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)
7 . fix location of deleted_on file
8 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
10 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
11 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
12 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
14 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
16 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
17 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
18 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
19 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
22 . added vservers_running function
24 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
25 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
29 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
30 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
31 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
32 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
33 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
35 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
36 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
37 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
38 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
40 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
41 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
43 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
44 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
45 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
47 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
48 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
50 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
51 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
52 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
53 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
54 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
55 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
56 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
57 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
58 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
60 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
62 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
63 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
64 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
65 debconf-get-selections
66 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
67 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
68 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
69 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
70 (Thanks to John Hallam).
72 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
73 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
75 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
77 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
79 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
80 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
81 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
82 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
83 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
84 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
85 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
86 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
89 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
90 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
91 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
94 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
95 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
96 file (Closes: #394935)
97 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
99 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
100 together (Closes: Trac#29)
101 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
102 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
104 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
105 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
106 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
107 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
109 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
110 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
111 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
112 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
113 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
114 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
115 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
116 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
117 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
118 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
120 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
121 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
124 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
125 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
126 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
127 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
128 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
129 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
131 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
132 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
134 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
135 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
136 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
137 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
138 . Added example.rsync configuration file
140 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
141 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
142 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
143 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
144 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
145 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
146 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
147 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
148 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
149 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
150 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
151 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
153 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
154 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
155 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
156 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
157 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
158 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
159 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
160 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
162 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
164 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
165 to not work when run from cron.
166 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
167 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
168 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
169 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
170 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
171 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
172 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
173 symlinks for $configdirectory
174 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
175 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
176 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
177 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
182 . rotated rsync snapshops
183 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
185 . alternative to rsnap
186 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
188 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
189 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
190 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
191 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
192 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
193 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
195 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
196 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
197 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
198 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
199 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
200 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
202 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
204 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
205 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
206 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
207 between various readlink versions in this field.
208 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
209 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
210 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
211 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
212 following to the top of the handler config:
213 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
216 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
217 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
218 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
219 between various readlink versions in this field.
220 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
221 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
223 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
224 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
225 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
226 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
228 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
229 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
230 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
232 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
234 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
236 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
238 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
241 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
242 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
243 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
244 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
246 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
247 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
248 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
249 symlinks for $configdirectory
250 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
251 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
252 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
255 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
256 changed cron permissions to 644
257 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
258 minor documentation fixes
259 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
260 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
261 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
262 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
264 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
268 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
269 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
270 out more easily they can customize them
272 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
274 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
275 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
277 . fixed no user defaults file processing
279 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
280 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
281 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
282 disabled in backupninja.conf
283 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
284 in vsnames config variable
286 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
287 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
288 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
289 "vsnames" configuration setting
292 . fixed errors in create remote dir
293 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
294 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
296 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
298 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
299 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
302 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
303 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
304 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
305 don't follow symlinks)
306 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
307 . new function: vservers_exist
310 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
312 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
314 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
315 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
317 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
318 backupninja and ninjahelper
321 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
323 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
324 . different signing and encrypting key support added
325 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
326 GnuPG-related options are used
328 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
329 ninjahelper(s) changes
330 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
331 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
333 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
335 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
336 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
337 . updated to include Vserver selection
339 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
340 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
342 . enhanced for vserver support
343 . now able to select databases and dump directory
345 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
347 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
348 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
349 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
350 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
351 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
352 added makecd ninjahelper
353 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
354 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
355 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
356 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
357 update rdiff ninjahelper
358 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
359 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
360 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
362 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
363 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
364 fixed insecure temporary file creation
365 *****************************************
366 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
367 fixed incorrect find positional
368 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
369 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
370 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
371 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
372 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
373 man pages are greatly improved.
375 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
376 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
377 added vservers support to duplicity handler
378 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
379 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
380 have a look at example.dup.
382 documented .disabled method.
383 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
384 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
385 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
386 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
387 to be seen as a vserver
388 changes to sys handler
389 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
390 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
392 changes to pgsql handler
393 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
394 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
395 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
396 changes to ninjahelper
397 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
398 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
399 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
400 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
401 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
402 added helper for pgsql handler.
403 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
404 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
405 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
406 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
408 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
409 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
410 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
411 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
412 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
413 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
415 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
416 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
417 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
418 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
419 ******************************************************************
420 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
421 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
422 ******************************************************************
423 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
424 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
425 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
426 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
427 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
428 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
429 added "sign" option for backups signing
430 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
431 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
432 added "nicelevel" option
433 added "testconnect" option
434 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
435 added "bandwidthlimit" option
436 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
437 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
438 added configfile option to mysql handler
439 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
440 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
441 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
442 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
443 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
445 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
446 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
447 rdiff handler supports local dest
448 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
449 added "when = hourly"
450 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
451 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
452 improved 'when' parsing.
454 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
455 results of handlers are now read line by line.
456 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
457 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
458 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
459 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
460 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
461 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
462 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
463 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
464 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
466 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
467 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
468 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
469 added status in the subject line of report emails
471 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
472 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
473 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
474 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
475 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
477 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
478 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
480 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
481 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
483 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
484 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
485 fixed stderr redirect bug
486 some comments in example.rdiff
488 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
489 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
490 works now with gawk as well as mawk
491 many bug fixes to ldap handler
492 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
493 does not require /usr/bin/stat
495 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
496 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
497 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
499 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
501 moved sh support to a handler script
502 add test mode, where no action is taken.
504 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
505 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
506 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
508 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
509 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
510 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
511 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
512 all scripts are now run as root
514 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
515 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
516 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
517 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
518 added support for .mysql config files.
520 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004
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