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