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