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