2 Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.26
4 Bacula code: Total files = 447 Total lines = 149,711 (*.h *.c *.in)
6 Version 1.39.26 contains mainly bug fixes to 1.39.24. Please
7 see the ChangeLog for more details.
9 ==== IMPORTANT a stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash =====
10 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
11 the tape drive. Workaround, load a Fedora kernel, which works fine,
12 or load the SuSE 10.2 rc5 kernel which also works fine.
14 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
15 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
16 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
17 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. Please backup your previous
18 version of the database before running the update. The update
19 script will be automatically installed in your scripts directory,
20 or can also be found in <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
22 ./update_bacula_tables
24 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
25 a 1.39.x beta or to 1.40.0. Upgrading the Bacula version
26 thereafter does not require updating the database again.
27 Depending on the size of your database the script make take a
28 bit of time, to run, but in general, it should be very fast.
30 ==== IMPORTANT DVD Volume format changed ====
31 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
32 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
33 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
34 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
36 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
37 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
38 should. If you have multiple catalogs, you will need to select
39 the catalog (this I will fix). More importantly, in restore
40 mode, the restore tree is no longer shown in the left pane. I
41 suspect this is due to incompatible changes in the GTK+ API,
42 and hence have given up on gnome and gtk+, as this has already
43 happened several times previously. At some point there
44 will be a new GUI console.
45 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
46 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
47 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run.
48 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
49 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
50 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
51 - The "Accept Any Volume" directive has been removed. It was never
52 implemented. Bacula will always accept any valid tape that is in
53 the drive for appending.
54 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 1.39.18 Director
55 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
56 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
57 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
58 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
59 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
60 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
61 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
62 with the correct MediaType.
63 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
64 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
65 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
66 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
67 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
68 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
69 more testing is still needed.
71 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
72 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
73 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
74 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\Bacula
75 directory (mostly out of paranoia, we can change that prior to release if
76 everyone is comfortable with it).
78 Prior to using the current installer, if you used a version of the beta
79 prior to 1.39.26, you must do one of the following three things:
81 1) Uninstall prior beta version and select the option to delete
82 the configuration and state files. This will get rid of the bogus
83 configuration files. Reinstall the new 1.39.26 version.
85 2) Manually copy the *.conf files from C:\Bacula\bin to
86 C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula.
88 3) Manually edit the *.conf files in C:\Documents and
89 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. The links in the Bacula menu
90 can be used to avoid having to enter that ugly path.
92 After one of these has been done the upgrade should work fine.
95 New Features in 1.40.0:
96 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
97 - Win32 external script excution is much more flexible -- handles
98 spaces in names better, ...
99 - Lots of DVD fixes -- I think they now work!
100 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
102 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
103 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
104 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
105 from Eric Bollengier.
106 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
107 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
108 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
109 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary)
110 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
111 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir
112 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
113 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
114 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
115 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
116 - Install man pages with 'make install'
117 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
118 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
119 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
120 - The basic features of Migration are now complete.
121 - There is a Migration chapter in the doc.
122 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
123 - There is an Encryption chapter in the doc.
124 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
125 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
126 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
127 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
128 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
129 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
131 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio.
132 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
133 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
134 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
135 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
136 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
137 - Implement mount command for autochanger
138 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
139 from File= was not found.
140 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
141 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
142 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
143 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
144 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
145 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
146 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
147 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
148 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
149 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
150 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
151 Finally, he also ported the Director and the Storage daemon to
153 - Data encryption done in the Client is now supported due to code
154 submitted by Landon Fuller.
155 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
156 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
157 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
158 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
159 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
160 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel.
161 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
162 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
163 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
164 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
165 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
166 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
167 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
169 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
170 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
171 can be enabled by changing one define, but this has never been tested.
172 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
173 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
174 "list nextvol days=xx"
177 My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
178 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
179 the weekend. This patch was probably back ported to 1.38.x
180 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
182 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
183 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
184 listing where they could be "lost".
185 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
186 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
188 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
189 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
190 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
191 the job can be manually started from the console.
192 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
193 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
194 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
195 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
196 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
197 - Implement support for removable filesystems.
198 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
199 to a user submission.
200 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
201 in the Status report.
202 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
203 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
204 all other Storage specifications.
205 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
206 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
207 from a database table for restore.
208 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
209 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
210 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
211 accept time qualifiers.
212 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
213 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
214 - Apply patch for enhancing wait from Eric Bollengier. One can now:
215 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
217 wait jobuid=unique id
219 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
220 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
221 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
222 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
223 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
224 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
225 one at a time). This is not well tested.
226 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
227 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
228 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
229 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
230 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
231 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
232 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
233 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
234 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
235 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
236 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
237 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
238 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
239 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
241 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
242 fault, but still 60 second window.
243 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
244 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
246 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
247 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
248 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
249 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
250 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
251 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
252 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
253 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
254 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
256 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
258 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
259 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
260 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
261 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
262 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
263 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
264 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
265 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
267 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
269 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
270 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
271 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
272 - Implement a number of user supplied patches for DVD writing.
273 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
274 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
276 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
277 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
278 Add Cost to Location table.
279 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
280 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
281 and forcing a 6 second wait.
282 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
283 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
284 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. This could cause print output
285 to look different. The reason for this code is to eliminate the
286 security problems associated with using the system libraries
288 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
289 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
290 it is all very complicated.
291 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
293 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
295 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
296 job report in the Log database table.
297 - Spend a lot of time integrating mkcdrec with the rescue disk.
298 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
299 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
300 - Allow true/false in some yes/no questions.
301 - Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
303 Additional Features Added for Win32:
305 Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
306 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
307 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
308 has the concept of drives.
310 Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
311 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
313 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
314 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
316 Patterns conform to Posix
317 \ is not a special character in character classification []
318 To match a - it must be the first or last character
319 To match a ] it must be the first character
321 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
322 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
324 Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
325 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
326 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
327 abc*.def work as expected.
329 Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
331 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
333 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
334 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and
335 Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
336 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and
337 Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
338 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
339 Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
340 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
341 Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
342 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
343 Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"