Rdiff-backup

Cygwin generates EACCESS on fsync -- so accept it rather than dieing.
(Marc Dyksterhouse).

Add "FilenameMapping.set_init_quote_vals" security exception.
(Marc Dyksterhouse)

Escape DOS device filenames when necessary.
Adjust DOS filename quoting to work properly with cygwin.
(Marc Dyksterhouse)

Allow for preservation of FinderInfo for folders and fix typo in Time.py.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)

Test for symlink permissions support to avoid unnecessary syscalls on platforms that don't support them.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)

RPM specfile update from Gordon Rowell.

Fix showstopper problem on OSX handling pre-1.1.6 rdiff-backup metadata.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)

Man page update from roland link:mailto:devzeroweb.de[devzeroweb.de].

--min-file-size/--max-file-size support.
(Patch from Wout Mertens.)

Mac OS X Extended Attributes support.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)

Preserve Mac OS X 'Creation Date' field across backups.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)

Set symlink permissions properly.
(Patch from Andrew Ferguson.)

Selection fix: empty directories could sometimes be improperly excluded if certain include expressions involving a non-trailing '**' were used.
Bug reported by Toni Price.

A few minor changes to help rdiff-backup back up to an SMB/CIFS share.
Thanks to Cengiz Gunay for testing.

Fix a traceback due to an off-by-1 error in "--remove-older-than nB".

Fix a security violation when restoring from a remote repository.
(Patch from Charles Duffy.)

Added times like "Mon Jun 5 11:00:23 1997" to the recognized time strings.
(Suggested by Wolfgang Dautermann.)

rdiff-backup will now exit by default if it thinks another rdiff-backup process is currently working on the same repository.

Empty error_log, mirror_metadata, extended_attribute, and access_control_lists files will no longer be gzipped (suggestion by Hans F.
Nordhaug).

Fix for restoring files in directories with really long names.

Added supplementary rdiff-backup-statistics utility for parsing rdiff-backup's statistics files (originally based off perl script by Dean Gaudet).

rdiff-backup should now use much less memory than v1.1.1-1.1.4 if you have lots of hard links.

Quoting should be enabled only as needed between case-sensitive and non-case-sensitive systems (thanks for Andrew Ferguson for report).

Files with ACLs will not be unnecessarily marked as changed (bug report by Carsten Lorenz).

Fix for common KeyError bug introduced in v1.1.3.

Regression metadata bug introduced with 1.1.1/1.1.2 fixed.

rdiff-backup should now give a clean error message (no stack traces!) when aborted with control-C, killed with a signal, or when the connection is lost.

When removing older than, delete empty increments directories

Long filename bug finally fixed (phew).
rdiff-backup should now correctly mirror any file that it can read.

Due to very detailed error report from Yoav, fixed a "Directory not empty" error that can arise on emulated filesystems like NFS and EncFS.

Cleaned up remove older than report, and also stopped it from deleting current data files if you specify a time later than the current mirror.