6 gftp sshfs kile kate lsssci m4 mtx nfs-common nfs-server
7 patch squashfs-tools strace sg3-utils screen scsiadd
8 system-tools-backend telnet dpkg traceroute urar usbutils
9 whois apt-file autofs busybox chkrootkit clamav dmidecode
10 manpages-dev manpages-posix manpages-posix-dev
14 - package sg3-utils, program sg_map
15 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
16 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
17 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
18 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
19 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
20 - Pruning with Admin job.
21 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
22 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
23 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
24 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
25 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
26 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
27 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
28 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
30 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
31 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
32 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
33 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
34 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
35 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
36 building the French PDF.
37 - Document more DVD stuff
45 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
46 the Bacula data encryption code.
47 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
48 for disaster recovery.
53 - ndmfs -- File Server extention in NDMPv4.
54 - ndmjob -- NDMP backup/restore NDMPv2, NDMPv3, and NDMPv4
56 - Migration from other vendors
60 - Backup conf/exe (all daemons)
61 - Backup up system state
62 - Detect state change of system (verify)
63 - Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed)
65 - Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html
66 - Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code.
67 - When glibc crash, get address with
69 - How to sync remote offices.
72 Extract capability (#25)
73 Continued enhancement of bweb
74 Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be
76 Client triggered backups
77 Complete rework of the scheduling system (not in list)
78 Performance and usage instrumentation (not in list)
79 See email of 21Aug2007 for details.
80 - Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html
81 and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes
86 - When reserving a device to read, check to see if the Volume
87 is already in use, if so wait. Probably will need to pass the
88 Volume. See bug #1313. Create a regression test to simulate
89 this problem and see if VolumePollInterval fixes it. Possibly turn
92 - Fix restore of acls and extended attributes to count ERROR
93 messages and make errors non-fatal.
94 - Put save/restore various platform acl/xattrs on a pointer to simplify
97 - Why no error message if restore has no permission on the where
99 - Possibly allow manual "purge" to purge a Volume that has not
100 yet been written (even if FirstWritten time is zero) see ua_purge.c
102 - Add disk block detection bsr code (make it work).
104 - Add blast attributes to DIR to SD.
105 - Detect deadlocks in reservations.
107 - Add list during dump
108 - Add in plugin code flag
109 - Add bRC_EndJob -- stops more calls to plugin this job
110 - Add bRC_Term (unload plugin)
111 - remove time_t from Jmsg and use utime_t?
112 - Deadlock detection, watchdog sees if counter advances when jobs are
113 running. With debug on, can do a "status" command.
114 - User options for plugins.
115 - Pool Storage override precedence over command line.
116 - Autolabel only if Volume catalog information indicates tape not
117 written. This will avoid overwriting a tape that gets an I/O
118 error on reading the volume label.
119 - I/O error, SD thinks it is not the right Volume, should check slot
120 then disable volume, but Asks for mount.
121 - Can be posible modify package to create and use configuration files in
126 /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
127 /etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf
128 /etc/bacula/conf.d/clients.conf
129 /etc/bacula/conf.d/storages.conf
131 and into bacula-dir.conf file include
133 @/etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf
134 @/etc/bacula/conf.d/clients.conf
135 @/etc/bacula/conf.d/storages.conf
136 - Possibly add an Inconsistent state when a Volume is in error
138 - Fix #ifdefing so that smartalloc can be disabled. Check manual
139 -- the default is enabled.
140 - Change calling sequence to delete_job_id_range() in ua_cmds.c
141 the preceding strtok() is done inside the subroutine only once.
142 - Dangling softlinks are not restored properly. For example, take a
143 soft link such as src/testprogs/install-sh, which points to /usr/share/autoconf...
144 move the directory to another machine where the file /usr/share/autoconf does
145 not exist, back it up, then try a full restore. It fails.
146 - Softlinks that point to non-existent file are not restored in restore all,
147 but are restored if the file is individually selected. BUG!
148 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
150 - Prune by Job Level (Full, Differential, Incremental)
151 - Strict automatic pruning
152 - Implement unmount of USB volumes.
153 - Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for
154 Win32 to avoid patent problems.
155 - Implement multiple jobid specification for the cancel command,
156 similar to what is permitted on the update slots command.
157 - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
159 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
160 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
161 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
162 its faster to enter the specified directory
163 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
164 by handling spaces better.
