1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
10 . fix location of deleted_on file
11 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
13 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
14 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
15 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
16 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
17 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
18 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
19 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
20 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
22 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
24 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
25 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
26 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
27 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
30 . added vservers_running function
32 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
33 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
37 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
38 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
39 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
40 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
41 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
43 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
44 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
45 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
46 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
48 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
49 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
51 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
52 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
53 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
55 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
56 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
58 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
59 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
60 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
61 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
62 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
63 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
64 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
65 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
66 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
68 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
70 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
71 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
72 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
73 debconf-get-selections
74 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
75 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
76 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
77 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
78 (Thanks to John Hallam).
80 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
81 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
83 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
85 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
87 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
88 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
89 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
90 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
91 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
92 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
93 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
94 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
97 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
98 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
99 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
102 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
103 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
104 file (Closes: #394935)
105 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
107 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
108 together (Closes: Trac#29)
109 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
110 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
112 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
113 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
114 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
115 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
117 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
118 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
119 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
120 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
121 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
122 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
123 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
124 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
125 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
126 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
128 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
129 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
132 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
133 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
134 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
135 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
136 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
137 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
139 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
140 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
142 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
143 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
144 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
145 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
146 . Added example.rsync configuration file
148 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
149 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
150 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
151 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
152 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
153 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
154 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
155 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
156 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
157 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
158 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
159 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
161 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
162 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
163 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
164 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
165 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
166 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
167 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
168 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
170 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
172 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
173 to not work when run from cron.
174 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
175 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
176 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
177 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
178 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
179 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
180 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
181 symlinks for $configdirectory
182 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
183 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
184 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
185 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
190 . rotated rsync snapshops
191 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
193 . alternative to rsnap
194 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
196 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
197 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
198 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
199 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
200 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
201 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
203 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
204 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
205 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
206 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
207 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
208 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
210 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
212 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
213 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
214 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
215 between various readlink versions in this field.
216 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
217 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
218 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
219 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
220 following to the top of the handler config:
221 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
224 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
225 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
226 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
227 between various readlink versions in this field.
228 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
229 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
231 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
232 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
233 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
234 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
236 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
237 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
238 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
240 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
242 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
244 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
246 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
249 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
250 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
251 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
252 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
254 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
255 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
256 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
257 symlinks for $configdirectory
258 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
259 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
260 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
263 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
264 changed cron permissions to 644
265 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
266 minor documentation fixes
267 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
268 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
269 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
270 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
272 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
276 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
277 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
278 out more easily they can customize them
280 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
282 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
283 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
285 . fixed no user defaults file processing
287 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
288 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
289 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
290 disabled in backupninja.conf
291 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
292 in vsnames config variable
294 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
295 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
296 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
297 "vsnames" configuration setting
300 . fixed errors in create remote dir
301 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
302 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
304 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
306 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
307 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
310 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
311 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
312 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
313 don't follow symlinks)
314 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
315 . new function: vservers_exist
318 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
320 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
322 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
323 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
325 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
326 backupninja and ninjahelper
329 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
331 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
332 . different signing and encrypting key support added
333 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
334 GnuPG-related options are used
336 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
337 ninjahelper(s) changes
338 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
339 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
341 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
343 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
344 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
345 . updated to include Vserver selection
347 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
348 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
350 . enhanced for vserver support
351 . now able to select databases and dump directory
353 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
355 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
356 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
357 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
358 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
359 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
360 added makecd ninjahelper
361 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
362 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
363 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
364 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
365 update rdiff ninjahelper
366 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
367 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
368 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
370 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
371 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
372 fixed insecure temporary file creation
373 *****************************************
374 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
375 fixed incorrect find positional
376 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
377 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
378 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
379 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
380 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
381 man pages are greatly improved.
383 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
384 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
385 added vservers support to duplicity handler
386 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
387 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
388 have a look at example.dup.
390 documented .disabled method.
391 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
392 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
393 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
394 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
395 to be seen as a vserver
396 changes to sys handler
397 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
398 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
400 changes to pgsql handler
401 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
402 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
403 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
404 changes to ninjahelper
405 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
406 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
407 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
408 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
409 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
410 added helper for pgsql handler.
411 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
412 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
413 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
414 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
416 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
417 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
418 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
419 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
420 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
421 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
423 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
424 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
425 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
426 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
427 ******************************************************************
428 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
429 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
430 ******************************************************************
431 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
432 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
433 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
434 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
435 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
436 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
437 added "sign" option for backups signing
438 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
439 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
440 added "nicelevel" option
441 added "testconnect" option
442 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
443 added "bandwidthlimit" option
444 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
445 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
446 added configfile option to mysql handler
447 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
448 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
449 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
450 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
451 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
453 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
454 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
455 rdiff handler supports local dest
456 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
457 added "when = hourly"
458 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
459 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
460 improved 'when' parsing.
462 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
463 results of handlers are now read line by line.
464 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
465 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
466 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
467 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
468 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
469 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
470 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
471 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
472 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
474 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
475 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
476 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
477 added status in the subject line of report emails
479 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
480 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
481 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
482 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
483 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
485 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
486 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
488 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
489 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
491 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
492 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
493 fixed stderr redirect bug
494 some comments in example.rdiff
496 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
497 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
498 works now with gawk as well as mawk
499 many bug fixes to ldap handler
500 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
501 does not require /usr/bin/stat
503 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
504 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
505 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
507 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
509 moved sh support to a handler script
510 add test mode, where no action is taken.
512 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
513 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
514 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
516 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
517 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
518 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
519 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
520 all scripts are now run as root
522 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
523 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
524 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
525 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
526 added support for .mysql config files.
528 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004