1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
6 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
7 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
9 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
11 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
12 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
13 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
14 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
15 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
16 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
17 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
18 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
21 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
22 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
23 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
26 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
27 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
28 file (Closes: #394935)
29 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
31 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
32 together (Closes: Trac#29)
33 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
34 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
36 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
37 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
38 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
39 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
41 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
42 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
43 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
44 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
45 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
46 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
47 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
48 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
49 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
50 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
52 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
53 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
56 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
57 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
58 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
59 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
60 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
61 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
63 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
64 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
66 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
67 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
68 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
69 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
70 . Added example.rsync configuration file
72 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
73 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
74 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
75 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
76 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
77 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
78 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
79 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
80 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
81 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
82 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
83 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
85 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
86 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
87 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
88 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
89 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
90 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
91 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
92 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
94 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
96 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
97 to not work when run from cron.
98 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
99 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
100 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
101 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
102 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
103 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
104 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
105 symlinks for $configdirectory
106 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
107 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
108 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
109 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
114 . rotated rsync snapshops
115 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
117 . alternative to rsnap
118 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
120 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
121 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
122 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
123 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
124 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
125 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
127 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
128 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
129 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
130 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
131 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
132 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
134 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
136 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
137 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
138 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
139 between various readlink versions in this field.
140 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
141 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
142 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
143 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
144 following to the top of the handler config:
145 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
148 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
149 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
150 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
151 between various readlink versions in this field.
152 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
153 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
155 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
156 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
157 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
158 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
160 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
161 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
162 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
164 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
166 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
168 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
170 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
173 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
174 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
175 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
176 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
178 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
179 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
180 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
181 symlinks for $configdirectory
182 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
183 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
184 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
187 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
188 changed cron permissions to 644
189 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
190 minor documentation fixes
191 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
192 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
193 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
194 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
196 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
200 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
201 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
202 out more easily they can customize them
204 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
206 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
207 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
209 . fixed no user defaults file processing
211 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
212 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
213 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
214 disabled in backupninja.conf
215 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
216 in vsnames config variable
218 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
219 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
220 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
221 "vsnames" configuration setting
224 . fixed errors in create remote dir
225 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
226 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
228 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
230 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
231 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
234 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
235 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
236 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
237 don't follow symlinks)
238 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
239 . new function: vservers_exist
242 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
244 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
246 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
247 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
249 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
250 backupninja and ninjahelper
253 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
255 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
256 . different signing and encrypting key support added
257 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
258 GnuPG-related options are used
260 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
261 ninjahelper(s) changes
262 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
263 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
265 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
267 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
268 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
269 . updated to include Vserver selection
271 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
272 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
274 . enhanced for vserver support
275 . now able to select databases and dump directory
277 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
279 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
280 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
281 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
282 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
283 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
284 added makecd ninjahelper
285 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
286 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
287 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
288 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
289 update rdiff ninjahelper
290 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
291 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
292 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
294 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
295 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
296 fixed insecure temporary file creation
297 *****************************************
298 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
299 fixed incorrect find positional
300 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
301 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
302 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
303 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
304 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
305 man pages are greatly improved.
307 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
308 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
309 added vservers support to duplicity handler
310 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
311 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
312 have a look at example.dup.
314 documented .disabled method.
315 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
316 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
317 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
318 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
319 to be seen as a vserver
320 changes to sys handler
321 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
322 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
324 changes to pgsql handler
325 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
326 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
327 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
328 changes to ninjahelper
329 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
330 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
331 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
332 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
333 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
334 added helper for pgsql handler.
335 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
336 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
337 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
338 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
340 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
341 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
342 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
343 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
344 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
345 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
347 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
348 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
349 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
350 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
351 ******************************************************************
352 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
353 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
354 ******************************************************************
355 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
356 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
357 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
358 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
359 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
360 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
361 added "sign" option for backups signing
362 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
363 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
364 added "nicelevel" option
365 added "testconnect" option
366 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
367 added "bandwidthlimit" option
368 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
369 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
370 added configfile option to mysql handler
371 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
372 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
373 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
374 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
375 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
377 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
378 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
379 rdiff handler supports local dest
380 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
381 added "when = hourly"
382 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
383 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
384 improved 'when' parsing.
386 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
387 results of handlers are now read line by line.
388 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
389 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
390 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
391 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
392 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
393 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
394 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
395 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
396 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
398 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
399 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
400 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
401 added status in the subject line of report emails
403 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
404 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
405 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
406 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
407 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
409 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
410 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
412 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
413 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
415 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
416 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
417 fixed stderr redirect bug
418 some comments in example.rdiff
420 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
421 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
422 works now with gawk as well as mawk
423 many bug fixes to ldap handler
424 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
425 does not require /usr/bin/stat
427 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
428 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
429 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
431 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
433 moved sh support to a handler script
434 add test mode, where no action is taken.
436 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
437 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
438 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
440 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
441 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
442 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
443 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
444 all scripts are now run as root
446 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
447 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
448 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
449 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
450 added support for .mysql config files.
452 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004