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