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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)
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handler changes
maildir:
. fix location of deleted_on file
. add missing destid_file options to ssh connections
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.
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.
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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
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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.
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. 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.
. support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer
when no supported backend is found (Closes: #476910)
. Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions
into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: #424639)
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wget:
. New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from
a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler
. 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:
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. use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++)
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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)
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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.
. 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)
dup:
. Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option
. 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
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).
. Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
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rdiff-backup:
. Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
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. 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
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
version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
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backupninja changes
. Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
to not work when run from cron.
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. 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)
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handler changes
Added tar handler:
. create tarballs
Added rsnap handler:
. rotated rsync snapshops
. code from paulv@bikkel.org
. alternative to rsnap
. code from rhatto@riseup.net
. 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
. 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.
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. 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.
. 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)
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. Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
. Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
. Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
Tom Hoover)
. Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
ldap:
. Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
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
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different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
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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 /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
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.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
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:
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. 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)
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. init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
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
. forbid the user to choose an empty database set
. now able to select databases and dump directory
duplicity:
. new handler added (with Vserver support)
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(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
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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.
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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)
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.
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.
added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
improved 'when' parsing.
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
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
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.
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).
fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
'*' (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
handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
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
** 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
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.