrupted index or hints

• ObjectNotFound: Object with key … not found in repository …

• Index mismatch for key b’…’. (…, …) != (-1, -1)

• ValueError: stats_against: key contained in self but not in master_index.

Advised procedure to fix any related issue in your indexes/caches:

• install fixed borg code (on client AND server)

• for all of your clients and repos remove the cache by:

  borg delete --cache-only YOURREPO

  (later, the cache will be re-built automatically)

• for all your repos, rebuild the repo index by:

  borg check --repair YOURREPO

  This will also check all archives and detect if there is any data-loss issue.

Affected branches / releases:

• fd06497 introduced the bug into 1.1-maint branch - it affects all borg 1.1.x since 1.1.0b4.

• fd06497 introduced the bug into master branch - it affects all borg 1.2.0 alpha releases.

• c5cd882 introduced the bug into 1.0-maint branch - it affects all borg 1.0.x since 1.0.11rc1.

The bug was fixed by:

• 701159a fixes the bug in 1.1-maint branch - will be released with borg 1.1.11.

• fa63150 fixes the bug in master branch - will be released with borg 1.2.0a8.

• 7bb90b6 fixes the bug in 1.0-maint branch. Branch is EOL, no new release is planned as of now.

Pre-1.1.4 potential data corruption issue

A data corruption bug was discovered in borg check --repair, see issue #3444.

This is a 1.1.x regression, releases < 1.1 (e.g. 1.0.x) are not affected.

To avoid data loss, you must not run borg check --repair using an unfixed version of borg 1.1.x. The first official release that has the fix is 1.1.4.

Package maintainers may have applied the fix to updated packages of 1.1.x (x<4) though, see the package maintainer’s package changelog to make sure.

If you never had missing item metadata chunks, the bug has not affected you even if you did run borg check --repair with an unfixed version.

When borg check --repair tried to repair corrupt archives that miss item metadata chunks, the resync to valid metadata in still present item metadata chunks malfunctioned. This was due to a broken validator that considered all (even valid) item metadata as invalid. As they were considered invalid, borg discarded them. Practically, that means the affected files, directories or other fs objects were discarded from the archive.

Due to the malfunction, the process was extremely slow, but if you let it complete, borg would have created a “repaired” archive that has lost a lot of items. If you interrupted borg check --repair because it was so strangely slow (killing borg somehow, e.g. Ctrl-C) the transaction was rolled back and no corruption occurred.

The log message indicating the precondition for the bug triggering looks like:

item metadata chunk missing [chunk: 001056_bdee87d…a3e50d]

If you never had that in your borg check --repair runs, you’re not affected.

But if you’re unsure or you actually have seen that, better check your archives. By just using “borg list repo::archive” you can see if all expected filesystem items are listed.

Pre-1.0.9 manifest spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2016-10099)

A flaw in the cryptographic authentication scheme in Borg allowed an attacker to spoof the manifest. The attack requires an attacker to be able to

1. insert files (with no additional headers) into backups

2. gain write access to the repository

This vulnerability does not disclose plaintext to the attacker, nor does it affect the authenticity of existing archives.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to create a spoofed manifest (the list of archives). Creating plausible fake archives may be feasible for small archives, but is unlikely for large archives.

The fix adds a separate authentication tag to the manifest. For compatibility with prior versions this authentication tag is not required by default for existing repositories. Repositories created with 1.0.9 and later require it.

Steps you should take:

1. Upgrade all clients to 1.0.9 or later.

2. Run borg upgrade --tam <repository> on every client for each repository.

3. This will list all archives, including archive IDs, for easy comparison with your logs.

4. Done.

Prior versions can access and modify repositories with this measure enabled, however, to 1.0.9 or later their modifications are indiscernible from an attack and will raise an error until the below procedure is followed. We are aware that this can be annoying in some circumstances, but don’t see a way to fix the vulnerability otherwise.

In case a version prior to 1.0.9 is used to modify a repository where above procedure was completed, and now you get an error message from other clients:

1. borg upgrade --tam --force <repository> once with any client suffices.

This attack is mitigated by:

• Noting/logging borg list, borg info, or borg create --stats, which contain the archive IDs.

We are not aware of others having discovered, disclosed or exploited this vulnerability.

Vulnerability time line:

• 2016-11-14: Vulnerability and fix discovered during review of cryptography by Marian Beermann (@enkore)

• 2016-11-20: First patch

• 2016-12-20: Released fixed version 1.0.9

• 2017-01-02: CVE was assigned

• 2017-01-15: Released fixed version 1.1.0b3 (fix was previously only available from source)

Pre-1.0.9 potential data loss

If you have archives in your repository that were made with attic <= 0.13 (and later migrated to borg), running borg check would report errors in these archives. See issue #1837.

The reason for this is a invalid (and useless) metadata key that was always added due to a bug in these old attic versions.

If you run borg check --repair, things escalate quickly: all archive items with invalid metadata will be killed. Due to that attic bug, that means all items in all archives made with these old attic versions.

Pre-1.0.4 potential repo corruption

Some external errors (like network or disk I/O errors) could lead to corruption of the backup repository due to issue #1138.

A sign that this happened is if “E” status was reported for a file that can not be explained by problems with the source file. If you still have logs from “borg create -v --list”, you can check for “E” status.

Here is what could cause corruption and what you can do now:

1. I/O errors (e.g. repo disk errors) while writing data to repo.

This could lead to corrupted segment files.

Fix:

# check for corrupt chunks / segments:
borg check -v --repository-only REPO

# repair the repo:
borg check -v --repository-only --repair REPO

# make sure everything is fixed:
borg check -v --repository-only REPO

2. Unreliable network / unreliable connection to the repo.

This could lead to archive metadata corruption.

Fix:

# check for corrupt archives:
borg check -v --archives-only REPO

# delete the corrupt archives:
borg delete --force REPO::CORRUPT_ARCHIVE

# make sure everything is fixed:
borg check -v --archives-only REPO

3. In case you want to do more intensive checking.

The best check that everything is ok is to run a dry-run extraction:

borg extract -v --dry-run REPO::ARCHIVE

Change Log

Version 1.2.4 (2023-03-24)

Upgrade notes:

Some things can be recommended for the upgrade process from borg 1.1.x (please also read the important compatibility notes below):

• first upgrade to a recent 1.1.x release - especially if you run some older 1.1.* or even 1.0.* borg release.

• using that, run at least one borg create (your normal backup), prune and especially a check to see everything is in a good state.

• check the output of borg check - if there is anything special, consider a borg check --repair followed by another borg check.

• if everything is fine so far (borg check reports no issues), you can consider upgrading to 1.2.x. if not, please first fix any already existing issue.

• if you want to play safer, first create a backup of your borg repository.

• upgrade to latest borg 1.2.x release (you could use the fat binary from github releases page)

• run borg compact --cleanup-commits to clean up a ton of 17 bytes long files in your repo caused by a borg 1.1 bug

• run borg check again (now with borg 1.2.x) and check if there is anything special.

• run borg info (with borg 1.2.x) to build the local pre12-meta cache (can take significant time, but after that it will be fast) - for more details see below.

• check the compatibility notes (see below) and adapt your scripts, if needed.

• if you run into any issues, please check the github issue tracker before posting new issues there or elsewhere.

If you follow this procedure, you can help avoiding that we get a lot of “borg 1.2” issue reports that are not really 1.2 issues, but existed before and maybe just were not noticed.

Compatibility notes:

• matching of path patterns has been aligned with borg storing relative paths. Borg archives file paths without leading slashes. Previously, include/exclude patterns could contain leading slashes. You should check your patterns and remove leading slashes.

• dropped support / testing for older Pythons, minimum requirement is 3.8. In case your OS does not provide Python >= 3.8, consider using our binary, which does not need an external Python interpreter. Or continue using borg 1.1.x, which is still supported.

• freeing repository space only happens when “borg compact” is invoked.

• mount: the default for --numeric-ids is False now (same as borg extract)

• borg create --noatime is deprecated. Not storing atime is the default behaviour now (use --atime if you want to store the atime).

• --prefix is deprecated, use -a / --glob-archives, see #6806

• list: corrected mix-up of “isomtime” and “mtime” formats. Previously, “isomtime” was the default but produced a verbose human format, while “mtime” produced a ISO-8601-like format. The behaviours have been swapped (so “mtime” is human, “isomtime” is ISO-like), and the default is now “mtime”. “isomtime” is now a real ISO-8601 format (“T” between date and time, not a space).

• create/recreate --list: file status for all files used to get announced AFTER the file (with borg < 1.2). Now, file status is announced BEFORE the file contents are processed. If the file status changes later (e.g. due to an error or a content change), the updated/final file status will be printed again.

• removed deprecated-since-long stuff (deprecated since):

  • command “borg change-passphrase” (2017-02), use “borg key …”

  • option “--keep-tag-files” (2017-01), use “--keep-exclude-tags”

  • option “--list-format” (2017-10), use “--format”

  • option “--ignore-inode” (2017-09), use “--files-cache” w/o “inode”

  • option “--no-files-cache” (2017-09), use “--files-cache=disabled”

• removed BORG_HOSTNAME_IS_UNIQUE env var. to use borg you must implement one of these 2 scenarios:

  • 1. the combination of FQDN and result of uuid.getnode() must be unique and stable (this should be the case for almost everybody, except when having duplicate FQDN and MAC address or all-zero MAC address)

  • 2. if you are aware that 1) is not the case for you, you must set BORG_HOST_ID env var to something unique.

• exit with 128 + signal number, #5161. if you have scripts expecting rc == 2 for a signal exit, you need to update them to check for >= 128.

New features:

• import-tar: add --ignore-zeros to process concatenated tars, #7432.

• debug id-hash: computes file/chunk content id-hash, #7406

• diff: --content-only does not show mode/ctime/mtime changes, #7248

• diff: JSON strings in diff output are now sorted alphabetically

Bug fixes:

• xattrs: fix namespace processing on FreeBSD, #6997

• diff: fix path related bug seen when addressing deferred items.

• debug get-obj/put-obj: always give chunkid as cli param, see #7290 (this is an incompatible change, see also borg debug id-hash)

• extract: fix mtime when ResourceFork xattr is set (macOS specific), #7234

• recreate: without --chunker-params, do not re-chunk, #7337

• recreate: when --target is given, do not detect “nothing to do”. use case: borg recreate -a src --target dst can be used to make a copy of an archive inside the same repository, #7254.

• set .hardlink_master for ALL hardlinkable items, #7175

• locking: fix host, pid, tid order. tid (thread id) must be parsed as hex from lock file name.

• update development.lock.txt, including a setuptools security fix, #7227

Other changes:

• requirements: allow msgpack 1.0.5 also

• upgrade Cython to 0.29.33

• hashindex minor fixes, refactor, tweaks, tests

• use os.replace not os.rename

• remove BORG_LIBB2_PREFIX (not used any more)

• docs:

  • BORG_KEY_FILE: clarify docs, #7444

  • update FAQ about locale/unicode issues, #6999

  • improve mount options rendering, #7359

  • make timestamps in manual pages reproducible

  • installation: update Fedora in distribution list, #7357

• tests:

  • fix test_size_on_disk_accurate for large st_blksize, #7250

  • add same_ts_ns function and use it for relaxed timestamp comparisons

  • “auto” compressor tests: don’t assume a specific size, do not assume zlib is better than lz4, #7363

  • add test for extracted directory mtime

• vagrant:

  • upgrade local freebsd 12.1 box -> generic/freebsd13 box (13.1)

  • use pythons > 3.8 which work on freebsd 13.1

  • pyenv: also install python 3.11.1 for testing

  • pyenv: use python 3.10.1, 3.10.0 build is broken on freebsd

Version 1.2.3 (2022-12-24)

Fixes:

• create: fix --list --dry-run output for directories, #7209

• diff/recreate: normalize chunker params before comparing them, #7079

• check: fix uninitialised variable if repo is completely empty, #7034

• xattrs: improve error handling, #6988

• fix args.paths related argparsing, #6994

• archive.save(): always use metadata from stats (e.g. nfiles, size, …), #7072

• tar_filter: recognize .tar.zst as zstd, #7093

• get_chunker: fix missing sparse=False argument, #7056

• file_integrity.py: make sure file_fd is always closed on exit

• repository: cleanup(): close segment before unlinking

• repository: use os.replace instead of os.rename

Other changes:

• remove python < 3.7 compatibility code

• do not use version_tuple placeholder in setuptools_scm template

• CI: fix tox4 passenv issue, #7199

• vagrant: update to python 3.9.16, use the openbsd 7.1 box

• misc. test suite and docs fixes / improvements

• remove deprecated --prefix from docs, #7109

• Windows: use MSYS2 for Github CI, remove Appveyor CI

Version 1.2.2 (2022-08-20)

New features:

• prune/delete --checkpoint-interval=1800 and ctrl-c/SIGINT support, #6284

Fixes:

• SaveFile: use a custom mkstemp with mode support, #6933, #6400, #6786. This fixes umask/mode/ACL issues (and also “chmod not supported” exceptions seen in 1.2.1) of files updated using SaveFile, e.g. the repo config.

• hashindex_compact: fix eval order (check idx before use), #5899

• create --paths-from-(stdin|command): normalize paths, #6778

• secure_erase: avoid collateral damage, #6768. If a hardlink copy of a repo was made and a new repo config shall be saved, do NOT fill in random garbage before deleting the previous repo config, because that would damage the hardlink copy.

• list: fix {flags:<WIDTH>} formatting, #6081

• check: try harder to create the key, #5719

• misc commands: ctrl-c must not kill other subprocesses, #6912

  • borg create with a remote repo via ssh

  • borg create --content-from-command

  • borg create --paths-from-command

  • (de)compression filter process of import-tar / export-tar

Other changes:

• deprecate --prefix, use -a / --glob-archives, see #6806

• make setuptools happy (“package would be ignored”), #6874

• fix pyproject.toml to create a fixed _version.py file, compatible with both old and new setuptools_scm version, #6875

• automate asciinema screencasts

• CI: test on macOS 12 without fuse / fuse tests (too troublesome on github CI due to kernel extensions needed by macFUSE)

• tests: fix test_obfuscate byte accounting

• repository: add debug logging for issue #6687

• _chunker.c: fix warnings on macOS

• requirements.lock.txt: use the latest cython 0.29.32

• docs:

  • add info on man page installation, #6894

  • update archive_progress json description about “finished”, #6570

  • json progress_percent: some values are optional, #4074

  • FAQ: full quota / full disk, #5960

  • correct shell syntax for installation using git

Version 1.2.1 (2022-06-06)

Fixes:

• create: skip with warning if opening the parent dir of recursion root fails, #6374

• create: fix crash. metadata stream can produce all-zero chunks, #6587

• fix crash when computing stats, escape % chars in archive name, #6500

• fix transaction rollback: use files cache filename as found in txn.active/, #6353

• import-tar: kill filter process in case of borg exceptions, #6401 #6681

• import-tar: fix mtime type bug

• ensure_dir: respect umask for created directory modes, #6400

• SaveFile: respect umask for final file mode, #6400

• check archive: improve error handling for corrupt archive metadata block, make robust_iterator more robust, #4777

• pre12-meta cache: do not use the cache if want_unique is True, #6612

• fix scp-style repo url parsing for ip v6 address, #6526

• mount -o versions: give clear error msg instead of crashing. it does not make sense to request versions view if you only look at 1 archive, but the code shall not crash in that case as it did, but give a clear error msg.

• show_progress: add finished=true/false to archive_progress json, #6570

• delete/prune: fix --iec mode output (decimal vs. binary units), #6606

• info: fix authenticated mode repo to show “Encrypted: No”, #6462

• diff: support presence change for blkdev, chrdev and fifo items, #6615

New features:

• delete: add repository id and location to prompt, #6453

• borg debug dump-repo-objs --ghost: new --segment=S --offset=O options

Other changes:

• support python 3.11

• allow msgpack 1.0.4, #6716

• load_key: no key is same as empty key, #6441

• give a more helpful error msg for unsupported key formats, #6561

• better error msg for defect or unsupported repo configs, #6566

• docs:

  • document borg 1.2 pattern matching behavior change, #6407 Make clear that absolute paths always go into the matcher as if they are relative (without leading slash). Adapt all examples accordingly.

  • authentication primitives: improved security and performance infos

  • mention BORG_FILES_CACHE_SUFFIX as alternative to BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, #5602

  • FAQ: add a hint about --debug-topic=files_cache

  • improve borg check --max-duration description

  • fix values of TAG bytes, #6515

  • borg compact --cleanup-commits also runs a normal compaction, #6324

  • virtualization speed tips

  • recommend umask for passphrase file perms

  • borg 1.2 is security supported

  • update link to ubuntu packages, #6485

  • use --numeric-ids in pull mode docs

  • remove blake2 docs, blake2 code not bundled any more, #6371

  • clarify on-disk order and size of segment file log entry fields, #6357

  • docs building: do not transform --/--- to unicode dashes

• tests:

  • check that borg does not require pytest for normal usage, fixes #6563

  • fix OpenBSD symlink mode test failure, #2055

• vagrant:

  • darwin64: remove fakeroot, #6314

  • update development.lock.txt

  • use pyinstaller 4.10 and python 3.9.13 for binary build

  • upgrade VMCPUS and xdistn from 4 to 16, maybe this speeds up the tests

• crypto:

  • use hmac.compare_digest instead of ==, #6470

  • hmac_sha256: replace own cython wrapper code by hmac.digest python stdlib (since py38)

  • hmac and blake2b minor optimizations and cleanups

  • removed some unused crypto related code, #6472

  • avoid losing the key (potential use-after-free). this never could happen in 1.2 due to the way we use the code. The issue was discovered in master after other changes, so we also “fixed” it here before it bites us.

• setup / build:

  • add pyproject.toml, fix sys.path, #6466

  • setuptools_scm: also require it via pyproject.toml

  • allow extra compiler flags for every extension build

  • fix misc. C / Cython compiler warnings, deprecation warnings

  • fix zstd.h include for bundled zstd, #6369

• source using python 3.8 features: pyupgrade --py38-plus ./**/*.py

Version 1.2.0 (2022-02-22 22:02:22 :-)

Fixes:

• diff: reduce memory consumption, fix is_hardlink_master, #6295

• compact: fix / improve freeable / freed space log output

  • derive really freed space from quota use before/after, #5679

  • do not say “freeable”, but “maybe freeable” (based on hint, unsure)

• fix race conditions in internal SaveFile function, #6306 #6028

• implement internal safe_unlink (was: truncate_and_unlink) function more safely: usually it does not truncate any more, only under “disk full” circumstances and only if there is only one hardlink. see: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/discussions/6286

Other changes:

• info: use a pre12-meta cache to accelerate stats for borg < 1.2 archives. the first time borg info is invoked on a borg 1.1 repo, it can take a rather long time computing and caching some stats values for 1.1 archives, which borg 1.2 archives have in their archive metadata structure. be patient, esp. if you have lots of old archives. following invocations are much faster due to the cache. related change: add archive name to calc_stats progress display.

• docs:

  • add borg 1.2 upgrade notes, #6217

  • link to borg placeholders and borg patterns help

  • init: explain the encryption modes better

  • clarify usage of patternfile roots

  • put import-tar docs into same file as export-tar docs

  • explain the difference between a path that ends with or without a slash, #6297

Version 1.2.0rc1 (2022-02-05)

Fixes:

• repo::archive location placeholder expansion fixes, #5826, #5998

• repository: fix intermediate commits, shall be at end of current segment

• delete: don’t commit if nothing was deleted, avoid cache sync, #6060

• argument parsing: accept some options only once, #6026

• disallow overwriting of existing keyfiles on init, #6036

• if ensure_dir() fails, give more informative error message, #5952

New features:

• delete --force: do not ask when deleting a repo, #5941

Other changes:

• requirements: exclude broken or incompatible-with-pyinstaller setuptools

• add a requirements.d/development.lock.txt and use it for vagrant

• tests:

  • added nonce-related tests

  • refactor: remove assert_true

  • vagrant: macos box tuning, netbsd box fixes, #5370, #5922

• docs:

  • update install docs / requirements docs, #6180

  • borg mount / FUSE “versions” view is not experimental any more

  • --pattern* is not experimental any more, #6134

  • impact of deleting path/to/repo/nonce, #5858

  • key export: add examples, #6204

  • ~/.config/borg/keys is not used for repokey keys, #6107

  • excluded parent dir’s metadata can’t restore

Version 1.2.0b4 (2022-01-23)

Fixes:

• create: fix passing device nodes and symlinks to --paths-from-stdin, #6009

• create --dry-run: fix display of kept tagfile, #5834

• check --repair: fix missing parameter in “did not consistently fail” msg, #5822

• fix hardlinkable file type check, #6037

• list: remove placeholders for shake_* hashes, #6082

• prune: handle case of calling prune_split when there are no archives, #6015

• benchmark crud: make sure cleanup of borg-test-data files/dir happens, #5630

• do not show archive name in repository-related error msgs, #6014

• prettier error msg (no stacktrace) if exclude file is missing, #5734

• do not require BORG_CONFIG_DIR if BORG_{SECURITY,KEYS}_DIR are set, #5979

• fix pyinstaller detection for dir-mode, #5897

• atomically create the CACHE_TAG file, #6028

• deal with the SaveFile/SyncFile race, docs, see #6056 708a5853

• avoid expanding path into LHS of formatting operation + tests, #6064 #6063

• repository: quota / compactable computation fixes

• info: emit repo info even if repo has 0 archives + test, #6120

New features:

• check --repair: significantly speed up search for next valid object in segment, #6022

• check: add progress indicator for archive check, #5809

• create: add retry_erofs workaround for O_NOATIME issue on volume shadow copies in WSL1, #6024

• create: allow --files-cache=size (this is potentially dangerous, use on your own risk), #5686

• import-tar: implement import-tar to complement export-tar, #2233

• implement BORG_SELFTEST env variable (can be carefully used to speedup borg hosting), #5871

• key export: print key if path is ‘-’ or not given, #6092

• list --format: Add command_line to format keys

Other changes:

• pypi metadata: alpha -> beta

• require python 3.8+, #5975

• use pyinstaller 4.7

• allow msgpack 1.0.3

• upgrade to bundled xxhash to 0.8.1

• import-tar / export-tar: tar file related changes:

  • check for short tarfile extensions

  • add .lz4 and .zstd

  • fix docs about extensions and decompression commands

• add github codeql analysis, #6148

• vagrant:

  • box updates / add new boxes / remove outdated and broken boxes

  • use Python 3.9.10 (incl. binary builds) and 3.10.0

  • fix pyenv initialisation, #5798

  • fix vagrant scp on macOS, #5921

  • use macfuse instead of osxfuse

• shell completions:

  • update shell completions to 1.1.17, #5923

  • remove BORG_LIBC completion, since 9914968 borg no longer uses find_library().

• docs:

  • fixed readme.rst irc webchat link (we use libera chat now, not freenode)

  • fix exceptions thrown by setup.py build_man

  • check --repair: recommend checking hw before check --repair, #5855

  • check --verify-data: clarify and document conflict with --repository-only, #5808

  • serve: improve ssh forced commands docs, #6083

  • list: improve docs for borg list --format, #6061

  • list: remove --list-format from borg list

  • FAQ: fix manifest-timestamp path (inside security dir)

  • fix the broken link to .nix file

  • document behavior for filesystems with inconsistent inodes, #5770

  • clarify user_id vs uid for fuse, #5723

  • clarify pattern usage with commands, #5176

  • clarify pp vs. pf pattern type, #5300

  • update referenced freebsd/macOS versions used for binary build, #5942

  • pull mode: add some warnings, #5827

  • clarify “you will need key and passphrase” borg init warning, #4622

  • add missing leading slashes in help patterns, #5857

  • add info on renaming repositories, #5240

  • check: add notice about defective hardware, #5753

  • mention tar --compare (compare archive to fs files), #5880

  • add note about grandfather-father-son backup retention policy / rotation scheme, #6006

  • permissions note rewritten to make it less confusing

  • create github security policy

  • remove leftovers of BORG_HOSTNAME_IS_UNIQUE

  • excluded parent dir’s metadata can’t restore. (#6062)

  • if parent dir is not extracted, we do not have its metadata

  • clarify who starts the remote agent

Version 1.2.0b3 (2021-05-12)

Fixes:

• create: fix --progress --log-json, #4360#issuecomment-774580052

• do not load files cache for commands not using it, #5673

• fix repeated cache tag file writing bug

New features:

• create/recreate: print preliminary file status early, #5417

• create/extract: add --noxattrs and --noacls options, #3955

• create: verbose files cache logging via --debug-topic=files_cache, #5659

• mount: implement --numeric-ids (default: False!), #2377

• diff: add --json-lines option

• info / create --stats: add --iec option to print sizes in powers of 1024.

