2 Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.24
4 Bacula code: Total files = 447 Total lines = 149,711 (*.h *.c *.in)
6 New Features in 1.39.24
7 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
8 - Win32 external script excution is much more flexible -- handles
9 spaces in names better, ...
10 - Lots of DVD fixes -- I think they now work!
11 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
13 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
14 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
15 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
17 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
18 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
19 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
20 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary)
21 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
22 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir
23 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
24 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
25 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
26 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
27 - Install man pages with 'make install'
28 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
29 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
30 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
32 ==== IMPORTANT a stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash =====
33 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
34 the tape drive. Workaround, load a Fedora kernel, which works fine,
35 or load the SuSE 10.2 rc5 kernel which also works fine.
37 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
38 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
39 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
40 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. Please backup your previous
41 version of the database before running the update. The update
42 script will be automatically installed in your scripts directory,
43 or can also be found in <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
45 ./update_bacula_tables
47 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
48 a 1.39.x beta or to 1.40.0. Upgrading the Bacula version
49 thereafter does not require updating the database again.
50 Depending on the size of your database the script make take a
51 bit of time, to run, but in general, it should be very fast.
53 ==== IMPORTANT DVD Volume format changed ====
54 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
55 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
56 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
57 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
59 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
60 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
61 should. If you have multiple catalogs, you will need to select
62 the catalog (this I will fix). More importantly, in restore
63 mode, the restore tree is no longer shown in the left pane. I
64 suspect this is due to incompatible changes in the GTK+ API,
65 and hence have given up on gnome and gtk+, as this has already
66 happened several times previously. At some point there
67 will be a new GUI console.
68 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
69 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
70 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run.
71 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
72 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
73 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
74 - The "Accept Any Volume" directive has been removed. It was never
75 implemented. Bacula will always accept any valid tape that is in
76 the drive for appending.
77 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 1.39.18 Director
78 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
79 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
80 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
81 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
82 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
83 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
84 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
85 with the correct MediaType.
86 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
87 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
88 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
89 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
90 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
91 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
92 more testing is still needed.
94 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
95 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to the new installer nothing special
96 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
97 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\Bacula
98 directory (mostly out of paranoia, we can change that prior to release if
99 everyone is comfortable with it).
101 Prior to using the current installer, if you used a prior 1.39.x
102 beta version, you must do one of the following three things:
104 1) Uninstall prior beta version and select the option to delete
105 the configuration and state files. This will get rid of the bogus
106 configuration files. Reinstall the new 1.39.22 version.
108 2) Manually copy the *.conf files from C:\Bacula\bin to
109 C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula.
111 3) Manually edit the *.conf files in C:\Documents and
112 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. The links in the Bacula menu
113 can be used to avoid having to enter that ugly path.
115 After one of these has been done the upgrade should work fine.
117 If you have problems with the above, try the following
118 The new Win32 installer requires that you deinstall any
119 previous 1.39.x beta version before installing the new version.
120 The following is not necessary if you are upgrading from
121 a 1.38.x installation.
123 The simplest way to do clean up a prior 1.39.x beta is in a DOS shell:
129 (Install the new Bacula)
131 Note, one or both of the 'net stop' commands may fail. Don't
134 If you didn't read the release notes or forgot to do those
135 commands, try the following:
143 Note, at least one of the 'net' commands and possibly both
144 will fail, and at least one of the 'sc' commands will fail.
145 Don't worry about it. After that, try again to install
149 New Features in 1.40.0:
150 - The basic features of Migration are now complete.
151 - There is a Migration chapter in the doc.
152 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
153 - There is an Encryption chapter in the doc.
154 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
155 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
156 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
157 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
158 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
159 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
161 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio.
162 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
163 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
164 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
165 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
166 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
167 - Implement mount command for autochanger
168 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
169 from File= was not found.
170 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
171 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
172 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
173 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
174 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
175 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
176 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
177 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
178 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
179 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
180 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
181 Finally, he also ported the Directory and the Storage daemon to
183 - Data encryption done in the Client is now supported due to code
184 submitted by Landon Fuller.
185 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
186 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
187 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
188 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
189 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
190 eliminated thanks to Thorsted Engel.
191 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
192 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
193 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
194 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
195 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
196 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
197 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
199 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
200 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
201 can be enabled by changing one define, but this has never been tested.
202 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
203 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
204 "list nextvol days=xx"
207 My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the
208 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
209 the weekend. This patch was probably back ported to 1.38.x
210 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
212 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
213 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
214 listing where they could be "lost".
215 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
216 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
218 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
219 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
220 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
221 the job can be manually started from the console.
222 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
223 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
224 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
225 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
226 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
227 - Implement support for removable filesystems.
228 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
229 to a user submission.
230 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
231 in the Status report.
232 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
233 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
234 all other Storage specifications.
235 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
236 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
237 from a database table for restore.
238 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
239 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
240 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
241 accept time qualifiers.
242 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
243 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
244 - Apply patch for enhancing wait from Eric Bollengier. One can now:
245 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
247 wait jobuid=unique id
249 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
250 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
251 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
252 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
253 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
254 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
255 one at a time). This is not well tested.
256 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
257 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
258 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
259 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
260 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
261 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
262 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
263 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
264 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
265 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
266 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
267 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
268 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
269 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
271 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
272 fault, but still 60 second window.
273 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
274 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
276 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
277 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
278 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
279 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
280 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
281 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
282 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
283 - Add /silent option to Win32 FD for Install/Remove service.
284 programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
285 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
287 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
289 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
290 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
291 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
292 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
293 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
294 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
295 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
296 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
298 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
300 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
301 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
302 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
303 - Implement a number of user supplied patches for DVD writing.
304 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
305 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
307 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
308 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
309 Add Cost to Location table.
310 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
311 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
312 and forcing a 6 second wait.
313 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
314 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
315 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. This could cause print output
316 to look different. The reason for this code is to eliminate the
317 security problems associated with using the system libraries
319 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
320 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
321 it is all very complicated.
322 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
324 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
326 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
327 job report in the Log database table.
328 - Spend a lot of time integrating mkcdrec with the rescue disk.
329 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
330 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
331 - Allow true/false in some yes/no questions.
332 - Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
334 Additional Features Added for Win32:
336 Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
337 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
338 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
339 has the concept of drives.
341 Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
342 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
344 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
345 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
347 Patterns conform to Posix
348 \ is not a special character in character classification []
349 To match a - it must be the first or last character
350 To match a ] it must be the first character
352 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
353 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
355 Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
356 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
357 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
358 abc*.def work as expected.
360 Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
362 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
364 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
365 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and
366 Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
367 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and
368 Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
369 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
370 Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
371 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
372 Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
373 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
374 Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"
378 Here are some hints if you want to play with the Windows Director and/or
381 Changer and Tape device names in Windows are Changer0, Changer1, etc and
382 Tape0, Tape1, etc. If there isn't a device driver loaded for the Changer
383 then you need to use the address <Port>:<Bus>:<Target>:<Lun>. Port is the
384 SCSI Adapter Number, Bus is the Bus Number on the adapter (usually 0 since
385 most adapters only have one bus), Target is the device's Target Device ID,
386 Lun is the Logical Unit Number.
388 You must specify DeviceType = tape in the Device resource in bacula-sd.conf
389 since detection doesn't currently work.