1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
8 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
9 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
10 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
11 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
12 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
14 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
15 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
18 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
19 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
22 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
23 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
25 . Added cstream support to allow for bandiwdth limiting
26 fixed automake 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already
28 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
30 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
32 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
33 to not work when run from cron.
34 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
35 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
36 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
37 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
38 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
39 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
40 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
41 symlinks for $configdirectory
42 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
43 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
44 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
45 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
50 . rotated rsync snapshops
51 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
53 . alternative to rsnap
54 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
56 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
57 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
58 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
59 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
60 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
61 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
63 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
64 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
65 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
66 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
67 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
68 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
70 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
72 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
73 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
74 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
75 between various readlink versions in this field.
76 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
77 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
78 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
79 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
80 following to the top of the handler config:
81 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
84 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
85 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
86 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
87 between various readlink versions in this field.
88 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
89 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
91 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
92 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
93 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
94 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
96 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
97 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
98 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
100 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
102 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
104 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
106 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
109 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
110 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
111 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
112 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
114 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
115 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
116 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
117 symlinks for $configdirectory
118 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
119 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
120 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
123 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
124 changed cron permissions to 644
125 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
126 minor documentation fixes
127 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
128 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
129 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
130 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
132 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
136 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
137 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
138 out more easily they can customize them
140 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
142 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
143 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
145 . fixed no user defaults file processing
147 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
148 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
149 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
150 disabled in backupninja.conf
151 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
152 in vsnames config variable
154 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
155 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
156 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
157 "vsnames" configuration setting
160 . fixed errors in create remote dir
161 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
162 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
164 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
166 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
167 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
170 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
171 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
172 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
173 don't follow symlinks)
174 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
175 . new function: vservers_exist
178 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
180 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
182 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
183 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
185 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
186 backupninja and ninjahelper
189 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
191 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
192 . different signing and encrypting key support added
193 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
194 GnuPG-related options are used
196 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
197 ninjahelper(s) changes
198 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
199 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
201 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
203 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
204 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
205 . updated to include Vserver selection
207 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
208 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
210 . enhanced for vserver support
211 . now able to select databases and dump directory
213 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
215 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
216 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
217 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
218 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
219 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
220 added makecd ninjahelper
221 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
222 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
223 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
224 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
225 update rdiff ninjahelper
226 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
227 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
228 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
230 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
231 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
232 fixed insecure temporary file creation
233 *****************************************
234 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
235 fixed incorrect find positional
236 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
237 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
238 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
239 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
240 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
241 man pages are greatly improved.
243 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
244 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
245 added vservers support to duplicity handler
246 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
247 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
248 have a look at example.dup.
250 documented .disabled method.
251 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
252 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
253 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
254 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
255 to be seen as a vserver
256 changes to sys handler
257 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
258 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
260 changes to pgsql handler
261 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
262 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
263 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
264 changes to ninjahelper
265 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
266 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
267 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
268 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
269 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
270 added helper for pgsql handler.
271 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
272 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
273 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
274 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
276 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
277 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
278 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
279 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
280 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
281 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
283 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
284 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
285 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
286 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
287 ******************************************************************
288 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
289 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
290 ******************************************************************
291 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
292 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
293 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
294 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
295 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
296 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
297 added "sign" option for backups signing
298 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
299 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
300 added "nicelevel" option
301 added "testconnect" option
302 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
303 added "bandwidthlimit" option
304 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
305 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
306 added configfile option to mysql handler
307 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
308 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
309 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
310 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
311 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
313 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
314 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
315 rdiff handler supports local dest
316 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
317 added "when = hourly"
318 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
319 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
320 improved 'when' parsing.
322 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
323 results of handlers are now read line by line.
324 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
325 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
326 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
327 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
328 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
329 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
330 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
331 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
332 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
334 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
335 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
336 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
337 added status in the subject line of report emails
339 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
340 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
341 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
342 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
343 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
345 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
346 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
348 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
349 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
351 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
352 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
353 fixed stderr redirect bug
354 some comments in example.rdiff
356 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
357 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
358 works now with gawk as well as mawk
359 many bug fixes to ldap handler
360 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
361 does not require /usr/bin/stat
363 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
364 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
365 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
367 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
369 moved sh support to a handler script
370 add test mode, where no action is taken.
372 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
373 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
374 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
376 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
377 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
378 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
379 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
380 all scripts are now run as root
382 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
383 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
384 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
385 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
386 added support for .mysql config files.
388 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004