osync/CHANGELOG.md

KNOWN ISSUES

• Cannot finish sync if one replica contains a directory and the other replica contains a file named the same way (Unix doesn't allow this)
• Soft deletion does not honor exclusion lists ! colors don't work in mac shell

RECENT CHANGES

dd mmm YYYY: osync v1.2-RC2 release

• Hugely improved ssh_filter
• Improved privilege elevation compatibility on SUDO_EXEC=yes runs
• Refactored installer logic and added --remove option
• Added optional mail body characterset encoding
• Fixed log output has escaped UTF-8 characters because of LC_ALL=C
• Fixed installer statistics don't report OS
• Minor tweaks and fixes in ofunctions

13 Dec 2016: osync v1.2-RC1 release

• Unit tests have run on CentOS 5,6 and 7, Debian 8, Linux Mint 18, FreeBSD 10.3/pfSense, FreeBSD 11, MacOSX Sierra, Win10 1607 (14393.479) bash, Cygwin x64 and MSYS2 current
• Added optional rsync arguments configuration value
• Fixed another random error involving warns and errors triggered by earlier runs with same PID flag files
• Adde more preflight checks
• Fixed a random appearing issue with Sync being stopped on internet failure introduced in v1.2 rewrite
• Resuming operation will not send warnings anymore unless resumed too many timess
• Spinner is less prone to move logging on screen
• Fixed daemon mode didn't enforce exclusions
• Made a quick and dirty preprocessor
  • ofunctions can now directly be loaded into osync via an include statement
  • n_osync.sh can be assembled on the fly using bootstrap.sh
• Forced remote ssh to use bash (fixes FreeBSD 11 compatibility when default shell is csh)
• Faster execution
  • Reduced number of needed sequential SSH connections for remote sync (4 connections less)
  • Refactored CheckReplicaPath and CheckDiskSpace into one functon CheckReplicas
  • Refactored CheckDiskSpace, CheckLocks and WriteLocks into one function HandleLocks
  • Removed noclobber locking in favor of a more direct method
• Improved remote logging
• Fixed directory ctime softdeletion
• Using mutt as mail program now supports multiple recipients
• osync now properly handles symlink deletions (previous bugfix didn't work properly)
• Simplified osync-batch runner (internally and for user)
  • Better filename handling
  • Easier to read log output
  • Always passes --silent to osync
  • All options that do not belong to osync-batch are automatically passed to osync
• Improved installer OS detection
• Added daemon capability on MacOS X
• Fixed upgrade script cannot update header on BSD / MacOS X
• Fixed SendEmail function on MacOS X
• Fixed MAX_HARD_EXEC_TIME not enforced in sync function introduced with v1.2 rewrite
• Fixed MAX_SOFT_EXEC_TIME not enforced bug introduced with v1.2 rewrite
• 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
• Fixed failed deletion rescheduling under BSD bug introduced with v1.2 rewrite
• merge.sh is now BSD and Mac compatible
• More work on unit tests:
  • Unit tests are now BSD / MacOSX / MSYS / Cygwin and Windows 10 bash compatible
  • Added more ACL tests
  • Added directory soft deletion tests
  • Added symlink and broken symlink copy / deletion tests
  • Made unit tests more robust when aborted
  • Simplified unit tests needed config files (merged travis and local config files)
  • Added timed execution tests
• More code compliance
• Lots of minor fixes

19 Nov 2016: osync v1.2-beta3 re-release

• Fixed blocker bug where local tests tried GetRemoteOS Anyway
• Fixed CentOS 5 compatibility bug for checking disk space introduced in beta3
• More Android / Busybox compatibility
• Made unit tests clean authorized_keys file after usage
• Added local unit test where remote OS connection would fail

18 Nov 2016: osync v1.2-beta3 released

• Improved locking / unlocking replicas
  • Fixed killing local pid that has lock bug introduced in v1.2 rewrite
  • Allow remote unlocking when INSTANCE_ID of lock matches local INSTANCE_ID
• Fixed failed deletions re-propagation bug introduced in v1.2 rewrite
• Faster remote OS detection
• New output switches, --no-prefix, --summary, --errors-only
• 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 --skip-deletion support in config and quicksync modes
• Added possibility to skip deletion on initiator or target replica
• Prevent lock file racing condition (thanks to https://github.com/allter)
• Added ssh password file support
• Hugely improved unit tests - Added conflict resolution tests - Added softdeletion tests
  • Added softdeletion cleanup tests
    • Added lock tests
    • Added skip-deletion tests
  • Added configuration file tests
  • Added upgrade script test
  • Added basic daemon mode tests
• Simplified logger
• All fixes from v1.1.5

