9 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
10 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
11 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
12 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
13 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
14 - Pruning with Admin job.
15 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
16 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
17 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
18 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
19 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
20 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
21 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
22 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
24 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
25 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
26 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
27 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
28 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
29 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
30 building the French PDF.
31 - Document more DVD stuff
39 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
40 the Bacula data encryption code.
41 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
42 for disaster recovery.
46 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
48 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
49 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
50 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
51 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
54 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
55 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
56 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
57 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
58 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
59 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
60 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
61 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
62 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
64 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.
65 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
67 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
68 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
69 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
70 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
72 This test is essential to Bacula.
74 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
75 two records in file 1,
76 and three records in file 2
78 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
79 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
80 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
81 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
83 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
85 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
86 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
87 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
88 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
89 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
90 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
91 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
92 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
93 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
94 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
95 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
96 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
97 Pool in the default conf files.
98 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
100 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
101 - Encryption documentation
102 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
103 - bacula-1.38.2-ssl.patch
104 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
111 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
113 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
115 - FD-SD quick disconnect
116 - Despool attributes in separate thread
119 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
120 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
121 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
124 - Full at least once a month, ...
125 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
126 - More intelligent re-run
127 - New/deleted file backup
129 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
135 - Look at mondo/mindi
136 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
137 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
138 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
139 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
140 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
141 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
142 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
143 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
144 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
145 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
146 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
147 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
148 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
149 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
150 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
151 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
152 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
153 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
154 - Remove queue.c code.
155 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
157 - New dot commands from Arno.
158 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
159 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
160 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
161 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
162 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
163 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
164 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
167 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
168 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
169 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
170 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
171 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
172 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
173 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
175 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
176 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
177 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
178 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
179 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
180 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
181 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
182 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
183 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
184 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
185 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
186 transferring it to drive 0.
187 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
188 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
189 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
190 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
191 == changequote.m4 ===
192 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
193 ==== query.sql.in ===
194 :List next 20 volumes to expire
196 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
201 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
203 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
207 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
208 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
212 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
214 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
216 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
217 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
218 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
219 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
220 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
225 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
226 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
229 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
231 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
234 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
236 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
237 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
239 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
240 significant changes to Bacula.
245 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
246 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
247 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
248 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
249 order by Path.Path ASC;
251 - Look into using Dart for testing
252 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
254 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
255 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
257 === Migration from David ===
258 What I'd like to see:
261 Name = "<poolname>-migrate"
265 Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil | OldestVol | PoolOccupancy |
266 Client | PoolResidence | Volume | JobName | SQLquery
267 Migration Selection Pattern = "regexp"
268 Next Pool = <override>
271 There should be no need for a Level (migration is always Full, since you
272 don't calculate differential/incremental differences for migration),
273 Storage should be determined by the volume types in the pool, and Client
274 is really a selection issue. Migration should always occur to the
275 NextPool defined in the pool definition. If no nextpool is defined, the
276 job should end with a reason of "no place to go". If Next Pool statement
277 is present, we override the check in the pool definition and use the
280 Here's how I'd define Migration Selection Types:
283 Client -- Migrate data from selected client only. Migration Selection
284 Pattern regexp provides pattern to select client names, eg ^FS00* makes
285 all client names starting with FS00 eligible for migration.
287 Jobname -- Migration all jobs matching name. Migration Selection Pattern
288 regexp provides pattern to select jobnames existing in pool.
290 Volume -- Migrate all data on specified volumes. Migration Selection
291 Pattern regexp provides selection criteria for volumes to be migrated.
292 Volumes must exist in pool to be eligible for migration.
296 LowestUtil -- Identify the volume in the pool with the least data on it
297 and empty it. No Migration Selection Pattern required.
299 OldestVol -- Identify the LRU volume with data written, and empty it. No
300 Migration Selection Pattern required.
302 PoolOccupancy -- if pool occupancy exceeds <highmig>, migrate volumes
303 (starting with most full volumes) until pool occupancy drops below
304 <lowmig>. Pool highmig and lowmig values are in pool definition, no
305 Migration Selection Pattern required.
309 SQLQuery -- Migrate all jobuids returned by the supplied SQL query.
310 Migration Selection Pattern contains SQL query to execute; should return
311 a list of 1 or more jobuids to migrate.
313 PoolResidence -- Migrate data sitting in pool for longer than
314 PoolResidence value in pool definition. Migration Selection Pattern
315 optional; if specified, override value in pool definition (value in
319 [ possibly a Python event -- kes ]
321 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
322 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
323 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
324 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
325 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
326 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
327 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
328 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
329 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
330 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
331 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
332 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
334 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
335 select * from Storage;
336 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
337 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
338 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
339 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
340 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
341 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
342 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
343 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
344 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
345 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
346 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
347 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
349 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
350 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
351 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
352 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
361 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
362 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
363 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
374 VolRetention: 31,536,000
386 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
393 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
394 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
395 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
406 VolRetention: 31,536,000
419 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
420 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
421 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
422 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
423 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
424 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
425 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
426 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
428 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
429 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
431 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
432 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
433 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
434 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
435 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
436 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
437 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
438 Win32 for sparse files.
439 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
440 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
441 - Directive: at <event> "command"
442 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
443 attach to a specific job?
