6 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
7 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
8 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
9 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
10 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
11 - Pruning with Admin job.
12 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
13 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
14 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
15 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
16 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
17 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
18 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
19 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
21 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
22 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
23 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
24 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
25 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
26 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
27 building the French PDF.
28 - Document more DVD stuff
36 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
37 the Bacula data encryption code.
38 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
39 for disaster recovery.
42 - Migration from other vendors
46 - Backup conf/exe (all daemons)
47 - Backup up system state
48 - Detect state change of system (verify)
49 - Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed)
51 - Modules for Databases, Exchange, ...
52 - Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html
53 - Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code.
54 - When glibc crash, get address with
56 - How to sync remote offices.
58 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/exchbkup.mspx
61 Extract capability (#25)
62 Continued enhancement of bweb
63 Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be
65 Client triggered backups
66 Complete rework of the scheduling system (not in list)
67 Performance and usage instrumentation (not in list)
68 See email of 21Aug2007 for details.
69 - Implement Diff,Inc Retention Periods
70 - Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html
71 and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes
74 - Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for
75 Win32 to avoid patent problems.
77 - Implement Despooling data status.
78 === Duplicate jobs ===
79 hese apply only to backup jobs.
81 1. Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | Higher (Yes)
83 2. Duplicate Job Interval = <time-interval> (0)
85 The defaults are in parenthesis and would produce the same behavior as today.
87 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to No, then any job starting while a job of the
88 same name is running will be canceled.
90 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to Higher, then any job starting with the same
91 or lower level will be canceled, but any job with a Higher level will start.
92 The Levels are from High to Low: Full, Differential, Incremental
94 Finally, if you have Duplicate Job Interval set to a non-zero value, any job
95 of the same name which starts <time-interval> after a previous job of the
96 same name would run, any one that starts within <time-interval> would be
97 subject to the above rules. Another way of looking at it is that the Allow
98 Duplicate Jobs directive will only apply after <time-interval> of when the
99 previous job finished (i.e. it is the minimum interval between jobs).
103 Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | HigherLevel | CancelLowerLevel (Yes)
105 Where HigherLevel cancels any waiting job but not any running job.
106 Where CancelLowerLevel is same as HigherLevel but cancels any running job or
109 Duplicate Job Proximity = <time-interval> (0)
111 Skip = Do not allow two or more jobs with the same name to run
112 simultaneously within the proximity interval. The second and subsequent
113 jobs are skipped without further processing (other than to note the job
114 and exit immediately), and are not considered errors.
116 Fail = The second and subsequent jobs that attempt to run during the
117 proximity interval are cancelled and treated as error-terminated jobs.
119 Promote = If a job is running, and a second/subsequent job of higher
120 level attempts to start, the running job is promoted to the higher level
121 of processing using the resources already allocated, and the subsequent
122 job is treated as in Skip above.
124 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
125 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
126 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
127 its faster to enter the specified directory
128 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
129 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
130 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
131 by handling spaces better.
135 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
136 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
137 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
138 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
139 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
140 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
141 before doing Interval testing).
142 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
143 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
144 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
145 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
146 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
147 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
148 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
149 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
150 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
151 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
152 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
153 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
154 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
155 transferring it to drive 0.
157 - Complete Catalog in Pool
158 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
163 - True automatic pruning
165 Run, Fail, Skip, Higher, Promote, CancelLowerLevel
168 - Auto update of slot:
169 rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10
170 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03
171 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4"
172 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Invalid slot=0 defined in catalog for Volume "Vol001" on "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0). Manual load my be required.
173 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
174 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
175 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
176 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life.
177 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51
178 - Eliminate: /var is a different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /var
179 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog
180 - Create FileVersions table
181 - Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
182 - Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
183 - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
185 - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105
186 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the
187 generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL
188 and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is
189 cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message.
191 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
192 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
193 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
194 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
195 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
196 - Use E'xxx' to escape PostgreSQL strings.
