8 Unicode in Win32 Thorsten Engel (done)
9 VSS Thorsten Engel (in beta testing)
10 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
11 ========================================================
14 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
15 (probably not this version)
16 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
17 (probably not this version)
19 ## Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
22 - Make "update slots" when pointing to Autochanger, remove
23 all Volumes from other drives. "update slots all-drives"?
26 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
28 - Pruning with Admin job.
29 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
31 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
32 2) Sun, DDS, (Suns name unknown - Archive Python DDS drive), 1.2GB
33 3) Wangtek, QIC, 6525ES, 525MB (fixed block size 1k, block size etc.
34 driver dependent - aic7xxx works, ncr53c8xx with problems)
35 4) HP, DDS-2, C1553A, 6*4GB
37 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
38 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
39 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
40 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
41 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
43 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
44 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
46 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
47 - Document new CDROM directory.
48 - Document Heartbeat Interval in the dealing with firewalls section.
49 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
52 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
53 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
54 - --without-openssl breaks at least on Solaris.
56 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
57 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
58 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
59 - Python script to do backup.
61 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
62 at the start of a job.
63 - Make sure that Python has access to Client address/port so that
64 it can check if Clients are alive.
66 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
67 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
68 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
69 resources were locked.
70 - Add global lock on all devices when creating a device structure.
73 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
74 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
75 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
76 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
80 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
81 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
82 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
83 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
84 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
85 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
86 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
87 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
88 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
89 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
90 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
91 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
92 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
93 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
94 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
95 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
96 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
97 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
98 - Implement copies and stripes.
99 - Add history file to console.
100 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
101 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
102 16 hours to build the restore list.
103 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
104 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
105 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
106 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
107 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
108 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
110 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
111 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
112 Automatically selected Pool: Default
113 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
114 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
115 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
116 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
117 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
118 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
119 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
120 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
121 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
122 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
123 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
126 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
127 - Add delete JobId to regression.
128 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
129 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
130 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
131 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
132 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
134 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
135 on the restore prompt)
136 - Add IPv6 to regression
137 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
140 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
141 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
142 more than 1000 files per directory.
146 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
147 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
149 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
150 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
151 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
153 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
155 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
156 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
157 benefit from as well.
159 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
160 NextJobs = job1,job2.
163 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
164 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
165 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
166 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
167 the job after it needn't to be run
168 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
171 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
172 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
173 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
176 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
177 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
178 execute different actions based on the return value
181 3. offline capability to bconsole
184 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
185 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
186 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
187 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
189 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
190 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
191 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
192 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
193 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
196 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
200 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
201 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
202 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
204 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
207 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
208 I would have the possibilty to define
209 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
210 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
212 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
215 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
216 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
217 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
219 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
220 french and Morre (western african language).
222 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
223 due to the design of bacula.
225 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
226 the "Label Format" Directive.
230 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
231 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
232 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
233 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
234 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
235 name in the correct language.
237 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
238 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
239 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
240 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
243 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
244 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
245 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
248 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
249 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
250 presenting in a browser.
251 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
252 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
253 rpm and Win32 releases.
254 - Browse generations of files.
255 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
256 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
257 size. Relevant information is at
258 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
259 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
260 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
261 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
262 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
263 - Supported autochanger:
271 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
272 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
273 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
274 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
275 - Include within include does it work?
276 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
277 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
278 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
279 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
280 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
281 savings time changes.
282 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
283 - Promote to Full = Time period
284 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
285 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
286 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
288 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
289 - How to handle backing up portables ...
290 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
291 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
292 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
295 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
296 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
297 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
298 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
299 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
300 - Document query file format.
301 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
302 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
303 - Document how to use multiple databases.
304 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
305 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
308 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
309 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
310 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
311 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
313 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
314 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
315 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
316 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
317 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
318 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
319 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
320 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
321 - Document doing table repair
324 ===================================
325 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
326 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
327 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
328 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
330 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
331 - Autorestart on crash.
332 - Add bandwidth limiting.
333 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
334 the line from timing out.
335 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
336 up through the prompt.