444 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
445 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
446 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
447 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
448 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
449 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
450 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
451 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
453 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
454 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
455 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
456 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
457 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
458 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
459 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
460 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
461 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
463 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
464 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
468 - Show files/second in client status output.
469 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
470 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
471 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
472 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
473 before doing Interval testing).
474 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
475 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
476 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
477 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
478 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
480 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
481 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
482 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
484 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
485 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
486 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
488 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
489 days before it needs changing.
490 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
491 if the job is not scheduled.
492 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
493 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
494 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
495 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
497 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
498 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
499 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
501 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
502 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
504 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
505 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
507 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
508 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
509 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
510 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
511 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
512 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
514 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
515 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
516 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
517 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
518 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
519 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
520 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
521 - Remove old spool files on startup.
522 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
523 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
525 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
526 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
527 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
528 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
529 - Python script to do backup.
531 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
532 at the start of a job.
533 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
534 as an error when writing a DVD?
535 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
536 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
537 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
538 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
539 resources were locked.
540 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
543 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
544 entry does not contain bytes.
548 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
549 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
550 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
551 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
552 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
553 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
554 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
555 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
556 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
557 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
558 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
559 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
560 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
561 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
562 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
563 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
564 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
565 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
566 - Implement copies and stripes.
567 - Add history file to console.
568 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
569 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
570 16 hours to build the restore list.
571 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
572 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
573 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
574 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
575 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
576 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
578 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
579 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
580 Automatically selected Pool: Default
581 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
582 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
583 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
584 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
585 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
586 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
587 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
588 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
589 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
590 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
591 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
593 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
594 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
595 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
596 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
597 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
599 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
600 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
601 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
602 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
603 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
604 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
605 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
606 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
607 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
608 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
609 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
610 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
611 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
612 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
613 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
614 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
615 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
618 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
619 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
620 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
621 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
622 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
623 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
626 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
627 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
628 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
629 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
630 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
631 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
632 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
633 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
634 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
635 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
636 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
637 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
638 saved me a *lot* of time.
640 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
641 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
643 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
644 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
645 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
646 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
647 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
649 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
650 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
652 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
653 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
655 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
656 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
658 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
659 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
661 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
662 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
666 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
667 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
668 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
672 Name = "Migration-Policy"
674 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
675 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
676 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
677 Job Template = <template-name>
680 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
681 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
682 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
683 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
684 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
685 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
690 Name = "Migration-Policy"
692 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
694 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
695 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
698 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
699 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
700 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
702 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
703 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
704 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
705 depending on various criteria).
711 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
712 - Add delete JobId to regression.
713 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
714 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
715 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
716 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
717 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
719 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
720 on the restore prompt)
721 - Add IPv6 to regression
722 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
725 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
726 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
727 more than 1000 files per directory.
731 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
732 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
734 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
735 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
736 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
738 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
740 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
741 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
742 benefit from as well.
744 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
745 NextJobs = job1,job2.
748 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
749 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
750 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
751 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
752 the job after it needn't to be run
753 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
756 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
757 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
758 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
761 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
762 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
763 execute different actions based on the return value
766 3. offline capability to bconsole
769 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
770 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
771 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
772 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
774 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
775 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
776 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
777 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
778 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
781 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
785 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
786 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
787 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
789 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
792 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
793 I would have the possibilty to define
794 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
795 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
797 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
800 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
801 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
802 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
804 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
805 french and Morre (western african language).
807 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
808 due to the design of bacula.
810 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
811 the "Label Format" Directive.
815 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
816 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
817 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
818 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
819 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
820 name in the correct language.
822 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
823 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
824 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
825 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
828 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
829 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
830 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
833 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
834 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
835 presenting in a browser.
836 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
837 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
838 rpm and Win32 releases.
839 - Browse generations of files.
840 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
841 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
842 size. Relevant information is at
843 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
844 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
845 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
846 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
847 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
848 - Supported autochanger:
856 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
857 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
858 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
859 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
860 - Include within include does it work?
861 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
862 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
863 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
864 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
865 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
866 savings time changes.
867 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
868 - Promote to Full = Time period
869 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
870 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
871 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
873 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
874 - How to handle backing up portables ...
875 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
876 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
877 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
880 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
881 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
882 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
883 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
884 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
885 - Document query file format.
886 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
887 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
888 - Document how to use multiple databases.
