6 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
7 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
8 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
9 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
10 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
11 - Pruning with Admin job.
12 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
13 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
14 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
15 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
16 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
17 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
18 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
19 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
21 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
22 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
23 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
24 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
25 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
26 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
27 building the French PDF.
28 - Document more DVD stuff
36 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
37 the Bacula data encryption code.
38 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
39 for disaster recovery.
42 - Migration from other vendors
46 - Backup conf/exe (all daemons)
47 - Backup up system state
48 - Detect state change of system (verify)
49 - Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed)
51 - Modules for Databases, Exchange, ...
52 - Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html
53 - Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code.
54 - When glibc crash, get address with
56 - How to sync remote offices.
58 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/exchbkup.mspx
61 Extract capability (#25)
62 Continued enhancement of bweb
63 Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be
65 Client triggered backups
66 Complete rework of the scheduling system (not in list)
67 Performance and usage instrumentation (not in list)
68 See email of 21Aug2007 for details.
69 - Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html
70 and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes
73 - Look at in src/filed/backup.c
74 > pm_strcpy(ff_pkt->fname, ff_pkt->fname_save);
75 > pm_strcpy(ff_pkt->link, ff_pkt->link_save);
76 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
77 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
78 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
80 - Prune by Job Level (Full, Differential, Incremental)
81 - Strict automatic pruning
82 - Implement unmount of USB volumes.
83 - Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for
84 Win32 to avoid patent problems.
85 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
86 - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
88 === Duplicate jobs ===
89 hese apply only to backup jobs.
91 1. Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | Higher (Yes)
93 2. Duplicate Job Interval = <time-interval> (0)
95 The defaults are in parenthesis and would produce the same behavior as today.
97 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to No, then any job starting while a job of the
98 same name is running will be canceled.
100 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to Higher, then any job starting with the same
101 or lower level will be canceled, but any job with a Higher level will start.
102 The Levels are from High to Low: Full, Differential, Incremental
104 Finally, if you have Duplicate Job Interval set to a non-zero value, any job
105 of the same name which starts <time-interval> after a previous job of the
106 same name would run, any one that starts within <time-interval> would be
107 subject to the above rules. Another way of looking at it is that the Allow
108 Duplicate Jobs directive will only apply after <time-interval> of when the
109 previous job finished (i.e. it is the minimum interval between jobs).
113 Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | HigherLevel | CancelLowerLevel (Yes)
115 Where HigherLevel cancels any waiting job but not any running job.
116 Where CancelLowerLevel is same as HigherLevel but cancels any running job or
119 Duplicate Job Proximity = <time-interval> (0)
121 My suggestion was to define it as the minimum guard time between
122 executions of a specific job -- ie, if a job was scheduled within Job
123 Proximity number of seconds, it would be considered a duplicate and
126 Skip = Do not allow two or more jobs with the same name to run
127 simultaneously within the proximity interval. The second and subsequent
128 jobs are skipped without further processing (other than to note the job
129 and exit immediately), and are not considered errors.
131 Fail = The second and subsequent jobs that attempt to run during the
132 proximity interval are cancelled and treated as error-terminated jobs.
134 Promote = If a job is running, and a second/subsequent job of higher
135 level attempts to start, the running job is promoted to the higher level
136 of processing using the resources already allocated, and the subsequent
137 job is treated as in Skip above.
139 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
140 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
141 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
142 its faster to enter the specified directory
143 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
144 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
145 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
146 by handling spaces better.
150 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
151 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
152 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
153 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
154 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
155 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
156 before doing Interval testing).
157 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
159 - Auto update of slot:
160 rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10
161 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03
162 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4"
163 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.
164 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
165 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
166 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
167 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life.
168 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51
169 - Eliminate: /var is a different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /var
170 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog
171 - Create FileVersions table
172 - Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
173 - Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
174 - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105
175 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the
176 generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL
177 and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is
178 cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message.
180 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
181 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
182 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
183 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
184 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
185 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
186 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
187 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
188 multiplexing Dir connection).
189 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
190 - Add TLS to bat (should be done).
191 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
192 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
193 now prints warnings too often.
194 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
196 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
197 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
199 This test is essential to Bacula.
201 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
202 two records in file 1,
203 and three records in file 2
205 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
206 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
207 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
208 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
210 - Encryption -- email from Landon
211 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
212 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
213 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
214 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
215 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
216 > interested in implementing this functionality.
218 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
219 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
220 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
221 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
222 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
223 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
224 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
225 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
226 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
228 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
229 - Encryption documentation
230 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
231 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
236 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
238 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
240 - Next Pool (already have)
241 - Reclamation threshold
243 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
244 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
246 - Allow pool selection during restore.
