Release wback 7.2.0 · hampel/wback

[7.2.0] - 2026-08-14

A port key for sites whose database is not on the default port.
cron can skip individual stages: --no-database, --no-files, --no-cloud,
--no-sync, --no-clean. For backing up locally on a machine whose cloud
credentials are not configured yet, or never will be. A stage that is meant to
run and cannot still fails the run.
The environment file can live somewhere other than beside the binary: at
/etc/wback/.env, or wherever WBACK_ENV points. A binary on the path can now
take its configuration from /etc/wback and be run from anywhere.
app:config reports which environment file was read.

The default timezone is now UTC, where it was Australia/Sydney — a
default inherited from the machine this was written on rather than one that
suits anybody else. Set APP_TIMEZONE to keep the old behaviour; see
Upgrading.

app:validate reports the error from a failed command rather than a warning
printed ahead of it, which was hiding the reason for the failure.
LARAVEL_STORAGE_PATH now works when set in the environment file. It was read
before the file was loaded, so it only ever worked as a real environment
variable.

mariadb-dump works as the dump binary; MariaDB 11 renamed its clients and
keeps mysqldump as a symlink.
Corrected what the working directory decides: the storage path is only ever a
default for the sites file, the backup destination and the log, so setting
those absolutely makes the working directory irrelevant.

Set APP_TIMEZONE before upgrading if you were relying on the old default.
Datestamps in backup filenames follow this setting, so a site backing up at
3am in Sydney will start naming its files with the previous day's date under
UTC. Existing backups are not touched, and clean expires by modification
time rather than by the name, so nothing is lost either way — but the names
will step back a day at the changeover.