Releases

SafeKeep 1.0.4 was released Feb 26, 2008, containing the following main features:

• Add options to allow the query of the backup repository
• Important fixes when dealing with snapshots
• Make it more compatible with Python 2.2 (more work remains)
• Avoid build-time dependency on asciidoc which depends on Python 2.3
• Add some clarifications to the documentation
• Add support for FreeBSD

SafeKeep 1.0.3 was released Oct 19, 2007, containing the following main features:

• Clarify licensing in lite of the new GPLv3 license;
• New --force option to handle unexpected problems with the data repository;
• Better logging and status handling when we invoke external commands;
• Clearer backup status on job end;
• A small packaging bug got fixes.

SafeKeep 1.0.1 was released Jun 17, 2007, containing the following main features:

• The safekeep user no longer requires a working shell;
• Add support for Fedora 7 to the testing script;
• Packaging improvements for integration into Fedora;
• Removed the old configuration migration scripts.

SafeKeep 1.0.0 was released May 16, 2007, containing the following main features:

• Tested support for database (MySQL and PostgreSQL) dumps;
• Small documentation improvements.

SafeKeep 0.9.3 was released Apr 27, 2007, containing the following main features:

• The safekeep account now uses /bin/bash instead of /sbin/nologin, this makes it possbile to deploy and manage the SSH keys needed for the backup process;
• Invoke rdiff-backup with the --force option when trimming old data, since there are cases where we can have multiple deltas outstanding;
• A number of logging bugs have been fixed, now the logs should look a bit better;
• Some documentation improvements.

SafeKeep 0.9.2 was released Mar 13, 2007, containing the following main features:

• Client configuration files have been moved to /etc/safekeep/backup.d, and have the extension '.backup';
• A new global configuration file has been added in /etc/safekeep/safekeep.conf;
• A number of command line options have been deprecated (-e/--email, -s/--smtp), and moved to the global configuration;
• SafeKeep now knows of the user under which the backup will execute, making it possible to better deploy keys, avoid the need to invoke safekeep(1) via sudo(8), and execute the backup as root if need be;
• Relative paths now have more intuitive behaviour;
• Some documentation improvements;
• Automatic migration of old configuration to the new format;
• A CRITICAL (e.g. data loss) race has been fixed.

SafeKeep 0.9.1 was released Feb 12, 2007, containing the following main features:

• Lots of documentation improvements;
• Prepare the RPMs for Fedora acceptance
• Automatic creation of data store directory
• A few bug fixes

SafeKeep 0.9.0 was released Feb 1, 2007, containing the following main features:

• based on rdiff-backup, a tried and tested backup solution
• fast and easy deployment, with no configuration stored on the backed-up boxes
• centralized configuration, with reasonable and useful defaults
• built-in support for LVM snapshots, PostgreSQL and MySQL dumps
• secure setup via SSH tunneling, with built-in key management
• binary packages for RPM and DEB based Linux distributions
• clean, easy to understand Python code-base