1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
3 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
4 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
5 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
6 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
9 . added vservers_running function
13 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
14 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
15 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
16 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
17 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
19 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
20 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
22 Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
24 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
25 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
27 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
28 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
29 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
31 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
32 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
34 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
35 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
36 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
37 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
39 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
41 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
43 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver
45 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
47 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
48 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
49 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
50 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
51 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
52 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
53 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
54 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
57 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
58 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
59 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
62 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
63 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
64 file (Closes: #394935)
65 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
67 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
68 together (Closes: Trac#29)
69 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
70 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
72 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
73 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
74 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
75 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
77 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
78 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
79 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
80 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
81 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
82 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
83 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
84 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
85 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
86 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
88 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
89 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
92 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
93 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
94 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
95 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
96 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
97 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
99 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
100 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
102 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
103 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
104 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
105 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
106 . Added example.rsync configuration file
108 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
109 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
110 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
111 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
112 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
113 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
114 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
115 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
116 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
117 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
118 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
119 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
121 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
122 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
123 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
124 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
125 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
126 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
127 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
128 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
130 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
132 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
133 to not work when run from cron.
134 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
135 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
136 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
137 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
138 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
139 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
140 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
141 symlinks for $configdirectory
142 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
143 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
144 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
145 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
150 . rotated rsync snapshops
151 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
153 . alternative to rsnap
154 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
156 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
157 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
158 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
159 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
160 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
161 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
163 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
164 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
165 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
166 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
167 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
168 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
170 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
172 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
173 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
174 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
175 between various readlink versions in this field.
176 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
177 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
178 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
179 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
180 following to the top of the handler config:
181 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
184 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
185 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
186 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
187 between various readlink versions in this field.
188 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
189 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
191 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
192 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
193 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
194 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
196 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
197 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
198 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
200 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
202 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
204 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
206 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
209 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
210 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
211 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
212 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
214 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
215 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
216 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
217 symlinks for $configdirectory
218 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
219 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
220 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
223 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
224 changed cron permissions to 644
225 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
226 minor documentation fixes
227 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
228 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
229 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
230 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
232 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
236 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
237 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
238 out more easily they can customize them
240 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
242 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
243 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
245 . fixed no user defaults file processing
247 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
248 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
249 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
250 disabled in backupninja.conf
251 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
252 in vsnames config variable
254 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
255 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
256 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
257 "vsnames" configuration setting
260 . fixed errors in create remote dir
261 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
262 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
264 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
266 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
267 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
270 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
271 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
272 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
273 don't follow symlinks)
274 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
275 . new function: vservers_exist
278 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
280 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
282 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
283 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
285 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
286 backupninja and ninjahelper
289 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
291 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
292 . different signing and encrypting key support added
293 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
294 GnuPG-related options are used
296 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
297 ninjahelper(s) changes
298 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
299 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
301 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
303 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
304 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
305 . updated to include Vserver selection
307 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
308 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
310 . enhanced for vserver support
311 . now able to select databases and dump directory
313 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
315 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
316 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
317 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
318 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
319 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
320 added makecd ninjahelper
321 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
322 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
323 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
324 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
325 update rdiff ninjahelper
326 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
327 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
328 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
330 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
331 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
332 fixed insecure temporary file creation
333 *****************************************
334 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
335 fixed incorrect find positional
336 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
337 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
338 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
339 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
340 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
341 man pages are greatly improved.
343 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
344 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
345 added vservers support to duplicity handler
346 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
347 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
348 have a look at example.dup.
350 documented .disabled method.
351 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
352 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
353 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
354 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
355 to be seen as a vserver
356 changes to sys handler
357 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
358 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
360 changes to pgsql handler
361 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
362 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
363 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
364 changes to ninjahelper
365 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
366 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
367 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
368 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
369 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
370 added helper for pgsql handler.
371 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
372 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
373 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
374 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
376 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
377 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
378 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
379 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
380 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
381 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
383 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
384 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
385 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
386 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
387 ******************************************************************
388 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
389 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
390 ******************************************************************
391 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
392 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
393 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
394 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
395 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
396 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
397 added "sign" option for backups signing
398 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
399 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
400 added "nicelevel" option
401 added "testconnect" option
402 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
403 added "bandwidthlimit" option
404 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
405 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
406 added configfile option to mysql handler
407 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
408 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
409 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
410 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
411 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
413 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
414 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
415 rdiff handler supports local dest
416 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
417 added "when = hourly"
418 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
419 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
420 improved 'when' parsing.
422 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
423 results of handlers are now read line by line.
424 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
425 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
426 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
427 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
428 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
429 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
430 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
431 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
432 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
434 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
435 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
436 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
437 added status in the subject line of report emails
439 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
440 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
441 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
442 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
443 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
445 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
446 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
448 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
449 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
451 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
452 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
453 fixed stderr redirect bug
454 some comments in example.rdiff
456 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
457 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
458 works now with gawk as well as mawk
459 many bug fixes to ldap handler
460 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
461 does not require /usr/bin/stat
463 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
464 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
465 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
467 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
469 moved sh support to a handler script
470 add test mode, where no action is taken.
472 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
473 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
474 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
476 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
477 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
478 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
479 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
480 all scripts are now run as root
482 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
483 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
484 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
485 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
486 added support for .mysql config files.
488 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004