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 * Added BackupPC::Xfer::Protocol as a common class for each Xfer
25 method. This simplifies some of the xfer specific code.
26 Implemented by Paul Mantz.
28 * Added FTP xfer method, implemented by Paul Mantz.
30 * Added BackupPC::Xfer module to provide a common interface to the
31 different xfer methods. Implemented by Paul Mantz.
33 * Moved setting of $bpc->{PoolDir} and $bpc->{CPoolDir} after the
34 config file is read in BackupPC::Lib. Fix proposed by Tim Taylor
35 and Joe Krahn, and rediscovered by several others including
38 * Create $TopDir and related data directories in BackupPC_dump
39 prior to hardlink test. Requested by Les Stott.
41 * Fixed encoding of email subject header in bin/BackupPC_sendEmail as
42 suggested by Jean-Claude Repetto. Also changed $Conf{EMailHeaders}
43 charset to utf-8. Also changed bin/BackupPC_sendEmail to not send
44 any per-client email if $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set.
46 * Modified bin/BackupPC_dump to fix the case of a single partial
47 backup followed by a successful incremental resulting in a full
48 backup of level 1, rather than level 0. Reported by Jeff
51 * Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite to always create the parent directory.
52 This fixed a case with rsync/rsyncd where a file like "-i" in the
53 top-level directory sorts before ".", which meant the directory
54 creation is after the file creation. Also PoolWrite errors now
55 increment xferError count. Reported by Jeff Kosowsky.
57 * BackupPC now gives a more useful error message if BackupPC_nightly
58 takes more than 24 hours (ie: when the next one is meant to
59 start). Reported by Tony Schreiner.
61 * Added more options to server backup command: rather than just forcing
62 an incremental or full backup, a regular (auto) backup can be queued
63 (ie: do nothing/incr/full based on schedule), as well as doing just
64 an incremental or full or nothing based on the client schedule.
65 Based on patches submitted by Joe Digilio.
67 * Modified lib/BackupPC/CGI/RSS.pm to replace \n with \r\n in the RSS
68 http response headers. Patch submitted by Thomas Eckhardt.
70 * Modified bin/BackupPC_archive to allow the archive request file
71 name to contain spaces and dashes, requested by Tim Massey.
73 * Fix to configure.pl for --no-fhs case to initialize ConfigDir
74 from Dan Pritts. Also changed perl path to #!/usr/bin/env perl.
76 * Modified bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to shell escape the output file
77 name. That allows it to contain spaces and other special characters.
78 Requested by Toni Van Remortel.
80 * Added $Conf{CmdQueueNice} to specify nice level for command queue
81 commands (eg: BackupPC_link and BackupPC_nightly). Suggested by
84 * Added --config-override to configure.pl, allow config settings to be
85 set on the command line. Proposed by Les Stott and Holger Parplies.
87 * Moved call to NmbLookupFindHostCmd in BackupPC_dump to after the
88 check of whether a backup needs to be done. This makes wakeonlan
89 work correctly, rather than waking up the client every WakeupSchedule.
90 Reported by David Lasker.
92 * Improved settings for compression and compext in BackupPC_archiveStart
93 based on compression type, as proposed by Paul Dugas. compext is now
94 empty, .gz or .bz2 based on ArchiveComp.
96 * Changed bin/BackupPC_dump to not ping or lookup the host if
97 $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set. Requested by John Rouillard.
99 * Changed BackupPC_tarCreate to disable output of final nulls in
100 tar archive when -l or -L option is used. Reported by John
103 * Added error check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO after call to
104 BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest->digestStart(), reported by Jeff
107 * Added variable substitution for host, confDir, client in
108 RsyncArgs, and also added option RsyncArgsExtra to allow
109 more easy customization of RsyncArgs on a per-client basis.
110 Proposed (with patch) by Raman Gupta.
112 * Added Xfer error column to the host summary table in the CGI
113 interface. Based on patch submitted by Jan Kratochvíl.
115 * Minor fix to sprintf arguments in BackupPC::Attrib, reported by
118 * Fixed sort compareLOGName syntax in bin/BackupPC for perl 5.10.x,
119 reported by Jeff Kosowsky and Holger Parplies.
121 * Fixed bin/BackupPC_archiveStart to set compression correctly,
122 and also set the file extension to .gz when compression is on.
123 Reported by Stephen Vaughan.
125 * Fixed netbios name comparison in bin/BackupPC_dump and
126 bin/BackupPC_restore to just use the first 15 characters
127 of the host name. Patch from Dan MacNeil.
129 * Fixed nmblookup parsing in BackupPC::Lib::NetBiosInfoGet to ignore
130 entries with the <GROUP> tag. Based on patch from Dan MacNeil.
132 * Fixed BackupPC_dump so that the XferLOG file is saved when
133 DumpPreUserCmd fails. Reported by John Rouillard.
135 * Updated BackupPC.pod for $Conf{BackupsDisable}, reported by
138 * Added alternate freebsd-backuppc2 init.d script that is
139 more compact. Submitted by Dan Niles.
141 * Minor updates to lib/BackupPC/Lang/fr.pm from Nicolas STRANSKY
142 applied by GFK, and also from Vincent Fleuranceau.
144 * Minor updates to lib/BackupPC/Lang/de.pm from Klaus Weidenbach.
146 * Updates to makeDist for command-line setting of version and
147 release date from Paul Mantz.
149 * Add output from Pre/Post commands to per-client LOG file, in addition
150 to existing output in the XferLOG file. Patch from Stuart Teasdale.
152 * lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm now increments xferErrCnt on
153 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED and ERRnoaccess errors from smbclient.
154 Reported by Jesús Martel.
156 * Removed BackupPC_compressPool and BackupPC::Xfer::BackupPCd.
158 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
159 # Version 3.1.0, 25 Nov 2007
160 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
162 * Fixed config editor bug for case where override is unchecked on
163 an array where the current array is shorter than the main config's
166 * Fixed missing close quote in BackupPC_archiveHost reported by Franky
169 * Replaced "$BinDir/.." with $bpc->InstallDir() for path to BackupPC
170 docs, mentioned by Kenneth Porter.
172 * Moved default of $Conf{IncrLevels} from lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm
173 to lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm (after the merge of the config files). This
174 fixes a bug that caused $Conf{IncrLevels} to get over-ridden if it
175 was only defined in the main config file. Reported by John Rouillard.
177 * Fixed the completion status message in BackupPC_dump so that missing
178 error counts appear as 0, rather than empty. Reported by Bill.
180 * Changed lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm to only increment the error
181 count when the md4 checksum fails on the second phase, not the first.
182 Reported by Adrian Bridgett.
184 * Updated a comment in config.pl about BackupPC_nightly, reported by
187 * Modified lib/BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm to ensure that the list of hosts
188 presented for direct restore do have direct restore enabled. Reported
191 * Modified lib/BackupPC/CGI/RestoreFile.pm to replace \n with \r\n in
192 the restore http response headers. Patch submitted by Thomas Eckhardt.
194 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
195 # Version 3.1.0beta1, 21 Oct 2007
196 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
198 * When there is an existing partial, a new partials is only saved
199 if it has more files than the existing partial. Requested by
202 * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} for tar XferMethod.
203 Patch supplied by Frans Pop.
205 * Fixed numeric column sorting in host summary table, reported by
208 * Fixed host CGI editor so it creates the new host's config.pl file
209 using the lower-case host name, since host names are mapped to
210 lower case when they are read from the hosts file. Reported by
213 * Applied documentation patches from Frans Pop. Also updated
214 Pod::Html to improve documentation formatting.
216 * Added Polish translation from Semper.
218 * Fixed BackupPC_nightly reporting of repeated pool file hashes.
220 * Add run-time check that IO::Dirent is functioning correctly,
221 reported by Doug Lytle.
223 * Added comment to Cmd settings in conf/config.pl that they are
224 not executed by a shell, as suggested by Erik van Linstee.
