Release notes

What changed, in the order it changed. The app checks for updates once a day and verifies every download against a signature before installing it.

1.0.3 — September 2026

Scheduled backups were not running. In 1.0.0 through 1.0.2 a backup ran only when you pressed a button; the schedule you chose — hourly, or daily at a time — did nothing, and neither did the weekly check, the monthly read-back, or the monthly restore drill. They run on schedule now. Backstop also adds itself to your Login Items so the schedule has a running app; you can turn that off in System Settings.

• Stop now stops a running backup, and the run is recorded as stopped.
• Two destinations backing up at the same time share one snapshot instead of interfering with each other.
• Restore drills and restores handle file names containing [ ] * ?, which were previously reported as missing.
• The deep-check percentage and restore-drill file count you set are now used.
• A system tool that hangs no longer holds a backup open indefinitely.
• The 30-day strip covers thirty days by date; the backup streak no longer resets at midnight before the day's backup has run.

1.0.2 — September 2026

• The Proof caption counts restore drills and checks, not the days they happened on. Five drills in one day now read as five.
• The dashboard's last-30-days strip covers the destinations you have now. A destination you removed no longer colours it — its history stays in the Log.
• A day on which a backup succeeded keeps your backup streak, even if another destination failed that day. The failure is still shown.

1.0.1 — September 2026

Every 1.0.0 install should update. Backstop 1.0.0 backed up through an APFS snapshot and, because of a mistake in how the snapshot was excluded from itself, every backup it took contained no files while reporting success. Backstop checks for this update once a day; you can also download it below.

• Backups taken through a snapshot now contain the files. A backup that succeeds with no files in it is reported as At risk, not Healthy.
• A destination inside a folder being backed up, or inside iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive, is refused when it is added — and reported if it was set up earlier.
• A backup taken from the live disk instead of a snapshot is said so, with the reason in the Log. Full Disk Access is what lets Backstop take snapshots.
• "Check this vault" and "Test a restore" show that they are running, and leave a one-line receipt of what they found.
• A restore test that ran before the current backup no longer claims files are missing.

1.0.0 — September 2026

The first release.

• Hourly encrypted backups to an external disk, a folder, an SFTP server, or S3-compatible storage, built on restic 0.19.1.
• Weekly integrity checks and monthly read-back verification, on a schedule, without being asked.
• Monthly restore drills: real files restored from the backup and compared byte for byte with the originals.
• A Proof view with a dated, plain-English history, exportable as a PDF.
• APFS snapshots for consistency, battery and metered-network awareness, and stale-lock detection.
• A recovery sheet that includes how to read your backup without Backstop at all.

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