Other changes:

• create: add --upload-(ratelimit|buffer), deprecate --remote-* options, #5611

• create/extract/mount: add --numeric-ids, deprecate --numeric-owner option, #5724

• config: accept non-int value for max_segment_size / storage_quota

• use PyInstaller v4.3, #5671

• vagrant: use Python 3.9.5 to build binaries

• tox.ini: modernize and enable execution without preinstalling deps

• cleanup code style checks

• get rid of distutils, use setuptools+packaging

• github CI: test on Python 3.10-dev

• check: missing / healed chunks: always tell chunk ID, #5704

• docs:

  • remove bad /var/cache exclusion in example commands, #5625

  • misc. fixes and improvements, esp. for macOS

  • add unsafe workaround to use an old repo copy, #5722

Version 1.2.0b2 (2021-02-06)

Fixes:

• create: do not recurse into duplicate roots, #5603

• create: only print stats if not ctrl-c’ed, fixes traceback, #5668

• extract: improve exception handling when setting xattrs, #5092. emit a warning message giving the path, xattr key and error message. continue trying to restore other xattrs and bsdflags of the same file after an exception with xattr-setting happened.

• export-tar: fix memory leak with ssh: remote repository, #5568. fix potential memory leak with ssh: remote repository with partial extraction.

• remove empty shadowed_segments lists, #5275

• fix bad default: manifest.archives.list(consider_checkpoints=False), fixes tracebacks / KeyErros for missing objects in ChunkIndex, #5668

New features:

• create: improve sparse file support

  • create --sparse (detect sparse file holes) and file map support, only for the “fixed” chunker, #14

  • detect all-zero chunks in read data in “buzhash” and “fixed” chunkers

  • cached_hash: use a small LRU cache to accelerate all-zero chunks hashing

  • use cached_hash also to generate all-zero replacement chunks

• create --remote-buffer, add a upload buffer for remote repos, #5574

• prune: keep oldest archive when retention target not met

Other changes:

• use blake2 from python 3.6+ hashlib (this removes the requirement for libb2 and the bundled blake2 code)

• also accept msgpack up to 1.0.2. exclude 1.0.1 though, which had some issues (not sure they affect borg).

• create: add repository location to --stats output, #5491

• check: debug log the segment filename

• delete: add a --list switch to borg delete, #5116

• borg debug dump-hints - implemented to e.g. to look at shadow_index

• Tab completion support for additional archives for ‘borg delete’

• refactor: have one borg.constants.zero all-zero bytes object

• refactor shadow_index updating repo.put/delete, #5661, #5636.

• docs:

  • add another case of attempted hardlink usage

  • fix description of borg upgrade hardlink usage, #5518

  • use HTTPS everywhere

  • add examples for --paths-from-stdin, --paths-from-command, --paths-separator, #5644

  • fix typos/grammar

  • update docs for dev environment installation instructions

  • recommend running tests only on installed versions for setup

  • add badge with current status of package

• vagrant:

  • use brew install --cask …, #5557

  • use Python 3.9.1 and PyInstaller 4.1 to build the borg binary

Version 1.2.0b1 (2020-12-06)

Fixes:

• BORG_CACHE_DIR crashing borg if empty, atomic handling of recursive directory creation, #5216

• fix --dry-run and --stats coexistence, #5415

• allow EIO with warning when trying to hardlink, #4336

• export-tar: set tar format to GNU_FORMAT explicitly, #5274

• use --timestamp for {utcnow} and {now} if given, #5189

• make timestamp helper timezone-aware

New features:

• create: implement --paths-from-stdin and --paths-from-command, see #5492. These switches read paths to archive from stdin. Delimiter can specified by --paths-delimiter=DELIM. Paths read will be added honoring every option but exclusion options and --one-file-system. borg won’t recurse into directories.

• ‘obfuscate’ pseudo compressor obfuscates compressed chunk size in repo

• add pyfuse3 (successor of llfuse) as an alternative lowlevel fuse implementation to llfuse (deprecated), #5407. FUSE implementation can be switched via env var BORG_FUSE_IMPL.

• allow appending to the files cache filename with BORG_FILES_CACHE_SUFFIX

• create: implement --stdin-mode, --stdin-user and --stdin-group, #5333

Other changes:

• split recursive directory walking/processing into directory walking and item processing.

• fix warning by importing setuptools before distutils.

• debug info: include infos about FUSE implementation, #5546

• testing:

  • add a test for the hashindex corruption bug, #5531 #4829

  • move away from travis-ci, use github actions, #5528 #5467

  • test both on fuse2 and fuse3

  • upload coverage reports to codecov

  • fix spurious failure in test_cache_files, #5438

  • add tests for Location.with_timestamp

  • tox: add a non-fuse env to the envlist

• vagrant:

  • use python 3.7.latest and pyinstaller 4.0 for binary creation

  • pyinstaller: compute basepath from spec file location

  • vagrant: updates/fixes for archlinux box, #5543

• docs:

  • “filename with spaces” example added to exclude file, #5236

  • add a hint about sleeping computer, #5301

  • how to adjust macOS >= Catalina security settings, #5303

  • process/policy for adding new compression algorithms

  • updated docs about hacked backup client, #5480

  • improve ansible deployment docs, make it more generic

  • how to approach borg speed issues, give speed example, #5371

  • fix mathematical inaccuracy about chunk size, #5336

  • add example for excluding content using --pattern cli option

  • clarify borg create’s ‘--one-file-system’ option, #4009

  • improve docs/FAQ about append-only remote repos, #5497

  • fix reST markup issues, labels

  • add infos about contributor retirement status

Version 1.2.0a9 (2020-10-05)

Fixes:

• fix memory leak related to preloading, #5202

• check --repair: fix potential data loss, #5325

• persist shadow_index in between borg runs, #4830

• fix hardlinked CACHEDIR.TAG processing, #4911

• --read-special: .part files also should be regular files, #5217

• allow server side enforcing of umask, --umask is for the local borg process only (see docs), #4947

• exit with 128 + signal number, #5161

• borg config --list does not show last_segment_checked, #5159

• locking:

  • fix ExclusiveLock race condition bug, #4923

  • fix race condition in lock migration, #4953

  • fix locking on openindiana, #5271

New features:

• --content-from-command: create archive using stdout of given command, #5174

• allow key-import + BORG_KEY_FILE to create key files

• build directory-based binary for macOS to avoid Gatekeeper delays

Other changes:

• upgrade bundled zstd to 1.4.5

• upgrade bundled xxhash to 0.8.0, #5362

• if self test fails, also point to OS and hardware, #5334

• misc. shell completions fixes/updates, rewrite zsh completion

• prettier error message when archive gets too big, #5307

• stop relying on false exiting with status code 1

• rephrase some warnings, #5164

• parseformat: unnecessary calls removed, #5169

• testing:

  • enable Python3.9 env for test suite and VMs, #5373

  • drop python 3.5, #5344

  • misc. vagrant fixes/updates

  • misc. testing fixes, #5196

• docs:

  • add ssh-agent pull backup method to doc, #5288

  • mention double --force in prune docs

  • update Homebrew install instructions, #5185

  • better description of how cache and rebuilds of it work and how the workaround applies to that

  • point to borg create --list item flags in recreate usage, #5165

  • add a note to create from stdin regarding files cache, #5180

  • add security faq explaining AES-CTR crypto issues, #5254

  • clarify --exclude-if-present in recreate, #5193

  • add socat pull mode, #5150, #900

  • move content of resources doc page to community project, #2088

  • explain hash collision, #4884

  • clarify --recompress option, #5154

Version 1.2.0a8 (2020-04-22)

Fixes:

• fixed potential index corruption / data loss issue due to bug in hashindex_set, #4829. Please read and follow the more detailed notes close to the top of this document.

• fix crash when upgrading erroneous hints file, #4922

• commit-time free space calc: ignore bad compact map entries, #4796

• info: if the archive doesn’t exist, print a pretty message, #4793

• --prefix / -P: fix processing, avoid argparse issue, #4769

• ignore EACCES (errno 13) when hardlinking, #4730

• add a try catch when formatting the info string, #4818

• check: do not stumble over invalid item key, #4845

• update prevalence of env vars to set config and cache paths

• mount: fix FUSE low linear read speed on large files, #5032

• extract: fix confusing output of borg extract --list --strip-components, #4934

• recreate: support --timestamp option, #4745

• fix ProgressIndicator msgids (JSON output), #4935

• fuse: set f_namemax in statfs result, #2684

• accept absolute paths on windows

• pyinstaller: work around issue with setuptools > 44

New features:

• chunker speedup (plus regression test)

• added --consider-checkpoints and related test, #4788

• added --noflags option, deprecate --nobsdflags option, #4489

• compact: add --threshold option, #4674

• mount: add birthtime to FUSE entries

• support platforms with no os.link, #4901 - if we don’t have os.link, we just extract another copy instead of making a hardlink.

• move sync_file_range to its own extension for better platform compatibility.

• new --bypass-lock option to bypass locking, e.g. for read-only repos

• accept absolute paths by removing leading slashes in patterns of all sorts but re: style, #4029

• delete: new --keep-security-info option

Other changes:

• support msgpack 0.6.2 and 1.0.0, #5065

• upgrade bundled zstd to 1.4.4

• upgrade bundled lz4 to 1.9.2

• upgrade xxhash to 0.7.3

• require recent enough llfuse for birthtime support, #5064

• only store compressed data if the result actually is smaller, #4516

• check: improve error output for matching index size, see #4829

• ignore --stats when given with --dry-run, but continue, #4373

• replaced usage of os.statvfs with shutil.disk_usage (better cross-platform support).

• fuse: remove unneeded version check and compat code, micro opts

• docs:

  • improve description of path variables

  • document how to completely delete data, #2929

  • add FAQ about Borg config dir, #4941

  • add docs about errors not printed as JSON, #4073

  • update usage_general.rst.inc

  • added “Will move with BORG_CONFIG_DIR variable unless specified.” to BORG_SECURITY_DIR info.

  • put BORG_SECURITY_DIR immediately below BORG_CONFIG_DIR (and moved BORG_CACHE_DIR up before them).

  • add paragraph regarding cache security assumptions, #4900

  • tell about borg cache security precautions

  • add FAQ describing difference between a local repo vs. repo on a server.

  • document how to test exclusion patterns without performing an actual backup

  • create: tell that “Calculating size” time and space needs are caused by --progress

  • fix/improve documentation for @api decorator, #4674

  • add a pull backup / push restore how-to, #1552

  • fix man pages creation, #4752

  • more general FAQ for backup and retain original paths, #4532

  • explain difference between --exclude and --pattern, #4118

  • add FAQ for preventing SSH timeout in extract, #3866

  • improve password FAQ (decrease pw length, add -w 0 option to base64 to prevent line wrap), #4591

  • add note about patterns and stored paths, #4160

  • add upgrade of tools to pip installation how-to, #5090

  • document one cause of orphaned chunks in check command, #2295

  • clean up the whole check usage paragraph

  • FAQ: linked recommended restrictions to ssh public keys on borg servers, #4946

  • fixed “doc downplays severity of Nonce reuse issue”, #4883

  • borg repo restore instructions needed, #3428

  • new FAQ: A repo is corrupt and must be replaced with an older repo.

  • clarify borg init’s encryption modes

• native windows port:

  • update README_WINDOWS.rst

  • updated pyinstaller spec file to support windows builds

• testing / CI:

  • improved travis config / install script, improved macOS builds

  • allow osx builds to fail, #4955

  • Windows 10 build on Appveyor CI

• vagrant:

  • upgrade pyinstaller to v3.5 + patch

  • use py369 for binary build, add py380 for tests

  • fix issue in stretch VM hanging at grub installation

  • add a debian buster and a ubuntu focal VM

  • update darwin box to 10.12

  • upgrade FreeBSD box to 12.1

  • fix debianoid virtualenv packages

  • use pyenv in freebsd64 VM

  • remove the flake8 test

  • darwin: avoid error if pkg is already installed

  • debianoid: don’t interactively ask questions

Version 1.2.0a7 (2019-09-07)

Fixes:

• slave hardlinks extraction issue, see #4350

• extract: fix KeyError for “partial” extraction, #4607

• preload chunks for hardlink slaves w/o preloaded master, #4350

• fix preloading for old remote servers, #4652

• fix partial extract for hardlinked contentless file types, #4725

• Repository.open: use stat() to check for repo dir, #4695

• Repository.check_can_create_repository: use stat() to check, ~ #4695.

• SecurityManager.known(): check all files, #4614

• after double-force delete, warn about necessary repair, #4704

• cope with ANY error when importing pytest into borg.testsuite, #4652

• fix invalid archive error message

• setup.py: fix detection of missing Cython

• filter out selinux xattrs, #4574

• location arg - should it be optional? #4541

• enable placeholder usage in --comment, #4559

• use whitelist approach for borg serve, #4097

New features:

• minimal native Windows support, see windows readme (work in progress)

• create: first ctrl-c (SIGINT) triggers checkpoint and abort, #4606

• new BORG_WORKAROUNDS mechanism, basesyncfile, #4710

• remove WSL autodetection. if WSL still has this problem, you need to set BORG_WORKAROUNDS=basesyncfile in the borg process environment to work around it.

• support xxh64 checksum in addition to the hashlib hashes in borg list

• enable placeholder usage in all extra archive arguments

• enable placeholder usage in --comment, #4559

• enable placeholder usage in --glob-archives, #4495

• ability to use a system-provided version of “xxhash”

• create:

  • changed the default behaviour to not store the atime of fs items. atime is often rather not interesting and fragile - it easily changes even if nothing else has changed and, if stored into the archive, spoils deduplication of the archive metadata stream.

  • if you give the --noatime option, borg will output a deprecation warning because it is currently ignored / does nothing. Please remove the --noatime option when using borg 1.2.

  • added a --atime option for storing files’ atime into an archive

Other changes:

• argparser: always use REPOSITORY in metavar

• do not check python/libc for borg serve, #4483

• small borg compact improvements, #4522

• compact: log freed space at INFO level

• tests:

  • tox / travis: add testing on py38-dev

  • fix broken test that relied on improper zlib assumptions

  • pure-py msgpack warning shall not make a lot of tests fail, #4558

  • rename test_mount_hardlinks to test_fuse_mount_hardlinks (master)

  • vagrant: add up-to-date openindiana box (py35, openssl10)

  • get rid of confusing coverage warning, #2069

• docs:

  • reiterate that ‘file cache names are absolute’ in FAQ, mention bind mount solution, #4738

  • add restore docs, #4670

  • updated docs to cover use of temp directory on remote, #4545

  • add a push-style example to borg-create(1), #4613

  • timestamps in the files cache are now usually ctime, #4583

  • benchmark crud: clarify that space is used until compact

  • update documentation of borg create, corrects a mention of borg 1.1 as a future version.

  • fix osxfuse github link in installation docs

  • how to supply a passphrase, use crypto devices, #4549

  • extract: document limitation “needs empty destination”, #4598

  • update macOS Brew link

  • add note about software for automating backup

  • compact: improve docs,

  • README: new URL for funding options

Version 1.2.0a6 (2019-04-22)

Fixes:

• delete / prune: consider part files correctly for stats, #4507

• fix “all archives” stats considering part files, #4329

• create: only run stat_simple_attrs() once

• create: --stats does not work with --dry-run, exit with error msg, #4373

• give “invalid repo” error msg if repo config not found, #4411

New features:

• display msgpack version as part of sysinfo (e.g. in tracebacks)

Other changes:

• docs:

  • sdd “SSH Configuration” section, #4493, #3988, #636, #4485

  • better document borg check --max-duration, #4473

  • sorted commands help in multiple steps, #4471

• testing:

  • travis: use py 3.5.3 and 3.6.7 on macOS to get a pyenv-based python build with openssl 1.1

  • vagrant: use py 3.5.3 and 3.6.8 on darwin64 VM to build python and borg with openssl 1.1

  • pytest: -v and default XDISTN to 1, #4481

Version 1.2.0a5 (2019-03-21)

Fixes:

• warn if a file has changed while being backed up, #1750

• lrucache: regularly remove old FDs, #4427

• borg command shall terminate with rc 2 for ImportErrors, #4424

• make freebsd xattr platform code api compatible with linux, #3952

Other changes:

• major setup code refactoring (especially how libraries like openssl, liblz4, libzstd, libb2 are discovered and how it falls back to code bundled with borg), new: uses pkg-config now (and needs python “pkgconfig” package installed), #1925

  if you are a borg package maintainer, please try packaging this (see comments in setup.py).

• Vagrantfile: add zstd, reorder, build env vars, #4444

• travis: install script improvements

• update shell completions

• docs:

  • add a sample logging.conf in docs/misc, #4380

  • fix spelling errors

  • update requirements / install docs, #4374

Version 1.2.0a4 (2019-03-11)

Fixes:

• do not use O_NONBLOCK for special files, like FIFOs, block and char devices when using --read-special. fixes backing up FIFOs. fixes to test. #4394

• more LibreSSL build fixes: LibreSSL has HMAC_CTX_free and HMAC_CTX_new

New features:

• check: incremental repo check (only checks crc32 for segment entries), #1657 borg check --repository-only --max-duration SECONDS …

• delete: timestamp for borg delete --info added, #4359

Other changes:

• redo stale lock handling, #3986 drop BORG_HOSTNAME_IS_UNIQUE (please use BORG_HOST_ID if needed). borg now always assumes it has a unique host id - either automatically from fqdn plus uuid.getnode() or overridden via BORG_HOST_ID.

• docs:

  • added Alpine Linux to distribution list

  • elaborate on append-only mode docs

• vagrant:

  • darwin: new 10.12 box

  • freebsd: new 12.0 box

  • openbsd: new 6.4 box

  • misc. updates / fixes

Version 1.2.0a3 (2019-02-26)

Fixes:

• LibreSSL build fixes, #4403

• dummy ACL/xattr code fixes (used by OpenBSD and others), #4403

• create: fix openat/statat issues for root directory, #4405

Version 1.2.0a2 and earlier (2019-02-24)

New features:

• compact: “borg compact” needs to be used to free repository space by compacting the segments (reading sparse segments, rewriting still needed data to new segments, deleting the sparse segments). Borg < 1.2 invoked compaction automatically at the end of each repository writing command. Borg >= 1.2 does not do that any more to give better speed, more control, more segment file stability (== less stuff moving to newer segments) and more robustness. See the docs about “borg compact” for more details.

• “borg compact --cleanup-commits” is to cleanup the tons of 17byte long commit-only segment files caused by borg 1.1.x issue #2850. Invoke this once after upgrading (the server side) borg to 1.2. Compaction now automatically removes unneeded commit-only segment files.

• prune: Show which rule was applied to keep archive, #2886

• add fixed blocksize chunker (see --chunker-params docs), #1086

Fixes:

• avoid stale filehandle issues, #3265

• use more FDs, avoid race conditions on active fs, #906, #908, #1038

• add O_NOFOLLOW to base flags, #908

• compact:

  • require >10% freeable space in a segment, #2985

  • repository compaction now automatically removes unneeded 17byte commit-only segments, #2850

• make swidth available on all posix platforms, #2667

Other changes:

• repository: better speed and less stuff moving around by using separate segment files for manifest DELETEs and PUTs, #3947

• use pyinstaller v3.3.1 to build binaries

• update bundled zstd code to 1.3.8, #4210

• update bundled lz4 code to 1.8.3, #4209

• msgpack:

  • switch to recent “msgpack” pypi pkg name, #3890

  • wrap msgpack to avoid future compat complications, #3632, #2738

  • support msgpack 0.6.0 and 0.6.1, #4220, #4308

• llfuse: modernize / simplify llfuse version requirements

• code refactorings / internal improvements:

  • include size/csize/nfiles[_parts] stats into archive, #3241

  • calc_stats: use archive stats metadata, if available

  • crypto: refactored crypto to use an AEAD style API

  • crypto: new AES-OCB, CHACHA20-POLY1305

  • create: use less syscalls by not using a python file obj, #906, #3962

  • diff: refactor the diff functionality to new ItemDiff class, #2475

  • archive: create FilesystemObjectProcessors class

  • helpers: make a package, split into smaller modules

  • xattrs: move to platform package, use cython instead ctypes, #2495

  • xattrs/acls/bsdflags: misc. code/api optimizations

  • FUSE: separate creation of filesystem from implementation of llfuse funcs, #3042

  • FUSE: use unpacker.tell() instead of deprecated write_bytes, #3899

  • setup.py: move build_man / build_usage code to setup_docs.py

  • setup.py: update to use a newer Cython/setuptools API for compiling .pyx -> .c, #3788

  • use python 3.5’s os.scandir / os.set_blocking

  • multithreading preparations (not used yet):

    • item.to_optr(), Item.from_optr()

    • fix chunker holding the GIL during blocking I/O

  • C code portability / basic MSC compatibility, #4147, #2677

• testing:

  • vagrant: new VMs for linux/bsd/darwin, most with OpenSSL 1.1 and py36

Version 1.1.18 (2022-06-05)

Compatibility notes:

• When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:

  • read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.

  • borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.

  • borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.

  • your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.

• 1.1.11 removes WSL autodetection (Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux). If WSL still has a problem with sync_file_range, you need to set BORG_WORKAROUNDS=basesyncfile in the borg process environment to work around the WSL issue.

• 1.1.14 changes return codes due to a bug fix: In case you have scripts expecting rc == 2 for a signal exit, you need to update them to check for >= 128 (as documented since long).

• 1.1.15 drops python 3.4 support, minimum requirement is 3.5 now.

• 1.1.17 install_requires the “packaging” pypi package now.

New features:

• check --repair: significantly speed up search for next valid object in segment, #6022

• create: add retry_erofs workaround for O_NOATIME issue on volume shadow copies in WSL1, #6024

• key export: display key if path is ‘-’ or not given, #6092

• list --format: add command_line to format keys, #6108

Fixes:

• check: improve error handling for corrupt archive metadata block, make robust_iterator more robust, #4777

• diff: support presence change for blkdev, chrdev and fifo items, #6483

• diff: reduce memory consumption, fix is_hardlink_master

• init: disallow overwriting of existing keyfiles

• info: fix authenticated mode repo to show “Encrypted: No”, #6462

• info: emit repo info even if repo has 0 archives, #6120

• list: remove placeholders for shake_* hashes, #6082

• mount -o versions: give clear error msg instead of crashing

• show_progress: add finished=true/false to archive_progress json, #6570

• fix hardlinkable file type check, #6037

• do not show archive name in error msgs referring to the repository, #6023

• prettier error msg (no stacktrace) if exclude file is missing, #5734

• do not require BORG_CONFIG_DIR if BORG_{SECURITY,KEYS}_DIR are set, #5979

• atomically create the CACHE_TAG file, #6028

• deal with the SaveFile/SyncFile race, docs, see #6176 5c5b59bc9

• avoid expanding path into LHS of formatting operation + tests, #6064 #6063

• repository: quota / compactable computation fixes, #6119. This is mainly to keep the repo code in sync with borg 1.2. As borg 1.1 compacts immediately, there was not really an issue with this in 1.1.

