Crispin Boylan discovered that the new regular expressions weren't actually used by rdup, hence another release which fixes this.

See the project page for more information.

Hopefully I will have some updated rdup scripts at the start of the new year, i.e. after we have moved to our new house.

I've released rdup version 0.6.2. This version adds support for all file types on a Unix system; sockets, named pipes and device files.

Another major change is that I've split off rdup and rdup-utils. This release is thus only the rdup program and documentation. I still need to setup another webpage for the rdup-utils.

The changelog for this release is:

03 Nov 2008: 0.6.2 Miek <miek@miek.nl>
 * rdup-utils: completely removed from rdup(-core).
   There is now a seperate svn repos with those tools. 
 * rdup: Added -R switch, which will reverse rdup's output
   This is a depth first output, first the directories
   then the files.
 * rdup: Use libpcre3 for regular expressions, MUCH much more powerful
   than the POSIX regex previously used. This does add an extra
   dependency for libpcre3 (requested by Sorin Ionescu)
 * rdup: support for named pipe's, sockets and character and
   block devices. The rdup-utils IGNORE these files.
   This overloads the size (%s) in case of block/character
   devices - then it is 'major,minor' numbers
 * rdup: always write the device out with 5 position for the 
   internal filelist. This could also have resulted in too large 
   incrementals.

Be aware that I have not tested this release with the older rdup-utils, so this might give you problems.

Download and more information

rdup project page

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