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
14 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
15 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
16 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
21 . rotated rsync snapshops
22 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
24 . alternative to rsnap
25 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
27 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
28 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
29 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
30 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
31 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
32 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
34 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
35 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
36 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
37 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
38 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
39 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
41 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
43 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
44 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
45 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
46 between various readlink versions in this field.
47 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
48 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
49 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
50 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
51 following to the top of the handler config:
52 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
55 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
56 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
57 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
58 between various readlink versions in this field.
59 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
60 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
62 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
63 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
64 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
65 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
67 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
68 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
69 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks Tom Hoover)
70 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
72 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
73 . ldaphost and tls options added for ldapsearch method (Closes: #362027)
75 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
78 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
79 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
80 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
81 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
83 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
84 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
85 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
86 symlinks for $configdirectory
88 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
89 changed cron permissions to 644
90 minor documentation fixes
91 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
92 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
93 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
94 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
96 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
100 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
101 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
102 out more easily they can customize them
104 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
106 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
107 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
109 . fixed no user defaults file processing
111 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
112 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
113 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
114 disabled in backupninja.conf
115 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
116 in vsnames config variable
118 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
119 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
120 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
121 "vsnames" configuration setting
124 . fixed errors in create remote dir
125 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
126 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
128 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
130 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
131 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
134 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
135 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
136 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
137 don't follow symlinks)
138 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
139 . new function: vservers_exist
142 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
144 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
146 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
147 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
149 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
150 backupninja and ninjahelper
153 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
155 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
156 . different signing and encrypting key support added
157 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
158 GnuPG-related options are used
160 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
161 ninjahelper(s) changes
162 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
163 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
165 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
167 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
168 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
169 . updated to include Vserver selection
171 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
172 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
174 . enhanced for vserver support
175 . now able to select databases and dump directory
177 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
179 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
180 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
181 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
182 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
183 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
184 added makecd ninjahelper
185 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
186 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
187 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
188 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
189 update rdiff ninjahelper
190 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
191 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
192 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
194 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
195 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
196 fixed insecure temporary file creation
197 *****************************************
198 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
199 fixed incorrect find positional
200 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
201 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
202 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
203 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
204 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
205 man pages are greatly improved.
207 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
208 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
209 added vservers support to duplicity handler
210 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
211 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
212 have a look at example.dup.
214 documented .disabled method.
215 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
216 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
217 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
218 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
219 to be seen as a vserver
220 changes to sys handler
221 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
222 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
224 changes to pgsql handler
225 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
226 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
227 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
228 changes to ninjahelper
229 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
230 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
231 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
232 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
233 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
234 added helper for pgsql handler.
235 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
236 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
237 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
238 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
240 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
241 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
242 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
243 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
244 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
245 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
247 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
248 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
249 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
250 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
251 ******************************************************************
252 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
253 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
254 ******************************************************************
255 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
256 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
257 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
258 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
259 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
260 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
261 added "sign" option for backups signing
262 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
263 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
264 added "nicelevel" option
265 added "testconnect" option
266 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
267 added "bandwidthlimit" option
268 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
269 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
270 added configfile option to mysql handler
271 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
272 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
273 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
274 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
275 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
277 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
278 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
279 rdiff handler supports local dest
280 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
281 added "when = hourly"
282 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
283 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
284 improved 'when' parsing.
286 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
287 results of handlers are now read line by line.
288 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
289 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
290 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
291 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
292 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
293 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
294 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
295 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
296 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
298 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
299 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
300 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
301 added status in the subject line of report emails
303 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
304 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
305 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
306 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
307 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
309 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
310 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
312 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
313 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
315 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
316 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
317 fixed stderr redirect bug
318 some comments in example.rdiff
320 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
321 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
322 works now with gawk as well as mawk
323 many bug fixes to ldap handler
324 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
325 does not require /usr/bin/stat
327 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
328 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
329 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
331 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
333 moved sh support to a handler script
334 add test mode, where no action is taken.
336 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
337 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
338 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
340 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
341 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
342 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
343 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
344 all scripts are now run as root
346 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
347 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
348 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
349 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
350 added support for .mysql config files.
352 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004