• fix transaction rollback: use files cache filename as found in txn.active, #6353

• do not load files cache for commands not using it, fixes #5673

• fix scp repo url parsing for ip v6 addrs, #6526

• repo::archive location placeholder expansion fixes, #5826, #5998

  • use expanded location for log output

  • support placeholder expansion for BORG_REPO env var

• respect umask for created directory and file modes, #6400

• safer truncate_and_unlink implementation

Other changes:

• upgrade bundled xxhash code to 0.8.1

• fix xxh64 related build (setup.py and post-0.8.1 patch for static_assert). The patch was required to build the bundled xxhash code on FreeBSD, see https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/pull/670

• msgpack build: remove endianness macro, #6105

• update and fix shell completions

• fuse: remove unneeded version check and compat code

• delete --force: do not ask when deleting a repo, #5941

• delete: don’t commit if nothing was deleted, avoid cache sync, #6060

• delete: add repository id and location to prompt

• compact segments: improve freeable / freed space log output, #5679

• if ensure_dir() fails, give more informative error message, #5952

• load_key: no key is same as empty key, #6441

• better error msg for defect or unsupported repo configs, #6566

• use hmac.compare_digest instead of ==, #6470

• implement more standard hashindex.setdefault behaviour

• remove stray punctuation from secure-erase message

• add development.lock.txt, use a real python 3.5 to generate frozen reqs

• setuptools 60.7.0 breaks pyinstaller, #6246

• setup.py clean2 was added to work around some setuptools customizability limitation.

• allow extra compiler flags for every extension build

• C code: make switch fallthrough explicit

• Cython code: fix “useless trailing comma” cython warnings

• requirements.lock.txt: use the latest cython 0.29.30

• fix compilation warnings: ‘PyUnicode_AsUnicode’ is deprecated

• docs:

  • ~/.config/borg/keys is not used for repokey keys, #6107

  • excluded parent dir’s metadata can’t restore, #6062

  • permissions note rewritten to make it less confusing, #5490

  • add note about grandfather-father-son backup retention policy / rotation scheme

  • clarify who starts the remote agent (borg serve)

  • test/improve pull backup docs, #5903

  • document the socat pull mode described in #900 #515ß

  • borg serve: improve ssh forced commands docs, #6083

  • improve docs for borg list --format, #6080

  • fix the broken link to .nix file

  • clarify pattern usage with commands, #5176

  • clarify user_id vs uid for fuse, #5723

  • fix binary build freebsd/macOS version, #5942

  • FAQ: fix manifest-timestamp path, #6016

  • remove duplicate faq entries, #5926

  • fix sphinx warnings, #5919

  • virtualisation speed tips

  • fix values of TAG bytes, #6515

  • recommend umask for passphrase file perms

  • update link to ubuntu packages, #6485

  • clarify on-disk order and size of log entry fields, #6357

  • do not transform --/--- to unicode dashes

  • improve linking inside docs, link to borg_placeholders, link to borg_patterns

  • use same phrasing in misc. help texts

  • borg init: explain the encryption modes better

  • explain the difference between a path that ends with or without a slash, #6297

  • clarify usage of patternfile roots, #6242

  • borg key export: add examples

  • updates about features not experimental any more: FUSE “versions” view, --pattern*, #6134

  • fix/update cygwin package requirements

  • impact of deleting path/to/repo/nonce, #5858

  • warn about tampered server nonce

  • mention BORG_FILES_CACHE_SUFFIX as alternative to BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, #5602

  • add a troubleshooting note about “is not a valid repository” to the FAQ

• vagrant / CI / testing:

  • misc. fixes and updates, new python versions

  • macOS on github: re-enable fuse2 testing by downgrading to older macOS, #6099

  • fix OpenBSD symlink mode test failure, #2055

  • use the generic/openbsd6 box

  • strengthen the test: we can read data w/o nonces

  • add tests for path/to/repo/nonce deletion

  • darwin64: backport some tunings from master

  • darwin64: remove fakeroot, #6314

  • darwin64: fix vagrant scp, #5921

  • darwin64: use macfuse instead of osxfuse

  • add ubuntu “jammy” 22.04 LTS VM

  • adapt memory for openindiana64 and darwin64

Version 1.1.17 (2021-07-12)

Compatibility notes:

• When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:

  • read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.

  • borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.

  • borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.

  • your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.

• 1.1.11 removes WSL autodetection (Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux). If WSL still has a problem with sync_file_range, you need to set BORG_WORKAROUNDS=basesyncfile in the borg process environment to work around the WSL issue.

• 1.1.14 changes return codes due to a bug fix: In case you have scripts expecting rc == 2 for a signal exit, you need to update them to check for >= 128 (as documented since long).

• 1.1.15 drops python 3.4 support, minimum requirement is 3.5 now.

• 1.1.17 install_requires the “packaging” pypi package now.

Fixes:

• pyinstaller dir-mode: fix pyi detection / LIBPATH treatment, #5897

• handle crash due to kill stale lock race, #5828

• fix BORG_CACHE_DIR crashing borg if empty, #5216

• create --dry-run: fix display of kept tagfile, #5834

• fix missing parameter in “did not consistently fail” msg, #5822

• missing / healed chunks: always tell chunk ID, #5704

• benchmark: make sure cleanup happens even on exceptions, #5630

New features:

• implement BORG_SELFTEST env variable, #5871. this can be used to accelerate borg startup a bit. not recommended for normal usage, but borg mass hosters with a lot of borg invocations can save some resources with this. on my laptop, this saved ~100ms cpu time (sys+user) per borg command invocation.

• implement BORG_LIBC env variable to give the libc filename, #5870. you can use this if a borg does not find your libc.

• check: add progress indicator for archive check.

• allow --files-cache=size (not recommended, make sure you know what you do)

Other changes:

• Python 3.10 now officially supported! we test on py310-dev on github CI since a while and now also on the vagrant machines, so it should work ok.

• github CI: test on py310 (again)

• get rid of distutils, use packaging and setuptools. distutils is deprecated and gives warnings on py 3.10.

• setup.py: rename “clean” to “clean2” to avoid shadowing the “clean” command.

• remove libc filename fallback for the BSDs (there is no “usual” name)

• cleanup flake8 checks, fix some pep8 violations.

• docs building: replace deprecated function “.add_stylesheet()” for Sphinx 4 compatibility

• docs:

  • add a hint on sleeping computer and ssh connections, #5301

  • update the documentation on hacked backup client, #5480

  • improve docs/FAQ about append-only remote repos, #5497

  • complement the documentation for pattern files and exclude files, #5520

  • “filename with spaces” example added to exclude file, #5236 note: no whitespace escaping needed, processed by borg.

  • add info on renaming repositories, #5240

  • clarify borg check --verify-data, #5808

  • add notice about defective hardware to check documentation, #5753

  • add paragraph added in #5855 to utility documentation source

  • add missing leading slashes in help patterns, #5857

  • clarify “you will need key and passphrase” borg init warning, #4622

  • pull mode: add some warnings, #5827

  • mention tar --compare (compare archive to fs files), #5880

  • fix typos, backport of #5597

• vagrant:

  • add py3.7.11 for binary build, also add 3.10-dev.

  • use latest Cython 0.29.23 for py310 compat fixes.

  • more RAM for openindiana upgrade plan resolver, it just hangs (swaps?) if there is too little RAM.

  • fix install_pyenv to adapt to recent changes in pyenv (same as in master now).

  • use generic/netbsd9 box, copied from master branch.

Version 1.1.16 (2021-03-23)

Fixes:

• setup.py: add special openssl prefix for Apple M1 compatibility

• do not recurse into duplicate roots, #5603

• remove empty shadowed_segments lists, #5275, #5614

• fix libpython load error when borg fat binary / dir-based binary is invoked via a symlink by upgrading pyinstaller to v4.2, #5688

• config: accept non-int value (like 500M or 100G) for max_segment_size or storage_quota, #5639. please note: when setting a non-int value for this in a repo config, using the repo will require borg >= 1.1.16.

New features:

• bundled msgpack: drop support for old buffer protocol to support Python 3.10

• verbose files cache logging via --debug-topic=files_cache, #5659. Use this if you suspect that borg does not detect unmodified files as expected.

• create/extract: add --noxattrs and --noacls option, #3955. when given with borg create, borg will not get xattrs / ACLs from input files (and thus, it will not archive xattrs / ACLs). when given with borg extract, borg will not read xattrs / ACLs from archive and will not set xattrs / ACLs on extracted files.

• diff: add --json-lines option, #3765

• check: debug log segment filename

• borg debug dump-hints

Other changes:

• Tab completion support for additional archives for ‘borg delete’

• repository: deduplicate code of put and delete, no functional change

• tests: fix result order issue (sporadic test failure on openindiana)

• vagrant:

  • upgrade pyinstaller to v4.2, #5671

  • avoid grub-install asking interactively for device

  • remove the xenial box

  • update freebsd box to 12.1

• docs:

  • update macOS install instructions, #5677

  • use macFUSE (not osxfuse) for Apple M1 compatibility

  • update docs for dev environment installation instructions, #5643

  • fix grammar in faq

  • recommend running tests only on installed versions for setup

  • add link back to git-installation

  • remove /var/cache exclusion in example commands, #5625. This is generally a poor idea and shouldn’t be promoted through examples.

  • add repology.org badge with current packaging status

  • explain hash collision

  • add unsafe workaround to use an old repo copy, #5722

Version 1.1.15 (2020-12-25)

Fixes:

• extract:

  • improve exception handling when setting xattrs, #5092.

  • emit a warning message giving the path, xattr key and error message.

  • continue trying to restore other xattrs and bsdflags of the same file after an exception with xattr-setting happened.

• export-tar:

  • set tar format to GNU_FORMAT explicitly, #5274

  • fix memory leak with ssh: remote repository, #5568

  • fix potential memory leak with ssh: remote repository with partial extraction

• create: fix --dry-run and --stats coexistence, #5415

• use --timestamp for {utcnow} and {now} if given, #5189

New features:

• create: implement --stdin-mode, --stdin-user and --stdin-group, #5333

• allow appending the files cache filename with BORG_FILES_CACHE_SUFFIX env var

Other changes:

• drop python 3.4 support, minimum requirement is 3.5 now.

• enable using libxxhash instead of bundled xxh64 code

• update llfuse requirements (1.3.8)

• set cython language_level in some files to fix warnings

• allow EIO with warning when trying to hardlink

• PropDict: fail early if internal_dict is not a dict

• update shell completions

• tests / CI

  • add a test for the hashindex corruption bug, #5531 #4829

  • fix spurious failure in test_cache_files, #5438

  • added a github ci workflow

  • reduce testing on travis, no macOS, no py3x-dev, #5467

  • travis: use newer dists, native py on dist

• vagrant:

  • remove jessie and trusty boxes, #5348 #5383

  • pyinstaller 4.0, build on py379

  • binary build on stretch64, #5348

  • remove easy_install based pip installation

• docs:

  • clarify ‘--one-file-system’ for btrfs, #5391

  • add example for excluding content using the --pattern cmd line arg

  • complement the documentation for pattern files and exclude files, #5524

  • made ansible playbook more generic, use package instead of pacman. also change state from “latest” to “present”.

  • complete documentation on append-only remote repos, #5497

  • internals: rather talk about target size than statistics, #5336

  • new compression algorithm policy, #1633 #5505

  • faq: add a hint on sleeping computer, #5301

  • note requirements for full disk access on macOS Catalina, #5303

  • fix/improve description of borg upgrade hardlink usage, #5518

• modernize 1.1 code:

  • drop code/workarounds only needed to support Python 3.4

  • remove workaround for pre-release py37 argparse bug

  • removed some outdated comments/docstrings

  • requirements: remove some restrictions, lock on current versions

Version 1.1.14 (2020-10-07)

Fixes:

• check --repair: fix potential data loss when interrupting it, #5325

• exit with 128 + signal number (as documented) when borg is killed by a signal, #5161

• fix hardlinked CACHEDIR.TAG processing, #4911

• create --read-special: .part files also should be regular files, #5217

• llfuse dependency: choose least broken 1.3.6/1.3.7. 1.3.6 is broken on python 3.9, 1.3.7 is broken on FreeBSD.

Other changes:

• upgrade bundled xxhash to 0.7.4

• self test: if it fails, also point to OS and hardware, #5334

• pyinstaller: compute basepath from spec file location

• prettier error message when archive gets too big, #5307

• check/recreate are not “experimental” any more (but still potentially dangerous):

  • recreate: remove extra confirmation

  • rephrase some warnings, update docs, #5164

• shell completions:

  • misc. updates / fixes

  • support repositories in fish tab completion, #5256

  • complete $BORG_RECREATE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING

  • rewrite zsh completion:

    • completion for almost all optional and positional arguments

    • completion for Borg environment variables (parameters)

• use “allow/deny list” instead of “white/black list” wording

• declare “allow_cache_wipe” marker in setup.cfg to avoid pytest warning

• vagrant / tests:

  • misc. fixes / updates

  • use python 3.5.10 for binary build

  • build directory-based binaries additionally to the single file binaries

  • add libffi-dev, required to build python

  • use cryptography<3.0, more recent versions break the jessie box

  • test on python 3.9

  • do brew update with /dev/null redirect to avoid “too much log output” on travis-ci

• docs:

  • add ssh-agent pull backup method docs, #5288

  • how to approach borg speed issues, #5371

  • mention double --force in prune docs

  • update Homebrew install instructions, #5185

  • better description of how cache and rebuilds of it work

  • point to borg create --list item flags in recreate usage, #5165

  • add security faq explaining AES-CTR crypto issues, #5254

  • add a note to create from stdin regarding files cache, #5180

  • fix borg.1 manpage generation regression, #5211

  • clarify how exclude options work in recreate, #5193

  • add section for retired contributors

  • hint about not misusing private email addresses of contributors for borg support

Version 1.1.13 (2020-06-06)

Compatibility notes:

• When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:

  • read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.

  • borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.

  • borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.

  • your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.

• 1.1.11 removes WSL autodetection (Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux). If WSL still has a problem with sync_file_range, you need to set BORG_WORKAROUNDS=basesyncfile in the borg process environment to work around the WSL issue.

Fixes:

• rebuilt using a current Cython version, compatible with python 3.8, #5214

Version 1.1.12 (2020-06-06)

Fixes:

• fix preload-related memory leak, #5202.

• mount / borgfs (FUSE filesystem):

  • fix FUSE low linear read speed on large files, #5067

  • fix crash on old llfuse without birthtime attrs, #5064 - accidentally we required llfuse >= 1.3. Now also old llfuse works again.

  • set f_namemax in statfs result, #2684

• update precedence of env vars to set config and cache paths, #4894

• correctly calculate compression ratio, taking header size into account, too

New features:

• --bypass-lock option to bypass locking with read-only repositories

Other changes:

• upgrade bundled zstd to 1.4.5

• travis: adding comments and explanations to Travis config / install script, improve macOS builds.

• tests: test_delete_force: avoid sporadic test setup issues, #5196

• misc. vagrant fixes

• the binary for macOS is now built on macOS 10.12

• the binaries for Linux are now built on Debian 8 “Jessie”, #3761

• docs:

  • PlaceholderError not printed as JSON, #4073

  • “How important is Borg config?”, #4941

  • make Sphinx warnings break docs build, #4587

  • some markup / warning fixes

  • add “updating borgbackup.org/releases” to release checklist, #4999

  • add “rendering docs” to release checklist, #5000

  • clarify borg init’s encryption modes

  • add note about patterns and stored paths, #4160

  • add upgrade of tools to pip installation how-to

  • document one cause of orphaned chunks in check command, #2295

  • linked recommended restrictions to ssh public keys on borg servers in faq, #4946

Version 1.1.11 (2020-03-08)

Compatibility notes:

• When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:

  • read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.

  • borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.

  • borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.

  • your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.

• 1.1.11 removes WSL autodetection (Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux). If WSL still has a problem with sync_file_range, you need to set BORG_WORKAROUNDS=basesyncfile in the borg process environment to work around the WSL issue.

Fixes:

• fixed potential index corruption / data loss issue due to bug in hashindex_set, #4829. Please read and follow the more detailed notes close to the top of this document.

• upgrade bundled xxhash to 0.7.3, #4891. 0.7.2 is the minimum requirement for correct operations on ARMv6 in non-fixup mode, where unaligned memory accesses cause bus errors. 0.7.3 adds some speedups and libxxhash 0.7.3 even has a pkg-config file now.

• upgrade bundled lz4 to 1.9.2

• upgrade bundled zstd to 1.4.4

• fix crash when upgrading erroneous hints file, #4922

• extract:

  • fix KeyError for “partial” extraction, #4607

  • fix “partial” extract for hardlinked contentless file types, #4725

  • fix preloading for old (0.xx) remote servers, #4652

  • fix confusing output of borg extract --list --strip-components, #4934

• delete: after double-force delete, warn about necessary repair, #4704

• create: give invalid repo error msg if repo config not found, #4411

• mount: fix FUSE mount missing st_birthtime, #4763 #4767

• check: do not stumble over invalid item key, #4845

• info: if the archive doesn’t exist, print a pretty message, #4793

• SecurityManager.known(): check all files, #4614

• Repository.open: use stat() to check for repo dir, #4695

• Repository.check_can_create_repository: use stat() to check, #4695

• fix invalid archive error message

• fix optional/non-optional location arg, #4541

• commit-time free space calc: ignore bad compact map entries, #4796

• ignore EACCES (errno 13) when hardlinking the old config, #4730

• --prefix / -P: fix processing, avoid argparse issue, #4769

New features:

• enable placeholder usage in all extra archive arguments

• new BORG_WORKAROUNDS mechanism, basesyncfile, #4710

• recreate: support --timestamp option, #4745

• support platforms without os.link (e.g. Android with Termux), #4901. if we don’t have os.link, we just extract another copy instead of making a hardlink.

• support linux platforms without sync_file_range (e.g. Android 7 with Termux), #4905

Other:

• ignore --stats when given with --dry-run, but continue, #4373

• add some ProgressIndicator msgids to code / fix docs, #4935

• elaborate on “Calculating size” message

• argparser: always use REPOSITORY in metavar, also use more consistent help phrasing.

• check: improve error output for matching index size, see #4829

• docs:

  • changelog: add advisory about hashindex_set bug #4829

  • better describe BORG_SECURITY_DIR, BORG_CACHE_DIR, #4919

  • infos about cache security assumptions, #4900

  • add FAQ describing difference between a local repo vs. repo on a server.

  • document how to test exclusion patterns without performing an actual backup

  • timestamps in the files cache are now usually ctime, #4583

  • fix bad reference to borg compact (does not exist in 1.1), #4660

  • create: borg 1.1 is not future any more

  • extract: document limitation “needs empty destination”, #4598

  • how to supply a passphrase, use crypto devices, #4549

  • fix osxfuse github link in installation docs

  • add example of exclude-norecurse rule in help patterns

  • update macOS Brew link

  • add note about software for automating backups, #4581

  • AUTHORS: mention copyright+license for bundled msgpack

  • fix various code blocks in the docs, #4708

  • updated docs to cover use of temp directory on remote, #4545

  • add restore docs, #4670

  • add a pull backup / push restore how-to, #1552

  • add FAQ how to retain original paths, #4532

  • explain difference between --exclude and --pattern, #4118

  • add FAQs for SSH connection issues, #3866

  • improve password FAQ, #4591

  • reiterate that ‘file cache names are absolute’ in FAQ

• tests:

  • cope with ANY error when importing pytest into borg.testsuite, #4652

  • fix broken test that relied on improper zlib assumptions

  • test_fuse: filter out selinux xattrs, #4574

• travis / vagrant:

  • misc python versions removed / changed (due to openssl 1.1 compatibility) or added (3.7 and 3.8, for better borg compatibility testing)

  • binary building is on python 3.5.9 now

• vagrant:

  • add new boxes: ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, debian 10

  • update boxes: openindiana, darwin, netbsd

  • remove old boxes: centos 6

  • darwin: updated osxfuse to 3.10.4

  • use debian/ubuntu pip/virtualenv packages

  • rather use python 3.6.2 than 3.6.0, fixes coverage/sqlite3 issue

  • use requirements.d/development.lock.txt to avoid compat issues

• travis:

  • darwin: backport some install code / order from master

  • remove deprecated keyword “sudo” from travis config

  • allow osx builds to fail, #4955 this is due to travis-ci frequently being so slow that the OS X builds just fail because they exceed 50 minutes and get killed by travis.

Version 1.1.10 (2019-05-16)

Fixes:

• extract: hang on partial extraction with ssh: repo, when hardlink master is not matched/extracted and borg hangs on related slave hardlink, #4350

• lrucache: regularly remove old FDs, #4427

• avoid stale filehandle issues, #3265

• freebsd: make xattr platform code api compatible with linux, #3952

• use whitelist approach for borg serve, #4097

• borg command shall terminate with rc 2 for ImportErrors, #4424

• create: only run stat_simple_attrs() once, this increases backup with lots of unchanged files performance by ~ 5%.

• prune: fix incorrect borg prune --stats output with --dry-run, #4373

• key export: emit user-friendly error if repo key is exported to a directory, #4348

New features:

• bundle latest supported msgpack-python release (0.5.6), remove msgpack-python from setup.py install_requires - by default we use the bundled code now. optionally, we still support using an external msgpack (see hints in setup.py), but this requires solid requirements management within distributions and is not recommended. borgbackup will break if you upgrade msgpack to an unsupported version.

• display msgpack version as part of sysinfo (e.g. in tracebacks)

• timestamp for borg delete --info added, #4359

• enable placeholder usage in --comment and --glob-archives, #4559, #4495

Other:

• serve: do not check python/libc for borg serve, #4483

• shell completions: borg diff second archive

• release scripts: signing binaries with Qubes OS support

• testing:

  • vagrant: upgrade openbsd box to 6.4

  • travis-ci: lock test env to py 3.4 compatible versions, #4343

  • get rid of confusing coverage warning, #2069

  • rename test_mount_hardlinks to test_fuse_mount_hardlinks, so both can be excluded by “not test_fuse”.

  • pure-py msgpack warning shall not make a lot of tests fail, #4558

• docs:

  • add “SSH Configuration” section to “borg serve”, #3988, #636, #4485

  • README: new URL for funding options

  • add a sample logging.conf in docs/misc, #4380

  • elaborate on append-only mode docs, #3504

  • installation: added Alpine Linux to distribution list, #4415

  • usage.html: only modify window.location when redirecting, #4133

  • add msgpack license to docs/3rd_party/msgpack

• vagrant / binary builds:

  • use python 3.5.7 for builds

  • use osxfuse 3.8.3

Version 1.1.9 (2019-02-10)

Compatibility notes:

• When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:

  • read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.

  • borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.

  • borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.

  • your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.

Fixes:

• security fix: configure FUSE with “default_permissions”, #3903 “default_permissions” is now enforced by borg by default to let the kernel check uid/gid/mode based permissions. “ignore_permissions” can be given to not enforce “default_permissions”.

