7 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
8 ========================================================
10 Final items for 1.37 before release:
12 - --without-openssl breaks at least on Solaris.
13 3. Document all the new features (about half done).
14 7. Write a bacula-web document
15 8. Take one more try at making DVD writing work.
16 9. Run the regression scripts on Solaris and FreeBSD
17 - Figure out how to package gui, and rescue programs.
21 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
22 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
23 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
24 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
25 - Pruning with Admin job.
29 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
30 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
32 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
33 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
34 - Reserve blocks other restore jobs when first cannot connect
36 - Add true/false to conf same as yes/no
37 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
38 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
39 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
40 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
41 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
42 - Remove old spool files on startup.
43 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
44 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
46 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
47 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
48 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
49 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
50 - Python script to do backup.
52 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
53 at the start of a job.
54 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
55 as an error when writing a DVD?
56 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
57 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
58 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
59 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
60 resources were locked.
61 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
64 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
65 entry does not contain bytes.
66 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
67 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
68 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
69 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
73 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
74 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
75 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
76 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
77 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
78 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
79 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
80 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
81 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
82 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
83 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
84 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
85 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
86 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
87 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
88 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
89 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
90 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
91 - Implement copies and stripes.
92 - Add history file to console.
93 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
94 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
95 16 hours to build the restore list.
96 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
97 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
98 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
99 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
100 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
101 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
103 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
104 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
105 Automatically selected Pool: Default
106 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
107 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
108 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
109 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
110 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
111 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
112 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
113 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
114 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
115 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
116 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
118 ==== Keeping track of deleted files ====
119 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
120 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
121 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
122 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
123 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
124 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
125 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
126 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
127 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
128 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
129 that at that point in time the file was deleted.
131 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
132 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
133 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
134 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
135 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
136 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
139 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
140 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
141 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
142 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
143 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
144 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
145 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
146 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
147 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
148 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
149 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
150 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
151 saved me a *lot* of time.
153 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
154 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
156 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
157 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
159 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
160 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
162 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
163 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
165 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
166 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
168 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
169 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
174 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
175 - Add delete JobId to regression.
176 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
177 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
178 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
179 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
180 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
182 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
183 on the restore prompt)
184 - Add IPv6 to regression
185 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
188 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
189 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
190 more than 1000 files per directory.
194 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
195 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
197 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
198 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
199 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
201 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
203 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
204 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
205 benefit from as well.
207 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
208 NextJobs = job1,job2.
211 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
212 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
213 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
214 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
215 the job after it needn't to be run
216 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
219 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
220 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
221 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
224 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
225 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
226 execute different actions based on the return value
229 3. offline capability to bconsole
232 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
233 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
234 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
235 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
237 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
238 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
239 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
240 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
241 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
244 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
248 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
249 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
250 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
252 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
255 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
256 I would have the possibilty to define
257 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
258 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
260 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
263 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
264 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
265 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
267 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
268 french and Morre (western african language).
270 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
271 due to the design of bacula.
273 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
274 the "Label Format" Directive.
278 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
279 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
280 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
281 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
282 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
283 name in the correct language.
285 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
286 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
287 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
288 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
291 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
292 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
293 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
296 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
297 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
298 presenting in a browser.
299 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
300 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
301 rpm and Win32 releases.
302 - Browse generations of files.
303 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
304 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
305 size. Relevant information is at
306 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
307 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
308 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
309 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
310 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
311 - Supported autochanger:
319 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
320 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
321 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
322 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
323 - Include within include does it work?
324 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
325 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
326 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
327 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
328 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
329 savings time changes.
330 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
331 - Promote to Full = Time period
332 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
333 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
334 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
336 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
337 - How to handle backing up portables ...
338 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
339 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
340 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
343 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
344 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
345 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
346 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
347 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
348 - Document query file format.
349 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
350 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
351 - Document how to use multiple databases.
352 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
353 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
356 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
357 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
358 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
359 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
361 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
362 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
363 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
364 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
365 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
366 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
367 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
368 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
369 - Document doing table repair
372 ===================================
373 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
374 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
375 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
376 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
378 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
379 - Autorestart on crash.
380 - Add bandwidth limiting.
381 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
382 the line from timing out.
383 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
384 up through the prompt.
385 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
386 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
387 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
388 units, perhaps via a directive.
389 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
390 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
391 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
392 with multiple priorities.
393 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
394 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
396 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
398 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
399 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
400 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
401 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
402 are not using the same tape(s).
403 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
404 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
406 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
407 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
408 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
409 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
410 perhaps if password is undefined.
