version 1.1.0 -- June 29, 2018
backupninja changes
· Add validation check for when parameter
Thanks to ulrich <ulrich@habmalnefrage.de> for the patch
· Quote output strings passed to logging functions
· Ignore files in /etc/backup.d that lack suffix
Thanks to David Gasaway <dave@gasaway.org> for the patch
· Add Vagrantfile to help with testing/release process
documentation changes
· Fix typos in README.md and manpages. Thank you, Lintian!
· Improve release process documentation
handler changes
borg:
. Add initial support for the borgbackup program
Thanks to Ben <ben@wainei.net> and Thomas Preissler
<thomas@preissler.co.uk> for contributing patches
dup:
· Fix symmetric encryption
Thanks to Matthijs Wensveen <matthijs.wensveen@gmail.com> for
the patch.
· Bail if archive dir doesn't exist
Thanks to Hugh Nowlan <nosmo@nosmo.me> for the patch
sys:
· Use lsblk instead of sfdisk to get a list of block devices
Thanks to Romain Dessort <romain@univers-libre.net> for the patch
· Avoid looking for partitions on zram devices
Thanks to Glandos <bugs-0xacab@antipoul.fr> for the patch
· Support extracting LUKS headers from partitions
Thanks to Lyz <lyz@riseup.net> for the patch.
version 1.0.2 -- September 05, 2017
handler changes
dsync:
. Miscellaneous improvements to this experimental handler.
dup:
. For local backups, check that the destination directory exists.
Thanks to ulrich for the preliminary patch. (Redmine#4049)
. Gracefully handle legacy spaces between -o and IdentityFile.
. Don't remove useful signature files with --extra-clean,
on duplicity versions that have a sane handling of the cache.
Thanks to Alexander Mette <mail@amette.eu> for the patch!
(Closes: Redmine#6357)
. Fix buggy version comparison. (Redmine#6746)
. Support using a different passphrase for the signing key
from the one used for the encryption key (Closes: #726072).
Thanks to Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> for the patch!
· Run duplicity in a C locales environment (Closes: #736280).
Thanks to Jonathan Dupart <jonathan@dupart.org> for the report,
and the initial patch!
. Fix handling of Dropbox access token (Closes: GitLab#11260).
mysql:
. Make "nodata" option compatible with compress=no.
. Fix non-qualified table name extraction. (Closes: Redmine#4373)
. Skip dumping information and performance_schema databasase.
(Closes: GitLab#11148)
rdiff:
. Add option to include rdiff-backup output in reports.
Thanks to David Gasaway <dave@gasaway.org> for the patch!
rsync:
. Solve quoting issue with "su". (Closes: #683731, Redmine#4019)
. Update increment folder date to avoid ending up with contradictory
information. (Closes: Redmine#3929)
. Force rsync handler run bash at the remote destination.
(Closes: Redmine#3003)
. Support running in test mode (Closes: Redmine#8196).
Thanks to shred for the initial patch.
sys:
. Fix LUKS header backup to properly detect partitions.
. Provide the ability to backup the MBR for every device found,
and to backup the BIOS (if the flashrom program is installed,
and the mainboard is supported).
. Add suse to the list of supported OS (Redmine#7101).
Thanks to Christian Prause <cprause@suse.com> for the patch.
. Fix indentation. Thanks to Jools Wills <jools@oxfordinspire.co.uk>
for the patch. (Closes: Redmine#6802)
. Exclude tmpfs filesystems from df output. (Closes: Debian#745818)
tar:
. Support test mode and xz compression.
Thanks to Pierre ROUDIER <contact@pierreroudier.net> for the patches.
helper changes
rdiff:
. Don't give misleading information regarding required fields.
(Redmine#4410)
. Support output_as_info.
Thanks to David Gasaway <dave@gasaway.org> for the patch!
sys:
. Remove spurious quotes that broke the helper (Closes: Redmine#6803).
Thanks to Jools Wills <jools@oxfordinspire.co.uk> for the patch.
backupninja changes
. Indentation fixes, thanks to exobuzz. (Redmine#6726)
. Ignore jobs whose filename ends with "~".
Thanks to Mark Janssen <mark@sig-io.nl> for the patch.
build system changes
· Pass the "foreign" option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: README has been
renamed to README.md.
documentation changes
. Update INSTALL file to add some missing recommended programs.
