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