411 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
414 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
415 - the help-command should be more verbose
416 (it should explain the paramters of the different
418 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
419 you need a special parameter
420 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
421 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
423 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
424 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
425 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
426 its faster to enter the specified directory
427 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
428 you should be asked for it.
429 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
430 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
431 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
432 to forget to remove the password after usage
434 the protection of that file is less important
435 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
436 like the unix more/less-command does
437 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
438 be a little long and complex
439 - command-output should be shown column by column
440 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
442 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
444 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
445 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
446 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
448 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
449 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
450 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
451 permissions *can* be restored.
452 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
453 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
454 - Add prune all command
455 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
456 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
457 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
458 - look at mxt-changer.html
459 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
460 - Implement restore directory.
461 - Document streams and how to implement them.
462 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
463 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
464 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
465 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
466 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
468 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
469 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
470 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
471 - Add tree pane to left of window.
472 - Add progress meter.
473 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
474 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
475 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
476 which is needed by all packages.
477 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
478 space test fails in btape.
479 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
480 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
481 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
482 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
483 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
484 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
485 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
486 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
487 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
488 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
489 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
490 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
491 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
492 Do both a long and short form.
493 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
494 stat data on each file).
495 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
497 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
498 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
499 - Add John's appended files:
500 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
501 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
502 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
503 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
504 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
505 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
506 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
507 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
508 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
509 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
510 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
511 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
512 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
513 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
514 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
515 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
516 BackupClient RestoreClient).
517 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
518 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
519 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
520 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
521 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
522 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
523 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
524 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
525 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
527 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
529 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
530 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
531 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
532 the proper storage type.
533 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
534 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
535 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
536 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
537 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
538 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
539 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
540 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
541 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
542 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
543 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
544 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
545 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
546 which in turn overrides Pool.
548 - New Storage specifications:
549 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
550 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
551 - Want to read/write simultaneously
552 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
554 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
558 MediaType -> Next MediaType
560 Device -> Next Device
562 Allow multiple Storage specifications
570 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
572 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
573 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
574 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
575 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
576 is contained in only one device.
577 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
579 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
580 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
582 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
583 even more important, it's not flaky
584 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
585 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
587 Macintosh file client
588 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
589 working bare iron recovery for windows
590 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
591 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
592 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
593 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
594 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
596 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
597 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
598 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
599 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
600 support for Oracle database ??
602 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
603 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
604 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
605 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
606 is needed to properly specify ranges.
607 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
608 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
609 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
610 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
611 - Implement Console mtx commands.
612 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
613 the users could specify a system command to be performed
614 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
615 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
616 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
617 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
618 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
619 depending on the exact nature of the device.
620 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
621 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
622 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
623 once he had actually inserted the disk.
624 - Implement dump/print label to UA
625 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
627 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
628 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
629 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
630 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
631 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
632 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
633 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
634 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
635 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
636 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
637 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
638 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
639 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
640 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
641 by handling spaces better.
642 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
643 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
644 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
647 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
648 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
649 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
650 necessary parameters.
652 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
653 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
655 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
656 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
657 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
658 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
659 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
660 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
661 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
662 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
663 automatically generate the Volume name.
664 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
665 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
666 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
667 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
668 time as the user walks through the tree).
669 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
670 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
671 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
672 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
673 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
674 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
675 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
676 run the job but don't save the files.
677 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
680 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
681 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
682 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
683 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
685 - Implement a Recycle command
686 - Test a second language e.g. french.
687 - Start working on Base jobs.
688 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
689 - From Phil Stracchino:
690 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
691 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
692 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
693 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
694 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
695 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
696 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
697 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
698 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
699 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
700 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
701 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
702 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
703 if there is an error.
704 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
706 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
707 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
708 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
709 - Implement create "FileSet"?
710 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
711 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
712 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
713 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
714 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
716 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
717 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
718 - Refine SD waiting output:
719 Device is being positioned
720 > Device is being positioned for append
721 > Device is being positioned to file x
723 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
724 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
725 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
726 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
727 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
728 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
729 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
730 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
731 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
732 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
733 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
734 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
735 speed up things. Test with testfind().
736 - Priority job to go to top of list.
737 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
738 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
739 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
740 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
741 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
742 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
743 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
744 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
745 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
746 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
747 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
748 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
749 - Add UA rc and history files.
750 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
751 allow -with-termcap-dir.
752 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
753 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
754 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
755 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
756 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
757 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
758 - Maximum Operator Wait
759 - Minimum Message Interval
760 - Maximum Message Interval
761 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
762 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
763 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
765 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
766 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
767 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
768 reading a new config file at any time.
