CLI 2.7.0 is now available

[gchen]

Release notes:

• Added support for erasure coding to detect and recover from corrupt chunks: New Feature: Erasure Coding
• Added a -persist option to check and restore to continue despite errors: Adds -persist option to check and restore commands to continue despite errors by twlee79 · Pull Request #595 · gilbertchen/duplicacy · GitHub (by @twlee79)
• Added exclude_by_attribute preference to exclude files based on os-specific extended attributes: Add exclude_by_attribute preference to exclude files based on xattr by plasticrake · Pull Request #498 · gilbertchen/duplicacy · GitHub (by @plasticrake)
• Fix and improvements for the OneDrive backend: Fix OneDrive Business and improve retry mechanism. · gilbertchen/duplicacy@eecbb8f · GitHub
• Improvements for the WebDAV backend: Improve WebDAV performance by Jos635 · Pull Request #549 · gilbertchen/duplicacy · GitHub (by @Jos635), Improvements for the WebDAV backend · gilbertchen/duplicacy@e3e3e97 · GitHub
• Fixed a bug that broke the Swift backend: Call Authenticate() before using Swift storage by alecuyer · Pull Request #594 · gilbertchen/duplicacy · GitHub (by @alecuyer)
• Added a -download-threads option to the copy command for specifying the number of downloading threads: Improvements for the copy command · gilbertchen/duplicacy@9470064 · GitHub
• Show progress log messages during copy: Improvements for the copy command · gilbertchen/duplicacy@9470064 · GitHub
• Show progress log messages when verifying chunks (check -chunks): Print progress logs when verifying chunks (check -chunks) · gilbertchen/duplicacy@d0b3b5d · GitHub

Web GUI users: it looks like there is a bug in the Web GUI where it can’t automatically download the latest version on restart even if this option is selected in the Setting page. To force it to use CLI 2.7.0, you can remove all CLI binaries under ~/.duplicacy-web/bin, or setting the cli_version key in ~/.duplicacy-web/duplicacy.json to 2.7.0.

[towerbr]

@gchen

Web GUI users: it looks like there is a bug in the Web GUI where it can’t automatically download the latest version on restart even if this option is selected in the Setting page.

Here it downloaded the new .exe CLI without problem.

[saspus]

Added exclude_by_attribute preference to exclude files based on os-specific extended attributes:

Yay!!! I can’t believe I’m seeing this! Going to test it out right away!

However this API is still returning old version:

% date
Sun Sep 27 19:31:17 PDT 2020
% curl https://duplicacy.com/latest_cli_version
{"latest":"2.6.2","stable":"2.6.2"}

Edit.

@gchen, it works, but the exclude_by_attribute flag shall be true by default/if not defined. I can’t imagine anyone would ever want to turn it off; not backing up data explicitly marked as not needing backup is a sensible default behavior.

[Christoph]

@gchen

To force it to use CLI 2.7.0, you can remove all CLI binaries under ~/.duplicacy-web/bin , or setting the cli_version key in ~/.duplicacy-web/duplicacy.json to 2.7.0 .

I did both but it still doesn’t work:

Running check command from /tmp/.duplicacy-web/repositories/localhost/all
Options: [-log -v check -storage pcloud -a -tabular]
fork/exec /.duplicacy-web/bin/duplicacy_linux_x64_2.6.2: no such file or directory

I get the same error message even when I manually put the new binary into /.duplicacy-web/bin/. It seems to be looking for 2.6.2 and nothing else. The only way I got it to work was by renaming 2.7.0 to 2.6.2.

[Droolio]

How do you see what version number the Web Edition is using?

Just checked my .duplicacy-web\bin directory and among the many revisions, the latest is only v2.6.1. Can’t see version numbers in any of the logs.

Edit: Nevermind! See it under Settings.

@gchen - curious to know - would a future Web Edition version fix the CLI revision download?

[gchen]

You probably have cli_version set to 2.6.2 in your duplicacy.json file?

[gchen]

@Droolio

• curious to know - would a future Web Edition version fix the CLI revision download?

Yes, the next thing to do for me is a new web GUI release that includes this fix.

[Christoph]

@gchen

You probably have cli_version set to 2.6.2 in your duplicacy.json file?

No, I followed the instructions above and set it to 2.7.0. At least the one in /.duplicacy-web/duplicacy.json. Is there another one?

[gchen]

Did you restart the web GUI?

[Christoph]

No. So it only checks for updates when its restarted? I can’t find any button to restart it. Does it have to be done via ssh?