On this last day of 2008 I'm releasing rdup 0.6.4. This is pretty much 0.6.4-rc1 with a few minor documentation tweaks.

One little shell script that has come back which is rdup-ln.sh which originally was called rdup-snap-link and is used in rdup-simple to figure out what kind of backup (incremental/full) should be made. In rdup-backups(7) a sample implementation for your own rdup-simple is listed, as I've dropped rdup-simple from rdup.

The changelog for this release:

• rdup-up: further updates and refinements
• rdup-up: added strippath() function to strip leading path components
• doc: minor updates to the manual pages, added a rdup-simple like script to rdup-backups.7
• rdup-ln.sh: a shell script for checking and copying a previous rdup backup. Depends on GNU date and GNU cp. Installs into /usr/lib/rdup/. Previously a small script called rdup-snap-link did this.

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What is next?

• I'm contemplating releasing rdup 1.0.0, with rdup, rdup-tr and rdup-up my feeling is that rdup is complete
• for rdup development I'm going to move to 'git'