165 - When doing a restore, if the user does an "update slots"
166 after the job started in order to add a restore volume, the
167 values prior to the update slots will be put into the catalog.
168 Must retrieve catalog record merge it then write it back at the
169 end of the restore job, if we want to do this right.
173 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
174 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
175 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
176 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
177 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
178 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
179 before doing Interval testing).
180 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
182 - Auto update of slot:
183 rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10
184 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03
185 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4"
186 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.
187 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
188 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
189 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
190 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life.
191 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51
192 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog
193 - Create FileVersions table
194 - Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
195 - Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
196 - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105
197 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the
198 generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL
199 and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is
200 cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message.
202 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
203 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
204 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
205 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
206 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
207 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
208 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
209 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
210 multiplexing Dir connection).
211 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
212 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
213 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
214 now prints warnings too often.
215 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
217 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
218 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
220 This test is essential to Bacula.
222 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
223 two records in file 1,
224 and three records in file 2
226 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
227 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
228 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
229 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
231 - Encryption -- email from Landon
232 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
233 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
234 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
235 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
236 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
237 > interested in implementing this functionality.
239 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
240 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
241 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
242 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
243 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
244 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
245 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
246 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
247 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
249 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
250 - Encryption documentation
251 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
252 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
257 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
259 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
261 - Next Pool (already have)
262 - Reclamation threshold
264 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
265 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
267 - Allow pool selection during restore.
269 - Average tape size from Eric
270 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
271 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
272 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
273 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
274 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
276 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
277 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
279 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
280 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
281 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
282 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
286 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
288 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
290 - Despool attributes in separate thread
293 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
294 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
297 - More intelligent re-run
299 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
302 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
303 - Look at mondo/mindi
304 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
305 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
306 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
307 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
308 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
309 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
310 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
311 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
312 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
313 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
314 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
315 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
316 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
317 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
318 - Remove queue.c code.
319 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
321 - New dot commands from Arno.
322 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
323 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
324 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
325 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
326 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
327 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
328 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
331 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
332 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
333 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
334 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
335 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
336 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
337 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
339 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
340 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
341 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
342 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
343 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
344 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
345 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
346 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
347 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
348 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
351 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
352 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
353 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
354 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
355 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
356 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
358 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
359 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
360 == changequote.m4 ===
361 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
362 ==== query.sql.in ===
363 :List next 20 volumes to expire
365 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
370 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
372 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
376 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
377 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
381 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
383 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
388 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
389 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
390 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
391 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
392 order by Path.Path ASC;
394 - Look into using Dart for testing
395 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
397 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
398 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
400 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
401 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
402 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
403 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
404 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
405 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
406 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
407 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
408 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
409 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
410 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
411 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
413 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
414 select * from Storage;
415 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
416 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
417 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
418 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
419 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
420 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
421 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
422 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
423 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
424 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
425 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
426 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
428 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
429 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
430 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
431 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
440 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
441 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
442 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
453 VolRetention: 31,536,000
465 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
472 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
473 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
474 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
485 VolRetention: 31,536,000
498 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
499 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
500 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
501 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
502 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
503 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
504 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
505 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
507 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
508 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
510 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
511 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
512 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
513 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
514 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
515 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
516 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
517 Win32 for sparse files.
518 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
519 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
520 - Directive: at <event> "command"
521 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
522 attach to a specific job?
523 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
524 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
525 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
526 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
527 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
528 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
529 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
530 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
532 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
533 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
534 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
535 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
536 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
537 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
538 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
539 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
540 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
542 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
543 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
547 - Show files/second in client status output.
548 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
549 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
550 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
552 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
553 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
555 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
556 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
557 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
559 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
560 days before it needs changing.
561 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
562 if the job is not scheduled.
563 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
564 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
565 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
566 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
568 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
569 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
570 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
572 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
573 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
575 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
576 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
578 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
579 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
580 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
581 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
582 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
583 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
585 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
586 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
587 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
588 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
589 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
590 - Remove old spool files on startup.
591 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
592 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
594 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
595 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
596 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
597 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
598 - Python script to do backup.
600 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
601 at the start of a job.
602 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
603 as an error when writing a DVD?
604 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
605 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
606 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
607 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
608 resources were locked.
609 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
612 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
613 entry does not contain bytes.
