1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
15 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
16 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file
18 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
19 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
21 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
22 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
25 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
27 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
28 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
31 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
32 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
33 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
34 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
35 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
36 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
37 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
38 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
39 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
40 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
41 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
42 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
43 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub files
46 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
48 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
49 to not work when run from cron.
50 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
51 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
52 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
53 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
54 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
55 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
56 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
57 symlinks for $configdirectory
58 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
59 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
60 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
61 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
66 . rotated rsync snapshops
67 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
69 . alternative to rsnap
70 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
72 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
73 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
74 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
75 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
76 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
77 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
79 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
80 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
81 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
82 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
83 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
84 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
86 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
88 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
89 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
90 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
91 between various readlink versions in this field.
92 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
93 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
94 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
95 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
96 following to the top of the handler config:
97 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
100 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
101 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
102 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
103 between various readlink versions in this field.
104 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
105 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
107 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
108 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
109 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
110 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
112 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
113 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
114 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
116 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
118 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
120 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
122 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
125 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
126 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
127 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
128 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
130 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
131 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
132 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
133 symlinks for $configdirectory
134 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
135 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
136 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
139 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
140 changed cron permissions to 644
141 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
142 minor documentation fixes
143 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
144 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
145 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
146 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
148 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
152 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
153 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
154 out more easily they can customize them
156 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
158 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
159 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
161 . fixed no user defaults file processing
163 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
164 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
165 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
166 disabled in backupninja.conf
167 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
168 in vsnames config variable
170 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
171 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
172 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
173 "vsnames" configuration setting
176 . fixed errors in create remote dir
177 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
178 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
180 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
182 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
183 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
186 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
187 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
188 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
189 don't follow symlinks)
190 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
191 . new function: vservers_exist
194 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
196 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
198 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
199 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
201 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
202 backupninja and ninjahelper
205 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
207 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
208 . different signing and encrypting key support added
209 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
210 GnuPG-related options are used
212 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
213 ninjahelper(s) changes
214 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
215 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
217 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
219 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
220 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
221 . updated to include Vserver selection
223 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
224 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
226 . enhanced for vserver support
227 . now able to select databases and dump directory
229 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
231 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
232 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
233 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
234 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
235 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
236 added makecd ninjahelper
237 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
238 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
239 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
240 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
241 update rdiff ninjahelper
242 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
243 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
244 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
246 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
247 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
248 fixed insecure temporary file creation
249 *****************************************
250 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
251 fixed incorrect find positional
252 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
253 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
254 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
255 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
256 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
257 man pages are greatly improved.
259 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
260 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
261 added vservers support to duplicity handler
262 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
263 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
264 have a look at example.dup.
266 documented .disabled method.
267 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
268 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
269 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
270 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
271 to be seen as a vserver
272 changes to sys handler
273 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
274 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
276 changes to pgsql handler
277 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
278 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
279 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
280 changes to ninjahelper
281 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
282 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
283 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
284 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
285 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
286 added helper for pgsql handler.
287 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
288 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
289 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
290 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
292 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
293 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
294 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
295 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
296 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
297 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
299 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
300 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
301 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
302 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
303 ******************************************************************
304 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
305 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
306 ******************************************************************
307 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
308 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
309 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
310 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
311 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
312 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
313 added "sign" option for backups signing
314 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
315 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
316 added "nicelevel" option
317 added "testconnect" option
318 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
319 added "bandwidthlimit" option
320 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
321 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
322 added configfile option to mysql handler
323 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
324 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
325 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
326 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
327 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
329 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
330 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
331 rdiff handler supports local dest
332 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
333 added "when = hourly"
334 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
335 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
336 improved 'when' parsing.
338 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
339 results of handlers are now read line by line.
340 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
341 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
342 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
343 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
344 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
345 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
346 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
347 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
348 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
350 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
351 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
352 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
353 added status in the subject line of report emails
355 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
356 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
357 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
358 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
359 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
361 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
362 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
364 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
365 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
367 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
368 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
369 fixed stderr redirect bug
370 some comments in example.rdiff
372 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
373 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
374 works now with gawk as well as mawk
375 many bug fixes to ldap handler
376 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
377 does not require /usr/bin/stat
379 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
380 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
381 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
383 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
385 moved sh support to a handler script
386 add test mode, where no action is taken.
388 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
389 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
390 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
392 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
393 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
394 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
395 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
396 all scripts are now run as root
398 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
399 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
400 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
401 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
402 added support for .mysql config files.
404 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004