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