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 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
14 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
16 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
19 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
20 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
22 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
23 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
24 file (Closes: #394935)
25 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
27 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
28 together (Closes: Trac#29)
29 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
30 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
32 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
33 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
34 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
35 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
37 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
38 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
39 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
40 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
41 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
42 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
43 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
44 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
45 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
46 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
48 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
49 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
52 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
53 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
54 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
55 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
56 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
57 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
59 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
60 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
62 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
63 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
64 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
65 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
66 . Added example.rsync configuration file
68 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
69 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
70 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
71 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
72 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
73 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
74 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
75 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
76 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
77 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
78 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
79 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
80 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
81 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
84 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
86 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
87 to not work when run from cron.
88 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
89 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
90 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
91 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
92 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
93 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
94 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
95 symlinks for $configdirectory
96 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
97 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
98 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
99 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
104 . rotated rsync snapshops
105 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
107 . alternative to rsnap
108 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
110 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
111 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
112 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
113 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
114 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
115 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
117 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
118 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
119 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
120 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
121 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
122 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
124 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
126 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
127 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
128 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
129 between various readlink versions in this field.
130 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
131 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
132 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
133 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
134 following to the top of the handler config:
135 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
138 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
139 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
140 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
141 between various readlink versions in this field.
142 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
143 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
145 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
146 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
147 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
148 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
150 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
151 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
152 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
154 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
156 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
158 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
160 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
163 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
164 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
165 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
166 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
168 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
169 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
170 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
171 symlinks for $configdirectory
172 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
173 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
174 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
177 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
178 changed cron permissions to 644
179 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
180 minor documentation fixes
181 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
182 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
183 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
184 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
186 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
190 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
191 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
192 out more easily they can customize them
194 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
196 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
197 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
199 . fixed no user defaults file processing
201 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
202 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
203 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
204 disabled in backupninja.conf
205 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
206 in vsnames config variable
208 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
209 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
210 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
211 "vsnames" configuration setting
214 . fixed errors in create remote dir
215 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
216 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
218 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
220 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
221 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
224 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
225 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
226 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
227 don't follow symlinks)
228 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
229 . new function: vservers_exist
232 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
234 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
236 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
237 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
239 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
240 backupninja and ninjahelper
243 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
245 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
246 . different signing and encrypting key support added
247 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
248 GnuPG-related options are used
250 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
251 ninjahelper(s) changes
252 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
253 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
255 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
257 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
258 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
259 . updated to include Vserver selection
261 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
262 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
264 . enhanced for vserver support
265 . now able to select databases and dump directory
267 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
269 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
270 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
271 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
272 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
273 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
274 added makecd ninjahelper
275 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
276 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
277 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
278 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
279 update rdiff ninjahelper
280 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
281 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
282 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
284 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
285 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
286 fixed insecure temporary file creation
287 *****************************************
288 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
289 fixed incorrect find positional
290 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
291 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
292 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
293 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
294 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
295 man pages are greatly improved.
297 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
298 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
299 added vservers support to duplicity handler
300 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
301 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
302 have a look at example.dup.
304 documented .disabled method.
305 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
306 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
307 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
308 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
309 to be seen as a vserver
310 changes to sys handler
311 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
312 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
314 changes to pgsql handler
315 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
316 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
317 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
318 changes to ninjahelper
319 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
320 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
321 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
322 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
323 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
324 added helper for pgsql handler.
325 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
326 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
327 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
328 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
330 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
331 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
332 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
333 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
334 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
335 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
337 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
338 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
339 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
340 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
341 ******************************************************************
342 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
343 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
344 ******************************************************************
345 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
346 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
347 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
348 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
349 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
350 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
351 added "sign" option for backups signing
352 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
353 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
354 added "nicelevel" option
355 added "testconnect" option
356 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
357 added "bandwidthlimit" option
358 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
359 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
360 added configfile option to mysql handler
361 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
362 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
363 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
364 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
365 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
367 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
368 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
369 rdiff handler supports local dest
370 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
371 added "when = hourly"
372 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
373 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
374 improved 'when' parsing.
376 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
377 results of handlers are now read line by line.
378 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
379 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
380 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
381 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
382 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
383 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
384 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
385 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
386 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
388 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
389 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
390 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
391 added status in the subject line of report emails
393 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
394 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
395 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
396 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
397 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
399 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
400 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
402 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
403 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
405 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
406 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
407 fixed stderr redirect bug
408 some comments in example.rdiff
410 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
411 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
412 works now with gawk as well as mawk
413 many bug fixes to ldap handler
414 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
415 does not require /usr/bin/stat
417 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
418 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
419 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
421 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
423 moved sh support to a handler script
424 add test mode, where no action is taken.
426 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
427 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
428 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
430 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
431 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
432 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
433 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
434 all scripts are now run as root
436 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
437 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
438 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
439 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
440 added support for .mysql config files.
442 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004