226 * Added undefIfEmpty => 1 to lib/BackupPC/Config/Meta.pm for
227 RsyncRestoreArgs, TarClientRestoreCmd and SmbClientRestoreCmd
228 so that restores can be disabled by clear these fields in the
229 CGI editor. Patch supplied by Stephen Joyce
231 * Replaced the FAQ link with Wiki in the navigation bar and added
232 mention of the Wiki to the documentation. Since these navigation
233 bar links are specified in the config file, upgrades will keep
234 the old FAQ link. The FAQ opening page will have a prominent
237 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
238 # Version 3.1.0beta0, 3 Sep 2007
239 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
241 * Added new script BackupPC_archiveStart that allows command-line
242 starting of archives. Based on script written by Sergey Kovzik,
243 which in turn was based on an earlier version by Holger Parplies.
245 * Added Simplified Chinese CGI translation from Youlin Feng,
246 plus fixed a couple of cases where utf8 share names were
247 not displayed correctly.
249 * Added sorting by column feature to host summary table in CGI
250 interface. Implemented by Jeremy Tietsort.
252 * Added optional support for IO::Dirent which allows inode information
253 to be extracted from the dirent directory structure. This allows
254 BackupPC to order some directory operations by inode, which on
255 some file systems (eg: ext3) can results in a 20-30% performance
256 gain. On other file systems there is no real improvement. This
257 optimization is turned on automatically if IO::Dirent is installed.
259 * Added some performance improvements to BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO
260 for the case of small files with cached checksums.
262 * Added check to BackupPC at startup that $TopDir can support
263 hardlinks. Also added check to BackupPC_dump that a hardlink
264 below $TopDir/pc/HOST can be made to below $TopDir/cpool.
265 Also added the need for a hard-link capable file system to
266 the documentation. Suggested by Nils Breunese.
268 * Added FreeBSD init.d file provided by Gabriel Rossetti.
270 * Added -l and -L options to BackupPC_tarCreate so that
271 provide a file list (without creating the archive).
274 * Made the default charset for BackupPC_zipCreate cp1252, which
275 appears to work correctly with WinZip. Unfortunately there is
276 no clear standard for charset encoding in zip files.
278 * Added support so that pre-3.0 backups with non-utf8 charsets
279 can be viewed and restored correctly. A new config variable
280 $Conf{ClientCharsetLegacy} specifies the charset used to
281 encode file names in legacy backups. This is only relevant
282 if you are trying to view or restore a backup made with
283 BackupPC 2.x and some of the file names have non-ascii
286 * Added setting of the environment variable BPC_REQUSER to
287 the requesting user name in BackupPC prior to fork(), so
288 each child process inherits the value. Submitted by
291 * Fixed bug in rsync incrementals that happens on particular
292 file names when a file being backed up fails in both rsync
293 phases. Reported by Dan Smisko.
295 * Fixed single-restore file name charsets for IE, reported by
298 * Fixed makeDist so that the --config-dir option to configure.pl
299 works correctly. Reported by Randy Barlow, Tony Shadwick and others.
301 * Removed ConfDir from config editor (since it is hardcoded in
302 lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm). Also made TopDir and LogDir only visible
303 if useFHS (for non-FHS they are hardcoded in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm).
305 * Applied patch from Holger Parplies that fixes cleanup of early abort
308 * Applied small patch from Sergey to lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm that makes
309 it ignore "socket ignored" error on incrementals.
311 * Applied small patch from Sergey to bin/BackupPC_archiveHost.
313 * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail so that summary admin email doesn't
314 include errors from hosts that have $Conf{BackupsDisable} set.
315 Reported by James Kyle. Also, per-user email is now disabled
316 when $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set.
318 * Added RsyncdUserName to the config editor. Reported by Vicent Roca Daniel.
320 * $Conf{IncrLevels} is now defaulted if it is not defined.
322 * configure.pl clears $Conf{ParPath} if it doesn't point to a valid
325 * Added documentation for BackupPC_tarPCCopy, including use of -P option
326 to tar suggested by Daniel Berteaud.
328 * Config editor now removes white space at start of exec path.
329 Reported by Christoph Iwasjuta.
331 * CgiDateFormatMMDD == 2 gives a YYYY-MM-DD format for CGI dates,
334 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
335 # Version 3.0.0, 28 Jan 2007
336 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
338 * BackupPC_sendEmail now correctly sends admin email if backups
339 were skipped because the disk was too full, reported by Dan
342 * BackupPC_Admin now uses $Conf{UmaskMode}, so config.pl files
343 written by the editor have more restrictive permissions.
344 Reported by Tim Massey.
346 * Host summary now shows active backups on disabled hosts,
349 * Fixed host LOG link and LOG list order, reported by Tim Massey.
351 * Moved Encode.pm version check to start of configure.pl so it
352 produces a useful error message if Encode.pm is too old.
354 * Fixed hrefs to configuration documentation to handle changes
355 in the way perl generates the anchors. Reported by Philip
358 * Host name links in LOG files now allow "." in the host name.
359 Reported by Jean-Michel Beuken.
361 * Fixes to lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm for tar 1.16: allow 1
362 (ie: 256) as a successful exit status and match "Total
363 bytes read" message for restores. First reported by
364 Torsten Sadowski and debugged by Ralf Gross and Holger
367 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
368 # Version 3.0.0beta3, 3 Dec 2006
369 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
371 * Removed default paths from conf/config.pl so configure.pl will
372 determine the correct ones at install time. Avoids problem of
373 the config editor complaining about bad executable paths the
374 first time you use it.
376 * Changed first byte of compressed files with rsync checksums appended
377 to 0xd7 to allow correct protocol_version >= 27 md4 checksums to be
378 written. Old cached checksum files have a first byte 0xd6 and are
379 now considered to be uncached. They will be automatically updated
380 as needed. This avoids the cached checksum warnings in beta2.
382 * BackupPC_tarPCCopy now handles all file types correctly. Reported
385 * Fixed BackupPC_nightly to finish pending deletes before renaming
388 * Fixes for rsync restore where hardlink is to file outside of the
389 top-level restore directory. Reported by George Avrunin, who helped
392 * Fixes for checksum mismatch on restore for certain file sizes.
393 Reported by George Avrunin and others.
395 * Fix for config.pl writing code to handle multi-line expressions.
396 Reported by David Relson and others.
398 * Fix for CGI editor when deleting hash entries whose keys are
399 non alphanumeric. Report by David Relson and Aaron Ciarlotta.
401 * Two fixes to configure.pl from Andreas Vögele.
403 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
404 # Version 3.0.0beta2, 18 Nov 2006
405 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
407 * Fix for final md4 digest check on rsync transfers >= 512MB when protocol
408 version >= 27 and checksums are not cached. Reported by Garith Dugmore
411 * Config Editor "Save" button is now always visible, but greyed out
412 until there are changes to save.
414 * Config editor allows other tabs to be selected when there is an
415 error, which allows you to fix an error (eg: missing binary) in
416 an exiting config file. Errors are now displayed at the top of
417 the page in addition to next to the erroneous setting.
419 * configure.pl checks version of Encode.pm. Reported by Chris Stone.
421 * Several fixes to bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary from Stian Jordet.
423 * Fixed config.pl editor writing to solve bug with multi-line text
424 strings ending in newline. Reported and root caused by Les Stott
427 * Fixed error recovery case in BackupPC::PoolWrite, reported by
430 * Fixed table width in backup browsing to avoid Firefox layout anomoly,
431 provided by Jono Woodhouse.
433 * CSS file updates from Jono Woodhouse. Prior (v2) version is included
434 as BackupPC_stnd_orig.css in case people prefer the old skin.
436 * More compact host summary, including disabled host indication,
439 * New directory/file/hardlink and symlink image icons from Sean Cameron
440 and Jono Woodhouse, making directory browse more compact.
442 * BackupPC.pid is now world readable, suggested by Casper Thomsen.
444 * Reordered the Server navigation bar links, suggested by David Relson.
446 * Fixed typos in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc, configure.pl and config.pl
447 reported by David Relson.
449 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
450 # Version 3.0.0beta1, 30 Jul 2006
451 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
453 * Fixed several Xfer charset conversions.