197 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
198 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
199 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
200 multiplexing Dir connection).
201 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
202 - Look at mincore: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
203 - Unicode input http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
204 - Add TLS to bat (should be done).
205 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
206 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
207 now prints warnings too often.
208 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
210 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
211 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
212 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
213 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
215 This test is essential to Bacula.
217 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
218 two records in file 1,
219 and three records in file 2
221 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
222 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
223 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
224 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
226 - Encryption -- email from Landon
227 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
228 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
229 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
230 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
231 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
232 > interested in implementing this functionality.
234 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
235 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
236 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
237 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
238 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
239 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
240 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
241 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
242 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
243 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
244 Pool in the default conf files.
246 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
247 - Encryption documentation
248 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
249 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
254 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
256 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
258 - Next Pool (already have)
259 - Reclamation threshold
261 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
262 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
264 - Allow pool selection during restore.
266 - Average tape size from Eric
267 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
268 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
269 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
270 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
271 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
273 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
274 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
276 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
277 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
278 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
279 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
283 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
285 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
287 - Despool attributes in separate thread
290 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
291 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
294 - Full at least once a month, ...
295 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
296 - More intelligent re-run
297 - New/deleted file backup
299 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
303 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
304 - Look at mondo/mindi
305 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
306 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
307 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
308 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
309 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
310 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
311 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
312 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
313 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
314 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
315 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
316 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
317 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
318 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
319 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
320 - Remove queue.c code.
321 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
323 - New dot commands from Arno.
324 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
325 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
326 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
327 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
328 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
329 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
330 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
333 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
334 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
335 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
336 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
337 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
338 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
339 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
341 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
342 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
343 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
344 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
345 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
346 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
347 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
348 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
349 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
350 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
353 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
354 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
355 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
356 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
357 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
358 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
360 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
361 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
362 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
363 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
364 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
365 == changequote.m4 ===
366 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
367 ==== query.sql.in ===
368 :List next 20 volumes to expire
370 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
375 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
377 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
381 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
382 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
386 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
388 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
390 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
391 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
392 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
393 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
394 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
399 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
400 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
403 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
405 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
408 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
410 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
411 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
413 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
414 significant changes to Bacula.
419 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
420 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
421 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
422 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
423 order by Path.Path ASC;
425 - Look into using Dart for testing
426 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
428 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
429 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
431 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
432 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
433 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
434 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
435 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
436 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
437 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
438 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
439 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
440 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
441 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
442 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
444 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
445 select * from Storage;
446 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
447 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
448 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
449 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
450 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
451 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
452 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
453 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
454 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
455 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
456 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
457 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
459 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
460 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
461 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
462 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
471 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
472 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
473 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
484 VolRetention: 31,536,000
496 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
503 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
504 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
505 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
516 VolRetention: 31,536,000
529 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
530 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
531 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
532 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
533 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
534 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
535 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
536 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
538 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
539 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
541 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
542 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
543 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
544 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
545 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
546 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
547 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
548 Win32 for sparse files.
549 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
550 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
551 - Directive: at <event> "command"
552 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
553 attach to a specific job?
554 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
555 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
556 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
557 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
558 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
559 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
560 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
561 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
563 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
564 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
565 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
566 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
567 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
568 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
569 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
570 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
571 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
573 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
574 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
578 - Show files/second in client status output.
579 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
580 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
581 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
583 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
584 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
586 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
587 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
588 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
590 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
591 days before it needs changing.
592 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
593 if the job is not scheduled.
594 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
595 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
596 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
597 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
599 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
600 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
601 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
603 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
604 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
606 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
607 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
609 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
610 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
611 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
612 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
613 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
614 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
616 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
617 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
618 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
619 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
620 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
621 - Remove old spool files on startup.
622 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
623 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
625 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
626 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
627 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
628 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
629 - Python script to do backup.
631 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
632 at the start of a job.
