1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
15 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
16 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file
18 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
19 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
21 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
22 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
25 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
27 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
28 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
31 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
32 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
33 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
34 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
35 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
36 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
37 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
38 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
39 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
40 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub files
43 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
45 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
46 to not work when run from cron.
47 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
48 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
49 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
50 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
51 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
52 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
53 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
54 symlinks for $configdirectory
55 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
56 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
57 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
58 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
63 . rotated rsync snapshops
64 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
66 . alternative to rsnap
67 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
69 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
70 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
71 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
72 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
73 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
74 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
76 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
77 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
78 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
79 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
80 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
81 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
83 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
85 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
86 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
87 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
88 between various readlink versions in this field.
89 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
90 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
91 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
92 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
93 following to the top of the handler config:
94 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
97 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
98 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
99 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
100 between various readlink versions in this field.
101 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
102 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
104 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
105 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
106 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
107 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
109 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
110 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
111 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
113 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
115 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
117 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
119 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
122 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
123 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
124 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
125 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
127 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
128 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
129 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
130 symlinks for $configdirectory
131 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
132 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
133 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
136 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
137 changed cron permissions to 644
138 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
139 minor documentation fixes
140 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
141 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
142 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
143 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
145 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
149 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
150 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
151 out more easily they can customize them
153 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
155 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
156 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
158 . fixed no user defaults file processing
160 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
161 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
162 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
163 disabled in backupninja.conf
164 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
165 in vsnames config variable
167 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
168 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
169 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
170 "vsnames" configuration setting
173 . fixed errors in create remote dir
174 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
175 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
177 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
179 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
180 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
183 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
184 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
185 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
186 don't follow symlinks)
187 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
188 . new function: vservers_exist
191 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
193 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
195 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
196 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
198 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
199 backupninja and ninjahelper
202 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
204 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
205 . different signing and encrypting key support added
206 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
207 GnuPG-related options are used
209 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
210 ninjahelper(s) changes
211 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
212 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
214 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
216 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
217 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
218 . updated to include Vserver selection
220 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
221 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
223 . enhanced for vserver support
224 . now able to select databases and dump directory
226 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
228 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
229 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
230 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
231 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
232 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
233 added makecd ninjahelper
234 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
235 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
236 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
237 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
238 update rdiff ninjahelper
239 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
240 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
241 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
243 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
244 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
245 fixed insecure temporary file creation
246 *****************************************
247 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
248 fixed incorrect find positional
249 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
250 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
251 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
252 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
253 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
254 man pages are greatly improved.
256 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
257 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
258 added vservers support to duplicity handler
259 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
260 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
261 have a look at example.dup.
263 documented .disabled method.
264 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
265 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
266 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
267 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
268 to be seen as a vserver
269 changes to sys handler
270 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
271 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
273 changes to pgsql handler
274 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
275 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
276 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
277 changes to ninjahelper
278 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
279 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
280 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
281 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
282 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
283 added helper for pgsql handler.
284 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
285 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
286 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
287 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
289 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
290 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
291 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
292 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
293 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
294 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
296 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
297 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
298 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
299 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
300 ******************************************************************
301 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
302 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
303 ******************************************************************
304 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
305 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
306 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
307 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
308 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
309 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
310 added "sign" option for backups signing
311 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
312 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
313 added "nicelevel" option
314 added "testconnect" option
315 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
316 added "bandwidthlimit" option
317 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
318 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
319 added configfile option to mysql handler
320 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
321 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
322 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
323 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
324 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
326 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
327 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
328 rdiff handler supports local dest
329 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
330 added "when = hourly"
331 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
332 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
333 improved 'when' parsing.
335 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
336 results of handlers are now read line by line.
337 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
338 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
339 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
340 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
341 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
342 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
343 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
344 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
345 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
347 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
348 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
349 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
350 added status in the subject line of report emails
352 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
353 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
354 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
355 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
356 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
358 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
359 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
361 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
362 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
364 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
365 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
366 fixed stderr redirect bug
367 some comments in example.rdiff
369 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
370 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
371 works now with gawk as well as mawk
372 many bug fixes to ldap handler
373 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
374 does not require /usr/bin/stat
376 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
377 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
378 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
380 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
382 moved sh support to a handler script
383 add test mode, where no action is taken.
385 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
386 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
387 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
389 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
390 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
391 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
392 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
393 all scripts are now run as root
395 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
396 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
397 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
398 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
399 added support for .mysql config files.
401 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004