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)
10 . fix location of deleted_on file
11 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
13 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
14 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
15 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
16 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
17 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
18 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
19 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
20 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
22 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
25 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
27 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
28 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
29 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
30 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
33 . added vservers_running function
35 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
36 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
40 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
41 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
42 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
43 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
44 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
46 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
47 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
48 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
49 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
51 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
52 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
54 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
55 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
56 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
58 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
59 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
61 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
62 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
63 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
64 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
65 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
66 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
67 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
68 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
69 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
71 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
73 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
74 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
75 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
76 debconf-get-selections
77 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
78 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
79 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
80 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
81 (Thanks to John Hallam).
83 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
84 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
86 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
88 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
90 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
91 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
92 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
93 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
94 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
95 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
96 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
97 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
100 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
101 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
102 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
105 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
106 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
107 file (Closes: #394935)
108 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
110 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
111 together (Closes: Trac#29)
112 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
113 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
115 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
116 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
117 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
118 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
120 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
121 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
122 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
123 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
124 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
125 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
126 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
127 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
128 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
129 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
131 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
132 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
135 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
136 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
137 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
138 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
139 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
140 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
142 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
143 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
145 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
146 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
147 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
148 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
149 . Added example.rsync configuration file
151 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
152 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
153 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
154 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
155 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
156 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
157 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
158 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
159 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
160 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
161 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
162 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
164 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
165 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
166 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
167 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
168 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
169 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
170 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
171 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
173 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
175 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
176 to not work when run from cron.
177 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
178 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
179 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
180 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
181 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
182 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
183 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
184 symlinks for $configdirectory
185 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
186 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
187 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
188 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
193 . rotated rsync snapshops
194 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
196 . alternative to rsnap
197 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
199 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
200 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
201 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
202 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
203 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
204 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
206 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
207 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
208 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
209 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
210 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
211 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
213 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
215 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
216 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
217 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
218 between various readlink versions in this field.
219 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
220 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
221 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
222 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
223 following to the top of the handler config:
224 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
227 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
228 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
229 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
230 between various readlink versions in this field.
231 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
232 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
234 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
235 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
236 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
237 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
239 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
240 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
241 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
243 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
245 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
247 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
249 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
252 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
253 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
254 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
255 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
257 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
258 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
259 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
260 symlinks for $configdirectory
261 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
262 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
263 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
266 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
267 changed cron permissions to 644
268 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
269 minor documentation fixes
270 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
271 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
272 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
273 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
275 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
279 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
280 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
281 out more easily they can customize them
283 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
285 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
286 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
288 . fixed no user defaults file processing
290 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
291 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
292 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
293 disabled in backupninja.conf
294 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
295 in vsnames config variable
297 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
298 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
299 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
300 "vsnames" configuration setting
303 . fixed errors in create remote dir
304 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
305 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
307 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
309 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
310 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
313 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
314 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
315 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
316 don't follow symlinks)
317 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
318 . new function: vservers_exist
321 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
323 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
325 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
326 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
328 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
329 backupninja and ninjahelper
332 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
334 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
335 . different signing and encrypting key support added
336 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
337 GnuPG-related options are used
339 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
340 ninjahelper(s) changes
341 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
342 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
344 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
346 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
347 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
348 . updated to include Vserver selection
350 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
351 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
353 . enhanced for vserver support
354 . now able to select databases and dump directory
356 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
358 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
359 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
360 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
361 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
362 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
363 added makecd ninjahelper
364 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
365 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
366 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
367 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
368 update rdiff ninjahelper
369 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
370 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
371 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
373 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
374 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
375 fixed insecure temporary file creation
376 *****************************************
377 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
378 fixed incorrect find positional
379 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
380 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
381 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
382 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
383 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
384 man pages are greatly improved.
386 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
387 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
388 added vservers support to duplicity handler
389 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
390 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
391 have a look at example.dup.
393 documented .disabled method.
394 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
395 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
396 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
397 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
398 to be seen as a vserver
399 changes to sys handler
400 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
401 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
403 changes to pgsql handler
404 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
405 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
406 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
407 changes to ninjahelper
408 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
409 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
410 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
411 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
412 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
413 added helper for pgsql handler.
414 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
415 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
416 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
417 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
419 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
420 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
421 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
422 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
423 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
424 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
426 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
427 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
428 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
429 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
430 ******************************************************************
431 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
432 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
433 ******************************************************************
434 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
435 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
436 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
437 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
438 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
439 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
440 added "sign" option for backups signing
441 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
442 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
443 added "nicelevel" option
444 added "testconnect" option
445 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
446 added "bandwidthlimit" option
447 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
448 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
449 added configfile option to mysql handler
450 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
451 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
452 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
453 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
454 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
456 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
457 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
458 rdiff handler supports local dest
459 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
460 added "when = hourly"
461 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
462 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
463 improved 'when' parsing.
465 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
466 results of handlers are now read line by line.
467 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
468 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
469 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
470 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
471 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
472 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
473 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
474 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
475 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
477 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
478 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
479 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
480 added status in the subject line of report emails
482 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
483 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
484 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
485 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
486 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
488 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
489 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
491 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
492 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
494 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
495 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
496 fixed stderr redirect bug
497 some comments in example.rdiff
499 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
500 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
501 works now with gawk as well as mawk
502 many bug fixes to ldap handler
503 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
504 does not require /usr/bin/stat
506 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
507 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
508 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
510 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
512 moved sh support to a handler script
513 add test mode, where no action is taken.
515 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
516 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
517 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
519 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
520 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
521 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
522 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
523 all scripts are now run as root
525 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
526 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
527 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
528 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
529 added support for .mysql config files.
531 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004