1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
8 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
9 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
10 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
11 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
12 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
14 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
15 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
18 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
19 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
22 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
23 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
24 fixed automake 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already
26 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
28 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
30 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
31 to not work when run from cron.
32 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
33 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
34 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
35 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
36 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
37 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
38 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
39 symlinks for $configdirectory
40 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
41 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
42 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
43 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
48 . rotated rsync snapshops
49 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
51 . alternative to rsnap
52 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
54 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
55 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
56 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
57 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
58 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
59 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
61 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
62 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
63 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
64 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
65 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
66 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
68 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
70 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
71 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
72 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
73 between various readlink versions in this field.
74 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
75 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
76 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
77 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
78 following to the top of the handler config:
79 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
82 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
83 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
84 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
85 between various readlink versions in this field.
86 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
87 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
89 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
90 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
91 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
92 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
94 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
95 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
96 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
98 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
100 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
102 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
104 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
107 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
108 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
109 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
110 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
112 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
113 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
114 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
115 symlinks for $configdirectory
116 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
117 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
118 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
121 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
122 changed cron permissions to 644
123 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
124 minor documentation fixes
125 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
126 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
127 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
128 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
130 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
134 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
135 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
136 out more easily they can customize them
138 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
140 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
141 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
143 . fixed no user defaults file processing
145 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
146 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
147 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
148 disabled in backupninja.conf
149 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
150 in vsnames config variable
152 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
153 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
154 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
155 "vsnames" configuration setting
158 . fixed errors in create remote dir
159 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
160 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
162 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
164 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
165 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
168 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
169 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
170 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
171 don't follow symlinks)
172 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
173 . new function: vservers_exist
176 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
178 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
180 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
181 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
183 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
184 backupninja and ninjahelper
187 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
189 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
190 . different signing and encrypting key support added
191 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
192 GnuPG-related options are used
194 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
195 ninjahelper(s) changes
196 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
197 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
199 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
201 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
202 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
203 . updated to include Vserver selection
205 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
206 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
208 . enhanced for vserver support
209 . now able to select databases and dump directory
211 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
213 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
214 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
215 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
216 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
217 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
218 added makecd ninjahelper
219 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
220 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
221 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
222 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
223 update rdiff ninjahelper
224 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
225 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
226 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
228 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
229 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
230 fixed insecure temporary file creation
231 *****************************************
232 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
233 fixed incorrect find positional
234 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
235 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
236 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
237 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
238 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
239 man pages are greatly improved.
241 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
242 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
243 added vservers support to duplicity handler
244 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
245 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
246 have a look at example.dup.
248 documented .disabled method.
249 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
250 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
251 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
252 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
253 to be seen as a vserver
254 changes to sys handler
255 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
256 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
258 changes to pgsql handler
259 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
260 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
261 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
262 changes to ninjahelper
263 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
264 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
265 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
266 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
267 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
268 added helper for pgsql handler.
269 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
270 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
271 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
272 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
274 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
275 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
276 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
277 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
278 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
279 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
281 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
282 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
283 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
284 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
285 ******************************************************************
286 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
287 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
288 ******************************************************************
289 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
290 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
291 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
292 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
293 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
294 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
295 added "sign" option for backups signing
296 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
297 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
298 added "nicelevel" option
299 added "testconnect" option
300 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
301 added "bandwidthlimit" option
302 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
303 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
304 added configfile option to mysql handler
305 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
306 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
307 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
308 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
309 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
311 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
312 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
313 rdiff handler supports local dest
314 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
315 added "when = hourly"
316 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
317 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
318 improved 'when' parsing.
320 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
321 results of handlers are now read line by line.
322 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
323 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
324 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
325 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
326 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
327 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
328 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
329 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
330 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
332 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
333 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
334 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
335 added status in the subject line of report emails
337 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
338 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
339 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
340 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
341 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
343 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
344 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
346 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
347 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
349 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
350 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
351 fixed stderr redirect bug
352 some comments in example.rdiff
354 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
355 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
356 works now with gawk as well as mawk
357 many bug fixes to ldap handler
358 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
359 does not require /usr/bin/stat
361 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
362 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
363 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
365 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
367 moved sh support to a handler script
368 add test mode, where no action is taken.
370 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
371 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
372 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
374 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
375 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
376 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
377 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
378 all scripts are now run as root
380 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
381 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
382 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
383 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
384 added support for .mysql config files.
386 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004