7 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
8 ========================================================
10 Final items for 1.37 before release:
12 - --without-openssl breaks at least on Solaris.
14 3. Document all the new features (about half done).
15 7. Write a bacula-web document
16 8. Take one more try at making DVD writing work.
17 9. Run the regression scripts on Solaris and FreeBSD
18 - Figure out how to package gui, and rescue programs.
22 - Document cleaning up the spool files.
23 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
24 - Document details of ANSI/IBM labels
25 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
27 - Pruning with Admin job.
29 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
30 2) Sun, DDS, (Suns name unknown - Archive Python DDS drive), 1.2GB
31 3) Wangtek, QIC, 6525ES, 525MB (fixed block size 1k, block size etc.
32 driver dependent - aic7xxx works, ncr53c8xx with problems)
33 4) HP, DDS-2, C1553A, 6*4GB
35 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
36 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
37 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
38 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
39 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
41 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
42 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
44 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
45 - Document new CDROM directory.
46 - Document Heartbeat Interval in the dealing with firewalls section.
47 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
48 - On Win32 working directory must have drive letter ????
49 - On Win32 working directory must be writable by SYSTEM to
56 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
57 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
58 - Reserve blocks other restore jobs when first cannot connect
59 to SD -- no way to cancel in SD if Dir job canceled.
60 - Add true/false to conf same as yes/no
61 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
62 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
63 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
64 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
65 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
66 - Remove old spool files on startup.
67 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
68 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
70 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
71 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
72 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
73 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
74 - Python script to do backup.
76 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
77 at the start of a job.
78 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
79 as an error when writing a DVD?
80 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
81 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
82 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
83 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
84 resources were locked.
85 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
88 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
89 entry does not contain bytes.
90 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
91 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
92 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
93 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
97 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
98 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
99 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
100 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
101 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
102 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
103 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
104 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
105 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
106 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
107 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
108 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
109 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
110 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
111 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
112 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
113 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
114 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
115 - Implement copies and stripes.
116 - Add history file to console.
117 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
118 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
119 16 hours to build the restore list.
120 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
121 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
122 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
123 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
124 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
125 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
127 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
128 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
129 Automatically selected Pool: Default
130 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
131 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
132 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
133 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
134 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
135 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
136 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
137 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
138 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
139 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
140 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
142 ==== Keeping track of deleted files ====
143 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
144 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
145 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
146 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
147 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
148 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
149 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
150 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
151 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
152 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
153 that at that point in time the file was deleted.
155 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
156 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
157 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
158 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
159 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
160 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
163 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
164 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
165 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
166 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
167 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
168 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
169 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
170 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
171 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
172 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
173 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
174 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
175 saved me a *lot* of time.
177 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
178 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
182 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
183 - Add delete JobId to regression.
184 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
185 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
186 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
187 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
188 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
190 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
191 on the restore prompt)
192 - Add IPv6 to regression
193 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
196 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
197 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
198 more than 1000 files per directory.
202 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
203 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
205 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
206 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
207 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
209 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
211 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
212 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
213 benefit from as well.
215 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
216 NextJobs = job1,job2.
219 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
220 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
221 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
222 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
223 the job after it needn't to be run
224 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
227 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
228 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
229 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
232 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
233 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
234 execute different actions based on the return value
237 3. offline capability to bconsole
240 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
241 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
242 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
243 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
245 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
246 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
247 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
248 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
249 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
252 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
256 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
257 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
258 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
260 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
263 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
264 I would have the possibilty to define
265 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
266 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
268 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
271 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
272 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
273 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
275 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
276 french and Morre (western african language).
278 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
279 due to the design of bacula.
281 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
282 the "Label Format" Directive.
286 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
287 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
288 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
289 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
290 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
291 name in the correct language.
293 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
294 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
295 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
296 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
299 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
300 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
301 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
304 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
305 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
306 presenting in a browser.
307 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
308 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
309 rpm and Win32 releases.
310 - Browse generations of files.
311 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
312 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
313 size. Relevant information is at
314 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
315 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
316 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
317 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
318 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
319 - Supported autochanger:
327 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
328 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
329 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
330 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
331 - Include within include does it work?
332 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
333 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
334 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
335 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
336 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
337 savings time changes.
338 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
339 - Promote to Full = Time period
340 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
341 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
342 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
344 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
345 - How to handle backing up portables ...
346 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
347 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
348 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
351 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
352 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
353 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
354 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
355 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
356 - Document query file format.
357 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
358 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
359 - Document how to use multiple databases.
