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 Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler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