17 Oct 2016: osync v1.2-beta2 released

• osync now propagates symlink deletions and moves symlinks without referrents to deletion dir
• Upgrade script now has the ability to add any missing value
• Improved unit tests
  • Added upgrade script test
  • Added deletion propagation tests

30 Aug 2016: osync v1.2-beta released

• Rendered more recent code compatible with bash 3.2+
• Added a PKGBUILD file for ArchLinux thanks to Shadowigor (https://github.com/shaodwigor). Builds available at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/osync/
• Some more code compliance & more paranoia checks
• 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
• Made unix signals posix compliant
• Config file upgrade script now updates header
• Improved batch runner
• Made keep logging value configurable and not mandatory
• Fixed handling of processes in uninterruptible sleep state
• Parallelized sync functions
  • Rewrite sync resume process
• Added options to ignore permissions, ownership and groups
• Refactored WaitFor... functions into one
• Improved execution speed
  • Rewrite sync resume process
  • Added parallel execution for most secondary fuctions
  • Lowered sleep time in wait functions
  • Removed trivial sleep and forking in remote deletion code, send the whole function to background instead
  • Unlock functions no longer launched if locking failed
• Improved WaitFor... functions to accept multiple pids
• Added KillAllChilds function to accept multiple pids
• Improved logging

17 Nov 2016: osync v1.1.5 released

• Backported unit tests from v1.2-beta allowing to fix the following
  • Allow quicksync mode to specify rsync include / exclude patterns as environment variables
  • Added default path separator char in quicksync mode for multiple includes / exclusions
  • Local runs should not check for remote connectivity
  • Fixed backups go into root of replica instead of .osync_wordir/backups
  • Fixed error alerts cannot be triggered from subprocesses
  • Fixed remote locked targets are unlocked in any case

10 Nov 2016: osync v1.1.4 released

• Fixed a corner case with sending alerts with logfile attachments when osync is used by multiple users

02 Sep 2016: osync v1.1.3 released

• Fixed installer for CYGWIN / MSYS environment

28 Aug 2016: osync v1.1.2 released

• Renamed sync.conf to sync.conf.example (thanks to https://github.com/hortimech)
• Fixed RunAfterHook may be executed twice
• Fixed soft deletion when SUDO_EXEC is enabled

06 Aug 2016: osync v1.1.1 released

• Fixed bogus rsync pattern file adding
• Fixed soft deletion always enabled on target
• Fixed problem with attributes file list function
• Fixed deletion propagation code
• Fixed missing deletion / backup diretories message in verbose mode

27 Jul 2016: osync v1.1 released

• More msys and cygwin compatibility
• Logging begins now before any remote checks
• Improved process killing and process time control
• Redirected ERROR and WARN messages to stderr to systemd catches them into it's journal
• Added systemd unit files
• Added an option to ignore ssh known hosts (use with caution, can lead to security risks), also updated upgrade script accordingly
• Added optional installation statistics
• Fixed a nasty bug with log writing and tree_list function
• Improved mail fallback
• Improved more logging
• Fixed conflict prevalance is target in quicksync mode
• Fixed file attributes aren't updated in a right manner when file mtime is not altered (Big thanks to vstefanoxx)
• Better upgrade script (adding missing new config values)
• More fixes for GNU / non-GNU versions of mail command
• Added bogus config file checks & environment checks
• Added delta copies disable option
• Revamped rsync patterns to allow include and exclude patterns
• Fully merged codebase with obackup
• Passed shellCheck.net
  • Simplified EscapeSpaces to simple bash substitution
  • Corrected a lot of minor warnings in order to make code more bullet proof
• Added v1.0x to v1.1 upgrade script
• Added (much) more verbose debugging (and possibility to remove debug code to gain speed)
• Force tree function to overwrite earlier tree files
• Add Logger DEBUG to all eval statements
• Unlocking happens after TrapQuit has successfully killed any child processes
• Replace child_pid by $? directly, add a better sub process killer in TrapQuit
• Refactor [local master, local slave, remote slave] code to [local, remote][initiator, target]code
• Renamed a lot of code in order to prepare v2 code (master becomes initiator, slave becomes target, sync_id becomes instance_id)
• Added some automatic checks in code, for _DEBUG mode (and _PARANOIA_DEBUG now)
• Improved Logging
• Updated osync to be fully compliant with coding style
• Uploaded coding style manifest
• Added LSB info to init script for Debian based distros