248 - Average tape size from Eric
249 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
250 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
251 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
252 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
253 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
255 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
256 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
258 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
259 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
260 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
261 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
265 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
267 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
269 - Despool attributes in separate thread
272 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
273 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
276 - Full at least once a month, ...
277 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
278 - More intelligent re-run
279 - New/deleted file backup
281 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
285 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
286 - Look at mondo/mindi
287 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
288 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
289 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
290 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
291 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
292 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
293 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
294 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
295 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
296 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
297 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
298 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
299 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
300 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
301 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
302 - Remove queue.c code.
303 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
305 - New dot commands from Arno.
306 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
307 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
308 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
309 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
310 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
311 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
312 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
315 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
316 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
317 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
318 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
319 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
320 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
321 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
323 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
324 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
325 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
326 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
327 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
328 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
329 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
330 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
331 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
332 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
335 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
336 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
337 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
338 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
339 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
340 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
342 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
343 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
344 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
345 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
346 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
347 == changequote.m4 ===
348 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
349 ==== query.sql.in ===
350 :List next 20 volumes to expire
352 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
357 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
359 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
363 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
364 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
368 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
370 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
372 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
373 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
374 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
375 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
376 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
381 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
382 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
385 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
387 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
390 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
392 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
393 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
395 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
396 significant changes to Bacula.
401 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
402 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
403 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
404 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
405 order by Path.Path ASC;
407 - Look into using Dart for testing
408 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
410 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
411 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
413 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
414 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
415 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
416 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
417 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
418 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
419 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
420 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
421 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
422 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
423 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
424 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
426 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
427 select * from Storage;
428 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
429 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
430 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
431 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
432 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
433 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
434 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
435 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
436 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
437 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
438 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
439 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
441 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
442 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
443 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
444 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
453 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
454 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
455 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
466 VolRetention: 31,536,000
478 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
485 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
486 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
487 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
498 VolRetention: 31,536,000
511 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
512 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
513 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
514 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
515 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
516 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
517 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
518 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
520 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
521 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
523 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
524 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
525 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
526 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
527 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
528 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
529 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
530 Win32 for sparse files.
531 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
532 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
533 - Directive: at <event> "command"
534 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
535 attach to a specific job?
536 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
537 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
538 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
539 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
540 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
541 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
542 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
543 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
545 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
546 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
547 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
548 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
549 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
550 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
551 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
552 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
553 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
555 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
556 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
560 - Show files/second in client status output.
561 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
562 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
563 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
565 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
566 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
568 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
569 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
570 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
572 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
573 days before it needs changing.
574 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
575 if the job is not scheduled.
576 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
577 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
578 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
579 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
581 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
582 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
583 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
585 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
586 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
588 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
589 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
591 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
592 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
593 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
594 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
595 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
596 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
598 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
599 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
600 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
601 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
602 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
603 - Remove old spool files on startup.
604 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
605 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
607 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
608 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
609 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
610 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
611 - Python script to do backup.
613 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
614 at the start of a job.
615 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
616 as an error when writing a DVD?
617 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
618 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
619 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
620 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
621 resources were locked.
622 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
625 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
626 entry does not contain bytes.
629 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
630 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
631 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
632 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
633 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
634 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
635 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
636 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
637 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
638 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
639 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
640 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
641 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
642 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
643 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
644 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
645 - Implement copies and stripes.
646 - Add history file to console.
647 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
648 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
649 16 hours to build the restore list.
650 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
651 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
652 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
653 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
654 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
655 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
657 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
658 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
659 Automatically selected Pool: Default
660 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
661 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
662 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
663 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
664 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
665 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
666 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
667 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
668 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
669 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
670 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
672 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
673 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
674 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
675 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
676 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
678 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
679 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
680 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
681 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
682 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
683 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
684 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
685 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
686 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
687 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
688 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
689 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
690 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
691 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
692 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
693 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
694 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
697 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
698 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
699 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
700 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
701 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
702 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
705 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
706 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
707 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
708 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
709 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
710 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
711 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
712 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
713 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
714 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
715 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
716 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
717 saved me a *lot* of time.
719 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
720 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
722 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
723 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
724 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
725 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
726 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
728 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
729 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
731 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
732 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
734 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
735 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
737 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
738 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
740 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
741 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
743 1. Use the current Director in-memory tree code (very fast), but currently in
744 memory. It probably could be paged.
746 2. Use some DB such as Berkeley DB or SQLite. SQLite is already compiled and
747 built for Win32, and it is something we could compile into the program.
749 3. Implement our own custom DB code.
