v1.0.0

🚀 New Features

• Consistent Backups: Added the ability to pause containers during the backup process to ensure filesystem consistency for active services. Enabled via CONSISTENT_BACKUP=true.

• Automatic Restore Safety: The script now automatically creates a "pre-restore" safety snapshot before modifying any container data.

• Robust Argument Parsing:

  • Added support for flags: -r (restore), -n (dry-run), -v (verbose), and -h (help)
  • Backup directory is now accepted as a positional argument

• Flexible Pathing: Backup directory now defaults to the current working directory (PWD) if not specified, with full absolute path resolution.

• Packaging Support: Added automated packaging for .deb, .rpm, and pacman (Arch Linux) distributions.

🛠 Improvements & Robustness

• Container State Preservation: The script now detects if a container was running or stopped before a restore and returns it to that exact state afterward.

• Enhanced Retention Policy:

  • Separate retention counts for regular backups (RETENTION_COUNT) and safety snapshots (ROLLBACK_RETENTION_COUNT)
  • Smarter cleanup logic that handles filenames with spaces safely

• Pre-flight Resource Checks:

  • Disk Space: Verifies at least 100MB of free space is available before starting a backup
  • Permissions: Validates Docker daemon connectivity at startup

• Shell Robustness: Hardened path handling and backup file sorting to prevent issues in complex environments.

• Dry-Run Mode: Added -n flag to simulate backup/restore actions without touching the filesystem or Docker.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Corrected logic in container name filtering to prevent accidental skips