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)
8 . new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with
9 "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes #563734)
12 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
15 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
17 . fix location of deleted_on file
18 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
19 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
20 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
22 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
23 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
24 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
25 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
26 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
27 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
28 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
29 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
30 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
31 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
34 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
35 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
38 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
40 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
41 detected volume group.
42 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
44 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
46 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
47 one time (Closes: #536360)
50 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
53 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
54 will help supporting *BSD some day.
56 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
58 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
59 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
60 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
61 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
64 . added vservers_running function
66 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
67 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
71 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
72 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
73 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
74 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
75 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
77 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
78 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
79 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
80 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
82 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
83 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
85 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
86 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
87 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
89 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
90 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
92 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
93 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
94 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
95 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
96 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
97 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
98 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
99 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
100 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
102 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
104 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
105 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
106 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
107 debconf-get-selections
108 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
109 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
110 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
111 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
112 (Thanks to John Hallam).
114 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
115 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
117 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
119 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
121 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
122 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
123 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
124 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
125 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
126 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
127 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
128 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
131 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
132 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
133 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
136 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
137 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
138 file (Closes: #394935)
139 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
141 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
142 together (Closes: Trac#29)
143 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
144 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
146 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
147 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
148 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
149 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
151 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
152 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
153 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
154 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
155 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
156 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
157 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
158 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
159 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
160 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
162 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
163 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
166 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
167 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
168 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
169 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
170 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
171 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
173 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
174 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
176 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
177 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
178 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
179 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
180 . Added example.rsync configuration file
182 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
183 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
184 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
185 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
186 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
187 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
188 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
189 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
190 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
191 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
192 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
193 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
195 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
196 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
197 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
198 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
199 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
200 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
201 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
202 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
204 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
206 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
207 to not work when run from cron.
208 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
209 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
210 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
211 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
212 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
213 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
214 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
215 symlinks for $configdirectory
216 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
217 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
218 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
219 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
224 . rotated rsync snapshops
225 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
227 . alternative to rsnap
228 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
230 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
231 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
232 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
233 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
234 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
235 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
237 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
238 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
239 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
240 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
241 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
242 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
244 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
246 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
247 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
248 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
249 between various readlink versions in this field.
250 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
251 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
252 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
253 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
254 following to the top of the handler config:
255 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
258 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
259 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
260 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
261 between various readlink versions in this field.
262 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
263 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
265 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
266 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
267 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
268 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
270 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
271 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
272 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
274 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
276 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
278 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
280 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
283 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
284 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
285 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
286 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
288 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
289 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
290 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
291 symlinks for $configdirectory
292 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
293 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
294 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
297 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
298 changed cron permissions to 644
299 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
300 minor documentation fixes
301 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
302 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
303 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
304 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
306 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
310 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
311 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
312 out more easily they can customize them
314 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
316 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
317 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
319 . fixed no user defaults file processing
321 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
322 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
323 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
324 disabled in backupninja.conf
325 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
326 in vsnames config variable
328 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
329 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
330 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
331 "vsnames" configuration setting
334 . fixed errors in create remote dir
335 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
336 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
338 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
340 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
341 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
344 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
345 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
346 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
347 don't follow symlinks)
348 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
349 . new function: vservers_exist
352 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
354 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
356 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
357 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
359 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
360 backupninja and ninjahelper
363 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
365 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
366 . different signing and encrypting key support added
367 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
368 GnuPG-related options are used
370 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
371 ninjahelper(s) changes
372 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
373 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
375 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
377 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
378 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
379 . updated to include Vserver selection
381 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
382 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
384 . enhanced for vserver support
385 . now able to select databases and dump directory
387 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
389 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
390 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
391 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
392 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
393 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
394 added makecd ninjahelper
395 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
396 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
397 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
398 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
399 update rdiff ninjahelper
400 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
401 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
402 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
404 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
405 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
406 fixed insecure temporary file creation
407 *****************************************
408 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
409 fixed incorrect find positional
410 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
411 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
412 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
413 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
414 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
415 man pages are greatly improved.
417 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
418 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
419 added vservers support to duplicity handler
420 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
421 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
422 have a look at example.dup.
424 documented .disabled method.
425 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
426 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
427 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
428 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
429 to be seen as a vserver
430 changes to sys handler
431 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
432 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
434 changes to pgsql handler
435 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
436 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
437 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
438 changes to ninjahelper
439 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
440 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
441 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
442 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
443 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
444 added helper for pgsql handler.
445 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
446 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
447 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
448 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
450 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
451 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
452 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
453 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
454 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
455 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
457 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
458 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
459 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
460 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
461 ******************************************************************
462 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
463 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
464 ******************************************************************
465 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
466 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
467 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
468 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
469 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
470 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
471 added "sign" option for backups signing
472 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
473 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
474 added "nicelevel" option
475 added "testconnect" option
476 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
477 added "bandwidthlimit" option
478 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
479 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
480 added configfile option to mysql handler
481 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
482 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
483 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
484 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
485 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
487 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
488 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
489 rdiff handler supports local dest
490 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
491 added "when = hourly"
492 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
493 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
494 improved 'when' parsing.
496 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
497 results of handlers are now read line by line.
498 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
499 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
500 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
501 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
502 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
503 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
504 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
505 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
506 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
508 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
509 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
510 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
511 added status in the subject line of report emails
513 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
514 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
515 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
516 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
517 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
519 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
520 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
522 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
523 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
525 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
526 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
527 fixed stderr redirect bug
528 some comments in example.rdiff
530 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
531 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
532 works now with gawk as well as mawk
533 many bug fixes to ldap handler
534 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
535 does not require /usr/bin/stat
537 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
538 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
539 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
541 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
543 moved sh support to a handler script
544 add test mode, where no action is taken.
546 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
547 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
548 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
550 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
551 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
552 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
553 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
554 all scripts are now run as root
556 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
557 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
558 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
559 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
560 added support for .mysql config files.
562 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004