1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
8 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
9 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
10 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
11 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
12 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
14 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
15 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
17 fixed automake 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already
20 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
22 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
23 to not work when run from cron.
24 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
25 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
26 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
27 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
28 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
29 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
30 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
31 symlinks for $configdirectory
32 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
33 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
34 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
35 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
40 . rotated rsync snapshops
41 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
43 . alternative to rsnap
44 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
46 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
47 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
48 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
49 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
50 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
51 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
53 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
54 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
55 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
56 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
57 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
58 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
60 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
62 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
63 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
64 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
65 between various readlink versions in this field.
66 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
67 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
68 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
69 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
70 following to the top of the handler config:
71 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
74 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
75 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
76 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
77 between various readlink versions in this field.
78 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
79 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
81 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
82 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
83 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
84 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
86 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
87 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
88 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
90 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
92 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
94 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
96 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
99 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
100 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
101 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
102 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
104 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
105 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
106 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
107 symlinks for $configdirectory
108 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
109 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
110 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
113 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
114 changed cron permissions to 644
115 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
116 minor documentation fixes
117 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
118 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
119 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
120 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
122 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
126 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
127 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
128 out more easily they can customize them
130 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
132 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
133 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
135 . fixed no user defaults file processing
137 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
138 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
139 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
140 disabled in backupninja.conf
141 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
142 in vsnames config variable
144 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
145 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
146 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
147 "vsnames" configuration setting
150 . fixed errors in create remote dir
151 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
152 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
154 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
156 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
157 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
160 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
161 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
162 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
163 don't follow symlinks)
164 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
165 . new function: vservers_exist
168 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
170 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
172 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
173 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
175 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
176 backupninja and ninjahelper
179 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
181 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
182 . different signing and encrypting key support added
183 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
184 GnuPG-related options are used
186 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
187 ninjahelper(s) changes
188 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
189 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
191 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
193 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
194 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
195 . updated to include Vserver selection
197 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
198 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
200 . enhanced for vserver support
201 . now able to select databases and dump directory
203 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
205 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
206 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
207 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
208 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
209 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
210 added makecd ninjahelper
211 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
212 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
213 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
214 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
215 update rdiff ninjahelper
216 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
217 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
218 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
220 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
221 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
222 fixed insecure temporary file creation
223 *****************************************
224 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
225 fixed incorrect find positional
226 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
227 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
228 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
229 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
230 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
231 man pages are greatly improved.
233 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
234 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
235 added vservers support to duplicity handler
236 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
237 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
238 have a look at example.dup.
240 documented .disabled method.
241 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
242 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
243 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
244 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
245 to be seen as a vserver
246 changes to sys handler
247 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
248 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
250 changes to pgsql handler
251 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
252 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
253 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
254 changes to ninjahelper
255 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
256 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
257 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
258 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
259 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
260 added helper for pgsql handler.
261 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
262 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
263 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
264 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
266 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
267 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
268 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
269 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
270 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
271 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
273 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
274 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
275 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
276 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
277 ******************************************************************
278 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
279 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
280 ******************************************************************
281 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
282 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
283 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
284 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
285 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
286 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
287 added "sign" option for backups signing
288 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
289 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
290 added "nicelevel" option
291 added "testconnect" option
292 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
293 added "bandwidthlimit" option
294 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
295 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
296 added configfile option to mysql handler
297 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
298 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
299 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
300 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
301 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
303 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
304 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
305 rdiff handler supports local dest
306 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
307 added "when = hourly"
308 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
309 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
310 improved 'when' parsing.
312 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
313 results of handlers are now read line by line.
314 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
315 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
316 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
317 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
318 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
319 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
320 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
321 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
322 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
324 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
325 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
326 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
327 added status in the subject line of report emails
329 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
330 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
331 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
332 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
333 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
335 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
336 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
338 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
339 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
341 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
342 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
343 fixed stderr redirect bug
344 some comments in example.rdiff
346 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
347 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
348 works now with gawk as well as mawk
349 many bug fixes to ldap handler
350 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
351 does not require /usr/bin/stat
353 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
354 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
355 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
357 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
359 moved sh support to a handler script
360 add test mode, where no action is taken.
362 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
363 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
364 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
366 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
367 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
368 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
369 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
370 all scripts are now run as root
372 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
373 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
374 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
375 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
376 added support for .mysql config files.
378 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004