Reasons you might want to avoid bup
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- - This is a very early version. Therefore it will most probably not work
- for you, but we don't know why. It is also missing some
- probably-critical features.
+ - It's not remotely as well tested as something like tar, so it's
+ more likely to eat your data. It's also missing some
+ probably-critical features, though fewer than it used to be.
- It requires python >= 2.6, a C compiler, and an installed git
- version >= 1.5.3.1. It also requires par2 if you want fsck to be
+ version >= 1.5.6. It also requires par2 if you want fsck to be
able to generate the information needed to recover from some types
of corruption.
- It currently only works on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X >= 10.4,
- Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin). Patches to support other
- platforms are welcome.
+ Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin, and maybe with WSL). Patches to
+ support other platforms are welcome.
- Any items in "Things that are stupid" below.
Notable changes introduced by a release
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+ - <a href="note/0.29.2-from-0.29.1.md">Changes in 0.29.2 as compared to 0.29.1</a>
- <a href="note/0.29.1-from-0.29.md">Changes in 0.29.1 as compared to 0.29</a>
- <a href="note/0.29-from-0.28.1.md">Changes in 0.29 as compared to 0.28.1</a>
- <a href="note/0.28.1-from-0.28.md">Changes in 0.28.1 as compared to 0.28</a>
git clone https://github.com/bup/bup
+ - This will leave you on the master branch, which is perfect if you
+ would like to help with development, but if you'd just like to use
+ bup, please check out the latest stable release like this:
+
+ git checkout 0.29.1
+
+ You can see the latest stable release here:
+ https://github.com/bup/bup/releases.
+
- Install the required python libraries (including the development
libraries).
bup help restore
...
- - Initialize the default BUP_DIR (~/.bup):
+ - Initialize the default BUP_DIR (~/.bup -- you can choose another by
+ either specifying `bup -d DIR ...` or setting the `BUP_DIR`
+ environment variable for a command):
bup init
- Look at how little extra space your second backup used on top of
the first:
- du -s ~/.bup
+ du -s ~/.bup
- Restore the first tar backup again (the ~1 is git notation for "one
older than the most recent"):
- bup needs better documentation.
- According to a recent article about bup in Linux Weekly News
+ According to an article about bup in Linux Weekly News
(https://lwn.net/Articles/380983/), "it's a bit short on examples and
a user guide would be nice." Documentation is the sort of thing that
will never be great unless someone from outside contributes it (since