Affa:Additional information

* Fri Jan 02 2009 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta21

- show last execution time in --show-schedule

* Thu Jan 01 2009 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta20

- Fixed calculation of compression rate in chunkfile()
- Changed format of --list-archives output: added Exec Time and Bytes received
- Changed format of --status: added Exec Time, removed Disk usage
- Output formatted table in --disk-usage
- added --debug CLI switch

* Tue Dec 30 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta19

- Retry feature added, new props RetryAfter,RetryAttempts and RetryNotification
- Dependency rsync >= 3.0.4 added to spec file
- Append job status on testmail (because spam filter on receiver site)
- log total execution time

* Fri Dec 26 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta18

- bugfix check-connections: in ssh check in rsyncd mode
- escape single quotes in source dir names
- Bug 4882 fixed: LVM mapped devices

* Fri Dec 19 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta17

- dont chunk ESXi vmdk files in linkdest archive that will be deleted afterwards
- show disk usage at time at job run in --status
- new option --disk-usage shows current disk usage of all Root Dirs
- Bug 4852 fixed
- Modifications to allow backup of specific files (Bug 4853)

* Thu Dec 11 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta16

- shorten command line of rsync command when syncing ESXi VM. Dropbear has limits

* Wed Dec 10 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta15

- chunk feature now working for all job types
- new property chunkFiles
- new options --chunk-archive and --unchunk-archive

* Mon Dec 08 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta14

- --delete-job: Delete logfile
- samba template for Affa archives
- Bugfix: snapshot was removed to early. Wrong vmx file copied
- disabled chunk feature for now. Needs more testing

* Sun Dec 07 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta12

- using perl Compress::Bzip2

* Sat Dec 06 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta11

- replaced gzip by bzip2 as gzip inserts timestamps

* Thu Dec 04 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta10

- bugfixes

* Thu Dec 04 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta09

- chunk and compress vmdk files

* Thu Nov 27 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta08

- allow special characters in VM name and pathes

* Tue Nov 11 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta07

- New Dropbear Version 0.51 did not work stable. Stay with original 0.49 and th exit status bug
- Modified Affa to not to check exit status of ssh and rsync command

* Sat Nov 08 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta06

- FIXED: rsync did not work for VM with blanks in name
- SSH exit codes now checked as Dropbear 0.51 is used on ESX3i host

* Tue Nov 04 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta05

- log msg and exit if VI Pert Tool Kit installed 
- Fixed: in job sample scripts create affa db if not exists

* Tue Nov 04 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta04

- Allow setups with dailyKeep=0, weeklyKeep=0, monthlyKeep=0 or yearlyKeep=0
- Fixed: Yearly archives not listed in --status and --list-archives

* Mon Nov 03 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta03

- cleaner logging of VI API errors
- backing up ESXi server config and root home dir
- Checking VI API connect in --check-connections

* Sun Nov 02 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta02

- Fixed: Log file excerpt was not appened to Email.
- Fixed: checkConnection() did not work for ESXi
- Fixed: ssh find command did not use the HostKeyAlias option
- Catch die from VI Toolkit
- Close VI API session while rsyncing

* Fri Oct 31 2008 Michael Weinberger 2.0.0-beta01

- ESXi support added

* Tue May 27 2008 Michael Weinberger 1.0.0-3

Re-added type 'desktop' to pre-backup event for SME6 compatibility

* Tue Apr 22 2008 Michael Weinberger 1.0.0-2

Bug fix #4210, command "affa --show-schedule" executes postJobCommand

* Fri Apr 04 2008 Michael Weinberger 1.0.0-1

Final release
  man page updated

* Fri Apr 04 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.10.0-2

added --all option to --rise

* Mon Mar 10 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.10.0-1

Increased release number
  Added 10 sec timeout in Net::DNS::Resolver->search

* Mon Mar 10 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-11

Specfile fix

* Mon Mar 10 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-10

Delete locally created watchdog file after remotecopy
  Bugfix 4035
  Added default AutoUnmount property to sample script
  Fix man page
  Do not delete md5sum in --create-backup-file when verify is skipped by user
  Set lock in --create-backup-file

