8 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
9 ========================================================
12 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
13 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
16 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
18 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
19 ## Move rescue to its own project.
22 - 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
23 autochanger, by checking if a Volume is mounted on another drive
25 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
26 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
27 - Make "update slots" when pointing to Autochanger, remove
28 all Volumes from other drives. "update slots all-drives"?
31 - Look at dird_conf.c:1000: warning: `int size'
32 might be used uninitialized in this function
33 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
34 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
35 - Implement some way to turn off automatic pruning in Jobs.
36 - Implement a way an Admin Job can prune, possibly multiple
37 clients -- Python script?
38 - Implement "NewVolumeEachJob = yes|no" in Dir.
40 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
41 - Python script to do backup.
42 - Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
43 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
44 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
45 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
46 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
47 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
48 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
49 - Finish implementation of passing all Storage and Device needs to
51 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
52 resources were locked.
53 - Add global lock on all devices when creating a device structure.
54 - Make sure that Python has access to Client address/port so that
55 it can check if Clients are alive.
56 - Cleanup and complete Python scripting.
58 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
59 at the start of a job.
62 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
63 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
64 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
65 - Implement copies and stripes.
66 - Add history file to console.
67 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
68 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
69 16 hours to build the restore list.
70 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
71 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
72 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
74 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
75 2) Sun, DDS, (Suns name unknown - Archive Python DDS drive), 1.2GB
76 3) Wangtek, QIC, 6525ES, 525MB (fixed block size 1k, block size etc.
77 driver dependent - aic7xxx works, ncr53c8xx with problems)
78 4) HP, DDS-2, C1553A, 6*4GB
80 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
81 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
82 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
83 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
84 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
86 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
87 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
88 - Add and option to see if the file size changed during backup.
90 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
91 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
92 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
93 > Prozess verwendet wird.
94 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
95 to set the attributes of e:
96 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
98 - Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
100 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
101 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
102 - Add a restore directory-x
103 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
104 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
105 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
106 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
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.
129 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
130 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
131 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
132 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
134 Regression tests (Scott):
135 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
136 - Add delete JobId to regression.
137 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
138 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
139 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
140 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
141 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
143 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
144 on the restore prompt)
145 - Add IPv6 to regression
146 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
149 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
150 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
151 more than 1000 files per directory.
155 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
156 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
158 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
159 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
160 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
162 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
164 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
165 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
166 benefit from as well.
168 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
169 NextJobs = job1,job2.
172 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
173 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
174 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
175 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
176 the job after it needn't to be run
177 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
180 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
181 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
182 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
185 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
186 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
187 execute different actions based on the return value
190 3. offline capability to bconsole
193 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
194 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
195 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
196 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
198 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
199 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
200 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
201 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
202 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
205 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
209 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
210 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
211 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
213 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
216 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
217 I would have the possibilty to define
218 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
219 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
221 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
224 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
225 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
226 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
228 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
229 french and Morre (western african language).
231 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
232 due to the design of bacula.
234 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
235 the "Label Format" Directive.
239 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
240 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
241 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
242 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
243 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
244 name in the correct language.
246 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
247 presenting in a browser.
248 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
249 - Specify a single directory to restore.
250 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
251 rpm and Win32 releases.
252 - Browse generations of files.
253 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
254 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
255 size. Relevant information is at
256 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
257 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
258 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
259 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
260 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
261 - Supported autochanger:
269 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
270 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
271 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
272 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
273 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
275 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
276 - Include within include does it work?
277 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
278 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
279 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
280 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
281 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
282 savings time changes.
283 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
284 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
285 even after Files are pruned.
286 - Promote to Full = Time period
287 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
288 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
289 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
290 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
291 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
292 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
293 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
295 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
296 - How to handle backing up portables ...
297 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
298 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
299 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
302 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
303 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
304 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
305 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
306 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
307 - Document query file format.
308 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
309 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
310 - Document how to use multiple databases.
