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