* Sun Mar 09 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-9

trap signals in --create-backup-file

* Sat Mar 08 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-8

Permissions in /usr/lib/affa

* Sat Mar 08 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-7

md5sum in --create-backup-file

* Fri Mar 07 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-6

Added option --create-backup-file
  Using line number as error code in affaErrorExit()
  Fixed /etc/profile.d/affa.sh

* Mon Mar 03 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-5

- delete new style Dovecot's index files dovecot.index* 
- delete dovecot index files on remote server in --full-restore

* Fri Feb 29 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-4

set localhost as default remoteHostName in /etc/e-smith/templates//etc/cron.d/affa/00jobs

* Wed Feb 27 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-3

removed %post from spec file

* Sat Feb 02 2008 Michael Weinberger 0.9.0-2

Bugfix: Report db was not deleted in deleteJob()
  don't use -q on ssh commands with Debug=yes

* Fri Feb 01 2008 Shad L. Lords <slords@mail.com> 0.9.0-1

- Fix specfile for building in new buildsystem

* Fri Jan 18 2008 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.9.0
  Bugfix: run cronSetup() after job delete
  Throw error if nothing was backed up (empty archive)
  Added rsyncd support for backing up Windows/Cygwin
  Added option and property remoteOS. Which remoteOS=cgywin the 
    send key and revoke key functions use the right path to the 
	authorized_keys2 file and login as user Administrator

* Sat Dec 29 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.8.1
  Automount Bugfix  [Bug 3165]: Only exit with error on mount failure
    when in backup run. Otherwise log the error and continue.

* Thu Dec 20 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.8.0
  added bash completion script
  added option --kill JOB
  improved INT and TERM signal handling
  replaced all scp commands by rsync
  added poperty BandwidthLimit (unit KBytes/sec)
  each job write its own known hosts entry using ssh option HostKeyAliasOption
  affa --send-key w/o arguments sends the keys for all jobs
  removed Property StrictHostKeyChecking
  UPDATE FROM VERSIONS<8: run the command 'affa --send-key' to generate 
    the known hosts entries for all jobs

* Wed Dec 12 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.7.0
  Modified logging: Job run logs to /var/log/affa/JOBNAME.log, all other 
    to /var/log/affa/affa.log
  Bugfix: Check error status of --send-key  and --revoke-key
  New: Options --show-schedule
  Modified: Option --list-archives now accepts multiple args or none
  Fix: install watchdog on source server before every run not only scheduled, 
    to avoid watchdog triggered if a non-scheduled run take to long time.

* Wed Nov 28 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.8
  Bugfix: Automount was done too late. Daily backup never ran.

* Wed Nov 21 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.7
  Bugfix: Size and No. of files were not shown in --status
  Improved deleting of directories
  added --check-connections option
  Increased width of job column in --stats table

* Sun Nov 11 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.6
  Property rsync--modify-window added
  Modified recursive deleting directories

* Wed Nov 07 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.5
  ssh options added to scp commands
  added post-backup event

* Wed Aug 08 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.4
  delete dovcot index files after a --rise

* Thu Jul 05 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.3
  Bugfix: with RPMCheck=yes the affa-rpmlist was not found in the 
  archive. Wrong path to schedule.0 instead of scheduled.running. 
  Side effect of changes in version 0.5.0. [Bug 3128]

* Tue Jul 03 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.2
  Bugfix: Filesys::DiskFree requires $ENV{LANG}="en_US" [Bug 3119]
  Bug reported to bug-Filesys-DiskFree [at] rt.cpan.org

* Mon Jun 25 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.1
  Fix 3080 was not applied.

