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)
9 . added vservers_running function
11 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
12 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
16 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
17 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
18 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
19 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
20 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
22 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
23 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
25 Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
27 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
28 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
30 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
31 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
32 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
34 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
35 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
37 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped.
38 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
39 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
40 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
41 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
42 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
44 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
46 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
47 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
48 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
49 debconf-get-selections
50 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
51 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
53 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
55 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
56 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
57 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
58 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
59 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
60 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
61 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
62 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
65 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
66 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
67 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
70 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
71 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
72 file (Closes: #394935)
73 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
75 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
76 together (Closes: Trac#29)
77 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
78 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
80 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
81 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
82 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
83 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
85 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
86 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
87 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
88 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
89 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
90 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
91 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
92 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
93 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
94 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
96 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
97 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
100 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
101 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
102 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
103 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
104 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
105 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
107 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
108 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
110 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
111 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
112 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
113 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
114 . Added example.rsync configuration file
116 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
117 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
118 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
119 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
120 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
121 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
122 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
123 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
124 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
125 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
126 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
127 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
129 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
130 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
131 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
132 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
133 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
134 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
135 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
136 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
138 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
140 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
141 to not work when run from cron.
142 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
143 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
144 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
145 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
146 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
147 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
148 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
149 symlinks for $configdirectory
150 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
151 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
152 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
153 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
158 . rotated rsync snapshops
159 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
161 . alternative to rsnap
162 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
164 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
165 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
166 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
167 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
168 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
169 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
171 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
172 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
173 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
174 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
175 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
176 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
178 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
180 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
181 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
182 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
183 between various readlink versions in this field.
184 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
185 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
186 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
187 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
188 following to the top of the handler config:
189 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
192 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
193 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
194 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
195 between various readlink versions in this field.
196 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
197 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
199 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
200 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
201 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
202 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
204 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
205 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
206 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
208 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
210 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
212 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
214 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
217 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
218 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
219 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
220 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
222 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
223 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
224 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
225 symlinks for $configdirectory
226 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
227 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
228 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
231 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
232 changed cron permissions to 644
233 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
234 minor documentation fixes
235 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
236 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
237 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
238 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
240 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
244 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
245 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
246 out more easily they can customize them
248 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
250 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
251 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
253 . fixed no user defaults file processing
255 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
256 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
257 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
258 disabled in backupninja.conf
259 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
260 in vsnames config variable
262 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
263 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
264 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
265 "vsnames" configuration setting
268 . fixed errors in create remote dir
269 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
270 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
272 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
274 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
275 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
278 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
279 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
280 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
281 don't follow symlinks)
282 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
283 . new function: vservers_exist
286 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
288 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
290 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
291 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
293 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
294 backupninja and ninjahelper
297 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
299 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
300 . different signing and encrypting key support added
301 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
302 GnuPG-related options are used
304 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
305 ninjahelper(s) changes
306 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
307 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
309 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
311 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
312 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
313 . updated to include Vserver selection
315 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
316 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
318 . enhanced for vserver support
319 . now able to select databases and dump directory
321 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
323 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
324 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
325 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
326 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
327 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
328 added makecd ninjahelper
329 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
330 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
331 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
332 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
333 update rdiff ninjahelper
334 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
335 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
336 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
338 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
339 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
340 fixed insecure temporary file creation
341 *****************************************
342 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
343 fixed incorrect find positional
344 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
345 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
346 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
347 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
348 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
349 man pages are greatly improved.
351 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
352 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
353 added vservers support to duplicity handler
354 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
355 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
356 have a look at example.dup.
358 documented .disabled method.
359 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
360 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
361 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
362 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
363 to be seen as a vserver
364 changes to sys handler
365 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
366 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
368 changes to pgsql handler
369 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
370 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
371 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
372 changes to ninjahelper
373 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
374 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
375 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
376 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
377 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
378 added helper for pgsql handler.
379 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
380 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
381 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
382 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
384 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
385 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
386 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
387 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
388 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
389 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
391 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
392 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
393 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
394 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
395 ******************************************************************
396 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
397 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
398 ******************************************************************
399 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
400 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
401 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
402 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
403 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
404 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
405 added "sign" option for backups signing
406 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
407 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
408 added "nicelevel" option
409 added "testconnect" option
410 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
411 added "bandwidthlimit" option
412 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
413 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
414 added configfile option to mysql handler
415 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
416 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
417 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
418 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
419 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
421 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
422 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
423 rdiff handler supports local dest
424 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
425 added "when = hourly"
426 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
427 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
428 improved 'when' parsing.
430 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
431 results of handlers are now read line by line.
432 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
433 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
434 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
435 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
436 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
437 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
438 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
439 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
440 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
442 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
443 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
444 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
445 added status in the subject line of report emails
447 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
448 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
449 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
450 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
451 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
453 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
454 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
456 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
457 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
459 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
460 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
461 fixed stderr redirect bug
462 some comments in example.rdiff
464 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
465 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
466 works now with gawk as well as mawk
467 many bug fixes to ldap handler
468 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
469 does not require /usr/bin/stat
471 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
472 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
473 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
475 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
477 moved sh support to a handler script
478 add test mode, where no action is taken.
480 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
481 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
482 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
484 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
485 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
486 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
487 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
488 all scripts are now run as root
490 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
491 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
492 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
493 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
494 added support for .mysql config files.
496 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004
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