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