633 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
634 as an error when writing a DVD?
635 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
636 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
637 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
638 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
639 resources were locked.
640 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
643 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
644 entry does not contain bytes.
647 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
648 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
649 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
650 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
651 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
652 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
653 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
654 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
655 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
656 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
657 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
658 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
659 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
660 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
661 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
662 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
663 - Implement copies and stripes.
664 - Add history file to console.
665 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
666 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
667 16 hours to build the restore list.
668 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
669 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
670 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
671 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
672 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
673 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
675 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
676 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
677 Automatically selected Pool: Default
678 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
679 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
680 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
681 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
682 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
683 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
684 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
685 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
686 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
687 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
688 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
690 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
691 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
692 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
693 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
694 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
696 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
697 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
698 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
699 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
700 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
701 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
702 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
703 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
704 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
705 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
706 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
707 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
708 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
709 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
710 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
711 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
712 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
715 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
716 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
717 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
718 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
719 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
720 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
723 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
724 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
725 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
726 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
727 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
728 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
729 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
730 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
731 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
732 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
733 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
734 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
735 saved me a *lot* of time.
737 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
738 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
740 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
741 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
742 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
743 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
744 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
746 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
747 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
749 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
750 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
752 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
753 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
755 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
756 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
758 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
759 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
761 1. Use the current Director in-memory tree code (very fast), but currently in
762 memory. It probably could be paged.
764 2. Use some DB such as Berkeley DB or SQLite. SQLite is already compiled and
765 built for Win32, and it is something we could compile into the program.
767 3. Implement our own custom DB code.
769 Note, by appropriate use of Directives in the Director, we can dynamically
770 decide if the work is done in the Director or in the FD, and we can even
771 allow the user to choose.
773 === most recent accurate file backup/restore ===
774 Here is a sketch (i.e. more details must be filled in later) that I recently
775 made of an algorithm for doing Accurate Backup.
777 1. Dir informs FD that it is doing an Accurate backup and lookup done by
780 2. FD passes through the file system doing a normal backup based on normal
781 conditions, recording the names of all files and their attributes, and
782 indicating which files were backed up. This is very similar to what Verify
785 3. The Director receives the two lists of files at the end of the FD backup.
786 One, files backed up, and one files not backed up. It then looks up all the
787 files not backed up (using Verify style code).
789 4. The Dir sends the FD a list of:
790 a. Additional files to backup (based on user specified criteria, name, size
791 inode date, hash, ...).
794 5. Dir deletes list of file not backed up.
796 6. FD backs up additional files generates a list of those backed up and sends
797 it to the Director, which adds it to the list of files backed up. The list
798 is now complete and current.
800 7. The FD generates delete records for all the files that were deleted and
803 8. The Dir deletes the previous CurrentBackup list, and then does a
804 transaction insert of the new list that it has.
806 9. The rest works as before ...
810 Two new tables needed.
811 1. CurrentBackupId table that contains Client, JobName, FileSet, and a unique
812 BackupId. This is created during a Full save, and the BackupId can be set to
813 the JobId of the Full save. It will remain the same until another Full
814 backup is done. That is when new records are added during a Differential or
815 Incremental, they must use the same BackupId.
817 2. CurrentBackup table that contains essentially a File record (less a number
818 of fields, but with a few extra fields) -- e.g. a flag that the File was
819 backed up by a Full save (this permits doing a Differential). The unique
820 BackupId allows us to look up the CurrentBackup for a particular Client,
821 Jobname, FileSet using that unique BackupId as the key, so this table must be
822 indexed by the BackupId.
824 Note any time a file is saved by the FD other than during a Full save, the
825 Full save flag is cleared. When doing a Differential backup, if a file has
826 the Full save flag set, it is skipped, otherwise it is backed up. For an
827 Incremental backup, we check to see if the file has changed since the last
828 time we backed it up.
