Release of RZBackup 3.2.0 with maintenance tools

[James Pharaoh]

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce the release of RZBackup 3.2.0, my partial rust
clone of ZBackup. This includes plenty of improvements to the software
in general, but the main feature of interest is my set of repository
maintenance tools.

Please visit http://rzbackup.com for more information.

The maintenance tools included are:

* balance-bundles - To repack chunks into new bundle files, for example
to reduce the number of bundle files in a large repository.

* balance-indexes - To repack index files with a consist number of
bundles in each one, also useful to reduce the number of files in a
large repository.

* check-backups - To quickly identify backups which reference chunks
which are not available without restoring them individually.

* check-bundles - To perform a full consistency check of all or some
bundles.

* check-indexes - To check for duplicated or missing chunks in the index
files.

* gc-bundles - To remove chunks from bundles which are not present in
the indexes.

* gc-indexes - To remove index entries which are not referenced by any
backup.

* rebuild-indexes - To build a new set of index files by scanning all
bundles.

Hopefully these will be useful to someone! They are all designed to be
safe, but please ensure you have make backups of your repository before
using any of them, and use them at your own risk.

I have plenty more planned, including of course the ability to create
backups as well as restore them, in the near future.

James

[dani....@gmail.com]

Hi James

Thank you for sharing your work!

I just tried to start using rzbackup. Version 3.3.0 stucks with last message "Waiting for repository lock ..." an does nothing on rzbackup convert gc-indexes. Version 3.2.2 semms to work (started the job a few minutes ago).

Repo is placed on NFS share. We are using Ubuntu Xenial.

Is there another forum to discuss rzbackup?

Best regards,
Dani