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 Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler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