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 . Fixed Trac#11 (quoting needed to prevent shell expansion, broke the
14 toint function sometimes)
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)
25 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
26 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
28 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
29 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
32 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
33 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
34 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
35 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
37 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
38 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
40 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
42 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
43 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
44 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
45 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
46 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
47 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
48 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
49 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
50 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
51 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
52 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
53 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
54 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub
55 files (Closes: #440554)
58 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
60 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
61 to not work when run from cron.
62 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
63 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
64 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
65 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
66 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
67 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
68 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
69 symlinks for $configdirectory
70 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
71 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
72 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
73 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
78 . rotated rsync snapshops
79 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
81 . alternative to rsnap
82 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
84 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
85 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
86 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
87 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
88 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
89 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
91 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
92 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
93 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
94 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
95 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
96 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
98 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
100 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
101 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
102 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
103 between various readlink versions in this field.
104 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
105 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
106 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
107 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
108 following to the top of the handler config:
109 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
112 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
113 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
114 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
115 between various readlink versions in this field.
116 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
117 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
119 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
120 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
121 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
122 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
124 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
125 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
126 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
128 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
130 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
132 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
134 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
137 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
138 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
139 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
140 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
142 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
143 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
144 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
145 symlinks for $configdirectory
146 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
147 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
148 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
151 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
152 changed cron permissions to 644
153 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
154 minor documentation fixes
155 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
156 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
157 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
158 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
160 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
164 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
165 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
166 out more easily they can customize them
168 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
170 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
171 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
173 . fixed no user defaults file processing
175 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
176 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
177 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
178 disabled in backupninja.conf
179 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
180 in vsnames config variable
182 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
183 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
184 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
185 "vsnames" configuration setting
188 . fixed errors in create remote dir
189 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
190 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
192 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
194 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
195 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
198 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
199 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
200 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
201 don't follow symlinks)
202 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
203 . new function: vservers_exist
206 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
208 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
210 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
211 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
213 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
214 backupninja and ninjahelper
217 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
219 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
220 . different signing and encrypting key support added
221 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
222 GnuPG-related options are used
224 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
225 ninjahelper(s) changes
226 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
227 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
229 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
231 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
232 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
233 . updated to include Vserver selection
235 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
236 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
238 . enhanced for vserver support
239 . now able to select databases and dump directory
241 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
243 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
244 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
245 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
246 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
247 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
248 added makecd ninjahelper
249 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
250 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
251 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
252 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
253 update rdiff ninjahelper
254 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
255 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
256 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
258 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
259 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
260 fixed insecure temporary file creation
261 *****************************************
262 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
263 fixed incorrect find positional
264 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
265 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
266 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
267 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
268 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
269 man pages are greatly improved.
271 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
272 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
273 added vservers support to duplicity handler
274 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
275 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
276 have a look at example.dup.
278 documented .disabled method.
279 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
280 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
281 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
282 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
283 to be seen as a vserver
284 changes to sys handler
285 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
286 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
288 changes to pgsql handler
289 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
290 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
291 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
292 changes to ninjahelper
293 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
294 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
295 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
296 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
297 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
298 added helper for pgsql handler.
299 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
300 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
301 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
302 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
304 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
305 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
306 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
307 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
308 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
309 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
311 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
312 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
313 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
314 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
315 ******************************************************************
316 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
317 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
318 ******************************************************************
319 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
320 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
321 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
322 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
323 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
324 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
325 added "sign" option for backups signing
326 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
327 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
328 added "nicelevel" option
329 added "testconnect" option
330 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
331 added "bandwidthlimit" option
332 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
333 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
334 added configfile option to mysql handler
335 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
336 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
337 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
338 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
339 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
341 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
342 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
343 rdiff handler supports local dest
344 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
345 added "when = hourly"
346 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
347 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
348 improved 'when' parsing.
350 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
351 results of handlers are now read line by line.
352 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
353 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
354 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
355 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
356 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
357 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
358 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
359 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
360 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
362 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
363 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
364 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
365 added status in the subject line of report emails
367 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
368 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
369 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
370 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
371 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
373 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
374 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
376 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
377 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
379 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
380 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
381 fixed stderr redirect bug
382 some comments in example.rdiff
384 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
385 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
386 works now with gawk as well as mawk
387 many bug fixes to ldap handler
388 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
389 does not require /usr/bin/stat
391 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
392 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
393 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
395 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
397 moved sh support to a handler script
398 add test mode, where no action is taken.
400 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
401 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
402 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
404 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
405 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
406 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
407 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
408 all scripts are now run as root
410 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
411 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
412 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
413 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
414 added support for .mysql config files.
416 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004