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 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
13 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
15 . fix location of deleted_on file
16 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
17 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
18 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
20 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
21 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
22 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
23 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
24 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
25 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
26 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
27 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
28 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
29 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
32 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
33 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
36 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
38 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
39 detected volume group.
40 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
42 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
45 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
47 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
48 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
49 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
50 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
53 . added vservers_running function
55 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
56 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
60 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
61 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
62 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
63 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
64 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
66 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
67 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
68 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
69 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
71 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
72 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
74 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
75 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
76 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
78 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
79 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
81 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
82 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
83 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
84 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
85 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
86 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
87 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
88 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
89 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
91 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
93 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
94 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
95 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
96 debconf-get-selections
97 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
98 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
99 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
100 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
101 (Thanks to John Hallam).
103 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
104 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
106 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
108 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
110 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
111 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
112 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
113 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
114 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
115 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
116 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
117 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
120 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
121 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
122 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
125 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
126 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
127 file (Closes: #394935)
128 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
130 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
131 together (Closes: Trac#29)
132 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
133 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
135 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
136 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
137 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
138 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
140 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
141 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
142 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
143 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
144 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
145 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
146 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
147 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
148 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
149 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
151 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
152 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
155 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
156 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
157 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
158 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
159 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
160 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
162 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
163 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
165 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
166 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
167 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
168 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
169 . Added example.rsync configuration file
171 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
172 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
173 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
174 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
175 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
176 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
177 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
178 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
179 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
180 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
181 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
182 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
184 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
185 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
186 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
187 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
188 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
189 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
190 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
191 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
193 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
195 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
196 to not work when run from cron.
197 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
198 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
199 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
200 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
201 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
202 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
203 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
204 symlinks for $configdirectory
205 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
206 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
207 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
208 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
213 . rotated rsync snapshops
214 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
216 . alternative to rsnap
217 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
219 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
220 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
221 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
222 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
223 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
224 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
226 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
227 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
228 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
229 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
230 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
231 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
233 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
235 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
236 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
237 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
238 between various readlink versions in this field.
239 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
240 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
241 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
242 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
243 following to the top of the handler config:
244 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
247 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
248 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
249 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
250 between various readlink versions in this field.
251 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
252 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
254 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
255 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
256 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
257 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
259 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
260 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
261 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
263 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
265 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
267 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
269 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
272 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
273 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
274 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
275 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
277 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
278 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
279 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
280 symlinks for $configdirectory
281 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
282 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
283 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
286 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
287 changed cron permissions to 644
288 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
289 minor documentation fixes
290 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
291 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
292 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
293 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
295 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
299 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
300 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
301 out more easily they can customize them
303 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
305 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
306 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
308 . fixed no user defaults file processing
310 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
311 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
312 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
313 disabled in backupninja.conf
314 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
315 in vsnames config variable
317 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
318 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
319 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
320 "vsnames" configuration setting
323 . fixed errors in create remote dir
324 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
325 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
327 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
329 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
330 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
333 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
334 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
335 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
336 don't follow symlinks)
337 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
338 . new function: vservers_exist
341 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
343 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
345 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
346 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
348 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
349 backupninja and ninjahelper
352 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
354 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
355 . different signing and encrypting key support added
356 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
357 GnuPG-related options are used
359 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
360 ninjahelper(s) changes
361 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
362 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
364 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
366 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
367 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
368 . updated to include Vserver selection
370 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
371 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
373 . enhanced for vserver support
374 . now able to select databases and dump directory
376 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
378 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
379 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
380 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
381 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
382 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
383 added makecd ninjahelper
384 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
385 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
386 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
387 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
388 update rdiff ninjahelper
389 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
390 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
391 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
393 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
394 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
395 fixed insecure temporary file creation
396 *****************************************
397 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
398 fixed incorrect find positional
399 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
400 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
401 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
402 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
403 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
404 man pages are greatly improved.
406 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
407 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
408 added vservers support to duplicity handler
409 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
410 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
411 have a look at example.dup.
413 documented .disabled method.
414 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
415 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
416 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
417 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
418 to be seen as a vserver
419 changes to sys handler
420 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
421 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
423 changes to pgsql handler
424 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
425 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
426 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
427 changes to ninjahelper
428 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
429 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
430 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
431 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
432 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
433 added helper for pgsql handler.
434 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
435 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
436 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
437 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
439 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
440 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
441 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
442 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
443 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
444 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
446 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
447 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
448 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
449 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
450 ******************************************************************
451 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
452 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
453 ******************************************************************
454 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
455 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
456 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
457 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
458 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
459 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
460 added "sign" option for backups signing
461 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
462 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
463 added "nicelevel" option
464 added "testconnect" option
465 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
466 added "bandwidthlimit" option
467 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
468 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
469 added configfile option to mysql handler
470 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
471 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
472 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
473 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
474 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
476 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
477 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
478 rdiff handler supports local dest
479 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
480 added "when = hourly"
481 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
482 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
483 improved 'when' parsing.
485 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
486 results of handlers are now read line by line.
487 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
488 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
489 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
490 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
491 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
492 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
493 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
494 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
495 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
497 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
498 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
499 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
500 added status in the subject line of report emails
502 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
503 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
504 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
505 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
506 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
508 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
509 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
511 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
512 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
514 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
515 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
516 fixed stderr redirect bug
517 some comments in example.rdiff
519 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
520 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
521 works now with gawk as well as mawk
522 many bug fixes to ldap handler
523 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
524 does not require /usr/bin/stat
526 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
527 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
528 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
530 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
532 moved sh support to a handler script
533 add test mode, where no action is taken.
535 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
536 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
537 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
539 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
540 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
541 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
542 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
543 all scripts are now run as root
545 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
546 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
547 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
548 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
549 added support for .mysql config files.
551 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004