889 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
890 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
893 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
894 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
895 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
896 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
898 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
899 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
900 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
901 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
902 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
903 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
904 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
905 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
906 - Document doing table repair
909 ===================================
910 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
911 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
912 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
913 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
915 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
916 - Autorestart on crash.
917 - Add bandwidth limiting.
918 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
919 the line from timing out.
920 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
921 up through the prompt.
922 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
923 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
924 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
925 units, perhaps via a directive.
926 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
927 with multiple priorities.
928 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
929 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
931 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
933 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
934 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
936 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
937 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
938 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
939 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
940 perhaps if password is undefined.
941 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
944 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
945 - the help-command should be more verbose
946 (it should explain the paramters of the different
948 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
949 you need a special parameter
950 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
951 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
953 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
954 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
955 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
956 its faster to enter the specified directory
957 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
958 you should be asked for it.
959 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
960 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
961 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
962 to forget to remove the password after usage
964 the protection of that file is less important
965 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
966 like the unix more/less-command does
967 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
968 be a little long and complex
969 - command-output should be shown column by column
970 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
972 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
974 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
975 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
976 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
978 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
979 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
980 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
981 permissions *can* be restored.
982 - Add prune all command
983 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
984 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
985 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
986 - look at mxt-changer.html
987 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
988 - Implement restore directory.
989 - Document streams and how to implement them.
990 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
991 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
992 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
993 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
994 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
996 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
997 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
998 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
999 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1000 - Add progress meter.
1001 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1002 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1003 space test fails in btape.
1004 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1005 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1006 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1007 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1008 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1009 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1010 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1011 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1012 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1013 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1014 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1015 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1016 Do both a long and short form.
1017 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1018 stat data on each file).
1019 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1021 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1022 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1023 - Add John's appended files:
1024 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1025 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1026 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1027 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1028 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1029 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1030 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1031 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1032 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1033 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1034 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1035 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1036 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1037 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1038 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1039 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1040 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1041 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1042 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1043 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1044 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1045 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1046 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1047 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1048 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1049 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1051 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1053 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1054 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1055 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1056 the proper storage type.
1057 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1058 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1059 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1060 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1061 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1062 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1063 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1064 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1065 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1066 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1067 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1068 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1069 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1070 which in turn overrides Pool.
1072 - New Storage specifications:
1073 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1074 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1075 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1076 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1078 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1082 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1084 Device -> Next Device
1086 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1094 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1096 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1097 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1098 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1099 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1100 is contained in only one device.
1101 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1103 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1104 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1106 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1107 even more important, it's not flaky
1108 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1109 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1111 Macintosh file client
1112 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1113 working bare iron recovery for windows
1114 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1115 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1116 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1117 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1118 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1119 an integration guide
1120 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1121 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1122 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1123 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1124 support for Oracle database ??
1126 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1127 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1128 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1129 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1130 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1131 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1132 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1133 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1134 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1135 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1136 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1137 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1138 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1139 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1140 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1141 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1142 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1143 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1144 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1145 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1146 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1147 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1148 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1149 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1151 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1152 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1153 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1154 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1155 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1156 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1157 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1158 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1159 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
1160 by handling spaces better.
1161 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1162 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1163 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1165 - From Lars Kellers:
1166 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1167 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1168 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1169 necessary parameters.
1171 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1172 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1174 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1175 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1176 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1177 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1178 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1179 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1180 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1181 automatically generate the Volume name.
1182 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1183 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1184 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1185 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1186 time as the user walks through the tree).
1187 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1188 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1189 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1190 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1191 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1192 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1193 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1194 run the job but don't save the files.
1195 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1197 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1198 - Implement a Recycle command
1199 - Start working on Base jobs.
1200 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1201 - From Phil Stracchino:
1202 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1203 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1204 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1205 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1206 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1207 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1208 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1209 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1210 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1211 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1212 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1213 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1214 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1215 if there is an error.
1216 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1218 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1219 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1220 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1221 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1222 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1223 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1224 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1225 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1226 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1228 - Refine SD waiting output:
1229 Device is being positioned
1230 > Device is being positioned for append
1231 > Device is being positioned to file x
1233 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1234 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1235 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1236 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1237 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1238 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1239 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
1240 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1241 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1242 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1243 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1244 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1245 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1246 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1247 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1248 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1249 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1250 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1251 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1252 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1253 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1254 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1255 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1256 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1257 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1258 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1259 - Add UA rc and history files.
1260 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1261 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1262 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1263 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1264 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1265 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1266 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1267 - Maximum Operator Wait
1268 - Minimum Message Interval
1269 - Maximum Message Interval
1270 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1271 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1272 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1274 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1275 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1276 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1277 reading a new config file at any time.
