1 version 0.9.1 -- unreleased
2 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
3 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
4 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
5 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
6 added makecd ninjahelper
7 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
8 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
9 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
10 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
11 update rdiff ninjahelper to detect and auto-install rdiff-backup
12 on the remote machine if possible
14 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
15 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
16 fixed insecure temporary file creation
17 *****************************************
18 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
19 fixed incorrect find positional
20 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
21 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
22 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
23 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
24 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
25 man pages are greatly improved.
27 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
28 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
29 added vservers support to duplicity handler
30 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
31 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
32 have a look at example.dup.
34 documented .disabled method.
35 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
36 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
37 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
38 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
39 to be seen as a vserver
40 changes to sys handler
41 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
42 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
44 changes to pgsql handler
45 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
46 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
47 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
48 changes to ninjahelper
49 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
50 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
51 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
52 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
53 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
54 added helper for pgsql handler.
55 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
56 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
57 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
58 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
60 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
61 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
62 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
63 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
64 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
65 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
67 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
68 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
69 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
70 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
71 ******************************************************************
72 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
73 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
74 ******************************************************************
75 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
76 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
77 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
78 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
79 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
80 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
81 added "sign" option for backups signing
82 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
83 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
84 added "nicelevel" option
85 added "testconnect" option
86 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
87 added "bandwidthlimit" option
88 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
89 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
90 added configfile option to mysql handler
91 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
92 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
93 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
94 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
95 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
97 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
98 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
99 rdiff handler supports local dest
100 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
101 added "when = hourly"
102 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
103 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
104 improved 'when' parsing.
106 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
107 results of handlers are now read line by line.
108 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
109 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
110 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
111 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
112 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
113 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
114 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
115 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
116 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
118 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
119 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
120 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
121 added status in the subject line of report emails
123 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
124 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
125 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
126 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
127 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
129 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
130 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
132 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
133 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
135 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
136 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
137 fixed stderr redirect bug
138 some comments in example.rdiff
140 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
141 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
142 works now with gawk as well as mawk
143 many bug fixes to ldap handler
144 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
145 does not require /usr/bin/stat
147 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
148 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
149 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
151 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
153 moved sh support to a handler script
154 add test mode, where no action is taken.
156 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
157 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
158 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
160 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
161 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
162 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
163 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
164 all scripts are now run as root
166 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
167 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
168 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
169 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
170 added support for .mysql config files.
172 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004