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
13 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
14 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
15 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
16 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
17 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
19 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
20 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
22 Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
24 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
25 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
27 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
28 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
29 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
31 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
32 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
34 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
35 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
36 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
37 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
39 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
41 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver
43 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
45 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
46 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
47 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
48 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
49 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
50 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
51 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
52 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
55 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
56 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
57 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
60 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
61 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
62 file (Closes: #394935)
63 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
65 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
66 together (Closes: Trac#29)
67 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
68 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
70 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
71 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
72 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
73 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
75 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
76 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
77 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
78 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
79 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
80 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
81 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
82 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
83 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
84 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
86 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
87 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
90 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
91 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
92 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
93 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
94 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
95 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
97 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
98 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
100 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
101 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
102 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
103 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
104 . Added example.rsync configuration file
106 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
107 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
108 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
109 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
110 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
111 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
112 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
113 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
114 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
115 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
116 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
117 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
119 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
120 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
121 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
122 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
123 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
124 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
125 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
126 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
128 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
130 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
131 to not work when run from cron.
132 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
133 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
134 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
135 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
136 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
137 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
138 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
139 symlinks for $configdirectory
140 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
141 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
142 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
143 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
148 . rotated rsync snapshops
149 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
151 . alternative to rsnap
152 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
154 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
155 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
156 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
157 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
158 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
159 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
161 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
162 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
163 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
164 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
165 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
166 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
168 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
170 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
171 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
172 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
173 between various readlink versions in this field.
174 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
175 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
176 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
177 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
178 following to the top of the handler config:
179 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
182 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
183 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
184 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
185 between various readlink versions in this field.
186 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
187 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
189 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
190 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
191 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
192 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
194 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
195 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
196 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
198 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
200 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
202 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
204 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
207 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
208 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
209 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
210 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
212 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
213 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
214 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
215 symlinks for $configdirectory
216 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
217 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
218 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
221 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
222 changed cron permissions to 644
223 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
224 minor documentation fixes
225 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
226 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
227 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
228 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
230 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
234 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
235 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
236 out more easily they can customize them
238 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
240 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
241 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
243 . fixed no user defaults file processing
245 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
246 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
247 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
248 disabled in backupninja.conf
249 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
250 in vsnames config variable
252 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
253 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
254 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
255 "vsnames" configuration setting
258 . fixed errors in create remote dir
259 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
260 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
262 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
264 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
265 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
268 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
269 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
270 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
271 don't follow symlinks)
272 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
273 . new function: vservers_exist
276 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
278 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
280 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
281 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
283 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
284 backupninja and ninjahelper
287 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
289 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
290 . different signing and encrypting key support added
291 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
292 GnuPG-related options are used
294 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
295 ninjahelper(s) changes
296 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
297 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
299 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
301 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
302 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
303 . updated to include Vserver selection
305 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
306 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
308 . enhanced for vserver support
309 . now able to select databases and dump directory
311 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
313 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
314 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
315 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
316 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
317 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
318 added makecd ninjahelper
319 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
320 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
321 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
322 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
323 update rdiff ninjahelper
324 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
325 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
326 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
328 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
329 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
330 fixed insecure temporary file creation
331 *****************************************
332 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
333 fixed incorrect find positional
334 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
335 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
336 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
337 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
338 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
339 man pages are greatly improved.
341 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
342 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
343 added vservers support to duplicity handler
344 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
345 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
346 have a look at example.dup.
348 documented .disabled method.
349 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
350 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
351 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
352 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
353 to be seen as a vserver
354 changes to sys handler
355 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
356 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
358 changes to pgsql handler
359 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
360 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
361 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
362 changes to ninjahelper
363 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
364 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
365 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
366 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
367 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
368 added helper for pgsql handler.
369 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
370 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
371 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
372 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
374 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
375 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
376 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
377 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
378 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
379 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
381 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
382 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
383 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
384 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
385 ******************************************************************
386 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
387 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
388 ******************************************************************
389 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
390 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
391 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
392 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
393 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
394 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
395 added "sign" option for backups signing
396 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
397 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
398 added "nicelevel" option
399 added "testconnect" option
400 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
401 added "bandwidthlimit" option
402 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
403 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
404 added configfile option to mysql handler
405 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
406 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
407 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
408 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
409 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
411 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
412 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
413 rdiff handler supports local dest
414 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
415 added "when = hourly"
416 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
417 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
418 improved 'when' parsing.
420 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
421 results of handlers are now read line by line.
422 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
423 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
424 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
425 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
426 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
427 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
428 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
429 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
430 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
432 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
433 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
434 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
435 added status in the subject line of report emails
437 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
438 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
439 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
440 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
441 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
443 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
444 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
446 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
447 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
449 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
450 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
451 fixed stderr redirect bug
452 some comments in example.rdiff
454 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
455 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
456 works now with gawk as well as mawk
457 many bug fixes to ldap handler
458 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
459 does not require /usr/bin/stat
461 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
462 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
463 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
465 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
467 moved sh support to a handler script
468 add test mode, where no action is taken.
470 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
471 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
472 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
474 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
475 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
476 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
477 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
478 all scripts are now run as root
480 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
481 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
482 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
483 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
484 added support for .mysql config files.
486 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004