8 Unicode in Win32 Thorsten Engel
9 VSS Thorsten Engel (under consideration)
10 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
11 ========================================================
14 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
15 (probably not this version)
16 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
17 (probably not this version)
19 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
21 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
22 ## Move rescue to its own project.
23 ## Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
26 - 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
27 autochanger, by checking if a Volume is mounted on another drive
29 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
30 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
31 - Make "update slots" when pointing to Autochanger, remove
32 all Volumes from other drives. "update slots all-drives"?
35 - Pruning with Admin job.
36 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
38 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
39 2) Sun, DDS, (Suns name unknown - Archive Python DDS drive), 1.2GB
40 3) Wangtek, QIC, 6525ES, 525MB (fixed block size 1k, block size etc.
41 driver dependent - aic7xxx works, ncr53c8xx with problems)
42 4) HP, DDS-2, C1553A, 6*4GB
44 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
45 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
46 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
47 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
48 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
50 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
51 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
53 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
56 - Fix 3993 error in SD. It forgets to look at autochanger
57 resource for device command, ...
58 - --without-openssl breaks at least on Solaris.
60 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
61 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
62 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
63 - Python script to do backup.
65 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
66 at the start of a job.
67 - Make sure that Python has access to Client address/port so that
68 it can check if Clients are alive.
70 - Implement "NewVolumeEachJob = yes|no" in Dir.
71 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
72 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
73 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
74 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
75 resources were locked.
76 - Add global lock on all devices when creating a device structure.
77 - Fix the Rescue CDROM.
80 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
81 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
82 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
83 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
84 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
85 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
86 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
87 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
88 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
89 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
90 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
91 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
92 - Implement copies and stripes.
93 - Add history file to console.
94 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
95 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
96 16 hours to build the restore list.
97 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
98 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
99 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
100 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
101 - Add and option to see if the file size changed during backup.
102 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
103 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
104 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
105 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
106 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
107 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
108 get the bootstrap file.
109 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
110 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
111 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
113 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.1 See:
114 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
115 - Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
118 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
119 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
120 Automatically selected Pool: Default
121 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
122 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
123 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
124 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
125 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
126 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
127 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
128 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
129 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
130 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
131 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
133 Regression tests (Scott):
134 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
135 - Add delete JobId to regression.
136 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
137 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
138 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
139 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
140 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
142 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
143 on the restore prompt)
144 - Add IPv6 to regression
145 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
148 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
149 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
150 more than 1000 files per directory.
154 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
155 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
157 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
158 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
159 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
161 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
163 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
164 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
165 benefit from as well.
167 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
168 NextJobs = job1,job2.
171 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
172 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
173 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
174 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
175 the job after it needn't to be run
176 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
179 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
180 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
181 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
184 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
185 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
186 execute different actions based on the return value
189 3. offline capability to bconsole
192 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
193 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
194 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
195 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
197 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
198 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
199 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
200 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
201 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
204 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
208 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
209 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
210 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
212 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
215 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
216 I would have the possibilty to define
217 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
218 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
220 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
223 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
224 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
225 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
227 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
228 french and Morre (western african language).
230 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
231 due to the design of bacula.
233 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
234 the "Label Format" Directive.
238 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
239 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
240 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
241 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
242 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
243 name in the correct language.
245 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
246 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
247 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
248 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
251 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
252 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
253 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
256 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
257 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
258 presenting in a browser.
259 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
260 - Specify a single directory to restore.
261 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
262 rpm and Win32 releases.
263 - Browse generations of files.
264 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
265 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
266 size. Relevant information is at
267 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
268 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
269 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
270 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
271 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
272 - Supported autochanger:
280 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
281 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
282 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
283 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
284 - Include within include does it work?
285 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
286 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
287 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
288 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
289 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
290 savings time changes.
291 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
292 - Promote to Full = Time period
293 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
294 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
295 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
296 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
297 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
298 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
299 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
301 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
302 - How to handle backing up portables ...
303 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
304 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
305 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
308 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
309 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
310 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
311 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
312 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
313 - Document query file format.
314 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
315 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
316 - Document how to use multiple databases.