337 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
338 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
339 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
340 units, perhaps via a directive.
341 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
342 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
343 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
344 with multiple priorities.
345 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
346 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
348 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
350 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
351 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
352 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
353 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
354 are not using the same tape(s).
355 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
356 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
358 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
359 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
360 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
361 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
362 perhaps if password is undefined.
363 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
366 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
367 - the help-command should be more verbose
368 (it should explain the paramters of the different
370 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
371 you need a special parameter
372 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
373 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
375 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
376 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
377 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
378 its faster to enter the specified directory
379 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
380 you should be asked for it.
381 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
382 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
383 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
384 to forget to remove the password after usage
386 the protection of that file is less important
387 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
388 like the unix more/less-command does
389 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
390 be a little long and complex
391 - command-output should be shown column by column
392 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
394 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
396 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
397 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
398 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
400 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
401 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
402 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
403 permissions *can* be restored.
404 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
405 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
406 - Add prune all command
407 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
408 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
409 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
410 - look at mxt-changer.html
411 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
412 - Implement restore directory.
413 - Document streams and how to implement them.
414 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
415 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
416 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
417 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
418 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
420 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
421 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
422 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
423 - Add tree pane to left of window.
424 - Add progress meter.
425 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
426 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
427 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
428 which is needed by all packages.
429 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
430 space test fails in btape.
431 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
432 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
433 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
434 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
435 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
436 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
437 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
438 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
439 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
440 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
441 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
442 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
443 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
444 Do both a long and short form.
445 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
446 stat data on each file).
447 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
449 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
450 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
451 - Add John's appended files:
452 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
453 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
454 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
455 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
456 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
457 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
458 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
459 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
460 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
461 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
462 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
463 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
464 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
465 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
466 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
467 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
468 BackupClient RestoreClient).
469 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
470 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
471 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
472 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
473 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
474 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
475 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
476 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
477 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
479 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
481 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
482 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
483 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
484 the proper storage type.
485 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
486 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
487 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
488 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
489 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
490 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
491 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
492 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
493 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
494 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
495 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
496 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
497 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
498 which in turn overrides Pool.
500 - New Storage specifications:
501 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
502 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
503 - Want to read/write simultaneously
504 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
506 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
510 MediaType -> Next MediaType
512 Device -> Next Device
514 Allow multiple Storage specifications
522 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
524 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
525 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
526 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
527 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
528 is contained in only one device.
529 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
531 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
532 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
534 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
535 even more important, it's not flaky
536 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
537 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
539 Macintosh file client
540 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
541 working bare iron recovery for windows
542 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
543 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
544 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
545 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
546 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
548 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
549 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
550 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
551 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
552 support for Oracle database ??
554 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
555 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
556 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
557 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
558 is needed to properly specify ranges.
559 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
560 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
561 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
562 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
563 - Implement Console mtx commands.
564 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
565 the users could specify a system command to be performed
566 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
567 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
568 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
569 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
570 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
571 depending on the exact nature of the device.
572 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
573 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
574 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
575 once he had actually inserted the disk.
576 - Implement dump/print label to UA
577 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
579 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
580 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
581 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
582 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
583 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
584 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
585 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
586 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
587 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
588 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
589 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
590 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
591 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
592 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
593 by handling spaces better.
594 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
595 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
596 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
599 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
600 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
601 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
602 necessary parameters.
604 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
605 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
607 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
608 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
609 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
610 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
611 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
612 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
613 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
614 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
615 automatically generate the Volume name.
616 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
617 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
618 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
619 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
620 time as the user walks through the tree).
621 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
622 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
623 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
624 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
625 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
626 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
627 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
628 run the job but don't save the files.
629 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
632 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
633 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
634 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
635 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
637 - Implement a Recycle command
638 - Test a second language e.g. french.
639 - Start working on Base jobs.
640 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
641 - From Phil Stracchino:
642 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
643 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
644 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
645 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
646 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
647 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
648 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
649 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
650 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
651 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
652 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
653 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
654 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
655 if there is an error.
656 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
658 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
659 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
660 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
661 - Implement create "FileSet"?