751 Note, by appropriate use of Directives in the Director, we can dynamically
752 decide if the work is done in the Director or in the FD, and we can even
753 allow the user to choose.
755 === most recent accurate file backup/restore ===
756 Here is a sketch (i.e. more details must be filled in later) that I recently
757 made of an algorithm for doing Accurate Backup.
759 1. Dir informs FD that it is doing an Accurate backup and lookup done by
762 2. FD passes through the file system doing a normal backup based on normal
763 conditions, recording the names of all files and their attributes, and
764 indicating which files were backed up. This is very similar to what Verify
767 3. The Director receives the two lists of files at the end of the FD backup.
768 One, files backed up, and one files not backed up. It then looks up all the
769 files not backed up (using Verify style code).
771 4. The Dir sends the FD a list of:
772 a. Additional files to backup (based on user specified criteria, name, size
773 inode date, hash, ...).
776 5. Dir deletes list of file not backed up.
778 6. FD backs up additional files generates a list of those backed up and sends
779 it to the Director, which adds it to the list of files backed up. The list
780 is now complete and current.
782 7. The FD generates delete records for all the files that were deleted and
785 8. The Dir deletes the previous CurrentBackup list, and then does a
786 transaction insert of the new list that it has.
788 9. The rest works as before ...
792 Two new tables needed.
793 1. CurrentBackupId table that contains Client, JobName, FileSet, and a unique
794 BackupId. This is created during a Full save, and the BackupId can be set to
795 the JobId of the Full save. It will remain the same until another Full
796 backup is done. That is when new records are added during a Differential or
797 Incremental, they must use the same BackupId.
799 2. CurrentBackup table that contains essentially a File record (less a number
800 of fields, but with a few extra fields) -- e.g. a flag that the File was
801 backed up by a Full save (this permits doing a Differential). The unique
802 BackupId allows us to look up the CurrentBackup for a particular Client,
803 Jobname, FileSet using that unique BackupId as the key, so this table must be
804 indexed by the BackupId.
806 Note any time a file is saved by the FD other than during a Full save, the
807 Full save flag is cleared. When doing a Differential backup, if a file has
808 the Full save flag set, it is skipped, otherwise it is backed up. For an
809 Incremental backup, we check to see if the file has changed since the last
810 time we backed it up.
812 Deleted files should have FileIndex == 0
816 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
817 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
818 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
822 Name = "Migration-Policy"
824 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
825 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
826 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
827 Job Template = <template-name>
830 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
831 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
832 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
833 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
834 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
835 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
840 Name = "Migration-Policy"
842 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
844 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
845 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
848 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
849 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
850 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
852 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
853 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
854 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
855 depending on various criteria).
861 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
862 - Add delete JobId to regression.
863 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
864 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
865 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
866 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
867 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
869 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
870 on the restore prompt)
871 - Add IPv6 to regression
872 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
875 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
876 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
877 more than 1000 files per directory.
881 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
882 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
884 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
885 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
886 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
888 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
890 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
891 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
892 benefit from as well.
894 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
895 NextJobs = job1,job2.
898 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
899 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
900 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
901 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
902 the job after it needn't to be run
903 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
906 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
907 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
908 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
911 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
912 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
913 execute different actions based on the return value
916 3. offline capability to bconsole
919 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
920 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
921 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
922 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
924 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
925 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
926 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
927 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
928 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
931 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
935 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
936 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
937 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
939 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
942 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
943 I would have the possibilty to define
944 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
945 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
947 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
950 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
951 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
952 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
954 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
955 french and Morre (western african language).
957 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
958 due to the design of bacula.
960 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
961 the "Label Format" Directive.
965 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
966 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
967 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
968 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
969 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
970 name in the correct language.
972 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
973 presenting in a browser.
974 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
975 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
976 rpm and Win32 releases.
977 - Browse generations of files.
978 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
979 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
980 size. Relevant information is at
981 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
982 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
983 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
984 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
985 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
986 - Supported autochanger:
994 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
995 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
996 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
997 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
998 - Include within include does it work?
999 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
1000 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
1001 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
1002 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
1003 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
1004 savings time changes.
1005 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
1006 - Promote to Full = Time period
1007 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
1008 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
1009 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
1011 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
1012 - How to handle backing up portables ...
1013 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
1014 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
1015 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
1018 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
1019 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
1020 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
1021 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
1022 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
1023 - Document query file format.
1024 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
1025 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
1026 - Document how to use multiple databases.
1027 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
1028 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
1031 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
1032 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
1033 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
1034 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
1036 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
1037 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
1038 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
1039 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
1040 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
1041 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
1042 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
1043 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
1044 - Document doing table repair
1047 ===================================
1048 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
1049 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
1050 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
1051 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
1053 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
1054 - Autorestart on crash.
