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)
64 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
66 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
67 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
68 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks Tom Hoover)
69 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
71 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
72 . ldaphost and tls options added for ldapsearch method (Closes: #362027)
74 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
77 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
78 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
79 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
80 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
82 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
83 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
84 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
85 symlinks for $configdirectory
87 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
88 changed cron permissions to 644
89 minor documentation fixes
90 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
91 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
92 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
93 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
95 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
99 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
100 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
101 out more easily they can customize them
103 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
105 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
106 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
108 . fixed no user defaults file processing
110 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
111 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
112 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
113 disabled in backupninja.conf
114 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
115 in vsnames config variable
117 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
118 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
119 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
120 "vsnames" configuration setting
123 . fixed errors in create remote dir
124 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
125 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
127 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
129 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
130 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
133 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
134 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
135 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
136 don't follow symlinks)
137 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
138 . new function: vservers_exist
141 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
143 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
145 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
146 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
148 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
149 backupninja and ninjahelper
152 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
154 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
155 . different signing and encrypting key support added
156 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
157 GnuPG-related options are used
159 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
160 ninjahelper(s) changes
161 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
162 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
164 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
166 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
167 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
168 . updated to include Vserver selection
170 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
171 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
173 . enhanced for vserver support
174 . now able to select databases and dump directory
176 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
178 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
179 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
180 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
181 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
182 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
183 added makecd ninjahelper
184 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
185 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
186 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
187 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
188 update rdiff ninjahelper
189 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
190 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
191 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
193 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
194 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
195 fixed insecure temporary file creation
196 *****************************************
197 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
198 fixed incorrect find positional
199 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
200 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
201 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
202 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
203 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
204 man pages are greatly improved.
206 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
207 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
208 added vservers support to duplicity handler
209 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
210 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
211 have a look at example.dup.
213 documented .disabled method.
214 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
215 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
216 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
217 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
218 to be seen as a vserver
219 changes to sys handler
220 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
221 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
223 changes to pgsql handler
224 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
225 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
226 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
227 changes to ninjahelper
228 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
229 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
230 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
231 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
232 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
233 added helper for pgsql handler.
234 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
235 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
236 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
237 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
239 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
240 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
241 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
242 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
243 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
244 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
246 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
247 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
248 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
249 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
250 ******************************************************************
251 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
252 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
253 ******************************************************************
254 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
255 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
256 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
257 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
258 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
259 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
260 added "sign" option for backups signing
261 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
262 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
263 added "nicelevel" option
264 added "testconnect" option
265 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
266 added "bandwidthlimit" option
267 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
268 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
269 added configfile option to mysql handler
270 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
271 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
272 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
273 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
274 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
276 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
277 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
278 rdiff handler supports local dest
279 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
280 added "when = hourly"
281 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
282 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
283 improved 'when' parsing.
285 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
286 results of handlers are now read line by line.
287 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
288 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
289 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
290 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
291 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
292 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
293 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
294 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
295 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
297 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
298 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
299 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
300 added status in the subject line of report emails
302 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
303 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
304 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
305 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
306 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
308 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
309 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
311 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
312 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
314 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
315 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
316 fixed stderr redirect bug
317 some comments in example.rdiff
319 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
320 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
321 works now with gawk as well as mawk
322 many bug fixes to ldap handler
323 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
324 does not require /usr/bin/stat
326 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
327 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
328 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
330 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
332 moved sh support to a handler script
333 add test mode, where no action is taken.
335 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
336 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
337 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
339 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
340 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
341 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
342 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
343 all scripts are now run as root
345 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
346 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
347 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
348 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
349 added support for .mysql config files.
351 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004