1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
6 . fix location of deleted_on file
7 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
9 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
11 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
12 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
13 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
14 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
17 . added vservers_running function
19 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
20 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
24 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
25 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
26 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
27 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
28 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
30 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
31 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
32 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
33 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
35 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
36 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
38 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
39 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
40 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
42 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
43 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
45 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
46 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
47 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
48 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
49 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
50 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
51 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
52 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
53 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
55 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
57 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
58 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
59 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
60 debconf-get-selections
61 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
62 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
63 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
64 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
65 (Thanks to John Hallam).
67 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
68 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
70 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
72 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
74 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
75 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
76 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
77 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
78 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
79 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
80 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
81 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
84 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
85 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
86 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
89 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
90 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
91 file (Closes: #394935)
92 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
94 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
95 together (Closes: Trac#29)
96 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
97 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
99 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
100 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
101 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
102 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
104 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
105 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
106 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
107 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
108 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
109 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
110 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
111 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
112 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
113 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
115 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
116 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
119 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
120 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
121 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
122 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
123 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
124 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
126 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
127 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
129 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
130 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
131 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
132 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
133 . Added example.rsync configuration file
135 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
136 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
137 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
138 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
139 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
140 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
141 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
142 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
143 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
144 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
145 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
146 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
148 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
149 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
150 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
151 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
152 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
153 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
154 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
155 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
157 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
159 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
160 to not work when run from cron.
161 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
162 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
163 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
164 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
165 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
166 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
167 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
168 symlinks for $configdirectory
169 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
170 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
171 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
172 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
177 . rotated rsync snapshops
178 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
180 . alternative to rsnap
181 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
183 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
184 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
185 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
186 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
187 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
188 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
190 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
191 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
192 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
193 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
194 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
195 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
197 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
199 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
200 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
201 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
202 between various readlink versions in this field.
203 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
204 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
205 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
206 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
207 following to the top of the handler config:
208 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
211 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
212 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
213 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
214 between various readlink versions in this field.
215 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
216 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
218 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
219 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
220 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
221 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
223 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
224 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
225 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
227 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
229 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
231 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
233 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
236 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
237 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
238 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
239 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
241 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
242 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
243 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
244 symlinks for $configdirectory
245 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
246 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
247 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
250 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
251 changed cron permissions to 644
252 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
253 minor documentation fixes
254 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
255 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
256 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
257 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
259 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
263 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
264 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
265 out more easily they can customize them
267 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
269 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
270 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
272 . fixed no user defaults file processing
274 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
275 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
276 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
277 disabled in backupninja.conf
278 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
279 in vsnames config variable
281 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
282 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
283 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
284 "vsnames" configuration setting
287 . fixed errors in create remote dir
288 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
289 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
291 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
293 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
294 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
297 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
298 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
299 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
300 don't follow symlinks)
301 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
302 . new function: vservers_exist
305 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
307 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
309 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
310 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
312 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
313 backupninja and ninjahelper
316 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
318 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
319 . different signing and encrypting key support added
320 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
321 GnuPG-related options are used
323 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
324 ninjahelper(s) changes
325 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
326 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
328 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
330 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
331 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
332 . updated to include Vserver selection
334 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
335 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
337 . enhanced for vserver support
338 . now able to select databases and dump directory
340 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
342 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
343 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
344 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
345 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
346 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
347 added makecd ninjahelper
348 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
349 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
350 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
351 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
352 update rdiff ninjahelper
353 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
354 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
355 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
357 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
358 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
359 fixed insecure temporary file creation
360 *****************************************
361 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
362 fixed incorrect find positional
363 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
364 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
365 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
366 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
367 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
368 man pages are greatly improved.
370 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
371 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
372 added vservers support to duplicity handler
373 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
374 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
375 have a look at example.dup.
377 documented .disabled method.
378 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
379 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
380 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
381 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
382 to be seen as a vserver
383 changes to sys handler
384 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
385 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
387 changes to pgsql handler
388 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
389 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
390 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
391 changes to ninjahelper
392 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
393 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
394 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
395 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
396 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
397 added helper for pgsql handler.
398 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
399 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
400 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
401 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
403 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
404 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
405 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
406 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
407 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
408 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
410 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
411 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
412 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
413 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
414 ******************************************************************
415 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
416 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
417 ******************************************************************
418 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
419 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
420 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
421 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
422 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
423 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
424 added "sign" option for backups signing
425 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
426 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
427 added "nicelevel" option
428 added "testconnect" option
429 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
430 added "bandwidthlimit" option
431 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
432 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
433 added configfile option to mysql handler
434 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
435 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
436 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
437 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
438 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
440 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
441 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
442 rdiff handler supports local dest
443 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
444 added "when = hourly"
445 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
446 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
447 improved 'when' parsing.
449 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
450 results of handlers are now read line by line.
451 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
452 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
453 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
454 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
455 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
456 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
457 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
458 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
459 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
461 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
462 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
463 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
464 added status in the subject line of report emails
466 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
467 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
468 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
469 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
470 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
472 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
473 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
475 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
476 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
478 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
479 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
480 fixed stderr redirect bug
481 some comments in example.rdiff
483 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
484 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
485 works now with gawk as well as mawk
486 many bug fixes to ldap handler
487 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
488 does not require /usr/bin/stat
490 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
491 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
492 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
494 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
496 moved sh support to a handler script
497 add test mode, where no action is taken.
499 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
500 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
501 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
503 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
504 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
505 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
506 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
507 all scripts are now run as root
509 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
510 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
511 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
512 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
513 added support for .mysql config files.
515 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004