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