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