769 - Handle ctl-c in Console
770 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
771 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
772 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
773 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
774 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
775 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
776 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
777 - Restore files modified after date
778 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
779 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
780 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
781 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
782 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
783 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
786 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
787 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
788 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
790 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
791 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
792 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
793 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
794 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
797 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
800 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
801 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
805 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
806 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
807 - Partial Read error code
808 - Partial write error code
809 - Nonformatted read error
810 - Nonformatted write error
811 - WriteProtected error
815 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
825 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
827 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
828 at end of save retry and report any errors.
829 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
830 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
832 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
833 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
834 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
835 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
837 - Ensure that /dev/null works
838 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
839 report resource where report=group of messages
840 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
841 fill in code for "since" option
842 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
843 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
844 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
845 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
846 - Need a structure for pending actions:
848 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
850 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
851 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
852 owner, group, user, quotas
853 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
854 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
856 ========= ideas ===============
857 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
858 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
859 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
860 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
862 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
863 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
864 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
865 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
866 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
867 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
868 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
869 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
870 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
871 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
873 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
874 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
875 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
876 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
877 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
878 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
879 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
882 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
883 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
884 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
885 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
886 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
887 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
888 implementing something like this.
891 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
893 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
894 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
896 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
898 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
899 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
901 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
903 the Migration to tape later.
905 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
906 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
907 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
908 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
909 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
910 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
911 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
912 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
913 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
914 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
915 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
916 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
917 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
918 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
920 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
921 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
922 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
923 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
927 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
929 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
932 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
933 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
934 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
935 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
936 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
937 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
938 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
939 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
940 each row of the files table.
942 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
943 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
944 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
946 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
947 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
948 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
953 ==============================
956 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
957 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
958 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
959 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
960 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
961 the caller can change the break characters.
962 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
963 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
964 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
965 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
966 buffer messages for later.
967 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
968 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
969 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
970 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
971 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
972 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
973 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
974 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
978 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
979 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
981 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
983 Migration triggered by:
987 Highwater mark (keep total size)
992 ======================================================
994 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
995 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
997 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
998 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1000 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1001 JobId - JobId currently running
1002 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1003 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1004 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1005 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1006 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1007 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1008 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1009 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1010 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1011 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1012 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1013 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1014 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1015 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1017 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1018 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1019 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1021 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1023 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1024 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1025 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1026 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1027 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1028 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1029 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1030 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1031 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1033 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1039 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1040 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1041 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1042 =========================================================
1045 ==========================================================
1047 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1048 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1049 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1050 a list of Unsaved files.
1052 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1056 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1057 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1058 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1059 =============================================================
1063 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1064 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1065 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1066 Address 480 is Empty
1068 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1069 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1070 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1071 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1072 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1073 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1074 Storage Element 1:Empty
1075 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1076 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1077 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1078 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1079 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1080 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1081 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1082 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1083 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1084 Storage Element 11:Empty
1085 Storage Element 12:Empty
1086 Storage Element 13:Empty
1087 Storage Element 14:Empty
1088 Storage Element 15:Empty
1089 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1090 Storage Element 28:Empty
1091 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1092 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1093 Storage Element 57:Empty
1094 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1095 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1096 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1098 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1100 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1101 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1103 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1104 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1105 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1106 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1107 from an offset point either.something like
1109 Autochanger drives = 2
1110 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1111 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1112 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1113 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1119 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1120 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1121 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1122 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1123 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1124 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1125 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1126 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1127 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1128 slot number as the destination.AB
1134 undef# camcontrol devlist
1135 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1136 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1137 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1139 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1140 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1141 Product Type: Tape Drive
1143 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1145 Attached Changer: No
1146 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1147 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1154 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1157 DataCompEnabled: yes
1158 DataCompCapable: yes
1159 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1166 Handling removable disks
1168 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1170 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1171 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1172 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1173 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1175 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1176 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1177 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1178 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1180 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1182 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1183 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1184 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1185 scattered in many subdirectories.
1190 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1191 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1192 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1193 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1194 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1195 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1196 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1197 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1198 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1199 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1200 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1201 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1202 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1203 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1204 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1205 when the SD started.
1206 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1207 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1208 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1209 for operator intervention.
1210 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1211 - Add performance testing hooks
1212 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1213 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1214 saving only *.doc files.
1216 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
1217 Storage: DDS-4-changer
1221 The defined Storage resources are:
1222 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
1223 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
1224 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
1225 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
1226 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
1227 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
1228 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
1231 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
1232 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
1233 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
1234 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
1235 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
1236 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
1237 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
1238 or need them to be different for each device.
