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
+=======================================
+
+ - <a href="note/0.28.1-from-0.28.md">Changes in 0.28.1 as compared to 0.28</a>
+ - <a href="note/0.28-from-0.27.1.md">Changes in 0.28 as compared to 0.27.1</a>
+ - <a href="note/0.27.1-from-0.27.md">Changes in 0.27.1 as compared to 0.27</a>
+
+
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).
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
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
- 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
==================