317 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
318 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
321 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
322 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
323 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
324 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
326 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
327 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
328 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
329 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
330 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
331 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
332 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
333 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
334 - Document doing table repair
337 ===================================
338 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
339 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
340 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
341 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
343 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
344 - Autorestart on crash.
345 - Add bandwidth limiting.
346 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
347 the line from timing out.
348 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
349 up through the prompt.
350 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
351 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
352 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
353 units, perhaps via a directive.
354 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
355 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
356 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
357 with multiple priorities.
358 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
359 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
361 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
363 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
364 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
365 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
366 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
367 are not using the same tape(s).
368 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
369 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
371 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
372 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
373 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
374 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
375 perhaps if password is undefined.
376 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
381 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
382 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
384 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
385 - the help-command should be more verbose
386 (it should explain the paramters of the different
388 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
389 you need a special parameter
390 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
391 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
393 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
394 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
395 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
396 its faster to enter the specified directory
397 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
398 you should be asked for it.
399 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
400 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
401 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
402 to forget to remove the password after usage
404 the protection of that file is less important
405 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
406 like the unix more/less-command does
407 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
408 be a little long and complex
409 - command-output should be shown column by column
410 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
412 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
414 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
415 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
416 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
418 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
419 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
420 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
421 permissions *can* be restored.
422 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
423 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
424 - Add prune all command
425 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
426 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
427 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
428 - look at mxt-changer.html
429 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
430 - Implement restore directory.
431 - Document streams and how to implement them.
432 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
433 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
434 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
435 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
436 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
438 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
439 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
440 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
441 - Add tree pane to left of window.
442 - Add progress meter.
443 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
444 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
445 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
446 which is needed by all packages.
447 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
448 space test fails in btape.
449 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
450 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
451 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
452 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
453 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
454 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
455 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
456 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
457 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
459 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
460 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
461 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
462 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
463 - Add level to estimate command.
464 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
465 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
466 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
467 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
468 Do both a long and short form.
469 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
470 stat data on each file).
471 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
473 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
474 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
475 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
476 - Add John's appended files:
477 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
478 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
479 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
480 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
481 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
482 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
483 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
484 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
485 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
486 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
487 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
488 - Allow for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
489 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
490 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
491 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
492 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
493 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
494 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
495 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
496 BackupClient RestoreClient).
497 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
498 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
499 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
500 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
501 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
502 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
503 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
504 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
505 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
507 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
509 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
510 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
511 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
512 the proper storage type.
513 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
514 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
515 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
516 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
517 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
518 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
519 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
520 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
521 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
522 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
523 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
524 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
525 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
526 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
527 which in turn overrides Pool.
529 - New Storage specifications:
530 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
531 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
532 - Want to read/write simultaneously
533 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
535 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
539 MediaType -> Next MediaType
541 Device -> Next Device
543 Allow multiple Storage specifications
551 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
553 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
554 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
555 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
556 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
557 is contained in only one device.
558 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
560 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
561 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
563 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
564 even more important, it's not flaky
565 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
566 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
568 Macintosh file client
569 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
570 working bare iron recovery for windows
571 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
572 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
573 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
574 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
575 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
577 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
578 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
579 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
580 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
581 support for Oracle database ??
583 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
584 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
585 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
586 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
587 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
589 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
590 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
591 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
592 is needed to properly specify ranges.
593 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
594 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
595 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
596 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
597 Job report (Volker Sauer).
598 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
599 - Implement Console mtx commands.
600 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
601 the users could specify a system command to be performed
602 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
603 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
604 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
605 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
606 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
607 depending on the exact nature of the device.
608 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
609 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
610 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
611 once he had actually inserted the disk.
612 - Implement dump/print label to UA
613 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
615 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
616 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
617 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
618 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
619 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
620 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
621 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
622 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
623 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
624 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
625 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
626 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
627 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
628 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
629 it a command line option.
630 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
631 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
632 by handling spaces better.
633 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
634 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
635 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
638 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
639 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
640 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
641 necessary parameters.
643 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
644 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
646 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
647 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
648 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
649 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
650 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
651 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
652 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
653 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
654 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
655 automatically generate the Volume name.
656 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
657 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
658 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
659 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
660 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
661 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
662 time as the user walks through the tree).