455 * Added some CGI utf8 conversions from Rodrigo Real and Vincent
458 * Rsync transfers now correctly handle file names with \n or \r.
460 * Host name is forced to lower case, to match 2.x.
462 * Fixed LOG file naming in BackupPC_restore and BackupPC_archive.
464 * GFK applied fr.pm corrections from Nicolas Stransky.
466 * Updated init.d/src scripts for FHS (ie: replaced __TOPDIR__/log
467 with __LOGDIR__ and __TOPDIR__/conf with __CONFDIR__). Patch
468 provided by Rodrigo Real.
470 * Added --log-dir and --conf-dir options to configure.pl.
471 Reported by Vincent Fleuranceau.
473 * Updated File::RsyncP version check in configure.pl, reported
474 by Vincent Fleuranceau. Changed File::RsyncP version to 0.64.
476 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
477 # Version 3.0.0beta0, 11 Jul 2006
478 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
480 * Added configuration and host CGI editor.
482 * Added rsync hardlink support. Requires latest version of
485 * Decoupled BackupPC_dump from BackupPC_nightly by making
486 asynchronous file linking/delete robust to race conditions.
487 Now only BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link are mutually
488 exclusive so only one runs at a time, and BackupPC_dump and
489 BackupPC_restore can run anytime.
491 * Added support for multi-level incrementals. In the style of dump(1),
492 the level of each incremental can be specified. Each incremental
493 backups up everything since the most recent backup of a lower level
494 (fulls are always level 0). Previous behavior was all incrementals
495 were level 1, meaning they backed up everything since the last full
496 (level 0). Default configuration is all incrementals are level 1.
498 * Server file names are now in utf8 and optional conversion
499 to/from client name charsets can be configured. All CGI pages
500 now use the utf8 charset.
502 * Backup metadata is now additionally saved to pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo,
503 in addition to pc/HOST/backups. In case pc/HOST/backups gets trashed,
504 then a new script BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary can read the per-backup
505 metadata from pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo and reconstruct the backups file.
506 Roberto Moreno also pointed out an early error in the CVS version.
508 * Added Storage module and Storage::Text which localizes all the
509 text data file reading/writing (eg: backups, restores, archives
510 and config.pl files). Added read verify after all write
511 operations for robustness. Additional backends (eg: SQL)
512 can be added in the future as new subclasses of the Storage
515 * Added Config module, and Config::Meta that contains meta data
516 about configuration parameters.
518 * Added RSS support from Rich Duzenbury.
520 * Translations of new 3.0 language strings from Guillaume Filion,
521 Reginaldo Ferreira, Ralph Passgang, Lieven Bridts, Guus Houtzager,
524 * Added optional checking of exit status of Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post
525 UserCmd, requested by Kiko Jover, Matthias Bertschy and others.
527 * For new installations configure.pl tries to comply with the file
528 system hierarchy standard, which means all the configuration files
529 below /etc/BackupPC and log files go below /var/log/BackupPC.
531 * Added Slackware init.d script from Tony Nelson.
533 * Fixed error reporting when restore/archive fail to write the
534 request file to the client directory.
536 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt for DumpPreShareCmd and DumpPostShareCmd.
538 * Apply patch from Pete Wenzel to add smbClientPath => $Conf{SmbClientPath}
539 to DumpPreUserCmd etc.
541 * Added Portuguese Brazillian pt_br.pm from Reginaldo Ferreira.
543 * Jean-Michel Beuken reported several bugs in configure.pl in CVS 3.0.0.
545 * Old backup email warnings now ignore partials requested by Samuel Bancal
547 * Applied patch to bin/BackupPC_sendEmail from Marc Prewitt that
548 ignores any file starting with "." in the pc directory when
549 it is generating warnings about old/unused files/directories.
551 * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt to fix host queue order.
553 * Applied Lorenzo Cappelletti's it.pm patch.
555 * Applied Wander Winkelhorst's nl.pm patch.
557 * Applied Alberto Marconi's it.pm patch.
559 * Add NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT to pst read error check in
560 BackupPC_sendEmail to fix bug reported by Dale Renton.
562 * Added fixup of $ENV{REMOTE_USER} to lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm in the
563 case of using mod_authz_ldap; patch submitted by Alain Perrier.
565 * Added env LC_ALL=C to $Conf{TarClientCmd} and $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd}
566 to avoid locale problems, suggested by Ludovic Drolez.
568 * Changed ping output parsing to pick out average rtt time, based
569 on patch from Ron Bickers.
571 * Removed leading "./" and top-level "./" directory from
572 zip archives generated by BackupPC_zipCreate. Reported
573 by Josh (hecktarzuli).
575 * BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate now allow "@"
576 in share names. Reported by Robert Waldner.
578 * NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES is now a fatal error for
579 smbclient transfers, suggested by Brian Shand.
581 * Changed bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to use /bin/csh instead of
582 /bin/sh. That way any errors in the pipeline are reported
583 via the exit status, instead of just the last.
585 * Added $Conf{EMailHeaders} for additional email headers, requested
586 by Ludovic Gasc. If the Content-Type charset is set to utf8 then
587 the body of the email is sent in utf8 coding.
589 * Made shareName argument regexp checking more general to allow parens.
591 * Added some debian init.d instructions to init.d/README from
594 * Documentation updates from Richard Ames, JP Vossen, Torsten Finke.
596 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
597 # Version 2.1.2pl2, 18 Jun 2006
598 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
600 * In conf/config.pl, changed --devices to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}
601 and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to fix "fileListReceive failed" and
602 "Can't open .../f%2f for empty output" errors with rsync 2.6.7+.
603 Fix proposed by Justin Pessa and Vincent Ho, and confirmed by
606 * Added patch from Michael (mna.news) to ignore "file is unchanged"
607 message from tar 1.15.x during incremental backups.
609 * Fixed creation of .rsrc directories in bin/BackupPC_tarExtract
610 when used with xtar on MacOS. Reported by Samuel Bancal and
611 Matthew Radey, who helped with debugging.
613 * Fixed bug in BackupPC_tarExtract for files >8GB in size whose
614 lengths are multiples of 256. Reported by Jamie Myers and
615 Marko Tukiainen, who both helped debugging the problem.
617 * Fixed bug in lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm that caused
618 incorrected deleted attributes to be set in directories
619 where one of the files had an rsync phase 1 retry during
620 an incremental. Reported by Tony Nelson.
622 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
623 # Version 2.1.2, 5 Sep 2005
624 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
626 * Fixed simple but serious bug in bin/BackupPC_tarCreate that prevented
627 hardlinks being saved correctly. Debugged by Michael (mna.news)
628 with several other people.
630 * Fixed serious bug in bin/BackupPC_dump reported/debugged by Dan Niles
631 that can happen when multiple full backups are deleted after
632 $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is changed.
634 * Changed lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm so that link to "$TopDir/conf/$host.pl"
635 is displayed if it exists. Patch from Andreas Vögele.
637 * Applied daemonize patch to bin/BackupPC from:
638 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301057
640 * It's now a fatal error if $Conf{CompressLevel} is set, but
641 Compress::Zlib is not found. Before $Conf{CompressLevel} was
642 silently set to 0, which made all the backups uncompressed.
643 That meant the user never knew if they forget to install
644 Compress::Zlib but were expecting compression to be on.
646 * Finally increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to 72000 (20 hours).
648 * Added sleep 1 in restart() function in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc,
649 suggested by Jon Hood.
651 * Added $DestDir to the path of the CGI image directory in configure.pl.
652 Patch submitted by Andreas Vögele.
654 * Applied extensive patch to French translation from Frederic Lehobey.
656 * Minor change to Dutch language $Lang{Pool_Stat} from Wander Winkelhorst.
658 * Minor change to French language $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} and
659 $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupSubj} from Ludovic Gasc.
661 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
662 # Version 2.1.1, 13 Mar 2005
663 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
665 * Fixed bug in top-level restore using rsync XferMethod.
