afsbak 1.2

Recently I had vos dump start sending the contents of a directory before all of its ancestor directories had been sent. I suppose that a sane ordering of the dump was too much to hope for. This release of afsbak changes tarvol to write orphaned entries into a tempfile. Then once the entire dump has been read, the orphan file is processed to see if ancestors have been found. This repeats until the orphans are eliminated or the orphan file stops shrinking.

This release also adds a new utility called aestar. This is my solution to the problem of how to make an encrypted, rsync-friendly backup of the BackupPC pool. Duplicity won't work because it does not support hard links. Rsyncrypto uses a dubious decision function for resetting the IV in CBC. What aestar does is read a tar file and encrypt the data for each file separately. Thus the size of the change when using CBC is limited to the size of the changed file, not the entire tarball. This utility requires the aespipe utility available in Debian for now; in the future I may rewrite it against a crypto library for better performance.

You can find it on the afsbak page.