1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
6 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
9 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
10 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
11 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
12 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
13 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
15 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
16 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
19 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
20 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
23 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
24 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
26 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
27 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
28 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
29 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub files
31 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
33 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
34 to not work when run from cron.
35 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
36 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
37 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
38 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
39 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
40 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
41 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
42 symlinks for $configdirectory
43 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
44 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
45 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
46 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
51 . rotated rsync snapshops
52 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
54 . alternative to rsnap
55 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
57 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
58 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
59 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
60 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
61 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
62 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
64 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
65 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
66 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
67 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
68 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
69 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
71 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
73 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
74 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
75 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
76 between various readlink versions in this field.
77 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
78 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
79 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
80 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
81 following to the top of the handler config:
82 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
85 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
86 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
87 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
88 between various readlink versions in this field.
89 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
90 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
92 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
93 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
94 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
95 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
97 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
98 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
99 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
101 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
103 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
105 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
107 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
110 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
111 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
112 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
113 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
115 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
116 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
117 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
118 symlinks for $configdirectory
119 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
120 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
121 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
124 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
125 changed cron permissions to 644
126 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
127 minor documentation fixes
128 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
129 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
130 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
131 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
133 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
137 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
138 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
139 out more easily they can customize them
141 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
143 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
144 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
146 . fixed no user defaults file processing
148 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
149 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
150 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
151 disabled in backupninja.conf
152 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
153 in vsnames config variable
155 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
156 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
157 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
158 "vsnames" configuration setting
161 . fixed errors in create remote dir
162 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
163 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
165 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
167 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
168 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
171 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
172 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
173 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
174 don't follow symlinks)
175 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
176 . new function: vservers_exist
179 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
181 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
183 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
184 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
186 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
187 backupninja and ninjahelper
190 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
192 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
193 . different signing and encrypting key support added
194 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
195 GnuPG-related options are used
197 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
198 ninjahelper(s) changes
199 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
200 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
202 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
204 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
205 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
206 . updated to include Vserver selection
208 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
209 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
211 . enhanced for vserver support
212 . now able to select databases and dump directory
214 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
216 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
217 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
218 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
219 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
220 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
221 added makecd ninjahelper
222 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
223 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
224 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
225 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
226 update rdiff ninjahelper
227 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
228 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
229 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
231 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
232 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
233 fixed insecure temporary file creation
234 *****************************************
235 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
236 fixed incorrect find positional
237 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
238 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
239 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
240 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
241 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
242 man pages are greatly improved.
244 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
245 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
246 added vservers support to duplicity handler
247 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
248 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
249 have a look at example.dup.
251 documented .disabled method.
252 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
253 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
254 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
255 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
256 to be seen as a vserver
257 changes to sys handler
258 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
259 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
261 changes to pgsql handler
262 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
263 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
264 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
265 changes to ninjahelper
266 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
267 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
268 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
269 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
270 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
271 added helper for pgsql handler.
272 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
273 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
274 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
275 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
277 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
278 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
279 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
280 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
281 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
282 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
284 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
285 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
286 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
287 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
288 ******************************************************************
289 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
290 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
291 ******************************************************************
292 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
293 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
294 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
295 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
296 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
297 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
298 added "sign" option for backups signing
299 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
300 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
301 added "nicelevel" option
302 added "testconnect" option
303 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
304 added "bandwidthlimit" option
305 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
306 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
307 added configfile option to mysql handler
308 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
309 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
310 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
311 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
312 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
314 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
315 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
316 rdiff handler supports local dest
317 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
318 added "when = hourly"
319 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
320 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
321 improved 'when' parsing.
323 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
324 results of handlers are now read line by line.
325 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
326 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
327 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
328 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
329 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
330 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
331 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
332 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
333 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
335 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
336 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
337 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
338 added status in the subject line of report emails
340 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
341 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
342 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
343 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
344 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
346 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
347 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
349 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
350 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
352 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
353 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
354 fixed stderr redirect bug
355 some comments in example.rdiff
357 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
358 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
359 works now with gawk as well as mawk
360 many bug fixes to ldap handler
361 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
362 does not require /usr/bin/stat
364 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
365 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
366 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
368 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
370 moved sh support to a handler script
371 add test mode, where no action is taken.
373 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
374 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
375 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
377 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
378 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
379 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
380 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
381 all scripts are now run as root
383 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
384 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
385 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
386 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
387 added support for .mysql config files.
389 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004