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
14 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
15 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
20 . rotated rsync snapshops
21 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
23 . alternative to rsnap
24 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
26 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
27 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
29 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
30 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
31 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
33 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
34 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
35 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
36 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
37 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
38 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
40 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
42 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
43 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
44 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
45 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
46 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
47 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
48 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
49 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
50 following to the top of the handler config:
51 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
54 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
55 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
56 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
57 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
58 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
60 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
61 0.4.3 will integrate them)
62 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
64 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
65 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
67 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
69 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
72 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
73 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
74 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
75 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
77 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
78 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
79 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
80 symlinks for $configdirectory
81 changed cron permissions to 644
82 minor documentation fixes
83 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
84 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
85 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
86 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
88 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
92 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
93 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
94 out more easily they can customize them
96 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
98 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
99 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
101 . fixed no user defaults file processing
103 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
104 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
105 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
106 disabled in backupninja.conf
107 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
108 in vsnames config variable
110 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
111 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
112 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
113 "vsnames" configuration setting
116 . fixed errors in create remote dir
117 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
118 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
120 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
122 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
123 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
126 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
127 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
128 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
129 don't follow symlinks)
130 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
131 . new function: vservers_exist
134 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
136 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
138 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
139 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
141 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
142 backupninja and ninjahelper
145 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
147 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
148 . different signing and encrypting key support added
149 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
150 GnuPG-related options are used
152 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
153 ninjahelper(s) changes
154 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
155 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
157 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
159 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
160 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
161 . updated to include Vserver selection
163 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
164 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
166 . enhanced for vserver support
167 . now able to select databases and dump directory
169 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
171 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
172 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
173 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
174 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
175 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
176 added makecd ninjahelper
177 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
178 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
179 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
180 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
181 update rdiff ninjahelper
182 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
183 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
184 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
186 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
187 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
188 fixed insecure temporary file creation
189 *****************************************
190 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
191 fixed incorrect find positional
192 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
193 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
194 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
195 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
196 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
197 man pages are greatly improved.
199 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
200 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
201 added vservers support to duplicity handler
202 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
203 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
204 have a look at example.dup.
206 documented .disabled method.
207 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
208 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
209 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
210 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
211 to be seen as a vserver
212 changes to sys handler
213 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
214 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
216 changes to pgsql handler
217 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
218 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
219 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
220 changes to ninjahelper
221 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
222 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
223 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
224 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
225 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
226 added helper for pgsql handler.
227 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
228 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
229 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
230 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
232 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
233 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
234 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
235 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
236 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
237 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
239 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
240 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
241 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
242 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
243 ******************************************************************
244 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
245 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
246 ******************************************************************
247 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
248 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
249 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
250 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
251 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
252 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
253 added "sign" option for backups signing
254 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
255 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
256 added "nicelevel" option
257 added "testconnect" option
258 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
259 added "bandwidthlimit" option
260 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
261 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
262 added configfile option to mysql handler
263 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
264 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
265 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
266 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
267 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
269 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
270 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
271 rdiff handler supports local dest
272 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
273 added "when = hourly"
274 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
275 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
276 improved 'when' parsing.
278 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
279 results of handlers are now read line by line.
280 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
281 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
282 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
283 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
284 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
285 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
286 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
287 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
288 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
290 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
291 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
292 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
293 added status in the subject line of report emails
295 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
296 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
297 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
298 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
299 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
301 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
302 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
304 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
305 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
307 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
308 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
309 fixed stderr redirect bug
310 some comments in example.rdiff
312 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
313 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
314 works now with gawk as well as mawk
315 many bug fixes to ldap handler
316 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
317 does not require /usr/bin/stat
319 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
320 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
321 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
323 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
325 moved sh support to a handler script
326 add test mode, where no action is taken.
328 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
329 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
330 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
332 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
333 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
334 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
335 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
336 all scripts are now run as root
338 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
339 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
340 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
341 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
342 added support for .mysql config files.
344 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004