#======================================================================== # # ChangeLog - change log for BackupPC. # # DESCRIPTION # Revision history for BackupPC, detailing significant changes between # versions, most recent first. # # AUTHOR # Craig Barratt # #======================================================================== # # Version __VERSION__, released __RELEASEDATE__. # # See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net. # #======================================================================== #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version __VERSION__, __RELEASEDATE__ #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fix for config.pl writing code to handle multi-line expressions. Reported by David Relson and others. * Fix for CGI editor when deleting hash entries whose keys are non alphanumeric. Report by David Relson. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 3.0.0beta2, 18 Nov 2006 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fix for final md4 digest check on rsync transfers >= 512MB when protocol version >= 27 and checksums are not cached. Reported by Garith Dugmore and Dale Renton. * Config Editor "Save" button is now always visible, but greyed out until there are changes to save. * Config editor allows other tabs to be selected when there is an error, which allows you to fix an error (eg: missing binary) in an exiting config file. Errors are now displayed at the top of the page in addition to next to the erroneous setting. * configure.pl checks version of Encode.pm. Reported by Chris Stone. * Several fixes to bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary from Stian Jordet. * Fixed config.pl editor writing to solve bug with multi-line text strings ending in newline. Reported and root caused by Les Stott and Jerry Groendyke. * Fixed error recovery case in BackupPC::PoolWrite, reported by Samuel Bancal. * Fixed table width in backup browsing to avoid Firefox layout anomoly, provided by Jono Woodhouse. * CSS file updates from Jono Woodhouse. Prior (v2) version is included as BackupPC_stnd_orig.css in case people prefer the old skin. * More compact host summary, including disabled host indication, from Jono Woodhouse. * New directory/file/hardlink and symlink image icons from Sean Cameron and Jono Woodhouse, making directory browse more compact. * BackupPC.pid is now world readable, suggested by Casper Thomsen. * Reordered the Server navigation bar links, suggested by David Relson. * Fixed typos in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc, configure.pl and config.pl reported by David Relson. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 3.0.0beta1, 30 Jul 2006 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed several Xfer charset conversions. * Added some CGI utf8 conversions from Rodrigo Real and Vincent Fleuranceau. * Rsync transfers now correctly handle file names with \n or \r. * Host name is forced to lower case, to match 2.x. * Fixed LOG file naming in BackupPC_restore and BackupPC_archive. * GFK applied fr.pm corrections from Nicolas Stransky. * Updated init.d/src scripts for FHS (ie: replaced __TOPDIR__/log with __LOGDIR__ and __TOPDIR__/conf with __CONFDIR__). Patch provided by Rodrigo Real. * Added --log-dir and --conf-dir options to configure.pl. Reported by Vincent Fleuranceau. * Updated File::RsyncP version check in configure.pl, reported by Vincent Fleuranceau. Changed File::RsyncP version to 0.64. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 3.0.0beta0, 11 Jul 2006 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Added configuration and host CGI editor. * Added rsync hardlink support. Requires latest version of File::RsyncP (0.62). * Decoupled BackupPC_dump from BackupPC_nightly by making asynchronous file linking/delete robust to race conditions. Now only BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link are mutually exclusive so only one runs at a time, and BackupPC_dump and BackupPC_restore can run anytime. * Added support for multi-level incrementals. In the style of dump(1), the level of each incremental can be specified. Each incremental backups up everything since the most recent backup of a lower level (fulls are always level 0). Previous behavior was all incrementals were level 1, meaning they backed up everything since the last full (level 0). Default configuration is all incrementals are level 1. * Server file names are now in utf8 and optional conversion to/from client name charsets can be configured. All CGI pages now use the utf8 charset. * Backup metadata is now additionally saved to pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo, in addition to pc/HOST/backups. In case pc/HOST/backups gets trashed, then a new script BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary can read the per-backup metadata from pc/HOST/nnn/backupInfo and reconstruct the backups file. Roberto Moreno also pointed out an early error in the CVS version. * Added Storage module and Storage::Text which localizes all the text data file reading/writing (eg: backups, restores, archives and config.pl files). Added read verify after all write operations for robustness. Additional backends (eg: SQL) can be added in the future as new subclasses of the Storage module. * Added Config module, and Config::Meta that contains meta data about configuration parameters. * Added RSS support from Rich Duzenbury. * Translations of new 3.0 language strings from Guillaume Filion, Reginaldo Ferreira, Ralph Passgang, Lieven Bridts, Guus Houtzager, Rodrigo Real. * Added optional checking of exit status of Dump/Restore/Archive Pre/Post UserCmd, requested by Kiko Jover, Matthias Bertschy and others. * For new installations configure.pl tries to comply with the file system hierarchy standard, which means all the configuration files below /etc/BackupPC and log files go below /var/log/BackupPC. * Added Slackware init.d script from Tony Nelson. * Fixed error reporting when restore/archive fail to write the request file to the client directory. * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt for DumpPreShareCmd and DumpPostShareCmd. * Apply patch from Pete Wenzel to add smbClientPath => $Conf{SmbClientPath} to DumpPreUserCmd etc. * Added Portuguese Brazillian pt_br.pm from Reginaldo Ferreira. * Jean-Michel Beuken reported several bugs in configure.pl in CVS 3.0.0. * Old backup email warnings now ignore partials requested by Samuel Bancal * Applied patch to bin/BackupPC_sendEmail from Marc Prewitt that ignores any file starting with "." in the pc directory when it is generating warnings about old/unused files/directories. * Applied patch from Marc Prewitt to fix host queue order. * Applied Lorenzo Cappelletti's