Use with caution: permanent data loss by specifying incorrect patterns
is easily possible. Make a dry run to make sure you got everything right.
borg recreate has many uses:
- Can selectively remove files/dirs from old archives, e.g. to free
space or purging picturarum biggus dickus from history
- Recompress data
- Rechunkify data, to have upgraded Attic / Borg 0.xx archives deduplicate
with Borg 1.x archives. (Or to experiment with chunker-params for
specific use cases
It is interrupt- and resumable.
Chunks are not freed on-the-fly.
Rationale:
Makes only sense when rechunkifying, but logic on which new chunks to
free what input chunks is complicated and *very* delicate.
Future TODOs:
- Refactor tests using py.test fixtures
-- would require porting ArchiverTestCase to py.test: many changes,
this changeset is already borderline too large.
- Possibly add a --target option to not replace the source archive
-- with the target possibly in another Repo
(better than "cp" due to full integrity checking, and deduplication
at the target)
- Detect and skip (unless --always-recompress) already recompressed chunks
Fixes#787#686#630#70 (and probably some I overlooked)
Also see #757 and #770
- Group options
- Nicer list of options in Sphinx
- Deduplicate 'Common options'
(including --help)
The latter is done by explicitly declaring --help in the common_parser,
which is then inherited by the sub-parsers; no change in observable
behaviour.
- Archives now have a new metadata field 'comment'
- 'info' command shows a comment if it's present
- 'create' command now has option '--comment' for adding comments to archives.
- A new command 'comment' is added for modifying the comments on existing
archives.
Resolves#842.
Previously, on 'borg diff', the output always had first the modifications, then
additions, and finally removals. Output may be easier to follow if the various
kinds of changes are interleaved. This commit is a simple solution that first
collects the output lines and sorts them by file path before printing. This new
behavior is optional and disabled by default. It can be enabled with '--sort'
command line option.
This option will be especially useful after the planned multi-threading changes
arrive. Multi-threading may shuffle the archive order of files making diff
output hard to follow without sorting.
Resolves#797.
- add archiver.main_mount()
- provide borgfs behaviour when the monolithic binary is called via a
symlink called borgfs
- docs: update usage of mount subcommand, provide examples for borgfs and
add symlink creation to standalone binary installation
- run build_usage
- add entry point in setup.py
- patch helpers.py:get_keys_dir() to allow mounting fstab entries with
"user" option set
Without this, setuid() called at some point by mount changes the HOME
environment variable to '/root' and os.expanduser('~') would return
'/root' as well, thus the mount would fail with
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.config'
After setuid(), the HOME variable stays intact, so we still can
explicitly query USER's home.
Also, os.path.expanduser() behaves differently for '~' and '~someuser'
as parameters: when called with an explicit username, the possibly set
environment variable HOME is no longer respected. So we have to check if
it is set and only expand the user's home directory if HOME is unset.
- add myself to AUTHORS
the generation of those files was causing us way too much pain to
justify automatically generating them all the time.
those will have to be re-generated with `build_api` or `build_usage`
as appropriate, for example when function signatures or commandline
flags change.
see #384
