1 version 0.9.4 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
4 to not work when run from cron.
5 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
6 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
7 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
8 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
9 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
10 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
11 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
12 symlinks for $configdirectory
13 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
18 . rotated rsync snapshops
19 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
21 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
22 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
23 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
24 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
25 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
26 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
29 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
30 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
31 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
32 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
33 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
35 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
37 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
38 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
39 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
40 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
41 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
42 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
44 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
45 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
46 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
47 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
48 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
50 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
51 0.4.3 will integrate them)
52 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
54 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
56 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
59 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
60 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
61 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
62 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
64 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
65 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
66 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
67 symlinks for $configdirectory
68 changed cron permissions to 644
69 minor documentation fixes
71 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
75 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
76 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
77 out more easily they can customize them
79 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
81 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
82 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
84 . fixed no user defaults file processing
86 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
87 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
88 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
89 disabled in backupninja.conf
90 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
91 in vsnames config variable
93 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
94 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
95 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
96 "vsnames" configuration setting
99 . fixed errors in create remote dir
100 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
101 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
103 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
105 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
106 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
109 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
110 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
111 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
112 don't follow symlinks)
113 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
114 . new function: vservers_exist
117 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
119 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
121 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
122 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
124 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
125 backupninja and ninjahelper
128 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
130 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
131 . different signing and encrypting key support added
132 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
133 GnuPG-related options are used
135 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
136 ninjahelper(s) changes
137 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
138 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
140 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
142 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
143 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
144 . updated to include Vserver selection
146 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
147 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
149 . enhanced for vserver support
150 . now able to select databases and dump directory
152 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
154 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
155 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
156 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
157 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
158 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
159 added makecd ninjahelper
160 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
161 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
162 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
163 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
164 update rdiff ninjahelper
165 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
166 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
167 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
169 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
170 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
171 fixed insecure temporary file creation
172 *****************************************
173 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
174 fixed incorrect find positional
175 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
176 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
177 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
178 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
179 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
180 man pages are greatly improved.
182 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
183 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
184 added vservers support to duplicity handler
185 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
186 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
187 have a look at example.dup.
189 documented .disabled method.
190 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
191 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
192 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
193 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
194 to be seen as a vserver
195 changes to sys handler
196 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
197 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
199 changes to pgsql handler
200 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
201 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
202 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
203 changes to ninjahelper
204 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
205 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
206 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
207 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
208 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
209 added helper for pgsql handler.
210 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
211 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
212 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
213 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
215 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
216 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
217 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
218 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
219 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
220 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
222 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
223 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
224 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
225 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
226 ******************************************************************
227 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
228 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
229 ******************************************************************
230 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
231 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
232 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
233 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
234 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
235 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
236 added "sign" option for backups signing
237 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
238 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
239 added "nicelevel" option
240 added "testconnect" option
241 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
242 added "bandwidthlimit" option
243 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
244 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
245 added configfile option to mysql handler
246 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
247 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
248 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
249 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
250 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
252 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
253 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
254 rdiff handler supports local dest
255 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
256 added "when = hourly"
257 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
258 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
259 improved 'when' parsing.
261 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
262 results of handlers are now read line by line.
263 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
264 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
265 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
266 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
267 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
268 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
269 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
270 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
271 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
273 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
274 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
275 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
276 added status in the subject line of report emails
278 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
279 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
280 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
281 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
282 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
284 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
285 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
287 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
288 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
290 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
291 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
292 fixed stderr redirect bug
293 some comments in example.rdiff
295 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
296 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
297 works now with gawk as well as mawk
298 many bug fixes to ldap handler
299 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
300 does not require /usr/bin/stat
302 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
303 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
304 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
306 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
308 moved sh support to a handler script
309 add test mode, where no action is taken.
311 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
312 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
313 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
315 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
316 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
317 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
318 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
319 all scripts are now run as root
321 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
322 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
323 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
324 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
325 added support for .mysql config files.
327 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004