1 #========================================================================
3 # ChangeLog - change log for BackupPC.
6 # Revision history for BackupPC, detailing significant changes between
7 # versions, most recent first.
10 # Craig Barratt <cbarratt@users.sourceforge.net>
12 #========================================================================
14 # Version __VERSION__, released __RELEASEDATE__.
16 # See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
18 #========================================================================
20 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
21 # Version __VERSION__, __RELEASEDATE__
22 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
24 * When there is an existing partial, a new partials is only saved
25 if it has more files than the existing partial. Requested by
28 * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} for tar XferMethod.
29 Patch supplied by Frans Pop.
31 * Fixed numeric column sorting in host summary table, reported by
34 * Fixed host CGI editor so it creates the new host's config.pl file
35 using the lower-case host name, since host names are mapped to
36 lower case when they are read from the hosts file. Reported by
39 * Applied documentation patches from Frans Pop. Also updated
40 Pod::Html to improve documentation formatting.
42 * Added Polish translation from Semper.
44 * Fixed BackupPC_nightly reporting of repeated pool file hashes.
46 * Add run-time check that IO::Dirent is functioning correctly,
47 reported by Doug Lytle.
49 * Added comment to Cmd settings in conf/config.pl that they are
50 not executed by a shell, as suggested by Erik van Linstee.
52 * Added undefIfEmpty => 1 to lib/BackupPC/Config/Meta.pm for
53 RsyncRestoreArgs, TarClientRestoreCmd and SmbClientRestoreCmd
54 so that restores can be disabled by clear these fields in the
55 CGI editor. Patch supplied by Stephen Joyce
57 * Replaced the FAQ link with Wiki in the navigation bar and added
58 mention of the Wiki to the documentation. Since these navigation
59 bar links are specified in the config file, upgrades will keep
60 the old FAQ link. The FAQ opening page will have a prominent
63 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
64 # Version 3.1.0beta0, 3 Sep 2007
65 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
67 * Added new script BackupPC_archiveStart that allows command-line
68 starting of archives. Based on script written by Sergey Kovzik,
69 which in turn was based on an earlier version by Holger Parplies.
71 * Added Simplified Chinese CGI translation from Youlin Feng,
72 plus fixed a couple of cases where utf8 share names were
73 not displayed correctly.
75 * Added sorting by column feature to host summary table in CGI
76 interface. Implemented by Jeremy Tietsort.
78 * Added optional support for IO::Dirent which allows inode information
79 to be extracted from the dirent directory structure. This allows
80 BackupPC to order some directory operations by inode, which on
81 some file systems (eg: ext3) can results in a 20-30% performance
82 gain. On other file systems there is no real improvement. This
83 optimization is turned on automatically if IO::Dirent is installed.
85 * Added some performance improvements to BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO
86 for the case of small files with cached checksums.
88 * Added check to BackupPC at startup that $TopDir can support
89 hardlinks. Also added check to BackupPC_dump that a hardlink
90 below $TopDir/pc/HOST can be made to below $TopDir/cpool.
91 Also added the need for a hard-link capable file system to
92 the documentation. Suggested by Nils Breunese.
94 * Added FreeBSD init.d file provided by Gabriel Rossetti.
96 * Added -l and -L options to BackupPC_tarCreate so that
97 provide a file list (without creating the archive).
100 * Made the default charset for BackupPC_zipCreate cp1252, which
101 appears to work correctly with WinZip. Unfortunately there is
102 no clear standard for charset encoding in zip files.
104 * Added support so that pre-3.0 backups with non-utf8 charsets
105 can be viewed and restored correctly. A new config variable
106 $Conf{ClientCharsetLegacy} specifies the charset used to
107 encode file names in legacy backups. This is only relevant
108 if you are trying to view or restore a backup made with
109 BackupPC 2.x and some of the file names have non-ascii
112 * Added setting of the environment variable BPC_REQUSER to
113 the requesting user name in BackupPC prior to fork(), so
114 each child process inherits the value. Submitted by
117 * Fixed bug in rsync incrementals that happens on particular
118 file names when a file being backed up fails in both rsync
119 phases. Reported by Dan Smisko.
121 * Fixed single-restore file name charsets for IE, reported by
124 * Fixed makeDist so that the --config-dir option to configure.pl
125 works correctly. Reported by Randy Barlow, Tony Shadwick and others.
127 * Removed ConfDir from config editor (since it is hardcoded in
128 lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm). Also made TopDir and LogDir only visible
129 if useFHS (for non-FHS they are hardcoded in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm).
131 * Applied patch from Holger Parplies that fixes cleanup of early abort
134 * Applied small patch from Sergey to lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm that makes
135 it ignore "socket ignored" error on incrementals.
137 * Applied small patch from Sergey to bin/BackupPC_archiveHost.
139 * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail so that summary admin email doesn't
140 include errors from hosts that have $Conf{BackupsDisable} set.
141 Reported by James Kyle. Also, per-user email is now disabled
142 when $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set.
144 * Added RsyncdUserName to the config editor. Reported by Vicent Roca Daniel.
146 * $Conf{IncrLevels} is now defaulted if it is not defined.
148 * configure.pl clears $Conf{ParPath} if it doesn't point to a valid
151 * Added documentation for BackupPC_tarPCCopy, including use of -P option
152 to tar suggested by Daniel Berteaud.
154 * Config editor now removes white space at start of exec path.
155 Reported by Christoph Iwasjuta.
157 * CgiDateFormatMMDD == 2 gives a YYYY-MM-DD format for CGI dates,
160 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
161 # Version 3.0.0, 28 Jan 2007
162 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
164 * BackupPC_sendEmail now correctly sends admin email if backups
165 were skipped because the disk was too full, reported by Dan
168 * BackupPC_Admin now uses $Conf{UmaskMode}, so config.pl files
169 written by the editor have more restrictive permissions.
170 Reported by Tim Massey.
172 * Host summary now shows active backups on disabled hosts,
175 * Fixed host LOG link and LOG list order, reported by Tim Massey.
177 * Moved Encode.pm version check to start of configure.pl so it
178 produces a useful error message if Encode.pm is too old.
180 * Fixed hrefs to configuration documentation to handle changes
181 in the way perl generates the anchors. Reported by Philip
184 * Host name links in LOG files now allow "." in the host name.
185 Reported by Jean-Michel Beuken.
187 * Fixes to lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm for tar 1.16: allow 1
188 (ie: 256) as a successful exit status and match "Total
189 bytes read" message for restores. First reported by
190 Torsten Sadowski and debugged by Ralf Gross and Holger
193 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
194 # Version 3.0.0beta3, 3 Dec 2006
195 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
197 * Removed default paths from conf/config.pl so configure.pl will
198 determine the correct ones at install time. Avoids problem of
199 the config editor complaining about bad executable paths the
200 first time you use it.
202 * Changed first byte of compressed files with rsync checksums appended
203 to 0xd7 to allow correct protocol_version >= 27 md4 checksums to be
204 written. Old cached checksum files have a first byte 0xd6 and are
205 now considered to be uncached. They will be automatically updated
206 as needed. This avoids the cached checksum warnings in beta2.
