backupninja/ChangeLog

version 0.9.4 -- unreleased
    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)
    handler changes
	Added tar handler
	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
	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
	svn:
	 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
	rdiff:
	 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
	   a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, rdiff handler now
	   support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
	 . Fixed improper include/exclude symlink dereference
	 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
	 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
	dup:
	 . Symlink and globbing support enhancement and clarification: for
	   a given include/exclude/vsinclude statement, dup handler now
	   support EITHER globbing with '*' OR symlinks in the path.
	 . 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)
	sys:
	 . Many more system checks were added, thanks to Petr Klíma
    lib changes
	vserver:
	 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
	 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
    ninjahelper changes
	 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
    changed cron permissions to 644
    minor documentation fixes

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