Also this period: scheduled backups moving to your timezone, rolling out over the coming weeks.
What's New
- Fuller GitHub backups. GitHub backups now save issues and pull requests with their comments, plus labels, milestones, collaborators and projects. Restores bring back your tags too.
- Git LFS. A new opt-in option includes Git LFS objects in each GitHub repository backup.
- Passphrase encryption. Encrypt backups with a passphrase you choose, or one we generate, with no RSA key to create. Bringing your own key still works.
- Allow empty backups. A new option lets file, full and recipe backups succeed when the source is empty, for folders that are only filled some of the time.
- MySQL events, triggers and tablespaces. Choose which ones to include when you set up a MySQL backup.
- Live run duration. A running backup shows how long it has been going.
GitHub & GitLab
- GitLab repository selection. GitLab backups follow the repositories and merge request option you pick, and self-hosted connections list repositories from your own instance.
- Reconnect GitHub. A disconnected GitHub connection can be reconnected straight from the Connections page.
Backups & Reliability
- Clearer errors. Snapshot errors say when a cloud provider's API is down, and backup errors show the real reason when a storage connection fails.
- Large MySQL backups. Improved handling of very large MySQL dumps on serverless workers.
- Longer Notion runs. Long-running mode is on by default for Notion backups on eligible plans, so large workspaces have time to finish.
- Safer server deletion. A server can't be deleted while one of its backups is queued or running.
Storage & Sync
- Least-privilege S3 policies. S3 storages now work with IAM policies that don't grant
s3:PutObjectAcl. - More storage providers. Improved Storage Sync to Tencent COS and Alibaba OSS, and more reliable OneDrive reconnections.
- Easier sync setup. The warmup step is easier to find after you create a sync, and disconnected storages can no longer be picked as a destination.
Interface & Account
- Faster backup logs. The logs page loads much faster for backups with a long history.
- Smoother sign-in. Social sign-in returns you to where you were headed, a "Last used" hint shows which method you signed up with, and sign-in works well on mobile.
- Clearer connections. Refreshing a cloud connection shows the real result, status updates live, and errors are written in plain language.
- Projects. New connections and the backups created from them land in the project you are working in.
Smaller fixes
Resolved specific issues affecting some GitHub restores, EC2 snapshots of deleted instances, weekly activity report emails, serverless region labels and add-on checkout messages. Purging old runs now asks for confirmation.