1 version 0.9.4 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
4 to not work when run from cron.
5 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
6 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
7 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
8 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
9 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
10 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
11 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
12 symlinks for $configdirectory
16 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
17 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
18 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
19 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
20 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
22 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
23 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
24 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
25 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
26 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
30 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
31 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
32 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
33 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
34 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
35 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
37 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
38 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
39 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
40 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
41 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
43 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
44 0.4.3 will integrate them)
45 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
47 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
49 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
52 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
53 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
54 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
55 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
57 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
58 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
59 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
60 symlinks for $configdirectory
61 changed cron permissions to 644
62 minor documentation fixes
64 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
68 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
69 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
70 out more easily they can customize them
72 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
74 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
75 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
77 . fixed no user defaults file processing
79 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
80 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
81 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
82 disabled in backupninja.conf
83 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
84 in vsnames config variable
86 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
87 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
88 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
89 "vsnames" configuration setting
92 . fixed errors in create remote dir
93 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
94 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
96 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
98 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
99 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
102 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
103 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
104 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
105 don't follow symlinks)
106 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
107 . new function: vservers_exist
110 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
112 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
114 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
115 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
117 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
118 backupninja and ninjahelper
121 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
123 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
124 . different signing and encrypting key support added
125 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
126 GnuPG-related options are used
128 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
129 ninjahelper(s) changes
130 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
131 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
133 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
135 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
136 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
137 . updated to include Vserver selection
139 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
140 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
142 . enhanced for vserver support
143 . now able to select databases and dump directory
145 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
147 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
148 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
149 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
150 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
151 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
152 added makecd ninjahelper
153 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
154 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
155 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
156 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
157 update rdiff ninjahelper
158 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
159 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
160 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
162 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
163 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
164 fixed insecure temporary file creation
165 *****************************************
166 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
167 fixed incorrect find positional
168 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
169 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
170 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
171 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
172 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
173 man pages are greatly improved.
175 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
176 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
177 added vservers support to duplicity handler
178 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
179 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
180 have a look at example.dup.
182 documented .disabled method.
183 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
184 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
185 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
186 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
187 to be seen as a vserver
188 changes to sys handler
189 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
190 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
192 changes to pgsql handler
193 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
194 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
195 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
196 changes to ninjahelper
197 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
198 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
199 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
200 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
201 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
202 added helper for pgsql handler.
203 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
204 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
205 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
206 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
208 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
209 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
210 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
211 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
212 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
213 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
215 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
216 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
217 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
218 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
219 ******************************************************************
220 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
221 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
222 ******************************************************************
223 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
224 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
225 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
226 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
227 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
228 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
229 added "sign" option for backups signing
230 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
231 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
232 added "nicelevel" option
233 added "testconnect" option
234 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
235 added "bandwidthlimit" option
236 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
237 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
238 added configfile option to mysql handler
239 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
240 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
241 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
242 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
243 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
245 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
246 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
247 rdiff handler supports local dest
248 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
249 added "when = hourly"
250 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
251 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
252 improved 'when' parsing.
254 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
255 results of handlers are now read line by line.
256 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
257 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
258 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
259 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
260 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
261 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
262 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
263 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
264 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
266 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
267 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
268 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
269 added status in the subject line of report emails
271 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
272 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
273 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
274 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
275 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
277 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
278 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
280 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
281 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
283 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
284 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
285 fixed stderr redirect bug
286 some comments in example.rdiff
288 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
289 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
290 works now with gawk as well as mawk
291 many bug fixes to ldap handler
292 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
293 does not require /usr/bin/stat
295 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
296 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
297 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
299 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
301 moved sh support to a handler script
302 add test mode, where no action is taken.
304 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
305 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
306 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
308 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
309 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
310 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
311 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
312 all scripts are now run as root
314 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
315 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
316 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
317 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
318 added support for .mysql config files.
320 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004