360 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
361 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
364 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
365 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
366 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
367 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
369 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
370 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
371 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
372 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
373 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
374 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
375 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
376 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
377 - Document doing table repair
380 ===================================
381 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
382 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
383 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
384 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
386 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
387 - Autorestart on crash.
388 - Add bandwidth limiting.
389 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
390 the line from timing out.
391 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
392 up through the prompt.
393 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
394 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
395 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
396 units, perhaps via a directive.
397 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
398 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
399 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
400 with multiple priorities.
401 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
402 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
404 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
406 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
407 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
408 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
409 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
410 are not using the same tape(s).
411 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
412 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
414 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
415 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
416 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
417 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
418 perhaps if password is undefined.
419 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
422 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
423 - the help-command should be more verbose
424 (it should explain the paramters of the different
426 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
427 you need a special parameter
428 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
429 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
431 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
432 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
433 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
434 its faster to enter the specified directory
435 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
436 you should be asked for it.
437 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
438 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
439 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
440 to forget to remove the password after usage
442 the protection of that file is less important
443 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
444 like the unix more/less-command does
445 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
446 be a little long and complex
447 - command-output should be shown column by column
448 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
450 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
452 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
453 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
454 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
456 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
457 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
458 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
459 permissions *can* be restored.
460 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
461 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
462 - Add prune all command
463 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
464 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
465 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
466 - look at mxt-changer.html
467 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
468 - Implement restore directory.
469 - Document streams and how to implement them.
470 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
471 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
472 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
473 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
474 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
476 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
477 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
478 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
479 - Add tree pane to left of window.
480 - Add progress meter.
481 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
482 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
483 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
484 which is needed by all packages.
485 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
486 space test fails in btape.
487 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
488 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
489 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
490 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
491 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
492 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
493 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
494 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
495 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
496 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
497 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
498 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
499 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
500 Do both a long and short form.
501 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
502 stat data on each file).
503 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
505 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
506 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
507 - Add John's appended files:
508 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
509 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
510 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
511 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
512 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
513 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
514 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
515 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
516 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
517 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
518 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
519 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
520 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
521 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
522 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
523 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
524 BackupClient RestoreClient).
525 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
526 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
527 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
528 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
529 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
530 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
531 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
532 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
533 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
535 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
537 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
538 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
539 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
540 the proper storage type.
541 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
542 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
543 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
544 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
545 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
546 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
547 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
548 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
549 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
550 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
551 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
552 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
553 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
554 which in turn overrides Pool.
556 - New Storage specifications:
557 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
558 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
559 - Want to read/write simultaneously
560 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
562 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
566 MediaType -> Next MediaType
568 Device -> Next Device
570 Allow multiple Storage specifications
578 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
580 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
581 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
582 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
583 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
584 is contained in only one device.
585 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
587 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
588 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
590 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
591 even more important, it's not flaky
592 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
593 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
595 Macintosh file client
596 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
597 working bare iron recovery for windows
598 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
599 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
600 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
601 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
602 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
604 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
605 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
606 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
607 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
608 support for Oracle database ??
610 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
611 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
612 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
613 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
614 is needed to properly specify ranges.
615 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
616 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
617 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
618 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
619 - Implement Console mtx commands.
620 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
621 the users could specify a system command to be performed
622 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
623 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
624 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
625 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
626 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
627 depending on the exact nature of the device.
628 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
629 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
630 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
631 once he had actually inserted the disk.
632 - Implement dump/print label to UA
633 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
635 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
636 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
637 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
638 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
639 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
640 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
641 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
642 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
643 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
644 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
645 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
646 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
647 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
648 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
649 by handling spaces better.
650 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
651 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
652 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
655 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
656 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
657 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
658 necessary parameters.
660 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
661 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
663 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
664 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
665 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
666 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
667 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
668 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
669 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
670 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
671 automatically generate the Volume name.
672 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
673 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
674 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
675 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
676 time as the user walks through the tree).
677 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
678 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
679 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
680 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
681 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
682 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
683 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
684 run the job but don't save the files.
685 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
688 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
689 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
690 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
691 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
693 - Implement a Recycle command
694 - Test a second language e.g. french.
695 - Start working on Base jobs.
696 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
697 - From Phil Stracchino:
698 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
699 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
700 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
701 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
702 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
703 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
704 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
705 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
706 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
707 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
708 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
709 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
710 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
711 if there is an error.
712 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
714 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
715 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
716 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
717 - Implement create "FileSet"?
718 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
719 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
720 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
721 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
722 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
724 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
725 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
726 - Refine SD waiting output:
727 Device is being positioned
728 > Device is being positioned for append
729 > Device is being positioned to file x
731 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
732 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
733 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
734 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
735 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
736 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
737 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
738 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
739 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
740 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
741 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
742 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
743 speed up things. Test with testfind().
