01 Jul 2017

We’ve just released restic 0.7.0! For downloading the code, head over to GitHub. As always, thanks for reporting any issues you encounter!

Important Changes in 0.7.0

• New “swift” backend: A new backend for the OpenStack Swift cloud storage protocol has been added, https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/975 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/648

• New “b2” backend: A new backend for Backblaze B2 cloud storage service has been added, https://www.backblaze.com https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/512 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/978

• Improved performance for the find command: Restic recognizes paths it has already checked for the files in question, so the number of backend requests is reduced a lot. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/989 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/993

• Improved performance for the fuse mount: Listing directories which contain large files now is significantly faster. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/998

• The default layout for the s3 backend is now default (instead of s3legacy). Also, there’s a new migrate command to convert an existing repo, it can be run like this: restic migrate s3_layout https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/965 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1004

• The fuse mount now has two more directories: tags contains a subdir for each tag, which in turn contains only the snapshots that have this tag. The subdir hosts contains a subdir for each host that has a snapshot, and the subdir contains the snapshots for that host. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/636 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1050

Small changes

• For the s3 backend we’re back to using the high-level API the s3 client library for uploading data, a few users reported dropped connections (which the library will automatically retry now). https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1013 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1023 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1025

• The prune command has been improved and will now remove invalid pack files, for example files that have not been uploaded completely because a backup was interrupted. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1029 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1036

• restic now tries to detect when an invalid/unknown backend is used and returns an error message. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1021 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1070