2 Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
4 Bacula code: Total files = 258 Total lines = 76,596 (*.h *.c *.in)
6 Major Changes this Release:
7 - Implemented a new job scheduling algorithm with priorities.
8 - The database format has changed from version 1.30a. Please see below.
9 - Support to save and restore all files on WinNT/2K/XP systems
10 including the permissions. Unfortunately files that are in use by another
11 program cannot be saved.
12 - Support for Win95 systems (untested since I don't have Win95).
13 - Heartbeat every 20 minutes between daemons to prevent network
14 timeouts. The heartbeat interval can be set.
15 - Volume names may now only contain letters, numbers, colon, period, dash,
17 - Added readline to depkgs (removed from depkgs1) and fixed configuration if
18 it is not installed in your system libraries.
19 - Implemented generalized tape label formats including counter variables
20 for automatic naming of Volumes.
21 - Multiple simultaneous jobs now work. However, I still don't
23 - Implemented tape block rejection, which means that restores with
24 several incremental backups will run orders of magnitude faster.
27 Other Changes this Release:
28 - New Priority record in Jobs for setting job priorities.
29 - The name of Recycle Oldest Volume has now become Purge Oldest Volume.
30 - Implemented a Recycle Oldest Volume, which respects Retention periods.
31 - Implemented a Recycle Current Volume, which respects Retention periods.
32 - Restore checks block numbers to ensure that no block is lost.
33 - The new console var command allows testing variable expansion
34 used in automatic tape name generation.
35 - The new console estimate command allows you to test FileSets
36 to see how many files and bytes will be saved and optionally
37 to have an "ls -l" style listing of the files.
38 - During a normal restore (replace = yes), any existing file is deleted
39 and the restored file is then created. This corrects links and other
40 wierd files that changed between the backup and the restore.
41 - Preliminary support for BSDi.
42 - Use smtp instead of mail to send the traceback message.
43 - Fixed a race condition in the "list" command while a backup is
45 - Improvements to gnome-console.
46 - Prune orphaned jobs (no files saved, no Volume used).
47 - Added non-fatal errors to Job reports and statistics from both
48 the FD and SD for backups.
49 - Eliminate need for SubsysDirectory in each daemon -- please remove
50 these records from your .conf files.
51 - Add a lot more "command line" options to console commands.
52 - More info in traceback (database type, ...).
53 - Better handling of errors with autochangers during restore.
54 - Better cancellation of jobs in Storage daemon (doesn't try
56 - Better cancellation of File daemon (except on Cygwin systems).
57 - SD error messages such as autochanger errors are now properly
58 directed back to Console -- previously some were lost.
59 - A Storage daemon crash on FreeBSD systems (due to a different FreeBSD
60 pthreads implementation) is fixed.
61 - Better Job termination report particularly for Verify and Restore jobs.
62 - Update Verify VolumeToCatalog to use new BSR records.
63 - Fixed list last 20 jobs in restore command (previously reported any
65 - Gnome command line history works better.
66 - Better messages if a job is upgraded from Diff or Inc to Full.
67 - Replaced FileSet MD5 with date created -- more aestetic and readable.
68 - Fixed a FD crash on long directory names (Win32 specific).
73 - Recycle Oldest Volume has changed to be Purge Oldest Volume
74 Please change your Director's .conf file.
75 - The default time interval is now days instead of seconds. Please
76 check your .conf files!
77 - For MySQL users, you must have the thread safe client libraries
78 available. If you build MySQL yourself, add the --enable-thread-safe-client
79 option on the ./configure. You will most likely need to do an ldconfig.
80 Please see the installation documentation for building MySQL.
81 - Version 1.31 and 1.30 daemons/Director are not compatible. You must
82 upgrade all or nothing.
84 - The format of the catalog database has changed, so you must either
85 re-initialize your database (losing all the old info) with:
90 or you can use the appropriate script (you must choose the name according
91 to which database you have) in the <bacula-source>/src/cats directory.
93 BEFORE APPLYING THE ALTER SCRIPT PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATABASE.
94 If you have previously upgraded to version 1.31, please do not run
95 this procedure a second time. Do one of the following only if you
96 wish to keep your old tables (not doing the re-initialize documented
97 above), and do this only after configuring an building the new Bacula,
98 but before trying to run it:
101 cd working-directory (or where you want to backup the catalog)
102 mysqladmin -f --opt bacula >bacula.sql
103 cd <bacula-source>/src/cats
108 echo '.dump' sqlite bacula.db >bacula.sql
109 cd <bacula-source>/src/cats
110 ./alter_sqlite_tables
112 When you are sure that Bacula is running with your upgraded database,
113 please delete the bacula.sql copy you made.