rdup 0.6.4-rc1 has just been released. I've decided to call it an -rc1 release because of the number changes as there are two new programs:

• rdup-tr, a general transformation util which supersedes rdup-crypt, rdup-gzip and rdup-gpg (and it can do more)
• rdup-up, a replacement of rdup-snap

I haven't tested rdup-up to the fullest, so there may be problems when updating an existing directory structure. If there problems I love to hear about them. rdup-tr is two weeks older than rdup-up, so it has seen some more testing :) Both tools are implemented in C. This means there is no Perl dependency left for creating backups/using rdup.

See these blog entries for more information:

• rdup-tr
• rdup-up

There were also some minor bugfixes in rdup, concerning the ouput of suid/sgid bits and handling of the regular expression linked list.

Quick download link

The full ChangeLog for this release:

17 Dec 2008: 0.6.4-rc1 Miek <miek@miek.nl>
  - major feature enhancements, two new programs
+ rdup-tr: transform rdup output to something else
+ rdup-up: update a directory tree with rdup archive

 * rdup: Added '%N' to the format string, which prints the
   path, but in case of soft- and hardlinks it will only
   print the link's name not the '-> target' part
 * rdup: rdup.1.in had a long deserved make-over
 * rdup: Print symlinks correctly when there named on the cmd line
 * rdup: regexp: don't use g_slist_next, but k->next in gfunc.c
 * rdup: Suid/sgid/sticky bit output was corrected
 * rdup-tr: Added rdup-tr; a tool to convert rdup output to
   (modified) rdup output, tar, pax or cpio files
 * rdup-tr: Don't compile rdup-tr if libarchive is not found
 * rdup-tr: rdup-tr.1 manpage
 * rdup-up: Added rdup-up; C version of rdup-snap
 * rdup-up: Added rdup-up.1 manpage
 * rdup-up: Support for fifos, pipes, devices
 * updated rdup-backups.7 as general info about backups with rdup
 * Set the copyright to 2009 already

When all goes well, I expect to release rdup 0.6.4 before the end of the year.