666 BackupPC::View was leaving an extra leading "/" at the start
667 of top-level directories, messing up the FileList sort order.
668 Reported and debugged by Gail Edwards.
670 * Added pathCreate() to BackupPC_tarExtract so that new directories
671 are created. Required for xtar on MacOSX since the virtual resource
672 fork directories (.rsrc) are not explicitly included in the tar
673 archive - just the files below .rsrc are.
675 * Changed $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt.* to $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt*
676 in $parCmd in bin/BackupPC_archiveHost.
678 * Fixed HostSortCompare() in BackupPC to correctly sort hosts so
679 those with the oldest backups get queued first.
681 * Changed test in BackupPC_sendEmail so that directories/files
682 starting with "." in $TopDir/pc are ignored, rather than
685 * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail to include NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT
686 in check for bad outlook files.
688 * Ensure that %Status and %StatusHost are empty if requesting
689 status on hosts in lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm GetStatusInfo().
690 Fixes problem with new hosts under mod_perl.
692 * Added images/icon-hardlink.gif so that hardlinks show file type icon.
694 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
695 # Version 2.1.0pl1, 15 Aug 2004
696 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
698 * Added fix to nl.pm from Lieven Bridts.
700 * Added patch from Tony Nelson to remove $Info{pid} before BackupPC
701 writes the status and shuts down.
703 * Changed BackupPC_nightly so that it doesn't call find() if the
704 directory doesn't exist. This avoids errors in certain versions
705 of perl. Reported by Bernd Rilling.
707 * Fixed BackupPC::CGI::Lib to correctly re-load config.pl for mod_perl.
708 Reported by Tony Nelson and Jimmy Liang.
710 * Explicitly untaint $In{host} in BackupPC::CGI::Lib to fix problem
711 reported by Thomas Tempé.
713 * Added newline to "...skipping because of user requested delay..."
714 log message in BackupPC_dump. Reported by Wayne Scott.
716 * Added read file size error checking to BackupPC_tarCreate.
717 Reported by Brandon Evans.
719 * Added check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO to ensure that when
720 compression is toggled on/off, a compressed backup doesn't link
721 to an uncompressed pool file (and an uncompressed backup doesn't
722 link to a compressed pool file). Reported by Brandon Evans.
724 * Updated documentation with new dirvish URL and a typo from
727 * Fix to BackupPC_sendEmail so that it correctly sends admin emails
728 for hosts that have failed backups. Reported by Simon Kuhn.
730 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
731 # Version 2.1.0, 20 Jun 2004
732 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
734 * Added Dutch translation from Lieven Bridts, with tweaks from
737 * Added PC-specific config file read in CGI/Archive.pm. Patch
740 * Added non-zero exit code to BackupPC_zcat when uncompress fails.
741 Patch from Pete Wenzel.
743 * Cosmetic changes to PC Summary and Log file language strings from
746 * BackupPC::Lib tries to be more careful when renaming the backups
747 file to backups.old. There have been reports of backups being
748 empty, perhaps when the BackupPC data file system fills up.
749 Now backups is not renamed to backups.old if backups is empty.
751 * BackupPC now closes stderr and stdout before renaming and
752 re-opening the log file.
754 * Pre/post backup/restore/archive commands now correctly set
755 "type" to either incr/full/restore/archive, and now cmdType
756 is the type of Pre/post backup/restore/archive command.
758 * BackupPC_archive correctly terminates archive processes on
761 * Updates to BackupPC_stnd.css with absolute font sizes instead
764 * BackupPC_dump now makes sure that the $Conf{FullAgeMax} check
765 also ensures the full backup is older than the maximum age
766 expected from $Conf{FullPeriod}.
768 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
769 # Version 2.1.0beta2pl1, 30 May 2004
770 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
772 * Fixed bug in rsync checksum caching code in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest.
774 * BackupPC_zipCreate now ensures the earliest mtime is 1/1/1980,
775 since zip file formats don't support earlier dates. Reported
778 * CGI restore via zip and tar now makes sure stderr is ignored
779 when BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate are run.
780 Previously any stderr output would get mixed in the archive,
781 corrupting it. Reported by Dan Niles.
783 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
784 # Version 2.1.0beta2, 23 May 2004
785 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
787 * $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} now apply
788 to every share, rather than just the first, in the case where
789 they are arrays and there are multiple shares. Suggested
792 * On the phase 2 retry pass with rsync, verify the cached checksums
793 if checksum caching is turned on. This will catch the case of
794 cached checksums being incorrectly appended to the compressed
795 pool file. Added new config parameter $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb}
796 so that cached checksums are verified with a selectable probability.
797 Also, increased File::RsyncP version number to 0.51.
799 * configure.pl now supports an optional batch mode. Command-line
800 options are used to specify all the information that configure.pl
801 needs. This is useful for building auto-install packages.
802 Also, configure.pl now includes pod documentation, so you can do
803 "perldoc configure.pl" to see all the command-line options.
804 Suggested, tested and tweaked by Stuart Herbert for possible
807 * At each wakeup, clients are now queued based on how old the most
808 recent backup is. Clients with errors are queued first, with
809 the oldest error times going first. The rest of the clients are
810 queued next, with the clients with the oldest backup going first.
811 Previously the clients were simply queued in alphabetic order.
812 Suggested by Mike Trisko and Tony Nelson.
814 * Added config parameter $Conf{PartialAgeMax} that controls whether
815 partials are saved at all, and if so, whether the partial will be
816 ignored at the next full backup if it is too old.
818 * BackupPC_tarExtract now allows empty archives without reporting
819 an error. Reported by Don Silvia.
821 * Removed Browse Backups link from Nav Bar in Archive Info display.
822 Reported by Ralph Paßgang.
824 * Fixed documentation display for regular users. Reported by Ralph Paßgang.
826 * Status and PC Summary now work for regular users and only show
827 that user's hosts. Server general status information only appears
828 for admins. Suggested by Ralph Paßgang.
830 * Moved the last three navigation-bar links (docs, FAQ and SF) to
831 a new config parameter $Conf{CgiNavBarLinks}. This allows
832 these links to be locally configured. Based on a patch
833 submitted by Ralph Paßgang.
835 * Allow the navigation bar search box to be disabled by
836 setting $Conf{CgiSearchBoxEnable} to 0. Based on a patch
837 submitted by Ralph Paßgang.
839 * Updates to de.pm from Ralph Paßgang.
841 * Made the BackupPC icon a link to the SF BackupPC project page.
843 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
844 # Version 2.1.0beta1, 4 Apr 2004
845 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
847 * The CSS definition has been removed from the config.pl file and
848 is now a separate file, BackupPC_stnd.css. A new config variable,
849 $Conf{CgiCSSFile}, gives the name of the CSS file to use.
850 Suggested by Ender Mathias.
852 * Fixed the filling of the host name select box for admins.
853 The default $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} is now 1.
854 Reported by Doug Lytle.
856 * Cleaned up warning message for restore using rsync when checksum
857 caching is on, but when file didn't have cached checksums.
859 * Fixed BackupPC_archiveHost to support par2 (par2cmdline).
860 Patch submitted by Jaco Bongers and adapted by Josh Marshall.
862 * Improved stat() usage in BackupPC_nightly, plus some other cleanup,
863 giving a significant performance improvement. Patch submitted by
866 * Allow several BackupPC_nightly processes to run in parallel based
867 on new $Conf{BackupPCNightlyJobs} setting. This speeds up the
868 traversal of the pool, reducing the overall run time for
871 * Allow BackupPC_nightly to split the pool traversal across several
872 nightly runs. This improves the running time per night, at the expense
873 of a slight increase in disk storage as unused pool files might not
874 be deleted for a couple of days. Controller by new config setting
875 $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}.
877 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
878 # Version 2.1.0beta0, 20 Mar 2004
879 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
881 * A failed full dump is now saved as a partial (incomplete) dump,
882 provided it includes some files. This can be used for browsing,
883 restoring etc, and will also form the basis of resuming full
884 dumps. Only one partial is kept, and it is removed as soon
885 as a successful full (or a new partial) is done.