• make “hostname” short, even on misconfigured systems, #4262

• fix free space calculation on macOS (and others?), #4289

• config: quit with error message when no key is provided, #4223

• recover_segment: handle too small segment files correctly, #4272

• correctly release memoryview, #4243

• avoid diaper pattern in configparser by opening files, #4263

• add “# cython: language_level=3” directive to .pyx files, #4214

• info: consider part files for “This archive” stats, #3522

• work around Microsoft WSL issue #645 (sync_file_range), #1961

New features:

• add --rsh command line option to complement BORG_RSH env var, #1701

• init: --make-parent-dirs parent1/parent2/repo_dir, #4235

Other:

• add archive name to check --repair output, #3447

• check for unsupported msgpack versions

• shell completions:

  • new shell completions for borg 1.1.9

  • more complete shell completions for borg mount -o

  • added shell completions for borg help

  • option arguments for zsh tab completion

• docs:

  • add FAQ regarding free disk space check, #3905

  • update BORG_PASSCOMMAND example and clarify variable expansion, #4249

  • FAQ regarding change of compression settings, #4222

  • add note about BSD flags to changelog, #4246

  • improve logging in example automation script

  • add note about files changing during backup, #4081

  • work around the backslash issue, #4280

  • update release workflow using twine (docs, scripts), #4213

  • add warnings on repository copies to avoid future problems, #4272

• tests:

  • fix the homebrew 1.9 issues on travis-ci, #4254

  • fix duplicate test method name, #4311

Version 1.1.8 (2018-12-09)

Fixes:

• enforce storage quota if set by serve-command, #4093

• invalid locations: give err msg containing parsed location, #4179

• list repo: add placeholders for hostname and username, #4130

• on linux, symlinks can’t have ACLs, so don’t try to set any, #4044

New features:

• create: added PATH::archive output on INFO log level

• read a passphrase from a file descriptor specified in the BORG_PASSPHRASE_FD environment variable.

Other:

• docs:

  • option --format is required for some expensive-to-compute values for json

    borg list by default does not compute expensive values except when they are needed. whether they are needed is determined by the format, in standard mode as well as in --json mode.

  • tell that our binaries are x86/x64 amd/intel, bauerj has ARM

  • fixed wrong archive name pattern in CRUD benchmark help

  • fixed link to cachedir spec in docs, #4140

• tests:

  • stop using fakeroot on travis, avoids sporadic EISDIR errors, #2482

  • xattr key names must start with “user.” on linux

  • fix code so flake8 3.6 does not complain

  • explicitly convert environment variable to str, #4136

  • fix DeprecationWarning: Flags not at the start of the expression, #4137

  • support pytest4, #4172

• vagrant:

  • use python 3.5.6 for builds

Version 1.1.7 (2018-08-11)

Compatibility notes:

• added support for Python 3.7

Fixes:

• cache lock: use lock_wait everywhere to fix infinite wait, see #3968

• don’t archive tagged dir when recursing an excluded dir, #3991

• py37 argparse: work around bad default in py 3.7.0a/b/rc, #3996

• py37 remove loggerDict.clear() from tearDown method, #3805

• some fixes for bugs which likely did not result in problems in practice:

  • fixed logic bug in platform module API version check

  • fixed xattr/acl function prototypes, added missing ones

New features:

• init: add warning to store both key and passphrase at safe place(s)

• BORG_HOST_ID env var to work around all-zero MAC address issue, #3985

• borg debug dump-repo-objs --ghost (dump everything from segment files, including deleted or superseded objects or commit tags)

• borg debug search-repo-objs (search in repo objects for hex bytes or strings)

Other changes:

• add Python 3.7 support

• updated shell completions

• call socket.gethostname only once

• locking: better logging, add some asserts

• borg debug dump-repo-objs:

  • filename layout improvements

  • use repository.scan() to get on-disk order

• docs:

  • update installation instructions for macOS

  • added instructions to install fuse via homebrew

  • improve diff docs

  • added note that checkpoints inside files requires 1.1+

  • add link to tempfile module

  • remove row/column-spanning from docs source, #4000 #3990

• tests:

  • fetch less data via os.urandom

  • add py37 env for tox

  • travis: add 3.7, remove 3.6-dev (we test with -dev in master)

• vagrant / binary builds:

  • use osxfuse 3.8.2

  • use own (uptodate) openindiana box

Version 1.1.6 (2018-06-11)

Compatibility notes:

• 1.1.6 changes:

  • also allow msgpack-python 0.5.6.

Fixes:

• fix borg exception handling on ENOSPC error with xattrs, #3808

• prune: fix/improve overall progress display

• borg config repo … does not need cache/manifest/key, #3802

• debug dump-repo-objs should not depend on a manifest obj

• pypi package:

  • include .coveragerc, needed by tox.ini

  • fix package long description, #3854

New features:

• mount: add uid, gid, umask mount options

• delete:

  • only commit once, #3823

  • implement --dry-run, #3822

• check:

  • show progress while rebuilding missing manifest, #3787

  • more --repair output

• borg config --list <repo>, #3612

Other changes:

• update msgpack requirement, #3753

• update bundled zstd to 1.3.4, #3745

• update bundled lz4 code to 1.8.2, #3870

• docs:

  • describe what BORG_LIBZSTD_PREFIX does

  • fix and deduplicate encryption quickstart docs, #3776

• vagrant:

  • FUSE for macOS: upgrade 3.7.1 to 3.8.0

  • exclude macOS High Sierra upgrade on the darwin64 machine

  • remove borgbackup.egg-info dir in fs_init (after rsync)

  • use pyenv-based build/test on jessie32/62

  • use local 32 and 64bit debian jessie boxes

  • use “vagrant” as username for new xenial box

• travis OS X: use xcode 8.3 (not broken)

Version 1.1.5 (2018-04-01)

Compatibility notes:

• 1.1.5 changes:

  • require msgpack-python >= 0.4.6 and < 0.5.0. 0.5.0+ dropped python 3.4 testing and also caused some other issues because the python package was renamed to msgpack and emitted some FutureWarning.

Fixes:

• create --list: fix that it was never showing M status, #3492

• create: fix timing for first checkpoint (read files cache early, init checkpoint timer after that), see #3394

• extract: set rc=1 when extracting damaged files with all-zero replacement chunks or with size inconsistencies, #3448

• diff: consider an empty file as different to a non-existing file, #3688

• files cache: improve exception handling, #3553

• ignore exceptions in scandir_inorder() caused by an implicit stat(), also remove unneeded sort, #3545

• fixed tab completion problem where a space is always added after path even when it shouldn’t

• build: do .h file content checks in binary mode, fixes build issue for non-ascii header files on pure-ascii locale platforms, #3544 #3639

• borgfs: fix patterns/paths processing, #3551

• config: add some validation, #3566

• repository config: add validation for max_segment_size, #3592

• set cache previous_location on load instead of save

• remove platform.uname() call which caused library mismatch issues, #3732

• add exception handler around deprecated platform.linux_distribution() call

• use same datetime object for {now} and {utcnow}, #3548

New features:

• create: implement --stdin-name, #3533

• add chunker_params to borg archive info (--json)

• BORG_SHOW_SYSINFO=no to hide system information from exceptions

Other changes:

• updated zsh completions for borg 1.1.4

• files cache related code cleanups

• be more helpful when parsing invalid --pattern values, #3575

• be more clear in secure-erase warning message, #3591

• improve getpass user experience, #3689

• docs build: unicode problem fixed when using a py27-based sphinx

• docs:

  • security: explicitly note what happens OUTSIDE the attack model

  • security: add note about combining compression and encryption

  • security: describe chunk size / proximity issue, #3687

  • quickstart: add note about permissions, borg@localhost, #3452

  • quickstart: add introduction to repositories & archives, #3620

  • recreate --recompress: add missing metavar, clarify description, #3617

  • improve logging docs, #3549

  • add an example for --pattern usage, #3661

  • clarify path semantics when matching, #3598

  • link to offline documentation from README, #3502

  • add docs on how to verify a signed release with GPG, #3634

  • chunk seed is generated per repository (not: archive)

  • better formatting of CPU usage documentation, #3554

  • extend append-only repo rollback docs, #3579

• tests:

  • fix erroneously skipped zstd compressor tests, #3606

  • skip a test if argparse is broken, #3705

• vagrant:

  • xenial64 box now uses username ‘vagrant’, #3707

  • move cleanup steps to fs_init, #3706

  • the boxcutter wheezy boxes are 404, use local ones

  • update to Python 3.5.5 (for binary builds)

Version 1.1.4 (2017-12-31)

Compatibility notes:

• When upgrading from borg 1.0.x to 1.1.x, please note:

  • read all the compatibility notes for 1.1.0*, starting from 1.1.0b1.

  • borg upgrade: you do not need to and you also should not run it.

  • borg might ask some security-related questions once after upgrading. You can answer them either manually or via environment variable. One known case is if you use unencrypted repositories, then it will ask about a unknown unencrypted repository one time.

  • your first backup with 1.1.x might be significantly slower (it might completely read, chunk, hash a lot files) - this is due to the --files-cache mode change (and happens every time you change mode). You can avoid the one-time slowdown by using the pre-1.1.0rc4-compatible mode (but that is less safe for detecting changed files than the default). See the --files-cache docs for details.

• borg 1.1.4 changes:

  • zstd compression is new in borg 1.1.4, older borg can’t handle it.

  • new minimum requirements for the compression libraries - if the required versions (header and lib) can’t be found at build time, bundled code will be used:

    • added requirement: libzstd >= 1.3.0 (bundled: 1.3.2)

    • updated requirement: liblz4 >= 1.7.0 / r129 (bundled: 1.8.0)

Fixes:

• check: data corruption fix: fix for borg check --repair malfunction, #3444. See the more detailed notes close to the top of this document.

• delete: also delete security dir when deleting a repo, #3427

• prune: fix building the “borg prune” man page, #3398

• init: use given --storage-quota for local repo, #3470

• init: properly quote repo path in output

• fix startup delay with dns-only own fqdn resolving, #3471

New features:

• added zstd compression. try it!

• added placeholder {reverse-fqdn} for fqdn in reverse notation

• added BORG_BASE_DIR environment variable, #3338

Other changes:

• list help topics when invalid topic is requested

• fix lz4 deprecation warning, requires lz4 >= 1.7.0 (r129)

• add parens for C preprocessor macro argument usages (did not cause malfunction)

• exclude broken pytest 3.3.0 release

• updated fish/bash completions

• init: more clear exception messages for borg create, #3465

• docs:

  • add auto-generated docs for borg config

  • don’t generate HTML docs page for borgfs, #3404

  • docs update for lz4 b2 zstd changes

  • add zstd to compression help, readme, docs

  • update requirements and install docs about bundled lz4 and zstd

• refactored build of the compress and crypto.low_level extensions, #3415:

  • move some lib/build related code to setup_{zstd,lz4,b2}.py

  • bundle lz4 1.8.0 (requirement: >= 1.7.0 / r129)

  • bundle zstd 1.3.2 (requirement: >= 1.3.0)

  • blake2 was already bundled

  • rename BORG_LZ4_PREFIX env var to BORG_LIBLZ4_PREFIX for better consistency: we also have BORG_LIBB2_PREFIX and BORG_LIBZSTD_PREFIX now.

  • add prefer_system_lib* = True settings to setup.py - by default the build will prefer a shared library over the bundled code, if library and headers can be found and meet the minimum requirements.

Version 1.1.3 (2017-11-27)

Fixes:

• Security Fix for CVE-2017-15914: Incorrect implementation of access controls allows remote users to override repository restrictions in Borg servers. A user able to access a remote Borg SSH server is able to circumvent access controls post-authentication. Affected releases: 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2. Releases 1.0.x are NOT affected.

• crc32: deal with unaligned buffer, add tests - this broke borg on older ARM CPUs that can not deal with unaligned 32bit memory accesses and raise a bus error in such cases. the fix might also improve performance on some CPUs as all 32bit memory accesses by the crc32 code are properly aligned now. #3317

• mount: fixed support of --consider-part-files and do not show .borg_part_N files by default in the mounted FUSE filesystem. #3347

• fixed cache/repo timestamp inconsistency message, highlight that information is obtained from security dir (deleting the cache will not bypass this error in case the user knows this is a legitimate repo).

• borgfs: don’t show sub-command in borgfs help, #3287

• create: show an error when --dry-run and --stats are used together, #3298

New features:

• mount: added exclusion group options and paths, #2138

  Reused some code to support similar options/paths as borg extract offers - making good use of these to only mount a smaller subset of dirs/files can speed up mounting a lot and also will consume way less memory.

  borg mount [options] repo_or_archive mountpoint path [paths…]

  paths: you can just give some “root paths” (like for borg extract) to only partially populate the FUSE filesystem.

  new options: --exclude[-from], --pattern[s-from], --strip-components

• create/extract: support st_birthtime on platforms supporting it, #3272

• add “borg config” command for querying/setting/deleting config values, #3304

Other changes:

• clean up and simplify packaging (only package committed files, do not install .c/.h/.pyx files)

• docs:

  • point out tuning options for borg create, #3239

  • add instructions for using ntfsclone, zerofree, #81

  • move image backup-related FAQ entries to a new page

  • clarify key aliases for borg list --format, #3111

  • mention break-lock in checkpointing FAQ entry, #3328

  • document sshfs rename workaround, #3315

  • add FAQ about removing files from existing archives

  • add FAQ about different prune policies

  • usage and man page for borgfs, #3216

  • clarify create --stats duration vs. wall time, #3301

  • clarify encrypted key format for borg key export, #3296

  • update release checklist about security fixes

  • document good and problematic option placements, fix examples, #3356

  • add note about using --nobsdflags to avoid speed penalty related to bsdflags, #3239

  • move most of support section to www.borgbackup.org

Version 1.1.2 (2017-11-05)

Fixes:

• fix KeyError crash when talking to borg server < 1.0.7, #3244

• extract: set bsdflags last (include immutable flag), #3263

• create: don’t do stat() call on excluded-norecurse directory, fix exception handling for stat() call, #3209

• create --stats: do not count data volume twice when checkpointing, #3224

• recreate: move chunks_healthy when excluding hardlink master, #3228

• recreate: get rid of chunks_healthy when rechunking (does not match), #3218

• check: get rid of already existing not matching chunks_healthy metadata, #3218

• list: fix stdout broken pipe handling, #3245

• list/diff: remove tag-file options (not used), #3226

New features:

• bash, zsh and fish shell auto-completions, see scripts/shell_completions/

• added BORG_CONFIG_DIR env var, #3083

Other changes:

• docs:

  • clarify using a blank passphrase in keyfile mode

  • mention “!” (exclude-norecurse) type in “patterns” help

  • document to first heal before running borg recreate to re-chunk stuff, because that will have to get rid of chunks_healthy metadata.

  • more than 23 is not supported for CHUNK_MAX_EXP, #3115

  • borg does not respect nodump flag by default any more

  • clarify same-filesystem requirement for borg upgrade, #2083

  • update / rephrase cygwin / WSL status, #3174

  • improve docs about --stats, #3260

• vagrant: openindiana new clang package

Already contained in 1.1.1 (last minute fix):

• arg parsing: fix fallback function, refactor, #3205. This is a fixup for #3155, which was broken on at least python <= 3.4.2.

Version 1.1.1 (2017-10-22)

Compatibility notes:

• The deprecated --no-files-cache is not a global/common option any more, but only available for borg create (it is not needed for anything else). Use --files-cache=disabled instead of --no-files-cache.

• The nodump flag (“do not backup this file”) is not honoured any more by default because this functionality (esp. if it happened by error or unexpected) was rather confusing and unexplainable at first to users. If you want that “do not backup NODUMP-flagged files” behaviour, use: borg create --exclude-nodump …

• If you are on Linux and do not need bsdflags archived, consider using --nobsdflags with borg create to avoid additional syscalls and speed up backup creation.

Fixes:

• borg recreate: correctly compute part file sizes. fixes cosmetic, but annoying issue as borg check complains about size inconsistencies of part files in affected archives. you can solve that by running borg recreate on these archives, see also #3157.

• bsdflags support: do not open BLK/CHR/LNK files, avoid crashes and slowness, #3130

• recreate: don’t crash on attic archives w/o time_end, #3109

• don’t crash on repository filesystems w/o hardlink support, #3107

• don’t crash in first part of truncate_and_unlink, #3117

• fix server-side IndexError crash with clients < 1.0.7, #3192

• don’t show traceback if only a global option is given, show help, #3142

• cache: use SaveFile for more safety, #3158

• init: fix wrong encryption choices in command line parser, fix missing “authenticated-blake2”, #3103

• move --no-files-cache from common to borg create options, #3146

• fix detection of non-local path (failed on ..filename), #3108

• logging with fileConfig: set json attr on “borg” logger, #3114

• fix crash with relative BORG_KEY_FILE, #3197

• show excluded dir with “x” for tagged dirs / caches, #3189

New features:

• create: --nobsdflags and --exclude-nodump options, #3160

• extract: --nobsdflags option, #3160

Other changes:

• remove annoying hardlinked symlinks warning, #3175

• vagrant: use self-made FreeBSD 10.3 box, #3022

• travis: don’t brew update, hopefully fixes #2532

• docs:

  • readme: -e option is required in borg 1.1

  • add example showing --show-version --show-rc

  • use --format rather than --list-format (deprecated) in example

  • update docs about hardlinked symlinks limitation

Version 1.1.0 (2017-10-07)

Compatibility notes:

• borg command line: do not put options in between positional arguments

  This sometimes works (e.g. it worked in borg 1.0.x), but can easily stop working if we make positional arguments optional (like it happened for borg create’s “paths” argument in 1.1). There are also places in borg 1.0 where we do that, so it doesn’t work there in general either. #3356

  Good: borg create -v --stats repo::archive path Good: borg create repo::archive path -v --stats Bad: borg create repo::archive -v --stats path

Fixes:

• fix LD_LIBRARY_PATH restoration for subprocesses, #3077

• “auto” compression: make sure expensive compression is actually better, otherwise store lz4 compressed data we already computed.

Other changes:

• docs:

  • FAQ: we do not implement futile attempts of ETA / progress displays

  • manpage: fix typos, update homepage

  • implement simple “issue” role for manpage generation, #3075

Version 1.1.0rc4 (2017-10-01)

Compatibility notes:

• A borg server >= 1.1.0rc4 does not support borg clients 1.1.0b3-b5. #3033

• The files cache is now controlled differently and has a new default mode:

  • the files cache now uses ctime by default for improved file change detection safety. You can still use mtime for more speed and less safety.

  • --ignore-inode is deprecated (use --files-cache=… without “inode”)

  • --no-files-cache is deprecated (use --files-cache=disabled)

New features:

• --files-cache - implement files cache mode control, #911 You can now control the files cache mode using this option: --files-cache={ctime,mtime,size,inode,rechunk,disabled} (only some combinations are supported). See the docs for details.

Fixes:

• remote progress/logging: deal with partial lines, #2637

• remote progress: flush json mode output

• fix subprocess environments, #3050 (and more)

Other changes:

• remove client_supports_log_v3 flag, #3033

• exclude broken Cython 0.27(.0) in requirements, #3066

• vagrant:

  • upgrade to FUSE for macOS 3.7.1

  • use Python 3.5.4 to build the binaries

• docs:

  • security: change-passphrase only changes the passphrase, #2990

  • fixed/improved borg create --compression examples, #3034

  • add note about metadata dedup and --no[ac]time, #2518

  • twitter account @borgbackup now, better visible, #2948

  • simplified rate limiting wrapper in FAQ

Version 1.1.0rc3 (2017-09-10)

New features:

• delete: support naming multiple archives, #2958

Fixes:

• repo cleanup/write: invalidate cached FDs, #2982

• fix datetime.isoformat() microseconds issues, #2994

• recover_segment: use mmap(), lower memory needs, #2987

Other changes:

• with-lock: close segment file before invoking subprocess

• keymanager: don’t depend on optional readline module, #2976

• docs:

  • fix macOS keychain integration command

  • show/link new screencasts in README, #2936

  • document utf-8 locale requirement for json mode, #2273

• vagrant: clean up shell profile init, user name, #2977

• test_detect_attic_repo: don’t test mount, #2975

• add debug logging for repository cleanup

Version 1.1.0rc2 (2017-08-28)

Compatibility notes:

• list: corrected mix-up of “isomtime” and “mtime” formats. Previously, “isomtime” was the default but produced a verbose human format, while “mtime” produced a ISO-8601-like format. The behaviours have been swapped (so “mtime” is human, “isomtime” is ISO-like), and the default is now “mtime”. “isomtime” is now a real ISO-8601 format (“T” between date and time, not a space).

New features:

• None.

Fixes:

• list: fix weird mixup of mtime/isomtime

• create --timestamp: set start time, #2957

• ignore corrupt files cache, #2939

• migrate locks to child PID when daemonize is used

• fix exitcode of borg serve, #2910

• only compare contents when chunker params match, #2899

• umount: try fusermount, then try umount, #2863

Other changes:

• JSON: use a more standard ISO 8601 datetime format, #2376

• cache: write_archive_index: truncate_and_unlink on error, #2628

• detect non-upgraded Attic repositories, #1933

• delete various nogil and threading related lines

• coala / pylint related improvements

• docs:

  • renew asciinema/screencasts, #669

  • create: document exclusion through nodump, #2949

  • minor formatting fixes

  • tar: tarpipe example

  • improve “with-lock” and “info” docs, #2869

  • detail how to use macOS/GNOME/KDE keyrings for repo passwords, #392

• travis: only short-circuit docs-only changes for pull requests

• vagrant:

  • netbsd: bash is already installed

  • fix netbsd version in PKG_PATH

  • add exe location to PATH when we build an exe

Version 1.1.0rc1 (2017-07-24)

Compatibility notes:

• delete: removed short option for --cache-only

New features:

• support borg list repo --format {comment} {bcomment} {end}, #2081

• key import: allow reading from stdin, #2760

Fixes:

• with-lock: avoid creating segment files that might be overwritten later, #1867

• prune: fix checkpoints processing with --glob-archives

• FUSE: versions view: keep original file extension at end, #2769

• fix --last, --first: do not accept values <= 0, fix reversed archive ordering with --last

• include testsuite data (attic.tar.gz) when installing the package

• use limited unpacker for outer key, for manifest (both security precautions), #2174 #2175

• fix bashism in shell scripts, #2820, #2816

• cleanup endianness detection, create _endian.h, fixes build on alpine linux, #2809

• fix crash with --no-cache-sync (give known chunk size to chunk_incref), #2853

Other changes:

• FUSE: versions view: linear numbering by archive time

• split up interval parsing from filtering for --keep-within, #2610

• add a basic .editorconfig, #2734

• use archive creation time as mtime for FUSE mount, #2834

• upgrade FUSE for macOS (osxfuse) from 3.5.8 to 3.6.3, #2706

• hashindex: speed up by replacing modulo with “if” to check for wraparound

• coala checker / pylint: fixed requirements and .coafile, more ignores

• borg upgrade: name backup directories as ‘before-upgrade’, #2811

• add .mailmap

• some minor changes suggested by lgtm.com

• docs:

  • better explanation of the --ignore-inode option relevance, #2800

  • fix openSUSE command and add openSUSE section

  • simplify ssh authorized_keys file using “restrict”, add legacy note, #2121

  • mount: show usage of archive filters

  • mount: add repository example, #2462

  • info: update and add examples, #2765

  • prune: include example

  • improved style / formatting

  • improved/fixed segments_per_dir docs

  • recreate: fix wrong “remove unwanted files” example

  • reference list of status chars in borg recreate --filter description

  • update source-install docs about doc build dependencies, #2795

  • cleanup installation docs

  • file system requirements, update segs per dir

  • fix checkpoints/parts reference in FAQ, #2859

• code:

  • hashindex: don’t pass side effect into macro

  • crypto low_level: don’t mutate local bytes()

  • use dash_open function to open file or “-” for stdin/stdout

  • archiver: argparse cleanup / refactoring

  • shellpattern: add match_end arg

• tests: added some additional unit tests, some fixes, #2700 #2710

• vagrant: fix setup of cygwin, add Debian 9 “stretch”

• travis: don’t perform full travis build on docs-only changes, #2531

Version 1.1.0b6 (2017-06-18)

Compatibility notes:

• Running “borg init” via a “borg serve --append-only” server will not create an append-only repository anymore. Use “borg init --append-only” to initialize an append-only repository.

• Repositories in the “repokey” and “repokey-blake2” modes with an empty passphrase are now treated as unencrypted repositories for security checks (e.g. BORG_UNKNOWN_UNENCRYPTED_REPO_ACCESS_IS_OK).