311 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
312 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
315 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
316 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
317 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
318 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
320 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
321 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
322 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
323 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
324 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
325 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
326 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
327 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
328 - Document doing table repair
331 Testing to do: (painful)
334 For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
335 - Add bandwidth limiting.
336 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
337 the line from timing out.
338 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
339 up through the prompt.
340 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
341 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
342 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
343 units, perhaps via a directive.
344 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
345 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
346 - Add a read-only mode to the mount option.
347 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
348 with multiple priorities.
349 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
350 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
352 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
354 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
355 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
356 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
357 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
358 are not using the same tape(s).
359 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
360 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
362 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
363 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
364 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
365 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
366 perhaps if password is undefined.
367 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
372 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
373 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
375 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
376 - the help-command should be more verbose
377 (it should explain the paramters of the different
379 -> it´s time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
380 you need a special parameter
381 -> maybe it´s more easy to maintain this, if the
382 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
384 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
385 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
386 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
387 it´s faster to enter the specified directory
388 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
389 you should be asked for it.
390 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
391 which shouldn´t know the password for bacula.
392 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
393 to forget to remove the password after usage
395 the protection of that file is less important
396 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
397 like the unix more/less-command does
398 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
399 be a little long and complex
400 - command-output should be shown column by column
401 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
403 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
405 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
406 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
407 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
409 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
410 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
411 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
412 permissions *can* be restored.
413 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
414 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
415 - Add prune all command
416 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
417 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
418 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
419 - look at mxt-changer.html
420 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
421 - Implement restore directory.
422 - Document streams and how to implement them.
423 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
424 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
425 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
426 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
427 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
429 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
430 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
431 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
432 - Add tree pane to left of window.
433 - Add progress meter.
434 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
435 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
436 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
437 which is needed by all packages.
438 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
439 space test fails in btape.
440 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
441 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
442 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
443 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
444 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
445 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
446 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
447 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
448 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
450 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
451 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
452 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
453 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
454 - Add level to estimate command.
455 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
457 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
458 then list last 20 backups.
459 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
460 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
461 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
462 Do both a long and short form.
463 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
464 stat data on each file).
465 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
467 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
468 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
469 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
470 - Add John's appended files:
471 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
472 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
473 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
474 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
475 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
476 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
477 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
478 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
479 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
480 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
481 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
482 - Allow for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
483 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
484 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
485 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
486 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
487 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
488 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
489 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
490 BackupClient RestoreClient).
491 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
492 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
493 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
494 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
495 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
496 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
497 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
498 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
499 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
501 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
503 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
504 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
505 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
506 the proper storage type.
507 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
508 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
509 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
510 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
511 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
512 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
513 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
514 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
515 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
516 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
517 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
518 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
519 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
520 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
521 which in turn overrides Pool.
523 - New Storage specifications:
524 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
525 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
526 - Want to read/write simultaneously
527 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
529 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
533 MediaType -> Next MediaType
535 Device -> Next Device
537 Allow multiple Storage specifications
545 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
547 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
548 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
549 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
550 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
551 is contained in only one device.
552 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
554 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
555 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
557 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
558 even more important, it's not flaky
559 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
560 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
562 Macintosh file client
563 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
564 working bare iron recovery for windows
565 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
566 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
567 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
568 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
569 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
571 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
572 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
573 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
574 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
575 support for Oracle database ??
577 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
578 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
579 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
580 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
581 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
583 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
584 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
585 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
586 is needed to properly specify ranges.
587 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
588 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
589 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
590 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
591 Job report (Volker Sauer).
592 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
593 - Implement Console mtx commands.
594 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
595 the users could specify a system command to be performed
596 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
597 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
598 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
599 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
600 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
601 depending on the exact nature of the device.
602 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
603 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
604 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
605 once he had actually inserted the disk.
606 - Implement dump/print label to UA
607 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
609 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
610 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
611 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
612 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
613 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
614 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
615 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
616 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
617 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
618 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
619 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
620 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
621 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
622 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
623 it a command line option.
