1 version 0.9.1 -- unreleased
2 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
3 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
4 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
5 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
6 added makecd ninjahelper
7 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
8 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
9 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
10 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
12 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
13 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
14 fixed insecure temporary file creation
15 *****************************************
16 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
17 fixed incorrect find positional
18 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
19 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
20 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
21 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
22 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
23 man pages are greatly improved.
25 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
26 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
27 added vservers support to duplicity handler
28 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
29 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
30 have a look at example.dup.
32 documented .disabled method.
33 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
34 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
35 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
36 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
37 to be seen as a vserver
38 changes to sys handler
39 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
40 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
42 changes to pgsql handler
43 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
44 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
45 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
46 changes to ninjahelper
47 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
48 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
49 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
50 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
51 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
52 added helper for pgsql handler.
53 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
54 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
55 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
56 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
58 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
59 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
60 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
61 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
62 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
63 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
65 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
66 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
67 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
68 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
69 ******************************************************************
70 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
71 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
72 ******************************************************************
73 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
74 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
75 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
76 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
77 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
78 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
79 added "sign" option for backups signing
80 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
81 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
82 added "nicelevel" option
83 added "testconnect" option
84 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
85 added "bandwidthlimit" option
86 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
87 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
88 added configfile option to mysql handler
89 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
90 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
91 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
92 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
93 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
95 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
96 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
97 rdiff handler supports local dest
98 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
100 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
101 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
102 improved 'when' parsing.
104 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
105 results of handlers are now read line by line.
106 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
107 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
108 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
109 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
110 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
111 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
112 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
113 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
114 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
116 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
117 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
118 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
119 added status in the subject line of report emails
121 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
122 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
123 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
124 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
125 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
127 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
128 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
130 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
131 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
133 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
134 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
135 fixed stderr redirect bug
136 some comments in example.rdiff
138 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
139 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
140 works now with gawk as well as mawk
141 many bug fixes to ldap handler
142 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
143 does not require /usr/bin/stat
145 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
146 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
147 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
149 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
151 moved sh support to a handler script
152 add test mode, where no action is taken.
154 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
155 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
156 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
158 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
159 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
160 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
161 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
162 all scripts are now run as root
164 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
165 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
166 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
167 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
168 added support for .mysql config files.
170 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004