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