624 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
625 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
626 by handling spaces better.
627 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
628 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
629 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
632 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
633 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
634 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
635 necessary parameters.
637 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
638 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
640 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
641 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
642 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
643 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
644 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
645 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
646 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
647 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
648 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
649 automatically generate the Volume name.
650 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
651 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
652 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
653 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
654 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
655 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
656 time as the user walks through the tree).
657 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
658 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
659 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
660 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
661 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
662 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
663 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
664 run the job but don't save the files.
665 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
668 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
669 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
670 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
671 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
672 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
673 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
674 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
675 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
677 - Implement a Recycle command
678 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
679 verify if it is the correct client.
680 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
681 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
682 - Test a second language e.g. french.
683 - Start working on Base jobs.
684 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
685 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
687 - From Phil Stracchino:
688 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
689 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
690 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
691 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
692 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
693 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
694 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
695 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
696 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
697 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
698 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
699 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
700 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
701 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
702 if there is an error.
703 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
704 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
705 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
707 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
708 - Implement console @echo command.
709 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
710 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
711 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
712 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
713 - Implement create "FileSet"?
714 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
715 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
717 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
718 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
719 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
720 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
721 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
723 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
724 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
725 - Refine SD waiting output:
726 Device is being positioned
727 > Device is being positioned for append
728 > Device is being positioned to file x
730 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
731 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
732 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
733 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
734 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
735 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
736 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
737 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
738 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
739 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
740 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
741 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
742 speed up things. Test with testfind().
743 - Priority job to go to top of list.
744 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
745 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
746 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
747 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
748 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
749 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
750 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
751 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
752 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
753 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
754 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
755 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
756 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
757 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
758 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
759 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
760 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
761 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
762 - Add UA rc and history files.
763 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
764 allow -with-termcap-dir.
765 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
766 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
767 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
768 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
769 - Write an applet for Linux.
770 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
771 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
772 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
773 - Maximum Operator Wait
774 - Minimum Message Interval
775 - Maximum Message Interval
776 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
777 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
778 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
780 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
781 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
782 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
783 reading a new config file at any time.
784 - Handle ctl-c in Console
785 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
786 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
787 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
788 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
789 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
790 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
791 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
792 - Restore files modified after date
793 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
794 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
795 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
796 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
797 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
798 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
801 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
802 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
803 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
805 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
806 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
807 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
808 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
809 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
812 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
815 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
816 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
820 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
821 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
822 - Partial Read error code
823 - Partial write error code
824 - Nonformatted read error
825 - Nonformatted write error
826 - WriteProtected error
830 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
840 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
842 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
843 at end of save retry and report any errors.
844 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
845 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
847 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
848 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
849 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
850 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
852 - Ensure that /dev/null works
853 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
854 report resource where report=group of messages
855 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
856 fill in code for "since" option
857 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
858 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
859 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
860 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
861 - Need a structure for pending actions:
863 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
865 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
866 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
867 owner, group, user, quotas
868 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
869 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
871 ========= ideas ===============
872 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
873 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
874 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
875 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
877 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
878 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
879 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
880 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
881 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
882 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
883 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
884 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
885 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
886 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
888 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
889 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
890 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
891 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
892 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
893 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
894 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
897 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
898 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
899 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
900 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
901 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
902 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
903 implementing something like this.
906 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
908 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
909 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
911 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
913 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
914 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
916 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
918 the Migration to tape later.
920 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
921 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
922 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
923 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
924 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
925 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
926 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
927 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
928 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
929 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
930 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
931 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
932 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
933 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
935 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
936 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
937 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
938 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
942 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
944 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
947 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
948 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
949 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
950 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
951 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
952 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
953 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
954 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
955 each row of the files table.
957 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
958 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
959 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
961 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
962 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
963 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
968 ==============================
971 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
972 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
973 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
974 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
975 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
976 the caller can change the break characters.
