Occasional Rsnapshot v1.3.1

I was writing in the previous post about Occasional Rsnapshot and  how I ended up writing it.

Just before releasing v1.2.1 I realized it would make sense Semantic Versioning which, in just a few words means:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

I just released Occasional Rsnapshot v1.3.1 which mainly fixed issue 4:

When deciding to do a backup for interval INT, there should be a check that the oldest snapshot in INT-1 interval is older than the threshold for the INT interval. Otherwise the INT interval will be populated with backups more frequent than desired and it is possible older backups in INT interval to completely lost.
The condition should be:

ts(oldest(INT-1)) - ts(newest(INT)) >= threshold(INT)

For example:

• if weekly.0 is from 15th of February and daily.6 is from 17th of February, weekly should not be triggered, but
• if weekly.0 is from 15th of February and daily.6 is from 23rd of February, weekly shall be triggered

This extra check should probably added in can_backup_interval.

It was a small bug, but it might have lead to losing important older backups because newer and more frequent backups would be pushed from hourly, interval by interval up to the yearly interval, in spite of the fact that the distance between backups wouldn't have been respecting the upper interval minimum distance in time.

There was also a small syntax bugfix, but functionally nothing has changed because bash was doing the right thing even with that small error.

If you have started using Occasional Rsnapshot, you definitely want now Occasional  Rsnapshot v1.3.1. If you haven't started and you don't have backups, please start doing backups, and while you're at it, you might want to try Occasional Rsnapshot (with Rsnapshot).