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Changelog
All notable changes to NG Backup are documented here. The format follows
Keep a Changelog; versioning follows the stages in
PLAN.md section 9. The <version> in appinfo/info.xml is plain SemVer-numeric (Nextcloud's
own info.xsd doesn't allow a -alpha/-beta/-rc suffix there); the stability stage is instead
carried by the git tag, the release, and this file.
0.1.0-alpha.1 - 2026-10-05
First public alpha. Feature-complete for phase 1: scheduled, encrypted, incremental backups, and
restore of files and folders. Not for production use — test on a copy of production (dev,
test, staging). Full disaster recovery (backup:restore:full on a fresh installation) is phase 2
and not implemented yet.
Added
- Encrypted (XChaCha20-Poly1305), content-addressed, deduplicated, incremental backups, streamed from source to destination without a local copy of the data.
- Backup locations via files_external's own backend/auth classes, without ever mounting the location: S3 (and compatible services), SFTP, WebDAV, FTP, Swift, or a local path.
- A recovery kit with up to three passphrase slots, mandatory download-and-confirm before the first backup runs, and an optional encrypted copy by email.
- Resumable, time-boxed background jobs (database dump, file walk, upload), so a run survives short PHP time limits and a crash is resumed, never restarted, without leaving the instance in maintenance mode.
- Database dump and restore without external tools, via Nextcloud's own
IDBConnection/DBAL, streamed through the same pipeline as file data. - Restore of files and folders via the web interface and
occ, into a new folder, merged, or replacing the original (with the previous content going to the trash). - Retention policy (last/daily/weekly/monthly), prune with pack repacking, and a snapshot trash with a configurable deletion delay.
- Append-only locations and documented recommendations against ransomware and a compromised server (object lock, delete-less credentials, off-site copies).
- Admin settings page (locations, schedule, retention, key management) and a JSON API.
- Notifications and an admin setup check for a failed or overdue backup.
- CI: unit tests on PHP 8.2–8.4, and an end-to-end backup→restore round trip on Nextcloud 32–35 × SQLite/MariaDB/PostgreSQL, and against real S3 and SFTP backends (not just a local path).
Known limitations
- No full/disaster-recovery restore yet (phase 2).
- No per-user backup/restore via user_migration yet (phase 2).
- No FTP/SMB coverage in CI yet, and no verification/checksum-audit command yet (phase 2).
- See the "Storage backend experiences" section of the README for provider-specific quirks found so far (e.g. Hetzner Storage Box sub-accounts).