* Mon Jun 18 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.6.0
- Replaced Filesys::DiskSpace by Filesys::DiskFree as the latter
  supports CIFS file system
- using Filesys::DiskFree->mount and ->device instead of scanning /proc/mounts
- mkdir RootDir only on job run to avoid making it in an unmounted mountpoint

* Mon Jun 18 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.5.2
- Sending ssh key failed. When grep returned an error
  the mv command was not executed. Using ';' instead of '&&' 
  for chaining commands. [Bug 3080]
- /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2: No such file or directory warning.
  Run a touch to guarantee, that the file exists. [Bug 3080]
- same issue with --revoke-key

* Thu Jun 14 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.5.1
- Bugfix automount: getStatus() unmounts the device while a job is running
- Status table: Last=never, if there are no archives at all

* Tue Jun 12 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.5.0
- New property AutomountOptions
- status table: grouped disabled jobs. Show Last='-' for disabled jobs
  instead of 'failed'
- unlink lockfile in getLock()
- Changes to improve robustness in case of network outage:
  - writing to a temporary archive scheduled.running and linkdest
    against the latest existing archive (usually scheduled.0). Then
    shift archives and rename scheduled.running to scheduled.0
  - scheduledKeep=1 is now allowed
  - also check connection in daily,weekly etc., not only in scheduled run
  - don't run daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, when scheduled.0 doesn't 	exist.
- new option --revoke-key
- added optional option --revoke-key to --delete-job
- avoid multiple adding public key to authorized_keys2 on source server

* Wed Jun 06 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.4.7
- use StrictHostKeyChecking=no in sendKeys()

* Tue Jun 05 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.4.6
- mailtest: Send also a testmail from the remotehost, when property Watchdog=yes
- removed useless code in mailTestWatchdogRemote()

* Mon Jun 04 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.4.5
  write job config file to the archive dir

* Thu May 31 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.4.4
- added property StrictHostKeyChecking (ssh option)
- string comparison instead of numric for $job{'doneYearly'} ne $thisYear etc.

* Wed May 30 2007 Michael Weinberger

Version 0.4.3
- Minor bugfixes:
  calculation of RootDirFilesystemUsage in .AFFA-REPORT
  improved error handling with rsync status and df in DiskspaceWarn()

* Tue May 29 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.4.2
  Infinite loop in execPostJobCommand() if command could not be executed:
  Don't call execPostJobCommand() in affaErrorExit() if err==115
- RPMCheck property was ignored
- added Property chattyOnSuccess
- modified jobconfig-sample.pl to preserve 'doneDaily','doneWeekly',
  'doneMonthly','doneYearly' and 'chattyOnSuccess'
- write error codes of affaErrorExit() to log

* Thu May 24 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.4.1
- fixed bug in disk usage calculation

* Tue May 22 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.4.0
- added option --rename-job
- changed syntax of --send-keys
- added option --move-archive

* Sun May 20 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.3.3
- rebuild cronjobs after rise/undorise
- ignore job of own backup, when creating cronjobs (job appears after a rise run)

* Sun May 20 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.3.2
- man: added sshPort propperty
- chdir /tmp to avoid cwd warnings when the cwd disappears while
  running rise or undo rise
- bugfix: undorise() did not found own backup archive. Was searching for a wrong name

* Wed May 16 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.3.1 minor bugfixes
- checkCrossFS() did not work (used in --rise) 
- jobconfig-sample.pl: deleting record before setting props
- Perl errors with --status before a job run

* Thu May 10 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.3.0
- man page completed
- mark archives with indices > keep setting with '*' in --list-acrchive output
- Option --delete-job
- Option --cleanup
- added --job=JOB alternative to --send-keys

* Wed May 09 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.2.0
- added --mailtest option

* Tue May 08 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.1.5
- improved --status output
- removed options --report and --send-report
- added option --show-archives
- added --csv for status and show-archives output in CSV format
- added property 'sshPort'

* Mon May 07 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.1.4
- don't install the remote watchdog, when remotehost is eq localhost
- improved check for remoteHostName eq localhost using DNS
- ssh -o PasswordAuthentication=no in checkConnection()
- added --full-restore
- missing check for HOSTNAME argument in --send-keys added
  improved error check
- prevent run of --rise of localhost from own backup

* Mon Apr 30 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.1.3
  modified 'use constant* syntax in watchdog script for compatibility 
  with perl 5.6 on SME6

* Fri Apr 27 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.1.2
  Bugfix: Preserve of ethernet driver setting with --rise did not work.
  Also preserve NIC bonding.