208 * BackupPC_tarPCCopy now handles all file types correctly. Reported
211 * Fixed BackupPC_nightly to finish pending deletes before renaming
214 * Fixes for rsync restore where hardlink is to file outside of the
215 top-level restore directory. Reported by George Avrunin, who helped
218 * Fixes for checksum mismatch on restore for certain file sizes.
219 Reported by George Avrunin and others.
221 * Fix for config.pl writing code to handle multi-line expressions.
222 Reported by David Relson and others.
224 * Fix for CGI editor when deleting hash entries whose keys are
225 non alphanumeric. Report by David Relson and Aaron Ciarlotta.
227 * Two fixes to configure.pl from Andreas Vögele.
229 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
230 # Version 3.0.0beta2, 18 Nov 2006
231 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
233 * Fix for final md4 digest check on rsync transfers >= 512MB when protocol
234 version >= 27 and checksums are not cached. Reported by Garith Dugmore
237 * Config Editor "Save" button is now always visible, but greyed out
238 until there are changes to save.
240 * Config editor allows other tabs to be selected when there is an
241 error, which allows you to fix an error (eg: missing binary) in
242 an exiting config file. Errors are now displayed at the top of
243 the page in addition to next to the erroneous setting.
245 * configure.pl checks version of Encode.pm. Reported by Chris Stone.
247 * Several fixes to bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary from Stian Jordet.
249 * Fixed config.pl editor writing to solve bug with multi-line text
250 strings ending in newline. Reported and root caused by Les Stott
253 * Fixed error recovery case in BackupPC::PoolWrite, reported by
256 * Fixed table width in backup browsing to avoid Firefox layout anomoly,
257 provided by Jono Woodhouse.
259 * CSS file updates from Jono Woodhouse. Prior (v2) version is included
260 as BackupPC_stnd_orig.css in case people prefer the old skin.
262 * More compact host summary, including disabled host indication,
265 * New directory/file/hardlink and symlink image icons from Sean Cameron
266 and Jono Woodhouse, making directory browse more compact.
268 * BackupPC.pid is now world readable, suggested by Casper Thomsen.
270 * Reordered the Server navigation bar links, suggested by David Relson.
272 * Fixed typos in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc, configure.pl and config.pl
273 reported by David Relson.
275 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
276 # Version 3.0.0beta1, 30 Jul 2006
277 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
279 * Fixed several Xfer charset conversions.
281 * Added some CGI utf8 conversions from Rodrigo Real and Vincent
284 * Rsync transfers now correctly handle file names with \n or \r.
286 * Host name is forced to lower case, to match 2.x.
288 * Fixed LOG file naming in BackupPC_restore and BackupPC_archive.
290 * GFK applied fr.pm corrections from Nicolas Stransky.
292 * Updated init.d/src scripts for FHS (ie: replaced __TOPDIR__/log
293 with __LOGDIR__ and __TOPDIR__/conf with __CONFDIR__). Patch
294 provided by Rodrigo Real.
296 * Added --log-dir and --conf-dir options to configure.pl.
297 Reported by Vincent Fleuranceau.
299 * Updated File::RsyncP version check in configure.pl, reported
300 by Vincent Fleuranceau. Changed File::RsyncP version to 0.64.
302 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
303 # Version 3.0.0beta0, 11 Jul 2006
304 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
306 * Added configuration and host CGI editor.
308 * Added rsync hardlink support. Requires latest version of
311 * Decoupled BackupPC_dump from BackupPC_nightly by making
312 asynchronous file linking/delete robust to race conditions.
313 Now only BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link are mutually
314 exclusive so only one runs at a time, and BackupPC_dump and
315 BackupPC_restore can run anytime.
317 * Added support for multi-level incrementals. In the style of dump(1),
318 the level of each incremental can be specified. Each incremental
319 backups up everything since the most recent backup of a lower level
320 (fulls are always level 0). Previous behavior was all incrementals
321 were level 1, meaning they backed up everything since the last full
322 (level 0). Default configuration is all incrementals are level 1.
324 * Server file names are now in utf8 and optional conversion
325 to/from client name charsets can be configured. All CGI pages
326 now use the utf8 charset.
328 * Backup metadata is now additionally saved to pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo,
329 in addition to pc/HOST/backups. In case pc/HOST/backups gets trashed,
330 then a new script BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary can read the per-backup
331 metadata from pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo and reconstruct the backups file.
332 Roberto Moreno also pointed out an early error in the CVS version.
334 * Added Storage module and Storage::Text which localizes all the
335 text data file reading/writing (eg: backups, restores, archives
336 and config.pl files). Added read verify after all write
337 operations for robustness. Additional backends (eg: SQL)
338 can be added in the future as new subclasses of the Storage
341 * Added Config module, and Config::Meta that contains meta data
342 about configuration parameters.
344 * Added RSS support from Rich Duzenbury.
346 * Translations of new 3.0 language strings from Guillaume Filion,
347 Reginaldo Ferreira, Ralph Passgang, Lieven Bridts, Guus Houtzager,
350 * Added optional checking of exit status of Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post
351 UserCmd, requested by Kiko Jover, Matthias Bertschy and others.
353 * For new installations configure.pl tries to comply with the file
354 system hierarchy standard, which means all the configuration files
355 below /etc/BackupPC and log files go below /var/log/BackupPC.
357 * Added Slackware init.d script from Tony Nelson.
359 * Fixed error reporting when restore/archive fail to write the
360 request file to the client directory.
362 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt for DumpPreShareCmd and DumpPostShareCmd.
364 * Apply patch from Pete Wenzel to add smbClientPath => $Conf{SmbClientPath}
365 to DumpPreUserCmd etc.
367 * Added Portuguese Brazillian pt_br.pm from Reginaldo Ferreira.
369 * Jean-Michel Beuken reported several bugs in configure.pl in CVS 3.0.0.
371 * Old backup email warnings now ignore partials requested by Samuel Bancal
373 * Applied patch to bin/BackupPC_sendEmail from Marc Prewitt that
374 ignores any file starting with "." in the pc directory when
375 it is generating warnings about old/unused files/directories.
377 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt to fix host queue order.
379 * Applied Lorenzo Cappelletti's it.pm patch.
381 * Applied Wander Winkelhorst's nl.pm patch.
383 * Applied Alberto Marconi's it.pm patch.
385 * Add NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT to pst read error check in
386 BackupPC_sendEmail to fix bug reported by Dale Renton.
388 * Added fixup of $ENV{REMOTE_USER} to lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm in the
389 case of using mod_authz_ldap; patch submitted by Alain Perrier.
391 * Added env LC_ALL=C to $Conf{TarClientCmd} and $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd}
392 to avoid locale problems, suggested by Ludovic Drolez.
394 * Changed ping output parsing to pick out average rtt time, based
395 on patch from Ron Bickers.
397 * Removed leading "./" and top-level "./" directory from
398 zip archives generated by BackupPC_zipCreate. Reported
399 by Josh (hecktarzuli).
401 * BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate now allow "@"
402 in share names. Reported by Robert Waldner.
404 * NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES is now a fatal error for
405 smbclient transfers, suggested by Brian Shand.
