1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
10 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
12 . fix location of deleted_on file
13 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
14 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
15 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
17 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
18 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
19 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
20 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
21 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
22 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
23 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
24 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
25 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
27 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
29 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
31 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
32 detected volume group.
33 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
35 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
38 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
40 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
41 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
42 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
43 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
46 . added vservers_running function
48 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
49 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
53 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
54 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
55 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
56 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
57 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
59 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
60 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
61 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
62 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
64 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
65 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
67 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
68 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
69 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
71 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
72 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
74 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
75 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
76 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
77 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
78 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
79 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
80 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
81 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
82 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
84 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
86 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
87 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
88 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
89 debconf-get-selections
90 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
91 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
92 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
93 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
94 (Thanks to John Hallam).
96 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
97 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
99 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
101 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
103 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
104 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
105 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
106 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
107 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
108 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
109 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
110 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
113 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
114 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
115 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
118 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
119 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
120 file (Closes: #394935)
121 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
123 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
124 together (Closes: Trac#29)
125 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
126 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
128 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
129 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
130 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
131 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
133 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
134 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
135 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
136 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
137 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
138 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
139 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
140 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
141 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
142 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
144 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
145 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
148 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
149 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
150 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
151 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
152 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
153 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
155 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
156 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
158 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
159 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
160 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
161 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
162 . Added example.rsync configuration file
164 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
165 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
166 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
167 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
168 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
169 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
170 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
171 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
172 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
173 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
174 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
175 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
177 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
178 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
179 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
180 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
181 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
182 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
183 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
184 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
186 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
188 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
189 to not work when run from cron.
190 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
191 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
192 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
193 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
194 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
195 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
196 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
197 symlinks for $configdirectory
198 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
199 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
200 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
201 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
206 . rotated rsync snapshops
207 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
209 . alternative to rsnap
210 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
212 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
213 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
214 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
215 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
216 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
217 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
219 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
220 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
221 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
222 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
223 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
224 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
226 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
228 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
229 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
230 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
231 between various readlink versions in this field.
232 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
233 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
234 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
235 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
236 following to the top of the handler config:
237 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
240 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
241 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
242 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
243 between various readlink versions in this field.
244 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
245 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
247 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
248 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
249 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
250 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
252 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
253 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
254 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
256 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
258 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
260 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
262 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
265 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
266 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
267 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
268 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
270 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
271 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
272 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
273 symlinks for $configdirectory
274 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
275 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
276 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
279 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
280 changed cron permissions to 644
281 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
282 minor documentation fixes
283 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
284 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
285 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
286 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
288 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
292 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
293 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
294 out more easily they can customize them
296 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
298 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
299 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
301 . fixed no user defaults file processing
303 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
304 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
305 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
306 disabled in backupninja.conf
307 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
308 in vsnames config variable
310 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
311 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
312 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
313 "vsnames" configuration setting
316 . fixed errors in create remote dir
317 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
318 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
320 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
322 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
323 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
326 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
327 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
328 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
329 don't follow symlinks)
330 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
331 . new function: vservers_exist
334 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
336 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
338 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
339 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
341 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
342 backupninja and ninjahelper
345 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
347 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
348 . different signing and encrypting key support added
349 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
350 GnuPG-related options are used
352 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
353 ninjahelper(s) changes
354 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
355 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
357 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
359 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
360 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
361 . updated to include Vserver selection
363 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
364 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
366 . enhanced for vserver support
367 . now able to select databases and dump directory
369 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
371 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
372 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
373 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
374 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
375 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
376 added makecd ninjahelper
377 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
378 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
379 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
380 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
381 update rdiff ninjahelper
382 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
383 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
384 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
386 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
387 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
388 fixed insecure temporary file creation
389 *****************************************
390 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
391 fixed incorrect find positional
392 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
393 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
394 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
395 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
396 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
397 man pages are greatly improved.
399 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
400 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
401 added vservers support to duplicity handler
402 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
403 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
404 have a look at example.dup.
406 documented .disabled method.
407 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
408 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
409 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
410 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
411 to be seen as a vserver
412 changes to sys handler
413 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
414 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
416 changes to pgsql handler
417 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
418 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
419 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
420 changes to ninjahelper
421 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
422 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
423 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
424 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
425 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
426 added helper for pgsql handler.
427 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
428 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
429 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
430 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
432 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
433 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
434 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
435 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
436 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
437 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
439 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
440 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
441 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
442 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
443 ******************************************************************
444 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
445 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
446 ******************************************************************
447 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
448 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
449 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
450 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
451 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
452 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
453 added "sign" option for backups signing
454 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
455 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
456 added "nicelevel" option
457 added "testconnect" option
458 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
459 added "bandwidthlimit" option
460 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
461 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
462 added configfile option to mysql handler
463 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
464 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
465 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
466 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
467 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
469 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
470 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
471 rdiff handler supports local dest
472 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
473 added "when = hourly"
474 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
475 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
476 improved 'when' parsing.
478 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
479 results of handlers are now read line by line.
480 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
481 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
482 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
483 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
484 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
485 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
486 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
487 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
488 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
490 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
491 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
492 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
493 added status in the subject line of report emails
495 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
496 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
497 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
498 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
499 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
501 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
502 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
504 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
505 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
507 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
508 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
509 fixed stderr redirect bug
510 some comments in example.rdiff
512 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
513 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
514 works now with gawk as well as mawk
515 many bug fixes to ldap handler
516 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
517 does not require /usr/bin/stat
519 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
520 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
521 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
523 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
525 moved sh support to a handler script
526 add test mode, where no action is taken.
528 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
529 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
530 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
532 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
533 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
534 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
535 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
536 all scripts are now run as root
538 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
539 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
540 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
541 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
542 added support for .mysql config files.
544 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004