Rdiff-backup

Different bug fixes, improvements in code and documentation - too many to list (Andreas Olsson, Andrew Foster, Arrigo Marchiori, bigbear3001, davekempe, David I.
Lehn, elMor3no, Eric Lavarde, Frank Crawford, Jiri Lunacek, joshn, Josh Soref, mestre, Oliver Lowe, orangenschalen, Otto Kekäläinen, owsla, Patrik Dufresne, Reio Remma, Rodrigo Silva, Stefan Seyfried, Wes Cilldhaire, zjw)

Add automated of different package formats (Otto Kekäläinen, Arrigo Marchiori, Eric Lavarde)

Add RDIFF_BACKUP_VERBOSITY environment variable (Eric Lavarde)

Add support for Python 3.5 to 3.8, remove support for Python 2.x (Eric Lavarde)

Fix OverflowError on 64-bit systems when backing up symlinks with uid or gid above INT_MAX.
Thanks to Michel Le Cocq for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Start using Unicode internally for filenames.
This fixes Unicode support on Windows (Josh Nisly)

Don't print "Fatal Error" if --check-destination-dir completed successfully.
Thanks to Serge Zub for the suggestion.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Allow --test-server option to be combined with --restrict.
Thanks to Nick Moffitt for reporting the error.
Closes Ubuntu bug 349072.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Improve handling of incorrect permissions on backup repository during restore operation.
Closes Ubuntu bug 329722.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Don't crash on zlib errors.
Closes Debian bug 518531.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Make sticky bit warnings quieter while determining file system abilities.
Closes Savannah bug 25788.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix situation where destination file cannot be opened because of an access error.
Thanks to Dean Cording for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix --compare-hash options on Windows.
Thanks to Serge Zub for the fix.

Don't crash when filesystem can't set ACL.
Thanks to Matt Thompson for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix Security Error when performing non-backup operations on Windows.
Thanks to Tommy Keene for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Properly disable hardlinks by default on Windows.

Fix Python 2.2 compatibility.
Closes Savannah bug 25529.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix typo which caused failure when checking if another rdiff-backup process is running on Windows.
Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Disable hardlinks by default on Windows when performing operations such as --compare, etc.
Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Change --min-file-size and --max-file-size to agree with man page.
These options no longer include files, and will only apply to regular files.
Thanks to Johannes Jensen for the suggestion.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Improve error message if regress operation fails due to Security Violation.
Thanks to Grzegorz Marszalek for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Improve support for handling too long filenames under Windows.
Too long directory names and paths are still a problem.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Print more helpful error messages when the remote command cannot be started on Windows.
Thanks to Dominic for the bug report.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix --test-server option when used with remote Windows clients.
Thanks to Thanos Diacakis for testing.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix --override-chars-to-quote option.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Fix typo in robust.py which broke error reporting.
Closes Savannah bug 25255.

Ignore Windows errors caused by too long filenames;
the files are not yet backed-up, but the backup process is no longer halted.
(Andrew Ferguson)

New option: --use-compatible-timestamps, which causes rdiff-backup to use - as the hour/minute/second separator instead of :.
Enabled by default on systems which require : to be escaped.
(Oliver Mulatz)

Allow rdiff-backup to backup files which it cannot read, but can change the permissions of.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Take start and end times from same system so that the elapsed time printed in the statistics is not affected by time zone.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Properly fix escaping DOS devices and trailing periods and spaces;
now supports native Windows and Linxu/FAT32.
(Andrew Ferguson)

Disable escaping trailing spaces and periods for now since it broke remote restores.
Thanks to Dominic for reporting the issue.
(Andrew Ferguson)