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)
10 . reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the
11 local filesystem (Closes: #536049)
12 . set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: #537266)
15 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
18 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
19 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
22 . fix location of deleted_on file
23 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
24 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
25 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
27 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
28 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
29 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
30 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
31 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
32 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
33 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
34 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
35 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
36 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
38 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
41 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
42 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
44 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
47 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435)
49 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
51 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
52 detected volume group.
53 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
55 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
57 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
58 one time (Closes: #536360)
59 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
60 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
61 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces
62 . Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch.
65 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
68 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
69 will help supporting *BSD some day.
71 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
73 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
74 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
75 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
76 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
79 . added vservers_running function
81 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
82 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
86 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
87 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
88 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
89 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
90 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
92 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
93 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
94 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
95 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
97 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
98 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
100 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
101 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
102 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
104 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
105 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
107 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
108 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
109 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
110 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
111 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
112 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
113 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
114 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
115 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
117 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
119 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
120 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
121 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
122 debconf-get-selections
123 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
124 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
125 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
126 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
127 (Thanks to John Hallam).
129 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
130 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
132 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
134 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
136 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
137 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
138 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
139 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
140 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
141 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
142 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
143 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
146 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
147 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
148 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
151 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
152 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
153 file (Closes: #394935)
154 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
156 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
157 together (Closes: Trac#29)
158 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
159 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
161 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
162 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
163 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
164 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
166 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
167 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
168 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
169 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
170 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
171 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
172 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
173 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
174 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
175 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
177 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
178 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
181 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
182 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
183 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
184 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
185 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
186 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
188 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
189 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
191 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
192 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
193 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
194 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
195 . Added example.rsync configuration file
197 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
198 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
199 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
200 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
201 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
202 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
203 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
204 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
205 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
206 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
207 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
208 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
210 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
211 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
212 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
213 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
214 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
215 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
216 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
217 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
219 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
221 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
222 to not work when run from cron.
223 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
224 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
225 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
226 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
227 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
228 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
229 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
230 symlinks for $configdirectory
231 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
232 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
233 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
234 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
239 . rotated rsync snapshops
240 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
242 . alternative to rsnap
243 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
245 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
246 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
247 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
248 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
249 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
250 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
252 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
253 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
254 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
255 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
256 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
257 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
259 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
261 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
262 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
263 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
264 between various readlink versions in this field.
265 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
266 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
267 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
268 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
269 following to the top of the handler config:
270 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
273 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
274 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
275 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
276 between various readlink versions in this field.
277 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
278 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
280 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
281 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
282 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
283 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
285 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
286 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
287 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
289 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
291 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
293 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
295 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
298 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
299 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
300 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
301 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
303 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
304 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
305 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
306 symlinks for $configdirectory
307 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
308 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
309 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
312 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
313 changed cron permissions to 644
314 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
315 minor documentation fixes
316 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
317 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
318 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
319 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
321 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
325 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
326 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
327 out more easily they can customize them
329 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
331 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
332 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
334 . fixed no user defaults file processing
336 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
337 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
338 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
339 disabled in backupninja.conf
340 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
341 in vsnames config variable
343 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
344 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
345 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
346 "vsnames" configuration setting
349 . fixed errors in create remote dir
350 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
351 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
353 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
355 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
356 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
359 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
360 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
361 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
362 don't follow symlinks)
363 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
364 . new function: vservers_exist
367 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
369 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
371 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
372 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
374 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
375 backupninja and ninjahelper
378 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
380 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
381 . different signing and encrypting key support added
382 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
383 GnuPG-related options are used
385 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
386 ninjahelper(s) changes
387 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
388 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
390 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
392 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
393 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
394 . updated to include Vserver selection
396 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
397 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
399 . enhanced for vserver support
400 . now able to select databases and dump directory
402 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
404 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
405 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
406 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
407 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
408 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
409 added makecd ninjahelper
410 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
411 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
412 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
413 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
414 update rdiff ninjahelper
415 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
416 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
417 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
419 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
420 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
421 fixed insecure temporary file creation
422 *****************************************
423 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
424 fixed incorrect find positional
425 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
426 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
427 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
428 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
429 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
430 man pages are greatly improved.
432 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
433 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
434 added vservers support to duplicity handler
435 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
436 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
437 have a look at example.dup.
439 documented .disabled method.
440 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
441 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
442 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
443 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
444 to be seen as a vserver
445 changes to sys handler
446 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
447 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
449 changes to pgsql handler
450 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
451 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
452 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
453 changes to ninjahelper
454 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
455 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
456 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
457 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
458 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
459 added helper for pgsql handler.
460 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
461 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
462 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
463 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
465 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
466 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
467 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
468 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
469 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
470 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
472 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
473 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
474 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
475 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
476 ******************************************************************
477 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
478 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
479 ******************************************************************
480 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
481 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
482 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
483 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
484 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
485 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
486 added "sign" option for backups signing
487 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
488 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
489 added "nicelevel" option
490 added "testconnect" option
491 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
492 added "bandwidthlimit" option
493 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
494 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
495 added configfile option to mysql handler
496 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
497 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
498 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
499 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
500 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
502 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
503 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
504 rdiff handler supports local dest
505 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
506 added "when = hourly"
507 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
508 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
509 improved 'when' parsing.
511 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
512 results of handlers are now read line by line.
513 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
514 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
515 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
516 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
517 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
518 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
519 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
520 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
521 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
523 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
524 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
525 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
526 added status in the subject line of report emails
528 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
529 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
530 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
531 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
532 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
534 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
535 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
537 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
538 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
540 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
541 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
542 fixed stderr redirect bug
543 some comments in example.rdiff
545 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
546 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
547 works now with gawk as well as mawk
548 many bug fixes to ldap handler
549 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
550 does not require /usr/bin/stat
552 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
553 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
554 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
556 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
558 moved sh support to a handler script
559 add test mode, where no action is taken.
561 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
562 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
563 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
565 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
566 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
567 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
568 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
569 all scripts are now run as root
571 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
572 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
573 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
574 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
575 added support for .mysql config files.
577 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004