1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
7 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
8 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
9 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
10 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
11 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
14 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
15 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
16 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
18 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
19 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
21 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
23 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
24 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
25 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
26 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
27 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
28 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
29 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
30 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
33 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
34 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
35 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
38 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
39 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
40 file (Closes: #394935)
41 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
43 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
44 together (Closes: Trac#29)
45 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
46 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
48 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
49 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
50 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
51 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
53 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
54 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
55 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
56 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
57 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
58 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
59 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
60 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
61 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
62 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
64 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
65 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
68 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
69 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
70 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
71 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
72 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
73 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
75 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
76 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
78 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
79 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
80 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
81 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
82 . Added example.rsync configuration file
84 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
85 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
86 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
87 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
88 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
89 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
90 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
91 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
92 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
93 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
94 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
95 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
97 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
98 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
99 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
100 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
101 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
102 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
103 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
104 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
106 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
108 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
109 to not work when run from cron.
110 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
111 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
112 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
113 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
114 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
115 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
116 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
117 symlinks for $configdirectory
118 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
119 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
120 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
121 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
126 . rotated rsync snapshops
127 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
129 . alternative to rsnap
130 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
132 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
133 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
134 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
135 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
136 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
137 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
139 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
140 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
141 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
142 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
143 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
144 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
146 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
148 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
149 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
150 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
151 between various readlink versions in this field.
152 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
153 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
154 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
155 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
156 following to the top of the handler config:
157 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
160 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
161 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
162 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
163 between various readlink versions in this field.
164 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
165 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
167 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
168 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
169 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
170 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
172 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
173 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
174 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
176 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
178 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
180 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
182 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
185 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
186 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
187 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
188 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
190 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
191 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
192 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
193 symlinks for $configdirectory
194 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
195 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
196 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
199 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
200 changed cron permissions to 644
201 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
202 minor documentation fixes
203 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
204 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
205 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
206 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
208 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
212 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
213 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
214 out more easily they can customize them
216 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
218 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
219 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
221 . fixed no user defaults file processing
223 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
224 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
225 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
226 disabled in backupninja.conf
227 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
228 in vsnames config variable
230 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
231 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
232 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
233 "vsnames" configuration setting
236 . fixed errors in create remote dir
237 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
238 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
240 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
242 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
243 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
246 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
247 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
248 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
249 don't follow symlinks)
250 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
251 . new function: vservers_exist
254 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
256 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
258 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
259 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
261 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
262 backupninja and ninjahelper
265 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
267 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
268 . different signing and encrypting key support added
269 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
270 GnuPG-related options are used
272 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
273 ninjahelper(s) changes
274 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
275 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
277 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
279 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
280 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
281 . updated to include Vserver selection
283 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
284 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
286 . enhanced for vserver support
287 . now able to select databases and dump directory
289 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
291 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
292 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
293 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
294 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
295 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
296 added makecd ninjahelper
297 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
298 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
299 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
300 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
301 update rdiff ninjahelper
302 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
303 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
304 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
306 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
307 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
308 fixed insecure temporary file creation
309 *****************************************
310 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
311 fixed incorrect find positional
312 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
313 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
314 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
315 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
316 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
317 man pages are greatly improved.
319 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
320 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
321 added vservers support to duplicity handler
322 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
323 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
324 have a look at example.dup.
326 documented .disabled method.
327 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
328 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
329 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
330 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
331 to be seen as a vserver
332 changes to sys handler
333 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
334 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
336 changes to pgsql handler
337 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
338 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
339 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
340 changes to ninjahelper
341 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
342 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
343 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
344 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
345 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
346 added helper for pgsql handler.
347 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
348 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
349 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
350 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
352 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
353 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
354 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
355 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
356 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
357 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
359 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
360 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
361 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
362 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
363 ******************************************************************
364 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
365 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
366 ******************************************************************
367 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
368 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
369 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
370 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
371 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
372 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
373 added "sign" option for backups signing
374 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
375 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
376 added "nicelevel" option
377 added "testconnect" option
378 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
379 added "bandwidthlimit" option
380 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
381 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
382 added configfile option to mysql handler
383 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
384 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
385 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
386 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
387 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
389 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
390 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
391 rdiff handler supports local dest
392 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
393 added "when = hourly"
394 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
395 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
396 improved 'when' parsing.
398 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
399 results of handlers are now read line by line.
400 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
401 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
402 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
403 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
404 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
405 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
406 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
407 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
408 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
410 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
411 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
412 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
413 added status in the subject line of report emails
415 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
416 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
417 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
418 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
419 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
421 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
422 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
424 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
425 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
427 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
428 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
429 fixed stderr redirect bug
430 some comments in example.rdiff
432 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
433 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
434 works now with gawk as well as mawk
435 many bug fixes to ldap handler
436 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
437 does not require /usr/bin/stat
439 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
440 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
441 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
443 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
445 moved sh support to a handler script
446 add test mode, where no action is taken.
448 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
449 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
450 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
452 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
453 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
454 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
455 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
456 all scripts are now run as root
458 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
459 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
460 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
461 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
462 added support for .mysql config files.
464 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004