A new release of mlbackup is out. With a few bug fixes and tons of improvements as well as new features. You can download the mlbackup 193-3.0.9 Installer Package from Github.
New features
- An alias named "Latest" is now created after each successful backup pointing to the latest finished backup.
Yes, it's finally out. Now with a seven-way universal binary of our special-edition rsync-3. This provides the best speeds on any Mac from your trusty G3 to you newest shiny intel Quadcore machine. mlbackup has been updated to make use of this as well. We've also taken care to ensure that mlbackup now passes all the extended backup bouncer tests by Mike Bombich.
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Scope:
Major feature introductions, speedup, general code cleanup, better cleanup of temp files
Thanks to all members of Metalab who attended the Hackathon. Your help, inspiration and support was awesome!
This update is recommended for all users of mlbackup.
New Features
Growl notifications! You need to install growlnotify from the Extras folder of the Growl.dmg to make these work.
Scope:
Update to rsync 3.0.6 and improvements to the installer
This update is recommended for all users of mlbackup.
Update:Download fixed now!
If you had problems with unpacking the r125-3.0.5 archive, please download again!
The problem was an incorrect file size in our files database. This has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Scope:
Bugfixes and minor improvements
This update is recommended for all users of mlbackup and vital if you're running mlbackup on an based Mac with a Core2Duo or Xeon processor.
What's new in mlbackup-115?
- mlbackup can now check for new versions online. Just run mlbackup without any config file parameter.
- Globalexclusions can now be turned off for 100% accurate backups.
- You can now provide your own per-config exclusions for even more control over what gets backed up and what can be left out.
- Globalexclusions have been extended with new files. Fifos and Sockets are now excluded by default.
- Verbosity has been reduced during normal runs, speeding up the backup process and reducing log sizes.
- When running in debug mode (set MLdebug=1 in your config file) mlbackup now spits out even more valuable information to track down problems.
- Time display is improved. Backup durations are now displayed in dd:hh:mm:ss instead of seconds only.
- Deleting of backups during autorotation has been improved. You should see a lot less of these OLD-Backups now.
- An error that could occur if setlabel or setcomment aren't in your $PATH has been fixed. This did not affect backup quality.
- An issue that could occur in reduced environments as presented by launchd with chown and chmod has been fixed.
- rsync 3.0.5 is now included. To see what is new in rsync, please see the rsync 3.0.5 release notes.
You can now also follow @maclemon on Twitter!
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Deutsch
Aufgrund zahlreicher Anfragen und Anregungen werden Beiträge die mlbackup betreffen ab sofort in englischer Sprache verfasst. Damit soll die Kommunikation mit internationalen Sysadmins vereinfacht werden.
English
Due to popular demand postings regarding my mlbackup software will be in sysadmin compatible english language from now on.
What's new in mlbackup-95?
- Added the missing install instructions for the new rsync 3 package installer.
- Corrected outdated information in the README file regarding ACLs and Finder/Spotlight comments. They are in fact correctly backed up since r88.
- Added commenting to the sample configuration for those using mlbackup with a broken postfix setup.
- Fixed a bug that occurred when you used spaces in the set name (MLbackupName) Thanks to Julius Zeidler for reporting this one.
- rsync 3.0.4 is now included. To see what is new in rsync, please see the rsync 3.0.4 release notes.