* Mon Apr 23 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.1.1
  scheduledKeep must be>=2 for --link-dest
  set scheduledKeep to 2 if <2
- get lastrun date from affa-report rather than from report file
- added auto mount function
- added AutomountDevice and AutomountPoint to jobconfig-sample.pl

* Wed Apr 18 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.0.8
  dont die if report db does not exist

* Wed Apr 18 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.0.7
  run checkConnection() only for scheduled backups
  added Size and Disk usage information to --status

* Tue Apr 17 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.0.7
  print Servername in --status output

* Thu Apr 12 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.0.5
  fixed calculation of lastrun-now

* Thu Apr 12 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.0.4
- added --send-status plus templates 
- fixed format error of times in affa --status
- show 'failed', if lastrun is older 1 day in affa --status 
- fixed typo. default status=disabled (was disable)

* Fri Apr 06 2007 Michael Weinberger

- Version 0.0.3
- watchdog reminder was not deleted on soure
- wrong version mismatch list in  rpm compare

* Thu Apr 05 2007 Michael Weinberger

- added 'rsync--inplace' property

* Mon Apr 02 2007 Michael Weinberger

- initial release

Backup server	Source server	Data on source server	Transferred Data	Connection	Compression	Affa run time
2x3.2GHz Xeon 2 GB RAM, 1.5 TB RAID6	2x3.2GHz Dual Core Xeon 4 GB RAM, RAID5, SME 7.1 Intranet Web Server + MySQL	1.4 GB, 12,000 files	300 MB, 16 files	2 Mbit VPN	yes	2 minutes
2x3.2GHz Xeon 2 GB RAM, 1.5 TB RAID6	2x3.2GHz Dual Core Xeon 4 GB RAM, RAID5 SME 7.1 Mailserver	43 GB, 410,000 files	140 MB, 2,700 files	2 Mbit VPN	yes	10 minutes
2x2GHz Dual Core Xeon 5130 6 GB RAM, 1 TB RAID 5	2x2GHz Dual Core Xeon 5130 6 GB RAM, 1 TB RAID 5 SME 7.1 File- and Mailserver	125 GB, 98,000 files	3,2 GB, 3,000 files	1 Gbit LAN	no	25 minutes
2x2GHz Dual Core Xeon 5130 6 GB RAM, 874 GB RAID 5	2x2GHz Dual Core Xeon 5130 6 GB RAM, 1 TB RAID 5 SME 7.1 File- and Mailserver	125 GB, 98,000 files	3.5 GB, 2000 files	2 Mbit VPN	yes	17 minutes
2x800MHz Pentium 3 1 GB RAM, 300 GB RAID1	2x2.8GHz Xeon, 1GB RAM, 140 GB RAID5 SME 7.1 File- and Mailserver	39 GB, 370,000 files	12 GB, 4,000 files	100 Mbit LAN	no	52 minutes
1xP4 2.4GHz 256 MB RAM SME 7.1	2xP4 1GHz 1 GB RAM SME 6	7.4 GB, 134,790 files	7.4 GB, 134,790 files	100 Mbit LAN	no	35 minutes
2x3.2GHz Xeon 2 GB RAM, 1.5 TB RAID6	Virtual Windows 2003R2 Server on VMWare ESXi on Dell PowerEdge 2900 8x1,8 GHz E5320 CPU 16 GMB RAM, internal data storage on Perc 5 Raid 5	60 GB, 9 files	20 MB	1 Mbit VPN	yes	6,5 hours

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