1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
10 . fix location of deleted_on file
11 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
13 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
14 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
15 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
16 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
17 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
18 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
19 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
20 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
22 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
24 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
25 detected volume group.
27 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
29 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
30 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
31 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
32 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
35 . added vservers_running function
37 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
38 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
42 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
43 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
44 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
45 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
46 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
48 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
49 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
50 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
51 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
53 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
54 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
56 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
57 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
58 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
60 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
61 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
63 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
64 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
65 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
66 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
67 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
68 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
69 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
70 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
71 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
73 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
75 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
76 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
77 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
78 debconf-get-selections
79 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
80 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
81 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
82 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
83 (Thanks to John Hallam).
85 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
86 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
88 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
90 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
92 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
93 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
94 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
95 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
96 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
97 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
98 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
99 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
102 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
103 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
104 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
107 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
108 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
109 file (Closes: #394935)
110 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
112 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
113 together (Closes: Trac#29)
114 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
115 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
117 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
118 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
119 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
120 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
122 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
123 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
124 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
125 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
126 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
127 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
128 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
129 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
130 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
131 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
133 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
134 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
137 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
138 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
139 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
140 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
141 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
142 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
144 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
145 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
147 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
148 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
149 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
150 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
151 . Added example.rsync configuration file
153 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
154 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
155 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
156 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
157 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
158 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
159 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
160 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
161 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
162 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
163 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
164 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
166 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
167 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
168 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
169 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
170 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
171 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
172 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
173 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
175 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
177 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
178 to not work when run from cron.
179 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
180 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
181 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
182 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
183 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
184 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
185 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
186 symlinks for $configdirectory
187 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
188 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
189 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
190 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
195 . rotated rsync snapshops
196 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
198 . alternative to rsnap
199 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
201 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
202 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
203 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
204 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
205 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
206 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
208 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
209 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
210 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
211 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
212 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
213 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
215 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
217 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
218 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
219 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
220 between various readlink versions in this field.
221 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
222 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
223 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
224 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
225 following to the top of the handler config:
226 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
229 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
230 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
231 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
232 between various readlink versions in this field.
233 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
234 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
236 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
237 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
238 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
239 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
241 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
242 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
243 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
245 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
247 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
249 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
251 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
254 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
255 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
256 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
257 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
259 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
260 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
261 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
262 symlinks for $configdirectory
263 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
264 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
265 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
268 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
269 changed cron permissions to 644
270 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
271 minor documentation fixes
272 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
273 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
274 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
275 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
277 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
281 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
282 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
283 out more easily they can customize them
285 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
287 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
288 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
290 . fixed no user defaults file processing
292 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
293 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
294 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
295 disabled in backupninja.conf
296 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
297 in vsnames config variable
299 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
300 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
301 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
302 "vsnames" configuration setting
305 . fixed errors in create remote dir
306 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
307 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
309 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
311 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
312 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
315 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
316 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
317 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
318 don't follow symlinks)
319 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
320 . new function: vservers_exist
323 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
325 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
327 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
328 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
330 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
331 backupninja and ninjahelper
334 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
336 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
337 . different signing and encrypting key support added
338 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
339 GnuPG-related options are used
341 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
342 ninjahelper(s) changes
343 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
344 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
346 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
348 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
349 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
350 . updated to include Vserver selection
352 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
353 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
355 . enhanced for vserver support
356 . now able to select databases and dump directory
358 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
360 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
361 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
362 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
363 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
364 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
365 added makecd ninjahelper
366 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
367 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
368 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
369 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
370 update rdiff ninjahelper
371 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
372 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
373 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
375 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
376 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
377 fixed insecure temporary file creation
378 *****************************************
379 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
380 fixed incorrect find positional
381 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
382 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
383 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
384 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
385 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
386 man pages are greatly improved.
388 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
389 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
390 added vservers support to duplicity handler
391 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
392 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
393 have a look at example.dup.
395 documented .disabled method.
396 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
397 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
398 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
399 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
400 to be seen as a vserver
401 changes to sys handler
402 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
403 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
405 changes to pgsql handler
406 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
407 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
408 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
409 changes to ninjahelper
410 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
411 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
412 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
413 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
414 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
415 added helper for pgsql handler.
416 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
417 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
418 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
419 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
421 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
422 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
423 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
424 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
425 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
426 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
428 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
429 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
430 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
431 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
432 ******************************************************************
433 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
434 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
435 ******************************************************************
436 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
437 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
438 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
439 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
440 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
441 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
442 added "sign" option for backups signing
443 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
444 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
445 added "nicelevel" option
446 added "testconnect" option
447 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
448 added "bandwidthlimit" option
449 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
450 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
451 added configfile option to mysql handler
452 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
453 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
454 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
455 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
456 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
458 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
459 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
460 rdiff handler supports local dest
461 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
462 added "when = hourly"
463 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
464 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
465 improved 'when' parsing.
467 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
468 results of handlers are now read line by line.
469 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
470 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
471 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
472 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
473 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
474 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
475 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
476 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
477 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
479 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
480 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
481 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
482 added status in the subject line of report emails
484 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
485 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
486 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
487 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
488 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
490 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
491 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
493 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
494 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
496 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
497 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
498 fixed stderr redirect bug
499 some comments in example.rdiff
501 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
502 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
503 works now with gawk as well as mawk
504 many bug fixes to ldap handler
505 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
506 does not require /usr/bin/stat
508 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
509 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
510 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
512 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
514 moved sh support to a handler script
515 add test mode, where no action is taken.
517 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
518 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
519 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
521 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
522 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
523 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
524 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
525 all scripts are now run as root
527 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
528 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
529 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
530 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
531 added support for .mysql config files.
533 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004