it.pm patch. * Applied Wander Winkelhorst's nl.pm patch. * Applied Alberto Marconi's it.pm patch. * Add NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT to pst read error check in BackupPC_sendEmail to fix bug reported by Dale Renton. * Added fixup of $ENV{REMOTE_USER} to lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm in the case of using mod_authz_ldap; patch submitted by Alain Perrier. * Added env LC_ALL=C to $Conf{TarClientCmd} and $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} to avoid locale problems, suggested by Ludovic Drolez. * Changed ping output parsing to pick out average rtt time, based on patch from Ron Bickers. * Removed leading "./" and top-level "./" directory from zip archives generated by BackupPC_zipCreate. Reported by Josh (hecktarzuli). * BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate now allow "@" in share names. Reported by Robert Waldner. * NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES is now a fatal error for smbclient transfers, suggested by Brian Shand. * Changed bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to use /bin/csh instead of /bin/sh. That way any errors in the pipeline are reported via the exit status, instead of just the last. * Added $Conf{EMailHeaders} for additional email headers, requested by Ludovic Gasc. If the Content-Type charset is set to utf8 then the body of the email is sent in utf8 coding. * Made shareName argument regexp checking more general to allow parens. * Added some debian init.d instructions to init.d/README from Bob de Wildt. * Documentation updates from Richard Ames, JP Vossen, Torsten Finke. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.2pl2, 18 Jun 2006 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * In conf/config.pl, changed --devices to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs} and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to fix "fileListReceive failed" and "Can't open .../f%2f for empty output" errors with rsync 2.6.7+. Fix proposed by Justin Pessa and Vincent Ho, and confirmed by Dan Niles. * Added patch from Michael (mna.news) to ignore "file is unchanged" message from tar 1.15.x during incremental backups. * Fixed creation of .rsrc directories in bin/BackupPC_tarExtract when used with xtar on MacOS. Reported by Samuel Bancal and Matthew Radey, who helped with debugging. * Fixed bug in BackupPC_tarExtract for files >8GB in size whose lengths are multiples of 256. Reported by Jamie Myers and Marko Tukiainen, who both helped debugging the problem. * Fixed bug in lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm that caused incorrected deleted attributes to be set in directories where one of the files had an rsync phase 1 retry during an incremental. Reported by Tony Nelson. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.2, 5 Sep 2005 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed simple but serious bug in bin/BackupPC_tarCreate that prevented hardlinks being saved correctly. Debugged by Michael (mna.news) with several other people. * Fixed serious bug in bin/BackupPC_dump reported/debugged by Dan Niles that can happen when multiple full backups are deleted after $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is changed. * Changed lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm so that link to "$TopDir/conf/$host.pl" is displayed if it exists. Patch from Andreas Vögele. * Applied daemonize patch to bin/BackupPC from: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301057 * It's now a fatal error if $Conf{CompressLevel} is set, but Compress::Zlib is not found. Before $Conf{CompressLevel} was silently set to 0, which made all the backups uncompressed. That meant the user never knew if they forget to install Compress::Zlib but were expecting compression to be on. * Finally increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to 72000 (20 hours). * Added sleep 1 in restart() function in init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc, suggested by Jon Hood. * Added $DestDir to the path of the CGI image directory in configure.pl. Patch submitted by Andreas Vögele. * Applied extensive patch to French translation from Frederic Lehobey. * Minor change to Dutch language $Lang{Pool_Stat} from Wander Winkelhorst. * Minor change to French language $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} and $Lang{EMailOutlookBackupSubj} from Ludovic Gasc. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.1, 13 Mar 2005 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed bug in top-level restore using rsync XferMethod. BackupPC::View was leaving an extra leading "/" at the start of top-level directories, messing up the FileList sort order. Reported and debugged by Gail Edwards. * Added pathCreate() to BackupPC_tarExtract so that new directories are created. Required for xtar on MacOSX since the virtual resource fork directories (.rsrc) are not explicitly included in the tar archive - just the files below .rsrc are. * Changed $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt.* to $host.$bkupNum.tar$fileExt* in $parCmd in bin/BackupPC_archiveHost. * Fixed HostSortCompare() in BackupPC to correctly sort hosts so those with the oldest backups get queued first. * Changed test in BackupPC_sendEmail so that directories/files starting with "." in $TopDir/pc are ignored, rather than just "." and "..". * Changed BackupPC_sendEmail to include NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT in check for bad outlook files. * Ensure that %Status and %StatusHost are empty if requesting status on hosts in lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm GetStatusInfo(). Fixes problem with new hosts under mod_perl. * Added images/icon-hardlink.gif so that hardlinks show file type icon. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.0pl1, 15 Aug 2004 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Added fix to nl.pm from Lieven Bridts. * Added patch from Tony Nelson to remove $Info{pid} before BackupPC writes the status and shuts down. * Changed BackupPC_nightly so that it doesn't call find() if the directory doesn't exist. This avoids errors in certain versions of perl. Reported by Bernd Rilling. * Fixed BackupPC::CGI::Lib to correctly re-load config.pl for mod_perl. Reported by Tony Nelson and Jimmy Liang. * Explicitly untaint $In{host} in BackupPC::CGI::Lib to fix problem reported by Thomas Tempé. * Added newline to "...skipping because of user requested delay..." log message in BackupPC_dump. Reported by Wayne Scott. * Added read file size error checking to BackupPC_tarCreate. Reported by Brandon Evans. * Added check in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO to ensure that when compression is toggled on/off, a compressed backup doesn't link to an uncompressed pool file (and an uncompressed backup doesn't link to a compressed pool file). Reported by Brandon Evans. * Updated documentation with new dirvish URL and a typo from Todd Curry. * Fix to BackupPC_sendEmail so that it correctly sends admin emails for hosts that have failed backups. Reported by Simon Kuhn. