2 Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.2
4 Bacula code: Total files = 345 Total lines = 99,835 (*.h *.c *.in)
8 - wx-console can now be built both under GTK and Win32. It is
9 now part of the Win32 binary release. It has a very nice tree
10 oriented restore. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat for this program.
11 - bconsole is now included in the Win32 binary release.
14 - bscan restored StartBlocks one block off resulting in loss of
15 data if any bscanned volumes were restored. Thanks to Gregory
16 for reporting this. It is fixed in this release.
17 - Due to an oversight, "Maximum Job Spool Size" was is not implemented.
18 It will be in the next release.
19 - To build wx-console on Linux. Download wxWidgets 2.4.2 from wxwidgets.org,
20 build and install it on your system, then add --enable-wx-console on
21 your Bacula ./configure and it will be built and installed.
22 - For both the Win32 and Linux GTK versions of wx-console, you must
23 create a wx-console.conf in the current directory. The contents are
24 identical to a bconsole.conf file.
27 - Make SD utility programs accept device name as well as archive device
30 - Remove old debug code from Win32 FD.
31 - A new version of depkgs-win32 was released containing the Win32
32 wxWidgets source code.
33 - Disable SIGHUP code in Director which is not yet complete.
37 - Autochanger users, please note you must add %d to the end of the
38 changer command line in your Device resource in your bacula-sd.conf
40 - There is a new wx-console program that does restores with a
41 tree allowing you to visually select what files are to be restored.
42 It is in a preliminary stage of development, but can be easily
43 be built under Linux with GTK, and with just a bit more difficulty
44 under Win32 with MinGW.
45 - Fixed a major race condition in the job scheduler when multiple
46 simultaneous jobs is enabled. This occurred only when on job had
47 blocked another because of resource usage.
48 - Fixed crash in SD during restore.
49 - Changed the backup report to indicate "Backup OK -- with warnings
50 if any warning messages were generated.
51 - Change output of restore report to indicate:
52 "Restore OK -- warning file count mismatch"
53 - Make backup report say "Backup OK with warnings" if either FD or SD
54 report any non-fatal errors.
55 - Modify bscan to print some elementary statistics (#Jobs, #Files, ...)
57 - Added --enable-wx-console and updated Makefile.in
58 - Fix mtx-changer so that the calling sequence is compatible
59 with the previous version (the new one required arguments that
60 were not necessarily used).
61 - Document how to use stunnel with Bacula.
62 - Fix crash in query command.
63 - Remove schedule from the default restore job.
64 - Fix data spooler to use min/max tape blocking factors.
65 - Automatically turn of conio if library not found instead of bombing.
66 - Cleaned up a lot of copyright dates.
67 - Try to keep spool statistics from going negative.
68 - Added new Pools chapter. Doc about using two disks.
69 - Attempt to keep the spool file statistics size from going
71 - Fix the Director's Scheduled Jobs: list to have a ===
73 - Fixed ./configure to disable readline rather than stop if
74 readline.h is not found
75 - Fixed a typo in the SQLite database update script as reported
76 by Robert J. Clark - thanks.
77 - Removed src/win32/pthreads and src/win32/zlib from the source
79 - Created a new depkgs-win32 that has the pthreads and zlib source
81 - Removed the JobDefs from the default Restore job as it has a
82 schedule. Thanks to Matt Howard for this.
88 - Data spooling which reduces tape shoe-shine during Inc backups,
89 and permits multiple simultaneous backups without interleaved blocks.
90 - Native Win32 client -- much faster and restores permissions correctly
91 (thanks to Christopher Hull)
92 - New Windows style installer for the Win32 Client.
93 - PostgreSQL database driver (thanks to Dan Langille).
94 - Polling of devices eliminating need to unmount and mount from
96 - Improved Autochange support of Slots (update slots scan).
97 - Autochanger support for multiple drives (I think).
98 - New conio code to implement Console command line editing and history.
