6 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
7 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
8 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
9 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
10 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
11 - Pruning with Admin job.
12 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
13 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
14 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
15 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
16 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
17 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
18 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
19 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
21 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
22 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
23 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
24 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
25 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
26 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
27 building the French PDF.
28 - Document more DVD stuff
36 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
37 the Bacula data encryption code.
38 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
39 for disaster recovery.
42 - Migration from other vendors
46 - Backup conf/exe (all daemons)
47 - Backup up system state
48 - Detect state change of system (verify)
49 - Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed)
51 - Modules for Databases, Exchange, ...
52 - Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html
56 - Look at mincore: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
57 - Unicode input http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
58 - How does restore JobId=nnn work? (Dirk)
59 - What does: restore select fileset="TestSet" client="workplay-fd" pool="Default"
60 > storage="File2" before="2007-02-05 23:05:04" do? (Dirk)
62 - Implement update jobid=
63 - Mention Eric and Marc's work + Marc's doc.
65 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
66 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
67 now prints warnings too often.
69 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
71 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
72 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
73 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
74 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
76 This test is essential to Bacula.
78 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
79 two records in file 1,
80 and three records in file 2
82 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
83 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
84 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
85 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
87 - Encryption -- email from Landon
88 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
89 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
90 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
91 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
92 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
93 > interested in implementing this functionality.
95 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
97 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
98 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
99 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
100 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
101 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
102 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
103 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
104 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
105 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
106 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
107 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
108 Pool in the default conf files.
110 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
111 - Encryption documentation
112 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
113 - bacula-1.38.2-ssl.patch
114 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
118 - Average tape size from Eric
119 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
120 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
121 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
122 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
123 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
125 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
126 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
128 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
129 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
130 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
131 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
135 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
137 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
139 - FD-SD quick disconnect
140 - Despool attributes in separate thread
143 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
144 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
145 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
148 - Full at least once a month, ...
149 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
150 - More intelligent re-run
151 - New/deleted file backup
153 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
157 - Look at mondo/mindi
158 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
159 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
160 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
161 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
162 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
163 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
164 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
165 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
166 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
167 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
168 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
169 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
170 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
171 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
172 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
173 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
174 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
175 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
176 - Remove queue.c code.
177 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
179 - New dot commands from Arno.
180 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
181 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
182 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
183 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
184 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
185 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
186 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
189 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
190 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
191 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
192 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
193 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
194 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
195 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
197 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
198 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
199 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
200 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
201 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
202 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
203 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
204 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
205 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
206 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
207 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
208 transferring it to drive 0.
209 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
210 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
211 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
212 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
213 == changequote.m4 ===
214 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
215 ==== query.sql.in ===
216 :List next 20 volumes to expire
218 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
223 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
225 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
229 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
230 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
234 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
236 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
238 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
239 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
240 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
241 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
242 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
247 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
248 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
251 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
253 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
256 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
258 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
259 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
261 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
262 significant changes to Bacula.
267 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
268 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
269 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
270 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
271 order by Path.Path ASC;
273 - Look into using Dart for testing
274 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
276 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
277 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
279 === Migration from David ===
280 What I'd like to see:
283 Name = "<poolname>-migrate"
287 Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil | OldestVol | PoolOccupancy |
288 Client | PoolResidence | Volume | JobName | SQLquery
289 Migration Selection Pattern = "regexp"
290 Next Pool = <override>
293 There should be no need for a Level (migration is always Full, since you
294 don't calculate differential/incremental differences for migration),
295 Storage should be determined by the volume types in the pool, and Client
296 is really a selection issue. Migration should always occur to the
297 NextPool defined in the pool definition. If no nextpool is defined, the
298 job should end with a reason of "no place to go". If Next Pool statement
299 is present, we override the check in the pool definition and use the
302 Here's how I'd define Migration Selection Types:
305 Client -- Migrate data from selected client only. Migration Selection
306 Pattern regexp provides pattern to select client names, eg ^FS00* makes
307 all client names starting with FS00 eligible for migration.
