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)
14 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
17 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
19 . fix location of deleted_on file
20 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
21 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
22 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
24 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
25 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
26 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
27 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
28 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
29 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
30 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
31 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
32 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
33 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
36 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
37 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
40 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
42 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
43 detected volume group.
44 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
46 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
48 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
49 one time (Closes: #536360)
50 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
51 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
54 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
57 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
58 will help supporting *BSD some day.
60 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
62 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
63 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
64 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
65 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
68 . added vservers_running function
70 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
71 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
75 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
76 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
77 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
78 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
79 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
81 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
82 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
83 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
84 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
86 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
87 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
89 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
90 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
91 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
93 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
94 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
96 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
97 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
98 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
99 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
100 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
101 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
102 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
103 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
104 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
106 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
108 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
109 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
110 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
111 debconf-get-selections
112 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
113 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
114 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
115 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
116 (Thanks to John Hallam).
118 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
119 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
121 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
123 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
125 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
126 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
127 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
128 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
129 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
130 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
131 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
132 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
135 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
136 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
137 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
140 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
141 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
142 file (Closes: #394935)
143 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
145 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
146 together (Closes: Trac#29)
147 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
148 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
150 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
151 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
152 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
153 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
155 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
156 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
157 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
158 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
159 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
160 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
161 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
162 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
163 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
164 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
166 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
167 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
170 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
171 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
172 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
173 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
174 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
175 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
177 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
178 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
180 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
181 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
182 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
183 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
184 . Added example.rsync configuration file
186 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
187 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
188 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
189 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
190 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
191 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
192 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
193 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
194 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
195 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
196 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
197 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
199 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
200 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
201 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
202 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
203 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
204 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
205 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
206 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
208 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
210 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
211 to not work when run from cron.
212 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
213 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
214 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
215 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
216 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
217 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
218 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
219 symlinks for $configdirectory
220 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
221 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
222 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
223 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
228 . rotated rsync snapshops
229 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
231 . alternative to rsnap
232 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
234 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
235 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
236 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
237 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
238 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
239 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
241 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
242 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
243 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
244 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
245 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
246 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
248 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
250 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
251 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
252 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
253 between various readlink versions in this field.
254 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
255 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
256 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
257 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
258 following to the top of the handler config:
259 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
262 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
263 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
264 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
265 between various readlink versions in this field.
266 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
267 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
269 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
270 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
271 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
272 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
274 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
275 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
276 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
278 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
280 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
282 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
284 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
287 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
288 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
289 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
290 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
292 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
293 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
294 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
295 symlinks for $configdirectory
296 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
297 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
298 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
301 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
302 changed cron permissions to 644
303 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
304 minor documentation fixes
305 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
306 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
307 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
308 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
310 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
314 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
315 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
316 out more easily they can customize them
318 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
320 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
321 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
323 . fixed no user defaults file processing
325 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
326 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
327 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
328 disabled in backupninja.conf
329 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
330 in vsnames config variable
332 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
333 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
334 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
335 "vsnames" configuration setting
338 . fixed errors in create remote dir
339 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
340 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
342 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
344 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
345 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
348 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
349 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
350 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
351 don't follow symlinks)
352 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
353 . new function: vservers_exist
356 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
358 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
360 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
361 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
363 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
364 backupninja and ninjahelper
367 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
369 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
370 . different signing and encrypting key support added
371 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
372 GnuPG-related options are used
374 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
375 ninjahelper(s) changes
376 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
377 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
379 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
381 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
382 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
383 . updated to include Vserver selection
385 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
386 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
388 . enhanced for vserver support
389 . now able to select databases and dump directory
391 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
393 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
394 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
395 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
396 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
397 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
398 added makecd ninjahelper
399 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
400 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
401 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
402 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
403 update rdiff ninjahelper
404 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
405 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
406 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
408 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
409 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
410 fixed insecure temporary file creation
411 *****************************************
412 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
413 fixed incorrect find positional
414 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
415 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
416 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
417 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
418 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
419 man pages are greatly improved.
421 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
422 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
423 added vservers support to duplicity handler
424 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
425 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
426 have a look at example.dup.
428 documented .disabled method.
429 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
430 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
431 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
432 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
433 to be seen as a vserver
434 changes to sys handler
435 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
436 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
438 changes to pgsql handler
439 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
440 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
441 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
442 changes to ninjahelper
443 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
444 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
445 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
446 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
447 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
448 added helper for pgsql handler.
449 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
450 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
451 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
452 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
454 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
455 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
456 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
457 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
458 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
459 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
461 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
462 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
463 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
464 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
465 ******************************************************************
466 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
467 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
468 ******************************************************************
469 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
470 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
471 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
472 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
473 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
474 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
475 added "sign" option for backups signing
476 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
477 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
478 added "nicelevel" option
479 added "testconnect" option
480 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
481 added "bandwidthlimit" option
482 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
483 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
484 added configfile option to mysql handler
485 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
486 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
487 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
488 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
489 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
491 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
492 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
493 rdiff handler supports local dest
494 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
495 added "when = hourly"
496 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
497 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
498 improved 'when' parsing.
500 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
501 results of handlers are now read line by line.
502 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
503 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
504 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
505 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
506 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
507 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
508 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
509 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
510 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
512 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
513 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
514 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
515 added status in the subject line of report emails
517 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
518 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
519 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
520 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
521 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
523 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
524 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
526 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
527 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
529 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
530 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
531 fixed stderr redirect bug
532 some comments in example.rdiff
534 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
535 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
536 works now with gawk as well as mawk
537 many bug fixes to ldap handler
538 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
539 does not require /usr/bin/stat
541 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
542 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
543 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
545 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
547 moved sh support to a handler script
548 add test mode, where no action is taken.
550 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
551 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
552 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
554 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
555 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
556 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
557 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
558 all scripts are now run as root
560 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
561 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
562 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
563 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
564 added support for .mysql config files.
566 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004