X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?p=matthijs%2Fupstream%2Fbackupninja.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=c665f9dc9fb06bf9fcca2eada607e3ee029fcd68;hp=644f07f46169952ed167b2d15408ec8cc58bcc63;hb=2108cf46462afa167631a9377c7aed4d95f0c69f;hpb=787e4aadd2aa9786c95d897d781ebd67d7dd5875 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 644f07f..c665f9d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,224 @@ -version 0.9.4 -- unreleased +version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED + backupninja changes + . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite + . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837) + . add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config + file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the + preliminary patch (Closes: #511299) + . new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with + "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes #563734) + . reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the + local filesystem (Closes: #536049) + . set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: #537266) + lib changes + easydialog: + . Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: #562249) + handler changes + ldap: + . Use gzip's --rsyncable option. + . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are + reported as such. + maildir: + . fix location of deleted_on file + . add missing destid_file options to ssh connections + . added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options + . updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions + . use any subdirectories not just "a" to "z". Thanks Chris Nolan! (Redmine#606) + mysql: + . Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new + sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his + preliminary patch (Closes: #502966) + . Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in + case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently + does not prevent mysqldump to work. + . Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running: + mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails. + . Use gzip's --rsyncable option. + . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in + database names. + . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are + reported as such. + pgsql: + . Use gzip's --rsyncable option. + . Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in + database names. + . Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are + reported as such. + rdiff: + . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: #398435) + . Fix confusing error if rdiff-backup cannot be found on remote server. + sys: + . New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header + of every Luks device. + . New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every + detected volume group. + . Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers. + dup: + . Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for + the patch. + . Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at + one time (Closes: #536360) + . Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in + report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: #563734) + . Fix include/exclude paths with spaces + . Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch. + helper changes + dup: + . Do not propose to exclude /home/*/.gnupg twice anymore + (Closes: #563044) + autotools + . Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it + will help supporting *BSD some day. + +version 0.9.6 -- July 21, 2008 + backupninja changes + . fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland + . Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to + Matthew Palmer (Closes: #455836) + . Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: #452669) + lib changes + vserver: + . added vservers_running function + tools + . mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure + fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system + 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. + . Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration + option desturl (Closes: #483712, #346040, Trac#2). + . Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test. + . Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it. + ldap: + . support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer + when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910) + 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 + maildir: + . fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped + . make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for + maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks + for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43). + . make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted + . add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate + ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa) + pgsql, mysql, svn, sys: + . use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++) + sys: + . update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms + (Closes: Trac#39) + . support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the + dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45) + . add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using + debconf-get-selections + . fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments + given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!) + . Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm + -Q --detail /dev/md?* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files + (Thanks to John Hallam). + trac: + . stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means + removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail + makecd + . updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim) + +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. @@ -6,7 +226,7 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased . 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). + 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 @@ -20,7 +240,7 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased Added rsnap handler: . rotated rsync snapshops . code from paulv@bikkel.org - Added rub handler: + Added rub handler: . alternative to rsnap . code from rhatto@riseup.net mysql: @@ -36,7 +256,7 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased . 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) + . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default) svn: . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check rdiff: @@ -64,7 +284,7 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased 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) @@ -79,7 +299,7 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased 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 + . 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) @@ -96,7 +316,7 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased 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, + 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) @@ -145,7 +365,7 @@ 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 @@ -159,7 +379,7 @@ 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 @@ -173,19 +393,19 @@ 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) 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) + (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 @@ -194,20 +414,20 @@ 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. @@ -256,7 +476,7 @@ 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 @@ -272,10 +492,10 @@ 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) @@ -283,15 +503,15 @@ 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'). @@ -299,7 +519,7 @@ 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 @@ -312,7 +532,7 @@ 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. @@ -320,7 +540,7 @@ 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 @@ -343,7 +563,7 @@ 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 @@ -355,7 +575,7 @@ 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