Initial import

AUTHORS

+BACKUPNINJA was written by the Riseup Collective: intellectual property is theft.
+
+Ninjas: 
+
+elijah@riseup.net  -- original code, bug fixes, man pages
+micah@riseup.net   -- debian package, vserver support, bug fixes
+stefani@riseup.net -- makecd handler, man pages
+intrigeri@boum.org -- dup handler, pgsql handler, vserver support, bug fixes
+Charles Lepple 	   -- trac handler
+Petr Klma <petr.klima@madeta-group.cz>	-- autotools, RPM support and sys checks
+paulv@bikkel.org   -- rsnap handler
+Robert Napier 	   -- improved RPM build
+rhatto 		   -- rub handler and patches
+
+Patches: 
+
+cmccallum@thecsl.org
+Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr -- mysql ignores and nodata
+Brad Fritz <brad@fritzfam.com> -- trac patch
+garcondumonde@riseup.net
+Martin Krafft madduck@debian.org -- admingroup patch
+Anarcat -- lotsa patches
+Jamie McClelland -- cstream patches
+ale -- ldap cleanup, rdiff support for reading include/exclude from files
+Sami Haahtinen <ressu@ressukka.net>
+Matthew Palmer -- mysql enhancements
+romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org -- ldap fixes
+Adam Monsen - spec file updates
+Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> -- halt loglevel feature
+dan@garthwaite.org -- reportspace bugfix
+Tuomas Jormola <tj@solitudo.net> -- "when = manual" option
+Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> -- dup bandwidthlimit fix, dup helper fix
+Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org> -- numerous contributions
+stefan <s.freudenberg@jpberlin.de> -- dup support for Amazon S3 buckets
+maniacmartin <martin@maniacmartin.com> -- rdiff confusing error message fix
+Chris Nolan <chris@cenolan.com> -- maildir subdirectory expansion
+Dan Carley -- mysql bugfix
+Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> -- do not error when no jobs are configured
+Jacob Anawalt <jlanawalt@gmail.com> -- pg_dump format option
+Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org> -- pipefail fixes
+Bruno Bigras <bigras.bruno@gmail.com> -- enable tar handler in the build system
+aihtdikh -- Allow 'when = XXX' with spaces in .sh files.
+Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> -- rdiff.helper bugfix
+Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> -- RackSpace's CloudFiles support for duplicity
+exobuzz - mysql bugfixes
+Glennie Vignarajah <glennie@glennie.fr> -- mysql bugfix
+ddpaul <paul@reic.ru> -- rsync bugfix

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FAQ

+Q: duplicity works fine when run standalone, but complains about gpg
+"public key not found" when run from backupninja
+
+A: We bet you're using sudo to run both duplicity and backupninja, and have been
+using sudo as well when generating the GnuPG key pair used by duplicity.
+
+Quick fix: generate a new GnuPG key pair in a root shell, or using
+"sudo -H" instead of plain sudo.
+
+Another solution: import the GnuPG keypair into the root user's keyring, taking
+care of running "gpg --update-trustdb" in a root shell or using "sudo -H"
+afterwards, in order to tag this keypair as "ultimately trusted".
+
+Detailed explanation: sudo does not change $HOME by default, so GnuPG saved the
+newly generated key pair to your own keyring, rather than to the root user's
+keyring. Running "sudo duplicity" hides the problem, as it uses your own
+keyring. Running "sudo backupninja" reveals the problem, as backupninja uses
+"su" to make sure it runs duplicity in a real root environment, i.e. using the
+root user's GnuPG keyring.

INSTALL

+INSTALLATION
+============
+   
+Requirements:
+  bash gawk
+
+Recommended: 
+  rdiff-backup duplicity rsync gzip hwinfo sfdisk
+
+Installation:
+  To install backupninja, simply do the following:
+
+  $ ./autogen.sh
+  $ ./configure
+  $ make
+  $ make install
+
+  You may wish to change the install locations, or other options. To find
+  the available possibilities, run ./configure --help.
+

