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
13 . Fixed Trac#11 (quoting needed to prevent shell expansion, broke the
14 toint function sometimes)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Trac#10)
18 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
19 is not supported anymore)
21 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
22 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file
24 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
25 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
27 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
28 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
31 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
32 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
33 . Ignore rdiff-backup minor versions (thanks Sami Haahtinen)
35 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
36 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
38 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
40 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
41 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
42 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
43 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
44 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
45 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
46 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
47 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
48 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
49 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
50 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
51 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
52 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub files
55 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
57 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
58 to not work when run from cron.
59 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
60 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
61 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
62 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
63 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
64 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
65 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
66 symlinks for $configdirectory
67 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
68 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
69 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
70 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
75 . rotated rsync snapshops
76 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
78 . alternative to rsnap
79 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
81 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
82 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
83 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
84 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
85 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
86 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
88 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
89 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
90 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
91 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
92 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
93 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
95 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
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 overzealous vsnames check
102 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
103 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
104 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
105 following to the top of the handler config:
106 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
109 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
110 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
111 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
112 between various readlink versions in this field.
113 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
114 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
116 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
117 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
118 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
119 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
121 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
122 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
123 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
125 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
127 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
129 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
131 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
134 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
135 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
136 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
137 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
139 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
140 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
141 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
142 symlinks for $configdirectory
143 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
144 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
145 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
148 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
149 changed cron permissions to 644
150 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
151 minor documentation fixes
152 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
153 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
154 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
155 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
157 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
161 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
162 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
163 out more easily they can customize them
165 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
167 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
168 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
170 . fixed no user defaults file processing
172 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
173 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
174 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
175 disabled in backupninja.conf
176 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
177 in vsnames config variable
179 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
180 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
181 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
182 "vsnames" configuration setting
185 . fixed errors in create remote dir
186 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
187 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
189 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
191 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
192 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
195 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
196 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
197 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
198 don't follow symlinks)
199 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
200 . new function: vservers_exist
203 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
205 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
207 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
208 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
210 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
211 backupninja and ninjahelper
214 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
216 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
217 . different signing and encrypting key support added
218 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
219 GnuPG-related options are used
221 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
222 ninjahelper(s) changes
223 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
224 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
226 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
228 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
229 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
230 . updated to include Vserver selection
232 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
233 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
235 . enhanced for vserver support
236 . now able to select databases and dump directory
238 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
240 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
241 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
242 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
243 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
244 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
245 added makecd ninjahelper
246 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
247 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
248 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
249 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
250 update rdiff ninjahelper
251 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
252 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
253 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
255 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
256 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
257 fixed insecure temporary file creation
258 *****************************************
259 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
260 fixed incorrect find positional
261 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
262 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
263 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
264 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
265 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
266 man pages are greatly improved.
268 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
269 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
270 added vservers support to duplicity handler
271 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
272 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
273 have a look at example.dup.
275 documented .disabled method.
276 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
277 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
278 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
279 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
280 to be seen as a vserver
281 changes to sys handler
282 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
283 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
285 changes to pgsql handler
286 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
287 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
288 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
289 changes to ninjahelper
290 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
291 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
292 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
293 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
294 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
295 added helper for pgsql handler.
296 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
297 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
298 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
299 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
301 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
302 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
303 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
304 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
305 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
306 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
308 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
309 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
310 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
311 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
312 ******************************************************************
313 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
314 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
315 ******************************************************************
316 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
317 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
318 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
319 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
320 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
321 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
322 added "sign" option for backups signing
323 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
324 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
325 added "nicelevel" option
326 added "testconnect" option
327 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
328 added "bandwidthlimit" option
329 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
330 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
331 added configfile option to mysql handler
332 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
333 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
334 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
335 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
336 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
338 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
339 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
340 rdiff handler supports local dest
341 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
342 added "when = hourly"
343 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
344 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
345 improved 'when' parsing.
347 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
348 results of handlers are now read line by line.
349 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
350 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
351 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
352 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
353 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
354 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
355 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
356 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
357 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
359 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
360 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
361 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
362 added status in the subject line of report emails
364 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
365 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
366 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
367 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
368 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
370 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
371 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
373 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
374 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
376 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
377 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
378 fixed stderr redirect bug
379 some comments in example.rdiff
381 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
382 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
383 works now with gawk as well as mawk
384 many bug fixes to ldap handler
385 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
386 does not require /usr/bin/stat
388 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
389 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
390 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
392 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
394 moved sh support to a handler script
395 add test mode, where no action is taken.
397 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
398 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
399 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
401 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
402 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
403 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
404 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
405 all scripts are now run as root
407 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
408 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
409 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
410 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
411 added support for .mysql config files.
413 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004