  Previously there would be no prompts nor messages if an unknown repository in one of these modes with an empty passphrase was encountered. This would allow an attacker to swap a repository, if one assumed that the lack of password prompts was due to a set BORG_PASSPHRASE.

  Since the “trick” does not work if BORG_PASSPHRASE is set, this does generally not affect scripts.

• Repositories in the “authenticated” mode are now treated as the unencrypted repositories they are.

• The client-side temporary repository cache now holds unencrypted data for better speed.

• borg init: removed the short form of --append-only (-a).

• borg upgrade: removed the short form of --inplace (-i).

New features:

• reimplemented the RepositoryCache, size-limited caching of decrypted repo contents, integrity checked via xxh64. #2515

• reduced space usage of chunks.archive.d. Existing caches are migrated during a cache sync. #235 #2638

• integrity checking using xxh64 for important files used by borg, #1101:

  • repository: index and hints files

  • cache: chunks and files caches, chunks.archive.d

• improve cache sync speed, #1729

• create: new --no-cache-sync option

• add repository mandatory feature flags infrastructure, #1806

• Verify most operations against SecurityManager. Location, manifest timestamp and key types are now checked for almost all non-debug commands. #2487

• implement storage quotas, #2517

• serve: add --restrict-to-repository, #2589

• BORG_PASSCOMMAND: use external tool providing the key passphrase, #2573

• borg export-tar, #2519

• list: --json-lines instead of --json for archive contents, #2439

• add --debug-profile option (and also “borg debug convert-profile”), #2473

• implement --glob-archives/-a, #2448

• normalize authenticated key modes for better naming consistency:

  • rename “authenticated” to “authenticated-blake2” (uses blake2b)

  • implement “authenticated” mode (uses hmac-sha256)

Fixes:

• hashindex: read/write indices >2 GiB on 32bit systems, better error reporting, #2496

• repository URLs: implement IPv6 address support and also more informative error message when parsing fails.

• mount: check whether llfuse is installed before asking for passphrase, #2540

• mount: do pre-mount checks before opening repository, #2541

• FUSE:

  • fix crash if empty (None) xattr is read, #2534

  • fix read(2) caching data in metadata cache

  • fix negative uid/gid crash (fix crash when mounting archives of external drives made on cygwin), #2674

  • redo ItemCache, on top of object cache

  • use decrypted cache

  • remove unnecessary normpaths

• serve: ignore --append-only when initializing a repository (borg init), #2501

• serve: fix incorrect type of exception_short for Errors, #2513

• fix --exclude and --exclude-from recursing into directories, #2469

• init: don’t allow creating nested repositories, #2563

• --json: fix encryption[mode] not being the cmdline name

• remote: propagate Error.traceback correctly

• fix remote logging and progress, #2241

  • implement --debug-topic for remote servers

  • remote: restore “Remote:” prefix (as used in 1.0.x)

  • rpc negotiate: enable v3 log protocol only for supported clients

  • fix --progress and logging in general for remote

• fix parse_version, add tests, #2556

• repository: truncate segments (and also some other files) before unlinking, #2557

• recreate: keep timestamps as in original archive, #2384

• recreate: if single archive is not processed, exit 2

• patterns: don’t recurse with ! / --exclude for pf:, #2509

• cache sync: fix n^2 behaviour in lookup_name

• extract: don’t write to disk with --stdout (affected non-regular-file items), #2645

• hashindex: implement KeyError, more tests

Other changes:

• remote: show path in PathNotAllowed

• consider repokey w/o passphrase == unencrypted, #2169

• consider authenticated mode == unencrypted, #2503

• restrict key file names, #2560

• document follow_symlinks requirements, check libc, use stat and chown with follow_symlinks=False, #2507

• support common options on the main command, #2508

• support common options on mid-level commands (e.g. borg key export)

• make --progress a common option

• increase DEFAULT_SEGMENTS_PER_DIR to 1000

• chunker: fix invalid use of types (function only used by tests)

• chunker: don’t do uint32_t >> 32

• FUSE:

  • add instrumentation (--debug and SIGUSR1/SIGINFO)

  • reduced memory usage for repository mounts by lazily instantiating archives

  • improved archive load times

• info: use CacheSynchronizer & HashIndex.stats_against (better performance)

• docs:

  • init: document --encryption as required

  • security: OpenSSL usage

  • security: used implementations; note python libraries

  • security: security track record of OpenSSL and msgpack

  • patterns: document denial of service (regex, wildcards)

  • init: note possible denial of service with “none” mode

  • init: document SHA extension is supported in OpenSSL and thus SHA is faster on AMD Ryzen than blake2b.

  • book: use A4 format, new builder option format.

  • book: create appendices

  • data structures: explain repository compaction

  • data structures: add chunk layout diagram

  • data structures: integrity checking

  • data structures: demingle cache and repo index

  • Attic FAQ: separate section for attic stuff

  • FAQ: I get an IntegrityError or similar - what now?

  • FAQ: Can I use Borg on SMR hard drives?, #2252

  • FAQ: specify “using inline shell scripts”

  • add systemd warning regarding placeholders, #2543

  • xattr: document API

  • add docs/misc/borg-data-flow data flow chart

  • debugging facilities

  • README: how to help the project, #2550

  • README: add bountysource badge, #2558

  • fresh new theme + tweaking

  • logo: vectorized (PDF and SVG) versions

  • frontends: use headlines - you can link to them

  • mark --pattern, --patterns-from as experimental

  • highlight experimental features in online docs

  • remove regex based pattern examples, #2458

  • nanorst for “borg help TOPIC” and --help

  • split deployment

  • deployment: hosting repositories

  • deployment: automated backups to a local hard drive

  • development: vagrant, windows10 requirements

  • development: update docs remarks

  • split usage docs, #2627

  • usage: avoid bash highlight, [options] instead of <options>

  • usage: add benchmark page

  • helpers: truncate_and_unlink doc

  • don’t suggest to leak BORG_PASSPHRASE

  • internals: columnize rather long ToC [webkit fixup] internals: manifest & feature flags

  • internals: more HashIndex details

  • internals: fix ASCII art equations

  • internals: edited obj graph related sections a bit

  • internals: layers image + description

  • fix way too small figures in pdf

  • index: disable syntax highlight (bash)

  • improve options formatting, fix accidental block quotes

• testing / checking:

  • add support for using coala, #1366

  • testsuite: add ArchiverCorruptionTestCase

  • do not test logger name, #2504

  • call setup_logging after destroying logging config

  • testsuite.archiver: normalise pytest.raises vs. assert_raises

  • add test for preserved intermediate folder permissions, #2477

  • key: add round-trip test

  • remove attic dependency of the tests, #2505

  • enable remote tests on cygwin

  • tests: suppress tar’s future timestamp warning

  • cache sync: add more refcount tests

  • repository: add tests, including corruption tests

• vagrant:

  • control VM cpus and pytest workers via env vars VMCPUS and XDISTN

  • update cleaning workdir

  • fix openbsd shell

  • add OpenIndiana

• packaging:

  • binaries: don’t bundle libssl

  • setup.py clean to remove compiled files

  • fail in borg package if version metadata is very broken (setuptools_scm)

• repo / code structure:

  • create borg.algorithms and borg.crypto packages

  • algorithms: rename crc32 to checksums

  • move patterns to module, #2469

  • gitignore: complete paths for src/ excludes

  • cache: extract CacheConfig class

  • implement IntegrityCheckedFile + Detached variant, #2502 #1688

  • introduce popen_with_error_handling to handle common user errors

Version 1.1.0b5 (2017-04-30)

Compatibility notes:

• BORG_HOSTNAME_IS_UNIQUE is now on by default.

• removed --compression-from feature

• recreate: add --recompress flag, unify --always-recompress and --recompress

Fixes:

• catch exception for os.link when hardlinks are not supported, #2405

• borg rename / recreate: expand placeholders, #2386

• generic support for hardlinks (files, devices, FIFOs), #2324

• extract: also create parent dir for device files, if needed, #2358

• extract: if a hardlink master is not in the to-be-extracted subset, the “x” status was not displayed for it, #2351

• embrace y2038 issue to support 32bit platforms: clamp timestamps to int32, #2347

• verify_data: fix IntegrityError handling for defect chunks, #2442

• allow excluding parent and including child, #2314

Other changes:

• refactor compression decision stuff

• change global compression default to lz4 as well, to be consistent with --compression defaults.

• placeholders: deny access to internals and other unspecified stuff

• clearer error message for unrecognized placeholder

• more clear exception if borg check does not help, #2427

• vagrant: upgrade FUSE for macOS to 3.5.8, #2346

• linux binary builds: get rid of glibc 2.13 dependency, #2430

• docs:

  • placeholders: document escaping

  • serve: env vars in original commands are ignored

  • tell what kind of hardlinks we support

  • more docs about compression

  • LICENSE: use canonical formulation (“copyright holders and contributors” instead of “author”)

  • document borg init behaviour via append-only borg serve, #2440

  • be clear about what buzhash is used for, #2390

  • add hint about chunker params, #2421

  • clarify borg upgrade docs, #2436

  • FAQ to explain warning when running borg check --repair, #2341

  • repository file system requirements, #2080

  • pre-install considerations

  • misc. formatting / crossref fixes

• tests:

  • enhance travis setuptools_scm situation

  • add extra test for the hashindex

  • fix invalid param issue in benchmarks

These belong to 1.1.0b4 release, but did not make it into changelog by then:

• vagrant: increase memory for parallel testing

• lz4 compress: lower max. buffer size, exception handling

• add docstring to do_benchmark_crud

• patterns help: mention path full-match in intro

Version 1.1.0b4 (2017-03-27)

Compatibility notes:

• init: the --encryption argument is mandatory now (there are several choices)

• moved “borg migrate-to-repokey” to “borg key migrate-to-repokey”.

• “borg change-passphrase” is deprecated, use “borg key change-passphrase” instead.

• the --exclude-if-present option now supports tagging a folder with any filesystem object type (file, folder, etc), instead of expecting only files as tags, #1999

• the --keep-tag-files option has been deprecated in favor of the new --keep-exclude-tags, to account for the change mentioned above.

• use lz4 compression by default, #2179

New features:

• JSON API to make developing frontends and automation easier (see All about JSON: How to develop frontends)

  • add JSON output to commands: borg create/list/info --json ….

  • add --log-json option for structured logging output.

  • add JSON progress information, JSON support for confirmations (yes()).

• add two new options --pattern and --patterns-from as discussed in #1406

• new path full match pattern style (pf:) for very fast matching, #2334

• add ‘debug dump-manifest’ and ‘debug dump-archive’ commands

• add ‘borg benchmark crud’ command, #1788

• new ‘borg delete --force --force’ to delete severely corrupted archives, #1975

• info: show utilization of maximum archive size, #1452

• list: add dsize and dcsize keys, #2164

• paperkey.html: Add interactive html template for printing key backups.

• key export: add qr html export mode

• securely erase config file (which might have old encryption key), #2257

• archived file items: add size to metadata, ‘borg extract’ and ‘borg check’ do check the file size for consistency, FUSE uses precomputed size from Item.

Fixes:

• fix remote speed regression introduced in 1.1.0b3, #2185

• fix regression handling timestamps beyond 2262 (revert bigint removal), introduced in 1.1.0b3, #2321

• clamp (nano)second values to unproblematic range, #2304

• hashindex: rebuild hashtable if we have too little empty buckets (performance fix), #2246

• Location regex: fix bad parsing of wrong syntax

• ignore posix_fadvise errors in repository.py, #2095

• borg rpc: use limited msgpack.Unpacker (security precaution), #2139

• Manifest: Make sure manifest timestamp is strictly monotonically increasing.

• create: handle BackupOSError on a per-path level in one spot

• create: clarify -x option / meaning of “same filesystem”

• create: don’t create hard link refs to failed files

• archive check: detect and fix missing all-zero replacement chunks, #2180

• files cache: update inode number when --ignore-inode is used, #2226

• fix decompression exceptions crashing check --verify-data and others instead of reporting integrity error, #2224 #2221

• extract: warning for unextracted big extended attributes, #2258, #2161

• mount: umount on SIGINT/^C when in foreground

• mount: handle invalid hard link refs

• mount: fix huge RAM consumption when mounting a repository (saves number of archives * 8 MiB), #2308

• hashindex: detect mingw byte order #2073

• hashindex: fix wrong skip_hint on hashindex_set when encountering tombstones, the regression was introduced in #1748

• fix ChunkIndex.__contains__ assertion for big-endian archs

• fix borg key/debug/benchmark crashing without subcommand, #2240

• Location: accept //servername/share/path

• correct/refactor calculation of unique/non-unique chunks

• extract: fix missing call to ProgressIndicator.finish

• prune: fix error msg, it is --keep-within, not --within

• fix “auto” compression mode bug (not compressing), #2331

• fix symlink item fs size computation, #2344

Other changes:

• remote repository: improved async exception processing, #2255 #2225

• with --compression auto,C, only use C if lz4 achieves at least 3% compression

• PatternMatcher: only normalize path once, #2338

• hashindex: separate endian-dependent defs from endian detection

• migrate-to-repokey: ask using canonical_path() as we do everywhere else.

• SyncFile: fix use of fd object after close

• make LoggedIO.close_segment reentrant

• creating a new segment: use “xb” mode, #2099

• redo key_creator, key_factory, centralise key knowledge, #2272

• add return code functions, #2199

• list: only load cache if needed

• list: files->items, clarifications

• list: add “name” key for consistency with info cmd

• ArchiveFormatter: add “start” key for compatibility with “info”

• RemoteRepository: account rx/tx bytes

• setup.py build_usage/build_man/build_api fixes

• Manifest.in: simplify, exclude .so, .dll and .orig, #2066

• FUSE: get rid of chunk accounting, st_blocks = ceil(size / blocksize).

• tests:

  • help python development by testing 3.6-dev

  • test for borg delete --force

• vagrant:

  • freebsd: some fixes, #2067

  • darwin64: use osxfuse 3.5.4 for tests / to build binaries

  • darwin64: improve VM settings

  • use python 3.5.3 to build binaries, #2078

  • upgrade pyinstaller from 3.1.1+ to 3.2.1

  • pyinstaller: use fixed AND freshly compiled bootloader, #2002

  • pyinstaller: automatically builds bootloader if missing

• docs:

  • create really nice man pages

  • faq: mention --remote-ratelimit in bandwidth limit question

  • fix caskroom link, #2299

  • docs/security: reiterate that RPC in Borg does no networking

  • docs/security: counter tracking, #2266

  • docs/development: update merge remarks

  • address SSH batch mode in docs, #2202 #2270

  • add warning about running build_usage on Python >3.4, #2123

  • one link per distro in the installation page

  • improve --exclude-if-present and --keep-exclude-tags, #2268

  • improve automated backup script in doc, #2214

  • improve remote-path description

  • update docs for create -C default change (lz4)

  • document relative path usage, #1868

  • document snapshot usage, #2178

  • corrected some stuff in internals+security

  • internals: move toctree to after the introduction text

  • clarify metadata kind, manifest ops

  • key enc: correct / clarify some stuff, link to internals/security

  • datas: enc: 1.1.x mas different MACs

  • datas: enc: correct factual error -- no nonce involved there.

  • make internals.rst an index page and edit it a bit

  • add “Cryptography in Borg” and “Remote RPC protocol security” sections

  • document BORG_HOSTNAME_IS_UNIQUE, #2087

  • FAQ by categories as proposed by @anarcat in #1802

  • FAQ: update Which file types, attributes, etc. are not preserved?

  • development: new branching model for git repository

  • development: define “ours” merge strategy for auto-generated files

  • create: move --exclude note to main doc

  • create: move item flags to main doc

  • fix examples using borg init without -e/--encryption

  • list: don’t print key listings in fat (html + man)

  • remove Python API docs (were very incomplete, build problems on RTFD)

  • added FAQ section about backing up root partition

Version 1.1.0b3 (2017-01-15)

Compatibility notes:

• borg init: removed the default of “--encryption/-e”, #1979 This was done so users do a informed decision about -e mode.

Bug fixes:

• borg recreate: don’t rechunkify unless explicitly told so

• borg info: fixed bug when called without arguments, #1914

• borg init: fix free space check crashing if disk is full, #1821

• borg debug delete/get obj: fix wrong reference to exception

• fix processing of remote ~/ and ~user/ paths (regressed since 1.1.0b1), #1759

• posix platform module: only build / import on non-win32 platforms, #2041

New features:

• new CRC32 implementations that are much faster than the zlib one used previously, #1970

• add blake2b key modes (use blake2b as MAC). This links against system libb2, if possible, otherwise uses bundled code

• automatically remove stale locks - set BORG_HOSTNAME_IS_UNIQUE env var to enable stale lock killing. If set, stale locks in both cache and repository are deleted. #562 #1253

• borg info <repo>: print general repo information, #1680

• borg check --first / --last / --sort / --prefix, #1663

• borg mount --first / --last / --sort / --prefix, #1542

• implement “health” item formatter key, #1749

• BORG_SECURITY_DIR to remember security related infos outside the cache. Key type, location and manifest timestamp checks now survive cache deletion. This also means that you can now delete your cache and avoid previous warnings, since Borg can still tell it’s safe.

• implement BORG_NEW_PASSPHRASE, #1768

Other changes:

• borg recreate:

  • remove special-cased --dry-run

  • update --help

  • remove bloat: interruption blah, autocommit blah, resuming blah

  • re-use existing checkpoint functionality

  • archiver tests: add check_cache tool - lints refcounts

• fixed cache sync performance regression from 1.1.0b1 onwards, #1940

• syncing the cache without chunks.archive.d (see The borg cache eats way too much disk space, what can I do?) now avoids any merges and is thus faster, #1940

• borg check --verify-data: faster due to linear on-disk-order scan

• borg debug-xxx commands removed, we use “debug xxx” subcommands now, #1627

• improve metadata handling speed

• shortcut hashindex_set by having hashindex_lookup hint about address

• improve / add progress displays, #1721

• check for index vs. segment files object count mismatch

• make RPC protocol more extensible: use named parameters.

• RemoteRepository: misc. code cleanups / refactors

• clarify cache/repository README file

• docs:

  • quickstart: add a comment about other (remote) filesystems

  • quickstart: only give one possible ssh url syntax, all others are documented in usage chapter.

  • mention file://

  • document repo URLs / archive location

  • clarify borg diff help, #980

  • deployment: synthesize alternative --restrict-to-path example

  • improve cache / index docs, esp. files cache docs, #1825

  • document using “git merge 1.0-maint -s recursive -X rename-threshold=20%” for avoiding troubles when merging the 1.0-maint branch into master.

• tests:

  • FUSE tests: catch ENOTSUP on freebsd

  • FUSE tests: test troublesome xattrs last

  • fix byte range error in test, #1740

  • use monkeypatch to set env vars, but only on pytest based tests.

  • point XDG_*_HOME to temp dirs for tests, #1714

  • remove all BORG_* env vars from the outer environment

Version 1.1.0b2 (2016-10-01)

Bug fixes:

• fix incorrect preservation of delete tags, leading to “object count mismatch” on borg check, #1598. This only occurred with 1.1.0b1 (not with 1.0.x) and is normally fixed by running another borg create/delete/prune.

• fix broken --progress for double-cell paths (e.g. CJK), #1624

• borg recreate: also catch SIGHUP

• FUSE:

  • fix hardlinks in versions view, #1599

  • add parameter check to ItemCache.get to make potential failures more clear

New features:

• Archiver, RemoteRepository: add --remote-ratelimit (send data)

• borg help compression, #1582

• borg check: delete chunks with integrity errors, #1575, so they can be “repaired” immediately and maybe healed later.

• archives filters concept (refactoring/unifying older code)

  • covers --first/--last/--prefix/--sort-by options

  • currently used for borg list/info/delete

Other changes:

• borg check --verify-data slightly tuned (use get_many())

• change {utcnow} and {now} to ISO-8601 format (“T” date/time separator)

• repo check: log transaction IDs, improve object count mismatch diagnostic

• Vagrantfile: use TW’s fresh-bootloader pyinstaller branch

• fix module names in api.rst

• hashindex: bump api_version

Version 1.1.0b1 (2016-08-28)

New features:

• new commands:

  • borg recreate: re-create existing archives, #787 #686 #630 #70, also see #757, #770.

    • selectively remove files/dirs from old archives

    • re-compress data

    • re-chunkify data, e.g. to have upgraded Attic / Borg 0.xx archives deduplicate with Borg 1.x archives or to experiment with chunker-params.

  • borg diff: show differences between archives

  • borg with-lock: execute a command with the repository locked, #990

• borg create:

  • Flexible compression with pattern matching on path/filename, and LZ4 heuristic for deciding compressibility, #810, #1007

  • visit files in inode order (better speed, esp. for large directories and rotating disks)

  • in-file checkpoints, #1217

  • increased default checkpoint interval to 30 minutes (was 5 minutes), #896

  • added uuid archive format tag, #1151

  • save mountpoint directories with --one-file-system, makes system restore easier, #1033

  • Linux: added support for some BSD flags, #1050

  • add ‘x’ status for excluded paths, #814

    • also means files excluded via UF_NODUMP, #1080

• borg check:

  • will not produce the “Checking segments” output unless new --progress option is passed, #824.

  • --verify-data to verify data cryptographically on the client, #975

• borg list, #751, #1179

  • removed {formatkeys}, see “borg list --help”

  • --list-format is deprecated, use --format instead

  • --format now also applies to listing archives, not only archive contents, #1179

  • now supports the usual [PATH [PATHS…]] syntax and excludes

  • new keys: csize, num_chunks, unique_chunks, NUL

  • supports guaranteed_available hashlib hashes (to avoid varying functionality depending on environment), which includes the SHA1 and SHA2 family as well as MD5

• borg prune:

  • to better visualize the “thinning out”, we now list all archives in reverse time order. rephrase and reorder help text.

  • implement --keep-last N via --keep-secondly N, also --keep-minutely. assuming that there is not more than 1 backup archive made in 1s, --keep-last N and --keep-secondly N are equivalent, #537

  • cleanup checkpoints except the latest, #1008

• borg extract:

  • added --progress, #1449

  • Linux: limited support for BSD flags, #1050

• borg info:

  • output is now more similar to borg create --stats, #977

• borg mount:

  • provide “borgfs” wrapper for borg mount, enables usage via fstab, #743

  • “versions” mount option - when used with a repository mount, this gives a merged, versioned view of the files in all archives, #729

• repository:

  • added progress information to commit/compaction phase (often takes some time when deleting/pruning), #1519

  • automatic recovery for some forms of repository inconsistency, #858

  • check free space before going forward with a commit, #1336

  • improved write performance (esp. for rotating media), #985

    • new IO code for Linux

    • raised default segment size to approx 512 MiB

  • improved compaction performance, #1041

  • reduced client CPU load and improved performance for remote repositories, #940

• options that imply output (--show-rc, --show-version, --list, --stats, --progress) don’t need -v/--info to have that output displayed, #865

• add archive comments (via borg (re)create --comment), #842

• borg list/prune/delete: also output archive id, #731

• --show-version: shows/logs the borg version, #725

• added --debug-topic for granular debug logging, #1447

• use atomic file writing/updating for configuration and key files, #1377

• BORG_KEY_FILE environment variable, #1001

• self-testing module, #970

Bug fixes:

• list: fixed default output being produced if --format is given with empty parameter, #1489

• create: fixed overflowing progress line with CJK and similar characters, #1051

• prune: fixed crash if --prefix resulted in no matches, #1029

• init: clean up partial repo if passphrase input is aborted, #850

• info: quote cmdline arguments that have spaces in them

• fix hardlinks failing in some cases for extracting subtrees, #761

Other changes:

• replace stdlib hmac with OpenSSL, zero-copy decrypt (10-15% increase in performance of hash-lists and extract).

