1 version 0.9.4 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
4 to not work when run from cron.
5 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
6 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
7 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
8 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
9 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
10 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
11 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
12 symlinks for $configdirectory
16 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
17 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
18 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
19 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
20 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
22 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
23 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
24 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
25 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
26 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
30 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
31 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
32 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
33 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
34 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
35 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
37 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
38 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
39 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
40 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
41 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
43 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
44 0.4.3 will integrate them)
45 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
47 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
49 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
52 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
53 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
55 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
56 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
57 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
58 symlinks for $configdirectory
59 changed cron permissions to 644
60 minor documentation fixes
62 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
66 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
67 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
68 out more easily they can customize them
70 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
72 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
73 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
75 . fixed no user defaults file processing
77 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
78 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
79 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
80 disabled in backupninja.conf
81 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
82 in vsnames config variable
84 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
85 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
86 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
87 "vsnames" configuration setting
90 . fixed errors in create remote dir
91 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
92 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
94 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
96 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
97 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
100 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
101 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
102 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
103 don't follow symlinks)
104 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
105 . new function: vservers_exist
108 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
110 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
112 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
113 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
115 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
116 backupninja and ninjahelper
119 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
121 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
122 . different signing and encrypting key support added
123 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
124 GnuPG-related options are used
126 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
127 ninjahelper(s) changes
128 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
129 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
131 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
133 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
134 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
135 . updated to include Vserver selection
137 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
138 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
140 . enhanced for vserver support
141 . now able to select databases and dump directory
143 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
145 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
146 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
147 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
148 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
149 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
150 added makecd ninjahelper
151 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
152 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
153 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
154 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
155 update rdiff ninjahelper
156 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
157 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
158 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
160 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
161 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
162 fixed insecure temporary file creation
163 *****************************************
164 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
165 fixed incorrect find positional
166 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
167 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
168 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
169 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
170 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
171 man pages are greatly improved.
173 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
174 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
175 added vservers support to duplicity handler
176 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
177 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
178 have a look at example.dup.
180 documented .disabled method.
181 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
182 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
183 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
184 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
185 to be seen as a vserver
186 changes to sys handler
187 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
188 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
190 changes to pgsql handler
191 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
192 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
193 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
194 changes to ninjahelper
195 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
196 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
197 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
198 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
199 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
200 added helper for pgsql handler.
201 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
202 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
203 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
204 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
206 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
207 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
208 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
209 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
210 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
211 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
213 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
214 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
215 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
216 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
217 ******************************************************************
218 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
219 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
220 ******************************************************************
221 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
222 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
223 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
224 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
225 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
226 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
227 added "sign" option for backups signing
228 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
229 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
230 added "nicelevel" option
231 added "testconnect" option
232 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
233 added "bandwidthlimit" option
234 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
235 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
236 added configfile option to mysql handler
237 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
238 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
239 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
240 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
241 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
243 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
244 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
245 rdiff handler supports local dest
246 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
247 added "when = hourly"
248 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
249 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
250 improved 'when' parsing.
252 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
253 results of handlers are now read line by line.
254 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
255 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
256 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
257 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
258 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
259 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
260 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
261 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
262 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
264 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
265 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
266 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
267 added status in the subject line of report emails
269 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
270 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
271 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
272 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
273 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
275 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
276 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
278 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
279 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
281 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
282 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
283 fixed stderr redirect bug
284 some comments in example.rdiff
286 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
287 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
288 works now with gawk as well as mawk
289 many bug fixes to ldap handler
290 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
291 does not require /usr/bin/stat
293 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
294 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
295 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
297 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
299 moved sh support to a handler script
300 add test mode, where no action is taken.
302 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
303 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
304 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
306 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
307 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
308 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
309 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
310 all scripts are now run as root
312 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
313 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
314 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
315 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
316 added support for .mysql config files.
318 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004