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)
10 . fix location of deleted_on file
11 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
12 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
13 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
15 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
16 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
17 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
18 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
19 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
20 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
21 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
22 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
24 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
26 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
27 detected volume group.
28 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
30 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
32 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
33 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
34 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
35 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
38 . added vservers_running function
40 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
41 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
45 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
46 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
47 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
48 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
49 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
51 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
52 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
53 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
54 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
56 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
57 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
59 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
60 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
61 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
63 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
64 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
66 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
67 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
68 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
69 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
70 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
71 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
72 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
73 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
74 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
76 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
78 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
79 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
80 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
81 debconf-get-selections
82 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
83 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
84 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
85 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
86 (Thanks to John Hallam).
88 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
89 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
91 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
93 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
95 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
96 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
97 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
98 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
99 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
100 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
101 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
102 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
105 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
106 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
107 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
110 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
111 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
112 file (Closes: #394935)
113 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
115 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
116 together (Closes: Trac#29)
117 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
118 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
120 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
121 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
122 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
123 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
125 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
126 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
127 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
128 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
129 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
130 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
131 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
132 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
133 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
134 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
136 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
137 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
140 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
141 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
142 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
143 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
144 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
145 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
147 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
148 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
150 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
151 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
152 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
153 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
154 . Added example.rsync configuration file
156 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
157 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
158 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
159 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
160 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
161 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
162 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
163 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
164 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
165 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
166 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
167 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
169 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
170 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
171 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
172 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
173 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
174 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
175 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
176 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
178 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
180 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
181 to not work when run from cron.
182 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
183 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
184 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
185 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
186 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
187 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
188 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
189 symlinks for $configdirectory
190 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
191 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
192 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
193 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
198 . rotated rsync snapshops
199 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
201 . alternative to rsnap
202 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
204 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
205 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
206 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
207 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
208 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
209 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
211 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
212 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
213 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
214 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
215 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
216 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
218 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
220 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
221 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
222 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
223 between various readlink versions in this field.
224 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
225 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
226 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
227 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
228 following to the top of the handler config:
229 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
232 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
233 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
234 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
235 between various readlink versions in this field.
236 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
237 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
239 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
240 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
241 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
242 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
244 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
245 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
246 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
248 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
250 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
252 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
254 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
257 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
258 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
259 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
260 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
262 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
263 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
264 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
265 symlinks for $configdirectory
266 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
267 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
268 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
271 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
272 changed cron permissions to 644
273 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
274 minor documentation fixes
275 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
276 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
277 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
278 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
280 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
284 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
285 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
286 out more easily they can customize them
288 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
290 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
291 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
293 . fixed no user defaults file processing
295 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
296 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
297 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
298 disabled in backupninja.conf
299 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
300 in vsnames config variable
302 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
303 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
304 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
305 "vsnames" configuration setting
308 . fixed errors in create remote dir
309 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
310 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
312 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
314 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
315 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
318 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
319 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
320 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
321 don't follow symlinks)
322 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
323 . new function: vservers_exist
326 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
328 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
330 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
331 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
333 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
334 backupninja and ninjahelper
337 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
339 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
340 . different signing and encrypting key support added
341 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
342 GnuPG-related options are used
344 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
345 ninjahelper(s) changes
346 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
347 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
349 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
351 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
352 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
353 . updated to include Vserver selection
355 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
356 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
358 . enhanced for vserver support
359 . now able to select databases and dump directory
361 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
363 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
364 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
365 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
366 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
367 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
368 added makecd ninjahelper
369 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
370 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
371 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
372 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
373 update rdiff ninjahelper
374 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
375 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
376 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
378 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
379 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
380 fixed insecure temporary file creation
381 *****************************************
382 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
383 fixed incorrect find positional
384 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
385 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
386 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
387 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
388 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
389 man pages are greatly improved.
391 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
392 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
393 added vservers support to duplicity handler
394 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
395 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
396 have a look at example.dup.
398 documented .disabled method.
399 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
400 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
401 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
402 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
403 to be seen as a vserver
404 changes to sys handler
405 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
406 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
408 changes to pgsql handler
409 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
410 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
411 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
412 changes to ninjahelper
413 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
414 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
415 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
416 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
417 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
418 added helper for pgsql handler.
419 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
420 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
421 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
422 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
424 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
425 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
426 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
427 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
428 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
429 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
431 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
432 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
433 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
434 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
435 ******************************************************************
436 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
437 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
438 ******************************************************************
439 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
440 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
441 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
442 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
443 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
444 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
445 added "sign" option for backups signing
446 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
447 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
448 added "nicelevel" option
449 added "testconnect" option
450 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
451 added "bandwidthlimit" option
452 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
453 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
454 added configfile option to mysql handler
455 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
456 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
457 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
458 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
459 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
461 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
462 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
463 rdiff handler supports local dest
464 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
465 added "when = hourly"
466 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
467 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
468 improved 'when' parsing.
470 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
471 results of handlers are now read line by line.
472 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
473 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
474 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
475 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
476 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
477 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
478 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
479 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
480 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
482 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
483 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
484 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
485 added status in the subject line of report emails
487 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
488 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
489 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
490 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
491 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
493 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
494 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
496 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
497 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
499 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
500 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
501 fixed stderr redirect bug
502 some comments in example.rdiff
504 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
505 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
506 works now with gawk as well as mawk
507 many bug fixes to ldap handler
508 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
509 does not require /usr/bin/stat
511 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
512 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
513 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
515 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
517 moved sh support to a handler script
518 add test mode, where no action is taken.
520 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
521 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
522 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
524 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
525 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
526 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
527 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
528 all scripts are now run as root
530 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
531 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
532 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
533 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
534 added support for .mysql config files.
536 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004