1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
3 fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
7 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
8 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
9 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
10 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
11 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
14 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
15 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
16 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
18 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
19 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
21 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
22 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
24 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
26 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
27 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
28 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
29 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
30 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
31 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
32 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
33 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
36 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
37 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
38 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
41 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
42 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
43 file (Closes: #394935)
44 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
46 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
47 together (Closes: Trac#29)
48 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
49 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
51 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
52 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
53 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
54 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
56 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
57 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
58 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
59 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
60 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
61 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
62 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
63 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
64 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
65 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
67 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
68 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
71 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
72 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
73 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
74 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
75 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
76 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
78 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
79 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
81 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
82 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
83 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
84 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
85 . Added example.rsync configuration file
87 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
88 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
89 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
90 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
91 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
92 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
93 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
94 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
95 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
96 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
97 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
98 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
100 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
101 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
102 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
103 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
104 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
105 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
106 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
107 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
109 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
111 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
112 to not work when run from cron.
113 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
114 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
115 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
116 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
117 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
118 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
119 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
120 symlinks for $configdirectory
121 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
122 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
123 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
124 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
129 . rotated rsync snapshops
130 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
132 . alternative to rsnap
133 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
135 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
136 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
137 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
138 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
139 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
140 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
142 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
143 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
144 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
145 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
146 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
147 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
149 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
151 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
152 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
153 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
154 between various readlink versions in this field.
155 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
156 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
157 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
158 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
159 following to the top of the handler config:
160 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
163 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
164 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
165 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
166 between various readlink versions in this field.
167 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
168 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
170 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
171 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
172 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
173 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
175 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
176 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
177 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
179 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
181 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
183 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
185 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
188 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
189 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
190 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
191 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
193 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
194 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
195 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
196 symlinks for $configdirectory
197 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
198 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
199 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
202 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
203 changed cron permissions to 644
204 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
205 minor documentation fixes
206 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
207 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
208 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
209 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
211 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
215 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
216 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
217 out more easily they can customize them
219 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
221 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
222 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
224 . fixed no user defaults file processing
226 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
227 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
228 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
229 disabled in backupninja.conf
230 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
231 in vsnames config variable
233 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
234 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
235 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
236 "vsnames" configuration setting
239 . fixed errors in create remote dir
240 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
241 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
243 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
245 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
246 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
249 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
250 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
251 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
252 don't follow symlinks)
253 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
254 . new function: vservers_exist
257 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
259 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
261 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
262 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
264 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
265 backupninja and ninjahelper
268 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
270 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
271 . different signing and encrypting key support added
272 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
273 GnuPG-related options are used
275 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
276 ninjahelper(s) changes
277 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
278 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
280 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
282 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
283 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
284 . updated to include Vserver selection
286 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
287 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
289 . enhanced for vserver support
290 . now able to select databases and dump directory
292 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
294 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
295 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
296 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
297 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
298 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
299 added makecd ninjahelper
300 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
301 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
302 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
303 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
304 update rdiff ninjahelper
305 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
306 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
307 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
309 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
310 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
311 fixed insecure temporary file creation
312 *****************************************
313 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
314 fixed incorrect find positional
315 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
316 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
317 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
318 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
319 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
320 man pages are greatly improved.
322 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
323 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
324 added vservers support to duplicity handler
325 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
326 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
327 have a look at example.dup.
329 documented .disabled method.
330 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
331 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
332 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
333 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
334 to be seen as a vserver
335 changes to sys handler
336 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
337 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
339 changes to pgsql handler
340 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
341 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
342 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
343 changes to ninjahelper
344 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
345 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
346 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
347 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
348 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
349 added helper for pgsql handler.
350 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
351 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
352 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
353 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
355 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
356 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
357 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
358 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
359 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
360 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
362 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
363 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
364 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
365 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
366 ******************************************************************
367 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
368 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
369 ******************************************************************
370 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
371 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
372 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
373 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
374 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
375 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
376 added "sign" option for backups signing
377 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
378 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
379 added "nicelevel" option
380 added "testconnect" option
381 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
382 added "bandwidthlimit" option
383 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
384 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
385 added configfile option to mysql handler
386 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
387 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
388 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
389 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
390 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
392 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
393 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
394 rdiff handler supports local dest
395 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
396 added "when = hourly"
397 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
398 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
399 improved 'when' parsing.
401 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
402 results of handlers are now read line by line.
403 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
404 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
405 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
406 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
407 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
408 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
409 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
410 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
411 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
413 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
414 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
415 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
416 added status in the subject line of report emails
418 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
419 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
420 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
421 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
422 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
424 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
425 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
427 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
428 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
430 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
431 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
432 fixed stderr redirect bug
433 some comments in example.rdiff
435 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
436 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
437 works now with gawk as well as mawk
438 many bug fixes to ldap handler
439 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
440 does not require /usr/bin/stat
442 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
443 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
444 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
446 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
448 moved sh support to a handler script
449 add test mode, where no action is taken.
451 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
452 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
453 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
455 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
456 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
457 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
458 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
459 all scripts are now run as root
461 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
462 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
463 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
464 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
465 added support for .mysql config files.
467 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004