1055 - Add bandwidth limiting.
1056 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
1057 the line from timing out.
1058 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
1059 up through the prompt.
1060 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
1061 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
1062 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
1063 units, perhaps via a directive.
1064 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
1065 with multiple priorities.
1066 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
1067 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
1069 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
1071 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
1072 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
1074 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
1075 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
1076 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
1077 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
1078 perhaps if password is undefined.
1079 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
1082 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
1083 - the help-command should be more verbose
1084 (it should explain the paramters of the different
1086 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
1087 you need a special parameter
1088 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
1089 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
1091 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
1092 you should be asked for it.
1093 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
1094 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
1095 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
1096 to forget to remove the password after usage
1098 the protection of that file is less important
1099 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
1100 like the unix more/less-command does
1101 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
1102 be a little long and complex
1103 - command-output should be shown column by column
1104 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
1106 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
1108 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
1109 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
1110 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
1112 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
1113 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
1114 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
1115 permissions *can* be restored.
1116 - Add prune all command
1117 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
1118 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
1119 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
1120 - look at mxt-changer.html
1121 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
1122 - Implement restore directory.
1123 - Document streams and how to implement them.
1124 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
1125 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
1126 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
1127 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
1128 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
1130 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
1131 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
1132 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
1133 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1134 - Add progress meter.
1135 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1136 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1137 space test fails in btape.
1138 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1139 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1140 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1141 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1142 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1143 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1144 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1145 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1146 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1147 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1148 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1149 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1150 Do both a long and short form.
1151 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1152 stat data on each file).
1153 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1155 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1156 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1157 - Add John's appended files:
1158 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1159 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1160 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1161 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1162 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1163 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1164 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1165 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1166 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1167 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1168 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1169 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1170 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1171 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1172 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1173 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1174 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1175 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1176 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1177 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1178 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1179 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1180 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1181 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1182 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1183 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1185 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1187 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1188 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1189 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1190 the proper storage type.
1191 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1192 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1193 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1194 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1195 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1196 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1197 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1198 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1199 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1200 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1201 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1202 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1203 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1204 which in turn overrides Pool.
1206 - New Storage specifications:
1207 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1208 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1209 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1210 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1212 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1216 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1218 Device -> Next Device
1220 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1228 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1230 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1231 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1232 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1233 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1234 is contained in only one device.
1235 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1237 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1238 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1240 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1241 even more important, it's not flaky
1242 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1243 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1245 Macintosh file client
1246 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1247 working bare iron recovery for windows
1248 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1249 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1250 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1251 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1252 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1253 an integration guide
1254 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1255 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1256 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1257 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1258 support for Oracle database ??
1260 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1261 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1262 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1263 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1264 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1265 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1266 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1267 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1268 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1269 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1270 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1271 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1272 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1273 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1274 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1275 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1276 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1277 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1278 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1279 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1280 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1281 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1282 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1283 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1285 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1286 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1287 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1288 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1289 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1290 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1291 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1292 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1293 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1294 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1295 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1297 - From Lars Kellers:
1298 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1299 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1300 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1301 necessary parameters.
1303 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1304 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1306 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1307 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1308 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1309 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1310 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1311 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1312 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1313 automatically generate the Volume name.
1314 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1315 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1316 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1317 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1318 time as the user walks through the tree).
1319 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1320 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1321 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1322 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1323 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1324 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1325 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1326 run the job but don't save the files.
1327 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1329 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1330 - Implement a Recycle command
1331 - Start working on Base jobs.
1332 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1333 - From Phil Stracchino:
1334 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1335 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1336 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1337 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1338 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1339 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1340 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1341 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1342 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1343 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1344 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1345 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1346 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1347 if there is an error.
1348 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1350 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1351 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1352 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1353 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1354 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1355 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1356 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1357 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1358 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1360 - Refine SD waiting output:
1361 Device is being positioned
1362 > Device is being positioned for append
1363 > Device is being positioned to file x
1365 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1366 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1367 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1368 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1369 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1370 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1371 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1372 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1373 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1374 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1375 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1376 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1377 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1378 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1379 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1380 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1381 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1382 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1383 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1384 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1385 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1386 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1387 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1388 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1389 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1390 - Add UA rc and history files.
1391 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1392 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1393 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1394 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1395 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1396 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1397 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1398 - Maximum Operator Wait
1399 - Minimum Message Interval
1400 - Maximum Message Interval
1401 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1402 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1403 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1405 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1406 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1407 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1408 reading a new config file at any time.