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.0, 20 Jun 2004 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Added Dutch translation from Lieven Bridts, with tweaks from Guus Houtzager. * Added PC-specific config file read in CGI/Archive.pm. Patch from Pete Wenzel. * Added non-zero exit code to BackupPC_zcat when uncompress fails. Patch from Pete Wenzel. * Cosmetic changes to PC Summary and Log file language strings from Pete Wenzel. * BackupPC::Lib tries to be more careful when renaming the backups file to backups.old. There have been reports of backups being empty, perhaps when the BackupPC data file system fills up. Now backups is not renamed to backups.old if backups is empty. * BackupPC now closes stderr and stdout before renaming and re-opening the log file. * Pre/post backup/restore/archive commands now correctly set "type" to either incr/full/restore/archive, and now cmdType is the type of Pre/post backup/restore/archive command. * BackupPC_archive correctly terminates archive processes on alarm or cancel. * Updates to BackupPC_stnd.css with absolute font sizes instead of relative. * BackupPC_dump now makes sure that the $Conf{FullAgeMax} check also ensures the full backup is older than the maximum age expected from $Conf{FullPeriod}. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.0beta2pl1, 30 May 2004 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed bug in rsync checksum caching code in BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncDigest. * BackupPC_zipCreate now ensures the earliest mtime is 1/1/1980, since zip file formats don't support earlier dates. Reported by Dan Niles. * CGI restore via zip and tar now makes sure stderr is ignored when BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate are run. Previously any stderr output would get mixed in the archive, corrupting it. Reported by Dan Niles. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.0beta2, 23 May 2004 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} now apply to every share, rather than just the first, in the case where they are arrays and there are multiple shares. Suggested by Andy Evans. * On the phase 2 retry pass with rsync, verify the cached checksums if checksum caching is turned on. This will catch the case of cached checksums being incorrectly appended to the compressed pool file. Added new config parameter $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} so that cached checksums are verified with a selectable probability. Also, increased File::RsyncP version number to 0.51. * configure.pl now supports an optional batch mode. Command-line options are used to specify all the information that configure.pl needs. This is useful for building auto-install packages. Also, configure.pl now includes pod documentation, so you can do "perldoc configure.pl" to see all the command-line options. Suggested, tested and tweaked by Stuart Herbert for possible Gentoo inclusion. * At each wakeup, clients are now queued based on how old the most recent backup is. Clients with errors are queued first, with the oldest error times going first. The rest of the clients are queued next, with the clients with the oldest backup going first. Previously the clients were simply queued in alphabetic order. Suggested by Mike Trisko and Tony Nelson. * Added config parameter $Conf{PartialAgeMax} that controls whether partials are saved at all, and if so, whether the partial will be ignored at the next full backup if it is too old. * BackupPC_tarExtract now allows empty archives without reporting an error. Reported by Don Silvia. * Removed Browse Backups link from Nav Bar in Archive Info display. Reported by Ralph Paßgang. * Fixed documentation display for regular users. Reported by Ralph Paßgang. * Status and PC Summary now work for regular users and only show that user's hosts. Server general status information only appears for admins. Suggested by Ralph Paßgang. * Moved the last three navigation-bar links (docs, FAQ and SF) to a new config parameter $Conf{CgiNavBarLinks}. This allows these links to be locally configured. Based on a patch submitted by Ralph Paßgang. * Allow the navigation bar search box to be disabled by setting $Conf{CgiSearchBoxEnable} to 0. Based on a patch submitted by Ralph Paßgang. * Updates to de.pm from Ralph Paßgang. * Made the BackupPC icon a link to the SF BackupPC project page. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.0beta1, 4 Apr 2004 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The CSS definition has been removed from the config.pl file and is now a separate file, BackupPC_stnd.css. A new config variable, $Conf{CgiCSSFile}, gives the name of the CSS file to use. Suggested by Ender Mathias. * Fixed the filling of the host name select box for admins. The default $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} is now 1. Reported by Doug Lytle. * Cleaned up warning message for restore using rsync when checksum caching is on, but when file didn't have cached checksums. * Fixed BackupPC_archiveHost to support par2 (par2cmdline). Patch submitted by Jaco Bongers and adapted by Josh Marshall. * Improved stat() usage in BackupPC_nightly, plus some other cleanup, giving a significant performance improvement. Patch submitted by Wayne Scott. * Allow several BackupPC_nightly processes to run in parallel based on new $Conf{BackupPCNightlyJobs} setting. This speeds up the traversal of the pool, reducing the overall run time for BackupPC_nightly. * Allow BackupPC_nightly to split the pool traversal across several nightly runs. This improves the running time per night, at the expense of a slight increase in disk storage as unused pool files might not be deleted for a couple of days. Controller by new config setting $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.1.0beta0, 20 Mar 2004 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * A failed full dump is now saved as a partial (incomplete) dump, provided it includes some files. This can be used for browsing, restoring etc, and will also form the basis of resuming full dumps. Only one partial is kept, and it is removed as soon as a successful full (or a new partial) is done. * Added support for resuming a full dump for rsync. The partial full is kept, and to resume an incremental is done against the partial, and a full is done for the rest. * Added