. Document release process.
. Merge FAQ content from the Redmine wiki into the one shipped
with backupninja.
. README.md: reorganize, reformat, and point to the examples
configuration files.
. INSTALL.md: recommend using packages on Debian and derivatives.
. bandwidthlimit for the dup handler needs to be given in KB/s,
and not (as wrongly advertised previously) in Kbit/s.
(Closes: GitLab#7603)
version 1.0.1 -- June 29, 2012
handler changes
rsync:
. Issue warnings, not fatal errors, on non-fatal rsync errors.
(Redmine#3966)
version 1.0 -- June 15, 2012
The "happy birthdays" release!
handler changes
mysql:
. Use --skip-events when backing up the performance_schema database.
(Closes: #673572)
rsync:
. Generate excludes command-line snippet the same way as
the duplicity handler does.
. Run rsync command-line through a shell, so that single-quotes
around excludes are interpreted (Closes: #677410)
sys:
. Don't execute /usr/bin/lspci or /sbin/modinfo when $hardware == "no"
backupninja changes
. Make it clear what lockfile could not be acquired, if any.
version 1.0-rc1 -- May 15, 2012
handler changes
dup:
. Make the .dup generated by ninjahelper more consistent with
example.dup.
. Add support for RackSpace's CloudFiles.
Thanks to Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> for the patch.
. Adapt for new duplicity SSH backend.
Support bandwidthlimit with new duplicity, using trickle.
(Closes: #657201)
. Report failure output at error loglevel so that it is emailed
(Closes: #536858)
maildir:
. Remove 'loadlimit' parameter - it is not used anywhere.
mysql:
. Don't attempt to dump performance_schema database (Redmine#3741).
pgsql:
. Don't produce empty uncompressed backups (Redmine#3820).
rdiff-backup:
. Use fatal function to report failure of rdiff-backup jobs as such.
rysnc:
. Fix numericids option (Redmine#3691).
. Mangle $rsync_options just afterwards (Redmine#3702, Redmine#3001).
. Fix metadata rotation.
. Allow disabling rotation or setting 2 days as minimum for backup
increments in rsync short format (Redmine#2107).
. Abort on rsync error (Redmine#3692).
. Cleanup orphaned metadata (Redmine#3727).
. Use the backup start time and not the time the backup was finished.
(Closes: #654192).
. Use 'debug', 'fatal' and 'warning' functions instead of regular echo
and exit (Redmine#3840, Redmine#3721).
. Quoting $starttime (Redmine#3868).
. Validate created date on long_rotation to avoid too many arguments
at comparison (Redmine#3868).
. Quoting $exclude and $excludes and avoiding a for loop on $exclude
to not expand wildcards in beforehand (Redmine#3882).
. Quote excludes (Redmine#3882).
. Changing remaining 'exit' to 'fatal' at rsync handler (Redmine#3721).
. Removing duplicated locking support (Redmine#3838).
. Documenting rotation parameters at example.rsync (Redmine#3891).
. Ensure that a non-zero rsync exit status is caught (Redmine#3892).
build system changes
. Workaround automake sanity check that would prevent us from
installing lib/* into lib/backupninja/. Where else are be supposed
to install such files anyway?
. Have "make dist" ship handlers/*.in instead of make results.
. Have "make dist" ship the FAQ.
. Install handlers as pkgdata_DATA, instead of their .in files.
documentation changes
. Document what features available to .sh jobs (Redmine #1558).
version 0.9.10 -- September 23, 2011
backupninja changes
. Fix email reports, that were broken by the new locking support.
handler changes
dup:
. Cleanup: stop supporting duplicity < 0.6.01 (Redmine#2538).
. Fix incorrect duplicity version check for keepincroffulls.
Thanks to Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org> for the patch.
(Closes Redmine bug #3443)
(Closes: #641120)
ldap:
. Don't install LDAP handler, helper and example configuration file.
Don't mention LDAP support in documentation.
Official LDAP support will come back once this code has found
itself a maintainer. Interested? Get in touch!
rsync:
. Fixing $rsync_options output when rsync is local
(Closes Redmine bug #3001)
(Closes: #639545)
sh:
. Allow 'when = XXX' with spaces (Redmine#2769).
