1 version 0.9.6 -- unreleased
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).
25 Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
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 deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
39 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
40 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
41 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
42 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
44 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
46 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
47 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
48 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
49 debconf-get-selections
50 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
51 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
52 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
53 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
54 (Thanks to John Hallam).
56 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
58 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
59 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
60 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
61 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
62 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
63 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
64 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
65 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
68 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
69 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
70 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
73 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
74 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
75 file (Closes: #394935)
76 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
78 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
79 together (Closes: Trac#29)
80 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
81 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
83 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
84 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
85 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
86 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
88 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
89 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
90 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
91 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
92 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
93 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
94 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
95 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
96 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
97 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
99 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
100 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
103 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
104 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
105 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
106 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
107 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
108 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
110 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
111 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
113 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
114 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
115 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
116 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
117 . Added example.rsync configuration file
119 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
120 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
121 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
122 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
123 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
124 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
125 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
126 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
127 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
128 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
129 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
130 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
132 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
133 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
134 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
135 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
136 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
137 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
138 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
139 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
141 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
143 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
144 to not work when run from cron.
145 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
146 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
147 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
148 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
149 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
150 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
151 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
152 symlinks for $configdirectory
153 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
154 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
155 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
156 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
161 . rotated rsync snapshops
162 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
164 . alternative to rsnap
165 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
167 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
168 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
169 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
170 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
171 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
172 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
174 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
175 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
176 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
177 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
178 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
179 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
181 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
183 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
184 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
185 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
186 between various readlink versions in this field.
187 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
188 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
189 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
190 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
191 following to the top of the handler config:
192 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
195 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
196 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
197 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
198 between various readlink versions in this field.
199 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
200 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
202 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
203 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
204 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
205 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
207 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
208 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
209 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
211 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
213 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
215 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
217 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
220 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
221 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
222 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
223 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
225 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
226 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
227 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
228 symlinks for $configdirectory
229 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
230 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
231 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
234 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
235 changed cron permissions to 644
236 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
237 minor documentation fixes
238 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
239 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
240 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
241 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
243 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
247 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
248 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
249 out more easily they can customize them
251 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
253 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
254 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
256 . fixed no user defaults file processing
258 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
259 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
260 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
261 disabled in backupninja.conf
262 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
263 in vsnames config variable
265 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
266 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
267 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
268 "vsnames" configuration setting
271 . fixed errors in create remote dir
272 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
273 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
275 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
277 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
278 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
281 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
282 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
283 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
284 don't follow symlinks)
285 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
286 . new function: vservers_exist
289 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
291 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
293 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
294 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
296 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
297 backupninja and ninjahelper
300 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
302 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
303 . different signing and encrypting key support added
304 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
305 GnuPG-related options are used
307 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
308 ninjahelper(s) changes
309 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
310 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
312 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
314 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
315 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
316 . updated to include Vserver selection
318 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
319 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
321 . enhanced for vserver support
322 . now able to select databases and dump directory
324 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
326 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
327 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
328 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
329 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
330 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
331 added makecd ninjahelper
332 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
333 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
334 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
335 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
336 update rdiff ninjahelper
337 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
338 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
339 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
341 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
342 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
343 fixed insecure temporary file creation
344 *****************************************
345 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
346 fixed incorrect find positional
347 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
348 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
349 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
350 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
351 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
352 man pages are greatly improved.
354 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
355 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
356 added vservers support to duplicity handler
357 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
358 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
359 have a look at example.dup.
361 documented .disabled method.
362 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
363 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
364 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
365 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
366 to be seen as a vserver
367 changes to sys handler
368 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
369 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
371 changes to pgsql handler
372 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
373 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
374 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
375 changes to ninjahelper
376 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
377 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
378 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
379 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
380 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
381 added helper for pgsql handler.
382 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
383 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
384 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
385 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
387 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
388 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
389 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
390 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
391 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
392 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
394 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
395 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
396 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
397 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
398 ******************************************************************
399 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
400 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
401 ******************************************************************
402 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
403 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
404 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
405 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
406 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
407 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
408 added "sign" option for backups signing
409 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
410 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
411 added "nicelevel" option
412 added "testconnect" option
413 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
414 added "bandwidthlimit" option
415 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
416 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
417 added configfile option to mysql handler
418 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
419 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
420 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
421 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
422 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
424 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
425 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
426 rdiff handler supports local dest
427 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
428 added "when = hourly"
429 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
430 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
431 improved 'when' parsing.
433 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
434 results of handlers are now read line by line.
435 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
436 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
437 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
438 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
439 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
440 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
441 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
442 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
443 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
445 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
446 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
447 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
448 added status in the subject line of report emails
450 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
451 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
452 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
453 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
454 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
456 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
457 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
459 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
460 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
462 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
463 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
464 fixed stderr redirect bug
465 some comments in example.rdiff
467 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
468 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
469 works now with gawk as well as mawk
470 many bug fixes to ldap handler
471 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
472 does not require /usr/bin/stat
474 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
475 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
476 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
478 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
480 moved sh support to a handler script
481 add test mode, where no action is taken.
483 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
484 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
485 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
487 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
488 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
489 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
490 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
491 all scripts are now run as root
493 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
494 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
495 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
496 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
497 added support for .mysql config files.
499 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004