663 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
664 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
665 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
666 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
667 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
668 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
669 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
670 run the job but don't save the files.
671 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
674 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
675 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
676 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
677 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
678 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
679 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
680 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
681 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
683 - Implement a Recycle command
684 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
685 verify if it is the correct client.
686 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
687 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
688 - Test a second language e.g. french.
689 - Start working on Base jobs.
690 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
691 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
693 - From Phil Stracchino:
694 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
695 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
696 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
697 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
698 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
699 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
700 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
701 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
702 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
703 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
704 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
705 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
706 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
707 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
708 if there is an error.
709 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
710 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
711 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
713 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
714 - Implement console @echo command.
715 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
716 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
717 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
718 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
719 - Implement create "FileSet"?
720 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
721 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
723 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
724 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
725 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
726 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
727 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
729 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
730 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
731 - Refine SD waiting output:
732 Device is being positioned
733 > Device is being positioned for append
734 > Device is being positioned to file x
736 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
737 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
738 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
739 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
740 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
741 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
742 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
743 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
744 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
745 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
746 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
747 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
748 speed up things. Test with testfind().
749 - Priority job to go to top of list.
750 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
751 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
752 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
753 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
754 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
755 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
756 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
757 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
758 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
759 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
760 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
761 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
762 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
763 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
764 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
765 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
766 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
767 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
768 - Add UA rc and history files.
769 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
770 allow -with-termcap-dir.
771 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
772 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
773 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
774 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
775 - Write an applet for Linux.
776 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
777 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
778 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
779 - Maximum Operator Wait
780 - Minimum Message Interval
781 - Maximum Message Interval
782 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
783 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
784 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
786 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
787 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
788 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
789 reading a new config file at any time.
790 - Handle ctl-c in Console
791 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
792 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
793 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
794 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
795 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
796 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
797 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
798 - Restore files modified after date
799 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
800 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
801 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
802 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
803 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
804 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
807 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
808 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
809 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
811 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
812 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
813 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
814 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
815 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
818 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
821 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
822 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
826 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
827 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
828 - Partial Read error code
829 - Partial write error code
830 - Nonformatted read error
831 - Nonformatted write error
832 - WriteProtected error
836 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
846 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
848 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
849 at end of save retry and report any errors.
850 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
851 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
853 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
854 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
855 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
856 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
858 - Ensure that /dev/null works
859 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
860 report resource where report=group of messages
861 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
862 fill in code for "since" option
863 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
864 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
865 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
866 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
867 - Need a structure for pending actions:
869 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
871 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
872 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
873 owner, group, user, quotas
874 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
875 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
877 ========= ideas ===============
878 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
879 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
880 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
881 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
883 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
884 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
885 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
886 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
887 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
888 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
889 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
890 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
891 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
892 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
894 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
895 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
896 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
897 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
898 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
899 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
900 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
903 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
904 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
905 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
906 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
907 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
908 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
909 implementing something like this.
912 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
914 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
915 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
917 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
919 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
920 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
922 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
924 the Migration to tape later.
926 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
927 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
928 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
929 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
930 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
931 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
932 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
933 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
934 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
935 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
936 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
937 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
938 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
939 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
941 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
942 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
943 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
944 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
948 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
950 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
953 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
954 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
955 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
956 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
957 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
958 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
959 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
960 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
961 each row of the files table.
963 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
964 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
965 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
967 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
968 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
969 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
974 ==============================
977 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
978 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
979 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
980 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
981 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
982 the caller can change the break characters.
983 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
984 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
985 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
986 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
987 buffer messages for later.
988 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
989 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
990 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
991 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
992 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
993 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
994 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
995 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
999 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1000 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1002 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
1004 Migration triggered by:
1008 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1013 ======================================================
1015 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1016 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1018 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1019 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1021 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1022 JobId - JobId currently running
1023 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1024 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1025 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1026 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1027 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1028 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1029 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1030 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1031 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1032 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1033 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1034 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1035 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1036 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1038 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1039 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1040 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1042 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1044 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1045 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1046 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1047 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1048 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1049 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1050 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1051 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1052 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1054 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1060 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1061 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1062 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1063 =========================================================
1066 ==========================================================
1068 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1069 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1070 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1071 a list of Unsaved files.