616 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
617 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
618 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
619 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
620 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
621 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
622 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
623 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
624 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
625 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
626 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
627 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
628 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
629 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
630 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
631 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
632 - Implement copies and stripes.
633 - Add history file to console.
634 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
635 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
636 16 hours to build the restore list.
637 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
638 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
639 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
640 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
641 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
642 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
644 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
645 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
646 Automatically selected Pool: Default
647 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
648 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
649 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
650 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
651 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
652 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
653 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
654 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
655 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
656 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
657 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
662 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
663 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
664 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
668 Name = "Migration-Policy"
670 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
671 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
672 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
673 Job Template = <template-name>
676 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
677 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
678 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
679 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
680 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
681 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
686 Name = "Migration-Policy"
688 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
690 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
691 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
694 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
695 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
696 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
698 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
699 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
700 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
701 depending on various criteria).
707 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
708 - Add delete JobId to regression.
709 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
710 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
711 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
712 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
713 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
715 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
716 on the restore prompt)
717 - Add IPv6 to regression
718 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
721 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
722 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
723 more than 1000 files per directory.
727 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
728 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
730 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
731 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
732 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
734 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
736 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
737 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
738 benefit from as well.
740 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
741 NextJobs = job1,job2.
744 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
745 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
746 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
747 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
748 the job after it needn't to be run
749 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
752 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
753 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
754 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
757 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
758 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
759 execute different actions based on the return value
762 3. offline capability to bconsole
765 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
766 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
767 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
768 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
770 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
771 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
772 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
773 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
774 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
777 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
781 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
782 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
783 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
785 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
788 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
789 I would have the possibilty to define
790 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
791 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
793 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
796 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
797 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
798 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
800 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
801 french and Morre (western african language).
803 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
804 due to the design of bacula.
806 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
807 the "Label Format" Directive.
811 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
812 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
813 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
814 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
815 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
816 name in the correct language.
818 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
819 presenting in a browser.
820 - Browse generations of files.
821 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
822 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
823 size. Relevant information is at
824 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
825 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
826 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
827 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
828 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
829 - Supported autochanger:
837 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
838 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
839 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
840 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
841 - Include within include does it work?
842 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
843 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
844 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
845 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
846 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
847 savings time changes.
848 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
849 - Promote to Full = Time period
850 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
851 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
852 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
854 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
855 - How to handle backing up portables ...
856 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
857 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
858 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
861 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
862 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
863 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
864 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
865 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
866 - Document query file format.
867 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
868 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
869 - Document how to use multiple databases.
870 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
871 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
874 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
875 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
876 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
877 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
879 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
880 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
881 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
882 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
883 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
884 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
885 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
886 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
887 - Document doing table repair
890 ===================================
891 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
892 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
893 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
894 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
896 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
897 - Autorestart on crash.
898 - Add bandwidth limiting.
899 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
900 up through the prompt.
901 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
902 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
903 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
904 units, perhaps via a directive.
905 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
906 with multiple priorities.
907 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
908 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
910 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
912 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
913 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
915 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
916 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
917 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
918 perhaps if password is undefined.
919 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
922 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
923 - the help-command should be more verbose
924 (it should explain the paramters of the different
926 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
927 you need a special parameter
928 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
929 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
931 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
932 you should be asked for it.
933 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
934 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
935 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
936 to forget to remove the password after usage
938 the protection of that file is less important
939 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
940 like the unix more/less-command does
941 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
942 be a little long and complex
943 - command-output should be shown column by column
944 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
946 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
948 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
949 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
950 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
952 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
953 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
954 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
955 permissions *can* be restored.
956 - Add prune all command
957 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
958 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
959 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
960 - look at mxt-changer.html
961 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
962 - Implement restore directory.
963 - Document streams and how to implement them.
964 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
965 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
966 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
967 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
968 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
970 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
971 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
972 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
973 - Add tree pane to left of window.
974 - Add progress meter.
975 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
976 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
977 space test fails in btape.
978 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
979 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
980 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
981 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
982 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
983 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
984 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
985 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
986 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
987 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
988 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
989 stat data on each file).
