1 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
3 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
4 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
5 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
6 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
9 . added vservers_running function
11 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
12 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
16 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
17 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
18 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
19 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
20 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
22 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
23 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
24 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
25 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
27 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
28 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
30 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
31 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
32 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
34 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
35 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
37 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
38 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
39 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
40 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
41 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
42 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
43 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
44 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
45 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
47 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
49 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
50 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
51 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
52 debconf-get-selections
53 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
54 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
55 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
56 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
57 (Thanks to John Hallam).
59 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
60 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
62 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
64 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
66 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
67 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
68 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
69 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
70 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
71 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
72 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
73 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
76 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
77 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
78 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
81 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
82 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
83 file (Closes: #394935)
84 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
86 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
87 together (Closes: Trac#29)
88 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
89 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
91 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
92 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
93 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
94 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
96 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
97 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
98 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
99 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
100 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
101 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
102 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
103 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
104 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
105 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
107 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
108 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
111 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
112 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
113 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
114 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
115 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
116 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
118 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
119 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
121 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
122 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
123 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
124 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
125 . Added example.rsync configuration file
127 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
128 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
129 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
130 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
131 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
132 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
133 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
134 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
135 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
136 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
137 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
138 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
140 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
141 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
142 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
143 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
144 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
145 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
146 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
147 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
149 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
151 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
152 to not work when run from cron.
153 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
154 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
155 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
156 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
157 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
158 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
159 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
160 symlinks for $configdirectory
161 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
162 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
163 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
164 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
169 . rotated rsync snapshops
170 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
172 . alternative to rsnap
173 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
175 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
176 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
177 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
178 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
179 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
180 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
182 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
183 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
184 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
185 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
186 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
187 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
189 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
191 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
192 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
193 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
194 between various readlink versions in this field.
195 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
196 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
197 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
198 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
199 following to the top of the handler config:
200 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
203 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
204 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
205 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
206 between various readlink versions in this field.
207 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
208 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
210 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
211 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
212 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
213 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
215 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
216 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
217 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
219 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
221 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
223 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
225 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
228 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
229 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
230 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
231 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
233 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
234 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
235 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
236 symlinks for $configdirectory
237 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
238 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
239 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
242 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
243 changed cron permissions to 644
244 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
245 minor documentation fixes
246 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
247 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
248 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
249 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
251 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
255 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
256 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
257 out more easily they can customize them
259 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
261 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
262 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
264 . fixed no user defaults file processing
266 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
267 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
268 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
269 disabled in backupninja.conf
270 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
271 in vsnames config variable
273 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
274 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
275 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
276 "vsnames" configuration setting
279 . fixed errors in create remote dir
280 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
281 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
283 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
285 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
286 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
289 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
290 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
291 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
292 don't follow symlinks)
293 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
294 . new function: vservers_exist
297 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
299 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
301 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
302 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
304 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
305 backupninja and ninjahelper
308 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
310 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
311 . different signing and encrypting key support added
312 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
313 GnuPG-related options are used
315 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
316 ninjahelper(s) changes
317 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
318 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
320 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
322 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
323 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
324 . updated to include Vserver selection
326 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
327 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
329 . enhanced for vserver support
330 . now able to select databases and dump directory
332 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
334 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
335 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
336 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
337 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
338 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
339 added makecd ninjahelper
340 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
341 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
342 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
343 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
344 update rdiff ninjahelper
345 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
346 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
347 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
349 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
350 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
351 fixed insecure temporary file creation
352 *****************************************
353 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
354 fixed incorrect find positional
355 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
356 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
357 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
358 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
359 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
360 man pages are greatly improved.
362 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
363 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
364 added vservers support to duplicity handler
365 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
366 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
367 have a look at example.dup.
369 documented .disabled method.
370 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
371 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
372 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
373 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
374 to be seen as a vserver
375 changes to sys handler
376 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
377 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
379 changes to pgsql handler
380 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
381 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
382 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
383 changes to ninjahelper
384 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
385 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
386 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
387 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
388 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
389 added helper for pgsql handler.
390 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
391 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
392 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
393 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
395 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
396 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
397 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
398 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
399 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
400 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
402 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
403 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
404 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
405 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
406 ******************************************************************
407 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
408 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
409 ******************************************************************
410 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
411 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
412 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
413 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
414 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
415 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
416 added "sign" option for backups signing
417 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
418 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
419 added "nicelevel" option
420 added "testconnect" option
421 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
422 added "bandwidthlimit" option
423 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
424 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
425 added configfile option to mysql handler
426 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
427 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
428 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
429 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
430 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
432 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
433 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
434 rdiff handler supports local dest
435 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
436 added "when = hourly"
437 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
438 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
439 improved 'when' parsing.
441 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
442 results of handlers are now read line by line.
443 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
444 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
445 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
446 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
447 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
448 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
449 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
450 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
451 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
453 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
454 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
455 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
456 added status in the subject line of report emails
458 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
459 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
460 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
461 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
462 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
464 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
465 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
467 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
468 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
470 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
471 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
472 fixed stderr redirect bug
473 some comments in example.rdiff
475 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
476 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
477 works now with gawk as well as mawk
478 many bug fixes to ldap handler
479 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
480 does not require /usr/bin/stat
482 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
483 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
484 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
486 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
488 moved sh support to a handler script
489 add test mode, where no action is taken.
491 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
492 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
493 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
495 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
496 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
497 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
498 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
499 all scripts are now run as root
501 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
502 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
503 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
504 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
505 added support for .mysql config files.
507 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004
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