1 version 0.9.2 -- unreleased
2 fixed missing makecd.helper in Makefile.am/.in
3 rdiff ninjahelper bugfixes:
4 used to expand '*' in default source directories
5 the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour... at least
7 moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
8 backupninja and ninjahelper
9 added duplicity ninjahelper
10 a bunch of Vserver-related functions for ninjahelper in lib/vservers.in
12 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
13 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
14 (thanks to Petr KlĂma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
15 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
16 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
17 added makecd ninjahelper
18 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
19 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
20 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
21 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
22 update rdiff ninjahelper
23 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
24 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
25 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
27 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
28 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
29 fixed insecure temporary file creation
30 *****************************************
31 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
32 fixed incorrect find positional
33 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
34 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
35 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
36 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
37 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
38 man pages are greatly improved.
40 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
41 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
42 added vservers support to duplicity handler
43 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
44 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
45 have a look at example.dup.
47 documented .disabled method.
48 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
49 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
50 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
51 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
52 to be seen as a vserver
53 changes to sys handler
54 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
55 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
57 changes to pgsql handler
58 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
59 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
60 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
61 changes to ninjahelper
62 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
63 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
64 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
65 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
66 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
67 added helper for pgsql handler.
68 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
69 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
70 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
71 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
73 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
74 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
75 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
76 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
77 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
78 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
80 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
81 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
82 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
83 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
84 ******************************************************************
85 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
86 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
87 ******************************************************************
88 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
89 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
90 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
91 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
92 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
93 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
94 added "sign" option for backups signing
95 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
96 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
97 added "nicelevel" option
98 added "testconnect" option
99 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
100 added "bandwidthlimit" option
101 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
102 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
103 added configfile option to mysql handler
104 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
105 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
106 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
107 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
108 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
110 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
111 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
112 rdiff handler supports local dest
113 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
114 added "when = hourly"
115 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
116 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
117 improved 'when' parsing.
119 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
120 results of handlers are now read line by line.
121 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
122 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
123 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
124 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
125 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
126 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
127 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
128 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
129 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
131 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
132 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
133 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
134 added status in the subject line of report emails
136 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
137 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
138 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
139 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
140 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
142 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
143 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
145 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
146 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
148 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
149 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
150 fixed stderr redirect bug
151 some comments in example.rdiff
153 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
154 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
155 works now with gawk as well as mawk
156 many bug fixes to ldap handler
157 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
158 does not require /usr/bin/stat
160 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
161 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
162 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
164 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
166 moved sh support to a handler script
167 add test mode, where no action is taken.
169 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
170 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
171 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
173 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
174 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
175 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
176 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
177 all scripts are now run as root
179 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
180 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
181 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
182 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
183 added support for .mysql config files.
185 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004