407 * Changed bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to use /bin/csh instead of
408 /bin/sh. That way any errors in the pipeline are reported
409 via the exit status, instead of just the last.
411 * Added $Conf{EMailHeaders} for additional email headers, requested
412 by Ludovic Gasc. If the Content-Type charset is set to utf8 then
413 the body of the email is sent in utf8 coding.
415 * Made shareName argument regexp checking more general to allow parens.
417 * Added some debian init.d instructions to init.d/README from
420 * Documentation updates from Richard Ames, JP Vossen, Torsten Finke.
422 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
423 # Version 2.1.2pl2, 18 Jun 2006
424 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
426 * In conf/config.pl, changed --devices to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}
427 and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to fix "fileListReceive failed" and
428 "Can't open .../f%2f for empty output" errors with rsync 2.6.7+.
429 Fix proposed by Justin Pessa and Vincent Ho, and confirmed by
432 * Added patch from Michael (mna.news) to ignore "file is unchanged"
433 message from tar 1.15.x during incremental backups.
435 * Fixed creation of .rsrc directories in bin/BackupPC_tarExtract
436 when used with xtar on MacOS. Reported by Samuel Bancal and
437 Matthew Radey, who helped with debugging.
439 * Fixed bug in BackupPC_tarExtract for files >8GB in size whose
440 lengths are multiples of 256. Reported by Jamie Myers and
441 Marko Tukiainen, who both helped debugging the problem.
443 * Fixed bug in lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm that caused
444 incorrected deleted attributes to be set in directories
445 where one of the files had an rsync phase 1 retry during
446 an incremental. Reported by Tony Nelson.
448 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
449 # Version 2.1.2, 5 Sep 2005
450 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
452 * Fixed simple but serious bug in bin/BackupPC_tarCreate that prevented
453 hardlinks being saved correctly. Debugged by Michael (mna.news)
454 with several other people.
456 * Fixed serious bug in bin/BackupPC_dump reported/debugged by Dan Niles
457 that can happen when multiple full backups are deleted after
458 $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is changed.
460 * Changed lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm so that link to "$TopDir/conf/$host.pl"
461 is displayed if it exists. Patch from Andreas Vögele.
463 * Applied daemonize patch to bin/BackupPC from:
464 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301057
466 * It's now a fatal error if $Conf{CompressLevel} is set, but
467 Compress::Zlib is not found. Before $Conf{CompressLevel} was
468 silently set to 0, which made all the backups uncompressed.
469 That meant the user never knew if they forget to install
470 Compress::Zlib but were expecting compression to be on.
472 * Finally increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to 72000 (20 hours).
474 * Added sleep 1 in restart() function in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc,
475 suggested by Jon Hood.
477 * Added $DestDir to the path of the CGI image directory in configure.pl.
478 Patch submitted by Andreas Vögele.
480 * Applied extensive patch to French translation from Frederic Lehobey.
482 * Minor change to Dutch language $Lang{Pool_Stat} from Wander Winkelhorst.
484 * Minor change to French language $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} and
485 $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupSubj} from Ludovic Gasc.
487 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
488 # Version 2.1.1, 13 Mar 2005
489 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
491 * Fixed bug in top-level restore using rsync XferMethod.
492 BackupPC::View was leaving an extra leading "/" at the start
493 of top-level directories, messing up the FileList sort order.
494 Reported and debugged by Gail Edwards.
496 * Added pathCreate() to BackupPC_tarExtract so that new directories
497 are created. Required for xtar on MacOSX since the virtual resource
498 fork directories (.rsrc) are not explicitly included in the tar
499 archive - just the files below .rsrc are.
501 * Changed $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt.* to $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt*
502 in $parCmd in bin/BackupPC_archiveHost.
504 * Fixed HostSortCompare() in BackupPC to correctly sort hosts so
505 those with the oldest backups get queued first.
507 * Changed test in BackupPC_sendEmail so that directories/files
508 starting with "." in $TopDir/pc are ignored, rather than
511 * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail to include NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT
512 in check for bad outlook files.
514 * Ensure that %Status and %StatusHost are empty if requesting
515 status on hosts in lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm GetStatusInfo().
516 Fixes problem with new hosts under mod_perl.
518 * Added images/icon-hardlink.gif so that hardlinks show file type icon.
520 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
521 # Version 2.1.0pl1, 15 Aug 2004
522 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
524 * Added fix to nl.pm from Lieven Bridts.
526 * Added patch from Tony Nelson to remove $Info{pid} before BackupPC
527 writes the status and shuts down.
529 * Changed BackupPC_nightly so that it doesn't call find() if the
530 directory doesn't exist. This avoids errors in certain versions
531 of perl. Reported by Bernd Rilling.
533 * Fixed BackupPC::CGI::Lib to correctly re-load config.pl for mod_perl.
534 Reported by Tony Nelson and Jimmy Liang.
536 * Explicitly untaint $In{host} in BackupPC::CGI::Lib to fix problem
537 reported by Thomas Tempé.
539 * Added newline to "...skipping because of user requested delay..."
540 log message in BackupPC_dump. Reported by Wayne Scott.
542 * Added read file size error checking to BackupPC_tarCreate.
543 Reported by Brandon Evans.
545 * Added check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO to ensure that when
546 compression is toggled on/off, a compressed backup doesn't link
547 to an uncompressed pool file (and an uncompressed backup doesn't
548 link to a compressed pool file). Reported by Brandon Evans.
550 * Updated documentation with new dirvish URL and a typo from
553 * Fix to BackupPC_sendEmail so that it correctly sends admin emails
554 for hosts that have failed backups. Reported by Simon Kuhn.
556 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
557 # Version 2.1.0, 20 Jun 2004
558 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
560 * Added Dutch translation from Lieven Bridts, with tweaks from
563 * Added PC-specific config file read in CGI/Archive.pm. Patch
566 * Added non-zero exit code to BackupPC_zcat when uncompress fails.
567 Patch from Pete Wenzel.
569 * Cosmetic changes to PC Summary and Log file language strings from
572 * BackupPC::Lib tries to be more careful when renaming the backups
573 file to backups.old. There have been reports of backups being
574 empty, perhaps when the BackupPC data file system fills up.
575 Now backups is not renamed to backups.old if backups is empty.
577 * BackupPC now closes stderr and stdout before renaming and
578 re-opening the log file.
580 * Pre/post backup/restore/archive commands now correctly set
581 "type" to either incr/full/restore/archive, and now cmdType
582 is the type of Pre/post backup/restore/archive command.
584 * BackupPC_archive correctly terminates archive processes on
587 * Updates to BackupPC_stnd.css with absolute font sizes instead
590 * BackupPC_dump now makes sure that the $Conf{FullAgeMax} check
591 also ensures the full backup is older than the maximum age
592 expected from $Conf{FullPeriod}.
594 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
595 # Version 2.1.0beta2pl1, 30 May 2004
596 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
598 * Fixed bug in rsync checksum caching code in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest.
600 * BackupPC_zipCreate now ensures the earliest mtime is 1/1/1980,
601 since zip file formats don't support earlier dates. Reported
604 * CGI restore via zip and tar now makes sure stderr is ignored
605 when BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate are run.
606 Previously any stderr output would get mixed in the archive,
607 corrupting it. Reported by Dan Niles.
