1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
13 . Fixed Trac#11 (quoting needed to prevent shell expansion, broke the
14 toint function sometimes)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Trac#10)
18 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
19 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file
21 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
22 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
24 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
25 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
28 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
29 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
30 . Ignore rdiff-backup minor versions (thanks Sami Haahtinen)
32 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
33 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
35 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
37 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
38 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
39 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
40 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
41 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
42 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
43 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
44 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
45 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
46 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
47 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
48 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
49 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub files
52 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
54 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
55 to not work when run from cron.
56 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
57 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
58 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
59 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
60 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
61 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
62 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
63 symlinks for $configdirectory
64 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
65 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
66 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
67 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
72 . rotated rsync snapshops
73 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
75 . alternative to rsnap
76 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
78 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
79 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
80 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
81 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
82 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
83 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
85 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
86 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
87 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
88 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
89 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
90 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
92 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
94 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
95 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
96 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
97 between various readlink versions in this field.
98 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
99 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
100 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
101 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
102 following to the top of the handler config:
103 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
106 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
107 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
108 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
109 between various readlink versions in this field.
110 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
111 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
113 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
114 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
115 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
116 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
118 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
119 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
120 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
122 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
124 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
126 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
128 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
131 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
132 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
133 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
134 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
136 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
137 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
138 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
139 symlinks for $configdirectory
140 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
141 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
142 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
145 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
146 changed cron permissions to 644
147 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
148 minor documentation fixes
149 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
150 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
151 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
152 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
154 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
158 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
159 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
160 out more easily they can customize them
162 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
164 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
165 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
167 . fixed no user defaults file processing
169 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
170 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
171 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
172 disabled in backupninja.conf
173 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
174 in vsnames config variable
176 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
177 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
178 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
179 "vsnames" configuration setting
182 . fixed errors in create remote dir
183 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
184 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
186 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
188 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
189 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
192 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
193 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
194 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
195 don't follow symlinks)
196 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
197 . new function: vservers_exist
200 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
202 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
204 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
205 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
207 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
208 backupninja and ninjahelper
211 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
213 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
214 . different signing and encrypting key support added
215 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
216 GnuPG-related options are used
218 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
219 ninjahelper(s) changes
220 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
221 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
223 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
225 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
226 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
227 . updated to include Vserver selection
229 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
230 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
232 . enhanced for vserver support
233 . now able to select databases and dump directory
235 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
237 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
238 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
239 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
240 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
241 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
242 added makecd ninjahelper
243 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
244 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
245 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
246 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
247 update rdiff ninjahelper
248 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
249 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
250 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
252 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
253 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
254 fixed insecure temporary file creation
255 *****************************************
256 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
257 fixed incorrect find positional
258 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
259 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
260 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
261 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
262 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
263 man pages are greatly improved.
265 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
266 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
267 added vservers support to duplicity handler
268 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
269 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
270 have a look at example.dup.
272 documented .disabled method.
273 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
274 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
275 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
276 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
277 to be seen as a vserver
278 changes to sys handler
279 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
280 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
282 changes to pgsql handler
283 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
284 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
285 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
286 changes to ninjahelper
287 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
288 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
289 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
290 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
291 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
292 added helper for pgsql handler.
293 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
294 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
295 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
296 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
298 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
299 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
300 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
301 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
302 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
303 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
305 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
306 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
307 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
308 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
309 ******************************************************************
310 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
311 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
312 ******************************************************************
313 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
314 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
315 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
316 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
317 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
318 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
319 added "sign" option for backups signing
320 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
321 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
322 added "nicelevel" option
323 added "testconnect" option
324 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
325 added "bandwidthlimit" option
326 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
327 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
328 added configfile option to mysql handler
329 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
330 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
331 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
332 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
333 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
335 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
336 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
337 rdiff handler supports local dest
338 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
339 added "when = hourly"
340 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
341 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
342 improved 'when' parsing.
344 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
345 results of handlers are now read line by line.
346 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
347 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
348 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
349 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
350 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
351 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
352 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
353 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
354 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
356 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
357 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
358 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
359 added status in the subject line of report emails
361 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
362 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
363 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
364 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
365 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
367 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
368 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
370 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
371 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
373 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
374 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
375 fixed stderr redirect bug
376 some comments in example.rdiff
378 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
379 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
380 works now with gawk as well as mawk
381 many bug fixes to ldap handler
382 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
383 does not require /usr/bin/stat
385 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
386 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
387 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
389 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
391 moved sh support to a handler script
392 add test mode, where no action is taken.
394 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
395 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
396 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
398 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
399 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
400 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
401 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
402 all scripts are now run as root
404 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
405 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
406 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
407 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
408 added support for .mysql config files.
410 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004