backupninja/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Added

• [core] implement reportwrap configuration parameter

Changed

• [core] raise error if mail isn't found in $PATH and reportemail = yes
• [core] unset BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG before exit

Fixed

• [build] make build reproducible regardless of usrmerge (DEBBUG-915222)
• [core] silence exit code message unless --debug is used
• [core] backup halt should trigger email report if enabled
• [core] wrap report email body to 1000 characters by default (DEBBUG-871793)
• [core] improve error handling around reporthost feature
• [docs] add missing parameters to backupninja.conf manpage
• [sys] improve device selection for MBR backup (#11303)

[1.2.0] - 2021-01-21

Fixed

• [dup] Fix missing options from config file created with helper (DEBBUG-726119)

[1.2.0-rc1] - 2021-01-14

Added

• [tests] Add a testsuite
• [core] Add --version (-V) command-line option
• [borg] New config options: cache_directory, sshoptions (#11310), ignore_missing and port
• [restic] Introduce new handler for the restic backup program
• [sys] Add SystemD and EFI infos to sytem report (#11325)
• [all] Added new config setting ionicelevel (DEBBUG-409239)

Changed

• [core] Implement non-zero exit codes for main process (#8279)
• [borg] Emit warning if borg returns exit code 1 instead of fail
• [dup] Allow bandwidthlimit with desturl
• [rsync] Change default ssh key file to RSA in id_file (#11315, DEBBUG-976650)
• [project] Adopt Keep a Changelog format and convert old ChangeLog to markdown
• [project] Moved project group from RiseupLabs to Liberate (#11314)

Removed

• [core] Support for vservers support has been completely removed
• [rsync] Removed unused config parameter ssh (#4379)

Fixed

• [core] Fix issue with zero-padded integers in when setting (#9397)
• [core] Fix incorrect warning related to day component in when setting (DEBBUG-974770)
• [borg] Fix connection test when empty remote directory exists
• [borg] Properly quote create_options setting (#11304)
• [borg] Raise fatal error if includes are missing
• [dup] Test ssh connection when test mode enabled
• [mysql] Fix helper writing incomplete config file (#11272)
• [rsync] Fix initial directory creation in mirror and remote short modes
• [sys] Fix LUKS version 2 header backup (#11316)
• [sys] Fix dumping non-existent partition tables (#11293, DEBBUG-956206)
• [sys] Fix error in rc.d info gathering on redhat/centos (##11294)
• [sys] Fix error in sysctl info gathering

[1.1.0] - 2018-06-29

backupninja changes

• Add validation check for when parameter. (#640) Thanks to ulrich ulrich@habmalnefrage.de for the patch.
• Quote output strings passed to logging functions (#11278).
• 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. (#11274) Thanks to Matthijs Wensveen matthijs.wensveen@gmail.com for the patch.
• Bail if archive dir doesn't exist. (#11286) Thanks to Hugh Nowlan nosmo@nosmo.me for the patch.

sys

• Use lsblk instead of sfdisk to get a list of block devices. (#11273) 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.

[1.0.2] - 2017-09-05

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. (#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: #6357)
• Fix buggy version comparison. (#6746)
• Support using a different passphrase for the signing key from the one used for the encryption key (Closes: DEBBUG-726072). Thanks to Dominik George nik@naturalnet.de for the patch!
• Run duplicity in a C locales environment (Closes: DEBBUG-736280). Thanks to Jonathan Dupart jonathan@dupart.org for the report, and the initial patch!
• Fix handling of Dropbox access token (Closes: #11260).

mysql

• Make "nodata" option compatible with compress=no.
• Fix non-qualified table name extraction. (Closes: #4373)
• Skip dumping information and performance_schema databasase. (Closes: #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: DEBBUG-683731, #4019)
• Update increment folder date to avoid ending up with contradictory information. (Closes: #3929)
• Force rsync handler run bash at the remote destination. (Closes: #3003)
• Support running in test mode (Closes: #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 (#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: #6802)
• Exclude tmpfs filesystems from df output. (Closes: DEBBUG-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. (#4410)
• Support output_as_info. Thanks to David Gasaway dave@gasaway.org for the patch!

sys

• Remove spurious quotes that broke the helper (Closes: #6803). Thanks to Jools Wills jools@oxfordinspire.co.uk for the patch.

backupninja changes

• Indentation fixes, thanks to exobuzz. (#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: #7603)

[1.0.1] - 2012-06-29

handler changes

rsync

• Issue warnings, not fatal errors, on non-fatal rsync errors. (#3966)

[1.0] - 2012-06-15

The "happy birthdays" release!

handler changes

mysql

• Use --skip-events when backing up the performance_schema database. (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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.

