1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
6 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
7 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
8 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
10 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
11 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
13 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
15 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
16 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
17 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
18 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
19 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
20 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
21 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
22 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
25 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
26 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
27 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
30 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
31 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
32 file (Closes: #394935)
33 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
35 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
36 together (Closes: Trac#29)
37 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
38 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
40 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
41 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
42 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
43 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
45 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
46 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
47 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
48 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
49 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
50 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
51 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
52 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
53 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
54 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
56 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
57 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
60 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
61 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
62 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
63 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
64 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
65 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
67 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
68 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
70 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
71 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
72 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
73 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
74 . Added example.rsync configuration file
76 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
77 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
78 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
79 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
80 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
81 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
82 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
83 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
84 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
85 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
86 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
87 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
89 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
90 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
91 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
92 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
93 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
94 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
95 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
96 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
98 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
100 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
101 to not work when run from cron.
102 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
103 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
104 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
105 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
106 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
107 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
108 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
109 symlinks for $configdirectory
110 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
111 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
112 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
113 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
118 . rotated rsync snapshops
119 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
121 . alternative to rsnap
122 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
124 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
125 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
126 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
127 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
128 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
129 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
131 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
132 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
133 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
134 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
135 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
136 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
138 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
140 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
141 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
142 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
143 between various readlink versions in this field.
144 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
145 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
146 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
147 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
148 following to the top of the handler config:
149 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
152 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
153 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
154 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
155 between various readlink versions in this field.
156 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
157 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
159 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
160 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
161 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
162 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
164 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
165 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
166 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
168 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
170 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
172 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
174 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
177 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
178 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
179 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
180 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
182 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
183 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
184 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
185 symlinks for $configdirectory
186 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
187 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
188 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
191 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
192 changed cron permissions to 644
193 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
194 minor documentation fixes
195 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
196 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
197 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
198 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
200 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
204 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
205 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
206 out more easily they can customize them
208 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
210 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
211 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
213 . fixed no user defaults file processing
215 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
216 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
217 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
218 disabled in backupninja.conf
219 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
220 in vsnames config variable
222 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
223 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
224 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
225 "vsnames" configuration setting
228 . fixed errors in create remote dir
229 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
230 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
232 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
234 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
235 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
238 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
239 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
240 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
241 don't follow symlinks)
242 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
243 . new function: vservers_exist
246 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
248 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
250 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
251 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
253 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
254 backupninja and ninjahelper
257 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
259 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
260 . different signing and encrypting key support added
261 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
262 GnuPG-related options are used
264 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
265 ninjahelper(s) changes
266 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
267 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
269 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
271 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
272 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
273 . updated to include Vserver selection
275 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
276 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
278 . enhanced for vserver support
279 . now able to select databases and dump directory
281 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
283 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
284 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
285 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
286 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
287 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
288 added makecd ninjahelper
289 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
290 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
291 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
292 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
293 update rdiff ninjahelper
294 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
295 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
296 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
298 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
299 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
300 fixed insecure temporary file creation
301 *****************************************
302 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
303 fixed incorrect find positional
304 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
305 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
306 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
307 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
308 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
309 man pages are greatly improved.
311 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
312 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
313 added vservers support to duplicity handler
314 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
315 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
316 have a look at example.dup.
318 documented .disabled method.
319 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
320 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
321 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
322 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
323 to be seen as a vserver
324 changes to sys handler
325 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
326 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
328 changes to pgsql handler
329 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
330 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
331 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
332 changes to ninjahelper
333 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
334 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
335 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
336 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
337 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
338 added helper for pgsql handler.
339 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
340 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
341 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
342 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
344 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
345 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
346 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
347 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
348 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
349 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
351 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
352 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
353 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
354 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
355 ******************************************************************
356 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
357 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
358 ******************************************************************
359 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
360 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
361 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
362 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
363 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
364 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
365 added "sign" option for backups signing
366 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
367 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
368 added "nicelevel" option
369 added "testconnect" option
370 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
371 added "bandwidthlimit" option
372 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
373 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
374 added configfile option to mysql handler
375 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
376 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
377 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
378 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
379 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
381 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
382 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
383 rdiff handler supports local dest
384 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
385 added "when = hourly"
386 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
387 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
388 improved 'when' parsing.
390 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
391 results of handlers are now read line by line.
392 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
393 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
394 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
395 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
396 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
397 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
398 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
399 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
400 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
402 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
403 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
404 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
405 added status in the subject line of report emails
407 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
408 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
409 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
410 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
411 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
413 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
414 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
416 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
417 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
419 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
420 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
421 fixed stderr redirect bug
422 some comments in example.rdiff
424 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
425 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
426 works now with gawk as well as mawk
427 many bug fixes to ldap handler
428 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
429 does not require /usr/bin/stat
431 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
432 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
433 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
435 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
437 moved sh support to a handler script
438 add test mode, where no action is taken.
440 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
441 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
442 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
444 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
445 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
446 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
447 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
448 all scripts are now run as root
450 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
451 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
452 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
453 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
454 added support for .mysql config files.
456 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004
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