1 version 0.9 -- unreleased
2 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
3 fixed insecure temporary file creation
4 *****************************************
5 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
6 fixed incorrect find positional
7 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
8 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
9 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
11 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
12 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
13 added vservers support to duplicity handler
14 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
15 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
16 have a look at example.dup.
18 documented .disabled method.
19 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
20 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
21 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
22 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
23 to be seen as a vserver
24 changes to sys handler
25 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
26 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
28 changes to pgsql handler
29 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
30 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
31 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
32 changes to ninjahelper
33 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
34 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
35 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
36 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
37 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
38 added helper for pgsql handler.
39 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
40 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
41 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
42 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
44 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
45 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
46 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
47 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
48 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
49 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
51 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
52 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
53 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
54 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
55 ******************************************************************
56 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
57 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
58 ******************************************************************
59 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
60 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
61 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
62 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
63 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
64 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
65 added "sign" option for backups signing
66 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
67 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
68 added "nicelevel" option
69 added "testconnect" option
70 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
71 added "bandwidthlimit" option
72 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
73 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
74 added configfile option to mysql handler
75 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
76 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
77 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
78 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
79 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
81 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
82 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
83 rdiff handler supports local dest
84 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
86 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
87 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
88 improved 'when' parsing.
90 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
91 results of handlers are now read line by line.
92 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
93 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
94 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
95 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
96 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
97 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
98 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
99 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
100 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
102 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
103 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
104 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
105 added status in the subject line of report emails
107 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
108 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
109 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
110 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
111 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
113 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
114 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
116 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
117 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
119 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
120 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
121 fixed stderr redirect bug
122 some comments in example.rdiff
124 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
125 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
126 works now with gawk as well as mawk
127 many bug fixes to ldap handler
128 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
129 does not require /usr/bin/stat
131 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
132 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
133 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
135 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
137 moved sh support to a handler script
138 add test mode, where no action is taken.
140 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
141 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
142 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
144 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
145 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
146 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
147 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
148 all scripts are now run as root
150 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
151 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
152 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
153 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
154 added support for .mysql config files.
156 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004