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
18 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
20 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
21 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
22 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
23 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
24 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
26 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
28 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
29 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
30 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
31 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
32 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
33 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
35 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
36 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
37 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
38 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
39 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
41 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
42 0.4.3 will integrate them)
43 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
45 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
47 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
50 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
51 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
53 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
54 changed cron permissions to 644
55 minor documentation fixes
57 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
61 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
62 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
63 out more easily they can customize them
65 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
67 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
68 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
70 . fixed no user defaults file processing
72 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
73 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
74 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
75 disabled in backupninja.conf
76 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
77 in vsnames config variable
79 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
80 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
81 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
82 "vsnames" configuration setting
85 . fixed errors in create remote dir
86 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
87 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
89 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
91 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
92 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
95 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
96 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
97 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
98 don't follow symlinks)
99 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
100 . new function: vservers_exist
103 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
105 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
107 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
108 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
110 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
111 backupninja and ninjahelper
114 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
116 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
117 . different signing and encrypting key support added
118 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
119 GnuPG-related options are used
121 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
122 ninjahelper(s) changes
123 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
124 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
126 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
128 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
129 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
130 . updated to include Vserver selection
132 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
133 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
135 . enhanced for vserver support
136 . now able to select databases and dump directory
138 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
140 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
141 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
142 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
143 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
144 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
145 added makecd ninjahelper
146 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
147 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
148 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
149 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
150 update rdiff ninjahelper
151 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
152 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
153 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
155 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
156 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
157 fixed insecure temporary file creation
158 *****************************************
159 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
160 fixed incorrect find positional
161 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
162 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
163 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
164 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
165 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
166 man pages are greatly improved.
168 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
169 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
170 added vservers support to duplicity handler
171 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
172 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
173 have a look at example.dup.
175 documented .disabled method.
176 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
177 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
178 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
179 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
180 to be seen as a vserver
181 changes to sys handler
182 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
183 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
185 changes to pgsql handler
186 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
187 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
188 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
189 changes to ninjahelper
190 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
191 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
192 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
193 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
194 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
195 added helper for pgsql handler.
196 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
197 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
198 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
199 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
201 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
202 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
203 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
204 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
205 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
206 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
208 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
209 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
210 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
211 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
212 ******************************************************************
213 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
214 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
215 ******************************************************************
216 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
217 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
218 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
219 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
220 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
221 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
222 added "sign" option for backups signing
223 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
224 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
225 added "nicelevel" option
226 added "testconnect" option
227 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
228 added "bandwidthlimit" option
229 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
230 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
231 added configfile option to mysql handler
232 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
233 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
234 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
235 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
236 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
238 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
239 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
240 rdiff handler supports local dest
241 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
242 added "when = hourly"
243 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
244 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
245 improved 'when' parsing.
247 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
248 results of handlers are now read line by line.
249 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
250 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
251 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
252 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
253 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
254 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
255 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
256 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
257 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
259 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
260 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
261 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
262 added status in the subject line of report emails
264 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
265 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
266 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
267 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
268 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
270 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
271 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
273 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
274 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
276 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
277 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
278 fixed stderr redirect bug
279 some comments in example.rdiff
281 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
282 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
283 works now with gawk as well as mawk
284 many bug fixes to ldap handler
285 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
286 does not require /usr/bin/stat
288 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
289 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
290 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
292 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
294 moved sh support to a handler script
295 add test mode, where no action is taken.
297 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
298 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
299 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
301 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
302 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
303 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
304 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
305 all scripts are now run as root
307 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
308 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
309 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
310 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
311 added support for .mysql config files.
313 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004