830 Deleted files should have FileIndex == 0
834 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
835 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
836 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
840 Name = "Migration-Policy"
842 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
843 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
844 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
845 Job Template = <template-name>
848 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
849 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
850 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
851 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
852 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
853 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
858 Name = "Migration-Policy"
860 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
862 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
863 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
866 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
867 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
868 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
870 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
871 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
872 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
873 depending on various criteria).
879 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
880 - Add delete JobId to regression.
881 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
882 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
883 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
884 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
885 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
887 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
888 on the restore prompt)
889 - Add IPv6 to regression
890 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
893 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
894 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
895 more than 1000 files per directory.
899 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
900 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
902 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
903 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
904 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
906 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
908 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
909 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
910 benefit from as well.
912 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
913 NextJobs = job1,job2.
916 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
917 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
918 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
919 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
920 the job after it needn't to be run
921 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
924 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
925 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
926 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
929 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
930 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
931 execute different actions based on the return value
934 3. offline capability to bconsole
937 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
938 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
939 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
940 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
942 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
943 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
944 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
945 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
946 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
949 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
953 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
954 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
955 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
957 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
960 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
961 I would have the possibilty to define
962 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
963 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
965 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
968 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
969 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
970 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
972 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
973 french and Morre (western african language).
975 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
976 due to the design of bacula.
978 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
979 the "Label Format" Directive.
983 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
984 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
985 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
986 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
987 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
988 name in the correct language.
990 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
991 presenting in a browser.
992 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
993 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
994 rpm and Win32 releases.
995 - Browse generations of files.
996 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
997 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
998 size. Relevant information is at
999 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
1000 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
1001 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
1002 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
1003 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
1004 - Supported autochanger:
1012 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
1013 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
1014 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
1015 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
1016 - Include within include does it work?
1017 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
1018 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
1019 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
1020 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
1021 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
1022 savings time changes.
1023 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
1024 - Promote to Full = Time period
1025 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
1026 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
1027 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
1029 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
1030 - How to handle backing up portables ...
1031 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
1032 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
1033 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
1036 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
1037 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
1038 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
1039 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
1040 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
1041 - Document query file format.
1042 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
1043 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
1044 - Document how to use multiple databases.
1045 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
1046 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
1049 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
1050 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
1051 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
1052 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
1054 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
1055 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
1056 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
1057 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
1058 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
1059 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
1060 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
1061 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
1062 - Document doing table repair
1065 ===================================
1066 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
1067 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
1068 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
1069 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
1071 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
1072 - Autorestart on crash.
1073 - Add bandwidth limiting.
1074 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
1075 the line from timing out.
1076 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
1077 up through the prompt.
1078 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
1079 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
1080 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
1081 units, perhaps via a directive.
1082 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
1083 with multiple priorities.
1084 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
1085 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
1087 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
1089 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
1090 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
1092 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
1093 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
1094 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
1095 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
1096 perhaps if password is undefined.
1097 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
1100 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
1101 - the help-command should be more verbose
1102 (it should explain the paramters of the different
1104 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
1105 you need a special parameter
1106 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
1107 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
1109 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
1110 you should be asked for it.
1111 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
1112 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
1113 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
1114 to forget to remove the password after usage
1116 the protection of that file is less important
1117 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
1118 like the unix more/less-command does
1119 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
1120 be a little long and complex
1121 - command-output should be shown column by column
1122 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
1124 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
1126 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
1127 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
1128 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
1130 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
1131 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
1132 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
1133 permissions *can* be restored.
1134 - Add prune all command
1135 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
1136 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
1137 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
1138 - look at mxt-changer.html
1139 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
1140 - Implement restore directory.
1141 - Document streams and how to implement them.
1142 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
1143 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
1144 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
1145 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
1146 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
1148 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
1149 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
1150 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
1151 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1152 - Add progress meter.
1153 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1154 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1155 space test fails in btape.
