1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
8 . new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with
9 "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes #563734)
10 . reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the
11 local filesystem (Closes: #536049)
12 . set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: #537266)
15 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
18 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
19 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
22 . fix location of deleted_on file
23 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
24 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
25 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
27 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
28 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
29 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
30 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
31 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
32 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
33 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
34 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
35 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
36 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
38 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
41 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
42 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
44 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
47 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435)
49 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
51 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
52 detected volume group.
53 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
55 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
57 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
58 one time (Closes: #536360)
59 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
60 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
61 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces
64 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
67 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
68 will help supporting *BSD some day.
70 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
72 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
73 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
74 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
75 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
78 . added vservers_running function
80 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
81 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
85 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
86 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
87 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
88 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
89 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
91 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
92 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
93 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
94 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
96 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
97 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
99 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
100 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
101 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
103 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
104 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
106 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
107 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
108 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
109 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
110 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
111 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
112 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
113 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
114 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
116 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
118 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
119 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
120 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
121 debconf-get-selections
122 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
123 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
124 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
125 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
126 (Thanks to John Hallam).
128 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
129 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
131 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
133 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
135 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
136 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
137 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
138 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
139 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
140 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
141 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
142 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
145 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
146 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
147 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
150 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
151 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
152 file (Closes: #394935)
153 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
155 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
156 together (Closes: Trac#29)
157 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
158 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
160 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
161 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
162 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
163 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
165 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
166 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
167 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
168 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
169 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
170 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
171 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
172 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
173 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
174 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
176 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
177 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
180 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
181 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
182 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
183 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
184 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
185 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
187 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
188 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
190 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
191 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
192 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
193 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
194 . Added example.rsync configuration file
196 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
197 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
198 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
199 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
200 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
201 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
202 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
203 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
204 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
205 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
206 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
207 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
209 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
210 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
211 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
212 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
213 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
214 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
215 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
216 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
218 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
220 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
221 to not work when run from cron.
222 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
223 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
224 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
225 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
226 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
227 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
228 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
229 symlinks for $configdirectory
230 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
231 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
232 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
233 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
238 . rotated rsync snapshops
239 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
241 . alternative to rsnap
242 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
244 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
245 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
246 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
247 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
248 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
249 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
251 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
252 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
253 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
254 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
255 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
256 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
258 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
260 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
261 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
262 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
263 between various readlink versions in this field.
264 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
265 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
266 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
267 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
268 following to the top of the handler config:
269 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
272 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
273 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
274 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
275 between various readlink versions in this field.
276 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
277 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
279 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
280 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
281 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
282 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
284 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
285 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
286 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
288 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
290 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
292 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
294 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
297 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
298 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
299 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
300 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
302 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
303 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
304 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
305 symlinks for $configdirectory
306 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
307 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
308 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
311 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
312 changed cron permissions to 644
313 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
314 minor documentation fixes
315 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
316 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
317 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
318 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
320 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
324 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
325 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
326 out more easily they can customize them
328 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
330 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
331 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
333 . fixed no user defaults file processing
335 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
336 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
337 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
338 disabled in backupninja.conf
339 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
340 in vsnames config variable
342 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
343 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
344 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
345 "vsnames" configuration setting
348 . fixed errors in create remote dir
349 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
350 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
352 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
354 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
355 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
358 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
359 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
360 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
361 don't follow symlinks)
362 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
363 . new function: vservers_exist
366 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
368 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
370 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
371 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
373 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
374 backupninja and ninjahelper
377 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
379 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
380 . different signing and encrypting key support added
381 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
382 GnuPG-related options are used
384 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
385 ninjahelper(s) changes
386 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
387 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
389 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
391 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
392 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
393 . updated to include Vserver selection
395 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
396 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
398 . enhanced for vserver support
399 . now able to select databases and dump directory
401 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
403 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
404 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
405 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
406 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
407 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
408 added makecd ninjahelper
409 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
410 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
411 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
412 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
413 update rdiff ninjahelper
414 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
415 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
416 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
418 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
419 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
420 fixed insecure temporary file creation
421 *****************************************
422 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
423 fixed incorrect find positional
424 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
425 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
426 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
427 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
428 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
429 man pages are greatly improved.
431 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
432 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
433 added vservers support to duplicity handler
434 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
435 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
436 have a look at example.dup.
438 documented .disabled method.
439 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
440 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
441 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
442 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
443 to be seen as a vserver
444 changes to sys handler
445 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
446 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
448 changes to pgsql handler
449 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
450 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
451 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
452 changes to ninjahelper
453 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
454 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
455 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
456 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
457 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
458 added helper for pgsql handler.
459 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
460 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
461 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
462 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
464 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
465 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
466 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
467 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
468 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
469 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
471 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
472 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
473 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
474 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
475 ******************************************************************
476 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
477 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
478 ******************************************************************
479 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
480 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
481 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
482 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
483 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
484 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
485 added "sign" option for backups signing
486 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
487 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
488 added "nicelevel" option
489 added "testconnect" option
490 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
491 added "bandwidthlimit" option
492 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
493 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
494 added configfile option to mysql handler
495 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
496 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
497 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
498 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
499 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
501 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
502 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
503 rdiff handler supports local dest
504 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
505 added "when = hourly"
506 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
507 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
508 improved 'when' parsing.
510 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
511 results of handlers are now read line by line.
512 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
513 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
514 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
515 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
516 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
517 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
518 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
519 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
520 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
522 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
523 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
524 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
525 added status in the subject line of report emails
527 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
528 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
529 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
530 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
531 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
533 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
534 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
536 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
537 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
539 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
540 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
541 fixed stderr redirect bug
542 some comments in example.rdiff
544 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
545 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
546 works now with gawk as well as mawk
547 many bug fixes to ldap handler
548 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
549 does not require /usr/bin/stat
551 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
552 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
553 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
555 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
557 moved sh support to a handler script
558 add test mode, where no action is taken.
560 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
561 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
562 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
564 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
565 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
566 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
567 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
568 all scripts are now run as root
570 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
571 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
572 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
573 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
574 added support for .mysql config files.
576 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004