GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.16.5

Bug Fixes

• When backing up instances configured with live upgrade configurations, site administrators would encounter a backup failure with an error during the "Backing up Live Migrations data" step.
• When no directories were pruned, the logs incorrectly reported that one directory was pruned due to how lines were counted.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.15.5

Bug Fixes

• When no directories were pruned, the logs incorrectly reported that one directory was pruned due to how lines were counted.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.14.6

Bug Fixes

• When no directories were pruned, the logs incorrectly reported that one directory was pruned due to how lines were counted.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.18.2

Bug Fixes

• Observability metrics settings are properly configured during backup, preventing issues when upgrading to the newer versions.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.17.4

Bug Fixes

• Observability metrics settings are properly configured during backup, preventing issues when upgrading to the newer versions.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.19.0

Bug Fixes

• Observability metrics settings are properly configured during backup, preventing issues when upgrading to the newer versions.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.18.1

Backups and Disaster Recovery

• Administrators restoring backups using Backup Utils could experience missing Redis-related log entries or failed restore status in the UI.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.17.3

Backups and Disaster Recovery

• Administrators restoring backups using Backup Utils could experience missing Redis-related log entries or failed restore status in the UI.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.16.4

Backups and Disaster Recovery

• Administrators restoring backups using Backup Utils could experience missing Redis-related log entries or failed restore status in the UI.

GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities v3.18.0

Bug fixes

• SSH compression is disabled by default in ghe-ssh to improve performance during backup and restore operations. Previously, SSH compression was enabled by default, which could cause slowness. If you need to turn on compression for rsync large files like storage or git files, configure with GHE_RSYNC_COMPRESSION_ENABLED, or override this setting completely with GHE_EXTRA_SSH_OPTS set to -o IdentitiesOnly=yes.

• Administrators restoring backups using Backup Utils could experience missing Redis-related log entries or failed restore status in the UI.

Changes

• Incremental MySQL backup (-i or --incremental option) has been deprecated since 3.17. Restoring previous backups created with incremental MySQL backup option will remain supported.