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