2 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
3 rdiff handler does not require 'label'
5 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
6 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
7 fixed insecure temporary file creation
8 *****************************************
9 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
10 fixed incorrect find positional
11 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
12 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
13 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
14 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
15 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
16 man pages are greatly improved.
18 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
19 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
20 added vservers support to duplicity handler
21 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
22 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
23 have a look at example.dup.
25 documented .disabled method.
26 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
27 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
28 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
29 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
30 to be seen as a vserver
31 changes to sys handler
32 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
33 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
35 changes to pgsql handler
36 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
37 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
38 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
39 changes to ninjahelper
40 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
41 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
42 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
43 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
44 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
45 added helper for pgsql handler.
46 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
47 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
48 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
49 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
51 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
52 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
53 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
54 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
55 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
56 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
58 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
59 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
60 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
61 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
62 ******************************************************************
63 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
64 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
65 ******************************************************************
66 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
67 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
68 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
69 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
70 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
71 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
72 added "sign" option for backups signing
73 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
74 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
75 added "nicelevel" option
76 added "testconnect" option
77 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
78 added "bandwidthlimit" option
79 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
80 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
81 added configfile option to mysql handler
82 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
83 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
84 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
85 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
86 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
88 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
89 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
90 rdiff handler supports local dest
91 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
93 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
94 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
95 improved 'when' parsing.
97 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
98 results of handlers are now read line by line.
99 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
100 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
101 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
102 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
103 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
104 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
105 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
106 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
107 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
109 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
110 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
111 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
112 added status in the subject line of report emails
114 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
115 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
116 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
117 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
118 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
120 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
121 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
123 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
124 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
126 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
127 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
128 fixed stderr redirect bug
129 some comments in example.rdiff
131 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
132 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
133 works now with gawk as well as mawk
134 many bug fixes to ldap handler
135 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
136 does not require /usr/bin/stat
138 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
139 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
140 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
142 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
144 moved sh support to a handler script
145 add test mode, where no action is taken.
147 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
148 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
149 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
151 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
152 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
153 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
154 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
155 all scripts are now run as root
157 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
158 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
159 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
160 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
161 added support for .mysql config files.
163 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004