99 - JobDefs resource permits smaller .conf files for Director
100 - Access console lists for the Console
101 - Pool level overrides.
102 - Daemon "status" is recovered across daemon executions.
103 - Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands.
107 - If you have a RedHat system, be sure to delete the /lib/tls
108 directory from your system. It contains defective pthreads code.
109 - The restore default is changed to have nothing selected by default.
110 You must either enter: "restore all" or after getting into the tree
111 selection prompt enter "mark *" to have everything selected.
112 - In previous versions the "all" keyword on the restore command caused
113 it to return without user interaction after selecting everything.
114 This function is now replaced by the "done" keyword (more logical).
115 The "all" keyword now causes everything to be selected by default.
116 - The default tape driver behavior is now to write only a single EOF
117 at the end of the tape. For most tape drives, this is totally
118 transparent and nothing needs to be done. For FreeBSD see below.
119 - FreeBSD users NOTE!!!!!
120 You may need the following two records to your SD Device resource for
124 Fast Forward Space File = no
126 The "Fast Forward Space File" is surely needed, and the TWOEOF
127 is needed on some systems and not others. Running the btape
128 "test" command will tell you. If you get an error with TWOEOF set
129 to yes, set it to no.
131 - If you want either bsmtp or bconsole on Win32, you will need
132 to load the 1.32 version along with cygwin1.dll. Some solution
133 for this will be forthcoming in a future update.
134 - The daemon protocol has changed from version 1.32, you must update
136 - The database level has been updated. You must either re-initialize
142 which will delete ALL prior catalog information, or you can
143 update your 1.32 database with:
145 ./update_bacula_tables
147 Please save your old database before dropping the tables or doing
148 an upgrade or you may regret it later.
149 - If you are updating versions older than 1.32, you can look in
150 the updatedb directory for scripts that you can use. You will need
151 to manually set the paths for your system.
153 - smtp has now become bsmtp -- you *must* modify your .conf files.
154 - console has now become bconsole.
155 - console.conf is now bconsole.conf
156 - Please don't underestimate the repercussions of the bsmtp and bconsole
161 - "Close on Poll = yes/no" in SD Device resource.
162 - "Volume Poll Interval = time-interval" in SD Device resource.
163 - "Two EOF = yes/no" in SD Device resource.
164 - "Maximum Network Buffer Size = size" in SD Device resource.
165 - "Maximum Network Buffer Size = size" in FD FileDaemon (or Client) resource.
166 - "Console" new resource in Director conf file.
167 New directives: Name, Description, Password, JobACL, ClientACL,
168 StorageACL, ScheduleACL, RunACL, PoolACL, CommandACL,
169 FileSetACL, CatalogACL.
170 - "Max Run Time = duration" in Director Job resource.
171 - "Max Wait Time = duration" in Director Job resource (not fully implemented).
172 - "JobDefs = name-of-resource" in Director Job resource.
173 - "Jobdefs" new resource in Director. Same directives as for a Job.
174 - "Full Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director.
175 - "Incremental Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director.
176 - "Differential Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director.
177 - Three new options on the Run override statement in a Schedule resource:
181 - SpoolData=yes/no in DIR Job resource
182 - SpoolData=yes/no in Run override directive.
183 - MaximumSpoolSize in SD Device resource
184 - MaximumJobSpoolSize in SD Device resource
185 - SpoolDirectory in SD Device resource.
186 - Drive Index in SD Device resource for using two autochanger
188 - mtimeonly=yes/no on Include directive.
189 - keepatime=yes/no on Include directive.
193 - Added "pool=xxx" to restore command line.
194 - Added "fileset=xxx" to restore command line.
195 - Fixed "storage=xxx" on restore command line.
196 - "markdir" command in restore tree.
197 - "unmarkdir" command in restore tree.
198 - "quit" command in restore tree.
199 - Trace option on "setdebug trace=1/0 ..."
201 - The "all" keyword on the restore command marks all files by default.
202 - The "done" keyword prevents user interaction with the tree -- used
203 mostly for batch scripting.
