We are proud to bring you the next iteration of bupstash, this update contains a large amount of performance work as well as important bug fixes.

As an example of the potential performance improvements, here is a synthetic benchmark snapshotting the linux kernel source code on a development machine:

Benchmark 1: bupstash-0.11.1 put --no-send-log /tmp/linux
  Time (mean ± σ):      5.885 s ±  0.091 s    [User: 6.099 s, System: 1.766 s]
  Range (min … max):    5.701 s …  6.016 s    10 runs
 
Benchmark 2: bupstash-0.12.0 put --no-send-log /tmp/linux
  Time (mean ± σ):      1.884 s ±  0.014 s    [User: 7.334 s, System: 1.340 s]
  Range (min … max):    1.862 s …  1.908 s    10 runs
 
Summary
  'bupstash-0.12.0 put --no-send-log /tmp/linux' ran
    3.12 ± 0.05 times faster than 'bupstash put --no-send-log /tmp/linux'

You read that right, a 3x speed improvement! It is also important to keep in mind bupstash is often limited by disk, network and send-log speeds rather than the cpu and ram performance that this benchmark measures.

New features

• The deduplication rolling hash algorithm has been improved and is now 30 to 50 percent faster.
• Those using a nightly rust compiler can enable SIMD (even faster) rolling hash implementations.
• A multithreaded bupstash put implementation has been added that can read, hash, compress, encrypt files in parallel.
• Bupstash diff and bupstash restore can now use multiple threads when computing changes on the local disk.
• New flags have been added to bupstash put and other commands to tune how bupstash uses cpu threads.

Notable Bug fixes

• A bug that caused bupstash serve to not detect io errors in certain situations has been fixed. Only the server side needs to be updated, so users of bupstash.io managed repositories do not need to take further action.

Incompatibilities

• It is likely your repositories will grow in size if they contain data chunks from previous versions of bupstash, this can be fixed by cycling older data out over time, or recreating your backups.
• Because the chunks generated by bupstash will change, expect increased bandwidth usage until the new chunks are uploaded.
• bupstash is now biased to produce 2 MiB data chunks on average instead of 1 MiB chunks (in the future this may become configurable).
• This version of bupstash produces chunks too large for previous versions of bupstash serve.

Supporting bupstash

Bupstash.io managed repositories are in open beta and anyone can create an account. If you enjoy bupstash then please consider creating a managed repository at https://bupstash.io/managed.html to support the project.

Another great way to help the project is to just tell your friends to give bupstash a try.