609 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
610 # Version 2.1.0beta2, 23 May 2004
611 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
613 * $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} now apply
614 to every share, rather than just the first, in the case where
615 they are arrays and there are multiple shares. Suggested
618 * On the phase 2 retry pass with rsync, verify the cached checksums
619 if checksum caching is turned on. This will catch the case of
620 cached checksums being incorrectly appended to the compressed
621 pool file. Added new config parameter $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb}
622 so that cached checksums are verified with a selectable probability.
623 Also, increased File::RsyncP version number to 0.51.
625 * configure.pl now supports an optional batch mode. Command-line
626 options are used to specify all the information that configure.pl
627 needs. This is useful for building auto-install packages.
628 Also, configure.pl now includes pod documentation, so you can do
629 "perldoc configure.pl" to see all the command-line options.
630 Suggested, tested and tweaked by Stuart Herbert for possible
633 * At each wakeup, clients are now queued based on how old the most
634 recent backup is. Clients with errors are queued first, with
635 the oldest error times going first. The rest of the clients are
636 queued next, with the clients with the oldest backup going first.
637 Previously the clients were simply queued in alphabetic order.
638 Suggested by Mike Trisko and Tony Nelson.
640 * Added config parameter $Conf{PartialAgeMax} that controls whether
641 partials are saved at all, and if so, whether the partial will be
642 ignored at the next full backup if it is too old.
644 * BackupPC_tarExtract now allows empty archives without reporting
645 an error. Reported by Don Silvia.
647 * Removed Browse Backups link from Nav Bar in Archive Info display.
648 Reported by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
650 * Fixed documentation display for regular users. Reported by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
652 * Status and PC Summary now work for regular users and only show
653 that user's hosts. Server general status information only appears
654 for admins. Suggested by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
656 * Moved the last three navigation-bar links (docs, FAQ and SF) to
657 a new config parameter $Conf{CgiNavBarLinks}. This allows
658 these links to be locally configured. Based on a patch
659 submitted by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
661 * Allow the navigation bar search box to be disabled by
662 setting $Conf{CgiSearchBoxEnable} to 0. Based on a patch
663 submitted by Ralph PaĂŸgang.
665 * Updates to de.pm from Ralph PaĂŸgang.
667 * Made the BackupPC icon a link to the SF BackupPC project page.
669 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
670 # Version 2.1.0beta1, 4 Apr 2004
671 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
673 * The CSS definition has been removed from the config.pl file and
674 is now a separate file, BackupPC_stnd.css. A new config variable,
675 $Conf{CgiCSSFile}, gives the name of the CSS file to use.
676 Suggested by Ender Mathias.
678 * Fixed the filling of the host name select box for admins.
679 The default $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} is now 1.
680 Reported by Doug Lytle.
682 * Cleaned up warning message for restore using rsync when checksum
683 caching is on, but when file didn't have cached checksums.
685 * Fixed BackupPC_archiveHost to support par2 (par2cmdline).
686 Patch submitted by Jaco Bongers and adapted by Josh Marshall.
688 * Improved stat() usage in BackupPC_nightly, plus some other cleanup,
689 giving a significant performance improvement. Patch submitted by
692 * Allow several BackupPC_nightly processes to run in parallel based
693 on new $Conf{BackupPCNightlyJobs} setting. This speeds up the
694 traversal of the pool, reducing the overall run time for
697 * Allow BackupPC_nightly to split the pool traversal across several
698 nightly runs. This improves the running time per night, at the expense
699 of a slight increase in disk storage as unused pool files might not
700 be deleted for a couple of days. Controller by new config setting
701 $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}.
703 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
704 # Version 2.1.0beta0, 20 Mar 2004
705 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
707 * A failed full dump is now saved as a partial (incomplete) dump,
708 provided it includes some files. This can be used for browsing,
709 restoring etc, and will also form the basis of resuming full
710 dumps. Only one partial is kept, and it is removed as soon
711 as a successful full (or a new partial) is done.
713 * Added support for resuming a full dump for rsync. The partial
714 full is kept, and to resume an incremental is done against the
715 partial, and a full is done for the rest.
717 * Added support for Rsync checksum caching. Rsync checksum are
718 appended to the compressed pool files. This means that block
719 and file checksums do not need to be recomputed on the server
720 when using rsync. Requires a patch to rsync to support fixed
721 checksum seeds. This patch is included in the cygwin-rsyncd
722 release on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
724 * Major addition of Archive feature from Josh Marshall. Special
725 clients can be configured to be archive targets (eg: tape drives,
726 CD-R). Any subset of the backup clients can be selected and tar
727 archives are created, optionally compressed and split and written
728 to the output device. Logs are maintained and are browsable.
730 * Major changes from Ryan Kucera to add style sheets to the CGI
731 interface, allowing easy customization. Added new icons and
732 BackupPC logo. Numerous navigation improvements.
734 * Added directory history display to BackupPC_Admin, allowing the
735 user to quickly see which files changed between backups on a
738 * Added exponential expiry option for full dumps. This allows you
741 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by
742 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
743 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
744 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
745 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
747 and so on. This allows you, for example, to keep 4 weekly fulls,
748 followed by 6 fulls every 4 weeks (approx 1 month) and 2 fulls at
749 16 weeks, for roughly 1 year of history. This works by deleting
750 every other full as each expiry boundary is crossed. Suggested
753 * Added Italian language translation it.pm from Lorenzo Cappelletti.
755 * Major updates to language files for new features and tags changes.
756 Updated makeDist to do pedantic consistency checking of language
759 * Addition of administration options from Paul Lukins. Initial
760 page allows server to be started/stopped/reloaded. This still
761 needs some i18n work. Currently the server start/stop is
764 * Split BackupPC_Admin into a set of modules, one for each major action.
765 Each action is now a seperate module in lib/BackupPC/CGI.
767 * Allow the blackout period begin/end to span midnight. Adapted
768 from patch submitted by David Smith.
770 * Allow multiple blackout periods, with new config variable
771 $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} that replaces the old variables
772 $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin}, $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}, and
773 $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}. Based on patch submitted by
776 * Disabled alarms after forks to avoid timeouts in children that
777 do not reset their alarm. Prompted by ideas from James Leu.
779 * Added options for block size, buffer size and share wild-card to
780 BackupPC_tarCreate. Also added negative backup number options
781 that are relative to the last (so -1 is the last), suggested by
782 William McKee and Carl Soderstrom.
784 * The "Wrong user" message in BackupPC::Lib now goes to stderr, so that
785 the user is more likely to see the error with BackupPC_tarCreate.
786 Reported by Paul Fox.
788 * Add creation of per-PC directory in BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm in
789 case it doesn't already exist.
791 * Added -q -x to all ssh commands in conf/config.pl. Suggested by
792 SI Reasoning and Niranjan Ghate.
794 * Changed restore code so that option #1 (direct restore) can be
795 disabled if the restore command is undefined. Disabling direct
796 restore is necessary if the share is read-only. Suggested by
799 * Changed regexp in lib/BackupPC/Smb.pm to allow numbers with both
800 a decimal point or comma for international versions of Samba.
