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
18 . rotated rsync snapshops
19 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
21 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
22 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
23 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
24 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
25 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
26 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
29 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
30 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
31 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
32 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
33 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
35 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
37 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
38 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
39 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
40 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
41 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
42 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
44 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
45 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
46 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
47 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
48 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
50 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
51 0.4.3 will integrate them)
52 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
54 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
55 . Changed partition check to use sfdisk as its more common, thanks Rainer Zocholl
57 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
60 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
61 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
62 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
63 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
65 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
66 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
67 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
68 symlinks for $configdirectory
69 changed cron permissions to 644
70 minor documentation fixes
71 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
72 srpm-package' targets (thanks Robert Napier)
74 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
78 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
79 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
80 out more easily they can customize them
82 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
84 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
85 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
87 . fixed no user defaults file processing
89 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
90 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
91 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
92 disabled in backupninja.conf
93 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
94 in vsnames config variable
96 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
97 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
98 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
99 "vsnames" configuration setting
102 . fixed errors in create remote dir
103 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
104 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
106 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
108 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
109 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
112 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
113 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
114 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
115 don't follow symlinks)
116 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
117 . new function: vservers_exist
120 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
122 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
124 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
125 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
127 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
128 backupninja and ninjahelper
131 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
133 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
134 . different signing and encrypting key support added
135 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
136 GnuPG-related options are used
138 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
139 ninjahelper(s) changes
140 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
141 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
143 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
145 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
146 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
147 . updated to include Vserver selection
149 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
150 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
152 . enhanced for vserver support
153 . now able to select databases and dump directory
155 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
157 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
158 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
159 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
160 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
161 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
162 added makecd ninjahelper
163 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
164 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
165 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
166 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
167 update rdiff ninjahelper
168 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
169 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
170 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
172 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
173 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
174 fixed insecure temporary file creation
175 *****************************************
176 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
177 fixed incorrect find positional
178 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
179 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
180 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
181 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
182 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
183 man pages are greatly improved.
185 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
186 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
187 added vservers support to duplicity handler
188 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
189 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
190 have a look at example.dup.
192 documented .disabled method.
193 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
194 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
195 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
196 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
197 to be seen as a vserver
198 changes to sys handler
199 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
200 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
202 changes to pgsql handler
203 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
204 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
205 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
206 changes to ninjahelper
207 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
208 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
209 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
210 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
211 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
212 added helper for pgsql handler.
213 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
214 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
215 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
216 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
218 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
219 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
220 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
221 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
222 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
223 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
225 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
226 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
227 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
228 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
229 ******************************************************************
230 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
231 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
232 ******************************************************************
233 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
234 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
235 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
236 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
237 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
238 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
239 added "sign" option for backups signing
240 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
241 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
242 added "nicelevel" option
243 added "testconnect" option
244 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
245 added "bandwidthlimit" option
246 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
247 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
248 added configfile option to mysql handler
249 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
250 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
251 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
252 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
253 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
255 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
256 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
257 rdiff handler supports local dest
258 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
259 added "when = hourly"
260 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
261 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
262 improved 'when' parsing.
264 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
265 results of handlers are now read line by line.
266 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
267 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
268 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
269 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
270 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
271 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
272 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
273 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
274 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
276 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
277 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
278 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
279 added status in the subject line of report emails
281 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
282 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
283 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
284 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
285 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
287 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
288 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
290 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
291 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
293 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
294 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
295 fixed stderr redirect bug
296 some comments in example.rdiff
298 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
299 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
300 works now with gawk as well as mawk
301 many bug fixes to ldap handler
302 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
303 does not require /usr/bin/stat
305 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
306 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
307 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
309 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
311 moved sh support to a handler script
312 add test mode, where no action is taken.
314 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
315 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
316 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
318 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
319 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
320 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
321 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
322 all scripts are now run as root
324 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
325 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
326 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
327 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
328 added support for .mysql config files.
330 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004