• improved chunker performance, #1021

• open repository segment files in exclusive mode (fail-safe), #1134

• improved error logging, #1440

• Source:

  • pass meta-data around, #765

  • move some constants to new constants module

  • better readability and fewer errors with namedtuples, #823

  • moved source tree into src/ subdirectory, #1016

  • made borg.platform a package, #1113

  • removed dead crypto code, #1032

  • improved and ported parts of the test suite to py.test, #912

  • created data classes instead of passing dictionaries around, #981, #1158, #1161

  • cleaned up imports, #1112

• Docs:

  • better help texts and sphinx reproduction of usage help:

    • Group options

    • Nicer list of options in Sphinx

    • Deduplicate ‘Common options’ (including --help)

  • chunker: added some insights by “Voltara”, #903

  • clarify what “deduplicated size” means

  • fix / update / add package list entries

  • added a SaltStack usage example, #956

  • expanded FAQ

  • new contributors in AUTHORS!

• Tests:

  • vagrant: add ubuntu/xenial 64bit - this box has still some issues

  • ChunkBuffer: add test for leaving partial chunk in buffer, fixes #945

Version 1.0.13 (2019-02-15)

Please note: this is very likely the last 1.0.x release, please upgrade to 1.1.x.

Bug fixes:

• security fix: configure FUSE with “default_permissions”, #3903. “default_permissions” is now enforced by borg by default to let the kernel check uid/gid/mode based permissions. “ignore_permissions” can be given to not enforce “default_permissions”.

• xattrs: fix borg exception handling on ENOSPC error, #3808.

New features:

• Read a passphrase from a file descriptor specified in the BORG_PASSPHRASE_FD environment variable.

Other changes:

• acl platform code: fix acl set return type

• xattr:

  • add linux {list,get,set}xattr ctypes prototypes

  • fix darwin flistxattr ctypes prototype

• testing / travis-ci:

  • fix the homebrew 1.9 issues on travis-ci, #4254

  • travis OS X: use xcode 8.3 (not broken)

  • tox.ini: lock requirements

  • unbreak 1.0-maint on travis, fixes #4123

• vagrant:

  • misc. fixes

  • FUSE for macOS: upgrade 3.7.1 to 3.8.3

  • Python: upgrade 3.5.5 to 3.5.6

• docs:

  • Update installation instructions for macOS

  • update release workflow using twine (docs, scripts), #4213

Version 1.0.12 (2018-04-08)

Bug fixes:

• repository: cleanup/write: invalidate cached FDs, tests

• serve: fix exitcode, #2910

• extract: set bsdflags last (include immutable flag), #3263

• create --timestamp: set start time, #2957

• create: show excluded dir with “x” for tagged dirs / caches, #3189

• migrate locks to child PID when daemonize is used

• Buffer: fix wrong thread-local storage use, #2951

• fix detection of non-local path, #3108

• fix LDLP restoration for subprocesses, #3077

• fix subprocess environments (xattr module’s fakeroot version check, borg umount, BORG_PASSCOMMAND), #3050

• remote: deal with partial lines, #2637

• get rid of datetime.isoformat, use safe parse_timestamp to parse timestamps, #2994

• build: do .h file content checks in binary mode, fixes build issue for non-ascii header files on pure-ascii locale platforms, #3544 #3639

• remove platform.uname() call which caused library mismatch issues, #3732

• add exception handler around deprecated platform.linux_distribution() call

Other changes:

• require msgpack-python >= 0.4.6 and < 0.5.0, see #3753

• add parens for C preprocessor macro argument usages (did not cause malfunction)

• ignore corrupt files cache, #2939

• replace “modulo” with “if” to check for wraparound in hashmap

• keymanager: don’t depend on optional readline module, #2980

• exclude broken pytest 3.3.0 release

• exclude broken Cython 0.27(.0) release, #3066

• flake8: add some ignores

• docs:

  • create: document exclusion through nodump

  • document good and problematic option placements, fix examples, #3356

  • update docs about hardlinked symlinks limitation

  • faq: we do not implement futile attempts of ETA / progress displays

  • simplified rate limiting wrapper in FAQ

  • twitter account @borgbackup, #2948

  • add note about metadata dedup and --no[ac]time, #2518

  • change-passphrase only changes the passphrase, #2990

  • clarify encrypted key format for borg key export, #3296

  • document sshfs rename workaround, #3315

  • update release checklist about security fixes

  • docs about how to verify a signed release, #3634

  • chunk seed is generated per /repository/

• vagrant:

  • use FUSE for macOS 3.7.1 to build the macOS binary

  • use python 3.5.5 to build the binaries

  • add exe location to PATH when we build an exe

  • use https pypi url for wheezy

  • netbsd: bash is already installed

  • netbsd: fix netbsd version in PKG_PATH

  • use self-made FreeBSD 10.3 box, #3022

  • backport fs_init (including related updates) from 1.1

  • the boxcutter wheezy boxes are 404, use local ones

• travis:

  • don’t perform full Travis build on docs-only changes, #2531

  • only short-circuit docs-only changes for pull requests

Version 1.0.11 (2017-07-21)

Bug fixes:

• use limited unpacker for outer key (security precaution), #2174

• fix paperkey import bug

Other changes:

• change --checkpoint-interval default from 600s to 1800s, #2841. this improves efficiency for big repositories a lot.

• docs: fix OpenSUSE command and add OpenSUSE section

• tests: add tests for split_lstring and paperkey

• vagrant:

  • fix openbsd shell

  • backport cpu/ram setup from master

  • add stretch64 VM

Version 1.0.11rc1 (2017-06-27)

Bug fixes:

• performance: rebuild hashtable if we have too few empty buckets, #2246. this fixes some sporadic, but severe performance breakdowns.

• Archive: allocate zeros when needed, #2308 fixes huge memory usage of mount (8 MiB × number of archives)

• IPv6 address support also: Location: more informative exception when parsing fails

• borg single-file binary: use pyinstaller v3.2.1, #2396 this fixes that the prelink cronjob on some distros kills the borg binary by stripping away parts of it.

• extract:

  • warning for unextracted big extended attributes, #2258

  • also create parent dir for device files, if needed.

  • don’t write to disk with --stdout, #2645

• archive check: detect and fix missing all-zero replacement chunks, #2180

• fix (de)compression exceptions, #2224 #2221

• files cache: update inode number, #2226

• borg rpc: use limited msgpack.Unpacker (security precaution), #2139

• Manifest: use limited msgpack.Unpacker (security precaution), #2175

• Location: accept //servername/share/path

• fix ChunkIndex.__contains__ assertion for big-endian archs (harmless)

• create: handle BackupOSError on a per-path level in one spot

• fix error msg, there is no --keep-last in borg 1.0.x, #2282

• clamp (nano)second values to unproblematic range, #2304

• fuse / borg mount:

  • fix st_blocks to be an integer (not float) value

  • fix negative uid/gid crash (they could come into archives e.g. when backing up external drives under cygwin), #2674

  • fix crash if empty (None) xattr is read

  • do pre-mount checks before opening repository

  • check llfuse is installed before asking for passphrase

• borg rename: expand placeholders, #2386

• borg serve: fix forced command lines containing BORG_* env vars

• fix error msg, it is --keep-within, not --within

• fix borg key/debug/benchmark crashing without subcommand, #2240

• chunker: fix invalid use of types, don’t do uint32_t >> 32

• document follow_symlinks requirements, check libc, #2507

New features:

• added BORG_PASSCOMMAND environment variable, #2573

• add minimal version of in repository mandatory feature flags, #2134

  This should allow us to make sure older borg versions can be cleanly prevented from doing operations that are no longer safe because of repository format evolution. This allows more fine grained control than just incrementing the manifest version. So for example a change that still allows new archives to be created but would corrupt the repository when an old version tries to delete an archive or check the repository would add the new feature to the check and delete set but leave it out of the write set.

• borg delete --force --force to delete severely corrupted archives, #1975

Other changes:

• embrace y2038 issue to support 32bit platforms

• be more clear that this is a “beyond repair” case, #2427

• key file names: limit to 100 characters and remove colons from host name

• upgrade FUSE for macOS to 3.5.8, #2346

• split up parsing and filtering for --keep-within, better error message, #2610

• docs:

  • fix caskroom link, #2299

  • address SSH batch mode, #2202 #2270

  • improve remote-path description

  • document snapshot usage, #2178

  • document relative path usage, #1868

  • one link per distro in the installation page

  • development: new branching model in git repository

  • kill api page

  • added FAQ section about backing up root partition

  • add bountysource badge, #2558

  • create empty docs.txt reequirements, #2694

  • README: how to help the project

  • note -v/--verbose requirement on affected options, #2542

  • document borg init behaviour via append-only borg serve, #2440

  • be clear about what buzhash is used for (chunking) and want it is not used for (deduplication)- also say already in the readme that we use a cryptohash for dedupe, so people don’t worry, #2390

  • add hint about chunker params to borg upgrade docs, #2421

  • clarify borg upgrade docs, #2436

  • quickstart: delete problematic BORG_PASSPHRASE use, #2623

  • faq: specify “using inline shell scripts”

  • document pattern denial of service, #2624

• tests:

  • remove attic dependency of the tests, #2505

  • travis:

    • enhance travis setuptools_scm situation

    • install fakeroot for Linux

  • add test for borg delete --force

  • enable remote tests on cygwin (the cygwin issue that caused these tests to break was fixed in cygwin at least since cygwin 2.8, maybe even since 2.7.0).

  • remove skipping the noatime tests on GNU/Hurd, #2710

  • fix borg import issue, add comment, #2718

  • include attic.tar.gz when installing the package also: add include_package_data=True

Version 1.0.10 (2017-02-13)

Bug fixes:

• Manifest timestamps are now monotonically increasing, this fixes issues when the system clock jumps backwards or is set inconsistently across computers accessing the same repository, #2115

• Fixed testing regression in 1.0.10rc1 that lead to a hard dependency on py.test >= 3.0, #2112

New features:

• “key export” can now generate a printable HTML page with both a QR code and a human-readable “paperkey” representation (and custom text) through the --qr-html option.

  The same functionality is also available through paperkey.html, which is the same HTML page generated by --qr-html. It works with existing “key export” files and key files.

Other changes:

• docs:

  • language clarification - “borg create --one-file-system” option does not respect mount points, but considers different file systems instead, #2141

• setup.py: build_api: sort file list for determinism

Version 1.0.10rc1 (2017-01-29)

Bug fixes:

• borg serve: fix transmission data loss of pipe writes, #1268 This affects only the cygwin platform (not Linux, BSD, OS X).

• Avoid triggering an ObjectiveFS bug in xattr retrieval, #1992

• When running out of buffer memory when reading xattrs, only skip the current file, #1993

• Fixed “borg upgrade --tam” crashing with unencrypted repositories. Since the issue is not relevant for unencrypted repositories, it now does nothing and prints an error, #1981.

• Fixed change-passphrase crashing with unencrypted repositories, #1978

• Fixed “borg check repo::archive” indicating success if “archive” does not exist, #1997

• borg check: print non-exit-code warning if --last or --prefix aren’t fulfilled

• fix bad parsing of wrong repo location syntax

• create: don’t create hard link refs to failed files, mount: handle invalid hard link refs, #2092

• detect mingw byte order, #2073

• creating a new segment: use “xb” mode, #2099

• mount: umount on SIGINT/^C when in foreground, #2082

Other changes:

• binary: use fixed AND freshly compiled pyinstaller bootloader, #2002

• xattr: ignore empty names returned by llistxattr(2) et al

• Enable the fault handler: install handlers for the SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGABRT, SIGBUS and SIGILL signals to dump the Python traceback.

• Also print a traceback on SIGUSR2.

• borg change-passphrase: print key location (simplify making a backup of it)

• officially support Python 3.6 (setup.py: add Python 3.6 qualifier)

• tests:

  • vagrant / travis / tox: add Python 3.6 based testing

  • vagrant: fix openbsd repo, #2042

  • vagrant: fix the freebsd64 machine, #2037 #2067

  • vagrant: use python 3.5.3 to build binaries, #2078

  • vagrant: use osxfuse 3.5.4 for tests / to build binaries vagrant: improve darwin64 VM settings

  • travis: fix osxfuse install (fixes OS X testing on Travis CI)

  • travis: require succeeding OS X tests, #2028

  • travis: use latest pythons for OS X based testing

  • use pytest-xdist to parallelize testing

  • fix xattr test race condition, #2047

  • setup.cfg: fix pytest deprecation warning, #2050

• docs:

  • language clarification - VM backup FAQ

  • borg create: document how to backup stdin, #2013

  • borg upgrade: fix incorrect title levels

  • add CVE numbers for issues fixed in 1.0.9, #2106

• fix typos (taken from Debian package patch)

• remote: include data hexdump in “unexpected RPC data” error message

• remote: log SSH command line at debug level

• API_VERSION: use numberspaces, #2023

• remove .github from pypi package, #2051

• add pip and setuptools to requirements file, #2030

• SyncFile: fix use of fd object after close (cosmetic)

• Manifest.in: simplify, exclude *.{so,dll,orig}, #2066

• ignore posix_fadvise errors in repository.py, #2095 (works around issues with docker on ARM)

• make LoggedIO.close_segment reentrant, avoid reentrance

Version 1.0.9 (2016-12-20)

Security fixes:

• A flaw in the cryptographic authentication scheme in Borg allowed an attacker to spoof the manifest. See Pre-1.0.9 manifest spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2016-10099) above for the steps you should take.

  CVE-2016-10099 was assigned to this vulnerability.

• borg check: When rebuilding the manifest (which should only be needed very rarely) duplicate archive names would be handled on a “first come first serve” basis, allowing an attacker to apparently replace archives.

  CVE-2016-10100 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Bug fixes:

• borg check:

  • rebuild manifest if it’s corrupted

  • skip corrupted chunks during manifest rebuild

• fix TypeError in integrity error handler, #1903, #1894

• fix location parser for archives with @ char (regression introduced in 1.0.8), #1930

• fix wrong duration/timestamps if system clock jumped during a create

• fix progress display not updating if system clock jumps backwards

• fix checkpoint interval being incorrect if system clock jumps

Other changes:

• docs:

  • add python3-devel as a dependency for cygwin-based installation

  • clarify extract is relative to current directory

  • FAQ: fix link to changelog

  • markup fixes

• tests:

  • test_get_(cache|keys)_dir: clean env state, #1897

  • get back pytest’s pretty assertion failures, #1938

• setup.py build_usage:

  • fixed build_usage not processing all commands

  • fixed build_usage not generating includes for debug commands

Version 1.0.9rc1 (2016-11-27)

Bug fixes:

• files cache: fix determination of newest mtime in backup set (which is used in cache cleanup and led to wrong “A” [added] status for unchanged files in next backup), #1860.

• borg check:

  • fix incorrectly reporting attic 0.13 and earlier archives as corrupt

  • handle repo w/o objects gracefully and also bail out early if repo is completely empty, #1815.

• fix tox/pybuild in 1.0-maint

• at xattr module import time, loggers are not initialized yet

New features:

• borg umount <mountpoint> exposed already existing umount code via the CLI api, so users can use it, which is more consistent than using borg to mount and fusermount -u (or umount) to un-mount, #1855.

• implement borg create --noatime --noctime, fixes #1853

Other changes:

• docs:

  • display README correctly on PyPI

  • improve cache / index docs, esp. files cache docs, fixes #1825

  • different pattern matching for --exclude, #1779

  • datetime formatting examples for {now} placeholder, #1822

  • clarify passphrase mode attic repo upgrade, #1854

  • clarify --umask usage, #1859

  • clarify how to choose PR target branch

  • clarify prune behavior for different archive contents, #1824

  • fix PDF issues, add logo, fix authors, headings, TOC

  • move security verification to support section

  • fix links in standalone README (:ref: tags)

  • add link to security contact in README

  • add FAQ about security

  • move fork differences to FAQ

  • add more details about resource usage

• tests: skip remote tests on cygwin, #1268

• travis:

  • allow OS X failures until the brew cask osxfuse issue is fixed

  • caskroom osxfuse-beta gone, it’s osxfuse now (3.5.3)

• vagrant:

  • upgrade OSXfuse / FUSE for macOS to 3.5.3

  • remove llfuse from tox.ini at a central place

  • do not try to install llfuse on centos6

  • fix FUSE test for darwin, #1546

  • add windows virtual machine with cygwin

  • Vagrantfile cleanup / code deduplication

Version 1.0.8 (2016-10-29)

Bug fixes:

• RemoteRepository: Fix busy wait in call_many, #940

New features:

• implement borgmajor/borgminor/borgpatch placeholders, #1694 {borgversion} was already there (full version string). With the new placeholders you can now also get e.g. 1 or 1.0 or 1.0.8.

Other changes:

• avoid previous_location mismatch, #1741

  due to the changed canonicalization for relative paths in PR #1711 / #1655 (implement /./ relpath hack), there would be a changed repo location warning and the user would be asked if this is ok. this would break automation and require manual intervention, which is unwanted.

  thus, we automatically fix the previous_location config entry, if it only changed in the expected way, but still means the same location.

• docs:

  • deployment.rst: do not use bare variables in ansible snippet

  • add clarification about append-only mode, #1689

  • setup.py: add comment about requiring llfuse, #1726

  • update usage.rst / api.rst

  • repo url / archive location docs + typo fix

  • quickstart: add a comment about other (remote) filesystems

• vagrant / tests:

  • no chown when rsyncing (fixes boxes w/o vagrant group)

  • fix FUSE permission issues on linux/freebsd, #1544

  • skip FUSE test for borg binary + fakeroot

  • ignore security.selinux xattrs, fixes tests on centos, #1735

Version 1.0.8rc1 (2016-10-17)

Bug fixes:

• fix signal handling (SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP), #1620 #1593 Fixes e.g. leftover lock files for quickly repeated signals (e.g. Ctrl-C Ctrl-C) or lost connections or systemd sending SIGHUP.

• progress display: adapt formatting to narrow screens, do not crash, #1628

• borg create --read-special - fix crash on broken symlink, #1584. also correctly processes broken symlinks. before this regressed to a crash (5b45385) a broken symlink would’ve been skipped.

• process_symlink: fix missing backup_io() Fixes a chmod/chown/chgrp/unlink/rename/… crash race between getting dirents and dispatching to process_symlink.

• yes(): abort on wrong answers, saying so, #1622

• fixed exception borg serve raised when connection was closed before repository was opened. Add an error message for this.

• fix read-from-closed-FD issue, #1551 (this seems not to get triggered in 1.0.x, but was discovered in master)

• hashindex: fix iterators (always raise StopIteration when exhausted) (this seems not to get triggered in 1.0.x, but was discovered in master)

• enable relative paths in ssh:// repo URLs, via /./relpath hack, #1655

• allow repo paths with colons, #1705

• update changed repo location immediately after acceptance, #1524

• fix debug get-obj / delete-obj crash if object not found and remote repo, #1684

• pyinstaller: use a spec file to build borg.exe binary, exclude osxfuse dylib on Mac OS X (avoids mismatch lib <-> driver), #1619

New features:

• add “borg key export” / “borg key import” commands, #1555, so users are able to backup / restore their encryption keys more easily.

  Supported formats are the keyfile format used by borg internally and a special “paper” format with by line checksums for printed backups. For the paper format, the import is an interactive process which checks each line as soon as it is input.

• add “borg debug-refcount-obj” to determine a repo objects’ referrer counts, #1352

Other changes:

• add “borg debug …” subcommands (borg debug-* still works, but will be removed in borg 1.1)

• setup.py: Add subcommand support to build_usage.

• remote: change exception message for unexpected RPC data format to indicate dataflow direction.

• improved messages / error reporting:

  • IntegrityError: add placeholder for message, so that the message we give appears not only in the traceback, but also in the (short) error message, #1572

  • borg.key: include chunk id in exception msgs, #1571

  • better messages for cache newer than repo, #1700

• vagrant (testing/build VMs):

  • upgrade OSXfuse / FUSE for macOS to 3.5.2

  • update Debian Wheezy boxes, #1686

  • openbsd / netbsd: use own boxes, fixes misc rsync installation and FUSE/llfuse related testing issues, #1695 #1696 #1670 #1671 #1728

• docs:

  • add docs for “key export” and “key import” commands, #1641

  • fix inconsistency in FAQ (pv-wrapper).

  • fix second block in “Easy to use” section not showing on GitHub, #1576

  • add bestpractices badge

  • link reference docs and faq about BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, #1561

  • improve borg info --help, explain size infos, #1532

  • add release signing key / security contact to README, #1560

  • add contribution guidelines for developers

  • development.rst: add sphinx_rtd_theme to the sphinx install command

  • adjust border color in borg.css

  • add debug-info usage help file

  • internals.rst: fix typos

  • setup.py: fix build_usage to always process all commands

  • added docs explaining multiple --restrict-to-path flags, #1602

  • add more specific warning about write-access debug commands, #1587

  • clarify FAQ regarding backup of virtual machines, #1672

• tests:

  • work around FUSE xattr test issue with recent fakeroot

  • simplify repo/hashindex tests

  • travis: test FUSE-enabled borg, use trusty to have a recent FUSE

  • re-enable FUSE tests for RemoteArchiver (no deadlocks any more)

  • clean env for pytest based tests, #1714

  • fuse_mount contextmanager: accept any options

Version 1.0.7 (2016-08-19)

Security fixes:

• borg serve: fix security issue with remote repository access, #1428 If you used e.g. --restrict-to-path /path/client1/ (with or without trailing slash does not make a difference), it acted like a path prefix match using /path/client1 (note the missing trailing slash) - the code then also allowed working in e.g. /path/client13 or /path/client1000.

  As this could accidentally lead to major security/privacy issues depending on the paths you use, the behaviour was changed to be a strict directory match. That means --restrict-to-path /path/client1 (with or without trailing slash does not make a difference) now uses /path/client1/ internally (note the trailing slash here!) for matching and allows precisely that path AND any path below it. So, /path/client1 is allowed, /path/client1/repo1 is allowed, but not /path/client13 or /path/client1000.

  If you willingly used the undocumented (dangerous) previous behaviour, you may need to rearrange your --restrict-to-path paths now. We are sorry if that causes work for you, but we did not want a potentially dangerous behaviour in the software (not even using a for-backwards-compat option).

Bug fixes:

• fixed repeated LockTimeout exceptions when borg serve tried to write into a already write-locked repo (e.g. by a borg mount), #502 part b) This was solved by the fix for #1220 in 1.0.7rc1 already.

• fix cosmetics + file leftover for “not a valid borg repository”, #1490

• Cache: release lock if cache is invalid, #1501

• borg extract --strip-components: fix leak of preloaded chunk contents

• Repository, when a InvalidRepository exception happens:

  • fix spurious, empty lock.roster

  • fix repo not closed cleanly

New features:

• implement borg debug-info, fixes #1122 (just calls already existing code via cli, same output as below tracebacks)

Other changes:

• skip the O_NOATIME test on GNU Hurd, fixes #1315 (this is a very minor issue and the GNU Hurd project knows the bug)

• document using a clean repo to test / build the release

Version 1.0.7rc2 (2016-08-13)

Bug fixes:

• do not write objects to repository that are bigger than the allowed size, borg will reject reading them, #1451.

  Important: if you created archives with many millions of files or directories, please verify if you can open them successfully, e.g. try a “borg list REPO::ARCHIVE”.

• lz4 compression: dynamically enlarge the (de)compression buffer, the static buffer was not big enough for archives with extremely many items, #1453

• larger item metadata stream chunks, raise archive item limit by 8x, #1452

• fix untracked segments made by moved DELETEs, #1442

  Impact: Previously (metadata) segments could become untracked when deleting data, these would never be cleaned up.

• extended attributes (xattrs) related fixes:

  • fixed a race condition in xattrs querying that led to the entire file not being backed up (while logging the error, exit code = 1), #1469

  • fixed a race condition in xattrs querying that led to a crash, #1462

  • raise OSError including the error message derived from errno, deal with path being a integer FD

Other changes:

• print active env var override by default, #1467

• xattr module: refactor code, deduplicate, clean up

• repository: split object size check into too small and too big

• add a transaction_id assertion, so borg init on a broken (inconsistent) filesystem does not look like a coding error in borg, but points to the real problem.