887 * Added support for resuming a full dump for rsync. The partial
888 full is kept, and to resume an incremental is done against the
889 partial, and a full is done for the rest.
891 * Added support for Rsync checksum caching. Rsync checksum are
892 appended to the compressed pool files. This means that block
893 and file checksums do not need to be recomputed on the server
894 when using rsync. Requires a patch to rsync to support fixed
895 checksum seeds. This patch is included in the cygwin-rsyncd
896 release on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
898 * Major addition of Archive feature from Josh Marshall. Special
899 clients can be configured to be archive targets (eg: tape drives,
900 CD-R). Any subset of the backup clients can be selected and tar
901 archives are created, optionally compressed and split and written
902 to the output device. Logs are maintained and are browsable.
904 * Major changes from Ryan Kucera to add style sheets to the CGI
905 interface, allowing easy customization. Added new icons and
906 BackupPC logo. Numerous navigation improvements.
908 * Added directory history display to BackupPC_Admin, allowing the
909 user to quickly see which files changed between backups on a
912 * Added exponential expiry option for full dumps. This allows you
915 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by
916 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
917 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
918 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
919 - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod},
921 and so on. This allows you, for example, to keep 4 weekly fulls,
922 followed by 6 fulls every 4 weeks (approx 1 month) and 2 fulls at
923 16 weeks, for roughly 1 year of history. This works by deleting
924 every other full as each expiry boundary is crossed. Suggested
927 * Added Italian language translation it.pm from Lorenzo Cappelletti.
929 * Major updates to language files for new features and tags changes.
930 Updated makeDist to do pedantic consistency checking of language
933 * Addition of administration options from Paul Lukins. Initial
934 page allows server to be started/stopped/reloaded. This still
935 needs some i18n work. Currently the server start/stop is
938 * Split BackupPC_Admin into a set of modules, one for each major action.
939 Each action is now a seperate module in lib/BackupPC/CGI.
941 * Allow the blackout period begin/end to span midnight. Adapted
942 from patch submitted by David Smith.
944 * Allow multiple blackout periods, with new config variable
945 $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} that replaces the old variables
946 $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin}, $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}, and
947 $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}. Based on patch submitted by
950 * Disabled alarms after forks to avoid timeouts in children that
951 do not reset their alarm. Prompted by ideas from James Leu.
953 * Added options for block size, buffer size and share wild-card to
954 BackupPC_tarCreate. Also added negative backup number options
955 that are relative to the last (so -1 is the last), suggested by
956 William McKee and Carl Soderstrom.
958 * The "Wrong user" message in BackupPC::Lib now goes to stderr, so that
959 the user is more likely to see the error with BackupPC_tarCreate.
960 Reported by Paul Fox.
962 * Add creation of per-PC directory in BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm in
963 case it doesn't already exist.
965 * Added -q -x to all ssh commands in conf/config.pl. Suggested by
966 SI Reasoning and Niranjan Ghate.
968 * Changed restore code so that option #1 (direct restore) can be
969 disabled if the restore command is undefined. Disabling direct
970 restore is necessary if the share is read-only. Suggested by
973 * Changed regexp in lib/BackupPC/Smb.pm to allow numbers with both
974 a decimal point or comma for international versions of Samba.
975 Patch submitted by Frank Gard.
977 * Browsing and directory history now sort the files in a
978 case-insensitive manner.
980 * Changed exec() syntax to allow executing commands whose path
983 * BackupPC_dump no longer removes backups if $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
984 is zero or undefined. The protects the existing backups in the
985 case of a bad config.pl file. Suggested by Christian Warden.
987 * Swapped the Server and Hosts sections on the Nav bar. Moved the
988 host search text box to the top of the hosts section. This was
989 done to move the variable-length part of the Nav bar (when all
990 hosts are displayed) to the bottom.
992 * Fixed a bug in tar restore related to how the common prefix path is
993 removed. Now ensure that the common path is at a directory boundary.
994 Reported by Patrick Neuner.
996 * Added --chuid ${USER} to init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc. Suggested by
997 SI Reasoning, Pascal Pochol, Michael Evanoff and others.
999 * Added Suse notes to init.d/README from Bruno Vernay.
1001 * Added Apache 2 documentation fix from Michael Tuzi.
1003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1004 # Version 2.0.2, 6 Oct 2003
1005 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1007 * Fixed stupid last-minute change in octal size conversion in
1010 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
1011 # Version 2.0.1, 5 Oct 2003
1012 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1014 * Fixed handling of >= 8GB files in BackupPC_tarExtract and >= 4GB
1015 files in BackupPC_tarCreate.
1017 * Removed smbclient size repair in BackupPC_tarExtract for files
1018 between 2GB and 4GB. This means that BackupPC_tarExtract 2.0.1
1019 doesn't behave the same as 2.0.0 for file sizes between 2GB and 4GB
1020 extacted using smbclient 2.2.x. If you have problems backing up
1021 files whose size is between 2GB and 4GB using smbclient 2.2.x
1022 you should upgrade smbclient to 3.0, since it now generates
1025 * Replace PingClientPath with PingPath in configure.pl.
1027 * Removed -T (taint mode) on binaries installed in configure.pl.
1029 * Added support for smbclient from samba version 3.0.0.
1031 * Fixed $Conf{HardLinkMax} limit check in BackupPC::Lib; reported
1034 * In BackupPC_Admin, default REMOTE_USER to $Conf{BackupPCUser}
1035 if it is not defined. This allows the CGI interface to work
1036 when AdminUsers = '*'. Reported by Quentin Arce.
1038 * For SMB, code that detected files with a read-locked region (eg:
1039 outlook .pst files), removed them and then tried to link with an
1040 earlier version was broken. This code missed a step of mangling
1041 the file names. This is now fixed. Reported by Pierre Bourgin.
1043 * A backup of a share that has zero files is now considered
1044 fatal. This is used to catch miscellaneous Xfer errors that
1045 result in no files being backed up. A new config parameter
1046 $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} (defaults to 1) and can be set to
1047 zero to turn off this check. Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
1048 Additional change: this check only applies to a full dump.
1050 * SMB: now detect NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on entire share or BackupFilesOnly
1051 (also ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) for older versions of
1052 smbclient.) Suggested by Guillaume Filion.
1054 * SMB: now detects "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME" and
1055 the dump is considered failed.
1057 * Rsync: Previously BackupFilesOnly = '/' did --include '/' --exclude '/*',
1058 which just included the '/' directory and nothing below. Now it
1059 does just --include '/', which should include everything.
1062 * Add hostError to DumpPostUserCmd variable substitutions for both dump
1065 * Verbose output in Lib.pm goes to STDERR, not STDOUT. This now
1066 makes BackupPC_dump -v work better.
1068 * Don't allow browsing with ".." in directory in case a user tries
1069 to trick BackupPC_Admin into displaying directories outside where
1072 * Required File::RsyncP version is now 0.44, since File::RsyncP 0.44
1073 fixes large file (>2GB) bugs. Large file bugs reported by Steve
1076 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1077 # Version 2.0.0, 14 Jun 2003
1078 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1080 * Minor tweaks to disable utf8 on utf8-capable machines (eg: RH8+).
1081 Added "no utf8" to all programs, and added binmode() to relevant
1084 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1085 # Version 2.0.0beta3, 1 Jun 2003
1086 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1088 * Several improvements to restore: cancel now reports the correct
1089 message and cleans up correctly.
1091 * Rsync with whitespace and wildcard excludes fixed by replacing
1092 argList with argList+ in config.pl plus a fix to Lib.pm for
1093 shell escaping array arguments.
1095 * Fixed rsync restore for character and block special devices
1096 (major and minor device numbers weren't correctly restored).
1098 * Fixed typo in bin/BackupPC_restore (XferLOG -> RestoreLOG).
1100 * (Re)-fixed "Bad command" in log file when restore via tar or zip
1101 file download is done.
1103 * Added untaint to exec in Lib.pm to avoid tainted errors.
1105 * Applied additional tweak to hilight patch from Tim Demarest.
