1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
6 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
8 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
9 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
11 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
13 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
14 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
15 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
16 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
17 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
18 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
19 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
20 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
23 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
24 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
25 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
28 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
29 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
30 file (Closes: #394935)
31 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
33 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
34 together (Closes: Trac#29)
35 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
36 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
38 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
39 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
40 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
41 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
43 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
44 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
45 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
46 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
47 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
48 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
49 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
50 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
51 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
52 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
54 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
55 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
58 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
59 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
60 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
61 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
62 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
63 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
65 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
66 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
68 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
69 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
70 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
71 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
72 . Added example.rsync configuration file
74 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
75 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
76 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
77 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
78 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
79 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
80 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
81 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
82 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
83 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
84 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
85 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
87 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
88 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
89 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
90 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
91 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
92 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
93 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
94 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
96 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
98 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
99 to not work when run from cron.
100 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
101 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
102 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
103 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
104 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
105 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
106 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
107 symlinks for $configdirectory
108 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
109 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
110 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
111 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
116 . rotated rsync snapshops
117 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
119 . alternative to rsnap
120 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
122 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
123 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
124 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
125 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
126 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
127 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
129 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
130 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
131 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
132 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
133 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
134 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
136 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
138 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
139 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
140 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
141 between various readlink versions in this field.
142 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
143 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
144 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
145 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
146 following to the top of the handler config:
147 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
150 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
151 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
152 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
153 between various readlink versions in this field.
154 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
155 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
157 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
158 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
159 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
160 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
162 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
163 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
164 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
166 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
168 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
170 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
172 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
175 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
176 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
177 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
178 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
180 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
181 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
182 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
183 symlinks for $configdirectory
184 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
185 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
186 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
189 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
190 changed cron permissions to 644
191 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
192 minor documentation fixes
193 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
194 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
195 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
196 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
198 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
202 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
203 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
204 out more easily they can customize them
206 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
208 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
209 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
211 . fixed no user defaults file processing
213 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
214 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
215 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
216 disabled in backupninja.conf
217 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
218 in vsnames config variable
220 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
221 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
222 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
223 "vsnames" configuration setting
226 . fixed errors in create remote dir
227 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
228 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
230 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
232 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
233 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
236 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
237 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
238 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
239 don't follow symlinks)
240 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
241 . new function: vservers_exist
244 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
246 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
248 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
249 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
251 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
252 backupninja and ninjahelper
255 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
257 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
258 . different signing and encrypting key support added
259 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
260 GnuPG-related options are used
262 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
263 ninjahelper(s) changes
264 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
265 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
267 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
269 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
270 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
271 . updated to include Vserver selection
273 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
274 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
276 . enhanced for vserver support
277 . now able to select databases and dump directory
279 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
281 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
282 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
283 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
284 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
285 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
286 added makecd ninjahelper
287 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
288 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
289 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
290 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
291 update rdiff ninjahelper
292 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
293 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
294 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
296 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
297 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
298 fixed insecure temporary file creation
299 *****************************************
300 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
301 fixed incorrect find positional
302 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
303 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
304 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
305 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
306 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
307 man pages are greatly improved.
309 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
310 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
311 added vservers support to duplicity handler
312 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
313 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
314 have a look at example.dup.
316 documented .disabled method.
317 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
318 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
319 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
320 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
321 to be seen as a vserver
322 changes to sys handler
323 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
324 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
326 changes to pgsql handler
327 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
328 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
329 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
330 changes to ninjahelper
331 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
332 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
333 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
334 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
335 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
336 added helper for pgsql handler.
337 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
338 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
339 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
340 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
342 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
343 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
344 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
345 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
346 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
347 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
349 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
350 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
351 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
352 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
353 ******************************************************************
354 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
355 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
356 ******************************************************************
357 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
358 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
359 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
360 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
361 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
362 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
363 added "sign" option for backups signing
364 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
365 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
366 added "nicelevel" option
367 added "testconnect" option
368 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
369 added "bandwidthlimit" option
370 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
371 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
372 added configfile option to mysql handler
373 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
374 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
375 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
376 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
377 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
379 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
380 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
381 rdiff handler supports local dest
382 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
383 added "when = hourly"
384 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
385 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
386 improved 'when' parsing.
388 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
389 results of handlers are now read line by line.
390 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
391 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
392 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
393 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
394 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
395 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
396 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
397 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
398 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
400 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
401 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
402 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
403 added status in the subject line of report emails
405 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
406 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
407 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
408 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
409 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
411 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
412 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
414 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
415 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
417 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
418 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
419 fixed stderr redirect bug
420 some comments in example.rdiff
422 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
423 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
424 works now with gawk as well as mawk
425 many bug fixes to ldap handler
426 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
427 does not require /usr/bin/stat
429 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
430 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
431 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
433 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
435 moved sh support to a handler script
436 add test mode, where no action is taken.
438 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
439 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
440 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
442 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
443 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
444 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
445 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
446 all scripts are now run as root
448 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
449 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
450 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
451 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
452 added support for .mysql config files.
454 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004