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.
37 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
38 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
39 rdiff handler supports local dest
40 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
42 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
43 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
44 improved 'when' parsing.
46 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
47 results of handlers are now read line by line.
48 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
49 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
50 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
51 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
52 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
53 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
54 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
55 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
56 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
58 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
59 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
60 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
61 added status in the subject line of report emails
63 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
64 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
65 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
66 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
67 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
69 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
70 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
72 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
73 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
75 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
76 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
77 fixed stderr redirect bug
78 some comments in example.rdiff
80 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
81 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
82 works now with gawk as well as mawk
83 many bug fixes to ldap handler
84 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
85 does not require /usr/bin/stat
87 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
88 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
89 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
91 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
93 moved sh support to a handler script
94 add test mode, where no action is taken.
96 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
97 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
98 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
100 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
101 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
102 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
103 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
104 all scripts are now run as root
106 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
107 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
108 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
109 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
110 added support for .mysql config files.
112 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004