Makefile.am

+# vi: noexpandtab softtabstop=0
+## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
+
+EXTRA_DIST = FAQ README COPYING AUTHORS INSTALL NEWS ChangeLog \
+             backupninja.spec backupninja.spec.in autogen.sh
+
+SUBDIRS = etc examples handlers lib man src
+
+local_rpm_topdir=`cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd`/rpm
+rpm-package: dist
+	if test x$(HAVE_RPM) = xyes ; then \
+               mkdir -p $(local_rpm_topdir) ; \
+               cd $(local_rpm_topdir) ; \
+               mkdir -p BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS ; \
+               cd SOURCES ; \
+               $(LN_S) ../../$(distdir).tar.gz ; \
+               cd .. ; \
+               cd SPECS ; \
+               $(LN_S) ../../backupninja.spec . ; \
+	       cd .. ; \
+               rpmbuild --define "_topdir `cd . && pwd`" -bb SPECS/backupninja.spec && \
+               echo "Package successfully built in `pwd`/RPMS." ; \
+       else \
+               echo "Error: RPM executable and/or source directory not found." ; \
+       fi
+
+srpm-package: dist
+	if test x$(HAVE_RPM) = xyes ; then \
+               mkdir -p $(local_rpm_topdir) ; \
+               cd $(local_rpm_topdir) ; \
+               mkdir -p BUILD SRPMS SOURCES SPECS ; \
+               cd SOURCES ; \
+               $(LN_S) ../../$(distdir).tar.gz ; \
+               cd .. ; \
+               cd SPECS ; \
+               $(LN_S) ../../backupninja.spec . \
+	       cd .. ; \
+               rpmbuild --define "_topdir `cd . && pwd`" -bs SPECS/backupninja.spec && \
+               echo "Package successfully built in `pwd`/SRPMS." ; \
+       else \
+              echo "Error: RPM executable and/or source directory not found." ; \
+       fi
+
+clean-local:
+	-rm -rf $(local_rpm_topdir)

NEWS

+backupninja (0.9.8-1) UNRELEASED
+
+	* duplicity 0.6.01 and later defaults to using an archive (cache)
+	  directory, which was previously opt-in. Starting with backupninja
+	  0.9.8, the backupninja duplicity handler puts this cache into
+	  /var/cache/backupninja/duplicity unless specified by the user with
+	  the "options" setting the *.dup job.
+	  When backups have been performed with backupninja older than 0.9.8 in
+	  conjunction with duplicity 0.6.01 or later, e.g. when using Sid or
+	  Squeeze at certain times of the Squeeze release cycle, cache files
+	  were probably saved into /root/.cache/duplicity; one may want to
+	  delete these files, or rather save bandwidth and just move the cache
+	  directory to the new location:
+
+	             mkdir -p /var/cache/backupninja
+	             mv /root/.cache/duplicity /var/cache/backupninja/
+
+	  It is probably desirable to exclude this cache directory from
+	  duplicity backup sets to avoid some kind of reentrant backup problem.
+
+backupninja (0.9.7-1) UNRELEASED
+
+	* mysql: output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
+	  database names. This change was not heavily tested, please
+	  report any breakage.
+	* pgsql: output filenames to support shell meta-characters in
+	  database names. This change was not heavily tested, please
+	  report any breakage.
+
+backupninja (0.9.4-1) UNRELEASED
+
+	* duplicity: Old (pre-0.9.4) example.dup file used to give false
+	  information about the way the GnuPG-related options are used.
+	  Please read the new /usr/share/doc/backupninja/examples/example.dup
+	  file, and update your own configuration files if needed.
+
+	* duplicity, rdiff: symlinks and globbing support in
+	  include/exclude/vsinclude was unclear and did not work in all
+	  situations, with weird behavious, due to incompatibilities
+	  between various readlink versions in this field. This has been made
+	  clear eventually: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no
+	  attempt is done to dereference symlinks anymore. 
+	  Please read the new /usr/share/doc/backupninja/examples/example.dup
+	  or /usr/share/doc/backupninja/examples/example.rdiff file, and update
+	  your own configuration files if needed.
+
+	* duplicity: duplicity now uses sftp, which does not support all scp
+	  command line options; you thus have to convert the sshoptions setting
+	  in your *.dup configuration files, to sftp-compatible syntax; for
+	  example, you can replace:
+	    sshoptions = -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa_duplicity
+	  with:
+	    sshoptions = -o IdentityFile=/root/.ssh/id_dsa_duplicity
+	
+backupninja (0.9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+WARNING FOR DUPLICITY USERS
+
+Old (pre-0.9.2) example.dup file used to give false information about the way
+the GnuPG-related options are used. Please read the new example.dup file, and
+update your own configuration files if needed.
+

