2 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
3 added vservers support to duplicity handler
4 Note: the configuration is a bit different of rdiff
5 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
6 have a look to example.dup.
8 documented .disabled method.
9 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
10 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
11 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
12 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
13 to be seen as a vserver
14 changes to sys handler
15 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
16 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
18 changes to pgsql handler
19 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
20 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
21 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
22 changes to ninjahelper
23 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
24 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
25 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
26 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
27 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
28 added helper for pgsql handler.
29 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
30 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
31 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
33 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
34 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
35 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
36 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
37 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
38 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
40 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
41 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
42 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
43 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
44 ******************************************************************
45 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
46 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
47 ******************************************************************
48 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
49 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
50 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
51 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
52 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
53 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
54 added "sign" option for backups signing
55 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
56 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
57 added "nicelevel" option
58 added "testconnect" option
59 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
60 added "bandwidthlimit" option
61 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
62 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
63 added configfile option to mysql handler
64 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
65 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
66 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
67 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
68 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
70 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
71 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
72 rdiff handler supports local dest
73 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
75 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
76 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
77 improved 'when' parsing.
79 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
80 results of handlers are now read line by line.
81 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
82 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
83 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
84 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
85 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
86 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
87 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
88 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
89 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
91 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
92 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
93 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
94 added status in the subject line of report emails
96 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
97 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
98 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
99 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
100 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
102 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
103 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
105 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
106 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
108 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
109 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
110 fixed stderr redirect bug
111 some comments in example.rdiff
113 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
114 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
115 works now with gawk as well as mawk
116 many bug fixes to ldap handler
117 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
118 does not require /usr/bin/stat
120 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
121 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
122 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
124 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
126 moved sh support to a handler script
127 add test mode, where no action is taken.
129 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
130 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
131 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
133 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
134 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
135 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
136 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
137 all scripts are now run as root
139 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
140 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
141 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
142 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
143 added support for .mysql config files.
145 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004