1278 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1279 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1280 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1281 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1282 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1283 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1284 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1285 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1286 - Restore files modified after date
1287 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1288 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1289 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1290 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1291 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1292 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1295 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1296 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1297 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1299 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1300 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1301 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1302 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1303 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1306 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1308 - Add media capacity
1309 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1310 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1314 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1315 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1316 - Partial Read error code
1317 - Partial write error code
1318 - Nonformatted read error
1319 - Nonformatted write error
1320 - WriteProtected error
1324 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1334 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1336 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1337 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1338 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1339 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1341 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1342 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1343 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1344 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1345 - Verify from Volume
1346 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1347 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1348 report resource where report=group of messages
1349 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1350 fill in code for "since" option
1351 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1352 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1353 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1354 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1355 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1357 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1359 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1360 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1361 owner, group, user, quotas
1362 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1363 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1365 ========= ideas ===============
1366 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1367 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1368 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1369 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1371 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1372 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1373 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1374 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1375 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1376 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1377 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1378 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1379 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1380 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1382 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1383 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1384 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1385 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1386 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1387 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1388 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1391 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1392 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1393 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1394 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1395 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1396 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1397 implementing something like this.
1400 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1402 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1403 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1405 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1407 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1408 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1410 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1412 the Migration to tape later.
1414 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1415 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1416 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1417 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1418 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1419 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1420 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1421 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1422 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1423 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1424 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1425 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1426 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1427 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1429 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1430 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1431 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1432 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1436 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1438 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1441 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1442 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1443 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1444 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1445 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1446 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1447 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1448 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1449 each row of the files table.
1451 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1452 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1453 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1455 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1456 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1457 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1462 ==============================
1465 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1466 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1467 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1468 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1469 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1470 the caller can change the break characters.
1471 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1472 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1473 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1474 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1475 buffer messages for later.
1476 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1477 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1478 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1479 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1480 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1481 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1482 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1483 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1487 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1488 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1491 ======================================================
1493 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1494 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1496 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1497 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1499 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1500 JobId - JobId currently running
1501 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1502 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1503 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1504 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1505 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1506 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1507 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1508 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1509 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1510 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1511 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1512 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1513 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1514 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1516 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1517 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1518 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1520 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1522 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1523 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1524 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1525 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1526 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1527 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1528 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1529 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1530 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1532 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1538 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1539 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1540 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1541 =========================================================
1544 ==========================================================
1546 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1547 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1548 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1549 a list of Unsaved files.
1551 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1555 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1556 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1557 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1558 =============================================================
1562 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1563 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1564 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1565 Address 480 is Empty
1567 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1568 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1569 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1570 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1571 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1572 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1573 Storage Element 1:Empty
1574 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1575 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1576 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1577 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1578 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1579 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1580 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1581 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1582 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1583 Storage Element 11:Empty
1584 Storage Element 12:Empty
1585 Storage Element 13:Empty
1586 Storage Element 14:Empty
1587 Storage Element 15:Empty
1588 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1589 Storage Element 28:Empty
1590 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1591 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1592 Storage Element 57:Empty
1593 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1594 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1595 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1597 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1599 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1600 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1602 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1603 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1604 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1605 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1606 from an offset point either.something like
1608 Autochanger drives = 2
1609 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1610 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1611 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1612 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1618 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1619 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1620 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1621 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1622 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1623 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1624 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1625 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1626 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1627 slot number as the destination.AB
1633 undef# camcontrol devlist
1634 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1635 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1636 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1638 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1639 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1640 Product Type: Tape Drive
1642 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1644 Attached Changer: No
1645 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1646 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1653 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1656 DataCompEnabled: yes
1657 DataCompCapable: yes
1658 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1665 Handling removable disks
1667 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1669 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1670 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1671 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1672 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1674 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1675 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1676 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1677 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1679 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1681 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1682 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1683 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1684 scattered in many subdirectories.
1689 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1691 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1692 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1694 /* TCP socket options */
1695 #define TCP_NODELAY 1 /* Turn off Nagle's algorithm. */
1696 #define TCP_MAXSEG 2 /* Limit MSS */
1697 #define TCP_CORK 3 /* Never send partially complete segments */
1698 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1699 #define TCP_KEEPINTVL 5 /* Interval between keepalives */
1700 #define TCP_KEEPCNT 6 /* Number of keepalives before death */
1701 #define TCP_SYNCNT 7 /* Number of SYN retransmits */
1702 #define TCP_LINGER2 8 /* Life time of orphaned FIN-WAIT-2 state */
1703 #define TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT 9 /* Wake up listener only when data arrive */
1704 #define TCP_WINDOW_CLAMP 10 /* Bound advertised window */
1705 #define TCP_INFO 11 /* Information about this connection. */
1706 #define TCP_QUICKACK 12 /* Block/reenable quick acks */
1707 #define TCP_CONGESTION 13 /* Congestion control algorithm */
1709 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to