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@@ -71,28 +71,35 @@ Reasons you might want to avoid bup
for you, but we don't know why. It is also missing some
probably-critical features.
- - It requires python >= 2.5, a C compiler, and an installed git
+ - 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
able to generate the information needed to recover from some types
of corruption.
- - It currently only works on Linux, MacOS X >= 10.4,
- NetBSD, Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin). Patches to support
- other platforms are welcome.
+ - It currently only works on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X >= 10.4,
+ Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin). Patches to support other
+ platforms are welcome.
- Any items in "Things that are stupid" below.
-
+
+Notable changes introduced by a release
+=======================================
+
+ - Changes in 0.28.1 as compared to 0.28
+ - Changes in 0.28 as compared to 0.27.1
+ - Changes in 0.27.1 as compared to 0.27
+
+
Getting started
===============
-
From source
-----------
- Check out the bup source code using git:
- git clone git://github.com/bup/bup
+ git clone https://github.com/bup/bup
- Install the required python libraries (including the development
libraries).
@@ -102,8 +109,8 @@ From source
apt-get build-dep bup
- Otherwise try this (substitute python2.5-dev or python2.6-dev if
- you have an older system):
+ Otherwise try this (substitute python2.6-dev if you have an older
+ system):
apt-get install python2.7-dev python-fuse
apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
@@ -488,7 +495,8 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help.
workaround is to just start a new BUP_DIR occasionally,
i.e. bup-2013, bup-2014...
- - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Windows+Cygwin.
+ - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
+ OS X, and Windows+Cygwin.
There's nothing that makes it *inherently* non-portable, though, so
that's mostly a matter of someone putting in some effort. (For a
@@ -511,10 +519,9 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help.
- bup has no GUI.
- Actually, that's not stupid, but you might consider it a limitation.
- There are a bunch of Linux GUI backup programs; someday I expect someone
- will adapt one of them to use bup.
-
+ Actually, that's not stupid, but you might consider it a
+ limitation. See the ["Related Projects"](https://bup.github.io/)
+ list for some possible options.
More Documentation
==================