BURP - BackUp and Restore Program
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Burp is a network backup and restore program. It uses librsync in order to save network traffic and to save on the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make snapshots when backing up Windows computers.

It is open source free software (where 'free' means both that you do not have to pay for it, and that you have freedom to do what you want with it) released under the AGPLv3 licence. See the FAQ for more information.

Finally, as with the vast majority of open software, Burp comes with absolutely no warranty. You are responsible for testing it and ensuring that it works for you. Please see the FAQ page for more information on this.

The main author of Burp is Graham Keeling.


Current stable version: 1.3.10

Old stable: 1.3.0

Candidate stable: 1.3.38
New features: 1.4.4

NEWS

2013-10-02:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during September:

  *  £43.00 Sebastien C.

2013-10-02: burp-1.4.4 and burp-1.3.38 are released.
1.4.4 is for new features. 1.3.38 is the candidate for a stable version, to which only bug fixes will be added.

Changes in burp-1.4.4
  * Bug fix for include_glob xmalloc success check on Windows.
  * Fix long list and status monitor output when a directory argument is given.
  * Fix restore problem with backups containing both compressed and
    uncompressed files.
  * Bug fix for an interrupted backup causing a resume when a restore_client
    connects.
  * Bug fix for defaulting 'resume partial' to off.

Changes in burp-1.3.38:
  * Fix long list and status monitor output when a directory argument is given.
  * Fix restore problem with backups containing both compressed and
    uncompressed files.
  * Bug fix for an interrupted backup causing a resume when a restore_client
    connects.
  * Bug fix for defaulting 'resume partial' to off.

2013-09-02:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during August:

  *  £43.00 Sebastien C.

2013-09-02: burp-1.4.2 is released.

Changes in burp-1.4.2:
  * Add a machine-readable statistics file to each backup directory.

2013-07-29:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during July:

  *  £10.00 Jean L.

2013-07-29: burp-1.4.0 and burp-1.3.36 are released.
1.4.0 is for new features. 1.3.36 is the candidate for a stable version, to which only bug fixes will be added.

Changes in burp-1.4.0
  * Add Abbas Khan's RHEL spec files and related things.
  * Add Benjamin Sans's include_glob feature.

Changes in burp-1.3.36:
  * Fix truncation of timestamps in the live status monitor.
  * Default the 'resume partial' feature to being off, and add an option to
    turn it on.
  * Upgraded Windows cross tools to:
        + binutils-2.23.1
        + gcc-4.7.3
        + gmp-5.1.2
        + mingw-w64-v2.0.8
        + mpc-1.0.1
        + mpfr-3.1.2
  * Upgraded Windows depkgs to:
        + openssl-1.0.1e
        + zlib-1.2.8
        + pcre-8.33

2013-06-29:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during June:

  *  £25.00 Louwris W.
  *  £20.00 Morgan S.

2013-06-29: burp-1.3.34 is released.

Changes in burp-1.3.34:
  * Contributions from Avi Rozen:
        + Major autoconf cleanup.
        + Initial support for cross-building android targets.
  * On the server, indicate where logging is occurring.
  * Fix bedup segfault when using -m with no argument.

2013-05-31:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during May:

  *  £30.00 Sebastian A.

2013-05-31: burp-1.3.32 is released.

Changes in burp-1.3.32:
  * Fix status monitor segfault.
  * Run timed backups with lower thread priority on Windows.
  * Add 'vss_drives' option, which gives the ability to specify which Windows
    drives get a VSS snapshot.

2013-05-02:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during April:

  *  £25.00 Eduardo R.
Donations by bitcoin are now being accepted at: 1PFtePS2YE5i5dTX17ozJPHrjKu2UqBLmi

2013-03-30: burp-1.3.30 is released.

Changes in burp-1.3.30:
  * Add a warning when run on Windows without admin privileges.
  * Perform fewer lstat()s on systems that support d_type (ie most Linux
    systems), in order to speed up certain operations.
  * Allow _FORTIFY_SOURCE to work.
  * Fix problem with burp_ca.bat and repeated field names in burp.conf.
  * Put registry keys back in the Windows installer.
  * Fix for SIGHUP reload causing the server to go into non-forking mode.
  * Indicate the backups that are deletable.
  * Add a client option for deleting deletable backups.
  * Add a 'client_can_delete' option on the server.
  * Fix for using the wrong lock directory when 'directory' is overridden for
    a client.

2013-03-30:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during March:

  *  £30.00 Haim G.
  *   £0.01 Romain M.

2013-03-30: burp-1.3.28 is released.

Changes in burp-1.3.28:
  * Add the ability to resume partially transferred files.
  * Make sure 'timer conditions not met' message appears on the client.
  * Bug fix for turning off compression before resuming a backup.

2013-03-05:
Many thanks to the following donors for financially supporting burp during February:

  *  £25.00 Christian B.
  *  £20.00 Yeongjin C.

2013-03-05: burp-1.3.26 is released.

Changes in burp-1.3.26:
  * When a read_blockdev option matches a symlink, backup the destination as
    a raw block device.
  * Avi Rozen's valgrind cleanup. Includes a fix for a bug in restore_client.c
    where overwrite_ok checked the wrong stat struct when considering a FIFO.
  * Add '-v' option to bedup (output the names of duplicate files).
  * Add '-d' option to bedup (delete duplicates instead of hardlinking - not
    for use on burp storage directories).

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Burp is open and free software. I work on it in my spare time. If you would like this work to continue, please consider making a small donation.

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