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