1107 * $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = '*' now allows privileged even with REMOTE_USER
1110 * Don't display RsyncdPasswd when displaying config.pl files.
1112 * Replace pipe with socketpair in bin/BackupPC_dump and bin/BackupPC_restore,
1113 which increases typical buffering from 4K to 16K-64K. This improves the
1116 * Add check on $ENV{LANG} setting do configure.pl: if LANG includes utf
1117 then a warning is printed.
1119 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1120 # Version 2.0.0beta2, 11 May 2003
1121 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1123 * Added German translation, provided by Manfred Herrmann.
1125 * Fixed large-file problem with rsync, reported by Manfred Herrmann.
1127 * Fixed zip and tar file download from CGI under mod_perl. Reported
1128 by Pierre Bourgin and Paul Lukins.
1130 * Fixed directory browsing and top-level directory browsing in 2.0.0beta0.
1131 Reported by several users.
1133 * Added -v option to BackupPC_dump for verbose output (useful when
1134 you run the command manually). Added messages for all exits.
1136 * If nmblookup returns multiple IP addresses, NetBiosHostIPFind()
1137 now returns the first IP address that matches the subnet mask.
1138 Suggested by Tim Demarest.
1140 * Fixed BackupPC::View so the top-level directory is handled correctly.
1141 This allows the top-level share/directory to be restored via the
1142 CGI interface. Reported by several users.
1144 * Fixed RsyncFileIO failures on certain large files by replacing seek()
1145 with sysseek(). Reported by Manfred Herrmann.
1147 * Added configurable highlighting of PC status in the CGI summary
1148 screen; submitted by Tim Demarest.
1150 * Fixed command queue CGI display; submitted by Tim Demarest.
1152 * BackupPC_trashClean now logs an error if it can't remove all the
1153 trash and then goes back to sleep, rather than continually trying.
1155 * Moved correct user (uid) check into BackupPC::Lib so that all
1156 applications do a user check if $Cong{BackupPCUserVerify} is
1157 set. The avoids the risk of manually running BackupPC_dump as
1160 * Loss of blackout now applies to "host not found" as well as no ping.
1161 Reported by Dale Renton.
1163 * "Host not found" is now treated in a similar manner to "no ping".
1165 * Added suse-linux init.d script from Leon Letto.
1167 * Added Gentoo linux init.d script from Tim Demarest.
1169 * Applied additional i18n strings from GFK and the translation team.
1171 * Fixed option parsing so that getopts errors are reported and we exit.
1173 * Changed reporting of Xfer PIDs so that rsync cancel works correctly.
1175 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1176 # Version 2.0.0beta1, 30 Mar 2003
1177 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1179 * Added Spanish translation es.pm from Javier Gonzalez.
1181 * Fixed CGI browse navigation bug that causes BackupPC_Admin to wedge
1182 when directories were selected in a certain order.
1184 * Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite so that it can recover when the initial
1185 file size is wrong. This is needed since rsync could write a file
1186 whose size is different from the initial size returned in the
1187 file list when that file is updated while rsync is running.
1189 * Added binmode(STDIN) to BackupPC_tarExtract, suggested by Pat LoPresti
1190 to fix a problem a RedHat8 with perl 5.8.0. It's unclear why this
1191 helps, but it should be benign. See:
1192 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1853018&forum_id=503
1194 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1195 # Version 2.0.0beta0, 23 Feb 2003
1196 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1198 * Support for rsync and rsyncd backup and restore. Changes to
1199 BackupPC_dump, BackupPC_restore, and new modules BackupPC::Xfer::Rsync
1200 and BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO.
1202 * Added internationalization (i18n) code from Xavier Nicollet,
1203 with additions from Guillaume Filion. Voila! BackupPC_Admin
1204 now supports English and French, and adding more languages is
1205 now easy. New config paramater $Conf{Language} sets the language.
1207 * Added optional user-defined pre/post dump/restore commands, allowing
1208 things like database shutdown/startup for dumps.
1210 * Changed the way hosts are found.
1212 * Added $Conf{ClientNameAlias}, which allows the name of the physical
1213 client machine to be set. This allows several different backup
1214 "hosts" to all refer to the same physical machine, which is
1215 convenient if several different types of data need to be backed
1216 up, or if different parameters are needed for different parts of
1219 * Replaced $Conf{PingArgs} with $Conf{PingCmd}, added $Conf{DfCmd},
1220 $Conf{NmbLookupCmd} allowing all these commands to be fully
1221 configured. Also, all commands can also now be fragments of
1224 * Moved all smbclient commands into the config.pl file so the specific
1225 arguments can be customized. New config parameters are
1226 $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}, $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} and
1227 $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd}.
1229 * Added new BackupPC::View module that creates views of backups
1230 (handling merging etc). Updated BackupPC_Admin, BackupPC_zipCreate
1231 and BackupPC_tarCreate to use BackupPC::View. This removes lots
1232 of merging and mangling code from the higher-level code.
1234 * Added code from Toby Johnson that allows additional users to be
1235 specified in the hosts file; these users can also view/start/stop
1236 and restore backups for that host. Also added a new config
1237 setting $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} that allows all hosts to
1238 be listed in the left nav bar for admins.
1240 * Added $Conf{HardLinkMax} (default 31999) which sets the limit on
1241 the maximum number of hardlinks per file in the pool. If a file
1242 ever gets to this number of links a new pool file is created to
1243 handle additional links.
1245 * Added $Conf{PerlModuleLoad}, which allows optional additional perl
1246 modules to be loaded.
1248 * Added $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} and other EMail config settings to
1249 allow language-specific default messages to be overridden.
1251 * Added BPC_FTYPE_DELETED to lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm, allowing deleted
1252 files to be represented in the attrib file correctly.
1254 * Added support for environment variable BPC_SMB_PASSWD, which is the
1255 client's smb password. This overrides the old environment variable
1258 * Added taint cleanup for perl5.8 to lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
1260 * Changed $tar_unpack_header format in BackupPC_tarExtract to correctly
1261 handle files with trailing spaces.
1263 * Added catching of SIG_PIPE to BackupPC_dump, and changed catch_signal
1264 to ignore multiple signals of the same type.
1266 * Added reporting of the largest number of hardlinks in the pool to the
1269 * Adding reporting of syntax errors in the per-PC config.pl file.
1271 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to handle language-specific email messages.
1273 * Allow client (host) names to contain spaces. Spaces in host names
1274 need to be escaped via "\" in the hosts file. The user of spaces in
1275 host names is discouraged, but they should work. One feature that
1276 doesn't work with host names that contain spaces is the highlighting
1277 of that name in the log file display in the CGI interface. There are
1278 no plans to fix this.
1280 * Renamed $Conf{SmbClientTimeout} to $Conf{ClientTimeout}.
1282 * Fixed all open() calls to use 3 argument form to fix handling of file
1283 names with trailing whitespace. Also fixed CGI interface so these
1284 file names are displayed correctly.
1286 * Fixed new 2.0.0 CGI navigation bug that causes the top-level directory
1287 to have a URL "&share=//boot&dir=" instead of "&share=/boot&dir=/".
1288 Reported by Pascal Schelcher. Fixed similar problem reported by
1291 * Added "PerlTaintCheck On" to the mod_perl section in the docs,
1292 suggested by Tim Demarest.
1294 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1295 # Version 1.5.0, 2 Aug 2002
1296 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1298 * Changed conf/config.pl so that $Conf{TarIncrArgs} uses the --newer
1299 option instead of --newer-mtime. Also removed --atime-preserve from
1300 $Conf{TarClientCmd}. This makes the default settings work better
1303 * Fixed configure.pl so it correctly detects a running BackupPC <= v1.4.0
1304 so it can correctly warn the user to stop it before upgrading. Reported
1307 * Added missing ";" to entity escape in EscapeHTML in BackupPC_Admin.
1308 Reported by Guillaume Filion.
1310 * Added LDAP setup to documentation from David Holland.
1312 * Tar.pm now adds a "." to file paths that start with "/", so that all
1313 tar paths are relative. From Ludovic Drolez.