1156 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1157 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1158 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1159 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1160 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1161 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1162 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1163 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1164 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1165 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1166 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1167 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1168 Do both a long and short form.
1169 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1170 stat data on each file).
1171 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1173 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1174 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1175 - Add John's appended files:
1176 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1177 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1178 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1179 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1180 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1181 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1182 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1183 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1184 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1185 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1186 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1187 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1188 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1189 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1190 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1191 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1192 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1193 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1194 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1195 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1196 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1197 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1198 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1199 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1200 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1201 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1203 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1205 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1206 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1207 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1208 the proper storage type.
1209 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1210 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1211 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1212 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1213 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1214 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1215 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1216 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1217 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1218 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1219 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1220 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1221 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1222 which in turn overrides Pool.
1224 - New Storage specifications:
1225 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1226 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1227 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1228 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1230 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1234 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1236 Device -> Next Device
1238 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1246 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1248 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1249 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1250 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1251 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1252 is contained in only one device.
1253 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1255 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1256 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1258 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1259 even more important, it's not flaky
1260 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1261 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1263 Macintosh file client
1264 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1265 working bare iron recovery for windows
1266 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1267 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1268 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1269 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1270 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1271 an integration guide
1272 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1273 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1274 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1275 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1276 support for Oracle database ??
1278 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1279 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1280 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1281 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1282 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1283 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1284 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1285 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1286 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1287 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1288 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1289 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1290 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1291 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1292 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1293 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1294 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1295 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1296 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1297 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1298 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1299 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1300 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1301 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1303 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1304 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1305 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1306 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1307 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1308 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1309 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1310 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1311 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1312 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1313 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1315 - From Lars Kellers:
1316 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1317 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1318 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1319 necessary parameters.
1321 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1322 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1324 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1325 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1326 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1327 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1328 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1329 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1330 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1331 automatically generate the Volume name.
1332 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1333 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1334 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1335 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1336 time as the user walks through the tree).
1337 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1338 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1339 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1340 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1341 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1342 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1343 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1344 run the job but don't save the files.
1345 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1347 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1348 - Implement a Recycle command
1349 - Start working on Base jobs.
1350 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1351 - From Phil Stracchino:
1352 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1353 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1354 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1355 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1356 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1357 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1358 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1359 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1360 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1361 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1362 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1363 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1364 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1365 if there is an error.
1366 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1368 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1369 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1370 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1371 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1372 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1373 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1374 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1375 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1376 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1378 - Refine SD waiting output:
1379 Device is being positioned
1380 > Device is being positioned for append
1381 > Device is being positioned to file x
1383 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1384 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1385 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1386 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1387 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1388 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1389 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1390 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1391 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1392 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1393 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1394 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1395 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1396 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1397 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1398 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1399 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1400 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1401 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1402 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1403 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1404 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1405 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1406 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1407 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1408 - Add UA rc and history files.
1409 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1410 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1411 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1412 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1413 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1414 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1415 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1416 - Maximum Operator Wait
1417 - Minimum Message Interval
1418 - Maximum Message Interval
1419 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1420 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1421 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1423 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1424 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1425 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1426 reading a new config file at any time.
1427 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1428 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1429 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1430 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1431 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1432 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1433 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1434 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1435 - Restore files modified after date
1436 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1437 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1438 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1439 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1440 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1441 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1444 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1445 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1446 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1448 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1449 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1450 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1451 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1452 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1455 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1457 - Add media capacity
1458 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1459 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1463 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1464 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1465 - Partial Read error code
1466 - Partial write error code
1467 - Nonformatted read error
1468 - Nonformatted write error
1469 - WriteProtected error
1473 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1483 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1485 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1486 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1487 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1488 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1490 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1491 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1492 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1493 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1494 - Verify from Volume
1495 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1496 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1497 report resource where report=group of messages
1498 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1499 fill in code for "since" option
1500 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1501 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1502 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1503 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1504 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1506 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1508 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1509 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1510 owner, group, user, quotas
1511 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1512 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1514 ========= ideas ===============
1515 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1516 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1517 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1518 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1520 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1521 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1522 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1523 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1524 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1525 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1526 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1527 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1528 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1529 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1531 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1532 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1533 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1534 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1535 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1536 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1537 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1540 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1541 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1542 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1543 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1544 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1545 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1546 implementing something like this.
