./sysutils/bup, Highly efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 0.33.9nb1, Package name: bup-0.33.9nb1, Maintainer: gdt

bup is a program that backs things up. bup has a few advantages over other
backup software:

It uses a rolling checksum algorithm (similar to rsync) to split large files
into chunks. The most useful result of this is you can backup huge virtual
machine (VM) disk images, databases, and XML files incrementally, even though
they're typically all in one huge file, and not use tons of disk space for
multiple versions.

It uses the packfile format from git (the open source version control system),
so you can access the stored data even if you don't like bup's user interface.

Unlike git, it writes packfiles directly (instead of having a separate garbage
collection/repacking stage) so it's fast even with gratuitously huge amounts of
data. bup's improved index formats also allow you to track far more filenames
than git (millions) and keep track of far more objects (hundreds or thousands of
gigabytes).

Data is "automagically" shared between incremental backups without having to
know which backup is based on which other one - even if the backups are made
from two different computers that don't even know about each other. You just
tell bup to back stuff up, and it saves only the minimum amount of data needed.


Required to run:
[archivers/par2] [lang/perl5] [devel/py-readline] [lang/python27] [www/py-tornado] [devel/git-base]

Required to build:
[net/rsync] [pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 489.387 KB

Version history: (Expand)

CVS history: (Expand)


   2025-12-30 18:40:03 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: TEST_DEPEND on py-test-xdist

This enables "gmake -j8 check" to run the (lengthy) bup tests in
parallel.

It remains to pass -j automatically from MAKE_JOBS, but this
dependency enables manual test runs to be parallelized.
   2025-12-18 00:46:21 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
bup: Avoid colliding with libc non-macro htonll.

Should help the SunOS build.
   2025-09-13 02:33:37 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: Work around clang judgement

clang warns if there is a -L argument that is "unused".  With -Werror,
this is an error.  pkgsrc wrappers add -L args whether they are needed
or not.  Patch out -Werror in bup's configure, to be proposed for
upstream.

Resolves build failure on macOS 15.
   2025-08-30 21:41:46 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: Update to 0.33.9

Upstream lacks NEWS, but the intent is bugfixes and minor improvements.

0.33.9 adds non-portable script usage, breaking tests on NetBSD 9 and
likely other systems.
   2025-06-07 13:27:28 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: Remove inexplicable .sh from REPLACE_BASH

Noticed in macOS 12 arm64 bulk build.

There is no ".sh" in the sources, and I can't explain
  - why I added it in 2023-12
  - why the package builds for me and in other bulk builds

but clearly it's a bug to replace anything in files that aren't there,
so just don't.
   2025-01-11 02:50:31 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: Fix PREFIX/LOCALBASE conflation

(Thanks to pkglint for pointing this out.)
   2025-01-11 02:48:18 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: Update to 0.33.7

Notable changes in 0.33.7 since 0.33.6
======================================

Bugs
----

* When `FILE` has no directory component, i.e. no `/`, `bup midx
  --check FILE` should now look in the current directory for the
  constituent indexes, rather than `/`.

* `bup` should no longer crash when opening a midx file with missing
  indexes.

Thanks to (at least)
====================

Greg Troxel, Johannes Berg, Michał Karol, and Rob Browning
   2025-01-03 01:38:38 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
sysutils/bup: Update to 0.33.6

packaging:
  Advance along man page branch to catch up with previous
  releases. (Upstream uses non-portable tools, so we use built
  manpages.)

upstream NEWS:
  bugfixes