README

+
+                                          |\_
+                 B A C K U P N I N J A   /()/
+                                         `\|
+                         
+      a silent flower blossom death strike to lost data.
+
+Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few
+simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you
+might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file
+format. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and
+coordinate many different backup utilities. 
+
+Features:
+ - easy to read ini style configuration files.
+ - you can drop in scripts to handle new types of backups.
+ - backup actions can be scheduled
+ - you can choose when status report emails are mailed to you
+   (always, on warning, on error, never).
+ - console-based wizard (ninjahelper) makes it easy to create
+   backup action configuration files.
+ - passwords are never sent via the command line to helper programs.
+ - works with Linux-Vservers (http://linux-vserver.org/)
+ 
+Backup types:
+ - secure, remote, incremental filesytem backup (via rdiff-backup).
+   incremental data is compressed. permissions are retained even
+   with an unpriviledged backup user.
+ - backup of mysql databases (via mysqlhotcopy and mysqldump).
+ - basic system and hardware info
+ - encrypted remote backups (via duplicity).    
+ - backup of subversion repositories.
+
+The following options are available:
+-h, --help           This usage message
+-d, --debug          Run in debug mode, where all log messages are
+                     output to the current shell.
+-f, --conffile FILE  Use FILE for the main configuration instead
+                     of /etc/backupninja.conf
+-t, --test           Test run mode. This will test if the backup could run, without actually
+                     preforming any backups. For example, it will attempt to authenticate
+                     or test that ssh keys are set correctly.
+-n, --now            Perform actions now, instead of when they might be scheduled.
+                     No output will be created unless also run with -d.
+--run FILE           Runs the specified action FILE (e.g. one of the /etc/backup.d/ files).
+                     Also puts backupninja in debug mode.
+
+NINJAHELPER
+===========
+
+Ninjahelper is an additional script which will walk you through the process of
+configuring backupninja. Ninjahelper has a menu driven curses based interface
+(using dialog). 
+
+To add an additional 'wizard' to ninjahelper, follow these steps:
+
+(1) to add a helper for the handler "blue", create the file
+    blue.helper in the directory where the handlers live.
+    (ie /usr/share/backupninja).
+
+(2) next, you need to add your helper to the global HELPERS variable
+    and define the main function for your helper (the function name
+    is always <helper>_wizard). for example, blue.helper:
+       HELPERS="$HELPERS blue:description_of_this_helper"
+       blue_wizard() {
+         ... do work here ...
+       }
+
+(3) look at the existing helpers to see how they are written. Try to re-use
+    functions, such as the dialog functions that are defined in easydialog.sh,
+    or the vserver functions defined in lib/vserver.
+
+(4) test, re-test, and test again. Try to break the helper by going backwards,
+    try to think like someone who has no idea how to configure your handler
+    would think, try to make your helper as simple as possible. Walk like a cat,
+    become your shadow, don't let your senses betray you.
+
+
+CONFIGURATION FILES
+===================
+
+The general configuration file is /etc/backupninja.conf. In this file
+you can set the log level and change the default directory locations.
+You can force a different general configuration file with "backupninja
+-f /path/to/conf".
+
+To preform the actual backup, backupninja processes each configuration
+file in /etc/backup.d according to the file's suffix:
+ 
+  .sh      --  run this file as a shell script.
+  .rdiff   --  filesystem backup (using rdiff-backup)
+  .dup     --  filesystem backup (using duplicity)
+  .mysql   --  backup mysql databases
+  .pgsql   --  backup PostgreSQL databases
+  .sys     --  general hardware, partition, and system reports.
+  .svn     --  backup subversion repositories
+  .maildir --  incrementally backup maildirs (very specialized)
+
+Support for additional configuration types can be added by dropping
+bash scripts with the name of the suffix into /usr/share/backupninja. 
+
+The configuration files are processed in alphabetical order. However,
+it is suggested that you name the config files in "sysvinit style." 
+
+For example:
+	00-disabled.pgsql
+	10-runthisfirst.sh
+	20-runthisnext.mysql
+	90-runthislast.rdiff
+
+Typically, you will put a '.rdiff' config file last, so that any
+database dumps you make are included in the filesystem backup.
+Configurations files with names beginning with 0 (zero) or ending with
+.disabled (preferred method) are skipped.
+
+Unless otherwise specified, the c