1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
10 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
13 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
15 . fix location of deleted_on file
16 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
17 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
18 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
20 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
21 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
22 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
23 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
24 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
25 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
26 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
27 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
28 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
30 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
32 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
34 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
35 detected volume group.
36 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
38 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
41 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
43 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
44 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
45 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
46 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
49 . added vservers_running function
51 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
52 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
56 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
57 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
58 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
59 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
60 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
62 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
63 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
64 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
65 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
67 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
68 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
70 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
71 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
72 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
74 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
75 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
77 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
78 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
79 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
80 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
81 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
82 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
83 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
84 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
85 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
87 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
89 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
90 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
91 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
92 debconf-get-selections
93 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
94 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
95 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
96 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
97 (Thanks to John Hallam).
99 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
100 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
102 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
104 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
106 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
107 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
108 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
109 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
110 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
111 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
112 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
113 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
116 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
117 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
118 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
121 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
122 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
123 file (Closes: #394935)
124 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
126 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
127 together (Closes: Trac#29)
128 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
129 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
131 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
132 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
133 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
134 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
136 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
137 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
138 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
139 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
140 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
141 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
142 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
143 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
144 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
145 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
147 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
148 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
151 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
152 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
153 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
154 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
155 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
156 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
158 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
159 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
161 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
162 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
163 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
164 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
165 . Added example.rsync configuration file
167 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
168 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
169 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
170 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
171 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
172 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
173 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
174 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
175 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
176 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
177 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
178 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
180 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
181 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
182 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
183 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
184 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
185 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
186 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
187 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
189 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
191 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
192 to not work when run from cron.
193 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
194 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
195 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
196 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
197 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
198 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
199 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
200 symlinks for $configdirectory
201 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
202 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
203 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
204 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
209 . rotated rsync snapshops
210 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
212 . alternative to rsnap
213 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
215 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
216 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
217 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
218 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
219 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
220 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
222 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
223 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
224 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
225 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
226 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
227 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
229 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
231 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
232 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
233 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
234 between various readlink versions in this field.
235 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
236 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
237 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
238 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
239 following to the top of the handler config:
240 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
243 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
244 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
245 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
246 between various readlink versions in this field.
247 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
248 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
250 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
251 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
252 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
253 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
255 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
256 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
257 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
259 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
261 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
263 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
265 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
268 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
269 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
270 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
271 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
273 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
274 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
275 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
276 symlinks for $configdirectory
277 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
278 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
279 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
282 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
283 changed cron permissions to 644
284 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
285 minor documentation fixes
286 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
287 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
288 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
289 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
291 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
295 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
296 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
297 out more easily they can customize them
299 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
301 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
302 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
304 . fixed no user defaults file processing
306 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
307 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
308 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
309 disabled in backupninja.conf
310 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
311 in vsnames config variable
313 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
314 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
315 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
316 "vsnames" configuration setting
319 . fixed errors in create remote dir
320 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
321 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
323 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
325 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
326 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
329 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
330 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
331 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
332 don't follow symlinks)
333 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
334 . new function: vservers_exist
337 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
339 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
341 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
342 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
344 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
345 backupninja and ninjahelper
348 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
350 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
351 . different signing and encrypting key support added
352 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
353 GnuPG-related options are used
355 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
356 ninjahelper(s) changes
357 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
358 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
360 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
362 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
363 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
364 . updated to include Vserver selection
366 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
367 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
369 . enhanced for vserver support
370 . now able to select databases and dump directory
372 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
374 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
375 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
376 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
377 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
378 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
379 added makecd ninjahelper
380 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
381 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
382 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
383 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
384 update rdiff ninjahelper
385 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
386 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
387 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
389 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
390 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
391 fixed insecure temporary file creation
392 *****************************************
393 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
394 fixed incorrect find positional
395 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
396 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
397 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
398 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
399 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
400 man pages are greatly improved.
402 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
403 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
404 added vservers support to duplicity handler
405 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
406 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
407 have a look at example.dup.
409 documented .disabled method.
410 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
411 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
412 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
413 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
414 to be seen as a vserver
415 changes to sys handler
416 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
417 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
419 changes to pgsql handler
420 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
421 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
422 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
423 changes to ninjahelper
424 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
425 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
426 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
427 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
428 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
429 added helper for pgsql handler.
430 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
431 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
432 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
433 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
435 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
436 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
437 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
438 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
439 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
440 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
442 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
443 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
444 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
445 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
446 ******************************************************************
447 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
448 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
449 ******************************************************************
450 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
451 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
452 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
453 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
454 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
455 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
456 added "sign" option for backups signing
457 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
458 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
459 added "nicelevel" option
460 added "testconnect" option
461 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
462 added "bandwidthlimit" option
463 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
464 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
465 added configfile option to mysql handler
466 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
467 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
468 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
469 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
470 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
472 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
473 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
474 rdiff handler supports local dest
475 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
476 added "when = hourly"
477 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
478 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
479 improved 'when' parsing.
481 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
482 results of handlers are now read line by line.
483 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
484 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
485 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
486 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
487 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
488 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
489 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
490 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
491 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
493 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
494 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
495 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
496 added status in the subject line of report emails
498 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
499 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
500 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
501 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
502 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
504 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
505 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
507 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
508 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
510 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
511 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
512 fixed stderr redirect bug
513 some comments in example.rdiff
515 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
516 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
517 works now with gawk as well as mawk
518 many bug fixes to ldap handler
519 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
520 does not require /usr/bin/stat
522 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
523 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
524 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
526 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
528 moved sh support to a handler script
529 add test mode, where no action is taken.
531 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
532 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
533 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
535 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
536 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
537 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
538 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
539 all scripts are now run as root
541 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
542 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
543 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
544 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
545 added support for .mysql config files.
547 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004