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