208 - On multiple ctl-c, exit from console quickly.
209 - Implement "delete job jobid=xxx jobid=yyy ..."
210 - Implement "purge volume=xxx volume=yyy ..."
211 - Add -p option to all SD programs including bacula-sd. It causes
212 Bacula to proceed or forge on in case of I/O errors. It is unlikely
213 this will help, and it is strongly recommended against running
214 the daemon with this option in production.
215 - Add a missing unlock in the jobq handler.
216 - Fix bug where a soft linked file and a directory had the same name
217 by treating the soft link as a directory and putting the entries under
218 it. This fixes the bug reported by Alexander Mueller.
219 - Apply Jess Guardiani's second fix to list autochanger volumes without
220 opening the drive (necessary on FreeBSD if no tape is in the drive).
221 - Reworked the command line handler in restore to walk through the
222 arguments one at a time. This makes the file= entries work correctly.
223 Also reworked the code that takes the MediaType and finds a
225 - Add quit command to restore tree handler.
226 - Make restore tree handler remember if a hard link is present, and
227 in doing a mark, only get database entry if there is a hard link.
228 mark commands thus run at least 2 orders of magnitude faster.
229 - Add files=xxx field to run command submitted for restore.
230 - Add yes to restore run command if either yes or run is command line
232 - Make "yes" on command line argument skip prompt for modification of
234 - Add markdir and unmarkdir -- both affect only the directory in
235 question and do not do a recursive descent.
236 - Make tree command automatically mark all higher level directories to
237 be restored when a directory or a file is selected. Such directories
238 are indicated by preceding the name with a + to indicate that only
239 the directory entry is selected and not the whole directory tree.
240 - Modify a few tree commands to walk through all arguments rather than
241 just taking the first one.
242 - Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands.
243 - The ability to ask the Storage daemon on a device by device basis
244 to "poll" the tape drive at a given interval (minimum 1 minute). If
245 a tape is found, its label is read and if appropriate it is used.
246 This eliminates the need to do "mount" commands.
247 - The ability to close and re-open the device when a poll occurs.
248 This permits dealing with certain recalcitrant autochangers that
249 invalidate devices (typically on FreeBSD).
250 - Dan Langille has written a PostgreSQL driver for Bacula.
251 - Implement "update slots scan" that reads the volume label(s).
252 - The full form of the scan is "scan=1,2,4-5,7". With no specification,
253 all occupied slots are scanned.
254 - Turn off changer Volumes that are not current in the changer when
255 an "update slots" is done, or if any tape operation discovers that
256 the right volume is not in the slot.
257 - The console program will run all commands it finds in ~/.bconsolerc
259 - Add Dan Langille's changes to the bacula start/stop script that
260 permit dropping root permissions just after startup.
261 - New version 1.5.5-1 Cygwin.
262 - Modify SD to update the catalog database when it is shutdown,
263 even if the job is canceled.
264 - Fixed seg fault in restore of multiple simultaneous jobs to
266 - Fixed thread race problem in multiple simultaneous jobs to
267 a single Volume where the volume label is not in the first
268 tape block, so the tape is not recognized.
269 - Restore directory tree automatically selects all higher level
270 directories to be restored.
271 - Implement conio.c to use in console program -- mini-readline.
272 - Enhance "fill" command of btape -- simpler output. Use -v to
273 cause last block to be dumped after write and after re-read.
274 - Added an autochanger test to the btape "test" command. It is
275 automatically invoked if the autochanger is properly configured. It
276 is still a bit primitive but covers the essential of testing
277 the mtx-changer script with your autochanger.
278 - Select the oldest LastWritten volume during recycling.
279 - Added forward space file test to btape "test" command.
280 - All 1.32d patches applied.
281 - Fixed seg fault in restore of multiple simultaneous jobs to
283 - Fixed thread race problem in multiple simultaneous jobs to
284 a single Volume where the volume lable is not in the first
285 tape block, so the tape is not recognized.