2 Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
4 Bacula code: Total files = 246 Total lines = 70,476 (*.h *.c *.in)
6 Major Changes this Release:
7 - The database format has changed. Please see below.
8 - Support to save and restore all files on WinNT/2K/XP systems
9 including the permissions. Unfortunately files that are in use by another
10 program cannot be saved.
11 - Support for Win95 systems (untested since I don't have Win95).
12 - Heartbeat every 20 minutes between daemons to prevent network
13 timeouts. The heartbeat interval can be set.
14 - Volume names may now only contain letters, numbers, colon, period, dash,
16 - Added readline to depkgs (removed from depkgs1) and fixed configuration if
17 it is not installed in your system libraries.
20 Other Changes this Release:
21 - Preliminary support for BSDi.
22 - Use smtp instead of mail to send the traceback message.
23 - Fixed a race condition in the "list" command while a backup is
25 - Beginning of support for SSL encryption.
26 - Beggining of support for Base level backups.
27 - Improvements to gnome-console.
28 - Prune certain orphaned jobs (no files saved, no Volume used).
29 - Added non-fatal errors to Job reports.
30 - Eliminate need for SubsysDirectory in each daemon -- please remove
31 these records from your .conf files.
32 - Add a lot more "command line" options to console commands.
33 - More info in traceback (database type, ...).
34 - Better handling of errors with autochangers during restore.
35 - Better cancellation of jobs in Storage daemon (doesn't try
37 - SD error messages such as autochanger errors are now properly
38 directed back to Console -- previously some were lost.
39 - A Storage daemon crash on FreeBSD systems (due to an improper FreeBSD
40 pthreads implementation -- IMO) is fixed.
41 - Better Job termination report particularly for Verify and Restore jobs.
42 - Update Verify VolumeToCatalog to use new BSR records.
43 - Fixed list last 20 jobs in restore command (previously reported any
45 - Gnome command line history works better.
46 - Better messages if a job is upgraded from Diff or Inc to Full.
51 - For MySQL users, you must have the thread safe client libraries
52 available. If you build MySQL yourself, add the --enable-thread-safe-client
53 option on the ./configure. You will most likely need to do an ldconfig.
54 Please see the installation documentation for building MySQL.
55 - Version 1.31 and 1.30 daemons/Director are not compatible. You must
56 upgrade all or nothing.
57 - The format of the catalog database has changed, so you must either
58 re-initialize your database (losing all the old info) with:
63 or you can use the appropriate script (you must choose the name according
64 to which database you have) in the <bacula-source>/src/cats directory.
66 BEFORE APPLYING THE ALTER SCRIPT PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATABASE. Do one
67 of the following only if you wish to keep your old tables (not doing
68 the re-initialize documented above), and do this only after configuring
69 an building the new Bacula, but before trying to run it:
72 cd working-directory (or where you want to backup the catalog)
73 mysqladmin -f --opt bacula >bacula.sql
74 cd <bacula-source>/src/cats
79 echo '.dump' sqlite bacula.db >bacula.sql
80 cd <bacula-source>/src/cats
83 When you are sure that Bacula is running with your upgraded database,
84 please delete the bacula.sql copy you made.