• explain confusing TypeError caused by compat support for old servers, #1456

• add forgotten usage help file from build_usage

• refactor/unify buffer code into helpers.Buffer class, add tests

• docs:

  • document archive limitation, #1452

  • improve prune examples

Version 1.0.7rc1 (2016-08-05)

Bug fixes:

• fix repo lock deadlocks (related to lock upgrade), #1220

• catch unpacker exceptions, resync, #1351

• fix borg break-lock ignoring BORG_REPO env var, #1324

• files cache performance fixes (fixes unnecessary re-reading/chunking/ hashing of unmodified files for some use cases):

  • fix unintended file cache eviction, #1430

  • implement BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, update FAQ, raise default TTL from 10 to 20, #1338

• FUSE:

  • cache partially read data chunks (performance), #965, #966

  • always create a root dir, #1125

• use an OrderedDict for helptext, making the build reproducible, #1346

• RemoteRepository init: always call close on exceptions, #1370 (cosmetic)

• ignore stdout/stderr broken pipe errors (cosmetic), #1116

New features:

• better borg versions management support (useful esp. for borg servers wanting to offer multiple borg versions and for clients wanting to choose a specific server borg version), #1392:

  • add BORG_VERSION environment variable before executing “borg serve” via ssh

  • add new placeholder {borgversion}

  • substitute placeholders in --remote-path

• borg init --append-only option (makes using the more secure append-only mode more convenient. when used remotely, this requires 1.0.7+ also on the borg server), #1291.

Other changes:

• Vagrantfile:

  • darwin64: upgrade to FUSE for macOS 3.4.1 (aka osxfuse), #1378

  • xenial64: use user “ubuntu”, not “vagrant” (as usual), #1331

• tests:

  • fix FUSE tests on OS X, #1433

• docs:

  • FAQ: add backup using stable filesystem names recommendation

  • FAQ about glibc compatibility added, #491, glibc-check improved

  • FAQ: ‘A’ unchanged file; remove ambiguous entry age sentence.

  • OS X: install pkg-config to build with FUSE support, fixes #1400

  • add notes about shell/sudo pitfalls with env. vars, #1380

  • added platform feature matrix

• implement borg debug-dump-repo-objs

Version 1.0.6 (2016-07-12)

Bug fixes:

• Linux: handle multiple LD_PRELOAD entries correctly, #1314, #1111

• Fix crash with unclear message if the libc is not found, #1314, #1111

Other changes:

• tests:

  • Fixed O_NOATIME tests for Solaris and GNU Hurd, #1315

  • Fixed sparse file tests for (file) systems not supporting it, #1310

• docs:

  • Fixed syntax highlighting, #1313

  • misc docs: added data processing overview picture

Version 1.0.6rc1 (2016-07-10)

New features:

• borg check --repair: heal damaged files if missing chunks re-appear (e.g. if the previously missing chunk was added again in a later backup archive), #148. (*) Also improved logging.

Bug fixes:

• sync_dir: silence fsync() failing with EINVAL, #1287 Some network filesystems (like smbfs) don’t support this and we use this in repository code.

• borg mount (FUSE):

  • fix directories being shadowed when contained paths were also specified, #1295

  • raise I/O Error (EIO) on damaged files (unless -o allow_damaged_files is used), #1302. (*)

• borg extract: warn if a damaged file is extracted, #1299. (*)

• Added some missing return code checks (ChunkIndex._add, hashindex_resize).

• borg check: fix/optimize initial hash table size, avoids resize of the table.

Other changes:

• tests:

  • add more FUSE tests, #1284

  • deduplicate FUSE (u)mount code

  • fix borg binary test issues, #862

• docs:

  • changelog: added release dates to older borg releases

  • fix some sphinx (docs generator) warnings, #881

Notes:

(*) Some features depend on information (chunks_healthy list) added to item metadata when a file with missing chunks was “repaired” using all-zero replacement chunks. The chunks_healthy list is generated since borg 1.0.4, thus borg can’t recognize such “repaired” (but content-damaged) files if the repair was done with an older borg version.

Version 1.0.5 (2016-07-07)

Bug fixes:

• borg mount: fix FUSE crash in xattr code on Linux introduced in 1.0.4, #1282

Other changes:

• backport some FAQ entries from master branch

• add release helper scripts

• Vagrantfile:

  • centos6: no FUSE, don’t build binary

  • add xz for redhat-like dists

Version 1.0.4 (2016-07-07)

New features:

• borg serve --append-only, #1168 This was included because it was a simple change (append-only functionality was already present via repository config file) and makes better security now practically usable.

• BORG_REMOTE_PATH environment variable, #1258 This was included because it was a simple change (--remote-path cli option was already present) and makes borg much easier to use if you need it.

• Repository: cleanup incomplete transaction on “no space left” condition. In many cases, this can avoid a 100% full repo filesystem (which is very problematic as borg always needs free space - even to delete archives).

Bug fixes:

• Fix wrong handling and reporting of OSErrors in borg create, #1138. This was a serious issue: in the context of “borg create”, errors like repository I/O errors (e.g. disk I/O errors, ssh repo connection errors) were handled badly and did not lead to a crash (which would be good for this case, because the repo transaction would be incomplete and trigger a transaction rollback to clean up). Now, error handling for source files is cleanly separated from every other error handling, so only problematic input files are logged and skipped.

• Implement fail-safe error handling for borg extract. Note that this isn’t nearly as critical as the borg create error handling bug, since nothing is written to the repo. So this was “merely” misleading error reporting.

• Add missing error handler in directory attr restore loop.

• repo: make sure write data hits disk before the commit tag (#1236) and also sync the containing directory.

• FUSE: getxattr fail must use errno.ENOATTR, #1126 (fixes Mac OS X Finder malfunction: “zero bytes” file length, access denied)

• borg check --repair: do not lose information about the good/original chunks. If we do not lose the original chunk IDs list when “repairing” a file (replacing missing chunks with all-zero chunks), we have a chance to “heal” the file back into its original state later, in case the chunks re-appear (e.g. in a fresh backup). Healing is not implemented yet, see #148.

• fixes for --read-special mode:

  • ignore known files cache, #1241

  • fake regular file mode, #1214

  • improve symlinks handling, #1215

• remove passphrase from subprocess environment, #1105

• Ignore empty index file (will trigger index rebuild), #1195

• add missing placeholder support for --prefix, #1027

• improve exception handling for placeholder replacement

• catch and format exceptions in arg parsing

• helpers: fix “undefined name ‘e’” in exception handler

• better error handling for missing repo manifest, #1043

• borg delete:

  • make it possible to delete a repo without manifest

  • borg delete --forced allows one to delete corrupted archives, #1139

• borg check:

  • make borg check work for empty repo

  • fix resync and msgpacked item qualifier, #1135

  • rebuild_manifest: fix crash if ‘name’ or ‘time’ key were missing.

  • better validation of item metadata dicts, #1130

  • better validation of archive metadata dicts

• close the repo on exit - even if rollback did not work, #1197. This is rather cosmetic, it avoids repo closing in the destructor.

• tests:

  • fix sparse file test, #1170

  • flake8: ignore new F405, #1185

  • catch “invalid argument” on cygwin, #257

  • fix sparseness assertion in test prep, #1264

Other changes:

• make borg build/work on OpenSSL 1.0 and 1.1, #1187

• docs / help:

  • fix / clarify prune help, #1143

  • fix “patterns” help formatting

  • add missing docs / help about placeholders

  • resources: rename atticmatic to borgmatic

  • document sshd settings, #545

  • more details about checkpoints, add split trick, #1171

  • support docs: add freenode web chat link, #1175

  • add prune visualization / example, #723

  • add note that Fnmatch is default, #1247

  • make clear that lzma levels > 6 are a waste of cpu cycles

  • add a “do not edit” note to auto-generated files, #1250

  • update cygwin installation docs

• repository interoperability with borg master (1.1dev) branch:

  • borg check: read item metadata keys from manifest, #1147

  • read v2 hints files, #1235

  • fix hints file “unknown version” error handling bug

• tests: add tests for format_line

• llfuse: update version requirement for freebsd

• Vagrantfile:

  • use openbsd 5.9, #716

  • do not install llfuse on netbsd (broken)

  • update OSXfuse to version 3.3.3

  • use Python 3.5.2 to build the binaries

• glibc compatibility checker: scripts/glibc_check.py

• add .eggs to .gitignore

Version 1.0.3 (2016-05-20)

Bug fixes:

• prune: avoid that checkpoints are kept and completed archives are deleted in a prune run), #997

• prune: fix commandline argument validation - some valid command lines were considered invalid (annoying, but harmless), #942

• fix capabilities extraction on Linux (set xattrs last, after chown()), #1069

• repository: fix commit tags being seen in data

• when probing key files, do binary reads. avoids crash when non-borg binary files are located in borg’s key files directory.

• handle SIGTERM and make a clean exit - avoids orphan lock files.

• repository cache: don’t cache large objects (avoid using lots of temp. disk space), #1063

Other changes:

• Vagrantfile: OS X: update osxfuse / install lzma package, #933

• setup.py: add check for platform_darwin.c

• setup.py: on freebsd, use a llfuse release that builds ok

• docs / help:

  • update readthedocs URLs, #991

  • add missing docs for “borg break-lock”, #992

  • borg create help: add some words to about the archive name

  • borg create help: document format tags, #894

Version 1.0.2 (2016-04-16)

Bug fixes:

• fix malfunction and potential corruption on (nowadays rather rare) big-endian architectures or bi-endian archs in (rare) BE mode. #886, #889

  cache resync / index merge was malfunctioning due to this, potentially leading to data loss. borg info had cosmetic issues (displayed wrong values).

  note: all (widespread) little-endian archs (like x86/x64) or bi-endian archs in (widespread) LE mode (like ARMEL, MIPSEL, …) were NOT affected.

• add overflow and range checks for 1st (special) uint32 of the hashindex values, switch from int32 to uint32.

• fix so that refcount will never overflow, but just stick to max. value after a overflow would have occurred.

• borg delete: fix --cache-only for broken caches, #874

  Makes --cache-only idempotent: it won’t fail if the cache is already deleted.

• fixed borg create --one-file-system erroneously traversing into other filesystems (if starting fs device number was 0), #873

• workaround a bug in Linux fadvise FADV_DONTNEED, #907

Other changes:

• better test coverage for hashindex, incl. overflow testing, checking correct computations so endianness issues would be discovered.

• reproducible doc for ProgressIndicator*, make the build reproducible.

• use latest llfuse for vagrant machines

• docs:

  • use /path/to/repo in examples, fixes #901

  • fix confusing usage of “repo” as archive name (use “arch”)

Version 1.0.1 (2016-04-08)

New features:

Usually there are no new features in a bugfix release, but these were added due to their high impact on security/safety/speed or because they are fixes also:

• append-only mode for repositories, #809, #36 (see docs)

• borg create: add --ignore-inode option to make borg detect unmodified files even if your filesystem does not have stable inode numbers (like sshfs and possibly CIFS).

• add options --warning, --error, --critical for missing log levels, #826. it’s not recommended to suppress warnings or errors, but the user may decide this on his own. note: --warning is not given to borg serve so a <= 1.0.0 borg will still work as server (it is not needed as it is the default). do not use --error or --critical when using a <= 1.0.0 borg server.

Bug fixes:

• fix silently skipping EIO, #748

• add context manager for Repository (avoid orphan repository locks), #285

• do not sleep for >60s while waiting for lock, #773

• unpack file stats before passing to FUSE

• fix build on illumos

• don’t try to backup doors or event ports (Solaris and derivatives)

• remove useless/misleading libc version display, #738

• test suite: reset exit code of persistent archiver, #844

• RemoteRepository: clean up pipe if remote open() fails

• Remote: don’t print tracebacks for Error exceptions handled downstream, #792

• if BORG_PASSPHRASE is present but wrong, don’t prompt for password, but fail instead, #791

• ArchiveChecker: move “orphaned objects check skipped” to INFO log level, #826

• fix capitalization, add ellipses, change log level to debug for 2 messages, #798

Other changes:

• update llfuse requirement, llfuse 1.0 works

• update OS / dist packages on build machines, #717

• prefer showing --info over -v in usage help, #859

• docs:

  • fix cygwin requirements (gcc-g++)

  • document how to debug / file filesystem issues, #664

  • fix reproducible build of api docs

  • RTD theme: CSS !important overwrite, #727

  • Document logo font. Recreate logo png. Remove GIMP logo file.

Version 1.0.0 (2016-03-05)

The major release number change (0.x -> 1.x) indicates bigger incompatible changes, please read the compatibility notes, adapt / test your scripts and check your backup logs.

Compatibility notes:

• drop support for python 3.2 and 3.3, require 3.4 or 3.5, #221 #65 #490 note: we provide binaries that include python 3.5.1 and everything else needed. they are an option in case you are stuck with < 3.4 otherwise.

• change encryption to be on by default (using “repokey” mode)

• moved keyfile keys from ~/.borg/keys to ~/.config/borg/keys, you can either move them manually or run “borg upgrade <REPO>”

• remove support for --encryption=passphrase, use borg migrate-to-repokey to switch to repokey mode, #97

• remove deprecated --compression <number>, use --compression zlib,<number> instead in case of 0, you could also use --compression none

• remove deprecated --hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly use --keep-hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly instead

• remove deprecated --do-not-cross-mountpoints, use --one-file-system instead

• disambiguate -p option, #563:

  • -p now is same as --progress

  • -P now is same as --prefix

• remove deprecated “borg verify”, use “borg extract --dry-run” instead

• cleanup environment variable semantics, #355 the environment variables used to be “yes sayers” when set, this was conceptually generalized to “automatic answerers” and they just give their value as answer (as if you typed in that value when being asked). See the “usage” / “Environment Variables” section of the docs for details.

• change the builtin default for --chunker-params, create 2MiB chunks, #343 --chunker-params new default: 19,23,21,4095 - old default: 10,23,16,4095

  one of the biggest issues with borg < 1.0 (and also attic) was that it had a default target chunk size of 64kiB, thus it created a lot of chunks and thus also a huge chunk management overhead (high RAM and disk usage).

  please note that the new default won’t change the chunks that you already have in your repository. the new big chunks do not deduplicate with the old small chunks, so expect your repo to grow at least by the size of every changed file and in the worst case (e.g. if your files cache was lost / is not used) by the size of every file (minus any compression you might use).

  in case you want to immediately see a much lower resource usage (RAM / disk) for chunks management, it might be better to start with a new repo than continuing in the existing repo (with an existing repo, you’ld have to wait until all archives with small chunks got pruned to see a lower resource usage).

  if you used the old --chunker-params default value (or if you did not use --chunker-params option at all) and you’ld like to continue using small chunks (and you accept the huge resource usage that comes with that), just explicitly use borg create --chunker-params=10,23,16,4095.

• archive timestamps: the ‘time’ timestamp now refers to archive creation start time (was: end time), the new ‘time_end’ timestamp refers to archive creation end time. This might affect prune if your backups take rather long. if you give a timestamp via cli this is stored into ‘time’, therefore it now needs to mean archive creation start time.

New features:

• implement password roundtrip, #695

Bug fixes:

• remote end does not need cache nor keys directories, do not create them, #701

• added retry counter for passwords, #703

Other changes:

• fix compiler warnings, #697

• docs:

  • update README.rst to new changelog location in docs/changes.rst

  • add Teemu to AUTHORS

  • changes.rst: fix old chunker params, #698

  • FAQ: how to limit bandwidth

Version 1.0.0rc2 (2016-02-28)

New features:

• format options for location: user, pid, fqdn, hostname, now, utcnow, user

• borg list --list-format

• borg prune -v --list enables the keep/prune list output, #658

Bug fixes:

• fix _open_rb noatime handling, #657

• add a simple archivename validator, #680

• borg create --stats: show timestamps in localtime, use same labels/formatting as borg info, #651

• llfuse compatibility fixes (now compatible with: 0.40, 0.41, 0.42)

Other changes:

• it is now possible to use “pip install borgbackup[fuse]” to automatically install the llfuse dependency using the correct version requirement for it. you still need to care about having installed the FUSE / build related OS package first, though, so that building llfuse can succeed.

• Vagrant: drop Ubuntu Precise (12.04) - does not have Python >= 3.4

• Vagrant: use pyinstaller v3.1.1 to build binaries

• docs:

  • borg upgrade: add to docs that only LOCAL repos are supported

  • borg upgrade also handles borg 0.xx -> 1.0

  • use pip extras or requirements file to install llfuse

  • fix order in release process

  • updated usage docs and other minor / cosmetic fixes

  • verified borg examples in docs, #644

  • freebsd dependency installation and FUSE configuration, #649

  • add example how to restore a raw device, #671

  • add a hint about the dev headers needed when installing from source

  • add examples for delete (and handle delete after list, before prune), #656

  • update example for borg create -v --stats (use iso datetime format), #663

  • added example to BORG_RSH docs

  • “connection closed by remote”: add FAQ entry and point to issue #636

Version 1.0.0rc1 (2016-02-07)

New features:

• borg migrate-to-repokey (“passphrase” -> “repokey” encryption key mode)

• implement --short for borg list REPO, #611

• implement --list for borg extract (consistency with borg create)

• borg serve: overwrite client’s --restrict-to-path with ssh forced command’s option value (but keep everything else from the client commandline), #544

• use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/keys for keyfile keys (~/.config/borg/keys), #515

• “borg upgrade” moves the keyfile keys to the new location

• display both archive creation start and end time in “borg info”, #627

Bug fixes:

• normalize trailing slashes for the repository path, #606

• Cache: fix exception handling in __init__, release lock, #610

Other changes:

• suppress unneeded exception context (PEP 409), simpler tracebacks

• removed special code needed to deal with imperfections / incompatibilities / missing stuff in py 3.2/3.3, simplify code that can be done simpler in 3.4

• removed some version requirements that were kept on old versions because newer did not support py 3.2 any more

• use some py 3.4+ stdlib code instead of own/openssl/pypi code:

  • use os.urandom instead of own cython openssl RAND_bytes wrapper, #493

  • use hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac from py stdlib instead of own openssl wrapper

  • use hmac.compare_digest instead of == operator (constant time comparison)

  • use stat.filemode instead of homegrown code

  • use “mock” library from stdlib, #145

  • remove borg.support (with non-broken argparse copy), it is ok in 3.4+, #358

• Vagrant: copy CHANGES.rst as symlink, #592

• cosmetic code cleanups, add flake8 to tox/travis, #4

• docs / help:

  • make “borg -h” output prettier, #591

  • slightly rephrase prune help

  • add missing example for --list option of borg create

  • quote exclude line that includes an asterisk to prevent shell expansion

  • fix dead link to license

  • delete Ubuntu Vivid, it is not supported anymore (EOL)

  • OS X binary does not work for older OS X releases, #629

  • borg serve’s special support for forced/original ssh commands, #544

  • misc. updates and fixes

Version 0.30.0 (2016-01-23)

Compatibility notes:

• you may need to use -v (or --info) more often to actually see output emitted at INFO log level (because it is suppressed at the default WARNING log level). See the “general” section in the usage docs.

• for borg create, you need --list (additionally to -v) to see the long file list (was needed so you can have e.g. --stats alone without the long list)

• see below about BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING (was: BORG_CHECK_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING)

Bug fixes:

• fix crash when using borg create --dry-run --keep-tag-files, #570

• make sure teardown with cleanup happens for Cache and RepositoryCache, avoiding leftover locks and TEMP dir contents, #285 (partially), #548

• fix locking KeyError, partial fix for #502

• log stats consistently, #526

• add abbreviated weekday to timestamp format, fixes #496

• strip whitespace when loading exclusions from file

• unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking ssh, fixes strange OpenSSL library version warning when using the borg binary, #514

• add some error handling/fallback for C library loading, #494

• added BORG_DELETE_I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING for check in “borg delete”, #503

• remove unused “repair” rpc method name

New features:

• borg create: implement exclusions using regular expression patterns.

• borg create: implement inclusions using patterns.

• borg extract: support patterns, #361

• support different styles for patterns:

  • fnmatch (fm: prefix, default when omitted), like borg <= 0.29.

  • shell (sh: prefix) with * not matching directory separators and **/ matching 0..n directories

  • path prefix (pp: prefix, for unifying borg create pp1 pp2 into the patterns system), semantics like in borg <= 0.29

  • regular expression (re:), new!

• --progress option for borg upgrade (#291) and borg delete <archive>

• update progress indication more often (e.g. for borg create within big files or for borg check repo), #500

• finer chunker granularity for items metadata stream, #547, #487

• borg create --list now used (additionally to -v) to enable the verbose file list output

• display borg version below tracebacks, #532

Other changes:

• hashtable size (and thus: RAM and disk consumption) follows a growth policy: grows fast while small, grows slower when getting bigger, #527

• Vagrantfile: use pyinstaller 3.1 to build binaries, freebsd sqlite3 fix, fixes #569

• no separate binaries for centos6 any more because the generic linux binaries also work on centos6 (or in general: on systems with a slightly older glibc than debian7

• dev environment: require virtualenv<14.0 so we get a py32 compatible pip

• docs:

  • add space-saving chunks.archive.d trick to FAQ

  • important: clarify -v and log levels in usage -> general, please read!

  • sphinx configuration: create a simple man page from usage docs

  • add a repo server setup example

  • disable unneeded SSH features in authorized_keys examples for security.

  • borg prune only knows “--keep-within” and not “--within”

  • add gource video to resources docs, #507

  • add netbsd install instructions

  • authors: make it more clear what refers to borg and what to attic

  • document standalone binary requirements, #499

  • rephrase the mailing list section

  • development docs: run build_api and build_usage before tagging release

  • internals docs: hash table max. load factor is 0.75 now

  • markup, typo, grammar, phrasing, clarifications and other fixes.

  • add gcc gcc-c++ to redhat/fedora/corora install docs, fixes #583

Version 0.29.0 (2015-12-13)

Compatibility notes:

• when upgrading to 0.29.0 you need to upgrade client as well as server installations due to the locking and commandline interface changes otherwise you’ll get an error msg about a RPC protocol mismatch or a wrong commandline option. if you run a server that needs to support both old and new clients, it is suggested that you have a “borg-0.28.2” and a “borg-0.29.0” command. clients then can choose via e.g. “borg --remote-path=borg-0.29.0 …”.

• the default waiting time for a lock changed from infinity to 1 second for a better interactive user experience. if the repo you want to access is currently locked, borg will now terminate after 1s with an error message. if you have scripts that shall wait for the lock for a longer time, use --lock-wait N (with N being the maximum wait time in seconds).

Bug fixes:

• hash table tuning (better chosen hashtable load factor 0.75 and prime initial size of 1031 gave ~1000x speedup in some scenarios)

• avoid creation of an orphan lock for one case, #285

• --keep-tag-files: fix file mode and multiple tag files in one directory, #432

• fixes for “borg upgrade” (attic repo converter), #466

• remove --progress isatty magic (and also --no-progress option) again, #476

• borg init: display proper repo URL

• fix format of umask in help pages, #463

New features:

• implement --lock-wait, support timeout for UpgradableLock, #210

• implement borg break-lock command, #157

• include system info below traceback, #324

• sane remote logging, remote stderr, #461:

  • remote log output: intercept it and log it via local logging system, with “Remote: “ prefixed to message. log remote tracebacks.

  • remote stderr: output it to local stderr with “Remote: “ prefixed.

• add --debug and --info (same as --verbose) to set the log level of the builtin logging configuration (which otherwise defaults to warning), #426 note: there are few messages emitted at DEBUG level currently.