support for Rsync checksum caching. Rsync checksum are appended to the compressed pool files. This means that block and file checksums do not need to be recomputed on the server when using rsync. Requires a patch to rsync to support fixed checksum seeds. This patch is included in the cygwin-rsyncd release on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net. * Major addition of Archive feature from Josh Marshall. Special clients can be configured to be archive targets (eg: tape drives, CD-R). Any subset of the backup clients can be selected and tar archives are created, optionally compressed and split and written to the output device. Logs are maintained and are browsable. * Major changes from Ryan Kucera to add style sheets to the CGI interface, allowing easy customization. Added new icons and BackupPC logo. Numerous navigation improvements. * Added directory history display to BackupPC_Admin, allowing the user to quickly see which files changed between backups on a per-directory basis. * Added exponential expiry option for full dumps. This allows you to specify - how many fulls to keep at intervals of $Conf{FullPeriod}, followed by - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 2 * $Conf{FullPeriod}, - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 4 * $Conf{FullPeriod}, - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 8 * $Conf{FullPeriod}, - how many fulls to keep at intervals of 16 * $Conf{FullPeriod}, and so on. This allows you, for example, to keep 4 weekly fulls, followed by 6 fulls every 4 weeks (approx 1 month) and 2 fulls at 16 weeks, for roughly 1 year of history. This works by deleting every other full as each expiry boundary is crossed. Suggested by David Cramblett. * Added Italian language translation it.pm from Lorenzo Cappelletti. * Major updates to language files for new features and tags changes. Updated makeDist to do pedantic consistency checking of language files. * Addition of administration options from Paul Lukins. Initial page allows server to be started/stopped/reloaded. This still needs some i18n work. Currently the server start/stop is commented out. * Split BackupPC_Admin into a set of modules, one for each major action. Each action is now a seperate module in lib/BackupPC/CGI. * Allow the blackout period begin/end to span midnight. Adapted from patch submitted by David Smith. * Allow multiple blackout periods, with new config variable $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} that replaces the old variables $Conf{BlackoutHourBegin}, $Conf{BlackoutHourEnd}, and $Conf{BlackoutWeekDays}. Based on patch submitted by Lorenzo Cappelletti. * Disabled alarms after forks to avoid timeouts in children that do not reset their alarm. Prompted by ideas from James Leu. * Added options for block size, buffer size and share wild-card to BackupPC_tarCreate. Also added negative backup number options that are relative to the last (so -1 is the last), suggested by William McKee and Carl Soderstrom. * The "Wrong user" message in BackupPC::Lib now goes to stderr, so that the user is more likely to see the error with BackupPC_tarCreate. Reported by Paul Fox. * Add creation of per-PC directory in BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm in case it doesn't already exist. * Added -q -x to all ssh commands in conf/config.pl. Suggested by SI Reasoning and Niranjan Ghate. * Changed restore code so that option #1 (direct restore) can be disabled if the restore command is undefined. Disabling direct restore is necessary if the share is read-only. Suggested by Rich B from SAIC. * Changed regexp in lib/BackupPC/Smb.pm to allow numbers with both a decimal point or comma for international versions of Samba. Patch submitted by Frank Gard. * Browsing and directory history now sort the files in a case-insensitive manner. * Changed exec() syntax to allow executing commands whose path contains spaces. * BackupPC_dump no longer removes backups if $Conf{FullKeepCnt} is zero or undefined. The protects the existing backups in the case of a bad config.pl file. Suggested by Christian Warden. * Swapped the Server and Hosts sections on the Nav bar. Moved the host search text box to the top of the hosts section. This was done to move the variable-length part of the Nav bar (when all hosts are displayed) to the bottom. * Fixed a bug in tar restore related to how the common prefix path is removed. Now ensure that the common path is at a directory boundary. Reported by Patrick Neuner. * Added --chuid ${USER} to init.d/src/gentoo-backuppc. Suggested by SI Reasoning, Pascal Pochol, Michael Evanoff and others. * Added Suse notes to init.d/README from Bruno Vernay. * Added Apache 2 documentation fix from Michael Tuzi. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.0.2, 6 Oct 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed stupid last-minute change in octal size conversion in Backup_tarExtract. #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Version 2.0.1, 5 Oct 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Fixed handling of >= 8GB files in BackupPC_tarExtract and >= 4GB files in BackupPC_tarCreate. * Removed smbclient size repair in BackupPC_tarExtract for files between 2GB and 4GB. This means that BackupPC_tarExtract 2.0.1 doesn't behave the same as 2.0.0 for file sizes between 2GB and 4GB extacted using smbclient 2.2.x. If you have problems backing up files whose size is between 2GB and 4GB using smbclient 2.2.x you should upgrade smbclient to 3.0, since it now generates correct file sizes. * Replace PingClientPath with PingPath in configure.pl. * Removed -T (taint mode) on binaries installed in configure.pl. * Added support for smbclient from samba version 3.0.0. * Fixed $Conf{HardLinkMax} limit check in BackupPC::Lib; reported by Ross Skaliotis. * In BackupPC_Admin, default REMOTE_USER to $Conf{BackupPCUser} if it is not defined. This allows the CGI interface to work when AdminUsers = '*'. Reported by Quentin Arce. * For SMB, code that detected files with a read-locked region (eg: outlook .pst files), removed them and then tried to link with an earlier version was broken. This code missed a step of mangling the file names. This is now fixed. Reported by Pierre Bourgin. * A backup of a share that has zero files is now considered fatal. This is used to catch miscellaneous Xfer errors that result in no files being backed up. A new config parameter $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} (defaults to 1) and can be set to zero to turn off this check. Suggested by Guillaume Filion. Additional change: this check only applies to a full dump. * SMB: now detect NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on entire share or BackupFilesOnly (also ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) for older versions of smbclient.) Suggested by Guillaume Filion. * SMB: now detects "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME" and the dump is considered failed. * Rsync: Previously BackupFilesOnly = '/' did --include '/' --exclude '/*', which just included the '/' directory and nothing below. Now it does just --include '/', which should include everything. Reported by denon. * Add hostError to DumpPostUserCmd variable substitutions for both dump and restore. * Verbose output in Lib.pm goes to STDERR, not STDOUT. This now makes BackupPC_dump -v work better. * Don't allow browsing with ".." in directory in case a user tries to trick BackupPC_Admin into displaying directories outside where they are allowed. * Required File::RsyncP version is now 0.44, since File::RsyncP 0.44 fixes large file (>2GB) bugs. Large file bugs reported by Steve Waltner. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.0.0, 14 Jun 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Minor tweaks to disable utf8 on utf8-capable machines (eg: RH8+). Added "no utf8" to all programs, and added binmode() to relevant file handles. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.0.0beta3, 1 Jun 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Several improvements to restore: cancel now reports the correct message and cleans up correctly. * Rsync with whitespace and wildcard excludes fixed by replacing argList with argList+ in config.pl plus a fix to Lib.pm for shell escaping array arguments. * Fixed rsync restore for character and block special devices (major and minor device numbers weren't correctly restored). * Fixed typo in bin/BackupPC_restore (XferLOG -> RestoreLOG). * (Re)-fixed "Bad command" in log file when restore via tar or zip file download is done. * Added untaint to exec in Lib.pm to avoid tainted errors. * Applied additional tweak to hilight patch from Tim Demarest. * $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = '*' now allows privileged even with REMOTE_USER not set. * Don't display RsyncdPasswd when displaying config.pl files. * Replace pipe with socketpair in bin/BackupPC_dump and bin/BackupPC_restore, which increases typical buffering from 4K to 16K-64K. This improves the performance. * Add check on $ENV{LANG} setting do configure.pl: if LANG includes utf then a warning is printed. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.0.0beta2, 11 May 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Added German translation, provided by Manfred Herrmann. * Fixed large-file problem with rsync, reported by Manfred Herrmann. * Fixed zip and tar file download from CGI under mod_perl. Reported by Pierre Bourgin and Paul Lukins. * Fixed directory browsing and top-level directory browsing in 2.0.0beta0. Reported by several users. * Added -v option to BackupPC_dump for verbose output (useful when you run the command manually). Added messages for all exits. * If nmblookup returns multiple IP addresses, NetBiosHostIPFind() now returns the first IP address that matches the subnet mask. Suggested by Tim Demarest. * Fixed BackupPC::View so the top-level directory is handled correctly. This allows the top-level share/directory to be restored via the CGI interface. Reported by several users. * Fixed RsyncFileIO failures on certain large files by replacing seek() with sysseek(). Reported by Manfred Herrmann. * Added configurable highlighting of PC status in the CGI summary screen; submitted by Tim Demarest. * Fixed command queue CGI display; submitted by Tim Demarest. * BackupPC_trashClean now logs an error if it can't remove all the trash and then goes back to sleep, rather than continually trying. * Moved correct user (uid) check into BackupPC::Lib so that all applications do a user check if $Cong{BackupPCUserVerify} is set. The avoids the risk of manually running BackupPC_dump as the wrong user. * Loss of blackout now applies to "host not found" as well as no ping. Reported by Dale Renton. * "Host not found" is now treated in a similar manner to "no ping". * Added suse-linux init.d script from Leon Letto. * Added Gentoo linux init.d script from Tim Demarest. * Applied additional i18n strings from GFK and the translation team. * Fixed option parsing so that getopts errors are reported and we exit. * Changed reporting of Xfer PIDs so that rsync cancel works correctly. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.0.0beta1, 30 Mar 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Added Spanish translation es.pm from Javier Gonzalez. * Fixed CGI browse navigation bug that causes BackupPC_Admin to wedge when directories were selected in a certain order. * Fixed BackupPC::PoolWrite so that it can recover when the initial file size is wrong. This is needed since rsync could write a file whose size is different from the initial size returned in the file list when that file is updated while rsync is running. * Added binmode(STDIN) to BackupPC_tarExtract, suggested by Pat LoPresti to fix a problem a RedHat8 with perl 5.8.0. It's unclear why this helps, but it should be benign. See: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1853018&forum_id=503 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 2.0.0beta0, 23 Feb 2003 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Support for rsync and rsyncd backup and restore. Changes to BackupPC_dump, BackupPC_restore, and new modules BackupPC::Xfer::Rsync and BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO. * Added internationalization (i18n) code from Xavier Nicollet, with additions from Guillaume Filion. Voila! BackupPC_Admin now supports English and French, and adding more languages is now easy. New config paramater $Conf{Language} sets the language. * Added optional user-defined pre/post dump/restore commands, allowing things like database shutdown/startup for dumps. * Changed the way hosts are found. * Added $Conf{ClientNameAlias}, which allows the name of the physical client machine to be set. This allows several different backup "hosts" to all refer to the same physical machine, which is convenient if several different types of data need to be backed up, or if different parameters are needed for different parts of the host. * Replaced $Conf{PingArgs} with $Conf{PingCmd}, added $Conf{DfCmd}, $Conf{NmbLookupCmd} allowing all these commands to be fully configured. Also, all commands can also now be fragments of perl code. * Moved all smbclient commands into the config.pl file so the specific arguments can be customized. New config parameters are $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd}, $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd} and $Conf{SmbClientRestoreCmd}. * Added new