309 Jobname -- Migration all jobs matching name. Migration Selection Pattern
310 regexp provides pattern to select jobnames existing in pool.
312 Volume -- Migrate all data on specified volumes. Migration Selection
313 Pattern regexp provides selection criteria for volumes to be migrated.
314 Volumes must exist in pool to be eligible for migration.
318 LowestUtil -- Identify the volume in the pool with the least data on it
319 and empty it. No Migration Selection Pattern required.
321 OldestVol -- Identify the LRU volume with data written, and empty it. No
322 Migration Selection Pattern required.
324 PoolOccupancy -- if pool occupancy exceeds <highmig>, migrate volumes
325 (starting with most full volumes) until pool occupancy drops below
326 <lowmig>. Pool highmig and lowmig values are in pool definition, no
327 Migration Selection Pattern required.
331 SQLQuery -- Migrate all jobuids returned by the supplied SQL query.
332 Migration Selection Pattern contains SQL query to execute; should return
333 a list of 1 or more jobuids to migrate.
335 PoolResidence -- Migrate data sitting in pool for longer than
336 PoolResidence value in pool definition. Migration Selection Pattern
337 optional; if specified, override value in pool definition (value in
341 [ possibly a Python event -- kes ]
343 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
344 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
345 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
346 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
347 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
348 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
349 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
350 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
351 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
352 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
353 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
354 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
356 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
357 select * from Storage;
358 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
359 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
360 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
361 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
362 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
363 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
364 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
365 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
366 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
367 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
368 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
369 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
371 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
372 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
373 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
374 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
383 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
384 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
385 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
396 VolRetention: 31,536,000
408 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
415 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
416 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
417 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
428 VolRetention: 31,536,000
441 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
442 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
443 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
444 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
445 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
446 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
447 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
448 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
450 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
451 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
453 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
454 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
455 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
456 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
457 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
458 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
459 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
460 Win32 for sparse files.
461 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
462 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
463 - Directive: at <event> "command"
464 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
465 attach to a specific job?
466 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
467 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
468 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
469 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
470 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
471 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
472 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
473 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
475 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
476 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
477 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
478 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
479 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
480 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
481 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
482 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
483 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
485 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
486 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
490 - Show files/second in client status output.
491 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
492 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
493 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
494 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
495 before doing Interval testing).
496 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
497 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
498 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
499 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
500 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
502 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
503 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
504 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
506 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
507 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
508 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
510 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
511 days before it needs changing.
512 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
513 if the job is not scheduled.
514 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
515 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
516 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
517 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
519 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
520 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
521 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
523 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
524 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
526 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
527 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
529 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
530 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
531 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
532 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
533 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
534 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
536 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
537 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
538 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
539 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
540 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
541 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
542 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
543 - Remove old spool files on startup.
544 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
545 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
547 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
548 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
549 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
550 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
551 - Python script to do backup.
553 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
554 at the start of a job.
555 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
556 as an error when writing a DVD?
557 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
558 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
559 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
560 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
561 resources were locked.
562 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
565 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
566 entry does not contain bytes.
570 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
571 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
572 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
573 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
574 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
575 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
576 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
577 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
578 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
579 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
580 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
581 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
582 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
583 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
584 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
585 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
586 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
587 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
588 - Implement copies and stripes.
589 - Add history file to console.
590 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
591 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
592 16 hours to build the restore list.
593 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
594 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
595 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
596 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
597 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
598 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
600 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
601 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
602 Automatically selected Pool: Default
603 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
604 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
605 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
606 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
607 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
608 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
609 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
610 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
611 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
612 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
613 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
615 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
616 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
617 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
618 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
619 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
621 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
622 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
623 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
624 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
625 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
626 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
627 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
628 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
629 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
630 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
631 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
632 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
633 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
634 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
635 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
636 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
637 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
640 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
641 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
642 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
643 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
644 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
645 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
648 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
649 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
650 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
651 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
652 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
653 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
654 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
655 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
656 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
657 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
658 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
659 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
660 saved me a *lot* of time.
