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
51 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
53 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
54 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
55 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
56 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
57 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
58 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
59 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
60 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
63 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
64 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
65 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
68 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
69 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
70 file (Closes: #394935)
71 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
73 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
74 together (Closes: Trac#29)
75 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
76 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
78 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
79 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
80 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
81 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
83 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
84 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
85 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
86 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
87 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
88 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
89 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
90 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
91 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
92 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
94 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
95 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
98 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
99 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
100 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
101 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
102 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
103 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
105 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
106 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
108 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
109 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
110 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
111 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
112 . Added example.rsync configuration file
114 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
115 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
116 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
117 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
118 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
119 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
120 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
121 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
122 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
123 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
124 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
125 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
127 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
128 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
129 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
130 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
131 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
132 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
133 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
134 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
136 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
138 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
139 to not work when run from cron.
140 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
141 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
142 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
143 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
144 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
145 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
146 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
147 symlinks for $configdirectory
148 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
149 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
150 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
151 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
156 . rotated rsync snapshops
157 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
159 . alternative to rsnap
160 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
162 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
163 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
164 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
165 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
166 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
167 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
169 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
170 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
171 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
172 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
173 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
174 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
176 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
178 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
179 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
180 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
181 between various readlink versions in this field.
182 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
183 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
184 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
185 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
186 following to the top of the handler config:
187 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
190 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
191 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
192 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
193 between various readlink versions in this field.
194 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
195 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
197 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
198 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
199 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
200 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
202 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
203 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
204 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
206 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
208 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
210 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
212 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
215 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
216 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
217 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
218 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
220 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
221 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
222 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
223 symlinks for $configdirectory
224 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
225 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
226 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
229 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
230 changed cron permissions to 644
231 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
232 minor documentation fixes
233 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
234 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
235 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
236 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
238 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
242 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
243 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
244 out more easily they can customize them
246 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
248 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
249 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
251 . fixed no user defaults file processing
253 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
254 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
255 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
256 disabled in backupninja.conf
257 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
258 in vsnames config variable
260 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
261 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
262 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
263 "vsnames" configuration setting
266 . fixed errors in create remote dir
267 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
268 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
270 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
272 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
273 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
276 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
277 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
278 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
279 don't follow symlinks)
280 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
281 . new function: vservers_exist
284 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
286 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
288 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
289 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
291 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
292 backupninja and ninjahelper
295 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
297 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
298 . different signing and encrypting key support added
299 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
300 GnuPG-related options are used
302 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
303 ninjahelper(s) changes
304 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
305 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
307 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
309 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
310 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
311 . updated to include Vserver selection
313 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
314 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
316 . enhanced for vserver support
317 . now able to select databases and dump directory
319 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
321 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
322 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
323 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
324 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
325 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
326 added makecd ninjahelper
327 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
328 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
329 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
330 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
331 update rdiff ninjahelper
332 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
333 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
334 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
336 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
337 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
338 fixed insecure temporary file creation
339 *****************************************
340 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
341 fixed incorrect find positional
342 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
343 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
344 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
345 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
346 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
347 man pages are greatly improved.
349 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
350 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
351 added vservers support to duplicity handler
352 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
353 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
354 have a look at example.dup.
356 documented .disabled method.
357 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
358 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
359 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
360 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
361 to be seen as a vserver
362 changes to sys handler
363 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
364 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
366 changes to pgsql handler
367 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
368 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
369 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
370 changes to ninjahelper
371 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
372 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
373 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
374 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
375 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
376 added helper for pgsql handler.
377 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
378 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
379 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
380 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
382 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
383 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
384 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
385 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
386 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
387 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
389 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
390 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
391 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
392 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
393 ******************************************************************
394 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
395 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
396 ******************************************************************
397 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
398 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
399 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
400 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
401 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
402 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
403 added "sign" option for backups signing
404 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
405 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
406 added "nicelevel" option
407 added "testconnect" option
408 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
409 added "bandwidthlimit" option
410 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
411 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
412 added configfile option to mysql handler
413 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
414 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
415 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
416 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
417 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
419 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
420 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
421 rdiff handler supports local dest
422 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
423 added "when = hourly"
424 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
425 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
426 improved 'when' parsing.
428 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
429 results of handlers are now read line by line.
430 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
431 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
432 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
433 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
434 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
435 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
436 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
437 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
438 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
440 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
441 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
442 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
443 added status in the subject line of report emails
445 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
446 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
447 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
448 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
449 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
451 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
452 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
454 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
455 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
457 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
458 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
459 fixed stderr redirect bug
460 some comments in example.rdiff
462 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
463 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
464 works now with gawk as well as mawk
465 many bug fixes to ldap handler
466 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
467 does not require /usr/bin/stat
469 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
470 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
471 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
473 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
475 moved sh support to a handler script
476 add test mode, where no action is taken.
478 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
479 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
480 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
482 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
483 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
484 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
485 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
486 all scripts are now run as root
488 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
489 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
490 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
491 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
492 added support for .mysql config files.
494 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004