diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst index 365025d92..05719df8f 100644 --- a/docs/development.rst +++ b/docs/development.rst @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ Checklist: - announce on: - Mailing list - - Twitter (follow @ThomasJWaldmann for these tweets) + - Twitter - IRC channel (change ``/topic``) - create a GitHub release, include: diff --git a/docs/support.rst b/docs/support.rst index 293264f51..8bd3fcbed 100644 --- a/docs/support.rst +++ b/docs/support.rst @@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ unsubscribe and where you can find the archives of the list, see the `mailing list homepage `_. +Twitter +------- + +Follow @borgbackup for announcements. You can also add @borgbackup if you +would like to get retweeted for a borg related tweet. + +Please understand that Twitter is not suitable for longer / more complex +discussions - use one of the other channels for that. + Bounties and Fundraisers ------------------------ diff --git a/docs/usage/notes.rst b/docs/usage/notes.rst index 85648382e..c45ef3f8c 100644 --- a/docs/usage/notes.rst +++ b/docs/usage/notes.rst @@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ a new repository when changing chunker params. For more details, see :ref:`chunker_details`. +``--noatime / --noctime`` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +You can use these ``borg create`` options to not store the respective timestamp +into the archive, in case you do not really need it. + +Besides saving a little space for the not archived timestamp, it might also +affect metadata stream deduplication: if only this timestamp changes between +backups and is stored into the metadata stream, the metadata stream chunks +won't deduplicate just because of that. + ``--umask`` ~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/src/borg/archiver.py b/src/borg/archiver.py index f081cdcdb..2dd290875 100644 --- a/src/borg/archiver.py +++ b/src/borg/archiver.py @@ -2520,6 +2520,11 @@ class Archiver: change_passphrase_epilog = process_epilog(""" The key files used for repository encryption are optionally passphrase protected. This command can be used to change this passphrase. + + Please note that this command only changes the passphrase, but not any + secret protected by it (like e.g. encryption/MAC keys or chunker seed). + Thus, changing the passphrase after passphrase and borg key got compromised + does not protect future (nor past) backups to the same repository. """) subparser = key_parsers.add_parser('change-passphrase', parents=[common_parser], add_help=False, description=self.do_change_passphrase.__doc__,