1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
3 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
4 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
5 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
6 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
9 . added vservers_running function
11 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
12 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
16 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
17 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
18 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
19 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
20 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
22 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
23 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
25 Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
27 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
28 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
30 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
31 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
32 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
34 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
35 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
37 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
38 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
39 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
40 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
41 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
42 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
44 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
46 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
47 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
48 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
49 debconf-get-selections
50 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
51 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
52 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
53 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
54 (Thanks to John Hallam).
56 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
57 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
59 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
61 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
62 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
63 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
64 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
65 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
66 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
67 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
68 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
71 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
72 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
73 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
76 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
77 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
78 file (Closes: #394935)
79 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
81 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
82 together (Closes: Trac#29)
83 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
84 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
86 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
87 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
88 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
89 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
91 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
92 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
93 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
94 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
95 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
96 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
97 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
98 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
99 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
100 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
102 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
103 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
106 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
107 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
108 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
109 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
110 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
111 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
113 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
114 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
116 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
117 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
118 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
119 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
120 . Added example.rsync configuration file
122 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
123 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
124 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
125 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
126 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
127 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
128 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
129 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
130 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
131 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
132 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
133 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
135 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
136 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
137 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
138 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
139 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
140 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
141 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
142 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
144 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
146 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
147 to not work when run from cron.
148 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
149 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
150 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
151 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
152 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
153 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
154 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
155 symlinks for $configdirectory
156 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
157 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
158 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
159 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
164 . rotated rsync snapshops
165 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
167 . alternative to rsnap
168 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
170 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
171 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
172 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
173 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
174 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
175 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
177 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
178 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
179 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
180 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
181 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
182 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
184 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
186 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
187 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
188 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
189 between various readlink versions in this field.
190 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
191 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
192 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
193 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
194 following to the top of the handler config:
195 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
198 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
199 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
200 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
201 between various readlink versions in this field.
202 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
203 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
205 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
206 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
207 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
208 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
210 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
211 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
212 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
214 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
216 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
218 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
220 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
223 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
224 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
225 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
226 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
228 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
229 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
230 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
231 symlinks for $configdirectory
232 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
233 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
234 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
237 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
238 changed cron permissions to 644
239 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
240 minor documentation fixes
241 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
242 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
243 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
244 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
246 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
250 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
251 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
252 out more easily they can customize them
254 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
256 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
257 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
259 . fixed no user defaults file processing
261 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
262 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
263 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
264 disabled in backupninja.conf
265 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
266 in vsnames config variable
268 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
269 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
270 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
271 "vsnames" configuration setting
274 . fixed errors in create remote dir
275 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
276 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
278 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
280 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
281 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
284 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
285 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
286 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
287 don't follow symlinks)
288 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
289 . new function: vservers_exist
292 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
294 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
296 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
297 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
299 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
300 backupninja and ninjahelper
303 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
305 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
306 . different signing and encrypting key support added
307 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
308 GnuPG-related options are used
310 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
311 ninjahelper(s) changes
312 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
313 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
315 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
317 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
318 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
319 . updated to include Vserver selection
321 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
322 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
324 . enhanced for vserver support
325 . now able to select databases and dump directory
327 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
329 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
330 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
331 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
332 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
333 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
334 added makecd ninjahelper
335 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
336 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
337 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
338 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
339 update rdiff ninjahelper
340 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
341 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
342 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
344 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
345 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
346 fixed insecure temporary file creation
347 *****************************************
348 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
349 fixed incorrect find positional
350 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
351 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
352 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
353 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
354 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
355 man pages are greatly improved.
357 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
358 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
359 added vservers support to duplicity handler
360 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
361 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
362 have a look at example.dup.
364 documented .disabled method.
365 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
366 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
367 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
368 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
369 to be seen as a vserver
370 changes to sys handler
371 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
372 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
374 changes to pgsql handler
375 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
376 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
377 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
378 changes to ninjahelper
379 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
380 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
381 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
382 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
383 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
384 added helper for pgsql handler.
385 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
386 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
387 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
388 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
390 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
391 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
392 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
393 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
394 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
395 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
397 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
398 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
399 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
400 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
401 ******************************************************************
402 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
403 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
404 ******************************************************************
405 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
406 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
407 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
408 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
409 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
410 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
411 added "sign" option for backups signing
412 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
413 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
414 added "nicelevel" option
415 added "testconnect" option
416 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
417 added "bandwidthlimit" option
418 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
419 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
420 added configfile option to mysql handler
421 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
422 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
423 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
424 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
425 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
427 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
428 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
429 rdiff handler supports local dest
430 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
431 added "when = hourly"
432 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
433 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
434 improved 'when' parsing.
436 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
437 results of handlers are now read line by line.
438 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
439 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
440 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
441 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
442 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
443 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
444 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
445 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
446 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
448 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
449 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
450 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
451 added status in the subject line of report emails
453 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
454 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
455 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
456 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
457 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
459 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
460 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
462 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
463 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
465 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
466 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
467 fixed stderr redirect bug
468 some comments in example.rdiff
470 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
471 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
472 works now with gawk as well as mawk
473 many bug fixes to ldap handler
474 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
475 does not require /usr/bin/stat
477 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
478 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
479 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
481 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
483 moved sh support to a handler script
484 add test mode, where no action is taken.
486 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
487 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
488 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
490 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
491 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
492 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
493 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
494 all scripts are now run as root
496 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
497 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
498 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
499 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
500 added support for .mysql config files.
502 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004