1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
3 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
4 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
5 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
6 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
10 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
11 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
12 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
13 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
14 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
16 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
17 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
19 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
20 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
22 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
23 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
24 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
26 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
27 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
29 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
30 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
31 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
32 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
34 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
36 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
37 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
38 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
39 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
40 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
41 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
42 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
43 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
46 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
47 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
48 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
51 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
52 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
53 file (Closes: #394935)
54 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
56 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
57 together (Closes: Trac#29)
58 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
59 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
61 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
62 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
63 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
64 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
66 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
67 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
68 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
69 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
70 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
71 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
72 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
73 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
74 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
75 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
77 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
78 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
81 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
82 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
83 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
84 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
85 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
86 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
88 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
89 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
91 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
92 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
93 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
94 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
95 . Added example.rsync configuration file
97 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
98 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
99 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
100 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
101 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
102 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
103 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
104 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
105 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
106 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
107 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
108 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
110 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
111 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
112 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
113 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
114 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
115 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
116 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
117 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
119 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
121 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
122 to not work when run from cron.
123 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
124 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
125 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
126 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
127 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
128 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
129 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
130 symlinks for $configdirectory
131 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
132 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
133 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
134 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
139 . rotated rsync snapshops
140 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
142 . alternative to rsnap
143 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
145 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
146 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
147 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
148 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
149 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
150 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
152 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
153 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
154 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
155 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
156 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
157 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
159 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
161 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
162 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
163 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
164 between various readlink versions in this field.
165 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
166 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
167 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
168 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
169 following to the top of the handler config:
170 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
173 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
174 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
175 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
176 between various readlink versions in this field.
177 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
178 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
180 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
181 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
182 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
183 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
185 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
186 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
187 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
189 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
191 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
193 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
195 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
198 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
199 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
200 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
201 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
203 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
204 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
205 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
206 symlinks for $configdirectory
207 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
208 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
209 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
212 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
213 changed cron permissions to 644
214 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
215 minor documentation fixes
216 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
217 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
218 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
219 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
221 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
225 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
226 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
227 out more easily they can customize them
229 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
231 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
232 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
234 . fixed no user defaults file processing
236 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
237 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
238 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
239 disabled in backupninja.conf
240 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
241 in vsnames config variable
243 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
244 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
245 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
246 "vsnames" configuration setting
249 . fixed errors in create remote dir
250 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
251 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
253 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
255 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
256 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
259 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
260 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
261 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
262 don't follow symlinks)
263 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
264 . new function: vservers_exist
267 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
269 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
271 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
272 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
274 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
275 backupninja and ninjahelper
278 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
280 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
281 . different signing and encrypting key support added
282 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
283 GnuPG-related options are used
285 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
286 ninjahelper(s) changes
287 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
288 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
290 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
292 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
293 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
294 . updated to include Vserver selection
296 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
297 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
299 . enhanced for vserver support
300 . now able to select databases and dump directory
302 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
304 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
305 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
306 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
307 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
308 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
309 added makecd ninjahelper
310 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
311 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
312 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
313 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
314 update rdiff ninjahelper
315 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
316 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
317 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
319 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
320 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
321 fixed insecure temporary file creation
322 *****************************************
323 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
324 fixed incorrect find positional
325 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
326 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
327 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
328 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
329 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
330 man pages are greatly improved.
332 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
333 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
334 added vservers support to duplicity handler
335 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
336 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
337 have a look at example.dup.
339 documented .disabled method.
340 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
341 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
342 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
343 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
344 to be seen as a vserver
345 changes to sys handler
346 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
347 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
349 changes to pgsql handler
350 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
351 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
352 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
353 changes to ninjahelper
354 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
355 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
356 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
357 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
358 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
359 added helper for pgsql handler.
360 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
361 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
362 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
363 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
365 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
366 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
367 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
368 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
369 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
370 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
372 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
373 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
374 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
375 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
376 ******************************************************************
377 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
378 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
379 ******************************************************************
380 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
381 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
382 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
383 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
384 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
385 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
386 added "sign" option for backups signing
387 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
388 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
389 added "nicelevel" option
390 added "testconnect" option
391 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
392 added "bandwidthlimit" option
393 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
394 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
395 added configfile option to mysql handler
396 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
397 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
398 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
399 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
400 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
402 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
403 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
404 rdiff handler supports local dest
405 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
406 added "when = hourly"
407 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
408 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
409 improved 'when' parsing.
411 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
412 results of handlers are now read line by line.
413 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
414 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
415 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
416 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
417 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
418 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
419 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
420 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
421 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
423 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
424 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
425 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
426 added status in the subject line of report emails
428 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
429 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
430 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
431 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
432 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
434 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
435 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
437 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
438 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
440 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
441 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
442 fixed stderr redirect bug
443 some comments in example.rdiff
445 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
446 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
447 works now with gawk as well as mawk
448 many bug fixes to ldap handler
449 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
450 does not require /usr/bin/stat
452 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
453 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
454 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
456 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
458 moved sh support to a handler script
459 add test mode, where no action is taken.
461 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
462 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
463 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
465 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
466 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
467 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
468 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
469 all scripts are now run as root
471 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
472 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
473 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
474 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
475 added support for .mysql config files.
477 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004