801 Patch submitted by Frank Gard.
803 * Browsing and directory history now sort the files in a
804 case-insensitive manner.
806 * Changed exec() syntax to allow executing commands whose path
809 * BackupPC_dump no longer removes backups if $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
810 is zero or undefined. The protects the existing backups in the
811 case of a bad config.pl file. Suggested by Christian Warden.
813 * Swapped the Server and Hosts sections on the Nav bar. Moved the
814 host search text box to the top of the hosts section. This was
815 done to move the variable-length part of the Nav bar (when all
816 hosts are displayed) to the bottom.
818 * Fixed a bug in tar restore related to how the common prefix path is
819 removed. Now ensure that the common path is at a directory boundary.
820 Reported by Patrick Neuner.
822 * Added --chuid ${USER} to init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc. Suggested by
823 SI Reasoning, Pascal Pochol, Michael Evanoff and others.
825 * Added Suse notes to init.d/README from Bruno Vernay.
827 * Added Apache 2 documentation fix from Michael Tuzi.
829 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
830 # Version 2.0.2, 6 Oct 2003
831 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
833 * Fixed stupid last-minute change in octal size conversion in
836 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
837 # Version 2.0.1, 5 Oct 2003
838 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
840 * Fixed handling of >= 8GB files in BackupPC_tarExtract and >= 4GB
841 files in BackupPC_tarCreate.
843 * Removed smbclient size repair in BackupPC_tarExtract for files
844 between 2GB and 4GB. This means that BackupPC_tarExtract 2.0.1
845 doesn't behave the same as 2.0.0 for file sizes between 2GB and 4GB
846 extacted using smbclient 2.2.x. If you have problems backing up
847 files whose size is between 2GB and 4GB using smbclient 2.2.x
848 you should upgrade smbclient to 3.0, since it now generates
851 * Replace PingClientPath with PingPath in configure.pl.
853 * Removed -T (taint mode) on binaries installed in configure.pl.
855 * Added support for smbclient from samba version 3.0.0.
857 * Fixed $Conf{HardLinkMax} limit check in BackupPC::Lib; reported
860 * In BackupPC_Admin, default REMOTE_USER to $Conf{BackupPCUser}
861 if it is not defined. This allows the CGI interface to work
862 when AdminUsers = '*'. Reported by Quentin Arce.
864 * For SMB, code that detected files with a read-locked region (eg:
865 outlook .pst files), removed them and then tried to link with an
866 earlier version was broken. This code missed a step of mangling
867 the file names. This is now fixed. Reported by Pierre Bourgin.
869 * A backup of a share that has zero files is now considered
870 fatal. This is used to catch miscellaneous Xfer errors that
871 result in no files being backed up. A new config parameter
872 $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} (defaults to 1) and can be set to
873 zero to turn off this check. Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
874 Additional change: this check only applies to a full dump.
876 * SMB: now detect NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on entire share or BackupFilesOnly
877 (also ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) for older versions of
878 smbclient.) Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
880 * SMB: now detects "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME" and
881 the dump is considered failed.
883 * Rsync: Previously BackupFilesOnly = '/' did --include '/' --exclude '/*',
884 which just included the '/' directory and nothing below. Now it
885 does just --include '/', which should include everything.
888 * Add hostError to DumpPostUserCmd variable substitutions for both dump
891 * Verbose output in Lib.pm goes to STDERR, not STDOUT. This now
892 makes BackupPC_dump -v work better.
894 * Don't allow browsing with ".." in directory in case a user tries
895 to trick BackupPC_Admin into displaying directories outside where
898 * Required File::RsyncP version is now 0.44, since File::RsyncP 0.44
899 fixes large file (>2GB) bugs. Large file bugs reported by Steve
902 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
903 # Version 2.0.0, 14 Jun 2003
904 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
906 * Minor tweaks to disable utf8 on utf8-capable machines (eg: RH8+).
907 Added "no utf8" to all programs, and added binmode() to relevant
910 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
911 # Version 2.0.0beta3, 1 Jun 2003
912 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
914 * Several improvements to restore: cancel now reports the correct
915 message and cleans up correctly.
917 * Rsync with whitespace and wildcard excludes fixed by replacing
918 argList with argList+ in config.pl plus a fix to Lib.pm for
919 shell escaping array arguments.
921 * Fixed rsync restore for character and block special devices
922 (major and minor device numbers weren't correctly restored).
924 * Fixed typo in bin/BackupPC_restore (XferLOG -> RestoreLOG).
926 * (Re)-fixed "Bad command" in log file when restore via tar or zip
927 file download is done.
929 * Added untaint to exec in Lib.pm to avoid tainted errors.
931 * Applied additional tweak to hilight patch from Tim Demarest.
933 * $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = '*' now allows privileged even with REMOTE_USER
936 * Don't display RsyncdPasswd when displaying config.pl files.
938 * Replace pipe with socketpair in bin/BackupPC_dump and bin/BackupPC_restore,
939 which increases typical buffering from 4K to 16K-64K. This improves the
942 * Add check on $ENV{LANG} setting do configure.pl: if LANG includes utf
943 then a warning is printed.
945 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
946 # Version 2.0.0beta2, 11 May 2003
947 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
949 * Added German translation, provided by Manfred Herrmann.
951 * Fixed large-file problem with rsync, reported by Manfred Herrmann.
953 * Fixed zip and tar file download from CGI under mod_perl. Reported
954 by Pierre Bourgin and Paul Lukins.
956 * Fixed directory browsing and top-level directory browsing in 2.0.0beta0.
957 Reported by several users.
959 * Added -v option to BackupPC_dump for verbose output (useful when
960 you run the command manually). Added messages for all exits.
962 * If nmblookup returns multiple IP addresses, NetBiosHostIPFind()
963 now returns the first IP address that matches the subnet mask.
964 Suggested by Tim Demarest.
966 * Fixed BackupPC::View so the top-level directory is handled correctly.
967 This allows the top-level share/directory to be restored via the
968 CGI interface. Reported by several users.
970 * Fixed RsyncFileIO failures on certain large files by replacing seek()
971 with sysseek(). Reported by Manfred Herrmann.
973 * Added configurable highlighting of PC status in the CGI summary
974 screen; submitted by Tim Demarest.
976 * Fixed command queue CGI display; submitted by Tim Demarest.
978 * BackupPC_trashClean now logs an error if it can't remove all the
979 trash and then goes back to sleep, rather than continually trying.
981 * Moved correct user (uid) check into BackupPC::Lib so that all
982 applications do a user check if $Cong{BackupPCUserVerify} is
983 set. The avoids the risk of manually running BackupPC_dump as
986 * Loss of blackout now applies to "host not found" as well as no ping.
987 Reported by Dale Renton.
989 * "Host not found" is now treated in a similar manner to "no ping".
991 * Added suse-linux init.d script from Leon Letto.
993 * Added Gentoo linux init.d script from Tim Demarest.
995 * Applied additional i18n strings from GFK and the translation team.
997 * Fixed option parsing so that getopts errors are reported and we exit.
999 * Changed reporting of Xfer PIDs so that rsync cancel works correctly.
1001 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1002 # Version 2.0.0beta1, 30 Mar 2003
1003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1005 * Added Spanish translation es.pm from Javier Gonzalez.