v0-v1.0x - Jun 2013 - Sep 2015

22 Jul. 2015: Osync v1.00a released

• Small improvements in osync-batch.sh time management
• Improved various logging on error
• Work in progress: Unit tests (intial tests written by onovy, Thanks again!)
• Small Improvements on install and ssh_filter scripts
• Improved ssh uri recognition (thanks to onovy)
• Fixed #22 (missing full path in soft deletion)
• Fixed #21 by adding portable shell readlink / realpath from https://github.com/mkropat/sh-realpath
• Added detection of osync.sh script in osync-batch.sh to overcome mising path in crontab
• Fixed osync-batch.sh script when osync is in executable path like /usr/local/bin
• Fixed multiple keep logging messages since sleep time between commands has been lowered under a second
• Added optional checksum parameter for the paranoid :)
• Fixed typo in soft deletion code preventing logging slave deleted backup files
• Removed legacy lockfile code from init script
• Removed hardcoded program name from init script

01 Avr. 2015: Osync v1.00pre

• Improved and refactored the soft deletion routine by merging conflict backup and soft deletion
  • Reworked soft deletion code to handle a case where a top level directory gets deleted even if the files contained in it are not old enough (this obviously shouldn't happen on most FS)
  • Added more logging
• Merged various fixes from onovy (http://github.com/onovy) Thanks!
  • Lowered sleep time between commands
  • Check if master and slave directories are the same
  • Check script parameters in osync.sh and osync-batch.sh
  • Run sync after timeout in --on-changes mode when no changes are detected (helps propagate slave changes)
  • Fix for locking in --on-changes mode (child should lock/unlock, master process shouldn't unlock)
  • Remote user is now optional in quicksync mode
• Replaced default script execution storage from /dev/shm to /tmp because some rootkit detection software doesn't like this
• Fixed bogus error in DEBUG for quicksync mode where no max execution time is set
• Prevent debug mode to send alert emails
• Fixed an infamous bug introduced with exclude pattern globbing preventing multiple exludes to be processed
• Fixed an issue with empty RSYNC_EXCLUDE_FILES
• Lowered default compression level for email alerts (for low end systems)
• Prevent exclude pattern globbing before the pattern reaches the rsync cmd
• Fixed some missing child pids for time control to work
• Prevent creation of a sync-id less log file when DEBUG is set
• Added a sequential run batch script that can rerun failed batches
• Fixed an issue where a failed task never gets resumed after a successfull file replication phase
• Added experimental partial downloads support for rsync so big files can be resumed on slow links
• Added the ability to keep partial downloads that can be resumed on next run (usefull for big files on slow links that reach max execution time)
• Moved msys specific code to Init(Local|Remote)OSSettings
• Added a patch by igngvs to fix some issues with Rsync Exclude files
• Added a patch by Gary Clark to fix some issues with remote deletion
• Minor fixes from obackup codebase
• Added compression method fallback (xz, lzma, pigz and gzip)
• Removed unused code
• Fixed remote OS detection when a banner is used on SSH
• Added a routine that reinjects failed deletions for next run in order to prevent bringing back when deletion failed with permission issues
• Added treat dir symlink as dir parameter

27 May 2014: Osync 0.99 RC3

• Additionnal delete fix for *BSD and MSYS (deleted file list not created right)
• Fixed dry mode to use non dry after run treelists to create delete lists
• Added follow symlink parameter
• Minor fixes in parameter list when bandwidth parameter is used
• Added some additionnal checks for *BSD and MacOS environments
• Changed /bin/bash to /usr/bin/env bash for sanity on other systems, also check for bash presence before running
• Changed default behavior for quick sync tasks: Will try to resume failed sync tasks once
• Some code cleanup for state filenames and sync action names
• Fixed deletion propagation (again). Rsync is definitly not designed to delete a list of files / folders. Rsync replaced by rm function which downloads deletion list to remote system.
• Added path detection for exclude list file
• Added a simple init script and an install script
• Fixed an issue with MacOSX using rsync -E differently than other *nix (Thanks to Pierre Clement)
• Multislave asynchronous task support (Thanks to Ulrich Norbisrath)
  • This breaks compat with elder osync runs. Add the SYNC_ID suffix to elder state files to keep deleted file information.
• Added an easier debug setting i.e DEBUG=yes ./osync.sh (Again, thanks to Ulrich Norbisrath)
• Added hardlink preservation (Thanks to Ulrich Norbisrath)
• Added external exclusion file support (Thanks to Pierre Clement)
• Fixed some typos in doc and program itself (Thanks to Pierre Clement)
• More detailled verbose status messages
• More detailled status messages
• Fixed a bug preventing propagation of empty directory deletions
• Fixed a nasty bug preventing writing lock files on remote system as superuser
• Gzipped logs are now deleted once sent
• Fixed some typos (thanks to Pavel Kiryukhin)
• Fixed a bug with double trailing slashes in certain sceanrios
• Sync execution don't fails anymore if files vanish during execution, also vanished files get logged
• Add eventual "comm -23" replacement by "grep -F -x -v -f" to enhance compatibility with other platforms (comm is still much faster than grep, so we keep it)
• Replaced xargs rm with find -exec rm to better handle file names in soft deletion
• Fixed soft deletion not happening with relative paths
• Improved process termination behavior
• More code merging and cleanup
• Fixed a bug preventing deleted files in subdirectories propagation (Thanks to Richard Faasen for pointing that out)
• Some more function merge in sync process
• Dry mode won't create or modifiy state files anymore and will use dry-state files instead
• Improved file monitor mode
• Added possibility to daemonize osync in monitor mode
• Added monitor mode, which will launch a sync task upon file operations on master replica
• Changed conf file default format for ssh uri (old format is still compatible)
• Added ssh uri support for slave replicas
• Improved execution hooks logs
• Various bugfixes introduced with function merge
• Added basic MacOS X support (yet not fully tested)
• Merged tree list functions into one
• Added possibility to quick sync two local directories without any prior configuration
• Added time control on OS detection

