obackup/CHANGELOG.md

KNOWN ISSUES

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

CHANGELOG

dd Mmm YYYY: obackup v2.1 RC? released

• Uninstall leaves ssh_filter if needed by other programs
• Logger now obfuscates _REMOTE_TOKEN ! Improved sudo privilege run
• Brand new ssh filter from osync project
• Better installer with --remove option from osync project
• Updated ofunctions from osync project
  • Fixes UTF-8 escaped characters in log files due to LC_ALL=C
  • Optional MAIL_BODY_CHARSET so destination mails aren't sent as UTF-8 anymore depending on systems

04 Jan 2017: obackup v2.1 beta1 released

• Fixed wrong file size fetched remotely since v2.1 rewrite
• Fixed missing databases in manual list fails to trigger an alert
• Improved support for GPG ver >= 2.1
• Added encryption / decryption parallel execution support
• Improved compatibility for RotateCopies
• Unit tests now run on CentOS 5,6
• Added optional rsync arguments configuration value
• Forcec bash usage on remote connections in order to be FreeBSD 11 compatible
• Spinner is less prone to move logging on screen
• Fixed another random error involving warns and errors triggered by earlier runs with same PID flag files
• Adde more preflight checks (pgrep presence)
• Added --no-prefix, --error-only and --summary switches
• Updated installer from osync
• Updated merge.sh script to handle includes
• Improved remote logging
• Simplified osync-batch runner (internally and for user)
  • Better filename handling
  • Easier to read log output
    • Always passes --silent to obackup
    • All options that do not belong to obackup-batch are automatically passed to obackup
• Improved installer OS detection
• Fixed upgrade script cannot update header on BSD / MacOS X
• Fixed SendEmail function on MacOS X
• Fixed MAX_SOFT_EXEC_TIME_PER_XX_TASK not enforced bug introduced with newer ofunctions from v2.1
• PRESERVE_ACL and PRESERVE_XATTR are ignored when local or remote OS is MacOS or msys or Cygwin
• Fixed PRESERVE_EXECUTABILITY was ommited volontary on MacOS X because of rsync syntax
• merge.sh is now BSD and Mac compatible
• Unit tests are now BSD and Mac compatible
• Local runs should not check for remote connectivity
• Fixed error alerts cannot be triggered from subprocesses
• Fixed error flags
• Faster remote OS detection
• Added busybox (and Android Termux) support
  • More portable file size functions
  • More portable compression program commands
  • More paranoia checks
  • Added busybox sendmail support
  • Added tls and ssl support for sendmail
• Added ssh password file support
• Added unit tests
  • Added basic unit tests for all three operation modes
  • Added process management function tests
  • Added file rotation tests
  • Added upgrade script test
  • Added encryption tests
  • Added missing files / databases test
  • Added timed execution tests
• Implemented backup encryption using GPG (see documentation for advantages and caveats)
  • Backup encrypted but still use differential engine :)
• Database backup improvements
  • Added mysqldump options to config file
• Improved unit tests
• Added more preflight checks
• Logs sent by mail are easier to read
  • Better subject (currently running or finished run)
  • Fixed bogus double log sent in alert mails
  • Only current run log is now sent
  • Alert sending is now triggered after last action
• Made unix signals posix compliant
• Improved upgrade script
  • Upgrade script now updates header
  • Can add any missing value now
  • Added encrpytion support
• Fixed problem with spaces in directories to backup (again !)
• Added options to ignore permissions, ownership and groups
• Improved batch runner
  • Batch runner works for directories and direct paths
  • Fixed batch runner does not rerun obackup on warnings only
  • Code compliance
  • More clear semantic
• Made keep logging value configurable and not mandatory
• Fixed handling of processes in uninterruptible sleep state
• Code cleanup
• Refactored waiting functions
• Fixed double RunAfterHook launch

06 Aug 2016: obackup v2.0 released

• Made logging begin before remote checks for sanity purposes
• RunAfterCommands can get executed when trapquit
• Improved process killing and process time control
• Added optional statistics for installer
• Added an option to ignore knownhosts for ssh connections (use with caution, this can lead to a security issue)
• Improved mail fallback
• More logging enhancements
• Improved upgrade script
• Revamped rsync patterns to allow include and exclude patterns
• Better SQL and file backup task separation (rotate copies and warnings are defined for sql and/or file)
• Added reverse backup, now backups can be local, pushed or pulled to or from a remote system
• Better fallback for SendAlert even if disk full
• Added an alert email sent on warnings while backup script is running
• Way better logging of errors in _GetDirectoriesSizeX, _BackupDatabaseX, _CreateStorageDirectoriesX
• Added bogus config file checks & environment checks
• Full code refactoring to use local and remote code once
• Fully merged codebase with osync
  • Added (much) more verbose debugging (and possibility to remove debug code to gain speed)
  • Replace child_pid by $? directly, add a better sub process killer in TrapQuit
  • Added some automatic checks in code, for _DEBUG mode (and _PARANOIA_DEBUG now)
  • Improved Logging
  • Updated obackup to be fully compliant with coding style
• Fixed creation of bogus subdirectories in some cases
• A long list of minor improvements and bug fixes

v0-1.x - Jan 2013 - Oct 2015

• New function to kill child processes
• 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: obackup v1.84RC3 released

• 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: obackup v1.84RC2 released

• 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: obackup v1.84RC1 released

• 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: v1.84 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