1007 * Fixed CGI browse navigation bug that causes BackupPC_Admin to wedge
1008 when directories were selected in a certain order.
1010 * Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite so that it can recover when the initial
1011 file size is wrong. This is needed since rsync could write a file
1012 whose size is different from the initial size returned in the
1013 file list when that file is updated while rsync is running.
1015 * Added binmode(STDIN) to BackupPC_tarExtract, suggested by Pat LoPresti
1016 to fix a problem a RedHat8 with perl 5.8.0. It's unclear why this
1017 helps, but it should be benign. See:
1018 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1853018&forum_id=503
1020 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1021 # Version 2.0.0beta0, 23 Feb 2003
1022 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1024 * Support for rsync and rsyncd backup and restore. Changes to
1025 BackupPC_dump, BackupPC_restore, and new modules BackupPC::Xfer::Rsync
1026 and BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO.
1028 * Added internationalization (i18n) code from Xavier Nicollet,
1029 with additions from Guillaume Filion. Voila! BackupPC_Admin
1030 now supports English and French, and adding more languages is
1031 now easy. New config paramater $Conf{Language} sets the language.
1033 * Added optional user-defined pre/post dump/restore commands, allowing
1034 things like database shutdown/startup for dumps.
1036 * Changed the way hosts are found.
1038 * Added $Conf{ClientNameAlias}, which allows the name of the physical
1039 client machine to be set. This allows several different backup
1040 "hosts" to all refer to the same physical machine, which is
1041 convenient if several different types of data need to be backed
1042 up, or if different parameters are needed for different parts of
1045 * Replaced $Conf{PingArgs} with $Conf{PingCmd}, added $Conf{DfCmd},
1046 $Conf{NmbLookupCmd} allowing all these commands to be fully
1047 configured. Also, all commands can also now be fragments of
1050 * Moved all smbclient commands into the config.pl file so the specific
1051 arguments can be customized. New config parameters are
1052 $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}, $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} and
1053 $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd}.
1055 * Added new BackupPC::View module that creates views of backups
1056 (handling merging etc). Updated BackupPC_Admin, BackupPC_zipCreate
1057 and BackupPC_tarCreate to use BackupPC::View. This removes lots
1058 of merging and mangling code from the higher-level code.
1060 * Added code from Toby Johnson that allows additional users to be
1061 specified in the hosts file; these users can also view/start/stop
1062 and restore backups for that host. Also added a new config
1063 setting $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} that allows all hosts to
1064 be listed in the left nav bar for admins.
1066 * Added $Conf{HardLinkMax} (default 31999) which sets the limit on
1067 the maximum number of hardlinks per file in the pool. If a file
1068 ever gets to this number of links a new pool file is created to
1069 handle additional links.
1071 * Added $Conf{PerlModuleLoad}, which allows optional additional perl
1072 modules to be loaded.
1074 * Added $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} and other EMail config settings to
1075 allow language-specific default messages to be overridden.
1077 * Added BPC_FTYPE_DELETED to lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm, allowing deleted
1078 files to be represented in the attrib file correctly.
1080 * Added support for environment variable BPC_SMB_PASSWD, which is the
1081 client's smb password. This overrides the old environment variable
1084 * Added taint cleanup for perl5.8 to lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
1086 * Changed $tar_unpack_header format in BackupPC_tarExtract to correctly
1087 handle files with trailing spaces.
1089 * Added catching of SIG_PIPE to BackupPC_dump, and changed catch_signal
1090 to ignore multiple signals of the same type.
1092 * Added reporting of the largest number of hardlinks in the pool to the
1095 * Adding reporting of syntax errors in the per-PC config.pl file.
1097 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to handle language-specific email messages.
1099 * Allow client (host) names to contain spaces. Spaces in host names
1100 need to be escaped via "\" in the hosts file. The user of spaces in
1101 host names is discouraged, but they should work. One feature that
1102 doesn't work with host names that contain spaces is the highlighting
1103 of that name in the log file display in the CGI interface. There are
1104 no plans to fix this.
1106 * Renamed $Conf{SmbClientTimeout} to $Conf{ClientTimeout}.
1108 * Fixed all open() calls to use 3 argument form to fix handling of file
1109 names with trailing whitespace. Also fixed CGI interface so these
1110 file names are displayed correctly.
1112 * Fixed new 2.0.0 CGI navigation bug that causes the top-level directory
1113 to have a URL "&share=//boot&dir=" instead of "&share=/boot&dir=/".
1114 Reported by Pascal Schelcher. Fixed similar problem reported by
1117 * Added "PerlTaintCheck On" to the mod_perl section in the docs,
1118 suggested by Tim Demarest.
1120 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1121 # Version 1.5.0, 2 Aug 2002
1122 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1124 * Changed conf/config.pl so that $Conf{TarIncrArgs} uses the --newer
1125 option instead of --newer-mtime. Also removed --atime-preserve from
1126 $Conf{TarClientCmd}. This makes the default settings work better
1129 * Fixed configure.pl so it correctly detects a running BackupPC <= v1.4.0
1130 so it can correctly warn the user to stop it before upgrading. Reported
1133 * Added missing ";" to entity escape in EscapeHTML in BackupPC_Admin.
1134 Reported by Guillaume Filion.
1136 * Added LDAP setup to documentation from David Holland.
1138 * Tar.pm now adds a "." to file paths that start with "/", so that all
1139 tar paths are relative. From Ludovic Drolez.
1141 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1142 # Version 1.5.0beta0, 30 Jun 2002
1143 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1145 * A full set of restore options is now supported, including direct
1146 restore via smbclient or tar or downloading a zip or tar file.
1148 * Major additions to CGI script to support better directory navigation,
1149 restore features and mod_perl. Also, file downloads from the CGI
1150 interface now correctly preserve the file name and provide the
1151 correct Content-Type for the most common types of files. Improved
1152 directory navigation was contributed by Ryan Kucera.
1154 * New script BackupPC_zipCreate (contributed by Guillaume Filion) is the
1155 zip analog of BackupPC_tarCreate. BackupPC_zipCreate can be used to
1156 create a zip archive of any portion of a backup.
1158 * Substantial additions to BackupPC_tarCreate to support restore,
1159 including modifying path names, handling hardlinks, fixing
1160 support of old backups without attributes (pre-v1.4.0). Plus
1161 BackupPC_tarCreate is now an offical part of the release.
1162 (Lack of support for hardlinks was reported by John Stanley.)
1164 * BackupPC_tarExtract now supports hardlinks and fixed pooling of
1167 * A unix domain socket is now used for communication between the CGI
1168 interface and BackupPC. The original TCP socket is optional. Sockets
1169 are correctly re-initialized if config.pl is updated with new socket
1172 * For improved security messages over the unix or TCP socket are protected
1173 via an MD5 digest based on a shared secret, a sequence number, a time
1174 stamp and a unique per-connection number.
1176 * Additions to configure.pl to support install of directory navigation
1179 * Fixed case where $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} or $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
1180 were set to a single string or list (in v1.4.0 only the case of
1181 hash worked correctly). Reported by Phillip Bertolus.
