X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?p=matthijs%2Fupstream%2Fbackupninja.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=9c7770d9427ef33be6ab6e2a74a618c831005d86;hp=2a414a39b0801f8afde0dc057649c49bf437e923;hb=ef9e8e0dc2359e114412369d12d21e3d7997e123;hpb=806d97652f404adacb83bce8ff843d8dabc2bf00 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2a414a3..9c7770d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,35 +1,209 @@ -version 0.9.4 -- unreleased - backupninja changes +version 0.9.6 -- unreleased + backupninja changes + + handler changes + dup: + . General cleanup + . Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax: + run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: #458816), + and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both + only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups + from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the + new syntax. + rdiff: + . Fixed ignore_version default value missing + . Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions + into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639) + wget: + . New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from + a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler + +version 0.9.5 -- December 2, 2007 + 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) + . New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends + to fill up /tmp. + 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) + 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 + fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed + changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am + updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen) + +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. - handler changes - Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102) - Added tar handler + . 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: - . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference + . 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: - . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference + . 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 + . 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 @@ -76,7 +250,7 @@ version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found . new function: vservers_exist known bugs: - easydialog: + easydialog: . formDisplay does not return exit status. version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005 @@ -90,7 +264,7 @@ version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005 trac: . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed duplicity: - . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options + . 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 @@ -104,12 +278,12 @@ version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005 rdiff-backup: . used to expand '*' in default source directories . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour - . updated to include Vserver selection + . updated to include Vserver selection pgsql: - . forbid the user to choose an empty database set + . forbid the user to choose an empty database set . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do mysql: - . enhanced for vserver support + . enhanced for vserver support . now able to select databases and dump directory duplicity: . new handler added (with Vserver support) @@ -125,20 +299,20 @@ version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005 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 + 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 + 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. + rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest. (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org). man pages are greatly improved. @@ -187,7 +361,7 @@ version 0.6 -- June 16 2005 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, + 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 @@ -203,10 +377,10 @@ version 0.6 -- June 16 2005 added "testconnect" option added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp) added "bandwidthlimit" option - example.dup example config file for duplicity handler + 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, + 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) @@ -214,15 +388,15 @@ version 0.6 -- June 16 2005 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner - rdiff handler supports local dest + rdiff handler supports local dest logfile is created if it doesn't exist - added "when = hourly" + 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. + 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'). @@ -230,7 +404,7 @@ version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005 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 subversion hotbackup handler, svn. added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors. version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005 @@ -243,7 +417,7 @@ version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005 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. @@ -251,7 +425,7 @@ version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions). version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004 - fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc + fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc fixed stderr redirect bug some comments in example.rdiff @@ -274,7 +448,7 @@ version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004 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 @@ -286,7 +460,7 @@ version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004 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 + initial release