662 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
663 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
664 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
665 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
666 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
668 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
669 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
670 - Refine SD waiting output:
671 Device is being positioned
672 > Device is being positioned for append
673 > Device is being positioned to file x
675 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
676 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
677 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
678 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
679 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
680 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
681 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
682 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
683 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
684 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
685 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
686 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
687 speed up things. Test with testfind().
688 - Priority job to go to top of list.
689 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
690 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
691 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
692 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
693 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
694 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
695 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
696 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
697 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
698 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
699 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
700 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
701 - Add UA rc and history files.
702 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
703 allow -with-termcap-dir.
704 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
705 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
706 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
707 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
708 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
709 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
710 - Maximum Operator Wait
711 - Minimum Message Interval
712 - Maximum Message Interval
713 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
714 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
715 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
717 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
718 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
719 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
720 reading a new config file at any time.
721 - Handle ctl-c in Console
722 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
723 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
724 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
725 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
726 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
727 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
728 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
729 - Restore files modified after date
730 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
731 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
732 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
733 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
734 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
735 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
738 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
739 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
740 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
742 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
743 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
744 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
745 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
746 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
749 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
752 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
753 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
757 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
758 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
759 - Partial Read error code
760 - Partial write error code
761 - Nonformatted read error
762 - Nonformatted write error
763 - WriteProtected error
767 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
777 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
779 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
780 at end of save retry and report any errors.
781 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
782 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
784 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
785 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
786 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
787 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
789 - Ensure that /dev/null works
790 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
791 report resource where report=group of messages
792 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
793 fill in code for "since" option
794 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
795 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
796 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
797 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
798 - Need a structure for pending actions:
800 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
802 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
803 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
804 owner, group, user, quotas
805 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
806 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
808 ========= ideas ===============
809 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
810 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
811 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
812 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
814 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
815 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
816 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
817 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
818 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
819 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
820 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
821 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
822 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
823 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
825 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
826 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
827 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
828 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
829 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
830 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
831 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
834 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
835 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
836 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
837 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
838 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
839 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
840 implementing something like this.
843 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
845 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
846 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
848 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
850 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
851 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
853 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
855 the Migration to tape later.
857 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
858 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
859 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
860 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
861 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
862 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
863 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
864 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
865 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
866 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
867 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
868 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
869 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
870 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
872 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
873 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
874 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
875 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
879 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
881 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
884 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
885 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
886 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
887 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
888 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
889 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
890 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
891 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
892 each row of the files table.
894 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
895 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
896 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
898 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
899 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
900 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
905 ==============================
908 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
909 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
910 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
911 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
912 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
913 the caller can change the break characters.
914 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
915 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
916 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
917 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
918 buffer messages for later.
919 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
920 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
921 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
922 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
923 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
924 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
925 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
926 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
930 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
931 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
933 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
935 Migration triggered by:
939 Highwater mark (keep total size)
944 ======================================================
946 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
947 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
949 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
950 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
952 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
953 JobId - JobId currently running
954 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
955 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
956 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
957 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
958 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
959 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
960 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
961 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
962 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
963 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
964 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
965 by the FD for each Base Filename.
966 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
967 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
969 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
970 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
971 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
973 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
975 - At end of Job, FD returns:
976 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
977 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
978 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
979 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
980 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
981 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
982 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
983 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
985 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
991 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
992 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
993 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
994 =========================================================
997 ==========================================================
999 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1000 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1001 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1002 a list of Unsaved files.