744 - Priority job to go to top of list.
745 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
746 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
747 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
748 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
749 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
750 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
751 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
752 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
753 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
754 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
755 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
756 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
757 - Add UA rc and history files.
758 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
759 allow -with-termcap-dir.
760 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
761 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
762 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
763 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
764 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
765 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
766 - Maximum Operator Wait
767 - Minimum Message Interval
768 - Maximum Message Interval
769 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
770 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
771 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
773 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
774 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
775 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
776 reading a new config file at any time.
777 - Handle ctl-c in Console
778 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
779 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
780 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
781 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
782 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
783 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
784 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
785 - Restore files modified after date
786 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
787 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
788 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
789 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
790 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
791 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
794 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
795 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
796 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
798 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
799 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
800 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
801 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
802 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
805 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
808 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
809 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
813 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
814 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
815 - Partial Read error code
816 - Partial write error code
817 - Nonformatted read error
818 - Nonformatted write error
819 - WriteProtected error
823 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
833 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
835 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
836 at end of save retry and report any errors.
837 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
838 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
840 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
841 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
842 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
843 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
845 - Ensure that /dev/null works
846 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
847 report resource where report=group of messages
848 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
849 fill in code for "since" option
850 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
851 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
852 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
853 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
854 - Need a structure for pending actions:
856 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
858 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
859 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
860 owner, group, user, quotas
861 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
862 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
864 ========= ideas ===============
865 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
866 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
867 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
868 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
870 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
871 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
872 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
873 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
874 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
875 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
876 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
877 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
878 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
879 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
881 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
882 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
883 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
884 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
885 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
886 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
887 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
890 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
891 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
892 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
893 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
894 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
895 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
896 implementing something like this.
899 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
901 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
902 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
904 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
906 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
907 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
909 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
911 the Migration to tape later.
913 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
914 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
915 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
916 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
917 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
918 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
919 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
920 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
921 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
922 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
923 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
924 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
925 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
926 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
928 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
929 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
930 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
931 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
935 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
937 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
940 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
941 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
942 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
943 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
944 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
945 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
946 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
947 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
948 each row of the files table.
950 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
951 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
952 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
954 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
955 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
956 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
961 ==============================
964 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
965 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
966 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
967 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
968 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
969 the caller can change the break characters.
970 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
971 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
972 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
973 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
974 buffer messages for later.
975 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
976 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
977 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
978 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
979 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
980 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
981 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
982 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
986 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
987 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
989 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
991 Migration triggered by:
995 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1000 ======================================================
1002 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1003 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1005 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1006 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1008 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1009 JobId - JobId currently running
1010 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1011 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1012 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1013 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1014 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1015 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1016 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1017 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1018 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1019 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1020 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1021 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1022 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1023 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1025 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1026 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1027 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1029 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1031 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1032 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1033 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1034 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1035 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1036 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1037 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1038 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1039 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1041 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1047 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1048 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1049 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1050 =========================================================
1053 ==========================================================
1055 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1056 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1057 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1058 a list of Unsaved files.
1060 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1064 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1065 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1066 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1067 =============================================================
1071 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1072 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1073 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1074 Address 480 is Empty
1076 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1077 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1078 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1079 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1080 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1081 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1082 Storage Element 1:Empty
1083 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1084 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1085 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1086 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1087 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1088 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1089 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1090 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1091 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1092 Storage Element 11:Empty
1093 Storage Element 12:Empty
1094 Storage Element 13:Empty
1095 Storage Element 14:Empty
1096 Storage Element 15:Empty
1097 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1098 Storage Element 28:Empty
1099 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1100 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1101 Storage Element 57:Empty
1102 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1103 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1104 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1106 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1108 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1109 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1111 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1112 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1113 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1114 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1115 from an offset point either.something like
1117 Autochanger drives = 2
1118 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1119 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1120 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1121 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1127 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1128 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1129 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1130 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1131 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1132 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1133 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1134 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1135 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1136 slot number as the destination.AB
1142 undef# camcontrol devlist
1143 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1144 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1145 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1147 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1148 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1149 Product Type: Tape Drive
1151 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1153 Attached Changer: No
1154 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1155 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1162 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1165 DataCompEnabled: yes
1166 DataCompCapable: yes
1167 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1174 Handling removable disks
1176 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1178 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1179 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1180 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1181 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1183 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1184 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1185 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1186 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1188 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1190 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1191 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1192 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1193 scattered in many subdirectories.
