obackup/CHANGELOG.md

SHORT FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS

• Rewrite rsync exclude patterns using "pattern" instead of escaped chars
• Clean most of recursive task creation code

KNOWN ISSUES

• Backup size check does not honor rsync exclude patterns
• Bandwidth parameter is ignored for SQL backups
• Missing symlink support when run from MSYS environment

UNDER WORK

• Commands like cp should have their stderr redirected to log file
• Mysqldump must be checked for not telling success if a table is damaged (also check for event table error)
• Mysqldump commands error msg must be logged

CHANGELOG

• Fixed no_maxtime not honored
• Improved some logging, also added highlighting to stdout errors
• Backported some fixes from Osync
  • Small improvements on install script
  • Copy ssh_filter.sh from osync project
  • Small improvements in obackup-batch.sh time management
• Quick and dirty hack to get the full last run log in SendAlert email
• Added detection of obackup.sh script in obackup-batch.sh to overcome mising path in crontab
• Moved command line arguments after config file load for allowing command line overrides
• Added a config file option equivalent to --dontgetsize
• Added basic install script from osync project
• Added obackup-batch.sh from osync project to rerun failed backups in row
• Delta copy algorithm is now used even for local copies (usefull for network drives), this can be overriden in config file
• Added --dontgetsize parameter to backup huge systems immediatly
• Fixed multiple keep logging messages since sleep time between commands has been lowered under a second
• Create local subdirectories if not exist before running rsync (rsync doesn't handle mkdir -p)
• Backported some fixes from Osync
  • Lowered sleep time between commands
  • Lowered debug sleep times
  • Fixed a bug with exclude pattern globbing preventing multiple exludes
  • Lowered default compression level for email alerts (for low end systems)
• Prevent exclude pattern globbing before the pattern reaches the rsync cmd
• Fixed some typos with ported code from osync rendering stats and partial downloads unusable
• Added delete on destination option for files that vanished from source
• Fixed ignoring compression level in conf file
• Added experimental partial downloads support for rsync so big files can be resumed on slow links
• Fixed dry mode sql backup output
• Prevented triggering TrapError if there are no child processes to terminate on TrapQuit
• Improved mysql debug logs
• Prevent creation of backup-id less log file when DEBUG is set
• WARNING: Default behavior is now to copy the referrent files and directories from symlinks (this can reach files outside the backup root)
• Recursive directory search now includes symlinks (find -L option. -type d cannot be replaced by -xtype d because of portability issues with BSD)
• Dry mode does not create target directories anymore
• Dry mode also tries mysqldumps now (check for error messages being logged)
• Added experimental partial download support
• Added Rsync exclude files suppport from osync
• Fixed another issue with existing symlinks to directories on target on non recursive backups
• Fixed remaining rsync -E option preventing obackup to work correctly on MacOS X
• Fixed an issue with existing symlinks to directories on target
• Prevent changed IFS to make ping commands fail
• Added RotateCopies execution time (spinner support)
• redirect stderr for mysqldump to catch problems
• Moved msys specific code to Init(Local|Remote)OSSettings except in TrapQuit that needs to work at any moment
• Added support for multithreaded gzip (if pigz is installed)
• Merged back changes from osync codebase
  • Enhanced debugging
  • Added language agnostic system command output
  • Enhanced log sending
  • Better handling of OS specific commands
  • Improved WaitForTaskCompletion when DEBUG enabled or SILENT enabled
  • Enhanced OS detection
• More correct error message on remote connection failure
• Gzipped logs are now deleted once sent
• Fixed some typos (thanks to Pavel Kiryukhin)
• Improved OS detection and added prelimnary MacOS X support
• Improved execution hook logs
• Improved RunLocalCommand execution hook
• 02 Nov. 2013: v1.84 RC3
• Updated documentation
• Minor rewrites in recursive backup code
• Added base directory files backup for recursive directories backup
• Minor improvements on permission checks
• Added local and remote OS detection
• Fixed ping arguments for FreeBSD compatibility
• Added MSYS (MinGW minimal system) bash compatibility under Windows
  • Added check for /var/log directory
  • Added check for shared memory directory
  • Added alternative way to kill child processes for other OSes and especially for MSYS (which is a very odd way)
  • Added Sendemail.exe support for windows Alerting
  • Replaced which commend by type -p, as it is more portable
  • Added support for ping.exe from windows
  • Forced usage of MSYS find instead of Windows' find.exe
  • Added an optionnal remote rsync executable path parameter
  • Made ListDatabases and ListDirectories Msys friendly
• Fixed loop problems in RotateBackups and ListDatabases (depending on IFS environment)
• Fixed an error in CheckSpaceRequirements not setting required space to zero if file / sql backup is disabled
• Fixed an issue with CheckConnectivity3rdPartyHosts
• Added option to stop execution on failed command execution
• Improved forced quit command by killing all child processes
• Before / After commands are now ignored on dryruns
• Improved verbose output
• Improved dryrun output
• Improved remote connecivity detection
• Fixed a typo in configuration file
• 18 Aug. 2013: Now v1.84 RC2
• Added possibility to change default logfile
• Simplified dryrun (removed dryrun function and merged it with main function)
• Simplified Init function
• Added --stat switch to rsync execution
• Added bandwidth limit
• Added --no-maxtime switch
• Fixed LoadConfigFile function will not warn on wrong config file
• More code cleanup
• Added --verbose switch (will add databases list, rsync commands, and file backup list)
• Improved task execution checks and more code cleanup
• Fixed CleanUp function if DEBUG=yes, also function is now launched from TrapQuit
• 16 Jul. 2013: version tagged as v1.84 RC1
• Code cleanup
• Uploaded first documentation
• Fixed an issue with RotateBackups
• Updated obackup to log failed ssh command results
• Updated ssh command filter to log failed commands
• Updated ssh command filter to accept personalized commands
• 23 Jun. 2013 v 1.84 RC1 approaching
• Added ssh commands filter, updated documentation
• Rewrote local space check function
• Added ability to run another executable than rsync (see documentation on sudo execution)
• Added some Rsync argument parameters (preserve ACL, Xattr, and stream compression)
• Internal hook execution logic revised
• Updated WaitForTaskCompletition function to handle skipping alerts
• Updated command line argument --silent processing
• Added remote before and after command execution hook
• Added local before and after command execution hook
• 14 Jun 2013
• Initial public release, fully functionnal