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