1073 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1077 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1078 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1079 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1080 =============================================================
1083 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
1086 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
1087 and no error message.
1088 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
1089 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
1090 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1091 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
1092 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
1093 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
1094 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1095 Use "mount" command to release Job.
1096 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
1097 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
1098 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
1099 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
1101 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
1102 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
1103 just before read_block_from_device();
1106 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1107 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1108 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1109 Address 480 is Empty
1111 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1112 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1113 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1114 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1115 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1116 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1117 Storage Element 1:Empty
1118 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1119 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1120 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1121 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1122 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1123 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1124 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1125 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1126 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1127 Storage Element 11:Empty
1128 Storage Element 12:Empty
1129 Storage Element 13:Empty
1130 Storage Element 14:Empty
1131 Storage Element 15:Empty
1132 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1133 Storage Element 28:Empty
1134 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1135 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1136 Storage Element 57:Empty
1137 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1138 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1139 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1141 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1143 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1144 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1146 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1147 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1148 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1149 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1150 from an offset point either.something like
1152 Autochanger drives = 2
1153 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1154 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1155 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1156 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1162 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1163 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1164 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1165 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1166 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1167 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1168 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1169 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1170 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1171 slot number as the destination.AB
1177 undef# camcontrol devlist
1178 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1179 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1180 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1182 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1183 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1184 Product Type: Tape Drive
1186 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1188 Attached Changer: No
1189 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1190 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1197 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1200 DataCompEnabled: yes
1201 DataCompCapable: yes
1202 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1209 Handling removable disks
1211 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1213 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1214 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1215 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1216 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1218 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1219 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1220 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1221 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1223 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1225 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1226 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1227 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1228 scattered in many subdirectories.
1233 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1234 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1235 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1236 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1237 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1238 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1239 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1240 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1241 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1242 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1243 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1244 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1245 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1246 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1247 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1248 when the SD started.
1249 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1250 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1251 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1252 for operator intervention.
1253 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1254 - Add performance testing hooks
1255 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1256 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1257 saving only *.doc files.
1259 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
1260 Storage: DDS-4-changer
1264 The defined Storage resources are:
1265 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
1266 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
1267 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
1268 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
1269 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
1270 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
1271 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
1274 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
1275 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
1276 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
1277 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
1278 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
1279 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
1280 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
1281 or need them to be different for each device.
1282 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
1283 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
1284 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
1285 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
1286 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
1288 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
1289 #5 Events that call a Python program
1290 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
1291 - Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
1292 - Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
1293 - Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
1294 - Implement IBM labels.
1295 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
1296 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
1297 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
1298 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
1299 - 28-Mar 23:19 rufus-sd: acquire.c:379 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
1300 is busy reading. Job 6 canceled.
1301 - Remove separate thread for opening devices in SD. On the other
1302 hand, don't block waiting for open() for devices.
1303 - Fix code to either handle updating NumVol or to calculate it in
1305 - Ensure that you cannot exclude a directory or a file explicitly
1307 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
1308 (Implemented in Dir/SD/FD)
1309 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
1310 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
1313 - Add disk seeking on restore; turn off seek on tapes.
1315 - Look at dird_conf.c:1000: warning: `int size'
1316 might be used uninitialized in this function
1317 - Indicate when a Job is purged/pruned during restore.
1318 - Implement some way to turn off automatic pruning in Jobs.
1319 - Implement a way an Admin Job can prune, possibly multiple
1320 clients -- Python script?
1321 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
1322 - SD crashes after a tape restore then doing a backup.
1323 - If drive is opened read/write, close it and re-open
1324 read-only if doing a restore, and vice-versa.
1326 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
1327 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
1328 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
1329 > Prozess verwendet wird.
1330 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
1331 to set the attributes of e:
1332 from failed jobs.- Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
1333 and fix SD messages.
1334 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
1335 - Add a restore directory-x
1336 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
1337 even after Files are pruned.
1338 - Delete Stripe and Copy from VolParams to save space.
1339 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
1340 then list last 20 backups.
1341 - Finish implementation of passing all Storage and Device needs to
1343 - Move test for max wait time exceeded in job.c up -- Peter's idea.