662 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
663 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
665 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
666 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
667 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
668 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
669 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
671 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
672 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
674 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
675 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
677 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
678 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
680 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
681 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
683 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
684 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
688 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
689 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
690 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
694 Name = "Migration-Policy"
696 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
697 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
698 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
699 Job Template = <template-name>
702 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
703 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
704 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
705 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
706 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
707 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
712 Name = "Migration-Policy"
714 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
716 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
717 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
720 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
721 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
722 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
724 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
725 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
726 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
727 depending on various criteria).
733 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
734 - Add delete JobId to regression.
735 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
736 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
737 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
738 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
739 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
741 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
742 on the restore prompt)
743 - Add IPv6 to regression
744 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
747 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
748 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
749 more than 1000 files per directory.
753 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
754 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
756 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
757 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
758 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
760 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
762 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
763 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
764 benefit from as well.
766 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
767 NextJobs = job1,job2.
770 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
771 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
772 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
773 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
774 the job after it needn't to be run
775 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
778 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
779 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
780 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
783 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
784 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
785 execute different actions based on the return value
788 3. offline capability to bconsole
791 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
792 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
793 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
794 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
796 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
797 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
798 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
799 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
800 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
803 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
807 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
808 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
809 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
811 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
814 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
815 I would have the possibilty to define
816 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
817 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
819 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
822 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
823 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
824 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
826 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
827 french and Morre (western african language).
829 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
830 due to the design of bacula.
832 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
833 the "Label Format" Directive.
837 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
838 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
839 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
840 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
841 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
842 name in the correct language.
844 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
845 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
846 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
847 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
850 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
851 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
852 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
855 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
856 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
857 presenting in a browser.
858 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
859 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
860 rpm and Win32 releases.
861 - Browse generations of files.
862 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
863 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
864 size. Relevant information is at
865 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
866 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
867 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
868 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
869 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
870 - Supported autochanger:
878 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
879 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
880 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
881 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
882 - Include within include does it work?
883 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
884 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
885 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
886 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
887 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
888 savings time changes.
889 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
890 - Promote to Full = Time period
891 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
892 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
893 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
895 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
896 - How to handle backing up portables ...
897 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
898 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
899 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
902 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
903 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
904 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
905 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
906 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
907 - Document query file format.
908 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
909 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
910 - Document how to use multiple databases.
911 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
912 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
915 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
916 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
917 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
918 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
920 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
921 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
922 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
923 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
924 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
925 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
926 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
927 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
928 - Document doing table repair
931 ===================================
932 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
933 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
934 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
935 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
937 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
938 - Autorestart on crash.
939 - Add bandwidth limiting.
940 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
941 the line from timing out.
942 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
943 up through the prompt.
944 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
945 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
946 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
947 units, perhaps via a directive.
948 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
949 with multiple priorities.
950 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
951 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
953 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
955 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
956 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
958 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
959 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
960 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
961 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
962 perhaps if password is undefined.
963 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
966 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
967 - the help-command should be more verbose
968 (it should explain the paramters of the different
970 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
971 you need a special parameter
972 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
973 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
975 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
976 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
977 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
978 its faster to enter the specified directory
979 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
980 you should be asked for it.
981 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
982 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
983 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
984 to forget to remove the password after usage
986 the protection of that file is less important
987 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
988 like the unix more/less-command does
989 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
990 be a little long and complex
991 - command-output should be shown column by column
992 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
994 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
996 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
997 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
998 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
1000 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
1001 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
1002 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
1003 permissions *can* be restored.
1004 - Add prune all command
1005 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
1006 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
1007 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
1008 - look at mxt-changer.html
1009 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
1010 - Implement restore directory.
1011 - Document streams and how to implement them.
1012 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
1013 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
1014 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
1015 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
1016 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
1018 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
1019 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
1020 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
1021 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1022 - Add progress meter.
1023 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1024 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1025 space test fails in btape.
1026 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1027 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1028 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1029 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1030 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1031 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1032 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1033 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1034 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1035 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1036 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1037 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1038 Do both a long and short form.
1039 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1040 stat data on each file).
