1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
4 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
5 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
8 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
9 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
11 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
12 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
13 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
14 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
16 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
17 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
19 fixed automake 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already
22 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
24 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
25 to not work when run from cron.
26 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
27 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
28 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
29 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
30 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
31 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
32 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
33 symlinks for $configdirectory
34 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
35 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
36 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
37 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
42 . rotated rsync snapshops
43 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
45 . alternative to rsnap
46 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
48 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
49 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
50 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
51 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
52 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
53 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
55 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
56 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
57 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
58 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
59 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
60 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
62 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
64 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
65 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
66 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
67 between various readlink versions in this field.
68 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
69 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
70 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
71 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
72 following to the top of the handler config:
73 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
76 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
77 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
78 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
79 between various readlink versions in this field.
80 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
81 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
83 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
84 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
85 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
86 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
88 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
89 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
90 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
92 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
94 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
96 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
98 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
101 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
102 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
103 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
104 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
106 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
107 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
108 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
109 symlinks for $configdirectory
110 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
111 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
112 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
115 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
116 changed cron permissions to 644
117 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
118 minor documentation fixes
119 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
120 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
121 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
122 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
124 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
128 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
129 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
130 out more easily they can customize them
132 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
134 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
135 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
137 . fixed no user defaults file processing
139 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
140 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
141 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
142 disabled in backupninja.conf
143 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
144 in vsnames config variable
146 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
147 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
148 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
149 "vsnames" configuration setting
152 . fixed errors in create remote dir
153 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
154 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
156 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
158 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
159 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
162 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
163 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
164 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
165 don't follow symlinks)
166 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
167 . new function: vservers_exist
170 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
172 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
174 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
175 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
177 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
178 backupninja and ninjahelper
181 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
183 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
184 . different signing and encrypting key support added
185 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
186 GnuPG-related options are used
188 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
189 ninjahelper(s) changes
190 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
191 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
193 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
195 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
196 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
197 . updated to include Vserver selection
199 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
200 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
202 . enhanced for vserver support
203 . now able to select databases and dump directory
205 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
207 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
208 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
209 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
210 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
211 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
212 added makecd ninjahelper
213 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
214 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
215 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
216 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
217 update rdiff ninjahelper
218 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
219 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
220 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
222 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
223 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
224 fixed insecure temporary file creation
225 *****************************************
226 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
227 fixed incorrect find positional
228 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
229 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
230 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
231 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
232 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
233 man pages are greatly improved.
235 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
236 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
237 added vservers support to duplicity handler
238 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
239 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
240 have a look at example.dup.
242 documented .disabled method.
243 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
244 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
245 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
246 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
247 to be seen as a vserver
248 changes to sys handler
249 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
250 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
252 changes to pgsql handler
253 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
254 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
255 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
256 changes to ninjahelper
257 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
258 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
259 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
260 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
261 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
262 added helper for pgsql handler.
263 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
264 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
265 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
266 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
268 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
269 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
270 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
271 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
272 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
273 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
275 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
276 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
277 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
278 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
279 ******************************************************************
280 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
281 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
282 ******************************************************************
283 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
284 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
285 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
286 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
287 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
288 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
289 added "sign" option for backups signing
290 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
291 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
292 added "nicelevel" option
293 added "testconnect" option
294 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
295 added "bandwidthlimit" option
296 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
297 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
298 added configfile option to mysql handler
299 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
300 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
301 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
302 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
303 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
305 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
306 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
307 rdiff handler supports local dest
308 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
309 added "when = hourly"
310 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
311 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
312 improved 'when' parsing.
314 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
315 results of handlers are now read line by line.
316 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
317 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
318 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
319 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
320 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
321 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
322 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
323 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
324 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
326 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
327 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
328 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
329 added status in the subject line of report emails
331 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
332 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
333 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
334 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
335 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
337 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
338 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
340 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
341 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
343 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
344 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
345 fixed stderr redirect bug
346 some comments in example.rdiff
348 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
349 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
350 works now with gawk as well as mawk
351 many bug fixes to ldap handler
352 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
353 does not require /usr/bin/stat
355 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
356 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
357 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
359 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
361 moved sh support to a handler script
362 add test mode, where no action is taken.
364 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
365 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
366 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
368 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
369 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
370 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
371 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
372 all scripts are now run as root
374 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
375 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
376 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
377 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
378 added support for .mysql config files.
380 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004