As I'm without a bug database I'm abusing my blog for it.

The following bugs were reported (and fixed) in rdup. Thanks to Tom Hendrikx for reporting and fixing some of the issues mentioned here.

incremental backups of symlinks

Incremental backup of symlink and hardlink were b0rked, this is now fixed (revision r1780 and r1781) but this required a change to the internal filelist which is used by rdup.

rdup-simple with one argument

rdup-simple would just go ahead even if you only give it one argument. This is fixed in revision r1775.

rdup-simple -f without any previous backup

This would fail, because the leading directories are not created by rdup-up. This is fixed in revision r1777 by including a mkpath() function and extending the -t flag of rdup-up a little.

rdup-simple output to stderr

Now only the errors are printed to stderr, the rest if echoed to stdout. See revision r1778

.nobackup are not respected

Normally if a .nobackup file is found in a directory the directory is excluded from the backup.

This is fixed in revision r1779.

Due to the internal file format change, the next version of rdup will be 0.7.0 and we are closely going to a 1.0.0 release.