[Box Backup] Working towards 0.08

[Ben Summers]

Hi

It's been a while since I did a release, and there's the new storage 
system on the server which I should really get out there. I have been a 
bit preoccupied with buying a flat and then moving in to it to avoid 
impending homelessness, which wasn't a terribly fun episode, and has 
delayed things a bit.

Some of you are running the 0.07PLUS3 version, and I haven't heard any 
complaints. We do need to check that it can restore files successfully 
though. So, could you

1) Try a compare command in bbackupquery to check that the latest 
versions are correct. (Nothing very much changed with regard to latest 
versions, so I would be very surprised if this didn't work -- but I 
would like to be reassured.)

2) Old versions can be stored as patches. Firstly, find a small file 
with multiple versions (use list with the -o option to list old 
versions) and see if a previous version can be fetched, and is correct. 
Then find a large one with multiple versions, which has had several 
small changes in the past. Use list with the -os options to display old 
versions, and the server storage requirements. If the sizes for old 
versions are much smaller than you'd expect when compared with the 
latest version, they're stored as patches. Try fetching a few, and 
checking their contents.

I have been keeping an eye on my own installations, but they're all 
under OpenBSD and my preferred way of installing things, so I do need 
success reports from others.

Is there anything else which should definitely go in? I'd prefer to do 
small changes, and then larger work after the release of 0.08.

Thanks for your help and support.

Ben