1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
5 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
7 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
8 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
9 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
10 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
13 . added vservers_running function
15 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
16 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
20 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
21 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
22 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
23 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
24 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
26 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
27 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
28 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
29 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
31 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
32 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
34 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
35 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
36 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
38 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
39 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
41 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
42 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
43 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
44 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
45 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
46 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
47 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
48 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
49 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
51 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
53 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
54 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
55 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
56 debconf-get-selections
57 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
58 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
59 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
60 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
61 (Thanks to John Hallam).
63 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
64 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
66 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
68 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
70 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
71 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
72 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
73 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
74 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
75 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
76 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
77 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
80 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
81 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
82 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
85 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
86 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
87 file (Closes: #394935)
88 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
90 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
91 together (Closes: Trac#29)
92 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
93 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
95 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
96 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
97 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
98 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
100 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
101 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
102 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
103 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
104 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
105 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
106 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
107 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
108 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
109 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
111 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
112 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
115 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
116 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
117 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
118 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
119 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
120 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
122 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
123 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
125 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
126 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
127 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
128 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
129 . Added example.rsync configuration file
131 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
132 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
133 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
134 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
135 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
136 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
137 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
138 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
139 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
140 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
141 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
142 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
144 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
145 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
146 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
147 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
148 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
149 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
150 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
151 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
153 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
155 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
156 to not work when run from cron.
157 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
158 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
159 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
160 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
161 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
162 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
163 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
164 symlinks for $configdirectory
165 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
166 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
167 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
168 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
173 . rotated rsync snapshops
174 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
176 . alternative to rsnap
177 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
179 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
180 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
181 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
182 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
183 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
184 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
186 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
187 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
188 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
189 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
190 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
191 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
193 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
195 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
196 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
197 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
198 between various readlink versions in this field.
199 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
200 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
201 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
202 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
203 following to the top of the handler config:
204 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
207 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
208 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
209 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
210 between various readlink versions in this field.
211 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
212 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
214 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
215 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
216 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
217 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
219 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
220 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
221 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
223 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
225 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
227 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
229 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
232 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
233 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
234 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
235 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
237 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
238 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
239 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
240 symlinks for $configdirectory
241 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
242 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
243 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
246 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
247 changed cron permissions to 644
248 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
249 minor documentation fixes
250 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
251 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
252 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
253 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
255 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
259 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
260 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
261 out more easily they can customize them
263 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
265 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
266 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
268 . fixed no user defaults file processing
270 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
271 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
272 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
273 disabled in backupninja.conf
274 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
275 in vsnames config variable
277 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
278 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
279 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
280 "vsnames" configuration setting
283 . fixed errors in create remote dir
284 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
285 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
287 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
289 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
290 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
293 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
294 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
295 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
296 don't follow symlinks)
297 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
298 . new function: vservers_exist
301 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
303 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
305 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
306 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
308 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
309 backupninja and ninjahelper
312 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
314 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
315 . different signing and encrypting key support added
316 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
317 GnuPG-related options are used
319 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
320 ninjahelper(s) changes
321 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
322 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
324 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
326 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
327 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
328 . updated to include Vserver selection
330 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
331 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
333 . enhanced for vserver support
334 . now able to select databases and dump directory
336 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
338 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
339 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
340 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
341 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
342 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
343 added makecd ninjahelper
344 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
345 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
346 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
347 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
348 update rdiff ninjahelper
349 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
350 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
351 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
353 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
354 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
355 fixed insecure temporary file creation
356 *****************************************
357 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
358 fixed incorrect find positional
359 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
360 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
361 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
362 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
363 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
364 man pages are greatly improved.
366 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
367 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
368 added vservers support to duplicity handler
369 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
370 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
371 have a look at example.dup.
373 documented .disabled method.
374 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
375 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
376 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
377 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
378 to be seen as a vserver
379 changes to sys handler
380 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
381 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
383 changes to pgsql handler
384 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
385 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
386 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
387 changes to ninjahelper
388 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
389 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
390 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
391 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
392 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
393 added helper for pgsql handler.
394 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
395 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
396 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
397 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
399 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
400 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
401 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
402 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
403 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
404 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
406 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
407 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
408 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
409 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
410 ******************************************************************
411 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
412 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
413 ******************************************************************
414 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
415 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
416 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
417 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
418 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
419 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
420 added "sign" option for backups signing
421 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
422 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
423 added "nicelevel" option
424 added "testconnect" option
425 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
426 added "bandwidthlimit" option
427 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
428 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
429 added configfile option to mysql handler
430 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
431 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
432 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
433 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
434 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
436 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
437 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
438 rdiff handler supports local dest
439 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
440 added "when = hourly"
441 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
442 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
443 improved 'when' parsing.
445 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
446 results of handlers are now read line by line.
447 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
448 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
449 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
450 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
451 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
452 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
453 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
454 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
455 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
457 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
458 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
459 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
460 added status in the subject line of report emails
462 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
463 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
464 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
465 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
466 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
468 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
469 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
471 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
472 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
474 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
475 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
476 fixed stderr redirect bug
477 some comments in example.rdiff
479 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
480 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
481 works now with gawk as well as mawk
482 many bug fixes to ldap handler
483 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
484 does not require /usr/bin/stat
486 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
487 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
488 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
490 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
492 moved sh support to a handler script
493 add test mode, where no action is taken.
495 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
496 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
497 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
499 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
500 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
501 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
502 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
503 all scripts are now run as root
505 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
506 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
507 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
508 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
509 added support for .mysql config files.
511 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004