1 version 0.9.8 -- UNRELEASED
4 . Only run mdadm if RAID devices actually exist (Closes: #572450)
6 version 0.9.7 -- January 27, 2010
8 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
9 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
10 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
11 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
12 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
13 . new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with
14 "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes #563734)
15 . reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the
16 local filesystem (Closes: #536049)
17 . set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: #537266)
20 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
23 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
24 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
27 . fix location of deleted_on file
28 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
29 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
30 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
31 . use any subdirectories not just "a" to "z". Thanks Chris Nolan! (Redmine#606)
33 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
34 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
35 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
36 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
37 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
38 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
39 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
40 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
41 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
42 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
44 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
47 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
48 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
50 . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are
53 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435)
54 . Fix confusing error if rdiff-backup cannot be found on remote server.
55 . Increased element number in include/exclude and vserver ninjahelper interface
57 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
59 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
60 detected volume group.
61 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
63 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
65 . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at
66 one time (Closes: #536360)
67 . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in
68 report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734)
69 . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces
70 . Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch.
73 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
76 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
77 will help supporting *BSD some day.
79 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
81 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
82 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
83 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
84 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
87 . added vservers_running function
89 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
90 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
94 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
95 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
96 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
97 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
98 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
100 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
101 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
102 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
103 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
105 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
106 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
108 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
109 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
110 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
112 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
113 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
115 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
116 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
117 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
118 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
119 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
120 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
121 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
122 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
123 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
125 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
127 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
128 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
129 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
130 debconf-get-selections
131 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
132 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
133 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
134 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
135 (Thanks to John Hallam).
137 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
138 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
140 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
142 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
144 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
145 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
146 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
147 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
148 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
149 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
150 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
151 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
154 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
155 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
156 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
159 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
160 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
161 file (Closes: #394935)
162 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
164 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
165 together (Closes: Trac#29)
166 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
167 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
169 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
170 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
171 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
172 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
174 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
175 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
176 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
177 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
178 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
179 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
180 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
181 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
182 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
183 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
185 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
186 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
189 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
190 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
191 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
192 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
193 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
194 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
196 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
197 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
199 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
200 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
201 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
202 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
203 . Added example.rsync configuration file
205 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
206 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
207 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
208 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
209 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
210 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
211 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
212 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
213 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
214 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
215 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
216 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
218 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
219 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
220 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
221 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
222 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
223 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
224 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
225 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
227 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
229 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
230 to not work when run from cron.
231 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
232 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
233 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
234 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
235 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
236 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
237 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
238 symlinks for $configdirectory
239 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
240 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
241 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
242 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
247 . rotated rsync snapshops
248 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
250 . alternative to rsnap
251 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
253 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
254 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
255 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
256 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
257 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
258 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
260 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
261 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
262 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
263 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
264 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
265 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
267 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
269 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
270 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
271 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
272 between various readlink versions in this field.
273 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
274 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
275 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
276 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
277 following to the top of the handler config:
278 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
281 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
282 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
283 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
284 between various readlink versions in this field.
285 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
286 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
288 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
289 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
290 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
291 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
293 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
294 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
295 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
297 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
299 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
301 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
303 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
306 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
307 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
308 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
309 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
311 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
312 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
313 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
314 symlinks for $configdirectory
315 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
316 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
317 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
320 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
321 changed cron permissions to 644
322 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
323 minor documentation fixes
324 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
325 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
326 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
327 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
329 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
333 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
334 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
335 out more easily they can customize them
337 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
339 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
340 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
342 . fixed no user defaults file processing
344 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
345 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
346 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
347 disabled in backupninja.conf
348 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
349 in vsnames config variable
351 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
352 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
353 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
354 "vsnames" configuration setting
357 . fixed errors in create remote dir
358 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
359 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
361 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
363 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
364 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
367 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
368 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
369 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
370 don't follow symlinks)
371 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
372 . new function: vservers_exist
375 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
377 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
379 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
380 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
382 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
383 backupninja and ninjahelper
386 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
388 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
389 . different signing and encrypting key support added
390 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
391 GnuPG-related options are used
393 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
394 ninjahelper(s) changes
395 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
396 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
398 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
400 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
401 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
402 . updated to include Vserver selection
404 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
405 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
407 . enhanced for vserver support
408 . now able to select databases and dump directory
410 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
412 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
413 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
414 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
415 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
416 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
417 added makecd ninjahelper
418 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
419 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
420 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
421 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
422 update rdiff ninjahelper
423 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
424 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
425 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
427 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
428 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
429 fixed insecure temporary file creation
430 *****************************************
431 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
432 fixed incorrect find positional
433 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
434 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
435 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
436 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
437 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
438 man pages are greatly improved.
440 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
441 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
442 added vservers support to duplicity handler
443 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
444 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
445 have a look at example.dup.
447 documented .disabled method.
448 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
449 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
450 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
451 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
452 to be seen as a vserver
453 changes to sys handler
454 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
455 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
457 changes to pgsql handler
458 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
459 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
460 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
461 changes to ninjahelper
462 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
463 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
464 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
465 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
466 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
467 added helper for pgsql handler.
468 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
469 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
470 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
471 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
473 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
474 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
475 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
476 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
477 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
478 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
480 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
481 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
482 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
483 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
484 ******************************************************************
485 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
486 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
487 ******************************************************************
488 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
489 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
490 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
491 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
492 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
493 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
494 added "sign" option for backups signing
495 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
496 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
497 added "nicelevel" option
498 added "testconnect" option
499 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
500 added "bandwidthlimit" option
501 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
502 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
503 added configfile option to mysql handler
504 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
505 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
506 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
507 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
508 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
510 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
511 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
512 rdiff handler supports local dest
513 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
514 added "when = hourly"
515 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
516 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
517 improved 'when' parsing.
519 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
520 results of handlers are now read line by line.
521 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
522 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
523 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
524 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
525 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
526 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
527 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
528 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
529 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
531 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
532 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
533 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
534 added status in the subject line of report emails
536 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
537 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
538 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
539 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
540 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
542 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
543 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
545 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
546 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
548 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
549 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
550 fixed stderr redirect bug
551 some comments in example.rdiff
553 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
554 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
555 works now with gawk as well as mawk
556 many bug fixes to ldap handler
557 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
558 does not require /usr/bin/stat
560 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
561 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
562 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
564 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
566 moved sh support to a handler script
567 add test mode, where no action is taken.
569 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
570 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
571 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
573 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
574 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
575 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
576 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
577 all scripts are now run as root
579 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
580 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
581 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
582 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
583 added support for .mysql config files.
585 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004