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