1183 * Fixed case of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} == 0. This setting now makes the
1184 client always subject to blackout, matching the comments in config.pl.
1185 Also fixed handling of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} < 0 in the CGI script
1186 reported by Pascal Schelcher.
1188 * Fixed byte and file totals for tar backups, reported by several users.
1190 * Fixed --newer-mtime date/timestamp format to make it ISO 8601 compliant,
1191 suggested by Erminio Baranzini.
1193 * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} in BackupPC::Xfer::Tar.pm, as
1194 well as shell escaping of tar arguments.
1196 * Fixed entity encoding of 8-bit characters in the CGI interface.
1198 * Added optional CGI headers in $Conf{CgiHeaders} that by default
1199 is set to a no-cache pragma. Suggested by Benno Zuure.
1201 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1202 # Version 1.4.0, 16 Mar 2002
1203 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1205 * BackupPC now supports tar (in addition to smb) for extracting host
1206 data. This is the most convenient option for linux/unix hosts.
1207 Tar can be configured to run over ssh, rsh or to backup a local
1208 nfs mount from the host.
1210 * Support for special files, including symbolic links, fifo, character
1211 and block device files has been added, so that all native linux/unix
1212 file types can be correctly backed up when using tar transport.
1213 Special files are all stored as regular files and the type attributes
1214 are used to remember the original file type.
1216 * All unix file attributes are now saved (and pooled when possible).
1217 This includes user and group ownership, permissions, and modification
1218 time. Smbclient also does a reasonable job of emulating unix
1219 permissions (such as mtime), and these attributes get saved too.
1221 * The new default is to not fill incremental dumps. configure.pl
1222 automatically sets $Conf{IncrFill} to 0. The default was 1
1223 (incrementals were filled with hardlinks). Since the CGI
1224 script does filling at browsing time, there is no need to
1225 fill incremental dumps.
1227 * Backup file names are now stored in "mangled" form. Each node of a
1228 path is preceded by "f", and special characters (\n, \r, % and /) are
1229 URI-encoded as "%xx", where xx is the ascii character's hex value. So
1230 c:/craig/example.txt is now stored as fc/fcraig/fexample.txt. This
1231 was done mainly so meta-data could be stored alongside the backup
1232 files without name collisions. In particular, the attributes for the
1233 files in a directory are stored in a file called "attrib", and
1234 mangling avoids file name collisions (I discarded the idea of having
1235 a duplicate directory tree for every backup just to store the
1236 attributes). Other meta-data (eg: rsync checksums) could be stored in
1237 file names preceded by, eg, "c". There are two other benefits to
1238 mangling: the share name might contain "/" (eg: "/home/craig" for tar
1239 transport), and I wanted that represented as a single level in the
1240 storage tree. Secondly, as files are written to NewFileList for later
1241 processing by BackupPC_link, embedded newlines in the file's path
1242 will cause problems which are avoided by mangling.
1244 The CGI script undoes the mangling, so it is invisibe to the user.
1245 Of course, old (unmangled) backups are still supported by the CGI
1248 * Various changes to the CGI interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1250 + Added button that allows users to manually start a full dump in
1251 addition to the existing incremental dump.
1253 + Added display of file attributes when browsing backups.
1255 + Added an optional holdoff time specified by the user when canceling
1256 a backup. BackupPC will not attempt any new backups for at least the
1257 specified time. This holdoff time can be changed whether or not a
1260 + Added supports for file mangling, and correct merging of unfilled
1261 backups from mangled or unmangled (and compressed or uncompressed)
1262 fulls when browsing or restoring.
1264 + Only displays a "Start Incr Backup" button if there are already some
1267 + For DHCP hosts, when a user tries to manually start a backup, add
1268 a check for the netbios name of both the host the request came
1269 from (REMOTE_ADDR) and the last known DHCP address for that host
1270 to see if either address matches the host. If not, an error
1271 message is display. The previous behavior was that only requests
1272 from the client itself succeeded, and requests from other machines
1275 * Changed the version numbering to X.Y.Z, instead of X.0Y. This release
1276 is 1.4.0. The first digit is for major new releases, the middle digit
1277 is for significant feature releases and improvements, and the last
1278 digit is for bug fixes. You should think of the old 1.00, 1.01, 1.02
1279 and 1.03 as 1.0.0, ..., 1.3.0.
1281 * BackupPC and the CGI script BackupPC_Admin now check that the effective
1282 user id is correct to avoid accidentally launching BackupPC as the
1283 wrong user or detecting CGI configuration problems. This behavior
1284 can be turned off using the $Conf{BackupPCUserVerify} option.
1286 * In numerous places changed "Smb" to "Xfer" (eg: log file names) to
1287 support generic names for both smb and tar transport methods. The
1288 CGI script checks for old names for backward compatibility.
1290 * Major changed to Backup_dump to support new tar transport. All transport
1291 specific code moved into BackupPC::Xfer::Smb and BackupPC::Xfer::Tar
1294 * Added workaround for a bug in Samba's smbclient for files between 2GB
1295 and 4GB. The file size in the tar header is incorrect. This allows
1296 files up to 4GB to work with smbclient, rather than 2GB. To support
1297 files larger than 2GB you must make sure perl is compiled with the
1298 uselargefiles option (use "perl -V | egrep largefiles" to check) and
1299 the pool directory must be on a file system that supports large files.
1301 * Moved the pool writing code into a module BackupPC::PoolWrite. This
1302 allows the clever file pool checking (digest, uncompressing, comparing
1303 etc with minimum disk IO) to be used easily in multiple places (eg: it
1304 is now used for writing attribute files so they can be pooled).
1306 * Changed MD5 to Digest::MD5 to avoid use of the depreceated MD5 module.
1308 * Shortened default $Conf{MyPath} so that perl's taint mode is more likely
1309 to be happy. The old $Conf{MyPath} contained /usr/local/bin, which
1310 on one user's machine was world writable and perl -T correctly
1311 complained about it.
1313 * Fixed ping command options in Lib.pm so that it works on OpenBSD.
1314 Thanks to Kyle Amon for sending the fix. Decided to move the
1315 ping options from Lib.pm into config.pl (as $Conf{PingArgs}) and
1316 now configure.pl tries to come up with a sensible default based on
1319 * Fixed argument checking in BackupPC_tarExtract to allow '$' in the
1320 share name (eg: C$). Thanks to Jules Agee for this fix. Also
1321 changed the default config.pl so that single quotes are used
1322 everywhere so that people don't get tripped up putting '$' inside
1323 double-quoted strings.
1325 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1326 # Version 1.03, 9 Dec 2001
1327 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1329 * BackupPC now has full support for compression. There are now two
1330 pool areas, the original pool for uncompressed files, and cpool for
1331 compressed files. The compression is done by Compress::Zlib.