990 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
992 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
993 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
994 - Add John's appended files:
995 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
996 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
997 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
998 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
999 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1000 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1001 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1002 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1003 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1004 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1005 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1006 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1007 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1008 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1009 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1010 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1011 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1012 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1013 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1014 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1015 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1016 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1018 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1019 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1020 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1021 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1022 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1023 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1024 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1025 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1026 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1027 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1028 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1029 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1030 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1031 which in turn overrides Pool.
1033 - New Storage specifications:
1034 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1035 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1036 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1037 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1039 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1043 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1045 Device -> Next Device
1047 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1055 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1057 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1058 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1059 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1060 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1061 is contained in only one device.
1062 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1064 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1065 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1067 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1068 even more important, it's not flaky
1069 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1070 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1072 Macintosh file client
1073 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1074 working bare iron recovery for windows
1075 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1076 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1077 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1078 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1079 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1080 an integration guide
1081 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1082 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1083 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1084 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1085 support for Oracle database ??
1087 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1088 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1089 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1090 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1091 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1092 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1093 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1094 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1095 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1096 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1097 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1098 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1099 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1100 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1101 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1102 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1103 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1104 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1105 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1106 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1107 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1108 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1110 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1111 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1112 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1113 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1114 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1115 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1116 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1117 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1118 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1119 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1121 - From Lars Kellers:
1122 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1123 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1124 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1125 necessary parameters.
1127 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1128 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1130 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1131 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1132 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1133 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1134 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1135 automatically generate the Volume name.
1136 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1137 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1138 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1139 time as the user walks through the tree).
1140 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1141 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1142 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1143 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1144 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1145 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1146 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1147 run the job but don't save the files.
1148 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1150 - Implement a Recycle command
1151 - Start working on Base jobs.
1152 - From Phil Stracchino:
1153 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1154 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1155 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1156 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1157 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1158 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1159 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1160 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1161 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1162 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1163 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1164 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1165 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1166 if there is an error.
1167 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1169 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1170 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1171 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1172 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1173 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1174 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1175 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1176 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1177 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1179 - Refine SD waiting output:
1180 Device is being positioned
1181 > Device is being positioned for append
1182 > Device is being positioned to file x
1184 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1185 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1186 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1187 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1188 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1189 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1190 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1191 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1192 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1193 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1194 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1195 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1196 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1197 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1198 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1199 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1200 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1201 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1202 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1203 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1204 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1205 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1206 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1207 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1208 - Add UA rc and history files.
1209 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1210 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1211 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1212 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1213 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1214 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1215 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1216 - Maximum Operator Wait
1217 - Minimum Message Interval
1218 - Maximum Message Interval
1219 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1220 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1221 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1223 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1224 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1225 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1226 reading a new config file at any time.
1227 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1228 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1229 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1230 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1231 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1232 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1233 - Restore files modified after date
1234 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1235 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1236 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1237 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1238 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1239 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1242 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1243 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1244 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1246 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1247 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1248 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1249 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1250 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1253 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1255 - Add media capacity
1256 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1257 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1261 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1262 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1263 - Partial Read error code
1264 - Partial write error code
1265 - Nonformatted read error
1266 - Nonformatted write error
1267 - WriteProtected error
1271 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1281 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1282 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1284 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1285 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1286 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1287 - Verify from Volume
1288 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1289 report resource where report=group of messages
1290 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1291 fill in code for "since" option
1292 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1293 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1294 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1295 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1296 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1298 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1300 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1301 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1302 owner, group, user, quotas
1303 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1304 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1306 ========= ideas ===============
1307 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1308 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1309 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1310 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1312 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1313 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1314 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1315 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1316 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1317 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1318 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1319 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1320 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1321 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1323 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1324 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1325 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1326 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1327 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1328 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1329 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1332 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1333 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1334 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1335 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1336 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1337 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1338 implementing something like this.
1341 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1343 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1344 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1346 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1348 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1349 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1351 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1353 the Migration to tape later.
1355 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1356 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1357 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1358 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1359 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1360 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1361 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1362 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1363 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1364 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1365 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1366 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1367 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1368 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1370 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1371 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1372 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1373 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1377 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1379 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1385 ==============================
1388 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1389 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1390 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1391 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1392 the caller can change the break characters.
1393 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1394 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1395 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1396 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1397 buffer messages for later.
