Fedora 20 Update: obnam-1.6.1-1.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-1050
2014-01-18 02:56:50
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Name        : obnam
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.6.1
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://liw.fi/obnam/
Summary     : An easy, secure backup program
Description :
Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on
local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup
server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH.

Some features that may interest you:

 * Snapshot backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot,
   so you don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or
   rotate real or virtual tapes.

 * Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the
   backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it
   will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup
   generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around
   large files, or modifying them.

 * Encrypted backups, using GnuPG.

Obnam can do push or pull backups, depending on what you need. You can
run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server, or on the
server, and pull from the client over SFTP. However, access to live
data over SFTP is currently somewhat limited and fragile, so it is not
recommended.

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Update Information:

Enhancements:
* Stop logging paramiko exceptions that get converted into another type of exception by the SFTP plugin in Obnam.

* `obnam-benchmark` can now use an installed version of larch.

* Backup progress reporting now reports scanned file data, not just backed up file data.

* The `list-keys`, `client-keys`, and `list-toplevels` commands now obey a new option, `--key-details`, to show the usernames attached to each public key.

* New option `--ssh-command` to set the command Obnam runs
  when invoking ssh.

* `obnam clients` can now be used without being an existing client.

* New option `--ssh-host-keys-check` to better specify how SSH
  host keys should be checked.

Bug fixes:

* Fix`"obnam list-toplevels` so it doesn't give an error when it's unable to read the per-client directory of another client, when encryption is used.

* Fix the encryption plugin to give a better error message when it looks for client directories but fails to find them.

* `obnam list-toplevels` got confused when the repository contained extra files, such as "lock" (left there by a previous, crashed Obnam run). It no longer does.

* The SFTP plugin now handles another error code (EACCESS) when writing a file and the directory it should go into not existing.

* Obnam's manual page now explains about breaking long logical lines into multiple physical ones.

* The `/~/` path prefix in SFTP URLs works again, at least with
  sufficiently new versions of Paramiko (1.7.7.1 in Debian wheezy is OK).

* The Nagios plugin to report errors in a way Nagios expects.

* The Nagios plugin for Obnam now correctly handles the case
  where a backup repository for a client exists, but does not have a backup yet.

* `obnam ls` now handles trailing slashes in filename arguments.

* When restoring a backup, Obnam will now continue past errors,
  instead of aborting with the first one.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 16 2014 Michel Salim <salimma at fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-1
- Update to 1.6.1
* Sat Sep 28 2013 Michel Salim <salimma at fedoraproject.org> - 1.5-1
- Update to 1.5
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1036583 - obnam-1.6.1 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036583
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update obnam' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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