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