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