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@@ -76,23 +76,30 @@ Reasons you might want to avoid bup
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).
@@ -102,7 +109,7 @@ From source
apt-get build-dep bup
- Otherwise try this (substitute python2.5-dev or python2.6-dev if
+ Otherwise try this (substitute python2.6-dev or python2.5-dev if
you have an older system):
apt-get install python2.7-dev python-fuse
@@ -154,6 +161,12 @@ From source
make install DESTDIR=/opt/bup PREFIX=''
+ - The Python executable that bup will use is chosen by ./configure,
+ which will search for a reasonable version unless PYTHON is set in
+ the environment, in which case, bup will use that path. You can
+ see which Python executable was chosen by looking at the
+ configure output, or examining cmd/python-cmd.sh, and you can
+ change the selection by re-running ./configure.
From binary packages
--------------------
@@ -169,6 +182,8 @@ Binary packages of bup are known to be built for the following OSes:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/bup/
- Arch Linux:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=bup
+ - Fedora:
+ https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/bup
Using bup
@@ -468,22 +483,20 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help.
give the continuous-backup process a really low CPU and I/O priority so
you wouldn't even know it was running.
- - bup currently has no way to prune *old* backups.
-
- Because of the way the packfile system works, backups become "entangled"
- in weird ways and it's not actually possible to delete one pack
- (corresponding approximately to one backup) without risking screwing up
- other backups.
-
- git itself has lots of ways of optimizing this sort of thing, but its
- methods aren't really applicable here; bup packfiles are just too huge.
- We'll have to do it in a totally different way. There are lots of
- options. For now: make sure you've got lots of disk space :)
+ - bup only has experimental support for pruning old backups.
- Until we fix this, one possible workaround is to just start a new
- BUP_DIR occasionally, i.e. bup-2013-10, bup-2013-11...
+ While you should now be able to drop old saves and branches with
+ `bup rm`, and reclaim the space occupied by data that's no longer
+ needed by other backups with `bup gc`, these commands are
+ experimental, and should be handled with great care. See the
+ man pages for more information.
- - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Windows+Cygwin.
+ Unless you want to help test the new commands, one possible
+ 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, 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
@@ -506,10 +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
==================