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-rwxr-xr-xbackupninja26
-rw-r--r--changelog2
-rw-r--r--handlers/maildir16
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/backupninja b/backupninja
index ea7304e..d653144 100755
--- a/backupninja
+++ b/backupninja
@@ -131,6 +131,23 @@ function setsection() {
CURRENT_SECTION=$1
}
+
+#
+# create a temporary file in a secure way.
+#
+function maketemp() {
+ if [ -x /bin/mktemp ]
+ then
+ local tempfile=`mktemp /tmp/$1.XXXXXXXX`
+ else
+ DATE=`date`
+ sectmp=`echo $DATE | /usr/bin/md5sum | cut -d- -f1`
+ local tempfile=/tmp/$1.$sectmp
+ fi
+ echo $tempfile
+}
+
+
#
# sets a global var with name equal to $1
# to the value of the configuration parameter $1
@@ -305,14 +322,7 @@ function process_action() {
let "actions_run += 1"
# call the handler:
- if [ -x /bin/mktemp ]
- then
- local bufferfile=`mktemp /tmp/backupninja.buffer.XXXXXXXX`
- else
- DATE=`date`
- sectmp=`echo $DATE | /usr/bin/md5sum | cut -d- -f1`
- local bufferfile=/tmp/backupninja.buffer.$sectmp
- fi
+ local bufferfile=`maketemp backupninja.buffer`
echo "" > $bufferfile
echo_debug_msg=1
(
diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
index 46227d4..ee0d727 100644
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+version 0.9 -- unreleased
removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
fixed insecure temporary file creation
fixed incorrect find positional
+
version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
added vservers support to duplicity handler
diff --git a/handlers/maildir b/handlers/maildir
index 0af8ff7..5219bef 100644
--- a/handlers/maildir
+++ b/handlers/maildir
@@ -12,7 +12,17 @@
# weekly.2
# monthly.1
# if keepdaily is 3, keepweekly is 2, and keepmonthly is 1.
-#
+#
+# The basic algorithm is to rsync each maildir individually,
+# and to use hard links for retaining historical data.
+#
+# We rsync each maildir individually because it becomes very
+# unweldy to start a single rsync of many hundreds of thousands
+# of files.
+#
+# For the backup rotation to work, destuser must be able to run
+# arbitrary bash commands on the desthost.
+#
##############################################################
getconf rotate yes
@@ -101,8 +111,8 @@ $dir $destuser@$desthost:$destdir/$letter \
# and add new ones which have just been created.
function do_remove() {
- local tmp1=/tmp/maildirtmpfile$$
- local tmp2=/tmp/maildirtmpfile$$
+ local tmp1=`maketemp maildir-tmp-file`
+ local tmp2=`maketemp maildir-tmp-file`
for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do
ls -1 "$srcdir/$i" | sort > $tmp1