1409 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1410 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1411 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1412 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1413 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1414 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1415 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1416 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1417 - Restore files modified after date
1418 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1419 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1420 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1421 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1422 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1423 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1426 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1427 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1428 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1430 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1431 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1432 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1433 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1434 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1437 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1439 - Add media capacity
1440 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1441 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1445 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1446 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1447 - Partial Read error code
1448 - Partial write error code
1449 - Nonformatted read error
1450 - Nonformatted write error
1451 - WriteProtected error
1455 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1465 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1467 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1468 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1469 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1470 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1472 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1473 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1474 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1475 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1476 - Verify from Volume
1477 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1478 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1479 report resource where report=group of messages
1480 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1481 fill in code for "since" option
1482 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1483 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1484 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1485 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1486 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1488 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1490 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1491 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1492 owner, group, user, quotas
1493 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1494 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1496 ========= ideas ===============
1497 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1498 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1499 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1502 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1503 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1504 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1505 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1506 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1507 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1508 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1509 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1510 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1511 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1513 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1514 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1515 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1516 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1517 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1518 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1519 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1522 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1523 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1524 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1525 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1526 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1527 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1528 implementing something like this.
1531 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1533 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1534 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1536 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1538 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1539 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1541 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1543 the Migration to tape later.
1545 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1546 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1547 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1548 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1549 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1550 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1551 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1552 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1553 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1554 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1555 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1556 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1557 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1558 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1560 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1561 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1562 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1563 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1567 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1569 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1572 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1573 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1574 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1575 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1576 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1577 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1578 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1579 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1580 each row of the files table.
1582 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1583 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1584 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1586 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1587 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1588 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1593 ==============================
1596 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1597 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1598 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1599 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1600 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1601 the caller can change the break characters.
1602 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1603 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1604 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1605 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1606 buffer messages for later.
1607 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1608 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1609 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1610 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1611 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1615 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1616 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1619 ======================================================
1621 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1622 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1624 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1625 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1627 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1628 JobId - JobId currently running
1629 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1630 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1631 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1632 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1633 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1634 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1635 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1636 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1637 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1638 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1639 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1640 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1641 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1642 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1644 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1645 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1646 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1648 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1650 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1651 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1652 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1653 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1654 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1655 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1656 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1657 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1658 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1660 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1666 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1667 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1668 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1669 =========================================================
1674 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1675 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1676 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1677 Address 480 is Empty
1679 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1680 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1681 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1682 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1683 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1684 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1685 Storage Element 1:Empty
1686 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1687 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1688 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1689 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1690 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1691 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1692 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1693 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1694 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1695 Storage Element 11:Empty
1696 Storage Element 12:Empty
1697 Storage Element 13:Empty
1698 Storage Element 14:Empty
1699 Storage Element 15:Empty
1700 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1701 Storage Element 28:Empty
1702 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1703 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1704 Storage Element 57:Empty
1705 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1706 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1707 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1709 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1711 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1712 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1714 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1715 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1716 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1717 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1718 from an offset point either.something like
1720 Autochanger drives = 2
1721 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1722 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1723 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1724 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1730 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1731 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1732 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1733 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1734 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1735 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1736 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1737 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1738 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1739 slot number as the destination.AB
1745 undef# camcontrol devlist
1746 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1747 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1748 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1750 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1751 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1752 Product Type: Tape Drive
1754 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1756 Attached Changer: No
1757 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1758 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1765 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1768 DataCompEnabled: yes
1769 DataCompCapable: yes
1770 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1777 Handling removable disks
1779 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1781 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1782 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1783 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1784 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1786 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1787 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1788 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1789 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1791 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1793 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1794 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1795 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1796 scattered in many subdirectories.
1801 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1803 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1804 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1805 /* TCP socket options */
1806 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1807 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to
1809 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
1810 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
1811 - Please mount volume "xxx" on Storage device ... should also list
1812 Pool and MediaType in case user needs to create a new volume.
1813 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
1814 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1815 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
1816 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
1817 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
1818 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1819 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1820 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1821 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
1822 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
1823 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
1824 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
1825 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
1826 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
1827 started the director.
1828 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.
1829 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
1830 does the right thing.
1831 - FD-SD quick disconnect
1832 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
1833 - Erabt if min_block_size > max_block_size
1834 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1835 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1836 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1837 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
1838 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
1839 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
1840 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
1841 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
1842 - Implement Despooling data status.
1843 - Use E'xxx' to escape PostgreSQL strings.
1844 - Look at mincore: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
1845 - Unicode input http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
1846 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
1847 Pool in the default conf files.