1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
3 fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
7 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
8 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
9 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
10 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
11 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
14 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
15 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
17 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
18 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
19 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
21 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
22 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
24 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
25 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
26 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
27 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
29 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
31 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
32 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
33 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
34 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
35 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
36 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
37 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
38 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
41 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
42 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
43 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
46 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
47 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
48 file (Closes: #394935)
49 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
51 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
52 together (Closes: Trac#29)
53 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
54 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
56 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
57 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
58 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
59 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
61 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
62 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
63 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
64 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
65 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
66 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
67 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
68 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
69 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
70 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
72 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
73 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
76 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
77 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
78 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
79 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
80 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
81 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
83 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
84 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
86 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
87 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
88 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
89 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
90 . Added example.rsync configuration file
92 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
93 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
94 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
95 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
96 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
97 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
98 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
99 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
100 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
101 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
102 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
103 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
105 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
106 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
107 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
108 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
109 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
110 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
111 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
112 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
114 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
116 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
117 to not work when run from cron.
118 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
119 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
120 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
121 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
122 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
123 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
124 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
125 symlinks for $configdirectory
126 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
127 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
128 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
129 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
134 . rotated rsync snapshops
135 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
137 . alternative to rsnap
138 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
140 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
141 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
142 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
143 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
144 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
145 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
147 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
148 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
149 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
150 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
151 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
152 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
154 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
156 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
157 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
158 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
159 between various readlink versions in this field.
160 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
161 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
162 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
163 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
164 following to the top of the handler config:
165 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
168 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
169 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
170 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
171 between various readlink versions in this field.
172 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
173 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
175 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
176 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
177 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
178 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
180 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
181 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
182 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
184 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
186 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
188 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
190 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
193 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
194 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
195 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
196 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
198 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
199 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
200 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
201 symlinks for $configdirectory
202 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
203 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
204 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
207 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
208 changed cron permissions to 644
209 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
210 minor documentation fixes
211 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
212 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
213 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
214 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
216 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
220 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
221 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
222 out more easily they can customize them
224 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
226 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
227 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
229 . fixed no user defaults file processing
231 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
232 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
233 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
234 disabled in backupninja.conf
235 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
236 in vsnames config variable
238 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
239 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
240 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
241 "vsnames" configuration setting
244 . fixed errors in create remote dir
245 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
246 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
248 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
250 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
251 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
254 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
255 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
256 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
257 don't follow symlinks)
258 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
259 . new function: vservers_exist
262 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
264 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
266 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
267 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
269 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
270 backupninja and ninjahelper
273 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
275 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
276 . different signing and encrypting key support added
277 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
278 GnuPG-related options are used
280 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
281 ninjahelper(s) changes
282 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
283 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
285 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
287 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
288 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
289 . updated to include Vserver selection
291 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
292 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
294 . enhanced for vserver support
295 . now able to select databases and dump directory
297 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
299 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
300 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
301 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
302 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
303 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
304 added makecd ninjahelper
305 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
306 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
307 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
308 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
309 update rdiff ninjahelper
310 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
311 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
312 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
314 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
315 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
316 fixed insecure temporary file creation
317 *****************************************
318 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
319 fixed incorrect find positional
320 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
321 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
322 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
323 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
324 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
325 man pages are greatly improved.
327 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
328 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
329 added vservers support to duplicity handler
330 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
331 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
332 have a look at example.dup.
334 documented .disabled method.
335 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
336 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
337 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
338 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
339 to be seen as a vserver
340 changes to sys handler
341 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
342 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
344 changes to pgsql handler
345 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
346 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
347 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
348 changes to ninjahelper
349 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
350 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
351 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
352 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
353 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
354 added helper for pgsql handler.
355 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
356 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
357 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
358 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
360 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
361 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
362 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
363 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
364 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
365 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
367 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
368 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
369 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
370 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
371 ******************************************************************
372 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
373 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
374 ******************************************************************
375 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
376 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
377 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
378 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
379 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
380 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
381 added "sign" option for backups signing
382 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
383 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
384 added "nicelevel" option
385 added "testconnect" option
386 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
387 added "bandwidthlimit" option
388 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
389 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
390 added configfile option to mysql handler
391 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
392 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
393 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
394 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
395 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
397 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
398 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
399 rdiff handler supports local dest
400 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
401 added "when = hourly"
402 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
403 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
404 improved 'when' parsing.
406 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
407 results of handlers are now read line by line.
408 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
409 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
410 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
411 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
412 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
413 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
414 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
415 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
416 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
418 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
419 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
420 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
421 added status in the subject line of report emails
423 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
424 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
425 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
426 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
427 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
429 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
430 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
432 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
433 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
435 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
436 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
437 fixed stderr redirect bug
438 some comments in example.rdiff
440 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
441 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
442 works now with gawk as well as mawk
443 many bug fixes to ldap handler
444 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
445 does not require /usr/bin/stat
447 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
448 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
449 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
451 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
453 moved sh support to a handler script
454 add test mode, where no action is taken.
456 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
457 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
458 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
460 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
461 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
462 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
463 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
464 all scripts are now run as root
466 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
467 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
468 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
469 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
470 added support for .mysql config files.
472 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004