1 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
3 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
4 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
5 . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config
6 file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the
7 preliminary patch (Closes: #511299)
10 . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249)
13 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
15 . fix location of deleted_on file
16 . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
17 . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options
18 . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions
20 . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new
21 sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his
22 preliminary patch (Closes: #502966)
23 . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in
24 case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently
25 does not prevent mysqldump to work.
26 . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running:
27 mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails.
28 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
29 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
32 . Use gzip's --rsyncable option.
33 . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
36 . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header
38 . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every
39 detected volume group.
40 . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers.
42 . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
46 . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore
49 . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it
50 will help supporting *BSD some day.
52 version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008
54 . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland
55 . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to
56 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836)
57 . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669)
60 . added vservers_running function
62 . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure
63 fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system
67 . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax:
68 run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816),
69 and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both
70 only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups
71 from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the
73 . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration
74 option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2).
75 . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test.
76 . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it.
78 . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
79 when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
81 . Fixed ignore_version default value missing
82 . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
83 into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
85 . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
86 a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
88 . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped
89 . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for
90 maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks
91 for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43).
92 . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted
93 . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate
94 ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
95 pgsql, mysql, svn, sys:
96 . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
98 . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms
100 . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the
101 dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45)
102 . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using
103 debconf-get-selections
104 . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments
105 given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!)
106 . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm
107 -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files
108 (Thanks to John Hallam).
110 . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means
111 removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail
113 . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim)
115 version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007
117 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
118 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
119 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
120 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
121 . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the
122 toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11)
123 . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10)
124 . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28)
127 . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
128 is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425)
129 . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends
132 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
133 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed
134 file (Closes: #394935)
135 . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no
137 . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work
138 together (Closes: Trac#29)
139 . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options
140 to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13)
142 . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23)
143 . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU
144 coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24)
145 . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25)
147 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
148 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
149 . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit
150 the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very
151 useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the
152 example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829)
153 . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the
154 header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query
155 via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to
156 Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039).
158 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
159 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
162 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
163 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
164 . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check
165 as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632)
166 . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4)
167 . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21)
169 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
170 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
172 . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3)
173 . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler
174 . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include
175 rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554)
176 . Added example.rsync configuration file
178 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
179 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
180 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
181 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
182 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
183 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
184 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
185 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
186 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
187 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
188 . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir
189 if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1)
191 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
192 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
193 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
194 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
195 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
196 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
197 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
198 updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen)
200 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
202 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
203 to not work when run from cron.
204 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
205 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
206 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
207 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
208 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
209 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
210 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
211 symlinks for $configdirectory
212 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
213 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
214 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
215 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
220 . rotated rsync snapshops
221 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
223 . alternative to rsnap
224 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
226 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
227 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
228 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
229 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
230 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
231 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
233 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
234 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
235 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
236 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
237 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
238 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
240 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
242 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
243 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
244 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
245 between various readlink versions in this field.
246 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
247 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
248 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
249 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
250 following to the top of the handler config:
251 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
254 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
255 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
256 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
257 between various readlink versions in this field.
258 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
259 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
261 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
262 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
263 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
264 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
266 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr KlĂma)
267 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
268 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
270 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
272 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
274 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
276 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
279 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
280 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
281 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
282 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
284 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
285 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
286 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
287 symlinks for $configdirectory
288 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
289 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
290 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
293 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
294 changed cron permissions to 644
295 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
296 minor documentation fixes
297 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
298 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
299 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
300 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
302 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
306 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
307 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
308 out more easily they can customize them
310 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
312 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
313 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
315 . fixed no user defaults file processing
317 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
318 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
319 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
320 disabled in backupninja.conf
321 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
322 in vsnames config variable
324 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
325 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
326 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
327 "vsnames" configuration setting
330 . fixed errors in create remote dir
331 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
332 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
334 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
336 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
337 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
340 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
341 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
342 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
343 don't follow symlinks)
344 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
345 . new function: vservers_exist
348 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
350 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
352 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
353 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
355 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
356 backupninja and ninjahelper
359 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
361 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
362 . different signing and encrypting key support added
363 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
364 GnuPG-related options are used
366 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
367 ninjahelper(s) changes
368 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
369 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
371 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
373 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
374 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
375 . updated to include Vserver selection
377 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
378 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
380 . enhanced for vserver support
381 . now able to select databases and dump directory
383 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
385 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
386 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
387 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
388 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
389 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
390 added makecd ninjahelper
391 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
392 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
393 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
394 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
395 update rdiff ninjahelper
396 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
397 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
398 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
400 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
401 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
402 fixed insecure temporary file creation
403 *****************************************
404 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
405 fixed incorrect find positional
406 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
407 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
408 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
409 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
410 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
411 man pages are greatly improved.
413 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
414 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
415 added vservers support to duplicity handler
416 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
417 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
418 have a look at example.dup.
420 documented .disabled method.
421 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
422 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
423 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
424 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
425 to be seen as a vserver
426 changes to sys handler
427 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
428 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
430 changes to pgsql handler
431 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
432 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
433 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
434 changes to ninjahelper
435 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
436 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
437 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
438 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
439 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
440 added helper for pgsql handler.
441 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
442 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
443 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
444 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
446 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
447 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
448 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
449 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
450 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
451 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
453 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
454 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
455 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
456 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
457 ******************************************************************
458 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
459 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
460 ******************************************************************
461 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
462 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
463 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
464 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
465 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
466 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
467 added "sign" option for backups signing
468 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
469 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
470 added "nicelevel" option
471 added "testconnect" option
472 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
473 added "bandwidthlimit" option
474 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
475 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
476 added configfile option to mysql handler
477 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
478 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
479 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
480 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
481 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
483 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
484 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
485 rdiff handler supports local dest
486 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
487 added "when = hourly"
488 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
489 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
490 improved 'when' parsing.
492 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
493 results of handlers are now read line by line.
494 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
495 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
496 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
497 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
498 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
499 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
500 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
501 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
502 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
504 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
505 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
506 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
507 added status in the subject line of report emails
509 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
510 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
511 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
512 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
513 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
515 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
516 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
518 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
519 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
521 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
522 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
523 fixed stderr redirect bug
524 some comments in example.rdiff
526 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
527 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
528 works now with gawk as well as mawk
529 many bug fixes to ldap handler
530 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
531 does not require /usr/bin/stat
533 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
534 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
535 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
537 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
539 moved sh support to a handler script
540 add test mode, where no action is taken.
542 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
543 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
544 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
546 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
547 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
548 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
549 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
550 all scripts are now run as root
552 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
553 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
554 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
555 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
556 added support for .mysql config files.
558 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004