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