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 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
13 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
15 . fix location of deleted_on file
16 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
17 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
18 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
20 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
21 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
22 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
23 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
24 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
25 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
26 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
27 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
28 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
29 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
32 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
33 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
36 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
38 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
39 detected volume group.
40 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
42 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
44 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
45 one time (Closes: #536360)
48 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
51 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
52 will help supporting *BSD some day.
54 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
56 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
57 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
58 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
59 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
62 . added vservers_running function
64 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
65 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
69 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
70 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
71 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
72 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
73 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
75 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
76 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
77 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
78 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
80 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
81 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
83 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
84 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
85 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
87 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
88 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
90 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
91 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
92 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
93 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
94 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
95 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
96 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
97 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
98 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
100 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
102 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
103 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
104 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
105 debconf-get-selections
106 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
107 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
108 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
109 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
110 (Thanks to John Hallam).
112 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
113 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
115 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
117 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
119 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
120 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
121 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
122 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
123 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
124 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
125 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
126 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
129 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
130 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
131 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
134 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
135 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
136 file (Closes: #394935)
137 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
139 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
140 together (Closes: Trac#29)
141 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
142 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
144 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
145 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
146 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
147 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
149 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
150 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
151 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
152 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
153 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
154 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
155 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
156 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
157 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
158 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
160 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
161 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
164 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
165 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
166 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
167 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
168 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
169 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
171 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
172 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
174 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
175 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
176 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
177 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
178 . Added example.rsync configuration file
180 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
181 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
182 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
183 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
184 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
185 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
186 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
187 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
188 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
189 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
190 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
191 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
193 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
194 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
195 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
196 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
197 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
198 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
199 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
200 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
202 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
204 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
205 to not work when run from cron.
206 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
207 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
208 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
209 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
210 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
211 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
212 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
213 symlinks for $configdirectory
214 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
215 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
216 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
217 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
222 . rotated rsync snapshops
223 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
225 . alternative to rsnap
226 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
228 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
229 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
230 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
231 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
232 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
233 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
235 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
236 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
237 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
238 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
239 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
240 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
242 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
244 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
245 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
246 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
247 between various readlink versions in this field.
248 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
249 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
250 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
251 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
252 following to the top of the handler config:
253 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
256 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
257 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
258 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
259 between various readlink versions in this field.
260 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
261 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
263 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
264 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
265 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
266 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
268 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
269 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
270 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
272 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
274 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
276 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
278 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
281 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
282 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
283 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
284 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
286 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
287 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
288 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
289 symlinks for $configdirectory
290 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
291 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
292 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
295 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
296 changed cron permissions to 644
297 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
298 minor documentation fixes
299 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
300 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
301 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
302 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
304 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
308 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
309 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
310 out more easily they can customize them
312 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
314 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
315 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
317 . fixed no user defaults file processing
319 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
320 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
321 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
322 disabled in backupninja.conf
323 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
324 in vsnames config variable
326 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
327 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
328 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
329 "vsnames" configuration setting
332 . fixed errors in create remote dir
333 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
334 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
336 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
338 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
339 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
342 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
343 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
344 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
345 don't follow symlinks)
346 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
347 . new function: vservers_exist
350 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
352 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
354 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
355 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
357 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
358 backupninja and ninjahelper
361 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
363 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
364 . different signing and encrypting key support added
365 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
366 GnuPG-related options are used
368 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
369 ninjahelper(s) changes
370 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
371 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
373 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
375 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
376 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
377 . updated to include Vserver selection
379 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
380 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
382 . enhanced for vserver support
383 . now able to select databases and dump directory
385 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
387 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
388 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
389 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
390 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
391 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
392 added makecd ninjahelper
393 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
394 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
395 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
396 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
397 update rdiff ninjahelper
398 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
399 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
400 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
402 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
403 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
404 fixed insecure temporary file creation
405 *****************************************
406 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
407 fixed incorrect find positional
408 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
409 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
410 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
411 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
412 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
413 man pages are greatly improved.
415 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
416 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
417 added vservers support to duplicity handler
418 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
419 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
420 have a look at example.dup.
422 documented .disabled method.
423 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
424 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
425 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
426 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
427 to be seen as a vserver
428 changes to sys handler
429 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
430 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
432 changes to pgsql handler
433 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
434 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
435 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
436 changes to ninjahelper
437 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
438 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
439 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
440 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
441 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
442 added helper for pgsql handler.
443 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
444 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
445 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
446 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
448 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
449 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
450 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
451 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
452 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
453 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
455 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
456 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
457 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
458 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
459 ******************************************************************
460 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
461 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
462 ******************************************************************
463 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
464 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
465 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
466 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
467 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
468 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
469 added "sign" option for backups signing
470 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
471 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
472 added "nicelevel" option
473 added "testconnect" option
474 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
475 added "bandwidthlimit" option
476 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
477 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
478 added configfile option to mysql handler
479 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
480 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
481 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
482 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
483 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
485 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
486 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
487 rdiff handler supports local dest
488 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
489 added "when = hourly"
490 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
491 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
492 improved 'when' parsing.
494 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
495 results of handlers are now read line by line.
496 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
497 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
498 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
499 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
500 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
501 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
502 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
503 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
504 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
506 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
507 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
508 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
509 added status in the subject line of report emails
511 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
512 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
513 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
514 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
515 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
517 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
518 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
520 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
521 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
523 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
524 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
525 fixed stderr redirect bug
526 some comments in example.rdiff
528 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
529 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
530 works now with gawk as well as mawk
531 many bug fixes to ldap handler
532 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
533 does not require /usr/bin/stat
535 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
536 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
537 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
539 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
541 moved sh support to a handler script
542 add test mode, where no action is taken.
544 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
545 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
546 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
548 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
549 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
550 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
551 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
552 all scripts are now run as root
554 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
555 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
556 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
557 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
558 added support for .mysql config files.
560 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004