• optionally configure logging via env var BORG_LOGGING_CONF

• add --filter option for status characters: e.g. to show only the added or modified files (and also errors), use “borg create -v --filter=AME …”.

• more progress indicators, #394

• use ISO-8601 date and time format, #375

• “borg check --prefix” to restrict archive checking to that name prefix, #206

Other changes:

• hashindex_add C implementation (speed up cache re-sync for new archives)

• increase FUSE read_size to 1024 (speed up metadata operations)

• check/delete/prune --save-space: free unused segments quickly, #239

• increase rpc protocol version to 2 (see also Compatibility notes), #458

• silence borg by default (via default log level WARNING)

• get rid of C compiler warnings, #391

• upgrade OS X FUSE to 3.0.9 on the OS X binary build system

• use python 3.5.1 to build binaries

• docs:

  • new mailing list borgbackup@python.org, #468

  • readthedocs: color and logo improvements

  • load coverage icons over SSL (avoids mixed content)

  • more precise binary installation steps

  • update release procedure docs about OS X FUSE

  • FAQ entry about unexpected ‘A’ status for unchanged file(s), #403

  • add docs about ‘E’ file status

  • add “borg upgrade” docs, #464

  • add developer docs about output and logging

  • clarify encryption, add note about client-side encryption

  • add resources section, with videos, talks, presentations, #149

  • Borg moved to Arch Linux [community]

  • fix wrong installation instructions for archlinux

Version 0.28.2 (2015-11-15)

New features:

• borg create --exclude-if-present TAGFILE - exclude directories that have the given file from the backup. You can additionally give --keep-tag-files to preserve just the directory roots and the tag-files (but not backup other directory contents), #395, attic #128, attic #142

Other changes:

• do not create docs sources at build time (just have them in the repo), completely remove have_cython() hack, do not use the “mock” library at build time, #384

• avoid hidden import, make it easier for PyInstaller, easier fix for #218

• docs:

  • add description of item flags / status output, fixes #402

  • explain how to regenerate usage and API files (build_api or build_usage) and when to commit usage files directly into git, #384

  • minor install docs improvements

Version 0.28.1 (2015-11-08)

Bug fixes:

• do not try to build api / usage docs for production install, fixes unexpected “mock” build dependency, #384

Other changes:

• avoid using msgpack.packb at import time

• fix formatting issue in changes.rst

• fix build on readthedocs

Version 0.28.0 (2015-11-08)

Compatibility notes:

• changed return codes (exit codes), see docs. in short: old: 0 = ok, 1 = error. now: 0 = ok, 1 = warning, 2 = error

New features:

• refactor return codes (exit codes), fixes #61

• add --show-rc option enable “terminating with X status, rc N” output, fixes 58, #351

• borg create backups atime and ctime additionally to mtime, fixes #317 - extract: support atime additionally to mtime - FUSE: support ctime and atime additionally to mtime

• support borg --version

• emit a warning if we have a slow msgpack installed

• borg list --prefix=thishostname- REPO, fixes #205

• Debug commands (do not use except if you know what you do: debug-get-obj, debug-put-obj, debug-delete-obj, debug-dump-archive-items.

Bug fixes:

• setup.py: fix bug related to BORG_LZ4_PREFIX processing

• fix “check” for repos that have incomplete chunks, fixes #364

• borg mount: fix unlocking of repository at umount time, fixes #331

• fix reading files without touching their atime, #334

• non-ascii ACL fixes for Linux, FreeBSD and OS X, #277

• fix acl_use_local_uid_gid() and add a test for it, attic #359

• borg upgrade: do not upgrade repositories in place by default, #299

• fix cascading failure with the index conversion code, #269

• borg check: implement ‘cmdline’ archive metadata value decoding, #311

• fix RobustUnpacker, it missed some metadata keys (new atime and ctime keys were missing, but also bsdflags). add check for unknown metadata keys.

• create from stdin: also save atime, ctime (cosmetic)

• use default_notty=False for confirmations, fixes #345

• vagrant: fix msgpack installation on centos, fixes #342

• deal with unicode errors for symlinks in same way as for regular files and have a helpful warning message about how to fix wrong locale setup, fixes #382

• add ACL keys the RobustUnpacker must know about

Other changes:

• improve file size displays, more flexible size formatters

• explicitly commit to the units standard, #289

• archiver: add E status (means that an error occurred when processing this (single) item

• do binary releases via “github releases”, closes #214

• create: use -x and --one-file-system (was: --do-not-cross-mountpoints), #296

• a lot of changes related to using “logging” module and screen output, #233

• show progress display if on a tty, output more progress information, #303

• factor out status output so it is consistent, fix surrogates removal, maybe fixes #309

• move away from RawConfigParser to ConfigParser

• archive checker: better error logging, give chunk_id and sequence numbers (can be used together with borg debug-dump-archive-items).

• do not mention the deprecated passphrase mode

• emit a deprecation warning for --compression N (giving a just a number)

• misc .coverragerc fixes (and coverage measurement improvements), fixes #319

• refactor confirmation code, reduce code duplication, add tests

• prettier error messages, fixes #307, #57

• tests:

  • add a test to find disk-full issues, #327

  • travis: also run tests on Python 3.5

  • travis: use tox -r so it rebuilds the tox environments

  • test the generated pyinstaller-based binary by archiver unit tests, #215

  • vagrant: tests: announce whether fakeroot is used or not

  • vagrant: add vagrant user to fuse group for debianoid systems also

  • vagrant: llfuse install on darwin needs pkgconfig installed

  • vagrant: use pyinstaller from develop branch, fixes #336

  • benchmarks: test create, extract, list, delete, info, check, help, fixes #146

  • benchmarks: test with both the binary and the python code

  • archiver tests: test with both the binary and the python code, fixes #215

  • make basic test more robust

• docs:

  • moved docs to borgbackup.readthedocs.org, #155

  • a lot of fixes and improvements, use mobile-friendly RTD standard theme

  • use zlib,6 compression in some examples, fixes #275

  • add missing rename usage to docs, closes #279

  • include the help offered by borg help <topic> in the usage docs, fixes #293

  • include a list of major changes compared to attic into README, fixes #224

  • add OS X install instructions, #197

  • more details about the release process, #260

  • fix linux glibc requirement (binaries built on debian7 now)

  • build: move usage and API generation to setup.py

  • update docs about return codes, #61

  • remove api docs (too much breakage on rtd)

  • borgbackup install + basics presentation (asciinema)

  • describe the current style guide in documentation

  • add section about debug commands

  • warn about not running out of space

  • add example for rename

  • improve chunker params docs, fixes #362

  • minor development docs update

Version 0.27.0 (2015-10-07)

New features:

• “borg upgrade” command - attic -> borg one time converter / migration, #21

• temporary hack to avoid using lots of disk space for chunks.archive.d, #235: To use it: rm -rf chunks.archive.d ; touch chunks.archive.d

• respect XDG_CACHE_HOME, attic #181

• add support for arbitrary SSH commands, attic #99

• borg delete --cache-only REPO (only delete cache, not REPO), attic #123

Bug fixes:

• use Debian 7 (wheezy) to build pyinstaller borgbackup binaries, fixes slow down observed when running the Centos6-built binary on Ubuntu, #222

• do not crash on empty lock.roster, fixes #232

• fix multiple issues with the cache config version check, #234

• fix segment entry header size check, attic #352 plus other error handling improvements / code deduplication there.

• always give segment and offset in repo IntegrityErrors

Other changes:

• stop producing binary wheels, remove docs about it, #147

• docs: - add warning about prune - generate usage include files only as needed - development docs: add Vagrant section - update / improve / reformat FAQ - hint to single-file pyinstaller binaries from README

Version 0.26.1 (2015-09-28)

This is a minor update, just docs and new pyinstaller binaries.

• docs update about python and binary requirements

• better docs for --read-special, fix #220

• re-built the binaries, fix #218 and #213 (glibc version issue)

• update web site about single-file pyinstaller binaries

Note: if you did a python-based installation, there is no need to upgrade.

Version 0.26.0 (2015-09-19)

New features:

• Faster cache sync (do all in one pass, remove tar/compression stuff), #163

• BORG_REPO env var to specify the default repo, #168

• read special files as if they were regular files, #79

• implement borg create --dry-run, attic issue #267

• Normalize paths before pattern matching on OS X, #143

• support OpenBSD and NetBSD (except xattrs/ACLs)

• support / run tests on Python 3.5

Bug fixes:

• borg mount repo: use absolute path, attic #200, attic #137

• chunker: use off_t to get 64bit on 32bit platform, #178

• initialize chunker fd to -1, so it’s not equal to STDIN_FILENO (0)

• fix reaction to “no” answer at delete repo prompt, #182

• setup.py: detect lz4.h header file location

• to support python < 3.2.4, add less buggy argparse lib from 3.2.6 (#194)

• fix for obtaining char * from temporary Python value (old code causes a compile error on Mint 17.2)

• llfuse 0.41 install troubles on some platforms, require < 0.41 (UnicodeDecodeError exception due to non-ascii llfuse setup.py)

• cython code: add some int types to get rid of unspecific python add / subtract operations (avoid undefined symbol FPE_… error on some platforms)

• fix verbose mode display of stdin backup

• extract: warn if a include pattern never matched, fixes #209, implement counters for Include/ExcludePatterns

• archive names with slashes are invalid, attic issue #180

• chunker: add a check whether the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED constant is defined - fixes building on OpenBSD.

Other changes:

• detect inconsistency / corruption / hash collision, #170

• replace versioneer with setuptools_scm, #106

• docs:

  • pkg-config is needed for llfuse installation

  • be more clear about pruning, attic issue #132

• unit tests:

  • xattr: ignore security.selinux attribute showing up

  • ext3 seems to need a bit more space for a sparse file

  • do not test lzma level 9 compression (avoid MemoryError)

  • work around strange mtime granularity issue on netbsd, fixes #204

  • ignore st_rdev if file is not a block/char device, fixes #203

  • stay away from the setgid and sticky mode bits

• use Vagrant to do easy cross-platform testing (#196), currently:

  • Debian 7 “wheezy” 32bit, Debian 8 “jessie” 64bit

  • Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

  • Centos 7 64bit

  • FreeBSD 10.2 64bit

  • OpenBSD 5.7 64bit

  • NetBSD 6.1.5 64bit

  • Darwin (OS X Yosemite)

Version 0.25.0 (2015-08-29)

Compatibility notes:

• lz4 compression library (liblz4) is a new requirement (#156)

• the new compression code is very compatible: as long as you stay with zlib compression, older borg releases will still be able to read data from a repo/archive made with the new code (note: this is not the case for the default “none” compression, use “zlib,0” if you want a “no compression” mode that can be read by older borg). Also the new code is able to read repos and archives made with older borg versions (for all zlib levels 0..9).

Deprecations:

• --compression N (with N being a number, as in 0.24) is deprecated. We keep the --compression 0..9 for now to not break scripts, but it is deprecated and will be removed later, so better fix your scripts now: --compression 0 (as in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,0 (now). BUT: if you do not want compression, you rather want --compression none (which is the default). --compression 1 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,1 (now) --compression 9 (in 0.24) is the same as --compression zlib,9 (now)

New features:

• create --compression none (default, means: do not compress, just pass through data “as is”. this is more efficient than zlib level 0 as used in borg 0.24)

• create --compression lz4 (super-fast, but not very high compression)

• create --compression zlib,N (slower, higher compression, default for N is 6)

• create --compression lzma,N (slowest, highest compression, default N is 6)

• honor the nodump flag (UF_NODUMP) and do not backup such items

• list --short just outputs a simple list of the files/directories in an archive

Bug fixes:

• fixed --chunker-params parameter order confusion / malfunction, fixes #154

• close fds of segments we delete (during compaction)

• close files which fell out the lrucache

• fadvise DONTNEED now is only called for the byte range actually read, not for the whole file, fixes #158.

• fix issue with negative “all archives” size, fixes #165

• restore_xattrs: ignore if setxattr fails with EACCES, fixes #162

Other changes:

• remove fakeroot requirement for tests, tests run faster without fakeroot (test setup does not fail any more without fakeroot, so you can run with or without fakeroot), fixes #151 and #91.

• more tests for archiver

• recover_segment(): don’t assume we have an fd for segment

• lrucache refactoring / cleanup, add dispose function, py.test tests

• generalize hashindex code for any key length (less hardcoding)

• lock roster: catch file not found in remove() method and ignore it

• travis CI: use requirements file

• improved docs:

  • replace hack for llfuse with proper solution (install libfuse-dev)

  • update docs about compression

  • update development docs about fakeroot

  • internals: add some words about lock files / locking system

  • support: mention BountySource and for what it can be used

  • theme: use a lighter green

  • add pypi, wheel, dist package based install docs

  • split install docs into system-specific preparations and generic instructions

Version 0.24.0 (2015-08-09)

Incompatible changes (compared to 0.23):

• borg now always issues --umask NNN option when invoking another borg via ssh on the repository server. By that, it’s making sure it uses the same umask for remote repos as for local ones. Because of this, you must upgrade both server and client(s) to 0.24.

• the default umask is 077 now (if you do not specify via --umask) which might be a different one as you used previously. The default umask avoids that you accidentally give access permissions for group and/or others to files created by borg (e.g. the repository).

Deprecations:

• “--encryption passphrase” mode is deprecated, see #85 and #97. See the new “--encryption repokey” mode for a replacement.

New features:

• borg create --chunker-params … to configure the chunker, fixes #16 (attic #302, attic #300, and somehow also #41). This can be used to reduce memory usage caused by chunk management overhead, so borg does not create a huge chunks index/repo index and eats all your RAM if you back up lots of data in huge files (like VM disk images). See docs/misc/create_chunker-params.txt for more information.

• borg info now reports chunk counts in the chunk index.

• borg create --compression 0..9 to select zlib compression level, fixes #66 (attic #295).

• borg init --encryption repokey (to store the encryption key into the repo), fixes #85

• improve at-end error logging, always log exceptions and set exit_code=1

• LoggedIO: better error checks / exceptions / exception handling

• implement --remote-path to allow non-default-path borg locations, #125

• implement --umask M and use 077 as default umask for better security, #117

• borg check: give a named single archive to it, fixes #139

• cache sync: show progress indication

• cache sync: reimplement the chunk index merging in C

Bug fixes:

• fix segfault that happened for unreadable files (chunker: n needs to be a signed size_t), #116

• fix the repair mode, #144

• repo delete: add destroy to allowed rpc methods, fixes issue #114

• more compatible repository locking code (based on mkdir), maybe fixes #92 (attic #317, attic #201).

• better Exception msg if no Borg is installed on the remote repo server, #56

• create a RepositoryCache implementation that can cope with >2GiB, fixes attic #326.

• fix Traceback when running check --repair, attic #232

• clarify help text, fixes #73.

• add help string for --no-files-cache, fixes #140

Other changes:

• improved docs:

  • added docs/misc directory for misc. writeups that won’t be included “as is” into the html docs.

  • document environment variables and return codes (attic #324, attic #52)

  • web site: add related projects, fix web site url, IRC #borgbackup

  • Fedora/Fedora-based install instructions added to docs

  • Cygwin-based install instructions added to docs

  • updated AUTHORS

  • add FAQ entries about redundancy / integrity

  • clarify that borg extract uses the cwd as extraction target

  • update internals doc about chunker params, memory usage and compression

  • added docs about development

  • add some words about resource usage in general

  • document how to backup a raw disk

  • add note about how to run borg from virtual env

  • add solutions for (ll)fuse installation problems

  • document what borg check does, fixes #138

  • reorganize borgbackup.github.io sidebar, prev/next at top

  • deduplicate and refactor the docs / README.rst

• use borg-tmp as prefix for temporary files / directories

• short prune options without “keep-” are deprecated, do not suggest them

• improved tox configuration

• remove usage of unittest.mock, always use mock from pypi

• use entrypoints instead of scripts, for better use of the wheel format and modern installs

• add requirements.d/development.txt and modify tox.ini

• use travis-ci for testing based on Linux and (new) OS X

• use coverage.py, pytest-cov and codecov.io for test coverage support

I forgot to list some stuff already implemented in 0.23.0, here they are:

New features:

• efficient archive list from manifest, meaning a big speedup for slow repo connections and “list <repo>”, “delete <repo>”, “prune” (attic #242, attic #167)

• big speedup for chunks cache sync (esp. for slow repo connections), fixes #18

• hashindex: improve error messages

Other changes:

• explicitly specify binary mode to open binary files

• some easy micro optimizations

Version 0.23.0 (2015-06-11)

Incompatible changes (compared to attic, fork related):

• changed sw name and cli command to “borg”, updated docs

• package name (and name in urls) uses “borgbackup” to have fewer collisions

• changed repo / cache internal magic strings from ATTIC* to BORG*, changed cache location to .cache/borg/ - this means that it currently won’t accept attic repos (see issue #21 about improving that)

Bug fixes:

• avoid defect python-msgpack releases, fixes attic #171, fixes attic #185

• fix traceback when trying to do unsupported passphrase change, fixes attic #189

• datetime does not like the year 10.000, fixes attic #139

• fix “info” all archives stats, fixes attic #183

• fix parsing with missing microseconds, fixes attic #282

• fix misleading hint the fuse ImportError handler gave, fixes attic #237

• check unpacked data from RPC for tuple type and correct length, fixes attic #127

• fix Repository._active_txn state when lock upgrade fails

• give specific path to xattr.is_enabled(), disable symlink setattr call that always fails

• fix test setup for 32bit platforms, partial fix for attic #196

• upgraded versioneer, PEP440 compliance, fixes attic #257

New features:

• less memory usage: add global option --no-cache-files

• check --last N (only check the last N archives)

• check: sort archives in reverse time order

• rename repo::oldname newname (rename repository)

• create -v output more informative

• create --progress (backup progress indicator)

• create --timestamp (utc string or reference file/dir)

• create: if “-” is given as path, read binary from stdin

• extract: if --stdout is given, write all extracted binary data to stdout

• extract --sparse (simple sparse file support)

• extra debug information for ‘fread failed’

• delete <repo> (deletes whole repo + local cache)

• FUSE: reflect deduplication in allocated blocks

• only allow whitelisted RPC calls in server mode

• normalize source/exclude paths before matching

• use posix_fadvise to not spoil the OS cache, fixes attic #252

• toplevel error handler: show tracebacks for better error analysis

• sigusr1 / sigint handler to print current file infos - attic PR #286

• RPCError: include the exception args we get from remote

Other changes:

• source: misc. cleanups, pep8, style

• docs and faq improvements, fixes, updates

• cleanup crypto.pyx, make it easier to adapt to other AES modes

• do os.fsync like recommended in the python docs

• source: Let chunker optionally work with os-level file descriptor.

• source: Linux: remove duplicate os.fsencode calls

• source: refactor _open_rb code a bit, so it is more consistent / regular

• source: refactor indicator (status) and item processing

• source: use py.test for better testing, flake8 for code style checks

• source: fix tox >=2.0 compatibility (test runner)

• pypi package: add python version classifiers, add FreeBSD to platforms

Attic Changelog

Here you can see the full list of changes between each Attic release until Borg forked from Attic:

Version 0.17

(bugfix release, released on X)

• Fix hashindex ARM memory alignment issue (#309)

• Improve hashindex error messages (#298)

Version 0.16

(bugfix release, released on May 16, 2015)

• Fix typo preventing the security confirmation prompt from working (#303)

• Improve handling of systems with improperly configured file system encoding (#289)

• Fix “All archives” output for attic info. (#183)

• More user friendly error message when repository key file is not found (#236)

• Fix parsing of iso 8601 timestamps with zero microseconds (#282)

Version 0.15

(bugfix release, released on Apr 15, 2015)

• xattr: Be less strict about unknown/unsupported platforms (#239)

• Reduce repository listing memory usage (#163).

• Fix BrokenPipeError for remote repositories (#233)

• Fix incorrect behavior with two character directory names (#265, #268)

• Require approval before accessing relocated/moved repository (#271)

• Require approval before accessing previously unknown unencrypted repositories (#271)

• Fix issue with hash index files larger than 2GB.

• Fix Python 3.2 compatibility issue with noatime open() (#164)

• Include missing pyx files in dist files (#168)

Version 0.14

(feature release, released on Dec 17, 2014)

• Added support for stripping leading path segments (#95) “attic extract --strip-segments X”

• Add workaround for old Linux systems without acl_extended_file_no_follow (#96)

• Add MacPorts’ path to the default openssl search path (#101)

• HashIndex improvements, eliminates unnecessary IO on low memory systems.

• Fix “Number of files” output for attic info. (#124)

• limit create file permissions so files aren’t read while restoring

• Fix issue with empty xattr values (#106)

Version 0.13

(feature release, released on Jun 29, 2014)

• Fix sporadic “Resource temporarily unavailable” when using remote repositories

• Reduce file cache memory usage (#90)

• Faster AES encryption (utilizing AES-NI when available)

• Experimental Linux, OS X and FreeBSD ACL support (#66)

• Added support for backup and restore of BSDFlags (OSX, FreeBSD) (#56)

• Fix bug where xattrs on symlinks were not correctly restored

• Added cachedir support. CACHEDIR.TAG compatible cache directories can now be excluded using --exclude-caches (#74)

• Fix crash on extreme mtime timestamps (year 2400+) (#81)

• Fix Python 3.2 specific lockf issue (EDEADLK)

Version 0.12

(feature release, released on April 7, 2014)

• Python 3.4 support (#62)

• Various documentation improvements a new style

• attic mount now supports mounting an entire repository not only individual archives (#59)

• Added option to restrict remote repository access to specific path(s): attic serve --restrict-to-path X (#51)

• Include “all archives” size information in “--stats” output. (#54)

• Added --stats option to attic delete and attic prune

• Fixed bug where attic prune used UTC instead of the local time zone when determining which archives to keep.

• Switch to SI units (Power of 1000 instead 1024) when printing file sizes

Version 0.11

(feature release, released on March 7, 2014)

• New “check” command for repository consistency checking (#24)

• Documentation improvements

• Fix exception during “attic create” with repeated files (#39)

• New “--exclude-from” option for attic create/extract/verify.

• Improved archive metadata deduplication.

• “attic verify” has been deprecated. Use “attic extract --dry-run” instead.

• “attic prune --hourly|daily|…” has been deprecated. Use “attic prune --keep-hourly|daily|…” instead.

• Ignore xattr errors during “extract” if not supported by the filesystem. (#46)

Version 0.10

(bugfix release, released on Jan 30, 2014)

• Fix deadlock when extracting 0 sized files from remote repositories

• “--exclude” wildcard patterns are now properly applied to the full path not just the file name part (#5).

• Make source code endianness agnostic (#1)

Version 0.9

(feature release, released on Jan 23, 2014)

• Remote repository speed and reliability improvements.

• Fix sorting of segment names to ignore NFS left over files. (#17)

• Fix incorrect display of time (#13)

• Improved error handling / reporting. (#12)

• Use fcntl() instead of flock() when locking repository/cache. (#15)

• Let ssh figure out port/user if not specified so we don’t override .ssh/config (#9)

• Improved libcrypto path detection (#23).

Version 0.8.1

(bugfix release, released on Oct 4, 2013)

• Fix segmentation fault issue.

Version 0.8

(feature release, released on Oct 3, 2013)

• Fix xattr issue when backing up sshfs filesystems (#4)

• Fix issue with excessive index file size (#6)

• Support access of read only repositories.

• New syntax to enable repository encryption:

  attic init --encryption=”none|passphrase|keyfile”.

• Detect and abort if repository is older than the cache.

Version 0.7

(feature release, released on Aug 5, 2013)

• Ported to FreeBSD

• Improved documentation

• Experimental: Archives mountable as FUSE filesystems.

• The “user.” prefix is no longer stripped from xattrs on Linux

Version 0.6.1

(bugfix release, released on July 19, 2013)

• Fixed an issue where mtime was not always correctly restored.

Version 0.6

First public release on July 9, 2013