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  1.0.0-rc.6 Pre-Release

  dillard released this 2026-10-24 01:04:30 +02:00 | 71 commits to main since this release

  Sixth release candidate for 1.0.0; the app version is 0.9.12. Fixes from two disaster recovery
  simulations and a user report. If no problems are reported for about a week, 1.0.0 will be this
  same code.

  Fixed

  • The daily backup time was taken as UTC (Nextcloud runs PHP in UTC): 03:00 ran at 05:00 in
    Berlin (#19). The time is now saved with the administrator's time zone and shown with it. A time
    saved before is converted once to the zone of the server or an administrator, so it shows as it
    effectively ran (02:30 UTC becomes 04:30 Europe/Berlin in summer) and nothing moves.
  • A full restore over SMB stopped after 17 hours with "Decryption failed": a read over a long
    line handed out wrong bytes (the backup itself was fine, the same files restored identically
    afterwards). A blob that does not decrypt as first read, of a file or of the database, is now
    read once more on a request of its own, and only a second failure stops the restore.
  • A full restore onto MySQL/MariaDB stopped with "Incorrect string value" when it created a table
    (of an app that is not installed here) whose rows hold emoji or other 4-byte characters: the
    table got 3-byte utf8. Tables the restore creates now get this installation's character set and
    collation (utf8mb4). Found in a disaster recovery simulation onto MariaDB.

  Changed

  • The admin page uses more of the screen (sections up to 1400 pixels instead of 900), so the
    list of backup runs fits without scrolling sideways.
  • README: a roadmap, the tested disaster recoveries, measurements for OVH S3, the Storage Box over
    SFTP and SMB, how to build the SMB extension when PECL is down, and what works without shell
    access. The guide lists shell access among what you need.
  • The full-restore integration test checks a 4-byte character in a table the restore creates, and
    retries app installs from the app store.

  Downloads

  • ng_backup-0.9.12.tar.gz
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    2026-10-24 01:05:08 +02:00
  • ng_backup-0.9.12.tar.gz.sig
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    2026-10-24 01:05:09 +02:00
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