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