1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
8 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
9 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
10 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
11 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
12 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
14 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
15 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
18 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
19 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
21 fixed automake 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already
23 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
25 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
27 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
28 to not work when run from cron.
29 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
30 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
31 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
32 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
33 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
34 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
35 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
36 symlinks for $configdirectory
37 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
38 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
39 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
40 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
45 . rotated rsync snapshops
46 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
48 . alternative to rsnap
49 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
51 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
52 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
53 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
54 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
55 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
56 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
58 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
59 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
60 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
61 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
62 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
63 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
65 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
67 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
68 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
69 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
70 between various readlink versions in this field.
71 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
72 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
73 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
74 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
75 following to the top of the handler config:
76 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
79 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
80 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
81 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
82 between various readlink versions in this field.
83 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
84 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
86 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
87 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
88 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
89 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
91 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
92 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
93 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
95 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
97 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
99 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
101 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
104 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
105 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
106 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
107 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
109 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
110 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
111 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
112 symlinks for $configdirectory
113 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
114 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
115 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
118 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
119 changed cron permissions to 644
120 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
121 minor documentation fixes
122 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
123 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
124 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
125 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
127 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
131 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
132 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
133 out more easily they can customize them
135 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
137 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
138 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
140 . fixed no user defaults file processing
142 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
143 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
144 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
145 disabled in backupninja.conf
146 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
147 in vsnames config variable
149 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
150 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
151 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
152 "vsnames" configuration setting
155 . fixed errors in create remote dir
156 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
157 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
159 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
161 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
162 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
165 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
166 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
167 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
168 don't follow symlinks)
169 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
170 . new function: vservers_exist
173 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
175 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
177 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
178 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
180 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
181 backupninja and ninjahelper
184 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
186 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
187 . different signing and encrypting key support added
188 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
189 GnuPG-related options are used
191 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
192 ninjahelper(s) changes
193 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
194 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
196 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
198 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
199 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
200 . updated to include Vserver selection
202 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
203 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
205 . enhanced for vserver support
206 . now able to select databases and dump directory
208 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
210 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
211 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
212 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
213 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
214 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
215 added makecd ninjahelper
216 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
217 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
218 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
219 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
220 update rdiff ninjahelper
221 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
222 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
223 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
225 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
226 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
227 fixed insecure temporary file creation
228 *****************************************
229 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
230 fixed incorrect find positional
231 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
232 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
233 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
234 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
235 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
236 man pages are greatly improved.
238 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
239 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
240 added vservers support to duplicity handler
241 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
242 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
243 have a look at example.dup.
245 documented .disabled method.
246 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
247 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
248 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
249 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
250 to be seen as a vserver
251 changes to sys handler
252 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
253 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
255 changes to pgsql handler
256 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
257 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
258 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
259 changes to ninjahelper
260 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
261 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
262 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
263 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
264 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
265 added helper for pgsql handler.
266 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
267 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
268 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
269 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
271 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
272 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
273 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
274 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
275 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
276 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
278 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
279 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
280 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
281 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
282 ******************************************************************
283 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
284 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
285 ******************************************************************
286 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
287 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
288 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
289 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
290 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
291 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
292 added "sign" option for backups signing
293 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
294 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
295 added "nicelevel" option
296 added "testconnect" option
297 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
298 added "bandwidthlimit" option
299 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
300 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
301 added configfile option to mysql handler
302 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
303 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
304 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
305 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
306 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
308 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
309 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
310 rdiff handler supports local dest
311 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
312 added "when = hourly"
313 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
314 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
315 improved 'when' parsing.
317 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
318 results of handlers are now read line by line.
319 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
320 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
321 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
322 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
323 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
324 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
325 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
326 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
327 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
329 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
330 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
331 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
332 added status in the subject line of report emails
334 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
335 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
336 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
337 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
338 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
340 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
341 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
343 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
344 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
346 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
347 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
348 fixed stderr redirect bug
349 some comments in example.rdiff
351 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
352 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
353 works now with gawk as well as mawk
354 many bug fixes to ldap handler
355 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
356 does not require /usr/bin/stat
358 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
359 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
360 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
362 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
364 moved sh support to a handler script
365 add test mode, where no action is taken.
367 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
368 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
369 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
371 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
372 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
373 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
374 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
375 all scripts are now run as root
377 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
378 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
379 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
380 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
381 added support for .mysql config files.
383 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004