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).
25 Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
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 deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
39 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
40 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
41 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
42 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
44 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
46 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
47 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
49 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
51 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
52 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
53 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
54 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
55 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
56 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
57 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
58 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
61 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
62 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
63 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
66 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
67 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
68 file (Closes: #394935)
69 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
71 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
72 together (Closes: Trac#29)
73 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
74 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
76 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
77 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
78 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
79 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
81 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
82 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
83 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
84 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
85 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
86 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
87 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
88 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
89 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
90 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
92 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
93 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
96 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
97 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
98 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
99 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
100 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
101 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
103 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
104 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
106 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
107 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
108 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
109 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
110 . Added example.rsync configuration file
112 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
113 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
114 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
115 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
116 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
117 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
118 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
119 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
120 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
121 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
122 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
123 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
125 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
126 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
127 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
128 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
129 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
130 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
131 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
132 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
134 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
136 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
137 to not work when run from cron.
138 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
139 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
140 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
141 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
142 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
143 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
144 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
145 symlinks for $configdirectory
146 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
147 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
148 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
149 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
154 . rotated rsync snapshops
155 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
157 . alternative to rsnap
158 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
160 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
161 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
162 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
163 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
164 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
165 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
167 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
168 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
169 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
170 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
171 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
172 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
174 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
176 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
177 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
178 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
179 between various readlink versions in this field.
180 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
181 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
182 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
183 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
184 following to the top of the handler config:
185 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
188 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
189 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
190 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
191 between various readlink versions in this field.
192 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
193 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
195 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
196 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
197 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
198 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
200 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
201 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
202 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
204 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
206 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
208 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
210 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
213 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
214 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
215 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
216 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
218 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
219 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
220 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
221 symlinks for $configdirectory
222 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
223 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
224 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
227 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
228 changed cron permissions to 644
229 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
230 minor documentation fixes
231 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
232 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
233 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
234 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
236 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
240 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
241 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
242 out more easily they can customize them
244 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
246 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
247 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
249 . fixed no user defaults file processing
251 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
252 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
253 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
254 disabled in backupninja.conf
255 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
256 in vsnames config variable
258 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
259 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
260 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
261 "vsnames" configuration setting
264 . fixed errors in create remote dir
265 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
266 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
268 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
270 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
271 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
274 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
275 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
276 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
277 don't follow symlinks)
278 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
279 . new function: vservers_exist
282 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
284 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
286 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
287 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
289 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
290 backupninja and ninjahelper
293 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
295 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
296 . different signing and encrypting key support added
297 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
298 GnuPG-related options are used
300 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
301 ninjahelper(s) changes
302 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
303 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
305 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
307 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
308 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
309 . updated to include Vserver selection
311 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
312 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
314 . enhanced for vserver support
315 . now able to select databases and dump directory
317 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
319 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
320 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
321 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
322 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
323 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
324 added makecd ninjahelper
325 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
326 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
327 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
328 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
329 update rdiff ninjahelper
330 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
331 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
332 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
334 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
335 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
336 fixed insecure temporary file creation
337 *****************************************
338 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
339 fixed incorrect find positional
340 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
341 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
342 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
343 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
344 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
345 man pages are greatly improved.
347 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
348 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
349 added vservers support to duplicity handler
350 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
351 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
352 have a look at example.dup.
354 documented .disabled method.
355 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
356 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
357 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
358 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
359 to be seen as a vserver
360 changes to sys handler
361 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
362 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
364 changes to pgsql handler
365 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
366 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
367 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
368 changes to ninjahelper
369 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
370 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
371 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
372 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
373 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
374 added helper for pgsql handler.
375 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
376 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
377 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
378 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
380 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
381 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
382 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
383 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
384 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
385 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
387 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
388 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
389 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
390 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
391 ******************************************************************
392 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
393 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
394 ******************************************************************
395 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
396 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
397 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
398 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
399 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
400 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
401 added "sign" option for backups signing
402 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
403 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
404 added "nicelevel" option
405 added "testconnect" option
406 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
407 added "bandwidthlimit" option
408 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
409 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
410 added configfile option to mysql handler
411 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
412 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
413 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
414 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
415 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
417 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
418 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
419 rdiff handler supports local dest
420 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
421 added "when = hourly"
422 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
423 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
424 improved 'when' parsing.
426 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
427 results of handlers are now read line by line.
428 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
429 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
430 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
431 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
432 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
433 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
434 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
435 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
436 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
438 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
439 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
440 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
441 added status in the subject line of report emails
443 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
444 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
445 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
446 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
447 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
449 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
450 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
452 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
453 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
455 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
456 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
457 fixed stderr redirect bug
458 some comments in example.rdiff
460 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
461 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
462 works now with gawk as well as mawk
463 many bug fixes to ldap handler
464 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
465 does not require /usr/bin/stat
467 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
468 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
469 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
471 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
473 moved sh support to a handler script
474 add test mode, where no action is taken.
476 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
477 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
478 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
480 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
481 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
482 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
483 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
484 all scripts are now run as root
486 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
487 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
488 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
489 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
490 added support for .mysql config files.
492 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004