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)
10 . fix location of deleted_on file
11 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
12 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
13 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
15 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
16 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
17 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
18 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
19 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
20 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
21 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
22 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
24 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
26 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
27 detected volume group.
28 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
30 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
33 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
35 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
36 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
37 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
38 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
41 . added vservers_running function
43 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
44 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
48 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
49 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
50 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
51 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
52 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
54 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
55 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
56 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
57 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
59 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
60 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
62 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
63 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
64 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
66 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
67 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
69 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
70 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
71 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
72 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
73 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
74 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
75 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
76 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
77 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
79 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
81 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
82 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
83 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
84 debconf-get-selections
85 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
86 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
87 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
88 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
89 (Thanks to John Hallam).
91 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
92 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
94 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
96 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
98 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
99 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
100 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
101 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
102 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
103 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
104 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
105 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
108 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
109 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
110 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
113 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
114 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
115 file (Closes: #394935)
116 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
118 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
119 together (Closes: Trac#29)
120 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
121 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
123 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
124 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
125 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
126 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
128 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
129 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
130 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
131 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
132 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
133 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
134 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
135 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
136 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
137 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
139 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
140 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
143 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
144 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
145 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
146 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
147 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
148 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
150 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
151 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
153 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
154 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
155 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
156 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
157 . Added example.rsync configuration file
159 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
160 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
161 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
162 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
163 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
164 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
165 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
166 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
167 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
168 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
169 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
170 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
172 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
173 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
174 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
175 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
176 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
177 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
178 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
179 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
181 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
183 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
184 to not work when run from cron.
185 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
186 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
187 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
188 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
189 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
190 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
191 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
192 symlinks for $configdirectory
193 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
194 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
195 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
196 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
201 . rotated rsync snapshops
202 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
204 . alternative to rsnap
205 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
207 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
208 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
209 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
210 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
211 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
212 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
214 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
215 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
216 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
217 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
218 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
219 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
221 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
223 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
224 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
225 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
226 between various readlink versions in this field.
227 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
228 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
229 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
230 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
231 following to the top of the handler config:
232 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
235 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
236 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
237 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
238 between various readlink versions in this field.
239 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
240 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
242 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
243 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
244 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
245 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
247 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
248 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
249 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
251 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
253 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
255 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
257 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
260 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
261 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
262 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
263 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
265 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
266 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
267 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
268 symlinks for $configdirectory
269 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
270 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
271 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
274 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
275 changed cron permissions to 644
276 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
277 minor documentation fixes
278 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
279 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
280 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
281 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
283 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
287 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
288 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
289 out more easily they can customize them
291 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
293 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
294 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
296 . fixed no user defaults file processing
298 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
299 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
300 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
301 disabled in backupninja.conf
302 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
303 in vsnames config variable
305 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
306 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
307 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
308 "vsnames" configuration setting
311 . fixed errors in create remote dir
312 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
313 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
315 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
317 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
318 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
321 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
322 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
323 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
324 don't follow symlinks)
325 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
326 . new function: vservers_exist
329 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
331 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
333 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
334 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
336 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
337 backupninja and ninjahelper
340 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
342 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
343 . different signing and encrypting key support added
344 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
345 GnuPG-related options are used
347 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
348 ninjahelper(s) changes
349 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
350 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
352 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
354 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
355 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
356 . updated to include Vserver selection
358 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
359 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
361 . enhanced for vserver support
362 . now able to select databases and dump directory
364 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
366 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
367 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
368 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
369 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
370 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
371 added makecd ninjahelper
372 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
373 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
374 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
375 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
376 update rdiff ninjahelper
377 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
378 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
379 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
381 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
382 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
383 fixed insecure temporary file creation
384 *****************************************
385 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
386 fixed incorrect find positional
387 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
388 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
389 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
390 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
391 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
392 man pages are greatly improved.
394 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
395 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
396 added vservers support to duplicity handler
397 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
398 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
399 have a look at example.dup.
401 documented .disabled method.
402 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
403 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
404 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
405 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
406 to be seen as a vserver
407 changes to sys handler
408 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
409 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
411 changes to pgsql handler
412 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
413 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
414 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
415 changes to ninjahelper
416 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
417 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
418 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
419 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
420 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
421 added helper for pgsql handler.
422 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
423 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
424 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
425 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
427 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
428 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
429 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
430 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
431 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
432 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
434 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
435 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
436 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
437 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
438 ******************************************************************
439 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
440 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
441 ******************************************************************
442 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
443 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
444 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
445 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
446 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
447 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
448 added "sign" option for backups signing
449 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
450 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
451 added "nicelevel" option
452 added "testconnect" option
453 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
454 added "bandwidthlimit" option
455 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
456 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
457 added configfile option to mysql handler
458 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
459 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
460 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
461 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
462 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
464 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
465 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
466 rdiff handler supports local dest
467 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
468 added "when = hourly"
469 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
470 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
471 improved 'when' parsing.
473 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
474 results of handlers are now read line by line.
475 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
476 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
477 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
478 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
479 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
480 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
481 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
482 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
483 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
485 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
486 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
487 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
488 added status in the subject line of report emails
490 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
491 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
492 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
493 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
494 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
496 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
497 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
499 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
500 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
502 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
503 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
504 fixed stderr redirect bug
505 some comments in example.rdiff
507 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
508 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
509 works now with gawk as well as mawk
510 many bug fixes to ldap handler
511 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
512 does not require /usr/bin/stat
514 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
515 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
516 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
518 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
520 moved sh support to a handler script
521 add test mode, where no action is taken.
523 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
524 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
525 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
527 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
528 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
529 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
530 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
531 all scripts are now run as root
533 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
534 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
535 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
536 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
537 added support for .mysql config files.
539 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004