1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
13 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
14 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
16 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
19 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
20 is not supported anymore)
22 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
23 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
24 file (Closes: #394935)
25 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
27 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
28 together (Closes: Trac#29)
30 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
31 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
32 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
33 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
35 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
36 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
37 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
38 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
39 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
40 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
41 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
42 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
43 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
44 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
46 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
47 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
50 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
51 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
52 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
53 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
54 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
56 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
57 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
59 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
60 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
61 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
62 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
63 . Added example.rsync configuration file
65 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
66 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
67 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
68 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
69 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
70 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
71 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
72 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
73 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
74 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
75 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
76 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
77 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
78 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
81 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
83 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
84 to not work when run from cron.
85 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
86 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
87 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
88 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
89 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
90 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
91 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
92 symlinks for $configdirectory
93 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
94 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
95 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
96 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
101 . rotated rsync snapshops
102 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
104 . alternative to rsnap
105 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
107 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
108 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
109 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
110 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
111 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
112 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
114 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
115 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
116 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
117 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
118 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
119 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
121 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
123 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
124 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
125 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
126 between various readlink versions in this field.
127 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
128 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
129 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
130 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
131 following to the top of the handler config:
132 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
135 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
136 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
137 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
138 between various readlink versions in this field.
139 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
140 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
142 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
143 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
144 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
145 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
147 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
148 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
149 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
151 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
153 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
155 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
157 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
160 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
161 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
162 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
163 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
165 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
166 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
167 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
168 symlinks for $configdirectory
169 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
170 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
171 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
174 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
175 changed cron permissions to 644
176 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
177 minor documentation fixes
178 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
179 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
180 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
181 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
183 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
187 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
188 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
189 out more easily they can customize them
191 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
193 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
194 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
196 . fixed no user defaults file processing
198 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
199 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
200 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
201 disabled in backupninja.conf
202 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
203 in vsnames config variable
205 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
206 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
207 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
208 "vsnames" configuration setting
211 . fixed errors in create remote dir
212 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
213 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
215 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
217 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
218 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
221 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
222 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
223 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
224 don't follow symlinks)
225 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
226 . new function: vservers_exist
229 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
231 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
233 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
234 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
236 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
237 backupninja and ninjahelper
240 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
242 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
243 . different signing and encrypting key support added
244 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
245 GnuPG-related options are used
247 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
248 ninjahelper(s) changes
249 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
250 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
252 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
254 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
255 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
256 . updated to include Vserver selection
258 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
259 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
261 . enhanced for vserver support
262 . now able to select databases and dump directory
264 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
266 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
267 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
268 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
269 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
270 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
271 added makecd ninjahelper
272 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
273 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
274 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
275 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
276 update rdiff ninjahelper
277 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
278 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
279 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
281 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
282 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
283 fixed insecure temporary file creation
284 *****************************************
285 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
286 fixed incorrect find positional
287 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
288 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
289 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
290 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
291 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
292 man pages are greatly improved.
294 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
295 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
296 added vservers support to duplicity handler
297 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
298 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
299 have a look at example.dup.
301 documented .disabled method.
302 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
303 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
304 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
305 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
306 to be seen as a vserver
307 changes to sys handler
308 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
309 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
311 changes to pgsql handler
312 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
313 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
314 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
315 changes to ninjahelper
316 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
317 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
318 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
319 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
320 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
321 added helper for pgsql handler.
322 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
323 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
324 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
325 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
327 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
328 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
329 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
330 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
331 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
332 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
334 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
335 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
336 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
337 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
338 ******************************************************************
339 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
340 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
341 ******************************************************************
342 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
343 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
344 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
345 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
346 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
347 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
348 added "sign" option for backups signing
349 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
350 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
351 added "nicelevel" option
352 added "testconnect" option
353 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
354 added "bandwidthlimit" option
355 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
356 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
357 added configfile option to mysql handler
358 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
359 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
360 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
361 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
362 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
364 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
365 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
366 rdiff handler supports local dest
367 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
368 added "when = hourly"
369 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
370 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
371 improved 'when' parsing.
373 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
374 results of handlers are now read line by line.
375 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
376 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
377 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
378 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
379 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
380 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
381 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
382 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
383 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
385 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
386 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
387 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
388 added status in the subject line of report emails
390 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
391 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
392 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
393 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
394 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
396 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
397 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
399 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
400 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
402 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
403 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
404 fixed stderr redirect bug
405 some comments in example.rdiff
407 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
408 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
409 works now with gawk as well as mawk
410 many bug fixes to ldap handler
411 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
412 does not require /usr/bin/stat
414 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
415 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
416 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
418 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
420 moved sh support to a handler script
421 add test mode, where no action is taken.
423 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
424 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
425 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
427 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
428 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
429 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
430 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
431 all scripts are now run as root
433 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
434 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
435 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
436 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
437 added support for .mysql config files.
439 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004