8 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
9 ========================================================
12 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
13 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
14 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
15 #5 Events that call a Python program
16 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
17 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
18 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
20 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
22 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
24 Suggestions for Preben:
25 - Look at adding Client run command that will use the
26 port opened by the client.
27 - Optimized bootstrap.
31 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
32 Storage: DDS-4-changer
36 The defined Storage resources are:
37 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
38 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
39 - 3.Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
41 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
42 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
43 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
44 or need them to be different for each device.
45 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
46 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
47 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
48 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
49 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
51 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
52 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
53 - 8. Automatic updating of Drive status from SD to DIR when something
54 changes (Volume, offline, append, read, ...).
55 - 9. Check if a Volume is mounted on another drive in an Autochanger.
59 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
60 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
61 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
62 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
63 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
66 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
67 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
68 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
69 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
73 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
74 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
75 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
77 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
78 2) Sun, DDS, (Suns name unknown - Archive Python DDS drive), 1.2GB
79 3) Wangtek, QIC, 6525ES, 525MB (fixed block size 1k, block size etc.
80 driver dependent - aic7xxx works, ncr53c8xx with problems)
81 4) HP, DDS-2, C1553A, 6*4GB
83 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
84 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
85 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
86 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
87 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
89 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
90 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
91 - Add and option to see if the file size changed
93 - Implement "update device" from SD so that DIR will
94 always have current version of device.
95 - Add disk seeking on restore.
96 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
97 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
101 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
102 - Python script to do backup.
104 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
105 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
106 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
107 > Prozess verwendet wird.
108 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
109 to set the attributes of e:
110 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
112 - Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
114 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
115 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
116 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
117 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
118 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
119 - Add a restore directory-x
120 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
121 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
122 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
123 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
124 - See multiple-store.txt for Multiple Storage implementation
126 - Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
127 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
128 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
129 get the bootstrap file.
130 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
131 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
132 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
134 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
135 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
136 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
137 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.1 See:
138 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
139 - Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
142 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
143 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
144 Automatically selected Pool: Default
145 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
146 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
147 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
148 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
149 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
150 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
151 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
153 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
154 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
155 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
156 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
158 Regression tests (Scott):
159 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
160 - Add delete JobId to regression.
161 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
162 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
163 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
164 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
165 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
167 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
168 on the restore prompt)
169 - Add IPv6 to regression
170 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
173 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
174 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
175 more than 1000 files per directory.
179 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
181 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
182 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
183 benefit from as well.
185 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
186 NextJobs = job1,job2.
189 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
190 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
191 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
192 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
193 the job after it needn't to be run
194 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
197 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
198 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
199 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
202 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
203 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
204 execute different actions based on the return value
206 2. Priorities also for the Schedule Resource
210 With this it is possible to run monthly jobs at the end of the month
211 instead of the beginning of the next month, so one could define
212 weekly and monthly pools to be run on Fridays and if there are
213 2 Jobs resulting on the same time, the one with the higher priority
214 takes precedence. This is also helpfull to implement a daily
215 rotation scheme with an additional 2 weeks changing weekly pool
219 Name = "NightlyBackup"
220 Run = Priority = 1,Pool=Weekly friday at 21:00
221 Run = Priority = 2,Pool=Weekly monthly on friday at 21:00
222 Run = Priority = 3,Pool=Weekly yearly on friday at 21:00
225 3. offline capability to bconsole
228 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
229 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
230 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
231 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
233 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
234 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
235 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
236 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
237 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
240 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
244 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
245 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
246 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
248 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
251 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
252 I would have the possibilty to define
253 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
254 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
256 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
259 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
260 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
261 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
263 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
264 french and Morre (western african language).
266 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
267 due to the design of bacula.
269 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
270 the "Label Format" Directive.
274 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
275 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
276 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
277 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
278 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
279 name in the correct language.
281 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
282 - Specify a single directory to restore.
283 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
284 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
285 rpm and Win32 releases.
286 - Browse generations of files.
287 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
288 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
289 size. Relevant information is at
290 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
291 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
292 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
293 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
294 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
295 - Supported autochanger:
303 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
304 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
305 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
306 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
307 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
309 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
310 - Include within include does it work?
311 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
312 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
313 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
314 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
315 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
316 savings time changes.
317 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
318 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
319 even after Files are pruned.
320 - Promote to Full = Time period
321 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
322 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
323 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
324 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
325 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
326 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
327 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
329 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
330 - How to handle backing up portables ...
331 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
332 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
333 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
336 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
337 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
338 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
339 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
340 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
341 - Document query file format.
342 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
343 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
344 - Document how to use multiple databases.
345 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
346 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
349 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
350 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
351 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
352 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
354 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
355 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
356 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
357 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
358 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
359 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
360 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
361 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
362 - Document doing table repair
365 Testing to do: (painful)
368 For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
369 - Add bandwidth limiting.
370 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
371 the line from timing out.
372 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
373 up through the prompt.
374 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
375 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
376 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
377 units, perhaps via a directive.
378 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
379 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
380 - Add a read-only mode to the mount option.
381 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
382 with multiple priorities.
