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 (Trac#11)
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)
31 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
32 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
33 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
34 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
36 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
37 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
40 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
41 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
42 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
43 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
44 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
46 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
47 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
49 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
50 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
51 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
52 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
53 . Added example.rsync configuration file
55 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
56 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
57 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
58 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
59 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
60 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
61 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
62 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
63 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
64 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
65 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
66 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
67 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
68 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
71 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
73 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
74 to not work when run from cron.
75 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
76 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
77 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
78 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
79 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
80 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
81 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
82 symlinks for $configdirectory
83 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
84 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
85 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
86 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
91 . rotated rsync snapshops
92 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
94 . alternative to rsnap
95 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
97 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
98 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
99 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
100 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
101 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
102 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
104 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
105 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
106 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
107 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
108 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
109 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
111 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
113 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
114 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
115 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
116 between various readlink versions in this field.
117 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
118 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
119 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
120 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
121 following to the top of the handler config:
122 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
125 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
126 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
127 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
128 between various readlink versions in this field.
129 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
130 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
132 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
133 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
134 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
135 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
137 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
138 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
139 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
141 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
143 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
145 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
147 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
150 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
151 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
152 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
153 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
155 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
156 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
157 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
158 symlinks for $configdirectory
159 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
160 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
161 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
164 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
165 changed cron permissions to 644
166 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
167 minor documentation fixes
168 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
169 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
170 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
171 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
173 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
177 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
178 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
179 out more easily they can customize them
181 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
183 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
184 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
186 . fixed no user defaults file processing
188 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
189 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
190 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
191 disabled in backupninja.conf
192 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
193 in vsnames config variable
195 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
196 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
197 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
198 "vsnames" configuration setting
201 . fixed errors in create remote dir
202 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
203 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
205 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
207 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
208 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
211 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
212 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
213 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
214 don't follow symlinks)
215 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
216 . new function: vservers_exist
219 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
221 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
223 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
224 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
226 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
227 backupninja and ninjahelper
230 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
232 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
233 . different signing and encrypting key support added
234 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
235 GnuPG-related options are used
237 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
238 ninjahelper(s) changes
239 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
240 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
242 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
244 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
245 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
246 . updated to include Vserver selection
248 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
249 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
251 . enhanced for vserver support
252 . now able to select databases and dump directory
254 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
256 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
257 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
258 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
259 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
260 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
261 added makecd ninjahelper
262 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
263 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
264 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
265 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
266 update rdiff ninjahelper
267 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
268 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
269 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
271 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
272 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
273 fixed insecure temporary file creation
274 *****************************************
275 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
276 fixed incorrect find positional
277 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
278 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
279 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
280 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
281 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
282 man pages are greatly improved.
284 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
285 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
286 added vservers support to duplicity handler
287 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
288 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
289 have a look at example.dup.
291 documented .disabled method.
292 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
293 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
294 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
295 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
296 to be seen as a vserver
297 changes to sys handler
298 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
299 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
301 changes to pgsql handler
302 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
303 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
304 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
305 changes to ninjahelper
306 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
307 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
308 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
309 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
310 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
311 added helper for pgsql handler.
312 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
313 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
314 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
315 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
317 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
318 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
319 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
320 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
321 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
322 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
324 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
325 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
326 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
327 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
328 ******************************************************************
329 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
330 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
331 ******************************************************************
332 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
333 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
334 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
335 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
336 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
337 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
338 added "sign" option for backups signing
339 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
340 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
341 added "nicelevel" option
342 added "testconnect" option
343 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
344 added "bandwidthlimit" option
345 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
346 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
347 added configfile option to mysql handler
348 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
349 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
350 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
351 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
352 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
354 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
355 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
356 rdiff handler supports local dest
357 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
358 added "when = hourly"
359 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
360 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
361 improved 'when' parsing.
363 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
364 results of handlers are now read line by line.
365 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
366 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
367 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
368 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
369 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
370 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
371 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
372 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
373 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
375 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
376 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
377 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
378 added status in the subject line of report emails
380 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
381 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
382 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
383 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
384 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
386 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
387 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
389 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
390 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
392 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
393 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
394 fixed stderr redirect bug
395 some comments in example.rdiff
397 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
398 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
399 works now with gawk as well as mawk
400 many bug fixes to ldap handler
401 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
402 does not require /usr/bin/stat
404 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
405 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
406 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
408 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
410 moved sh support to a handler script
411 add test mode, where no action is taken.
413 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
414 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
415 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
417 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
418 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
419 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
420 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
421 all scripts are now run as root
423 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
424 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
425 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
426 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
427 added support for .mysql config files.
429 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004