1 version 0.9.2 -- unreleased
2 fixed missing makecd.helper in Makefile.am/.in
3 rdiff ninjahelper bugfixes:
4 used to expand '*' in default source directories
5 the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour... at least
7 moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
8 backupninja and ninjahelper
9 added duplicity ninjahelper
10 a bunch of Vserver-related functions for ninjahelper in lib/vservers.in,
11 used only in dup.helper and pgsql.helper yet
12 pgsql ninjahelper bugfixes:
13 forbid the user to choose an empty database set to backup
15 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
16 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
17 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
18 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
19 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
20 added makecd ninjahelper
21 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
22 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
23 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
24 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
25 update rdiff ninjahelper
26 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
27 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
28 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
30 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
31 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
32 fixed insecure temporary file creation
33 *****************************************
34 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
35 fixed incorrect find positional
36 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
37 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
38 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
39 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
40 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
41 man pages are greatly improved.
43 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
44 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
45 added vservers support to duplicity handler
46 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
47 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
48 have a look at example.dup.
50 documented .disabled method.
51 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
52 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
53 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
54 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
55 to be seen as a vserver
56 changes to sys handler
57 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
58 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
60 changes to pgsql handler
61 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
62 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
63 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
64 changes to ninjahelper
65 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
66 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
67 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
68 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
69 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
70 added helper for pgsql handler.
71 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
72 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
73 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
74 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
76 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
77 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
78 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
79 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
80 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
81 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
83 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
84 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
85 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
86 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
87 ******************************************************************
88 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
89 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
90 ******************************************************************
91 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
92 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
93 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
94 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
95 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
96 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
97 added "sign" option for backups signing
98 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
99 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
100 added "nicelevel" option
101 added "testconnect" option
102 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
103 added "bandwidthlimit" option
104 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
105 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
106 added configfile option to mysql handler
107 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
108 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
109 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
110 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
111 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
113 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
114 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
115 rdiff handler supports local dest
116 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
117 added "when = hourly"
118 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
119 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
120 improved 'when' parsing.
122 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
123 results of handlers are now read line by line.
124 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
125 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
126 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
127 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
128 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
129 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
130 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
131 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
132 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
134 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
135 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
136 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
137 added status in the subject line of report emails
139 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
140 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
141 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
142 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
143 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
145 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
146 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
148 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
149 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
151 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
152 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
153 fixed stderr redirect bug
154 some comments in example.rdiff
156 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
157 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
158 works now with gawk as well as mawk
159 many bug fixes to ldap handler
160 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
161 does not require /usr/bin/stat
163 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
164 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
165 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
167 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
169 moved sh support to a handler script
170 add test mode, where no action is taken.
172 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
173 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
174 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
176 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
177 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
178 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
179 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
180 all scripts are now run as root
182 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
183 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
184 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
185 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
186 added support for .mysql config files.
188 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004