1549 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1551 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1552 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1554 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1556 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1557 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1559 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1561 the Migration to tape later.
1563 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1564 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1565 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1566 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1567 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1568 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1569 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1570 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1571 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1572 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1573 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1574 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1575 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1576 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1578 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1579 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1580 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1581 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1585 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1587 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1590 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1591 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1592 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1593 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1594 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1595 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1596 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1597 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1598 each row of the files table.
1600 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1601 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1602 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1604 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1605 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1606 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1611 ==============================
1614 - Implement wait on multiple objects
1615 - Multiple max times
1617 - socket input ready
1618 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1619 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1620 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1621 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1622 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1623 the caller can change the break characters.
1624 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1625 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1626 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1627 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1628 buffer messages for later.
1629 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1630 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1631 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1632 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1633 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1637 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1638 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1641 ======================================================
1643 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1644 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1646 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1647 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1649 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1650 JobId - JobId currently running
1651 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1652 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1653 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1654 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1655 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1656 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1657 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1658 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1659 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1660 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1661 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1662 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1663 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1664 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1666 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1667 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1668 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1670 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1672 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1673 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1674 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1675 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1676 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1677 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1678 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1679 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1680 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1682 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1688 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1689 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1690 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1691 =========================================================
1694 ==========================================================
1696 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1697 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1698 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1699 a list of Unsaved files.
1701 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1705 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1706 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1707 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1708 =============================================================
1712 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1713 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1714 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1715 Address 480 is Empty
1717 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1718 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1719 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1720 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1721 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1722 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1723 Storage Element 1:Empty
1724 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1725 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1726 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1727 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1728 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1729 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1730 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1731 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1732 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1733 Storage Element 11:Empty
1734 Storage Element 12:Empty
1735 Storage Element 13:Empty
1736 Storage Element 14:Empty
1737 Storage Element 15:Empty
1738 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1739 Storage Element 28:Empty
1740 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1741 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1742 Storage Element 57:Empty
1743 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1744 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1745 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1747 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1749 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1750 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1752 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1753 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1754 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1755 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1756 from an offset point either.something like
1758 Autochanger drives = 2
1759 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1760 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1761 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1762 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1768 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1769 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1770 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1771 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1772 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1773 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1774 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1775 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1776 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1777 slot number as the destination.AB
1783 undef# camcontrol devlist
1784 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1785 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1786 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1788 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1789 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1790 Product Type: Tape Drive
1792 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1794 Attached Changer: No
1795 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1796 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1803 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1806 DataCompEnabled: yes
1807 DataCompCapable: yes
1808 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1815 Handling removable disks
1817 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1819 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1820 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1821 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1822 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1824 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1825 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1826 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1827 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1829 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1831 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1832 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1833 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1834 scattered in many subdirectories.
1839 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1841 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1842 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1843 /* TCP socket options */
1844 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1845 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to
1847 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
1848 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
1849 - Please mount volume "xxx" on Storage device ... should also list
1850 Pool and MediaType in case user needs to create a new volume.
1851 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
1852 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1853 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
1854 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
1855 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
1856 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1857 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1858 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1859 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
1860 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
1861 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
1862 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
1863 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
1864 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
1865 started the director.
1866 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.
1867 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
1868 does the right thing.
1869 - FD-SD quick disconnect
1870 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
1871 - Erabt if min_block_size > max_block_size
1872 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1873 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1874 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1875 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
1876 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
1877 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
1878 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
1879 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.