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