977 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
978 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
979 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
980 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
981 buffer messages for later.
982 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
983 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
984 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
985 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
986 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
987 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
988 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
989 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
993 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
994 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
996 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
998 Migration triggered by:
1002 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1007 ======================================================
1009 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1010 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1012 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1013 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1015 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1016 JobId - JobId currently running
1017 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1018 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1019 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1020 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1021 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1022 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1023 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1024 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1025 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1026 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1027 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1028 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1029 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1030 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1032 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1033 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1034 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1036 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1038 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1039 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1040 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1041 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1042 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1043 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1044 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1045 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1046 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1048 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1054 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1055 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1056 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1057 =========================================================
1060 ==========================================================
1062 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1063 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1064 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1065 a list of Unsaved files.
1067 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1071 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1072 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1073 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1074 =============================================================
1077 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
1080 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
1081 and no error message.
1082 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
1083 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
1084 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1085 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
1086 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
1087 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
1088 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1089 Use "mount" command to release Job.
1090 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
1091 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
1092 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
1093 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
1095 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
1096 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
1097 just before read_block_from_device();
1100 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1101 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1102 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1103 Address 480 is Empty
1105 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1106 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1107 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1108 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1109 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1110 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1111 Storage Element 1:Empty
1112 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1113 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1114 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1115 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1116 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1117 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1118 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1119 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1120 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1121 Storage Element 11:Empty
1122 Storage Element 12:Empty
1123 Storage Element 13:Empty
1124 Storage Element 14:Empty
1125 Storage Element 15:Empty
1126 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1127 Storage Element 28:Empty
1128 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1129 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1130 Storage Element 57:Empty
1131 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1132 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1133 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1135 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1137 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1138 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1140 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1141 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1142 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1143 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1144 from an offset point either.something like
1146 Autochanger drives = 2
1147 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1148 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1149 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1150 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1156 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1157 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1158 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1159 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1160 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1161 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1162 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1163 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1164 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1165 slot number as the destination.AB
1171 undef# camcontrol devlist
1172 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1173 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1174 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1176 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1177 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1178 Product Type: Tape Drive
1180 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1182 Attached Changer: No
1183 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1184 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1191 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1194 DataCompEnabled: yes
1195 DataCompCapable: yes
1196 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1203 Handling removable disks
1205 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1207 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1208 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1209 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1210 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1212 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1213 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1214 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1215 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1217 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1219 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1220 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1221 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1222 scattered in many subdirectories.
1227 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1228 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1229 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1230 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1231 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1232 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1233 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1234 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1235 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1236 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1237 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1238 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1239 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1240 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1241 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1242 when the SD started.
1243 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1244 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1245 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1246 for operator intervention.
1247 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1248 - Add performance testing hooks
1249 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1250 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1251 saving only *.doc files.
1253 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
1254 Storage: DDS-4-changer
1258 The defined Storage resources are:
1259 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
1260 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
1261 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
1262 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
1263 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
1264 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
1265 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
1268 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
1269 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
1270 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
1271 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
1272 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
1273 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
1274 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
1275 or need them to be different for each device.
1276 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
1277 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
1278 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
1279 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
1280 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
1282 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
1283 #5 Events that call a Python program
1284 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
1285 - Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
1286 - Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
1287 - Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
1288 - Implement IBM labels.
1289 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
1290 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
1291 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
1292 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
1293 - 28-Mar 23:19 rufus-sd: acquire.c:379 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
1294 is busy reading. Job 6 canceled.
1295 - Remove separate thread for opening devices in SD. On the other
1296 hand, don't block waiting for open() for devices.
1297 - Fix code to either handle updating NumVol or to calculate it in
1299 - Ensure that you cannot exclude a directory or a file explicitly
1301 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
1302 (Implemented in Dir/SD/FD)
1303 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
1304 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
1307 - Add disk seeking on restore; turn off seek on tapes.