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
13 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
18 . rotated rsync snapshops
19 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
21 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
22 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
23 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
24 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
25 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
26 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
28 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
29 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
30 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
31 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
32 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
33 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
35 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
37 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
38 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
39 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
40 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
41 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
42 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
44 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
45 a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
46 support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
47 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
48 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
50 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
51 0.4.3 will integrate them)
52 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
54 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
56 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
59 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
60 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
61 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
62 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
64 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
65 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
66 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
67 symlinks for $configdirectory
68 changed cron permissions to 644
69 minor documentation fixes
70 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
71 srpm-package' targets (thanks Robert Napier)
73 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
77 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
78 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
79 out more easily they can customize them
81 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
83 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
84 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
86 . fixed no user defaults file processing
88 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
89 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
90 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
91 disabled in backupninja.conf
92 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
93 in vsnames config variable
95 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
96 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
97 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
98 "vsnames" configuration setting
101 . fixed errors in create remote dir
102 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
103 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
105 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
107 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
108 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
111 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
112 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
113 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
114 don't follow symlinks)
115 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
116 . new function: vservers_exist
119 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
121 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
123 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
124 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
126 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
127 backupninja and ninjahelper
130 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
132 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
133 . different signing and encrypting key support added
134 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
135 GnuPG-related options are used
137 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
138 ninjahelper(s) changes
139 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
140 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
142 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
144 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
145 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
146 . updated to include Vserver selection
148 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
149 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
151 . enhanced for vserver support
152 . now able to select databases and dump directory
154 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
156 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
157 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
158 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
159 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
160 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
161 added makecd ninjahelper
162 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
163 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
164 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
165 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
166 update rdiff ninjahelper
167 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
168 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
169 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
171 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
172 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
173 fixed insecure temporary file creation
174 *****************************************
175 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
176 fixed incorrect find positional
177 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
178 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
179 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
180 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
181 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
182 man pages are greatly improved.
184 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
185 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
186 added vservers support to duplicity handler
187 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
188 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
189 have a look at example.dup.
191 documented .disabled method.
192 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
193 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
194 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
195 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
196 to be seen as a vserver
197 changes to sys handler
198 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
199 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
201 changes to pgsql handler
202 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
203 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
204 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
205 changes to ninjahelper
206 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
207 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
208 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
209 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
210 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
211 added helper for pgsql handler.
212 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
213 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
214 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
215 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
217 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
218 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
219 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
220 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
221 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
222 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
224 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
225 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
226 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
227 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
228 ******************************************************************
229 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
230 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
231 ******************************************************************
232 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
233 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
234 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
235 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
236 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
237 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
238 added "sign" option for backups signing
239 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
240 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
241 added "nicelevel" option
242 added "testconnect" option
243 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
244 added "bandwidthlimit" option
245 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
246 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
247 added configfile option to mysql handler
248 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
249 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
250 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
251 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
252 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
254 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
255 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
256 rdiff handler supports local dest
257 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
258 added "when = hourly"
259 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
260 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
261 improved 'when' parsing.
263 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
264 results of handlers are now read line by line.
265 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
266 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
267 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
268 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
269 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
270 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
271 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
272 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
273 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
275 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
276 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
277 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
278 added status in the subject line of report emails
280 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
281 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
282 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
283 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
284 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
286 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
287 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
289 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
290 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
292 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
293 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
294 fixed stderr redirect bug
295 some comments in example.rdiff
297 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
298 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
299 works now with gawk as well as mawk
300 many bug fixes to ldap handler
301 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
302 does not require /usr/bin/stat
304 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
305 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
306 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
308 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
310 moved sh support to a handler script
311 add test mode, where no action is taken.
313 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
314 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
315 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
317 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
318 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
319 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
320 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
321 all scripts are now run as root
323 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
324 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
325 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
326 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
327 added support for .mysql config files.
329 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004