1 version 0.9.7 -- January 27, 2010
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
26 . use any subdirectories not just "a" to "z". Thanks Chris Nolan! (Redmine#606)
28 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
29 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
30 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
31 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
32 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
33 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
34 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
35 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
36 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
37 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
39 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
42 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
43 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
45 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
48 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435)
49 . Fix confusing error if rdiff-backup cannot be found on remote server.
50 . Increased element number in include/exclude and vserver ninjahelper interface
52 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
54 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
55 detected volume group.
56 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
58 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
60 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
61 one time (Closes: #536360)
62 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
63 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
64 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces
65 . Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch.
68 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
71 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
72 will help supporting *BSD some day.
74 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
76 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
77 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
78 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
79 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
82 . added vservers_running function
84 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
85 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
89 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
90 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
91 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
92 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
93 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
95 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
96 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
97 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
98 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
100 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
101 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
103 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
104 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
105 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
107 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
108 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
110 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
111 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
112 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
113 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
114 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
115 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
116 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
117 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
118 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
120 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
122 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
123 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
124 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
125 debconf-get-selections
126 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
127 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
128 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
129 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
130 (Thanks to John Hallam).
132 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
133 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
135 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
137 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
139 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
140 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
141 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
142 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
143 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
144 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
145 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
146 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
149 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
150 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
151 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
154 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
155 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
156 file (Closes: #394935)
157 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
159 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
160 together (Closes: Trac#29)
161 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
162 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
164 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
165 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
166 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
167 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
169 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
170 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
171 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
172 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
173 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
174 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
175 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
176 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
177 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
178 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
180 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
181 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
184 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
185 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
186 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
187 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
188 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
189 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
191 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
192 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
194 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
195 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
196 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
197 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
198 . Added example.rsync configuration file
200 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
201 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
202 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
203 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
204 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
205 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
206 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
207 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
208 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
209 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
210 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
211 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
213 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
214 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
215 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
216 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
217 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
218 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
219 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
220 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
222 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
224 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
225 to not work when run from cron.
226 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
227 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
228 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
229 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
230 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
231 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
232 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
233 symlinks for $configdirectory
234 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
235 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
236 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
237 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
242 . rotated rsync snapshops
243 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
245 . alternative to rsnap
246 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
248 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
249 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
250 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
251 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
252 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
253 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
255 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
256 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
257 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
258 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
259 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
260 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
262 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
264 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
265 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
266 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
267 between various readlink versions in this field.
268 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
269 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
270 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
271 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
272 following to the top of the handler config:
273 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
276 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
277 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
278 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
279 between various readlink versions in this field.
280 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
281 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
283 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
284 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
285 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
286 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
288 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
289 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
290 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
292 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
294 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
296 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
298 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
301 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
302 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
303 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
304 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
306 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
307 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
308 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
309 symlinks for $configdirectory
310 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
311 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
312 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
315 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
316 changed cron permissions to 644
317 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
318 minor documentation fixes
319 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
320 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
321 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
322 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
324 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
328 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
329 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
330 out more easily they can customize them
332 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
334 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
335 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
337 . fixed no user defaults file processing
339 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
340 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
341 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
342 disabled in backupninja.conf
343 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
344 in vsnames config variable
346 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
347 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
348 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
349 "vsnames" configuration setting
352 . fixed errors in create remote dir
353 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
354 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
356 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
358 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
359 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
362 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
363 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
364 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
365 don't follow symlinks)
366 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
367 . new function: vservers_exist
370 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
372 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
374 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
375 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
377 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
378 backupninja and ninjahelper
381 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
383 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
384 . different signing and encrypting key support added
385 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
386 GnuPG-related options are used
388 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
389 ninjahelper(s) changes
390 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
391 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
393 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
395 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
396 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
397 . updated to include Vserver selection
399 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
400 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
402 . enhanced for vserver support
403 . now able to select databases and dump directory
405 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
407 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
408 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
409 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
410 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
411 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
412 added makecd ninjahelper
413 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
414 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
415 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
416 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
417 update rdiff ninjahelper
418 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
419 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
420 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
422 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
423 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
424 fixed insecure temporary file creation
425 *****************************************
426 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
427 fixed incorrect find positional
428 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
429 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
430 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
431 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
432 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
433 man pages are greatly improved.
435 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
436 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
437 added vservers support to duplicity handler
438 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
439 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
440 have a look at example.dup.
442 documented .disabled method.
443 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
444 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
445 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
446 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
447 to be seen as a vserver
448 changes to sys handler
449 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
450 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
452 changes to pgsql handler
453 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
454 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
455 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
456 changes to ninjahelper
457 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
458 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
459 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
460 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
461 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
462 added helper for pgsql handler.
463 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
464 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
465 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
466 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
468 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
469 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
470 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
471 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
472 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
473 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
475 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
476 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
477 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
478 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
479 ******************************************************************
480 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
481 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
482 ******************************************************************
483 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
484 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
485 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
486 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
487 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
488 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
489 added "sign" option for backups signing
490 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
491 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
492 added "nicelevel" option
493 added "testconnect" option
494 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
495 added "bandwidthlimit" option
496 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
497 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
498 added configfile option to mysql handler
499 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
500 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
501 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
502 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
503 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
505 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
506 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
507 rdiff handler supports local dest
508 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
509 added "when = hourly"
510 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
511 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
512 improved 'when' parsing.
514 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
515 results of handlers are now read line by line.
516 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
517 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
518 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
519 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
520 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
521 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
522 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
523 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
524 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
526 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
527 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
528 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
529 added status in the subject line of report emails
531 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
532 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
533 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
534 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
535 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
537 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
538 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
540 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
541 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
543 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
544 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
545 fixed stderr redirect bug
546 some comments in example.rdiff
548 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
549 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
550 works now with gawk as well as mawk
551 many bug fixes to ldap handler
552 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
553 does not require /usr/bin/stat
555 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
556 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
557 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
559 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
561 moved sh support to a handler script
562 add test mode, where no action is taken.
564 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
565 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
566 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
568 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
569 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
570 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
571 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
572 all scripts are now run as root
574 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
575 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
576 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
577 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
578 added support for .mysql config files.
580 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004