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