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
13 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
14 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
15 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
20 . rotated rsync snapshops
21 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
23 . alternative to rsnap
24 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
26 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
27 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
29 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
30 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
31 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
33 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
34 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
35 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
36 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
37 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
38 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
40 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
42 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
43 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
44 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
45 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
46 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
47 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
48 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
49 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
50 following to the top of the handler config:
51 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
54 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
55 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
56 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
57 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
58 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
60 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
61 0.4.3 will integrate them)
62 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
64 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
65 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
66 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (Thanks Tom Hoover)
68 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
70 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
73 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
74 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
75 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
76 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
78 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
79 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
80 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
81 symlinks for $configdirectory
82 changed cron permissions to 644
83 minor documentation fixes
84 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
85 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
86 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
87 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
89 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
93 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
94 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
95 out more easily they can customize them
97 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
99 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
100 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
102 . fixed no user defaults file processing
104 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
105 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
106 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
107 disabled in backupninja.conf
108 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
109 in vsnames config variable
111 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
112 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
113 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
114 "vsnames" configuration setting
117 . fixed errors in create remote dir
118 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
119 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
121 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
123 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
124 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
127 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
128 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
129 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
130 don't follow symlinks)
131 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
132 . new function: vservers_exist
135 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
137 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
139 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
140 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
142 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
143 backupninja and ninjahelper
146 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
148 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
149 . different signing and encrypting key support added
150 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
151 GnuPG-related options are used
153 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
154 ninjahelper(s) changes
155 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
156 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
158 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
160 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
161 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
162 . updated to include Vserver selection
164 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
165 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
167 . enhanced for vserver support
168 . now able to select databases and dump directory
170 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
172 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
173 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
174 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
175 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
176 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
177 added makecd ninjahelper
178 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
179 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
180 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
181 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
182 update rdiff ninjahelper
183 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
184 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
185 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
187 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
188 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
189 fixed insecure temporary file creation
190 *****************************************
191 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
192 fixed incorrect find positional
193 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
194 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
195 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
196 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
197 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
198 man pages are greatly improved.
200 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
201 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
202 added vservers support to duplicity handler
203 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
204 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
205 have a look at example.dup.
207 documented .disabled method.
208 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
209 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
210 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
211 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
212 to be seen as a vserver
213 changes to sys handler
214 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
215 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
217 changes to pgsql handler
218 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
219 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
220 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
221 changes to ninjahelper
222 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
223 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
224 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
225 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
226 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
227 added helper for pgsql handler.
228 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
229 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
230 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
231 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
233 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
234 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
235 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
236 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
237 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
238 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
240 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
241 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
242 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
243 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
244 ******************************************************************
245 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
246 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
247 ******************************************************************
248 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
249 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
250 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
251 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
252 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
253 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
254 added "sign" option for backups signing
255 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
256 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
257 added "nicelevel" option
258 added "testconnect" option
259 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
260 added "bandwidthlimit" option
261 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
262 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
263 added configfile option to mysql handler
264 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
265 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
266 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
267 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
268 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
270 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
271 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
272 rdiff handler supports local dest
273 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
274 added "when = hourly"
275 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
276 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
277 improved 'when' parsing.
279 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
280 results of handlers are now read line by line.
281 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
282 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
283 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
284 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
285 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
286 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
287 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
288 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
289 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
291 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
292 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
293 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
294 added status in the subject line of report emails
296 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
297 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
298 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
299 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
300 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
302 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
303 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
305 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
306 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
308 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
309 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
310 fixed stderr redirect bug
311 some comments in example.rdiff
313 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
314 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
315 works now with gawk as well as mawk
316 many bug fixes to ldap handler
317 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
318 does not require /usr/bin/stat
320 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
321 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
322 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
324 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
326 moved sh support to a handler script
327 add test mode, where no action is taken.
329 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
330 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
331 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
333 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
334 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
335 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
336 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
337 all scripts are now run as root
339 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
340 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
341 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
342 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
343 added support for .mysql config files.
345 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004