1332 Compression reduces the pool disk usage by around 40%, although your
1333 mileage may vary. Compression is optional and can also be specified on
1334 a per-PC basis (although this will cost more pool storage since many
1335 backup files will have to be stored in both compressed and
1338 * A new script, BackupPC_compressPool, can be run to compress the entire
1339 pool. This is used once to migrate all the pool data from uncompressed
1340 to compressed on existing installations. Read the documentation
1341 (Installing BackupPC/Compressing an existing pool) before running
1342 BackupPC_compressPool!
1344 Alternatively, compression can simply be turned on and all new backups
1345 will be compressed. Both old (uncompressed) and new (compressed)
1346 backups can be browsed and viewed. Eventually, the old backups will
1347 expire and all the pool data will be compressed. However, until the
1348 old backups expire, this approach could require 60% or more additional
1349 pool storage space to store both uncompressed and compressed versions
1350 of the backup files.
1352 * Significant improvements to the cgi interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1354 - much better layout navigation
1355 - handles compressed backup files and compressed log files
1356 - handles unfilled incremental dumps
1357 - better backup directory browsing navigation
1358 - reports compression statistics
1359 - $Conf{CgiDateFormatMMDD} allows you to set date format (MM/DD or DD/MM)
1360 - Additional customization with $Conf{CgiHeaderFontType},
1361 $Conf{CgiHeaderFontSize}, $Conf{CgiNavBarBgColor}, and
1362 $Conf{CgiHeaderBgColor}.
1364 * Eliminated BackupPC_queueAll. BackupPC directly reads the hosts
1365 file and queues the PCs itself. Like config.pl, BackupPC will
1366 re-read the hosts file on each wakeup if its modification time
1367 changes, or upon a SIGHUP. This also makes for better behavior
1368 when adding a host: if you add hosts, simply send a SIGHUP to
1369 BackupPC or wait for the next wakeup.
1371 * BackupPC_dump now compresses the SmbLOG file if compression is enabled.
1373 * BackupPC_dump keeps track of compressed file sizes so that compression
1374 statistics can be reported by the cgi interface.
1376 * Aging of old log files now handles compressed log files (.z extension).
1378 * Added configuration option $Conf{IncrFill} to specify whether
1379 incremental dumps should be filled in. Old behavior was that
1380 filling was on. Now it's optional. See config.pl for more
1383 * BackupPC_nightly now cleans and generates statistics for both
1384 the uncompressed pool and compressed pool (cpool).
1386 * Added new utility script BackupPC_zcat that can be used to
1387 uncompresses BackupPC files.
1389 * configure.pl offers various options related to compression,
1390 depending upon whether this is a new install or upgrade,
1391 and whether or not Compress::Zlib is installed.
1393 * configure.pl now makes a backup copy of config.pl before
1394 config.pl is updated.
1396 * added three new fields to the backups file to handle optional
1397 filling and compression stats.
1399 * Added -e option to BackupPC_dump. BackupPC now invokes BackupPC_dump -e
1400 on each dhcp host once each night to verify that very old backups are
1401 expired. This ensures that very old backups are expired even if
1402 the dhcp host has not been on the network for a long time.
1404 * fixed bug in BackupPC::FileZIO.pm that required Compress::Zlib,
1405 even if compression was off. Thanks to Steve Holmes for reporting
1408 * fixed bug that caused a BackupPC queue to get blocked when a backup
1409 cancel attempt was made during the BackupPC_link phase.
1411 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1412 # Version 1.02, 28 Oct 2001.
1413 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1415 * Added new script BackupPC_tarExtract to extract the smbclient tar
1416 archive. This reduces disk writes by perhaps 90-95% and disk reads by
1417 50%. Previously, tar was used to extract and write everything to disk.
1418 Then BackupPC_dump would read enough of each file to compute the MD5
1419 digest, and then compare the full file with candidate pool files. So
1420 for each 1MB file that matches a single file in the pool, there would
1421 be 1MB of disk writes and 2MB of disk reads (to compare two 1MB files).
1423 BackupPC_tarExtract instead extracts the archive using a 1MB memory
1424 buffer. This allows the MD5 digest to be computed without touching the
1425 disk. Next, any potential pool file compares are done by comparing the
1426 pool file against the incoming tar data in memory, which only requires
1427 the pool file to be read. So for each 1MB file that matches a single
1428 file in the pool, there are now no disk writes, and only 1MB of reads.
1429 BackupPC_tarExtract handles arbitrary size files and repeated
1430 potential pool matches. If the incoming file doesn't match the pool
1431 then it is written to disk (once the pool is mature this happens maybe
1434 * Substantial changes to BackupPC_dump:
1436 + BackupPC_tarExtract is now used in place of tar.
1438 + BackupPC_dump now reads the output from both smbclient and
1439 BackupPC_tarExtract and merges them into SmbLOG.
1441 + Named pipes are no longer used to connect smbclient to tar
1442 (now BackupPC_tarExtract). Regular pipes are used instead.
1443 This avoids the need to system mknod or mkfifo.
1445 + Locked files on the client that can't be read by smbclient
1446 previously were filled with 0x0 bytes by smbclient, meaning
1447 tar extracted a useless file filled with 0x0 bytes. Now,
1448 BackupPC_dump watches the output of smbclient and removes
1449 any files that smbclient couldn't read. This avoids storing
1450 useless files. It tries to replace such files with a hard link
1451 to a previous dump. These actions appear in the log file.
1453 * added new module lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm. This handles pool file
1454 I/O and is used by BackupPC_tarExtract. BackupPC::FileIO supports
1455 reading and writing compressed and regular files and provides all the
1456 hooks for compression support in BackupPC (should be supported in next
1457 version). BackupPC::FileIO also does efficient writing of files that
1458 contain leading 0x0 bytes (by seeking past the 0x0 bytes). This is
1459 helpful when smbclient reads a locked file, and it fills the tar
1460 output with a file of the correct size but all 0x0. Such files will be
1461 later removed by BackupPC_dump. But in the meantime, BackupPC::FileIO
1462 writes such files efficiently (as sparse files), meaning just a few
1463 blocks of disk space will be needed even if the file is large.
1465 * alive/dead counting for blackout now works correctly for DHCP hosts.
1467 * BackupPC resets activeJob on startup, to fix bug when BackupPC was
1468 killed and restarted with backups running.
1470 * added extra non blocking select() in BackupPC to make sure the socket
1473 * BackupPC avoids queuing multiple BackupPC_queueAll's on the CmdQueue.
1475 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to correctly parse the locked file
1476 error from 2.2.1a smbclient, so that missing Outlook file emails
1477 can be correctly sent.
1479 * Changed HostInfoRead() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm to lowercase the
1480 hostname read from the hosts file.
1482 * BackupPC_Admin provides general summary when the host name is empty.
1484 * configure.pl (and BackupPC) now requires perl 5.6.0 or later.
1486 * configure.pl complains if BackupPC is already running, reminding you
1487 to stop it before upgrading.
1489 * updated documentation, and fixed auto-insertion of config.pl into
1490 BackupPC.pod (previously the last config parameter was left out of
1493 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1494 # Version 1.01, 30 Sep 2001
1495 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1497 * Documentation cleanup in README, doc/BackupPC.pod, conf/config.pl.
1499 * BackupPC_sendMail now reads the optional per-PC config file, allowing
1500 email configuration parameters to be set on a per-PC basis.
1502 * Removed the unused 4096-length MD5 digest code in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
1504 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1505 # Version 1.00, 21 Sep 2001
1506 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1508 * Initial release of BackupPC on sourceforge.net.