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