Version 1.3.0 is available

gchen    Feb 17 10:41PM 2017

Version 0.3.2:

  • Bug fix: --verify has no effect for some storages
  • Bug fix: prune can't delete unreferenced chunks


gchen    Feb 24 10:40AM 2017

Version 0.3.3:

  • Added Microsoft Azure support
  • Fixed a bug in creating directories via SFTP
  • Fixed a crash in backup when some vmdk files are not ready to be opened
  • Allow an extra colon in the sftp url so scp-style urls won't throw an error


gchen    Feb 27 10:27PM 2017

Version 1.0.0:

  • Added a --failure-subject option to the backup command which specifies a different email subject in presence of a backup failure
  • Added a benchmark command to measure disk and network speeds


gchen    Apr 5 10:51AM 2017

Version 1.0.1:

  • Fixed a bug where the B2 storage can't recover from a temporary B2 server error.


gchen    Apr 9 10:33AM 2017

Version 1.0.2:

  • Fixed a bug that caused retention policy such as 0:m to have no effect.


gchen    May 30 2:57PM 2017

Version 1.0.3:

  • Fixed a bug that caused the smtp port to be fixed at 587
  • When sending email, skip the login step if the username or password is empty


gchen    Jul 5 3:32PM 2017

Version 1.0.4:

  • Fixed a bug in public key authentication for the SFTP storage backend


gchen    Jul 25 6:57PM 2017

Version 1.1.0:

  • Preserve thin-provisioning when restoring disk files
  • Upload final backup file before (instead of after) removing all snapshots
  • Disable the chunk cache with a full disk
  • Retry on SFTP errors
  • Allow wildcards and excludes when specifying virtual machines to back up


gchen    Aug 1 9:50PM 2017

Version 1.1.1:

  • Fixed a bug that caused a crash on licensee names that contain unicode characters
  • Support Wasabi storage with the url format wasabi://bucket


gchen    Sep 14 10:44PM 2017

Version 1.1.2:

  • Fixed a crash caused by a storage password stored in the .verticalbackup/passwords file
  • Add a --parallel switch to the backup command to allow multiple backup jobs at the same time
  • Add an --exclude-disk option to exclude disks by name from backup
  • Add an environment variable VB_MAX_RETRIES to control the number of retries for the B2 storage backend
  • Fixed a bug that caused an error in opening a disk file to not display the error message
  • Fixed a bug that caused vms with spaces in the names to fail to be backed up to b2


Carl Hjerpe    Sep 15 3:41PM 2017

VB_MAX_RETRIES <- Would you be so kind and allow us to set things like this in some json config instead, messing with the VMware host is bigtime pain, thanks! :)


gchen    Nov 13 9:09PM 2017

Version 1.1.4:

  • Fixed a bug that caused backup to a B2 bucket with spaces in the name to fail
  • Now support minio servers and generic S3 storages
  • Fixed a bug that caused prune to fail to resurrect a fossil when the corresponding chunk has been recreated
  • Fixed a bug that caused backup to abort when the licensee name contains unicode characters
  • Fixed a bug that caused check to use too much memory
  • Reopen https port when the firewall setting has been cleared due to a reboot


gchen    Jan 25 11:11PM 2018

Version 1.1.5:

  • Fixed a bug in excluding disks by name
  • Fixed a bug that caused license update to fail
  • Release unnecessary memory to reduce memory usage for the backup command
  • Fixed a bug that prevented a non-standard sftp port from being used
  • Add a --no-chunk-listing option to the backup command to avoid listing all chunks on storage for the first backup of a VM
  • Support Amazon S3 dual stack endpoints


gchen    Jun 17 9:50PM 2018

Version 1.2.0:

  • Optimize the in-memory chunk list to reduce memory usage
  • Fix encryption compatibility issue with Duplicacy
  • Switch to the fixed-nesting scheme adopted by Duplicacy since version 2.0.10
  • Fixed a bug in thread creation which may leave some dangling threads


gchen    Aug 17 12:35PM 2018

Version 1.2.1:

  • Fixed a bug in determining which snapshots are new to a fossil collection (which may cause prune to mistakenly delete some fossils)
  • Moved the config file to the new format that includes a salt and the number of iterations (for compatibility with Duplicacy)
  • Fixed encryption compatibility issues with Duplicacy


gchen    Mar 27 10:56AM 2019

Version 1.3.0:

  • Fixed out-of-memory issues when backing up vms with large disks (by reimplementing the chunk cache as a on-disk hash table)
  • Allow B2 application specific keys
  • Include .nvram files in the backup
  • Add a --snapshot-timeout option to specify longer snapshot creation operations


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