1398 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1399 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1401 ======================================================
1403 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1404 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1406 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1407 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1409 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1410 JobId - JobId currently running
1411 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1412 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1413 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1414 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1415 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1416 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1417 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1418 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1419 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1420 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1421 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1422 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1423 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1424 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1426 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1427 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1428 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1430 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1432 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1433 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1434 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1435 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1436 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1437 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1438 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1439 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1440 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1442 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1448 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1449 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1450 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1451 =========================================================
1453 =========================================================
1454 Preliminary design of Deletion of disk volumes
1456 tem 5: Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
1458 Origin: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org> (edited
1462 What: Provide a way for Bacula to automatically remove Volumes
1463 from the filesystem, or optionally to truncate them.
1464 Obviously, the Volume must be pruned prior removal.
1466 Why: This would allow users more control over their Volumes and
1467 prevent disk based volumes from consuming too much space.
1469 Notes: The following two directives might do the trick:
1471 Volume Data Retention = <time period>
1472 Remove Volume After = <time period>
1474 The migration project should also remove a Volume that is
1475 migrated. This might also work for tape Volumes.
1477 Notes: (Kern). The data fields to control this have been added
1478 to the new 3.0.0 database table structure.
1480 As noted above, in version 3.0.0, we added a new Media column
1481 named ActionOnPurge, which is a TINYINT (smallint in PostgreSQL).
1482 The purpose of this field is to have a flag set with each Volume
1483 that determines certain actions that will be performed when a
1484 Volume is being marked Purged (i.e. when there are no longer any
1485 Job records pointing to that Volume).
1487 We have envisioned that ActionOnPurge could take on the following
1488 values (some are exclusive and others inclusive):
1491 Delete Delete the Volume from the catalog and disk
1492 What delete means for a tape is unclear.
1493 Truncate Truncate the Volume
1494 Erase Erase the Volume (overwrite data) could be
1495 very time consuming. Erase could be specified
1496 with either Truncate or Delete.
1498 Implementation details:
1499 - ActionOnPurge is probably a bit mask.
1500 - There needs to be a new Directive in the Pool resource that allows
1501 setting of this flag.
1502 - The flag must be passed to the SD along with the current Volume information.
1503 - There needs to be a new command sent from the Director to the SD
1504 that indicates that a Purge was done, the Volume name, and that it
1506 - For security reasons the SD must very carefully check that it actually
1507 can find the correct volume. This means, it must mount it, read the label
1508 or already have done so, and verify that the Volume is really there.
1509 Then the SD can perform the requested function (delete or truncate).
1510 - Doing an Erase could be implemented later.
1511 - In the above Feature Request, the proposed Volume Data Retention
1512 directive is already implemented with Volume Retention Interval.
1513 - In the above Feature Request, the proposed Remove Volume After is
1514 a bit problematic as it means that some action must occur some time
1515 later, and currently Bacula has no mechanism to handle such events.
1516 This will probably be considered as a feature to be added later
1517 if there is sufficient demand.
1519 =========================================================
1521 Item 1: Ability to restart failed jobs
1526 What: Often jobs fail because of a communications line drop or max run time,
1527 cancel, or some other non-critical problem. Currrently any data
1528 saved is lost. This implementation should modify the Storage daemon
1529 so that it saves all the files that it knows are completely backed
1532 The jobs should then be marked as incomplete and a subsequent
1533 Incremental Accurate backup will then take into account all the
1534 previously saved job.
1536 Why: Avoids backuping data already saved.
1538 Notes: Requires Accurate to restart correctly. Must completed have a minimum
1539 volume of data or files stored on Volume before enabling.
1541 Implementation notes:
1542 - Must define new I job termination code for incomplete Jobs -- Done
1543 - In the SD must track the position of the attributes being spooled
1544 when data is actually written to the Volume -- Done
1545 - In the SD, truncate the attributes to the last valid file written
1547 - The Dir must past restart flag to SD -- Done
1548 - If restart flag is sent in SD, and Job fails, must truncate attribute
1549 file and send it to Dir marking the job as I (incomplete).
1550 - In Dir when a Job is restarted, if there is an Incomplete job, must
1551 send Accurate information to FD.
1552 - In FD must use accurate information
1553 - If Incomplete job finishes, must mark it T.
1557 Handling removable disks
1559 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1561 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1562 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1563 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1564 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1566 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1567 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1568 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1569 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1571 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1573 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1574 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1575 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1576 scattered in many subdirectories.
1583 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
1584 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.