1198 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1199 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1200 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1201 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1202 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1203 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1204 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1205 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1206 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1207 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1208 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1209 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1210 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1211 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1212 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1213 when the SD started.
1214 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1215 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1216 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1217 for operator intervention.
1218 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1219 - Add performance testing hooks
1220 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1221 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1222 saving only *.doc files.
1224 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
1225 Storage: DDS-4-changer
1229 The defined Storage resources are:
1230 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
1231 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
1232 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
1233 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
1234 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
1235 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
1236 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
1239 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
1240 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
1241 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
1242 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
1243 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
1244 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
1245 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
1246 or need them to be different for each device.
1247 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
1248 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
1249 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
1250 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
1251 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
1253 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
1254 #5 Events that call a Python program
1255 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
1256 - Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
1257 - Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
1258 - Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
1259 - Implement IBM labels.
1260 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
1261 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
1262 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
1263 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
1264 - 28-Mar 23:19 rufus-sd: acquire.c:379 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
1265 is busy reading. Job 6 canceled.
1266 - Remove separate thread for opening devices in SD. On the other
1267 hand, don't block waiting for open() for devices.
1268 - Fix code to either handle updating NumVol or to calculate it in
1270 - Ensure that you cannot exclude a directory or a file explicitly
1272 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
1273 (Implemented in Dir/SD/FD)
1274 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
1275 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
1278 - Add disk seeking on restore; turn off seek on tapes.
1280 - Look at dird_conf.c:1000: warning: `int size'
1281 might be used uninitialized in this function
1282 - Indicate when a Job is purged/pruned during restore.
1283 - Implement some way to turn off automatic pruning in Jobs.
1284 - Implement a way an Admin Job can prune, possibly multiple
1285 clients -- Python script?
1286 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
1287 - SD crashes after a tape restore then doing a backup.
1288 - If drive is opened read/write, close it and re-open
1289 read-only if doing a restore, and vice-versa.
1291 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
1292 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
1293 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
1294 > Prozess verwendet wird.
1295 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
1296 to set the attributes of e:
1297 from failed jobs.- Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
1298 and fix SD messages.
1299 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
1300 - Add a restore directory-x
1301 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
1302 even after Files are pruned.
1303 - Delete Stripe and Copy from VolParams to save space.
1304 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
1305 then list last 20 backups.
1306 - Finish implementation of passing all Storage and Device needs to
1308 - Move test for max wait time exceeded in job.c up -- Peter's idea.
1309 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
1310 ## Move rescue to its own project.
1311 - Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
1313 - Fix the Rescue CDROM.
1314 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
1315 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
1316 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
1317 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
1318 - Specify a single directory to restore.
1319 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
1320 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
1321 Job report (Volker Sauer).
1322 - Add level to estimate command.
1323 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
1324 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
1325 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
1327 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
1328 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
1329 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
1330 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
1331 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
1332 get the bootstrap file.
1333 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
1334 - Fix 3993 error in SD. It forgets to look at autochanger
1335 resource for device command, ...
1336 - 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
1337 autochanger, by checking if a Volume is mounted on another drive
1339 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.12 See:
1340 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
1341 - Add # Job Level date to bsr file
1342 - Implement "PreferMountedVolumes = yes|no" in Job resource.
1343 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
1345 - Cleaning tapes should have Status "Cleaning" rather than append.
1346 - Make sure that Python has access to Client address/port so that
1347 it can check if Clients are alive.
1348 - Review all items in "restore".
1349 - Fix PostgreSQL GROUP BY problems in restore.
1350 - Fix PostgreSQL sql problems in bugs.
1352 04-Jul 13:01 MainSD: Rufus.2005-07-04_01.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume
1354 Current Volume "DLT-04Jul05" not acceptable because:
1355 1997 Volume "DLT-13Feb04" not in catalog.
1356 04-Jul 13:01 MainSD: Please mount Volume "DLT-04Jul05" on Storage Device
1357 "HP DLT 80" (/dev/nst0) for Job Rufus.2005-07-04_01.05.02
1358 ## Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
1359 - Make "update slots" when pointing to Autochanger, remove
1360 all Volumes from other drives. "update slots all-drives"?
1361 No, this is done by modifying mtx-changer to list what is
1363 - Finish TLS implementation.
1364 - Port limiting -m in iptables to prevent DoS attacks
1365 could cause broken pipes on Bacula.
1366 6. Build and test the Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) for Win32.
1367 - Allow cancel of unknown Job
1368 - State not saved when closing Win32 FD by icon
1369 - bsr-opt-test fails. bsr deleted. Fix.
1370 - Move Python daemon variables from Job to Bacula object.
1371 WorkingDir, ConfigFile