1 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
2 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
3 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
4 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
5 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
6 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
8 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
9 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
10 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
11 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
12 ******************************************************************
13 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
14 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
15 ******************************************************************
16 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
17 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
18 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
19 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
20 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
21 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
22 added "sign" option for backups signing
23 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
24 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
25 added "nicelevel" option
26 added "testconnect" option
27 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
28 added "bandwidthlimit" option
29 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
30 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
31 added configfile option to mysql handler
32 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
33 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
34 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
35 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
36 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
38 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
39 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
40 rdiff handler supports local dest
41 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
43 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
44 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
45 improved 'when' parsing.
47 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
48 results of handlers are now read line by line.
49 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
50 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
51 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
52 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
53 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
54 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
55 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
56 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
57 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
59 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
60 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
61 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
62 added status in the subject line of report emails
64 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
65 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
66 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
67 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
68 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
70 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
71 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
73 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
74 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
76 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
77 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
78 fixed stderr redirect bug
79 some comments in example.rdiff
81 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
82 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
83 works now with gawk as well as mawk
84 many bug fixes to ldap handler
85 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
86 does not require /usr/bin/stat
88 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
89 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
90 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
92 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
94 moved sh support to a handler script
95 add test mode, where no action is taken.
97 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
98 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
99 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
101 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
102 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
103 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
104 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
105 all scripts are now run as root
107 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
108 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
109 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
110 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
111 added support for .mysql config files.
113 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004