Thanks to aihtdikh for the patch.
sys:
. Remove useless and inconsistent executable bit on handler.
helper changes
rdiff:
. Fix infinite loop when version inconsistency is detected.
Thanks to Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> for the patch.
(Closes: #639547)
version 0.9.9 -- May 15, 2011
backupninja changes
. Use locking to avoid running concurrent instances of the same backup
action. Thanks to Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org> for the patch.
(Closes: #511300)
handler changes
all handlers:
. Stop using "local VAR" outside functions. (Closes: #530647)
dup:
. Use --tempdir option rather than TMPDIR environment variable.
(Closes Roundup bug #598)
. Remove support for duplicity < 0.4.4. Even etch-backports has
a newer one.
. Now support remove-all-inc-but-n-full command for duplicity >=
0.9.10 to allow removal of increments for older full backups.
Thanks to Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org> for the patch.
(Closes Redmine bug #2492)
(Closes: #603478)
ldap:
. Fix reliance on bash for pipefail.
mysql:
. Fix reliance on bash for pipefail.
Thanks to Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org> for the patch.
(Closes: #602374)
postgresql:
. Support various pg_dump formats in addition to pg_dumpall.
Thanks to Jacob Anawalt <jlanawalt@gmail.com> for the patch.
(Closes Roundup bug #2534)
. Fix reliance on bash for pipefail.
rdiff:
. Support reading include/exclude patterns from files using the
"include @/etc/backup_includes" syntax (Closes Roundup bug
#2370). Thanks to ale for the patch.
rsync:
. Fix long rotation.
. Make units clearer (Closes Redmine bug #2737)
. Do arithmetic using bash rather than bc (Closes: #603173)
sys:
. Fix hwinfo (Closes: #625501)
. Fix gathering of information about loaded modules:
cut is in /usr/bin actually.
tar:
. Install by default. (Closes Redmine bug #2907)
helper changes
dup:
. Fix separate signing key usecase. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for
the patch.
. Make units clearer (Closes Redmine bug #2737)
rdiff:
. Generate 4096 bits RSA keys.
tar:
. Install by default. (Closes Redmine bug #2907)
documentation changes
. Recommend using 4096 bits RSA keys everywhere.
version 0.9.8.1 -- October 31, 2010 (boo!)
backupninja changes
. Do not error out when no job is configured. Thanks to Jordi Mallach
<jordi@debian.org> for the patch (Closes: #597684)
handler changes
sys:
. Route around broken vgcfgbackup not able to handle multiple VG arguments
version 0.9.8 -- September 12, 2010
backupninja changes
. Added GZIP_OPTS option, defaulting to --rsyncable, so that this
option can be disabled on systems that don't support it. This
also allows to use another compression program, such as pbzip2
on SMP machines (Closes Roundup bug #2405)
handler changes
sys:
. Only run mdadm if RAID devices actually exist (Closes: #572450)
dup:
. Now default to use --full-if-older-than; see the new "increments"
option to opt-out or tweak the default (30D) delay between full
backups. Thanks a lot to Olivier Berger (Closes: #535996)
. Use duplicity's --extra-clean option to get rid of unnecessary old
cache files when cleaning up. This is enabled when using duplicity
0.6.01 or newer, that depends on local caching (Closes: #572721)
. Ignore anything but digits and "." when comparing versions
(Closes: #578987)
. Put archive directory (cache) into /var/cache/backupninja/duplicity
rather than the default /root/.cache/duplicity, unless the user
has specified it (Closes: 580213)
. Better example.dup documentation. Thanks, Alster!
. Added ftp_password option to securely transmit the FTP password
from backupninja to duplicity.
mysql:
. Don't lock tables in the information_schema database
(Closes: #587011)
. Fix code logic to make dbusername/dbpassword actually usable
(Closes Redmine bug #2264)
rsync:
. Fix lockfile checks. This prevents multiple instances of the same
rsync job to run in parallel.
. Avoid passing the remote user twice to rsync-over-ssh.
doc changes
manpage:
. Fix typo in manpage (Closes: #583778)
ldap:
. Add ssl option description, fix tls option description (Closes
Roundup bug #2407)
version 0.9.7 -- January 27, 2010
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.
. Increased element number in include/exclude and vserver ninjahelper interface
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.
. 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 KlÃma)
. 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 KlÃma 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
