1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
8 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
9 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
10 . Hide silly sfdisk error output.
12 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit
14 fixed automake 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already
17 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
19 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
20 to not work when run from cron.
21 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
22 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
23 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
24 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
25 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
26 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
27 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
28 symlinks for $configdirectory
29 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
30 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
31 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
32 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
37 . rotated rsync snapshops
38 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
40 . alternative to rsnap
41 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
43 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
44 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
45 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
46 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
47 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
48 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
50 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
51 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
52 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
53 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
54 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
55 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
57 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
59 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
60 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
61 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
62 between various readlink versions in this field.
63 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
64 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
65 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
66 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
67 following to the top of the handler config:
68 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
71 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
72 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
73 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
74 between various readlink versions in this field.
75 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
76 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
78 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
79 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
80 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
81 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
83 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
84 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
85 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
87 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
89 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
91 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
93 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
96 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
97 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
98 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
99 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
101 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
102 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
103 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
104 symlinks for $configdirectory
105 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
106 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
107 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
110 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
111 changed cron permissions to 644
112 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
113 minor documentation fixes
114 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
115 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
116 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
117 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
119 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
123 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
124 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
125 out more easily they can customize them
127 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
129 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
130 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
132 . fixed no user defaults file processing
134 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
135 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
136 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
137 disabled in backupninja.conf
138 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
139 in vsnames config variable
141 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
142 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
143 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
144 "vsnames" configuration setting
147 . fixed errors in create remote dir
148 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
149 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
151 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
153 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
154 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
157 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
158 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
159 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
160 don't follow symlinks)
161 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
162 . new function: vservers_exist
165 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
167 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
169 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
170 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
172 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
173 backupninja and ninjahelper
176 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
178 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
179 . different signing and encrypting key support added
180 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
181 GnuPG-related options are used
183 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
184 ninjahelper(s) changes
185 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
186 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
188 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
190 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
191 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
192 . updated to include Vserver selection
194 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
195 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
197 . enhanced for vserver support
198 . now able to select databases and dump directory
200 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
202 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
203 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
204 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
205 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
206 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
207 added makecd ninjahelper
208 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
209 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
210 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
211 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
212 update rdiff ninjahelper
213 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
214 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
215 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
217 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
218 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
219 fixed insecure temporary file creation
220 *****************************************
221 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
222 fixed incorrect find positional
223 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
224 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
225 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
226 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
227 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
228 man pages are greatly improved.
230 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
231 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
232 added vservers support to duplicity handler
233 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
234 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
235 have a look at example.dup.
237 documented .disabled method.
238 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
239 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
240 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
241 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
242 to be seen as a vserver
243 changes to sys handler
244 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
245 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
247 changes to pgsql handler
248 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
249 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
250 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
251 changes to ninjahelper
252 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
253 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
254 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
255 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
256 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
257 added helper for pgsql handler.
258 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
259 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
260 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
261 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
263 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
264 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
265 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
266 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
267 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
268 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
270 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
271 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
272 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
273 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
274 ******************************************************************
275 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
276 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
277 ******************************************************************
278 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
279 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
280 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
281 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
282 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
283 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
284 added "sign" option for backups signing
285 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
286 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
287 added "nicelevel" option
288 added "testconnect" option
289 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
290 added "bandwidthlimit" option
291 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
292 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
293 added configfile option to mysql handler
294 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
295 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
296 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
297 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
298 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
300 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
301 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
302 rdiff handler supports local dest
303 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
304 added "when = hourly"
305 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
306 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
307 improved 'when' parsing.
309 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
310 results of handlers are now read line by line.
311 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
312 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
313 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
314 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
315 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
316 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
317 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
318 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
319 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
321 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
322 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
323 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
324 added status in the subject line of report emails
326 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
327 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
328 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
329 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
330 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
332 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
333 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
335 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
336 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
338 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
339 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
340 fixed stderr redirect bug
341 some comments in example.rdiff
343 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
344 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
345 works now with gawk as well as mawk
346 many bug fixes to ldap handler
347 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
348 does not require /usr/bin/stat
350 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
351 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
352 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
354 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
356 moved sh support to a handler script
357 add test mode, where no action is taken.
359 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
360 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
361 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
363 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
364 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
365 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
366 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
367 all scripts are now run as root
369 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
370 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
371 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
372 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
373 added support for .mysql config files.
375 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004