383 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
384 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
386 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
388 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
389 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
390 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
391 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
392 are not using the same tape(s).
393 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
394 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
396 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
397 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
398 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
399 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
400 perhaps if password is undefined.
401 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
406 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
407 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
409 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
410 - the help-command should be more verbose
411 (it should explain the paramters of the different
413 -> it´s time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
414 you need a special parameter
415 -> maybe it´s more easy to maintain this, if the
416 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
418 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
419 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
420 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
421 it´s faster to enter the specified directory
422 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
423 you should be asked for it.
424 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
425 which shouldn´t know the password for bacula.
426 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
427 to forget to remove the password after usage
429 the protection of that file is less important
430 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
431 like the unix more/less-command does
432 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
433 be a little long and complex
434 - command-output should be shown column by column
435 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
437 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
439 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
440 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
441 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
443 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
444 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
445 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
446 permissions *can* be restored.
447 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
448 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
449 - Add prune all command
450 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
451 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
452 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
453 - look at mxt-changer.html
454 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
455 - Implement restore directory.
456 - Document streams and how to implement them.
457 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
458 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
459 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
460 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
461 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
463 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
464 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
465 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
466 - Add tree pane to left of window.
467 - Add progress meter.
468 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
469 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
470 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
471 which is needed by all packages.
472 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
473 space test fails in btape.
474 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
475 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
476 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
477 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
478 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
479 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
480 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
481 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
482 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
484 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
485 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
486 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
487 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
488 - Add level to estimate command.
489 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
491 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
492 then list last 20 backups.
493 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
494 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
495 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
496 Do both a long and short form.
497 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
498 stat data on each file).
499 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
501 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
502 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
503 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
504 - Add John's appended files:
505 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
506 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
507 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
508 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
509 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
510 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
511 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
512 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
513 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
514 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
515 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
516 - Allow for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
517 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
518 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
519 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
520 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
521 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
522 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
523 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
524 BackupClient RestoreClient).
525 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
526 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
527 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
528 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
529 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
530 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
531 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
532 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
533 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
535 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
537 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
538 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
539 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
540 the proper storage type.
541 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
542 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
543 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
544 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
545 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
546 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
547 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
548 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
549 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
550 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
551 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
552 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
553 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
554 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
555 which in turn overrides Pool.
557 - New Storage specifications:
558 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
559 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
560 - Want to read/write simultaneously
561 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
563 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
567 MediaType -> Next MediaType
569 Device -> Next Device
571 Allow multiple Storage specifications
579 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
581 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
582 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
583 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
584 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
585 is contained in only one device.
586 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
588 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
589 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
591 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
592 even more important, it's not flaky
593 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
594 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
596 Macintosh file client
597 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
598 working bare iron recovery for windows
599 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
600 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
601 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
602 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
603 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
605 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
606 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
607 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
608 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
609 support for Oracle database ??
611 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
612 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
613 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
614 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
615 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
617 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
618 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
619 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
620 is needed to properly specify ranges.
621 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
622 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
623 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
624 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
625 Job report (Volker Sauer).
626 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
627 - Implement Console mtx commands.
628 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
629 the users could specify a system command to be performed
630 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
631 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
632 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
633 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
634 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
635 depending on the exact nature of the device.
636 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
637 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
638 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
639 once he had actually inserted the disk.
640 - Implement dump/print label to UA
641 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
643 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
644 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
645 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
646 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
647 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
648 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
649 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
650 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
651 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
652 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
653 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
654 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
655 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
656 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
657 it a command line option.
658 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
659 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
660 by handling spaces better.
661 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
662 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
663 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
666 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
667 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
668 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
669 necessary parameters.
671 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
672 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
674 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
675 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
676 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
677 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
678 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
679 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
680 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
681 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
682 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
683 automatically generate the Volume name.
684 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
685 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
686 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
687 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
688 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
689 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
690 time as the user walks through the tree).
691 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
692 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
693 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
694 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
695 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
696 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
697 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
698 run the job but don't save the files.
699 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
702 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
703 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
704 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
705 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
706 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
707 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
708 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
709 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
711 - Implement a Recycle command
712 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
713 verify if it is the correct client.
714 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
715 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
716 - Test a second language e.g. french.
717 - Start working on Base jobs.
718 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
719 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
721 - From Phil Stracchino:
722 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
723 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
724 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
725 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
726 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
727 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
728 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
729 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
730 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
731 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
732 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
733 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
734 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
735 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
736 if there is an error.
737 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
738 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
739 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
741 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
742 - Implement console @echo command.
743 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
744 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
745 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
746 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
747 - Implement create "FileSet"?
748 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
749 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
751 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
752 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
753 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
754 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
755 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
757 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
758 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
759 - Refine SD waiting output:
760 Device is being positioned
761 > Device is being positioned for append
762 > Device is being positioned to file x
764 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
765 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
766 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
767 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
768 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
769 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
770 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
771 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
772 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
773 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
774 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
775 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
776 speed up things. Test with testfind().
777 - Priority job to go to top of list.
