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)
17 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
19 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
20 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
21 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
22 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
25 . added vservers_running function
27 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
28 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
32 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
33 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
34 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
35 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
36 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
38 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
39 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
40 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
41 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
43 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
44 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
46 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
47 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
48 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
50 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
51 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
53 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
54 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
55 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
56 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
57 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
58 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
59 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
60 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
61 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
63 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
65 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
66 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
67 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
68 debconf-get-selections
69 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
70 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
71 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
72 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
73 (Thanks to John Hallam).
75 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
76 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
78 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
80 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
82 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
83 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
84 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
85 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
86 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
87 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
88 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
89 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
92 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
93 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
94 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
97 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
98 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
99 file (Closes: #394935)
100 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
102 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
103 together (Closes: Trac#29)
104 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
105 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
107 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
108 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
109 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
110 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
112 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
113 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
114 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
115 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
116 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
117 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
118 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
119 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
120 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
121 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
123 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
124 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
127 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
128 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
129 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
130 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
131 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
132 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
134 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
135 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
137 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
138 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
139 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
140 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
141 . Added example.rsync configuration file
143 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
144 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
145 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
146 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
147 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
148 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
149 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
150 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
151 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
152 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
153 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
154 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
156 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
157 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
158 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
159 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
160 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
161 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
162 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
163 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
165 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
167 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
168 to not work when run from cron.
169 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
170 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
171 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
172 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
173 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
174 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
175 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
176 symlinks for $configdirectory
177 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
178 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
179 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
180 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
185 . rotated rsync snapshops
186 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
188 . alternative to rsnap
189 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
191 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
192 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
193 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
194 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
195 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
196 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
198 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
199 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
200 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
201 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
202 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
203 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
205 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
207 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
208 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
209 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
210 between various readlink versions in this field.
211 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
212 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
213 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
214 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
215 following to the top of the handler config:
216 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
219 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
220 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
221 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
222 between various readlink versions in this field.
223 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
224 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
226 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
227 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
228 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
229 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
231 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
232 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
233 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
235 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
237 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
239 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
241 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
244 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
245 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
246 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
247 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
249 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
250 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
251 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
252 symlinks for $configdirectory
253 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
254 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
255 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
258 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
259 changed cron permissions to 644
260 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
261 minor documentation fixes
262 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
263 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
264 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
265 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
267 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
271 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
272 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
273 out more easily they can customize them
275 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
277 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
278 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
280 . fixed no user defaults file processing
282 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
283 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
284 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
285 disabled in backupninja.conf
286 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
287 in vsnames config variable
289 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
290 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
291 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
292 "vsnames" configuration setting
295 . fixed errors in create remote dir
296 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
297 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
299 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
301 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
302 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
305 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
306 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
307 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
308 don't follow symlinks)
309 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
310 . new function: vservers_exist
313 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
315 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
317 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
318 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
320 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
321 backupninja and ninjahelper
324 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
326 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
327 . different signing and encrypting key support added
328 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
329 GnuPG-related options are used
331 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
332 ninjahelper(s) changes
333 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
334 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
336 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
338 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
339 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
340 . updated to include Vserver selection
342 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
343 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
345 . enhanced for vserver support
346 . now able to select databases and dump directory
348 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
350 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
351 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
352 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
353 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
354 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
355 added makecd ninjahelper
356 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
357 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
358 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
359 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
360 update rdiff ninjahelper
361 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
362 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
363 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
365 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
366 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
367 fixed insecure temporary file creation
368 *****************************************
369 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
370 fixed incorrect find positional
371 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
372 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
373 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
374 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
375 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
376 man pages are greatly improved.
378 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
379 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
380 added vservers support to duplicity handler
381 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
382 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
383 have a look at example.dup.
385 documented .disabled method.
386 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
387 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
388 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
389 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
390 to be seen as a vserver
391 changes to sys handler
392 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
393 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
395 changes to pgsql handler
396 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
397 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
398 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
399 changes to ninjahelper
400 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
401 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
402 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
403 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
404 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
405 added helper for pgsql handler.
406 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
407 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
408 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
409 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
411 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
412 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
413 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
414 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
415 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
416 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
418 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
419 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
420 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
421 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
422 ******************************************************************
423 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
424 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
425 ******************************************************************
426 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
427 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
428 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
429 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
430 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
431 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
432 added "sign" option for backups signing
433 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
434 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
435 added "nicelevel" option
436 added "testconnect" option
437 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
438 added "bandwidthlimit" option
439 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
440 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
441 added configfile option to mysql handler
442 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
443 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
444 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
445 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
446 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
448 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
449 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
450 rdiff handler supports local dest
451 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
452 added "when = hourly"
453 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
454 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
455 improved 'when' parsing.
457 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
458 results of handlers are now read line by line.
459 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
460 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
461 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
462 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
463 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
464 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
465 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
466 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
467 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
469 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
470 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
471 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
472 added status in the subject line of report emails
474 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
475 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
476 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
477 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
478 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
480 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
481 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
483 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
484 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
486 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
487 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
488 fixed stderr redirect bug
489 some comments in example.rdiff
491 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
492 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
493 works now with gawk as well as mawk
494 many bug fixes to ldap handler
495 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
496 does not require /usr/bin/stat
498 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
499 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
500 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
502 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
504 moved sh support to a handler script
505 add test mode, where no action is taken.
507 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
508 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
509 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
511 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
512 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
513 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
514 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
515 all scripts are now run as root
517 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
518 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
519 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
520 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
521 added support for .mysql config files.
523 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004