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