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 Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler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