Filesystem

Back up and restore files and directories on a local filesystem.

Latest v1.1.8 · Sep 21, 2026
Documented 2 releases

v1.1.8

stable

Adds options to skip restoring ownership, permissions and times, and fixes backups on Windows.

New

  • Restore accepts skip_ownership, skip_permissions and skip_times to leave the ownership, permissions or modification times of restored files unchanged.
  • Restore accepts skip_root_perms_and_time to leave the permissions and times of the restore target directory unchanged, for targets such as mount points where they cannot be set.

Fixes

  • Exclusions are applied correctly on Windows.
  • The root of a Windows drive, such as C:\, is recorded with the correct name.

v1.1.0-beta.7

beta

Fixes a regression with `-ignore-file`.

Fixes

  • Fixed a regression that affected backups using -ignore-file.