1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
13 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
14 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
15 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
16 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
19 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
20 is not supported anymore)
22 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
23 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
24 file (Closes: #394935)
25 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
27 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
28 together (Closes: Trac#29)
29 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
30 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
32 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
33 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
34 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
35 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
37 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
38 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
39 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
40 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
41 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
42 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
43 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
44 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
45 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
46 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
48 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
49 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
52 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
53 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
54 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
55 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
56 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
58 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
59 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
61 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
62 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
63 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
64 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
65 . Added example.rsync configuration file
67 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
68 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
69 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
70 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
71 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
72 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
73 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
74 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
75 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
76 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
77 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
78 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
79 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
80 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
83 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
85 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
86 to not work when run from cron.
87 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
88 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
89 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
90 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
91 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
92 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
93 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
94 symlinks for $configdirectory
95 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
96 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
97 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
98 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
103 . rotated rsync snapshops
104 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
106 . alternative to rsnap
107 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
109 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
110 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
111 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
112 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
113 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
114 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
116 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
117 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
118 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
119 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
120 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
121 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
123 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
125 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
126 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
127 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
128 between various readlink versions in this field.
129 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
130 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
131 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
132 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
133 following to the top of the handler config:
134 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
137 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
138 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
139 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
140 between various readlink versions in this field.
141 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
142 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
144 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
145 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
146 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
147 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
149 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
150 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
151 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
153 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
155 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
157 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
159 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
162 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
163 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
164 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
165 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
167 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
168 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
169 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
170 symlinks for $configdirectory
171 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
172 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
173 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
176 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
177 changed cron permissions to 644
178 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
179 minor documentation fixes
180 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
181 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
182 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
183 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
185 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
189 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
190 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
191 out more easily they can customize them
193 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
195 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
196 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
198 . fixed no user defaults file processing
200 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
201 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
202 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
203 disabled in backupninja.conf
204 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
205 in vsnames config variable
207 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
208 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
209 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
210 "vsnames" configuration setting
213 . fixed errors in create remote dir
214 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
215 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
217 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
219 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
220 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
223 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
224 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
225 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
226 don't follow symlinks)
227 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
228 . new function: vservers_exist
231 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
233 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
235 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
236 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
238 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
239 backupninja and ninjahelper
242 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
244 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
245 . different signing and encrypting key support added
246 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
247 GnuPG-related options are used
249 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
250 ninjahelper(s) changes
251 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
252 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
254 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
256 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
257 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
258 . updated to include Vserver selection
260 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
261 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
263 . enhanced for vserver support
264 . now able to select databases and dump directory
266 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
268 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
269 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
270 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
271 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
272 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
273 added makecd ninjahelper
274 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
275 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
276 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
277 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
278 update rdiff ninjahelper
279 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
280 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
281 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
283 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
284 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
285 fixed insecure temporary file creation
286 *****************************************
287 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
288 fixed incorrect find positional
289 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
290 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
291 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
292 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
293 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
294 man pages are greatly improved.
296 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
297 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
298 added vservers support to duplicity handler
299 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
300 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
301 have a look at example.dup.
303 documented .disabled method.
304 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
305 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
306 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
307 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
308 to be seen as a vserver
309 changes to sys handler
310 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
311 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
313 changes to pgsql handler
314 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
315 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
316 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
317 changes to ninjahelper
318 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
319 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
320 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
321 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
322 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
323 added helper for pgsql handler.
324 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
325 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
326 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
327 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
329 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
330 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
331 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
332 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
333 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
334 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
336 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
337 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
338 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
339 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
340 ******************************************************************
341 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
342 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
343 ******************************************************************
344 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
345 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
346 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
347 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
348 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
349 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
350 added "sign" option for backups signing
351 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
352 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
353 added "nicelevel" option
354 added "testconnect" option
355 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
356 added "bandwidthlimit" option
357 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
358 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
359 added configfile option to mysql handler
360 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
361 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
362 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
363 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
364 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
366 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
367 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
368 rdiff handler supports local dest
369 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
370 added "when = hourly"
371 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
372 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
373 improved 'when' parsing.
375 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
376 results of handlers are now read line by line.
377 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
378 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
379 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
380 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
381 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
382 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
383 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
384 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
385 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
387 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
388 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
389 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
390 added status in the subject line of report emails
392 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
393 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
394 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
395 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
396 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
398 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
399 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
401 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
402 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
404 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
405 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
406 fixed stderr redirect bug
407 some comments in example.rdiff
409 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
410 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
411 works now with gawk as well as mawk
412 many bug fixes to ldap handler
413 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
414 does not require /usr/bin/stat
416 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
417 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
418 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
420 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
422 moved sh support to a handler script
423 add test mode, where no action is taken.
425 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
426 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
427 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
429 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
430 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
431 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
432 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
433 all scripts are now run as root
435 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
436 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
437 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
438 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
439 added support for .mysql config files.
441 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004