BackupPC::View module that creates views of backups (handling merging etc). Updated BackupPC_Admin, BackupPC_zipCreate and BackupPC_tarCreate to use BackupPC::View. This removes lots of merging and mangling code from the higher-level code. * Added code from Toby Johnson that allows additional users to be specified in the hosts file; these users can also view/start/stop and restore backups for that host. Also added a new config setting $Conf{CgiNavBarAdminAllHosts} that allows all hosts to be listed in the left nav bar for admins. * Added $Conf{HardLinkMax} (default 31999) which sets the limit on the maximum number of hardlinks per file in the pool. If a file ever gets to this number of links a new pool file is created to handle additional links. * Added $Conf{PerlModuleLoad}, which allows optional additional perl modules to be loaded. * Added $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} and other EMail config settings to allow language-specific default messages to be overridden. * Added BPC_FTYPE_DELETED to lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm, allowing deleted files to be represented in the attrib file correctly. * Added support for environment variable BPC_SMB_PASSWD, which is the client's smb password. This overrides the old environment variable PASSWD. * Added taint cleanup for perl5.8 to lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm. * Changed $tar_unpack_header format in BackupPC_tarExtract to correctly handle files with trailing spaces. * Added catching of SIG_PIPE to BackupPC_dump, and changed catch_signal to ignore multiple signals of the same type. * Added reporting of the largest number of hardlinks in the pool to the log file. * Adding reporting of syntax errors in the per-PC config.pl file. * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to handle language-specific email messages. * Allow client (host) names to contain spaces. Spaces in host names need to be escaped via "\" in the hosts file. The user of spaces in host names is discouraged, but they should work. One feature that doesn't work with host names that contain spaces is the highlighting of that name in the log file display in the CGI interface. There are no plans to fix this. * Renamed $Conf{SmbClientTimeout} to $Conf{ClientTimeout}. * Fixed all open() calls to use 3 argument form to fix handling of file names with trailing whitespace. Also fixed CGI interface so these file names are displayed correctly. * Fixed new 2.0.0 CGI navigation bug that causes the top-level directory to have a URL "&share=//boot&dir=" instead of "&share=/boot&dir=/". Reported by Pascal Schelcher. Fixed similar problem reported by Doug Lytle. * Added "PerlTaintCheck On" to the mod_perl section in the docs, suggested by Tim Demarest. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.5.0, 2 Aug 2002 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Changed conf/config.pl so that $Conf{TarIncrArgs} uses the --newer option instead of --newer-mtime. Also removed --atime-preserve from $Conf{TarClientCmd}. This makes the default settings work better with tripwire. * Fixed configure.pl so it correctly detects a running BackupPC <= v1.4.0 so it can correctly warn the user to stop it before upgrading. Reported by David Holland. * Added missing ";" to entity escape in EscapeHTML in BackupPC_Admin. Reported by Guillaume Filion. * Added LDAP setup to documentation from David Holland. * Tar.pm now adds a "." to file paths that start with "/", so that all tar paths are relative. From Ludovic Drolez. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.5.0beta0, 30 Jun 2002 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * A full set of restore options is now supported, including direct restore via smbclient or tar or downloading a zip or tar file. * Major additions to CGI script to support better directory navigation, restore features and mod_perl. Also, file downloads from the CGI interface now correctly preserve the file name and provide the correct Content-Type for the most common types of files. Improved directory navigation was contributed by Ryan Kucera. * New script BackupPC_zipCreate (contributed by Guillaume Filion) is the zip analog of BackupPC_tarCreate. BackupPC_zipCreate can be used to create a zip archive of any portion of a backup. * Substantial additions to BackupPC_tarCreate to support restore, including modifying path names, handling hardlinks, fixing support of old backups without attributes (pre-v1.4.0). Plus BackupPC_tarCreate is now an offical part of the release. (Lack of support for hardlinks was reported by John Stanley.) * BackupPC_tarExtract now supports hardlinks and fixed pooling of attribute files. * A unix domain socket is now used for communication between the CGI interface and BackupPC. The original TCP socket is optional. Sockets are correctly re-initialized if config.pl is updated with new socket settings. * For improved security messages over the unix or TCP socket are protected via an MD5 digest based on a shared secret, a sequence number, a time stamp and a unique per-connection number. * Additions to configure.pl to support install of directory navigation images. * Fixed case where $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} or $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} were set to a single string or list (in v1.4.0 only the case of hash worked correctly). Reported by Phillip Bertolus. * Fixed case of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} == 0. This setting now makes the client always subject to blackout, matching the comments in config.pl. Also fixed handling of $Conf{BackoutGoodCnt} < 0 in the CGI script reported by Pascal Schelcher. * Fixed byte and file totals for tar backups, reported by several users. * Fixed --newer-mtime date/timestamp format to make it ISO 8601 compliant, suggested by Erminio Baranzini. * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} in BackupPC::Xfer::Tar.pm, as well as shell escaping of tar arguments. * Fixed entity encoding of 8-bit characters in the CGI interface. * Added optional CGI headers in $Conf{CgiHeaders} that by default is set to a no-cache pragma. Suggested by Benno Zuure. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.4.0, 16 Mar 2002 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * BackupPC now supports tar (in addition to smb) for extracting host data. This is the most convenient option for linux/unix hosts. Tar can be configured to run over ssh, rsh or to backup a local nfs mount from the host. * Support for special files, including symbolic links, fifo, character and block device files has been added, so that all native linux/unix file types can be correctly backed up when using tar transport. Special files are all stored as regular files and the type attributes are used to remember the original file type. * All unix file attributes are now saved (and pooled when possible). This includes user and group ownership, permissions, and modification time. Smbclient also does a reasonable job of emulating unix permissions (such as mtime), and these attributes get saved too. * The new default is to not fill incremental dumps. configure.pl automatically sets $Conf{IncrFill} to 0. The default was 1 (incrementals were filled with hardlinks). Since the CGI script does filling at browsing time, there is no need to fill incremental dumps. * Backup file names are now stored in "mangled" form. Each node of a path is preceded by "f", and special characters (\n, \r, % and /) are URI-encoded as "%xx", where xx is the ascii character's hex value. So c:/craig/example.txt is now stored as fc/fcraig/fexample.txt. This was done mainly so meta-data could be stored alongside the backup files without name collisions. In particular, the attributes for the files in a directory are stored in a file called "attrib", and mangling avoids file name collisions (I discarded the idea of having a duplicate directory tree for every backup just to store the attributes). Other meta-data (eg: rsync checksums) could be stored in file names preceded by, eg, "c". There are two other benefits to mangling: the share name might contain "/" (eg: "/home/craig" for tar transport), and I wanted that represented as a single level in the storage tree. Secondly, as files are written to NewFileList for later processing by BackupPC_link, embedded newlines in the file's path will cause problems which are avoided by mangling. The CGI script undoes the mangling, so it is invisibe to the user. Of course, old (unmangled) backups are still supported by the CGI interface. * Various changes to the CGI interface, BackupPC_Admin: + Added button that allows users to manually start a full dump in addition to the existing incremental dump. + Added display of file attributes when browsing backups. + Added an optional holdoff time specified by the user when canceling a backup. BackupPC will not attempt any new backups for at least the specified time. This holdoff time can be changed whether or not a backup is running. + Added supports for file mangling, and correct merging of unfilled backups from mangled or unmangled (and compressed or uncompressed) fulls when browsing or restoring. + Only displays a "Start Incr Backup" button if there are already some backups. + For DHCP hosts, when a user tries to manually start a backup, add a check for the netbios name of both the host the request came from (REMOTE_ADDR) and the last known DHCP address for that host to see if either address matches the host. If not, an error message is display. The previous behavior was that only requests from the client itself succeeded, and requests from other machines quietly failed. * Changed the version numbering to X.Y.Z, instead of X.0Y. This release is 1.4.0. The first digit is for major new releases, the middle digit is for significant feature releases and improvements, and the last digit is for bug fixes. You should think of the old 1.00, 1.01, 1.02 and 1.03 as 1.0.0, ..., 1.3.0. * BackupPC and the CGI script BackupPC_Admin now check that the effective user id is correct to avoid accidentally launching BackupPC as the wrong user or detecting CGI configuration problems. This behavior can be turned off using the $Conf{BackupPCUserVerify} option. * In numerous places changed "Smb" to "Xfer" (eg: log file names) to support generic names for both smb and tar transport methods. The CGI script checks for old names for backward compatibility. * Major changed to Backup_dump to support new tar transport. All transport specific code moved into BackupPC::Xfer::Smb and BackupPC::Xfer::Tar objects. * Added workaround for a bug in Samba's smbclient for files between 2GB and 4GB. The file size in the tar header is incorrect. This allows files up to 4GB to work with smbclient, rather than 2GB. To support files larger than 2GB you must make sure perl is compiled with the uselargefiles option (use "perl -V | egrep largefiles" to check) and the pool directory must be on a file system that supports large files. * Moved the pool writing code into a module BackupPC::PoolWrite. This allows the clever file pool checking (digest, uncompressing, comparing etc with minimum disk IO) to be used easily in multiple places (eg: it is now used for writing attribute files so they can be pooled). * Changed MD5 to Digest::MD5 to avoid use of the depreceated MD5 module. * Shortened default $Conf{MyPath} so that perl's taint mode is more likely to be happy. The old $Conf{MyPath} contained /usr/local/bin, which on one user's machine was world writable and perl -T correctly complained about it. * Fixed ping command options in Lib.pm so that it works on OpenBSD. Thanks to Kyle Amon for sending the fix. Decided to move the ping options from Lib.pm into config.pl (as $Conf{PingArgs}) and now configure.pl tries to come up with a sensible default based on the OS. * Fixed argument checking in BackupPC_tarExtract to allow '$' in the share name (eg: C$). Thanks to Jules Agee for this fix. Also changed the default config.pl so that single quotes are used everywhere so that people don't get tripped up putting '$' inside double-quoted strings. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.03, 9 Dec 2001 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * BackupPC now has full support for compression. There are now two pool areas, the original pool for uncompressed files, and cpool for compressed files. The compression is done by Compress::Zlib. Compression reduces the pool disk usage by around 40%, although your mileage may vary. Compression is optional and can also be specified on a per-PC basis (although this will cost more pool storage since many backup files will have to be stored in both compressed and uncompressed forms. * A new script, BackupPC_compressPool, can be run to compress the entire pool. This is used once to migrate all the pool data from uncompressed to compressed on existing installations. Read the documentation (Installing BackupPC/Compressing an existing pool) before running BackupPC_compressPool! Alternatively, compression can simply be turned on and all new backups will be compressed. Both old (uncompressed) and new (compressed) backups can be browsed and viewed. Eventually, the old backups will expire and all the pool data will be compressed. However, until the old backups expire, this approach could require 60% or more additional pool storage space to store both uncompressed and compressed versions of the backup files. * Significant