1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
8 . new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with
9 "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes #563734)
10 . reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the
11 local filesystem (Closes: #536049)
12 . set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: #537266)
15 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
18 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
19 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
22 . fix location of deleted_on file
23 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
24 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
25 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
26 . use any subdirectories not just "a" to "z". Thanks Chris Nolan! (Redmine#606)
28 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
29 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
30 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
31 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
32 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
33 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
34 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
35 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
36 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
37 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
39 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
42 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
43 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
45 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
48 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435)
49 . Fix confusing error if rdiff-backup cannot be found on remote server.
51 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
53 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
54 detected volume group.
55 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
57 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
59 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
60 one time (Closes: #536360)
61 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
62 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
63 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces
64 . Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch.
67 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
70 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
71 will help supporting *BSD some day.
73 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
75 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
76 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
77 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
78 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
81 . added vservers_running function
83 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
84 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
88 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
89 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
90 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
91 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
92 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
94 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
95 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
96 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
97 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
99 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
100 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
102 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
103 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
104 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
106 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
107 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
109 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
110 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
111 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
112 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
113 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
114 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
115 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
116 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
117 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
119 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
121 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
122 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
123 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
124 debconf-get-selections
125 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
126 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
127 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
128 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
129 (Thanks to John Hallam).
131 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
132 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
134 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
136 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
138 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
139 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
140 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
141 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
142 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
143 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
144 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
145 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
148 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
149 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
150 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
153 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
154 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
155 file (Closes: #394935)
156 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
158 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
159 together (Closes: Trac#29)
160 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
161 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
163 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
164 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
165 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
166 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
168 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
169 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
170 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
171 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
172 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
173 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
174 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
175 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
176 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
177 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
179 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
180 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
183 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
184 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
185 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
186 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
187 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
188 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
190 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
191 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
193 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
194 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
195 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
196 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
197 . Added example.rsync configuration file
199 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
200 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
201 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
202 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
203 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
204 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
205 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
206 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
207 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
208 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
209 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
210 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
212 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
213 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
214 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
215 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
216 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
217 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
218 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
219 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
221 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
223 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
224 to not work when run from cron.
225 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
226 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
227 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
228 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
229 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
230 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
231 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
232 symlinks for $configdirectory
233 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
234 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
235 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
236 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
241 . rotated rsync snapshops
242 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
244 . alternative to rsnap
245 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
247 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
248 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
249 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
250 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
251 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
252 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
254 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
255 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
256 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
257 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
258 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
259 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
261 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
263 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
264 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
265 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
266 between various readlink versions in this field.
267 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
268 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
269 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
270 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
271 following to the top of the handler config:
272 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
275 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
276 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
277 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
278 between various readlink versions in this field.
279 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
280 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
282 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
283 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
284 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
285 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
287 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
288 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
289 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
291 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
293 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
295 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
297 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
300 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
301 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
302 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
303 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
305 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
306 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
307 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
308 symlinks for $configdirectory
309 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
310 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
311 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
314 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
315 changed cron permissions to 644
316 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
317 minor documentation fixes
318 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
319 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
320 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
321 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
323 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
327 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
328 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
329 out more easily they can customize them
331 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
333 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
334 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
336 . fixed no user defaults file processing
338 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
339 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
340 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
341 disabled in backupninja.conf
342 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
343 in vsnames config variable
345 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
346 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
347 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
348 "vsnames" configuration setting
351 . fixed errors in create remote dir
352 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
353 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
355 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
357 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
358 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
361 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
362 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
363 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
364 don't follow symlinks)
365 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
366 . new function: vservers_exist
369 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
371 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
373 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
374 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
376 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
377 backupninja and ninjahelper
380 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
382 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
383 . different signing and encrypting key support added
384 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
385 GnuPG-related options are used
387 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
388 ninjahelper(s) changes
389 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
390 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
392 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
394 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
395 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
396 . updated to include Vserver selection
398 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
399 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
401 . enhanced for vserver support
402 . now able to select databases and dump directory
404 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
406 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
407 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
408 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
409 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
410 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
411 added makecd ninjahelper
412 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
413 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
414 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
415 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
416 update rdiff ninjahelper
417 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
418 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
419 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
421 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
422 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
423 fixed insecure temporary file creation
424 *****************************************
425 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
426 fixed incorrect find positional
427 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
428 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
429 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
430 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
431 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
432 man pages are greatly improved.
434 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
435 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
436 added vservers support to duplicity handler
437 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
438 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
439 have a look at example.dup.
441 documented .disabled method.
442 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
443 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
444 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
445 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
446 to be seen as a vserver
447 changes to sys handler
448 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
449 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
451 changes to pgsql handler
452 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
453 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
454 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
455 changes to ninjahelper
456 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
457 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
458 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
459 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
460 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
461 added helper for pgsql handler.
462 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
463 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
464 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
465 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
467 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
468 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
469 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
470 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
471 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
472 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
474 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
475 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
476 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
477 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
478 ******************************************************************
479 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
480 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
481 ******************************************************************
482 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
483 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
484 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
485 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
486 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
487 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
488 added "sign" option for backups signing
489 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
490 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
491 added "nicelevel" option
492 added "testconnect" option
493 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
494 added "bandwidthlimit" option
495 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
496 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
497 added configfile option to mysql handler
498 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
499 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
500 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
501 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
502 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
504 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
505 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
506 rdiff handler supports local dest
507 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
508 added "when = hourly"
509 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
510 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
511 improved 'when' parsing.
513 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
514 results of handlers are now read line by line.
515 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
516 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
517 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
518 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
519 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
520 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
521 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
522 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
523 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
525 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
526 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
527 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
528 added status in the subject line of report emails
530 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
531 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
532 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
533 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
534 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
536 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
537 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
539 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
540 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
542 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
543 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
544 fixed stderr redirect bug
545 some comments in example.rdiff
547 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
548 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
549 works now with gawk as well as mawk
550 many bug fixes to ldap handler
551 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
552 does not require /usr/bin/stat
554 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
555 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
556 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
558 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
560 moved sh support to a handler script
561 add test mode, where no action is taken.
563 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
564 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
565 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
567 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
568 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
569 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
570 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
571 all scripts are now run as root
573 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
574 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
575 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
576 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
577 added support for .mysql config files.
579 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004