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