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