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)
8 . new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with
9 "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes #563734)
10 . reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the
11 local filesystem (Closes: #536049)
12 . set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: #537266)
15 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
18 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
19 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
22 . fix location of deleted_on file
23 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
24 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
25 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
27 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
28 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
29 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
30 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
31 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
32 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
33 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
34 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
35 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
36 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
38 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
41 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
42 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
44 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
47 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435)
48 . Fix confusing error if rdiff-backup cannot be found on remote server.
50 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
52 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
53 detected volume group.
54 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
56 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
58 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
59 one time (Closes: #536360)
60 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
61 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
62 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces
63 . Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch.
66 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
69 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
70 will help supporting *BSD some day.
72 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
74 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
75 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
76 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
77 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
80 . added vservers_running function
82 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
83 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
87 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
88 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
89 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
90 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
91 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
93 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
94 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
95 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
96 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
98 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
99 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
101 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
102 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
103 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
105 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
106 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
108 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
109 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
110 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
111 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
112 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
113 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
114 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
115 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
116 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
118 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
120 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
121 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
122 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
123 debconf-get-selections
124 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
125 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
126 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
127 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
128 (Thanks to John Hallam).
130 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
131 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
133 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
135 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
137 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
138 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
139 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
140 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
141 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
142 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
143 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
144 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
147 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
148 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
149 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
152 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
153 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
154 file (Closes: #394935)
155 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
157 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
158 together (Closes: Trac#29)
159 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
160 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
162 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
163 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
164 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
165 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
167 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
168 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
169 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
170 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
171 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
172 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
173 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
174 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
175 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
176 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
178 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
179 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
182 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
183 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
184 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
185 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
186 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
187 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
189 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
190 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
192 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
193 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
194 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
195 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
196 . Added example.rsync configuration file
198 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
199 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
200 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
201 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
202 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
203 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
204 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
205 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
206 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
207 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
208 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
209 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
211 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
212 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
213 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
214 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
215 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
216 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
217 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
218 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
220 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
222 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
223 to not work when run from cron.
224 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
225 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
226 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
227 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
228 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
229 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
230 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
231 symlinks for $configdirectory
232 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
233 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
234 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
235 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
240 . rotated rsync snapshops
241 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
243 . alternative to rsnap
244 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
246 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
247 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
248 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
249 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
250 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
251 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
253 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
254 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
255 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
256 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
257 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
258 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
260 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
262 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
263 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
264 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
265 between various readlink versions in this field.
266 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
267 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
268 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
269 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
270 following to the top of the handler config:
271 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
274 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
275 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
276 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
277 between various readlink versions in this field.
278 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
279 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
281 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
282 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
283 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
284 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
286 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
287 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
288 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
290 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
292 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
294 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
296 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
299 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
300 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
301 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
302 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
304 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
305 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
306 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
307 symlinks for $configdirectory
308 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
309 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
310 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
313 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
314 changed cron permissions to 644
315 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
316 minor documentation fixes
317 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
318 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
319 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
320 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
322 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
326 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
327 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
328 out more easily they can customize them
330 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
332 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
333 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
335 . fixed no user defaults file processing
337 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
338 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
339 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
340 disabled in backupninja.conf
341 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
342 in vsnames config variable
344 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
345 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
346 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
347 "vsnames" configuration setting
350 . fixed errors in create remote dir
351 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
352 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
354 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
356 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
357 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
360 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
361 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
362 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
363 don't follow symlinks)
364 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
365 . new function: vservers_exist
368 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
370 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
372 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
373 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
375 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
376 backupninja and ninjahelper
379 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
381 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
382 . different signing and encrypting key support added
383 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
384 GnuPG-related options are used
386 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
387 ninjahelper(s) changes
388 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
389 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
391 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
393 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
394 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
395 . updated to include Vserver selection
397 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
398 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
400 . enhanced for vserver support
401 . now able to select databases and dump directory
403 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
405 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
406 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
407 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
408 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
409 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
410 added makecd ninjahelper
411 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
412 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
413 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
414 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
415 update rdiff ninjahelper
416 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
417 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
418 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
420 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
421 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
422 fixed insecure temporary file creation
423 *****************************************
424 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
425 fixed incorrect find positional
426 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
427 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
428 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
429 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
430 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
431 man pages are greatly improved.
433 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
434 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
435 added vservers support to duplicity handler
436 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
437 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
438 have a look at example.dup.
440 documented .disabled method.
441 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
442 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
443 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
444 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
445 to be seen as a vserver
446 changes to sys handler
447 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
448 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
450 changes to pgsql handler
451 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
452 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
453 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
454 changes to ninjahelper
455 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
456 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
457 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
458 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
459 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
460 added helper for pgsql handler.
461 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
462 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
463 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
464 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
466 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
467 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
468 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
469 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
470 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
471 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
473 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
474 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
475 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
476 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
477 ******************************************************************
478 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
479 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
480 ******************************************************************
481 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
482 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
483 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
484 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
485 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
486 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
487 added "sign" option for backups signing
488 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
489 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
490 added "nicelevel" option
491 added "testconnect" option
492 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
493 added "bandwidthlimit" option
494 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
495 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
496 added configfile option to mysql handler
497 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
498 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
499 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
500 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
501 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
503 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
504 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
505 rdiff handler supports local dest
506 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
507 added "when = hourly"
508 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
509 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
510 improved 'when' parsing.
512 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
513 results of handlers are now read line by line.
514 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
515 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
516 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
517 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
518 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
519 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
520 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
521 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
522 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
524 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
525 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
526 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
527 added status in the subject line of report emails
529 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
530 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
531 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
532 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
533 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
535 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
536 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
538 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
539 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
541 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
542 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
543 fixed stderr redirect bug
544 some comments in example.rdiff
546 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
547 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
548 works now with gawk as well as mawk
549 many bug fixes to ldap handler
550 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
551 does not require /usr/bin/stat
553 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
554 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
555 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
557 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
559 moved sh support to a handler script
560 add test mode, where no action is taken.
562 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
563 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
564 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
566 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
567 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
568 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
569 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
570 all scripts are now run as root
572 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
573 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
574 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
575 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
576 added support for .mysql config files.
578 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004