3 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support
4 added vservers support to duplicity handler
5 Note: the configuration is a bit different of rdiff
6 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same: have
9 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
10 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
11 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
12 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
13 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
14 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
16 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
17 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
18 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
19 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
20 ******************************************************************
21 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
22 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
23 ******************************************************************
24 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
25 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
26 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
27 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
28 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
29 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
30 added "sign" option for backups signing
31 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
32 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
33 added "nicelevel" option
34 added "testconnect" option
35 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
36 added "bandwidthlimit" option
37 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
38 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
39 added configfile option to mysql handler
40 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
41 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
42 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
43 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
44 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
46 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
47 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
48 rdiff handler supports local dest
49 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
51 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
52 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
53 improved 'when' parsing.
55 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
56 results of handlers are now read line by line.
57 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
58 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
59 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
60 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
61 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
62 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
63 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
64 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
65 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
67 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
68 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
69 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
70 added status in the subject line of report emails
72 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
73 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
74 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
75 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
76 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
78 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
79 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
81 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
82 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
84 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
85 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
86 fixed stderr redirect bug
87 some comments in example.rdiff
89 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
90 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
91 works now with gawk as well as mawk
92 many bug fixes to ldap handler
93 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
94 does not require /usr/bin/stat
96 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
97 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
98 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
100 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
102 moved sh support to a handler script
103 add test mode, where no action is taken.
105 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
106 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
107 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
109 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
110 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
111 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
112 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
113 all scripts are now run as root
115 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
116 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
117 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
118 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
119 added support for .mysql config files.
121 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004