Déjà Dup

The most visible new feature is much better support for external drives. Now Deja Dup will notice if the drive is not connected when a scheduled backup occurs, and will wait for it to be connected. It will notify you that it is waiting. There are various bugfixes. One big fix is that restoring no longer requires an enormous /tmp partition. And as always, a lot of spit, polish, and translation work went into this release.

Restoring one file no longer downloads all files, and restoring read-only directories is now possible.

This release's focus is on occasionally making fresh backups in order to protect against data corruption, reducing the bandwidth and space needed when restoring, and allowing the deletion of old backups when they are no longer needed. Since fresh backups can increase the time needed for a backup, Déjà Dup now supports resuming from an interrupted backup. Déjà Dup will wait for a network connection during scheduled runs and pause itself if the connection is interrupted. As always, plenty of spit, polish, bugfixes, and translation updates were done.

This release fixes an occasional crash bug when manually backing up or restoring.

This release supports caching backup metadata, which means Déjà Dup supports the recently released duplicity 0.6.00, which requires a cache. French, German, Russian, and Swedish translations have been updated.