improvements to the cgi interface, BackupPC_Admin: - much better layout navigation - handles compressed backup files and compressed log files - handles unfilled incremental dumps - better backup directory browsing navigation - reports compression statistics - $Conf{CgiDateFormatMMDD} allows you to set date format (MM/DD or DD/MM) - Additional customization with $Conf{CgiHeaderFontType}, $Conf{CgiHeaderFontSize}, $Conf{CgiNavBarBgColor}, and $Conf{CgiHeaderBgColor}. * Eliminated BackupPC_queueAll. BackupPC directly reads the hosts file and queues the PCs itself. Like config.pl, BackupPC will re-read the hosts file on each wakeup if its modification time changes, or upon a SIGHUP. This also makes for better behavior when adding a host: if you add hosts, simply send a SIGHUP to BackupPC or wait for the next wakeup. * BackupPC_dump now compresses the SmbLOG file if compression is enabled. * BackupPC_dump keeps track of compressed file sizes so that compression statistics can be reported by the cgi interface. * Aging of old log files now handles compressed log files (.z extension). * Added configuration option $Conf{IncrFill} to specify whether incremental dumps should be filled in. Old behavior was that filling was on. Now it's optional. See config.pl for more details. * BackupPC_nightly now cleans and generates statistics for both the uncompressed pool and compressed pool (cpool). * Added new utility script BackupPC_zcat that can be used to uncompresses BackupPC files. * configure.pl offers various options related to compression, depending upon whether this is a new install or upgrade, and whether or not Compress::Zlib is installed. * configure.pl now makes a backup copy of config.pl before config.pl is updated. * added three new fields to the backups file to handle optional filling and compression stats. * Added -e option to BackupPC_dump. BackupPC now invokes BackupPC_dump -e on each dhcp host once each night to verify that very old backups are expired. This ensures that very old backups are expired even if the dhcp host has not been on the network for a long time. * fixed bug in BackupPC::FileZIO.pm that required Compress::Zlib, even if compression was off. Thanks to Steve Holmes for reporting this. * fixed bug that caused a BackupPC queue to get blocked when a backup cancel attempt was made during the BackupPC_link phase. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.02, 28 Oct 2001. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Added new script BackupPC_tarExtract to extract the smbclient tar archive. This reduces disk writes by perhaps 90-95% and disk reads by 50%. Previously, tar was used to extract and write everything to disk. Then BackupPC_dump would read enough of each file to compute the MD5 digest, and then compare the full file with candidate pool files. So for each 1MB file that matches a single file in the pool, there would be 1MB of disk writes and 2MB of disk reads (to compare two 1MB files). BackupPC_tarExtract instead extracts the archive using a 1MB memory buffer. This allows the MD5 digest to be computed without touching the disk. Next, any potential pool file compares are done by comparing the pool file against the incoming tar data in memory, which only requires the pool file to be read. So for each 1MB file that matches a single file in the pool, there are now no disk writes, and only 1MB of reads. BackupPC_tarExtract handles arbitrary size files and repeated potential pool matches. If the incoming file doesn't match the pool then it is written to disk (once the pool is mature this happens maybe 5-10% of the time). * Substantial changes to BackupPC_dump: + BackupPC_tarExtract is now used in place of tar. + BackupPC_dump now reads the output from both smbclient and BackupPC_tarExtract and merges them into SmbLOG. + Named pipes are no longer used to connect smbclient to tar (now BackupPC_tarExtract). Regular pipes are used instead. This avoids the need to system mknod or mkfifo. + Locked files on the client that can't be read by smbclient previously were filled with 0x0 bytes by smbclient, meaning tar extracted a useless file filled with 0x0 bytes. Now, BackupPC_dump watches the output of smbclient and removes any files that smbclient couldn't read. This avoids storing useless files. It tries to replace such files with a hard link to a previous dump. These actions appear in the log file. * added new module lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm. This handles pool file I/O and is used by BackupPC_tarExtract. BackupPC::FileIO supports reading and writing compressed and regular files and provides all the hooks for compression support in BackupPC (should be supported in next version). BackupPC::FileIO also does efficient writing of files that contain leading 0x0 bytes (by seeking past the 0x0 bytes). This is helpful when smbclient reads a locked file, and it fills the tar output with a file of the correct size but all 0x0. Such files will be later removed by BackupPC_dump. But in the meantime, BackupPC::FileIO writes such files efficiently (as sparse files), meaning just a few blocks of disk space will be needed even if the file is large. * alive/dead counting for blackout now works correctly for DHCP hosts. * BackupPC resets activeJob on startup, to fix bug when BackupPC was killed and restarted with backups running. * added extra non blocking select() in BackupPC to make sure the socket reads don't block. * BackupPC avoids queuing multiple BackupPC_queueAll's on the CmdQueue. * Updated BackupPC_sendEmail to correctly parse the locked file error from 2.2.1a smbclient, so that missing Outlook file emails can be correctly sent. * Changed HostInfoRead() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm to lowercase the hostname read from the hosts file. * BackupPC_Admin provides general summary when the host name is empty. * configure.pl (and BackupPC) now requires perl 5.6.0 or later. * configure.pl complains if BackupPC is already running, reminding you to stop it before upgrading. * updated documentation, and fixed auto-insertion of config.pl into BackupPC.pod (previously the last config parameter was left out of BackupPC.pod). #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.01, 30 Sep 2001 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Documentation cleanup in README, doc/BackupPC.pod, conf/config.pl. * BackupPC_sendMail now reads the optional per-PC config file, allowing email configuration parameters to be set on a per-PC basis. * Removed the unused 4096-length MD5 digest code in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Version 1.00, 21 Sep 2001 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Initial release of BackupPC on sourceforge.net.