1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
13 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
14 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
16 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
19 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
20 is not supported anymore)
22 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
23 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
24 file (Closes: #394935)
25 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
27 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
28 together (Closes: Trac#29)
30 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
32 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
33 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
34 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
35 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
36 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
37 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
38 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
39 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
40 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
41 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
43 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
44 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
47 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
48 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
49 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
50 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
51 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
53 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
54 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
56 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
57 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
58 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
59 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
60 . Added example.rsync configuration file
62 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
63 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
64 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
65 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
66 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
67 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
68 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
69 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
70 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
71 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
72 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
73 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
74 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
75 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
78 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
80 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
81 to not work when run from cron.
82 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
83 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
84 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
85 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
86 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
87 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
88 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
89 symlinks for $configdirectory
90 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
91 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
92 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
93 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
98 . rotated rsync snapshops
99 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
101 . alternative to rsnap
102 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
104 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
105 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
106 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
107 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
108 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
109 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
111 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
112 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
113 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
114 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
115 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
116 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
118 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
120 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
121 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
122 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
123 between various readlink versions in this field.
124 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
125 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
126 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
127 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
128 following to the top of the handler config:
129 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
132 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
133 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
134 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
135 between various readlink versions in this field.
136 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
137 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
139 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
140 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
141 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
142 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
144 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
145 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
146 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
148 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
150 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
152 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
154 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
157 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
158 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
159 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
160 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
162 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
163 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
164 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
165 symlinks for $configdirectory
166 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
167 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
168 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
171 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
172 changed cron permissions to 644
173 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
174 minor documentation fixes
175 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
176 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
177 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
178 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
180 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
184 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
185 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
186 out more easily they can customize them
188 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
190 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
191 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
193 . fixed no user defaults file processing
195 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
196 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
197 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
198 disabled in backupninja.conf
199 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
200 in vsnames config variable
202 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
203 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
204 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
205 "vsnames" configuration setting
208 . fixed errors in create remote dir
209 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
210 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
212 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
214 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
215 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
218 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
219 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
220 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
221 don't follow symlinks)
222 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
223 . new function: vservers_exist
226 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
228 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
230 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
231 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
233 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
234 backupninja and ninjahelper
237 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
239 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
240 . different signing and encrypting key support added
241 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
242 GnuPG-related options are used
244 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
245 ninjahelper(s) changes
246 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
247 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
249 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
251 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
252 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
253 . updated to include Vserver selection
255 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
256 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
258 . enhanced for vserver support
259 . now able to select databases and dump directory
261 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
263 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
264 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
265 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
266 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
267 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
268 added makecd ninjahelper
269 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
270 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
271 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
272 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
273 update rdiff ninjahelper
274 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
275 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
276 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
278 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
279 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
280 fixed insecure temporary file creation
281 *****************************************
282 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
283 fixed incorrect find positional
284 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
285 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
286 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
287 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
288 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
289 man pages are greatly improved.
291 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
292 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
293 added vservers support to duplicity handler
294 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
295 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
296 have a look at example.dup.
298 documented .disabled method.
299 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
300 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
301 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
302 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
303 to be seen as a vserver
304 changes to sys handler
305 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
306 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
308 changes to pgsql handler
309 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
310 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
311 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
312 changes to ninjahelper
313 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
314 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
315 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
316 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
317 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
318 added helper for pgsql handler.
319 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
320 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
321 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
322 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
324 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
325 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
326 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
327 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
328 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
329 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
331 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
332 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
333 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
334 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
335 ******************************************************************
336 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
337 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
338 ******************************************************************
339 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
340 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
341 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
342 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
343 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
344 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
345 added "sign" option for backups signing
346 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
347 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
348 added "nicelevel" option
349 added "testconnect" option
350 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
351 added "bandwidthlimit" option
352 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
353 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
354 added configfile option to mysql handler
355 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
356 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
357 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
358 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
359 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
361 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
362 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
363 rdiff handler supports local dest
364 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
365 added "when = hourly"
366 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
367 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
368 improved 'when' parsing.
370 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
371 results of handlers are now read line by line.
372 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
373 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
374 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
375 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
376 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
377 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
378 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
379 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
380 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
382 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
383 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
384 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
385 added status in the subject line of report emails
387 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
388 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
389 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
390 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
391 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
393 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
394 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
396 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
397 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
399 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
400 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
401 fixed stderr redirect bug
402 some comments in example.rdiff
404 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
405 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
406 works now with gawk as well as mawk
407 many bug fixes to ldap handler
408 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
409 does not require /usr/bin/stat
411 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
412 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
413 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
415 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
417 moved sh support to a handler script
418 add test mode, where no action is taken.
420 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
421 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
422 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
424 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
425 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
426 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
427 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
428 all scripts are now run as root
430 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
431 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
432 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
433 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
434 added support for .mysql config files.
436 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004