1315 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1316 # Version 1.5.0beta0, 30 Jun 2002
1317 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1319 * A full set of restore options is now supported, including direct
1320 restore via smbclient or tar or downloading a zip or tar file.
1322 * Major additions to CGI script to support better directory navigation,
1323 restore features and mod_perl. Also, file downloads from the CGI
1324 interface now correctly preserve the file name and provide the
1325 correct Content-Type for the most common types of files. Improved
1326 directory navigation was contributed by Ryan Kucera.
1328 * New script BackupPC_zipCreate (contributed by Guillaume Filion) is the
1329 zip analog of BackupPC_tarCreate. BackupPC_zipCreate can be used to
1330 create a zip archive of any portion of a backup.
1332 * Substantial additions to BackupPC_tarCreate to support restore,
1333 including modifying path names, handling hardlinks, fixing
1334 support of old backups without attributes (pre-v1.4.0). Plus
1335 BackupPC_tarCreate is now an offical part of the release.
1336 (Lack of support for hardlinks was reported by John Stanley.)
1338 * BackupPC_tarExtract now supports hardlinks and fixed pooling of
1341 * A unix domain socket is now used for communication between the CGI
1342 interface and BackupPC. The original TCP socket is optional. Sockets
1343 are correctly re-initialized if config.pl is updated with new socket
1346 * For improved security messages over the unix or TCP socket are protected
1347 via an MD5 digest based on a shared secret, a sequence number, a time
1348 stamp and a unique per-connection number.
1350 * Additions to configure.pl to support install of directory navigation
1353 * Fixed case where $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} or $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
1354 were set to a single string or list (in v1.4.0 only the case of
1355 hash worked correctly). Reported by Phillip Bertolus.
1357 * Fixed case of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} == 0. This setting now makes the
1358 client always subject to blackout, matching the comments in config.pl.
1359 Also fixed handling of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} < 0 in the CGI script
1360 reported by Pascal Schelcher.
1362 * Fixed byte and file totals for tar backups, reported by several users.
1364 * Fixed --newer-mtime date/timestamp format to make it ISO 8601 compliant,
1365 suggested by Erminio Baranzini.
1367 * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} in BackupPC::Xfer::Tar.pm, as
1368 well as shell escaping of tar arguments.
1370 * Fixed entity encoding of 8-bit characters in the CGI interface.
1372 * Added optional CGI headers in $Conf{CgiHeaders} that by default
1373 is set to a no-cache pragma. Suggested by Benno Zuure.
1375 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1376 # Version 1.4.0, 16 Mar 2002
1377 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1379 * BackupPC now supports tar (in addition to smb) for extracting host
1380 data. This is the most convenient option for linux/unix hosts.
1381 Tar can be configured to run over ssh, rsh or to backup a local
1382 nfs mount from the host.
1384 * Support for special files, including symbolic links, fifo, character
1385 and block device files has been added, so that all native linux/unix
1386 file types can be correctly backed up when using tar transport.
1387 Special files are all stored as regular files and the type attributes
1388 are used to remember the original file type.
1390 * All unix file attributes are now saved (and pooled when possible).
1391 This includes user and group ownership, permissions, and modification
1392 time. Smbclient also does a reasonable job of emulating unix
1393 permissions (such as mtime), and these attributes get saved too.
1395 * The new default is to not fill incremental dumps. configure.pl
1396 automatically sets $Conf{IncrFill} to 0. The default was 1
1397 (incrementals were filled with hardlinks). Since the CGI
1398 script does filling at browsing time, there is no need to
1399 fill incremental dumps.
1401 * Backup file names are now stored in "mangled" form. Each node of a
1402 path is preceded by "f", and special characters (\n, \r, % and /) are
1403 URI-encoded as "%xx", where xx is the ascii character's hex value. So
1404 c:/craig/example.txt is now stored as fc/fcraig/fexample.txt. This
1405 was done mainly so meta-data could be stored alongside the backup
1406 files without name collisions. In particular, the attributes for the
1407 files in a directory are stored in a file called "attrib", and
1408 mangling avoids file name collisions (I discarded the idea of having
1409 a duplicate directory tree for every backup just to store the
1410 attributes). Other meta-data (eg: rsync checksums) could be stored in
1411 file names preceded by, eg, "c". There are two other benefits to
1412 mangling: the share name might contain "/" (eg: "/home/craig" for tar
1413 transport), and I wanted that represented as a single level in the
1414 storage tree. Secondly, as files are written to NewFileList for later
1415 processing by BackupPC_link, embedded newlines in the file's path
1416 will cause problems which are avoided by mangling.
1418 The CGI script undoes the mangling, so it is invisibe to the user.
1419 Of course, old (unmangled) backups are still supported by the CGI
1422 * Various changes to the CGI interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1424 + Added button that allows users to manually start a full dump in
1425 addition to the existing incremental dump.
1427 + Added display of file attributes when browsing backups.
1429 + Added an optional holdoff time specified by the user when canceling
1430 a backup. BackupPC will not attempt any new backups for at least the
1431 specified time. This holdoff time can be changed whether or not a
1434 + Added supports for file mangling, and correct merging of unfilled
1435 backups from mangled or unmangled (and compressed or uncompressed)
1436 fulls when browsing or restoring.
1438 + Only displays a "Start Incr Backup" button if there are already some
1441 + For DHCP hosts, when a user tries to manually start a backup, add
1442 a check for the netbios name of both the host the request came
1443 from (REMOTE_ADDR) and the last known DHCP address for that host
1444 to see if either address matches the host. If not, an error
1445 message is display. The previous behavior was that only requests
1446 from the client itself succeeded, and requests from other machines
1449 * Changed the version numbering to X.Y.Z, instead of X.0Y. This release
1450 is 1.4.0. The first digit is for major new releases, the middle digit
1451 is for significant feature releases and improvements, and the last
1452 digit is for bug fixes. You should think of the old 1.00, 1.01, 1.02
1453 and 1.03 as 1.0.0, ..., 1.3.0.
1455 * BackupPC and the CGI script BackupPC_Admin now check that the effective
1456 user id is correct to avoid accidentally launching BackupPC as the
1457 wrong user or detecting CGI configuration problems. This behavior
1458 can be turned off using the $Conf{BackupPCUserVerify} option.
1460 * In numerous places changed "Smb" to "Xfer" (eg: log file names) to
1461 support generic names for both smb and tar transport methods. The
1462 CGI script checks for old names for backward compatibility.
1464 * Major changed to Backup_dump to support new tar transport. All transport
1465 specific code moved into BackupPC::Xfer::Smb and BackupPC::Xfer::Tar
1468 * Added workaround for a bug in Samba's smbclient for files between 2GB
1469 and 4GB. The file size in the tar header is incorrect. This allows
1470 files up to 4GB to work with smbclient, rather than 2GB. To support
1471 files larger than 2GB you must make sure perl is compiled with the
1472 uselargefiles option (use "perl -V | egrep largefiles" to check) and
1473 the pool directory must be on a file system that supports large files.
1475 * Moved the pool writing code into a module BackupPC::PoolWrite. This
1476 allows the clever file pool checking (digest, uncompressing, comparing
1477 etc with minimum disk IO) to be used easily in multiple places (eg: it
1478 is now used for writing attribute files so they can be pooled).
1480 * Changed MD5 to Digest::MD5 to avoid use of the depreceated MD5 module.
1482 * Shortened default $Conf{MyPath} so that perl's taint mode is more likely
1483 to be happy. The old $Conf{MyPath} contained /usr/local/bin, which
1484 on one user's machine was world writable and perl -T correctly
1485 complained about it.
1487 * Fixed ping command options in Lib.pm so that it works on OpenBSD.
1488 Thanks to Kyle Amon for sending the fix. Decided to move the
1489 ping options from Lib.pm into config.pl (as $Conf{PingArgs}) and
1490 now configure.pl tries to come up with a sensible default based on
1493 * Fixed argument checking in BackupPC_tarExtract to allow '$' in the
1494 share name (eg: C$). Thanks to Jules Agee for this fix. Also
1495 changed the default config.pl so that single quotes are used
1496 everywhere so that people don't get tripped up putting '$' inside
1497 double-quoted strings.