1004 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1008 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1009 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1010 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1011 =============================================================
1015 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1016 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1017 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1018 Address 480 is Empty
1020 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1021 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1022 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1023 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1024 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1025 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1026 Storage Element 1:Empty
1027 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1028 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1029 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1030 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1031 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1032 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1033 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1034 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1035 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1036 Storage Element 11:Empty
1037 Storage Element 12:Empty
1038 Storage Element 13:Empty
1039 Storage Element 14:Empty
1040 Storage Element 15:Empty
1041 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1042 Storage Element 28:Empty
1043 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1044 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1045 Storage Element 57:Empty
1046 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1047 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1048 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1050 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1052 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1053 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1055 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1056 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1057 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1058 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1059 from an offset point either.something like
1061 Autochanger drives = 2
1062 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1063 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1064 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1065 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1071 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1072 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1073 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1074 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1075 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1076 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1077 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1078 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1079 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1080 slot number as the destination.AB
1086 undef# camcontrol devlist
1087 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1088 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1089 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1091 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1092 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1093 Product Type: Tape Drive
1095 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1097 Attached Changer: No
1098 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1099 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1106 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1109 DataCompEnabled: yes
1110 DataCompCapable: yes
1111 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1118 Handling removable disks
1120 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1122 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1123 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1124 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1125 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1127 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1128 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1129 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1130 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1132 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1134 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1135 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1136 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1137 scattered in many subdirectories.
1142 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1143 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1144 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1145 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1146 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1147 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1148 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1149 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1150 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1151 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1152 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1153 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1154 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1155 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1156 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1157 when the SD started.
1158 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1159 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1160 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1161 for operator intervention.
1162 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1163 - Add performance testing hooks
1164 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1165 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1166 saving only *.doc files.
1168 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
1169 Storage: DDS-4-changer
1173 The defined Storage resources are:
1174 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
1175 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
1176 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
1177 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
1178 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
1179 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
1180 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
1183 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
1184 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
1185 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
1186 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
1187 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
1188 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
1189 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
1190 or need them to be different for each device.
1191 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
1192 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
1193 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
1194 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
1195 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
1197 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
1198 #5 Events that call a Python program
1199 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
1200 - Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
1201 - Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
1202 - Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
1203 - Implement IBM labels.
1204 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
1205 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
1206 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
1207 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
1208 - 28-Mar 23:19 rufus-sd: acquire.c:379 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
1209 is busy reading. Job 6 canceled.
1210 - Remove separate thread for opening devices in SD. On the other
1211 hand, don't block waiting for open() for devices.
1212 - Fix code to either handle updating NumVol or to calculate it in
1214 - Ensure that you cannot exclude a directory or a file explicitly
1216 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
1217 (Implemented in Dir/SD/FD)
1218 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
1219 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
1222 - Add disk seeking on restore; turn off seek on tapes.
1224 - Look at dird_conf.c:1000: warning: `int size'
1225 might be used uninitialized in this function
1226 - Indicate when a Job is purged/pruned during restore.
1227 - Implement some way to turn off automatic pruning in Jobs.
1228 - Implement a way an Admin Job can prune, possibly multiple
1229 clients -- Python script?
1230 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
1231 - SD crashes after a tape restore then doing a backup.
1232 - If drive is opened read/write, close it and re-open
1233 read-only if doing a restore, and vice-versa.
1235 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
1236 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
1237 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
1238 > Prozess verwendet wird.
1239 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
1240 to set the attributes of e:
1241 from failed jobs.- Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
1242 and fix SD messages.
1243 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
1244 - Add a restore directory-x
1245 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
1246 even after Files are pruned.
1247 - Delete Stripe and Copy from VolParams to save space.
1248 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
1249 then list last 20 backups.
1250 - Finish implementation of passing all Storage and Device needs to
1252 - Move test for max wait time exceeded in job.c up -- Peter's idea.
1253 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
1254 ## Move rescue to its own project.
1255 - Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
1257 - Fix the Rescue CDROM.
1258 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
1259 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
1260 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
1261 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
1262 - Specify a single directory to restore.
1263 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
1264 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
1265 Job report (Volker Sauer).
1266 - Add level to estimate command.
1267 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
1268 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
1269 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
1271 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
1272 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
1273 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
1274 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
1275 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
1276 get the bootstrap file.
1277 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
1278 - Fix 3993 error in SD. It forgets to look at autochanger
1279 resource for device command, ...
1280 - 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
1281 autochanger, by checking if a Volume is mounted on another drive
1283 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.12 See:
1284 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
1285 - Add # Job Level date to bsr file
1286 - Implement "PreferMountedVolumes = yes|no" in Job resource.
1287 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with