02 Nov. 2013: Osync 0.99 RC2

• Minor improvement on operating system detection
• Improved RunLocalCommand execution hook
• Minor improvements on permission checks
• Made more portability improvements (mostly for FreeBSD, must be run with bash shell)
• Added local and remote operating system detection
  • Added forced usage of MSYS find on remote MSYS hosts
  • Updated MSYS handling
• Merged MSYS (MinGW minimal system) bash compatibility under Windows from Obackup
  • 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 on master
    • Added an optionnal remote rsync executable path parameter
• Fixed an issue with CheckConnectivity3rdPartyHosts
• Added an option to stop execution if a local / remote command fails
• Improved forced quit command by killing all child processes
• Before / after commands are now ignored on dryruns
• Improved verbose output
• Fixed various typos
• Enforced CheckConnectivityRemoteHost and CheckConnectivity3rdPartyHosts checks (if one of these fails, osync is stopped)

18 Aug. 2013: Osync 0.99 RC1

• Added possibility to change default logfile
• Fixed a possible error upon master replica lock check
• Fixed exclude directorires with spaces in names generate errros on master replica tree functions
• Dryruns won't create after run tree lists and therefore not prevent building real run delete lists
• Softdelete and conflict backup functions are now time controlled
• Added bandwidth limit
• Update and delete functions now run rsync with --stats parameter
• Fixed LoadConfigFile function will not warn on wrong config file
• Added --no-maxtime parameter for sync big changes without enforcing execution time checks

03 Aug. 2013: beta 3 milestone

• Softdelete functions do now honor --dry switch
• Simplified sync delete functions
• Enhanced compatibility with different charsets in filenames
• Added CentOS 5 compatibility (comm v5.97 without --nocheck-order function replaced by sort)
• Tree functions now honor supplementary rsync arguments
• Tree functions now honor exclusion lists

01 Aug. 2013: beta 2 milestone

• Fixed an issue with spaces in directory trees
• Fixed an issue with recursive directory trees
• Revamped a bit code to add bash 3.2 compatibility

24 Jul. 2013: beta milestone

• Fixed some bad error handling in CheckMasterSlaveDirs and LockDirectories
• Added support for spaces in sync dirs and exclude lists
• Fixed false exit code if no remote slave lock present
• Added minimum disk space checks
• Added osync support in ssh_filter.sh
• Added support for sudo exec on remote slave
• Added support for alternative rsync executable
• Added support for spaces in sync directories names
• Added support for ACL and xattr
• Added --force-unlock parameter to bypass any existing locks on replicas
• Added full remote support for slave replica
• Improved error detection
• Made some changes in execution hook output
• Fixed an issue with task execution handling exit codes
• Added master and slave replicas lock functionnality
• Added rsync exclude patterns support
• Improved backup items, can now have multiple backups of the same file
• Added maximum number of resume tries before trying a fresh stateless execution
• Added possibility to resume a sync after an error
• Improved task execution time handling
• Improved SendAlert handling
• Fixed cleanup launched even if DEBUG=yes
• Added verbose rsync output
• Added --dry and --silent parameters
• Added time control
• Added master/slave conflict prevalance option
• Added soft-deleted items
• Added backup items in case of conflict

19 Jun. 2013: Project begin as Obackup fork