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