version 0.9.5 -- unreleased ninjareport . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost, reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple backupninja changes . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version. . Enhanced portability for other platforms . Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11) . Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10) . Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28) handler changes dup: . Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option is not supported anymore) (Closes: #447425) ldap: . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file (Closes: #394935) . Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no instead of on/off . Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work together (Closes: Trac#29) . Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13) maildir: . Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23) . Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24) . Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25) mysql: . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679) . Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: #408829) . Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to Matthew Palmer (Closes: #452039). pgsql: . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers (Closes: #396578) rdiff-backup: . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633) . Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: #424632) . Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4) . Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21) rub/rsync . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work . Changed to use lib/vserver code . Fixed fsck error . Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3) . Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler . updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rsync (Closes: #440554) . Added example.rsync configuration file sys: . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers. . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928) . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when it succeeds (Closes: #396632) . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071) . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and note why its necessary (Closes: #409192) . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep . Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1) fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006 backupninja changes . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it to not work when run from cron. . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102) . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before). Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396). . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows symlinks for $configdirectory . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by coreutils (Closes: #382747) . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin) handler changes Added tar handler: . create tarballs Added rsnap handler: . rotated rsync snapshops . code from paulv@bikkel.org Added rub handler: . alternative to rsnap . code from rhatto@riseup.net mysql: . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083) . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778) . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto) pgsql: . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297) . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778) . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default) svn: . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check rdiff: . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities between various readlink versions in this field. . Removed overzealous vsnames check . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined. . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the following to the top of the handler config: options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup --server' dup: . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities between various readlink versions in this field. . Removed over zealous vsnames check . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without any passphrase . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible sshoptions (Closes: #388543) . Now forbid to (try to) include /. sys: . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma) . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl) . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks Tom Hoover) . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat) ldap: . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778) makecd: . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto) trac: . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737) lib changes vserver: . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax) . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character + . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat ninjahelper changes . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102) . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows symlinks for $configdirectory . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current admingroup option. dup.helper: . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption. changed cron permissions to 644 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup) minor documentation fixes improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories, cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier) version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006 autotools fixes backupninja changes backupninja.conf . added (commented out) the various default paths to programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure out more easily they can customize them code refactor: . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support handler changes duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different degrees) new lib/vserver functionality mysql: . fixed no user defaults file processing duplicity: . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug #348022, follow-up to #338796) . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is disabled in backupninja.conf . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space) in vsnames config variable rdiff . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the "vsnames" configuration setting ninjahelper changes rdiff.helper: . fixed errors in create remote dir . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent) . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to have "include = " . fixed globbing bug with exclude ninjahelper: . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out. . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent) lib changes vserver: . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al. don't follow symlinks) . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found . new function: vservers_exist known bugs: easydialog: . formDisplay does not return exit status. version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005 backupninja changes fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers" code refactor: . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between backupninja and ninjahelper handler changes trac: . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed duplicity: . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options . different signing and encrypting key support added . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way GnuPG-related options are used mysql: . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced ninjahelper(s) changes vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in added man/ninjahelper.1 man page makecd: . was missing in Makefile.am/.in rdiff-backup: . used to expand '*' in default source directories . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour . updated to include Vserver selection pgsql: . forbid the user to choose an empty database set . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do mysql: . enhanced for vserver support . now able to select databases and dump directory duplicity: . new handler added (with Vserver support) version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz) fixed many bugs in rdiff helper rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?) added makecd ninjahelper (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net) made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian update rdiff ninjahelper now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory and offers to create it if it doesn't exist version 0.9 -- October 19 2005 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE *** fixed insecure temporary file creation ***************************************** removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler fixed incorrect find positional changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd. rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org). rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest. (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org). man pages are greatly improved. version 0.8 -- September 15 2005 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support. added vservers support to duplicity handler Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff handler's one, but the default behavior is the same: have a look at example.dup. improved README documented .disabled method. corrected VROOTDIR default value. added ninjahelper to the install instructions. improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory to be seen as a vserver changes to sys handler make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info. fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver. fixed $nodpkg use. changes to pgsql handler now checks if the specified vserver is running. now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed. now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver. changes to ninjahelper check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts must not be group or world writable!" error msg). xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor, then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists. added helper for pgsql handler. rdiff handler now does not require 'label' changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support these handlers now check if the source vserver is running added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr) version 0.7 -- July 26 2005 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs. considerably improved and changed the log file output. you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method). added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef). fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options. version 0.6 -- June 16 2005 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method is set to ldapsearch as this is safer ****************************************************************** NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler, you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch. ****************************************************************** implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem) added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!): "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost added "sign" option for backups signing added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections added "nicelevel" option added "testconnect" option added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp) added "bandwidthlimit" option example.dup example config file for duplicity handler added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!) added configfile option to mysql handler the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this, sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does). fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work. (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password) can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler. version 0.5 -- April 12 2005 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner rdiff handler supports local dest logfile is created if it doesn't exist added "when = hourly" added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order. improved 'when' parsing. version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005 results of handlers are now read line by line. changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D'). added dup handler (still pretty beta) added maildir handler (very specialized handler) added --run option (runs the specified action file) improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo added subversion hotbackup handler, svn. added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors. version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run. fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored added status in the subject line of report emails version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed. fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now. replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal. added --now option to force all actions to be performed now. version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when they are to be run. added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions). version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc fixed stderr redirect bug some comments in example.rdiff version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files works now with gawk as well as mawk many bug fixes to ldap handler paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config does not require /usr/bin/stat version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy) handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004 added ldap handler moved sh support to a handler script add test mode, where no action is taken. added --help force only root can read /etc/backup.d/* fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style rewrote all scripts in bash for portability added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja) all scripts are now run as root version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!) added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources. added support for .mysql config files. version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004 initial release