778 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
779 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
780 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
781 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
782 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
783 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
784 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
785 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
786 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
787 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
788 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
789 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
790 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
791 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
792 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
793 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
794 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
795 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
796 - Add UA rc and history files.
797 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
798 allow -with-termcap-dir.
799 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
800 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
801 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
802 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
803 - Write an applet for Linux.
804 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
805 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
806 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
807 - Maximum Operator Wait
808 - Minimum Message Interval
809 - Maximum Message Interval
810 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
811 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
812 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
814 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
815 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
816 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
817 reading a new config file at any time.
818 - Handle ctl-c in Console
819 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
820 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
821 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
822 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
823 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
824 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
825 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
826 - Restore files modified after date
827 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
828 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
829 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
830 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
831 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
832 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
835 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
836 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
837 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
839 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
840 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
841 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
842 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
843 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
846 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
849 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
850 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
854 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
855 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
856 - Partial Read error code
857 - Partial write error code
858 - Nonformatted read error
859 - Nonformatted write error
860 - WriteProtected error
864 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
874 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
876 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
877 at end of save retry and report any errors.
878 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
879 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
881 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
882 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
883 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
884 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
886 - Ensure that /dev/null works
887 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
888 report resource where report=group of messages
889 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
890 fill in code for "since" option
891 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
892 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
893 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
894 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
895 - Need a structure for pending actions:
897 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
899 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
900 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
901 owner, group, user, quotas
902 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
903 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
905 ========= ideas ===============
906 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
907 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
908 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
909 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
911 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
912 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
913 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
914 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
915 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
916 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
917 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
918 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
919 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
920 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
922 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
923 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
924 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
925 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
926 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
927 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
928 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
931 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
932 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
933 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
934 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
935 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
936 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
937 implementing something like this.
940 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
942 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
943 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
945 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
947 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
948 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
950 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
952 the Migration to tape later.
954 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
955 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
956 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
957 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
958 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
959 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
960 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
961 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
962 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
963 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
964 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
965 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
966 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
967 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
969 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
970 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
971 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
972 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
976 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
978 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
981 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
982 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
983 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
984 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
985 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
986 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
987 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
988 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
989 each row of the files table.
991 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
992 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
993 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
995 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
996 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
997 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1002 ==============================
1005 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1006 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1007 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1008 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1009 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1010 the caller can change the break characters.
1011 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1012 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1013 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1014 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1015 buffer messages for later.
1016 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1017 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1018 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1019 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1020 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1021 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1022 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1023 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1027 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1028 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1030 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
1032 Migration triggered by:
1036 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1041 ======================================================
1043 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1044 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1046 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1047 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1049 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1050 JobId - JobId currently running
1051 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1052 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1053 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1054 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1055 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1056 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1057 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1058 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1059 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1060 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1061 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1062 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1063 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1064 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1066 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1067 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1068 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1070 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1072 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1073 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1074 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1075 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1076 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1077 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1078 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1079 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1080 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1082 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1088 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1089 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1090 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1091 =========================================================
1094 ==========================================================
1096 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1097 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1098 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1099 a list of Unsaved files.
1101 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1105 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1106 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1107 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1108 =============================================================
1111 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
1114 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
1115 and no error message.
1116 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
1117 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
1118 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1119 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
1120 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
1121 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
1122 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1123 Use "mount" command to release Job.
1124 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
1125 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
1126 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
1127 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
1129 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
1130 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
1131 just before read_block_from_device();
1134 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1135 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1136 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1137 Address 480 is Empty
1139 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1140 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1141 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1142 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1143 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1144 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1145 Storage Element 1:Empty
1146 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1147 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1148 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1149 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1150 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1151 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1152 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1153 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1154 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1155 Storage Element 11:Empty
1156 Storage Element 12:Empty
1157 Storage Element 13:Empty
1158 Storage Element 14:Empty
1159 Storage Element 15:Empty
1160 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1161 Storage Element 28:Empty
1162 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1163 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1164 Storage Element 57:Empty
1165 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1166 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1167 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1169 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1171 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1172 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1174 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1175 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1176 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1177 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1178 from an offset point either.something like
1180 Autochanger drives = 2
1181 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1182 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1183 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1184 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1190 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1191 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1192 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1193 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1194 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1195 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1196 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1197 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1198 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1199 slot number as the destination.AB
1205 undef# camcontrol devlist
1206 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1207 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1208 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1210 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1211 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1212 Product Type: Tape Drive
1214 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1216 Attached Changer: No
1217 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1218 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1225 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1228 DataCompEnabled: yes
1229 DataCompCapable: yes
1230 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1237 Handling removable disks
1239 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1241 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1242 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1243 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1244 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1246 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1247 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1248 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1249 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1251 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1253 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1254 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1255 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1256 scattered in many subdirectories.
1261 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1262 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1263 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1264 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1265 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1266 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1267 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1268 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1269 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1270 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1271 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1272 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1273 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1274 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1275 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1276 when the SD started.
1277 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1278 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1279 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1280 for operator intervention.
1281 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1282 - Add performance testing hooks
1283 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1284 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1285 saving only *.doc files.