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
71 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
73 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
75 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
77 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
80 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
81 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
82 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
83 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
85 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
86 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
87 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
88 symlinks for $configdirectory
89 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
90 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
91 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
94 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
95 changed cron permissions to 644
96 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
97 minor documentation fixes
98 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
99 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
100 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
101 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
103 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
107 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
108 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
109 out more easily they can customize them
111 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
113 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
114 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
116 . fixed no user defaults file processing
118 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
119 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
120 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
121 disabled in backupninja.conf
122 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
123 in vsnames config variable
125 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
126 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
127 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
128 "vsnames" configuration setting
131 . fixed errors in create remote dir
132 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
133 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
135 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
137 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
138 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
141 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
142 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
143 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
144 don't follow symlinks)
145 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
146 . new function: vservers_exist
149 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
151 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
153 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
154 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
156 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
157 backupninja and ninjahelper
160 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
162 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
163 . different signing and encrypting key support added
164 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
165 GnuPG-related options are used
167 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
168 ninjahelper(s) changes
169 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
170 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
172 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
174 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
175 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
176 . updated to include Vserver selection
178 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
179 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
181 . enhanced for vserver support
182 . now able to select databases and dump directory
184 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
186 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
187 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
188 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
189 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
190 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
191 added makecd ninjahelper
192 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
193 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
194 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
195 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
196 update rdiff ninjahelper
197 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
198 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
199 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
201 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
202 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
203 fixed insecure temporary file creation
204 *****************************************
205 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
206 fixed incorrect find positional
207 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
208 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
209 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
210 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
211 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
212 man pages are greatly improved.
214 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
215 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
216 added vservers support to duplicity handler
217 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
218 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
219 have a look at example.dup.
221 documented .disabled method.
222 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
223 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
224 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
225 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
226 to be seen as a vserver
227 changes to sys handler
228 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
229 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
231 changes to pgsql handler
232 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
233 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
234 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
235 changes to ninjahelper
236 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
237 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
238 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
239 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
240 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
241 added helper for pgsql handler.
242 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
243 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
244 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
245 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
247 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
248 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
249 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
250 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
251 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
252 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
254 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
255 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
256 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
257 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
258 ******************************************************************
259 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
260 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
261 ******************************************************************
262 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
263 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
264 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
265 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
266 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
267 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
268 added "sign" option for backups signing
269 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
270 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
271 added "nicelevel" option
272 added "testconnect" option
273 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
274 added "bandwidthlimit" option
275 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
276 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
277 added configfile option to mysql handler
278 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
279 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
280 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
281 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
282 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
284 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
285 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
286 rdiff handler supports local dest
287 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
288 added "when = hourly"
289 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
290 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
291 improved 'when' parsing.
293 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
294 results of handlers are now read line by line.
295 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
296 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
297 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
298 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
299 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
300 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
301 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
302 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
303 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
305 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
306 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
307 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
308 added status in the subject line of report emails
310 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
311 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
312 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
313 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
314 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
316 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
317 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
319 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
320 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
322 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
323 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
324 fixed stderr redirect bug
325 some comments in example.rdiff
327 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
328 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
329 works now with gawk as well as mawk
330 many bug fixes to ldap handler
331 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
332 does not require /usr/bin/stat
334 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
335 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
336 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
338 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
340 moved sh support to a handler script
341 add test mode, where no action is taken.
343 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
344 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
345 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
347 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
348 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
349 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
350 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
351 all scripts are now run as root
353 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
354 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
355 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
356 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
357 added support for .mysql config files.
359 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004