1 Release Notes for Bacula 1.28
3 Bacula code: Total files = 226 Total lines = 61,863 (*.h *.c *.in)
5 Major Changes this Release:
6 - Bare Metal Recovery for Linux systems and manually for Solaris
7 - Optimized restore, forward spaces to correct tape file and
8 stops reading the archive when all files are restored.
9 - Schedule permits specification of 1st, 2nd, ... week e.g.
12 Minor Changes this Release:
13 - Fixed Restore options (never,ifnewer, ...). They now work.
14 - New bidirectional timed pipe mechanism for running child processes
15 permits better error messages.
16 - Faster Storage daemon initialization (using pthreads)
17 - Unlimited devices in Storage daemon (previously hard coded to 20).
18 - Fixed bug that recognized only the last option specified on Include record.
19 - Easier building of statically linked version of Bacula.
21 - Fixes for VolUseDuration (problems putting it in DB).
22 - Fix for / specified as Where.
23 - Enhanced WriteBootstrap (more precise parameters -- e.g. volfile, ...)
24 - Improved handling of Differential jobs (now on par with Incremental)
25 - User supplied script in examples directory for backing up AFS file system.
26 - User supplied script for Sun-desktop autoloader (examples/devices).
27 - Added configure options for building static versions of the
28 daemons and the console program.
29 - Added a --enable-client-only option that will cause "make" to only
30 build the File daemon and the libraries it needs.
33 - Nothing in particular.