1239 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
1240 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
1241 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
1242 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
1243 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
1245 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
1246 #5 Events that call a Python program
1247 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
1248 - Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
1249 - Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
1250 - Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
1251 - Implement IBM labels.
1252 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
1253 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
1254 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
1255 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
1256 - 28-Mar 23:19 rufus-sd: acquire.c:379 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
1257 is busy reading. Job 6 canceled.
1258 - Remove separate thread for opening devices in SD. On the other
1259 hand, don't block waiting for open() for devices.
1260 - Fix code to either handle updating NumVol or to calculate it in
1262 - Ensure that you cannot exclude a directory or a file explicitly
1264 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
1265 (Implemented in Dir/SD/FD)
1266 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
1267 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
1270 - Add disk seeking on restore; turn off seek on tapes.
1272 - Look at dird_conf.c:1000: warning: `int size'
1273 might be used uninitialized in this function
1274 - Indicate when a Job is purged/pruned during restore.
1275 - Implement some way to turn off automatic pruning in Jobs.
1276 - Implement a way an Admin Job can prune, possibly multiple
1277 clients -- Python script?
1278 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
1279 - SD crashes after a tape restore then doing a backup.
1280 - If drive is opened read/write, close it and re-open
1281 read-only if doing a restore, and vice-versa.
1283 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
1284 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
1285 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
1286 > Prozess verwendet wird.
1287 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
1288 to set the attributes of e:
1289 from failed jobs.- Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
1290 and fix SD messages.
1291 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
1292 - Add a restore directory-x
1293 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
1294 even after Files are pruned.
1295 - Delete Stripe and Copy from VolParams to save space.
1296 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
1297 then list last 20 backups.
1298 - Finish implementation of passing all Storage and Device needs to
1300 - Move test for max wait time exceeded in job.c up -- Peter's idea.
1301 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
1302 ## Move rescue to its own project.
1303 - Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
1305 - Fix the Rescue CDROM.
1306 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
1307 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
1308 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
1309 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
1310 - Specify a single directory to restore.
1311 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
1312 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
1313 Job report (Volker Sauer).
1314 - Add level to estimate command.
1315 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
1316 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
1317 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
1319 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
1320 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
1321 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
1322 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
1323 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
1324 get the bootstrap file.
1325 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
1326 - Fix 3993 error in SD. It forgets to look at autochanger
1327 resource for device command, ...
1328 - 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
1329 autochanger, by checking if a Volume is mounted on another drive
1331 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.12 See:
1332 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
1333 - Add # Job Level date to bsr file
1334 - Implement "PreferMountedVolumes = yes|no" in Job resource.
1335 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
1337 - Cleaning tapes should have Status "Cleaning" rather than append.
1338 - Make sure that Python has access to Client address/port so that
1339 it can check if Clients are alive.
1340 - Review all items in "restore".
1341 - Fix PostgreSQL GROUP BY problems in restore.
1342 - Fix PostgreSQL sql problems in bugs.
1344 04-Jul 13:01 MainSD: Rufus.2005-07-04_01.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume
1346 Current Volume "DLT-04Jul05" not acceptable because:
1347 1997 Volume "DLT-13Feb04" not in catalog.
1348 04-Jul 13:01 MainSD: Please mount Volume "DLT-04Jul05" on Storage Device
1349 "HP DLT 80" (/dev/nst0) for Job Rufus.2005-07-04_01.05.02
1350 ## Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
1351 - Make "update slots" when pointing to Autochanger, remove
1352 all Volumes from other drives. "update slots all-drives"?
1353 No, this is done by modifying mtx-changer to list what is
1355 - Finish TLS implementation.
1356 - Port limiting -m in iptables to prevent DoS attacks
1357 could cause broken pipes on Bacula.
1358 6. Build and test the Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) for Win32.
1359 - Allow cancel of unknown Job
1360 - State not saved when closing Win32 FD by icon
1361 - bsr-opt-test fails. bsr deleted. Fix.
1362 - Move Python daemon variables from Job to Bacula object.
1363 WorkingDir, ConfigFile
1364 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
1366 - Document details of ANSI/IBM labels
1368 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
1369 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
1371 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
1372 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
1373 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
1374 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
1375 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
1377 - Document Heartbeat Interval in the dealing with firewalls section.
1378 - Document new CDROM directory.
1379 - On Win32 working directory must have drive letter ????
1380 - On Win32 working directory must be writable by SYSTEM to
1382 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.