feature: the router makes scheduled backups to a local folder, copied to the cloud with rclone, or to a Proxmox Backup Server, and vpn-router-backup restores them.

debian-package/debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,36 @@
+vpn-router (0.20.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  feature: the router makes scheduled backups to a local folder, copied to the cloud with rclone, or to a Proxmox Backup Server, and vpn-router-backup restores them.
+
+  * The backup section of vpn-router.json switches on backups and sets
+    the schedule (hourly, daily or weekly), the target (local or pbs),
+    the folder, the retention of local archives, whether the metrics
+    database is included, the rclone remote and mode, and the Proxmox
+    Backup Server repository, token secret, fingerprint, namespace and
+    key file.
+  * A backup holds /etc/vpn-router, /etc/wireguard, the ufw rules, the
+    Router Manager's settings, PSK files outside /etc/vpn-router, the
+    user directory as slapcat writes it and, optionally, the database as
+    pg_dump writes it, copied while the configuration and the users are
+    locked.
+  * Local backups are tar archives compressed with zstd. Archives the
+    retention settings no longer keep are deleted by the rules of Proxmox
+    Backup Server's prune, and rclone can sync or copy the archives to a
+    remote of /etc/vpn-router/rclone.conf.
+  * Backups to a Proxmox Backup Server are made with
+    proxmox-backup-client-static, which the package suggests; the server
+    keeps them.
+  * vpn-router-backup runs a backup, lists the backups and restores a
+    local archive or a snapshot; vpn-router-backup.timer runs it on the
+    schedule.
+  * /backup of the status web service shows and changes the backup
+    settings, shows the last run, the local archives and the next run,
+    and starts a backup.
+  * The package depends on zstd and suggests rclone and
+    proxmox-backup-client-static.
+
+ -- Slawomir Koszewski <slawek@koszewscy.waw.pl>  Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0100
+
 vpn-router (0.19.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   update: ADR-24 names Ubuntu's apt-daily timer, not a cron job, as what updates the package lists.