1499 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1500 # Version 1.03, 9 Dec 2001
1501 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1503 * BackupPC now has full support for compression. There are now two
1504 pool areas, the original pool for uncompressed files, and cpool for
1505 compressed files. The compression is done by Compress::Zlib.
1506 Compression reduces the pool disk usage by around 40%, although your
1507 mileage may vary. Compression is optional and can also be specified on
1508 a per-PC basis (although this will cost more pool storage since many
1509 backup files will have to be stored in both compressed and
1512 * A new script, BackupPC_compressPool, can be run to compress the entire
1513 pool. This is used once to migrate all the pool data from uncompressed
1514 to compressed on existing installations. Read the documentation
1515 (Installing BackupPC/Compressing an existing pool) before running
1516 BackupPC_compressPool!
1518 Alternatively, compression can simply be turned on and all new backups
1519 will be compressed. Both old (uncompressed) and new (compressed)
1520 backups can be browsed and viewed. Eventually, the old backups will
1521 expire and all the pool data will be compressed. However, until the
1522 old backups expire, this approach could require 60% or more additional
1523 pool storage space to store both uncompressed and compressed versions
1524 of the backup files.
1526 * Significant improvements to the cgi interface, BackupPC_Admin:
1528 - much better layout navigation
1529 - handles compressed backup files and compressed log files
1530 - handles unfilled incremental dumps
1531 - better backup directory browsing navigation
1532 - reports compression statistics
1533 - $Conf{CgiDateFormatMMDD} allows you to set date format (MM/DD or DD/MM)
1534 - Additional customization with $Conf{CgiHeaderFontType},
1535 $Conf{CgiHeaderFontSize}, $Conf{CgiNavBarBgColor}, and
1536 $Conf{CgiHeaderBgColor}.
1538 * Eliminated BackupPC_queueAll. BackupPC directly reads the hosts
1539 file and queues the PCs itself. Like config.pl, BackupPC will
1540 re-read the hosts file on each wakeup if its modification time
1541 changes, or upon a SIGHUP. This also makes for better behavior
1542 when adding a host: if you add hosts, simply send a SIGHUP to
1543 BackupPC or wait for the next wakeup.
1545 * BackupPC_dump now compresses the SmbLOG file if compression is enabled.
1547 * BackupPC_dump keeps track of compressed file sizes so that compression
1548 statistics can be reported by the cgi interface.
1550 * Aging of old log files now handles compressed log files (.z extension).
1552 * Added configuration option $Conf{IncrFill} to specify whether
1553 incremental dumps should be filled in. Old behavior was that
1554 filling was on. Now it's optional. See config.pl for more
1557 * BackupPC_nightly now cleans and generates statistics for both
1558 the uncompressed pool and compressed pool (cpool).
1560 * Added new utility script BackupPC_zcat that can be used to
1561 uncompresses BackupPC files.
1563 * configure.pl offers various options related to compression,
1564 depending upon whether this is a new install or upgrade,
1565 and whether or not Compress::Zlib is installed.
1567 * configure.pl now makes a backup copy of config.pl before
1568 config.pl is updated.
1570 * added three new fields to the backups file to handle optional
1571 filling and compression stats.
1573 * Added -e option to BackupPC_dump. BackupPC now invokes BackupPC_dump -e
1574 on each dhcp host once each night to verify that very old backups are
1575 expired. This ensures that very old backups are expired even if
1576 the dhcp host has not been on the network for a long time.
1578 * fixed bug in BackupPC::FileZIO.pm that required Compress::Zlib,
1579 even if compression was off. Thanks to Steve Holmes for reporting
1582 * fixed bug that caused a BackupPC queue to get blocked when a backup
1583 cancel attempt was made during the BackupPC_link phase.
1585 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1586 # Version 1.02, 28 Oct 2001.
1587 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1589 * Added new script BackupPC_tarExtract to extract the smbclient tar
1590 archive. This reduces disk writes by perhaps 90-95% and disk reads by
1591 50%. Previously, tar was used to extract and write everything to disk.
1592 Then BackupPC_dump would read enough of each file to compute the MD5
1593 digest, and then compare the full file with candidate pool files. So
1594 for each 1MB file that matches a single file in the pool, there would
1595 be 1MB of disk writes and 2MB of disk reads (to compare two 1MB files).
1597 BackupPC_tarExtract instead extracts the archive using a 1MB memory
1598 buffer. This allows the MD5 digest to be computed without touching the
1599 disk. Next, any potential pool file compares are done by comparing the
1600 pool file against the incoming tar data in memory, which only requires
1601 the pool file to be read. So for each 1MB file that matches a single
1602 file in the pool, there are now no disk writes, and only 1MB of reads.
1603 BackupPC_tarExtract handles arbitrary size files and repeated
1604 potential pool matches. If the incoming file doesn't match the pool
1605 then it is written to disk (once the pool is mature this happens maybe
1608 * Substantial changes to BackupPC_dump:
1610 + BackupPC_tarExtract is now used in place of tar.
1612 + BackupPC_dump now reads the output from both smbclient and
1613 BackupPC_tarExtract and merges them into SmbLOG.
1615 + Named pipes are no longer used to connect smbclient to tar
1616 (now BackupPC_tarExtract). Regular pipes are used instead.
1617 This avoids the need to system mknod or mkfifo.
1619 + Locked files on the client that can't be read by smbclient
1620 previously were filled with 0x0 bytes by smbclient, meaning
1621 tar extracted a useless file filled with 0x0 bytes. Now,
1622 BackupPC_dump watches the output of smbclient and removes
1623 any files that smbclient couldn't read. This avoids storing
1624 useless files. It tries to replace such files with a hard link
1625 to a previous dump. These actions appear in the log file.
1627 * added new module lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm. This handles pool file
1628 I/O and is used by BackupPC_tarExtract. BackupPC::FileIO supports
1629 reading and writing compressed and regular files and provides all the
1630 hooks for compression support in BackupPC (should be supported in next
1631 version). BackupPC::FileIO also does efficient writing of files that
1632 contain leading 0x0 bytes (by seeking past the 0x0 bytes). This is
1633 helpful when smbclient reads a locked file, and it fills the tar
1634 output with a file of the correct size but all 0x0. Such files will be
1635 later removed by BackupPC_dump. But in the meantime, BackupPC::FileIO
1636 writes such files efficiently (as sparse files), meaning just a few
1637 blocks of disk space will be needed even if the file is large.
1639 * alive/dead counting for blackout now works correctly for DHCP hosts.
1641 * BackupPC resets activeJob on startup, to fix bug when BackupPC was
1642 killed and restarted with backups running.
1644 * added extra non blocking select() in BackupPC to make sure the socket
1647 * BackupPC avoids queuing multiple BackupPC_queueAll's on the CmdQueue.
1649 * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to correctly parse the locked file
1650 error from 2.2.1a smbclient, so that missing Outlook file emails
1651 can be correctly sent.
1653 * Changed HostInfoRead() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm to lowercase the
1654 hostname read from the hosts file.
1656 * BackupPC_Admin provides general summary when the host name is empty.
1658 * configure.pl (and BackupPC) now requires perl 5.6.0 or later.
1660 * configure.pl complains if BackupPC is already running, reminding you
1661 to stop it before upgrading.
1663 * updated documentation, and fixed auto-insertion of config.pl into
1664 BackupPC.pod (previously the last config parameter was left out of
1667 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1668 # Version 1.01, 30 Sep 2001
1669 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1671 * Documentation cleanup in README, doc/BackupPC.pod, conf/config.pl.
1673 * BackupPC_sendMail now reads the optional per-PC config file, allowing
1674 email configuration parameters to be set on a per-PC basis.
1676 * Removed the unused 4096-length MD5 digest code in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
1678 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1679 # Version 1.00, 21 Sep 2001
1680 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
1682 * Initial release of BackupPC on sourceforge.net.