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