[1.0-rc1] - 2012-05-15

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: DEBBUG-657201)
• Report failure output at error loglevel so that it is emailed (Closes: DEBBUG-536858)

maildir

• Remove 'loadlimit' parameter - it is not used anywhere.

mysql

• Don't attempt to dump performance_schema database (#3741).

pgsql

• Don't produce empty uncompressed backups (#3820).

rdiff-backup

• Use fatal function to report failure of rdiff-backup jobs as such.

rysnc

• Fix numericids option (#3691).
• Mangle $rsync_options just afterwards (#3702, #3001).
• Fix metadata rotation.
• Allow disabling rotation or setting 2 days as minimum for backup increments in rsync short format (#2107).
• Abort on rsync error (#3692).
• Cleanup orphaned metadata (#3727).
• Use the backup start time and not the time the backup was finished. (Closes: DEBBUG-654192).
• Use 'debug', 'fatal' and 'warning' functions instead of regular echo and exit (#3840, #3721).
• Quoting $starttime (#3868).
• Validate created date on long_rotation to avoid too many arguments at comparison (#3868).
• Quoting $exclude and $excludes and avoiding a for loop on $exclude to not expand wildcards in beforehand (#3882).
• Quote excludes (#3882).
• Changing remaining 'exit' to 'fatal' at rsync handler (#3721).
• Removing duplicated locking support (#3838).
• Documenting rotation parameters at example.rsync (#3891).
• Ensure that a non-zero rsync exit status is caught (#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).

[0.9.10] - 2011-09-23

backupninja changes

• Fix email reports, that were broken by the new locking support.

handler changes

dup

• Cleanup: stop supporting duplicity < 0.6.01 (#2538).
• Fix incorrect duplicity version check for keepincroffulls. Thanks to Olivier Berger oberger@ouvaton.org for the patch. (Closes #3443) (Closes: DEBBUG-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 #3001) (Closes: DEBBUG-639545)

sh

• Allow 'when = XXX' with spaces (#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: DEBBUG-639547)

[0.9.9] - 2011-05-15

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: DEBBUG-511300)

handler changes

all handlers:

• Stop using "local VAR" outside functions. (Closes: DEBBUG-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 #2492) (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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 #2737)
• Do arithmetic using bash rather than bc (Closes: DEBBUG-603173)

sys

• Fix hwinfo (Closes: DEBBUG-625501)
• Fix gathering of information about loaded modules: cut is in /usr/bin actually.

tar

• Install by default. (Closes #2907)

helper changes

dup

• Fix separate signing key usecase. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for the patch.
• Make units clearer (Closes #2737)

rdiff

• Generate 4096 bits RSA keys.

tar

• Install by default. (Closes #2907)

documentation changes

• Recommend using 4096 bits RSA keys everywhere.

[0.9.8.1] - 2010-10-31

backupninja changes

• Do not error out when no job is configured. Thanks to Jordi Mallach jordi@debian.org for the patch (Closes: DEBBUG-597684)

handler changes

sys

• Route around broken vgcfgbackup not able to handle multiple VG arguments

[0.9.8] - 2010-09-12

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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-572721)
• Ignore anything but digits and "." when comparing versions (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-583778)

ldap

• Add ssl option description, fix tls option description (Closes Roundup bug #2407)

[0.9.7] - 2010-01-27

backupninja changes

• fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
• do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-511299)
• new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes DEBBUG-563734)
• reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the local filesystem (Closes: DEBBUG-536049)
• set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: DEBBUG-537266)

lib changes

easydialog

• Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: DEBBUG-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! (#606)

mysql

• Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his preliminary patch (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-536360)
• Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-563044)

autotools

• Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it will help supporting *BSD some day.

[0.9.6] - 2008-07-21

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: DEBBUG-455836)
• Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-483712, DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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)

[0.9.5] - 2007-12-02

backupninja changes

• Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch applied to fix DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-452039).

pgsql

• Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers (Closes: DEBBUG-396578)

rdiff-backup

• Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
• Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: DEBBUG-424633)
• Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-440554)
• Added example.rsync configuration file

sys

• Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
• Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-396632)
• Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: DEBBUG-404071)
• Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and note why its necessary (Closes: DEBBUG-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

other

• 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)

[0.9.4] - 2006-10-06

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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-370778)

makecd

• Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)

trac

• fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: DEBBUG-382737)

lib changes

vserver

• init_vservers: fixed DEBBUG-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: DEBBUG-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.

other

• 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)

[0.9.3] - 2006-02-01

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 (DEBBUG-348022, follow-up to DEBBUG-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.

other

• autotools fixes

[0.9.2] - 2005-12-29

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)

[0.9.1] - 2005-11-05

• 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

[0.9] - 2005-10-19

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.

[0.8] - 2005-09-15

• 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)

[0.7] - 2005-07-26

• 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.

[0.6] - 2005-06-16

• 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.

[0.5] - 2005-04-12

• 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.

[0.4.4] - 2005-03-18

• 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.

[0.4.2] - 2005-01-06

• 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

[0.4.1] - 2005-01-03

• 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.

[0.4] - 2004-12-26

• 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).

[0.3.4] - 2004-12-08

• fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
• fixed stderr redirect bug
• some comments in example.rdiff

[0.3.3] - 2004-11-10

• '*' (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

[0.3.2] - 2004-09-29

• handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
• handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email

[0.3.1] - 2004-09-05

• 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

[0.3] - 2004-10-20

• 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

[0.2] - 2004-10-14

• 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.

[0.1] - 2004-10-08

• initial release