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)
12 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
15 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
17 . fix location of deleted_on file
18 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
19 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
20 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
22 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
23 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
24 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
25 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
26 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
27 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
28 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
29 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
30 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
31 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
34 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
35 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
38 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
40 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
41 detected volume group.
42 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
44 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
46 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
47 one time (Closes: #536360)
48 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
49 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
52 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
55 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
56 will help supporting *BSD some day.
58 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
60 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
61 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
62 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
63 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
66 . added vservers_running function
68 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
69 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
73 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
74 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
75 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
76 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
77 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
79 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
80 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
81 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
82 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
84 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
85 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
87 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
88 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
89 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
91 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
92 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
94 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
95 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
96 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
97 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
98 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
99 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
100 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
101 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
102 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
104 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
106 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
107 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
108 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
109 debconf-get-selections
110 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
111 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
112 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
113 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
114 (Thanks to John Hallam).
116 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
117 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
119 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
121 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
123 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
124 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
125 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
126 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
127 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
128 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
129 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
130 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
133 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
134 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
135 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
138 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
139 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
140 file (Closes: #394935)
141 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
143 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
144 together (Closes: Trac#29)
145 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
146 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
148 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
149 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
150 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
151 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
153 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
154 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
155 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
156 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
157 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
158 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
159 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
160 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
161 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
162 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
164 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
165 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
168 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
169 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
170 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
171 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
172 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
173 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
175 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
176 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
178 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
179 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
180 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
181 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
182 . Added example.rsync configuration file
184 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
185 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
186 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
187 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
188 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
189 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
190 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
191 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
192 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
193 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
194 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
195 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
197 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
198 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
199 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
200 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
201 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
202 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
203 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
204 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
206 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
208 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
209 to not work when run from cron.
210 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
211 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
212 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
213 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
214 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
215 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
216 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
217 symlinks for $configdirectory
218 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
219 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
220 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
221 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
226 . rotated rsync snapshops
227 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
229 . alternative to rsnap
230 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
232 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
233 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
234 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
235 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
236 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
237 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
239 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
240 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
241 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
242 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
243 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
244 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
246 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
248 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
249 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
250 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
251 between various readlink versions in this field.
252 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
253 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
254 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
255 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
256 following to the top of the handler config:
257 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
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 over zealous vsnames check
265 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
267 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
268 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
269 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
270 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
272 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
273 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
274 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
276 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
278 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
280 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
282 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
285 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
286 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
287 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
288 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
290 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
291 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
292 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
293 symlinks for $configdirectory
294 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
295 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
296 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
299 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
300 changed cron permissions to 644
301 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
302 minor documentation fixes
303 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
304 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
305 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
306 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
308 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
312 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
313 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
314 out more easily they can customize them
316 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
318 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
319 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
321 . fixed no user defaults file processing
323 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
324 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
325 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
326 disabled in backupninja.conf
327 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
328 in vsnames config variable
330 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
331 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
332 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
333 "vsnames" configuration setting
336 . fixed errors in create remote dir
337 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
338 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
340 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
342 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
343 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
346 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
347 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
348 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
349 don't follow symlinks)
350 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
351 . new function: vservers_exist
354 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
356 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
358 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
359 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
361 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
362 backupninja and ninjahelper
365 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
367 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
368 . different signing and encrypting key support added
369 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
370 GnuPG-related options are used
372 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
373 ninjahelper(s) changes
374 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
375 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
377 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
379 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
380 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
381 . updated to include Vserver selection
383 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
384 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
386 . enhanced for vserver support
387 . now able to select databases and dump directory
389 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
391 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
392 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
393 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
394 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
395 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
396 added makecd ninjahelper
397 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
398 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
399 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
400 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
401 update rdiff ninjahelper
402 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
403 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
404 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
406 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
407 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
408 fixed insecure temporary file creation
409 *****************************************
410 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
411 fixed incorrect find positional
412 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
413 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
414 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
415 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
416 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
417 man pages are greatly improved.
419 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
420 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
421 added vservers support to duplicity handler
422 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
423 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
424 have a look at example.dup.
426 documented .disabled method.
427 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
428 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
429 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
430 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
431 to be seen as a vserver
432 changes to sys handler
433 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
434 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
436 changes to pgsql handler
437 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
438 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
439 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
440 changes to ninjahelper
441 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
442 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
443 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
444 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
445 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
446 added helper for pgsql handler.
447 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
448 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
449 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
450 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
452 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
453 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
454 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
455 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
456 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
457 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
459 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
460 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
461 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
462 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
463 ******************************************************************
464 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
465 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
466 ******************************************************************
467 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
468 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
469 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
470 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
471 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
472 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
473 added "sign" option for backups signing
474 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
475 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
476 added "nicelevel" option
477 added "testconnect" option
478 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
479 added "bandwidthlimit" option
480 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
481 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
482 added configfile option to mysql handler
483 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
484 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
485 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
486 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
487 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
489 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
490 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
491 rdiff handler supports local dest
492 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
493 added "when = hourly"
494 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
495 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
496 improved 'when' parsing.
498 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
499 results of handlers are now read line by line.
500 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
501 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
502 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
503 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
504 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
505 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
506 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
507 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
508 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
510 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
511 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
512 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
513 added status in the subject line of report emails
515 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
516 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
517 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
518 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
519 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
521 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
522 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
524 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
525 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
527 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
528 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
529 fixed stderr redirect bug
530 some comments in example.rdiff
532 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
533 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
534 works now with gawk as well as mawk
535 many bug fixes to ldap handler
536 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
537 does not require /usr/bin/stat
539 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
540 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
541 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
543 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
545 moved sh support to a handler script
546 add test mode, where no action is taken.
548 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
549 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
550 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
552 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
553 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
554 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
555 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
556 all scripts are now run as root
558 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
559 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
560 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
561 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
562 added support for .mysql config files.
564 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004