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 . Fixed Trac#11 (quoting needed to prevent shell expansion, broke the
14 toint function sometimes)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Trac#10)
18 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
19 is not supported anymore)
21 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
22 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
23 file (Closes: #394935)
25 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
26 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
27 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
28 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
29 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
30 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
32 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
33 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
36 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
37 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
38 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
39 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
41 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
42 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
44 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
45 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
46 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
47 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
49 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
50 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
51 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
52 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
53 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
54 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
55 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
56 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
57 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
58 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
59 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
60 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
63 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
65 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
66 to not work when run from cron.
67 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
68 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
69 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
70 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
71 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
72 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
73 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
74 symlinks for $configdirectory
75 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
76 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
77 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
78 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
83 . rotated rsync snapshops
84 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
86 . alternative to rsnap
87 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
89 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
90 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
91 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
92 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
93 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
94 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
96 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
97 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
98 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
99 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
100 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
101 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
103 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
105 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
106 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
107 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
108 between various readlink versions in this field.
109 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
110 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
111 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
112 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
113 following to the top of the handler config:
114 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
117 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
118 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
119 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
120 between various readlink versions in this field.
121 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
122 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
124 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
125 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
126 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
127 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
129 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
130 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
131 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
133 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
135 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
137 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
139 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
142 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
143 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
144 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
145 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
147 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
148 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
149 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
150 symlinks for $configdirectory
151 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
152 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
153 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
156 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
157 changed cron permissions to 644
158 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
159 minor documentation fixes
160 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
161 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
162 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
163 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
165 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
169 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
170 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
171 out more easily they can customize them
173 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
175 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
176 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
178 . fixed no user defaults file processing
180 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
181 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
182 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
183 disabled in backupninja.conf
184 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
185 in vsnames config variable
187 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
188 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
189 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
190 "vsnames" configuration setting
193 . fixed errors in create remote dir
194 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
195 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
197 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
199 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
200 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
203 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
204 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
205 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
206 don't follow symlinks)
207 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
208 . new function: vservers_exist
211 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
213 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
215 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
216 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
218 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
219 backupninja and ninjahelper
222 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
224 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
225 . different signing and encrypting key support added
226 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
227 GnuPG-related options are used
229 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
230 ninjahelper(s) changes
231 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
232 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
234 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
236 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
237 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
238 . updated to include Vserver selection
240 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
241 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
243 . enhanced for vserver support
244 . now able to select databases and dump directory
246 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
248 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
249 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
250 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
251 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
252 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
253 added makecd ninjahelper
254 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
255 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
256 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
257 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
258 update rdiff ninjahelper
259 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
260 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
261 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
263 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
264 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
265 fixed insecure temporary file creation
266 *****************************************
267 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
268 fixed incorrect find positional
269 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
270 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
271 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
272 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
273 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
274 man pages are greatly improved.
276 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
277 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
278 added vservers support to duplicity handler
279 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
280 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
281 have a look at example.dup.
283 documented .disabled method.
284 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
285 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
286 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
287 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
288 to be seen as a vserver
289 changes to sys handler
290 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
291 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
293 changes to pgsql handler
294 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
295 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
296 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
297 changes to ninjahelper
298 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
299 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
300 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
301 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
302 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
303 added helper for pgsql handler.
304 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
305 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
306 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
307 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
309 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
310 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
311 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
312 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
313 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
314 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
316 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
317 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
318 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
319 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
320 ******************************************************************
321 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
322 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
323 ******************************************************************
324 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
325 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
326 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
327 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
328 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
329 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
330 added "sign" option for backups signing
331 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
332 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
333 added "nicelevel" option
334 added "testconnect" option
335 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
336 added "bandwidthlimit" option
337 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
338 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
339 added configfile option to mysql handler
340 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
341 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
342 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
343 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
344 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
346 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
347 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
348 rdiff handler supports local dest
349 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
350 added "when = hourly"
351 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
352 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
353 improved 'when' parsing.
355 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
356 results of handlers are now read line by line.
357 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
358 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
359 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
360 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
361 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
362 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
363 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
364 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
365 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
367 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
368 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
369 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
370 added status in the subject line of report emails
372 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
373 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
374 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
375 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
376 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
378 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
379 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
381 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
382 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
384 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
385 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
386 fixed stderr redirect bug
387 some comments in example.rdiff
389 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
390 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
391 works now with gawk as well as mawk
392 many bug fixes to ldap handler
393 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
394 does not require /usr/bin/stat
396 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
397 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
398 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
400 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
402 moved sh support to a handler script
403 add test mode, where no action is taken.
405 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
406 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
407 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
409 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
410 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
411 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
412 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
413 all scripts are now run as root
415 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
416 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
417 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
418 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
419 added support for .mysql config files.
421 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004