1041 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1043 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1044 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1045 - Add John's appended files:
1046 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1047 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1048 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1049 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1050 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1051 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1052 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1053 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1054 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1055 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1056 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1057 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1058 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1059 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1060 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1061 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1062 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1063 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1064 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1065 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1066 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1067 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1068 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1069 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1070 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1071 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1073 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1075 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1076 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1077 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1078 the proper storage type.
1079 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1080 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1081 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1082 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1083 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1084 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1085 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1086 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1087 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1088 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1089 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1090 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1091 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1092 which in turn overrides Pool.
1094 - New Storage specifications:
1095 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1096 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1097 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1098 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1100 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1104 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1106 Device -> Next Device
1108 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1116 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1118 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1119 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1120 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1121 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1122 is contained in only one device.
1123 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1125 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1126 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1128 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1129 even more important, it's not flaky
1130 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1131 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1133 Macintosh file client
1134 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1135 working bare iron recovery for windows
1136 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1137 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1138 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1139 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1140 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1141 an integration guide
1142 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1143 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1144 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1145 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1146 support for Oracle database ??
1148 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1149 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1150 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1151 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1152 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1153 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1154 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1155 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1156 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1157 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1158 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1159 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1160 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1161 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1162 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1163 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1164 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1165 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1166 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1167 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1168 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1169 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1170 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1171 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1173 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1174 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1175 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1176 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1177 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1178 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1179 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1180 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1181 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
1182 by handling spaces better.
1183 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1184 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1185 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1187 - From Lars Kellers:
1188 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1189 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1190 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1191 necessary parameters.
1193 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1194 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1196 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1197 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1198 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1199 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1200 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1201 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1202 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1203 automatically generate the Volume name.
1204 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1205 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1206 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1207 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1208 time as the user walks through the tree).
1209 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1210 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1211 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1212 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1213 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1214 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1215 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1216 run the job but don't save the files.
1217 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1219 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1220 - Implement a Recycle command
1221 - Start working on Base jobs.
1222 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1223 - From Phil Stracchino:
1224 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1225 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1226 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1227 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1228 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1229 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1230 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1231 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1232 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1233 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1234 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1235 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1236 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1237 if there is an error.
1238 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1240 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1241 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1242 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1243 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1244 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1245 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1246 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1247 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1248 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1250 - Refine SD waiting output:
1251 Device is being positioned
1252 > Device is being positioned for append
1253 > Device is being positioned to file x
1255 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1256 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1257 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1258 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1259 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1260 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1261 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
1262 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1263 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1264 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1265 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1266 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1267 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1268 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1269 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1270 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1271 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1272 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1273 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1274 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1275 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1276 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1277 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1278 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1279 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1280 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1281 - Add UA rc and history files.
1282 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1283 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1284 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1285 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1286 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1287 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1288 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1289 - Maximum Operator Wait
1290 - Minimum Message Interval
1291 - Maximum Message Interval
1292 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1293 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1294 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1296 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1297 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1298 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1299 reading a new config file at any time.
1300 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1301 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1302 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1303 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1304 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1305 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1306 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1307 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1308 - Restore files modified after date
1309 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1310 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1311 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1312 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1313 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1314 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1317 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1318 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1319 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1321 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1322 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1323 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1324 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1325 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1328 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1330 - Add media capacity
1331 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1332 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1336 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1337 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1338 - Partial Read error code
1339 - Partial write error code
1340 - Nonformatted read error
1341 - Nonformatted write error
1342 - WriteProtected error
1346 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1356 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1358 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1359 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1360 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1361 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1363 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1364 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1365 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1366 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1367 - Verify from Volume
1368 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1369 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1370 report resource where report=group of messages
1371 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1372 fill in code for "since" option
1373 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1374 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1375 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1376 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1377 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1379 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1381 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1382 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1383 owner, group, user, quotas
1384 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1385 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1387 ========= ideas ===============
1388 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1389 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1390 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1391 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1393 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1394 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1395 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1396 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1397 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1398 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1399 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1400 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1401 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1402 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1404 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1405 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1406 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1407 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1408 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1409 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1410 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1413 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1414 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1415 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1416 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1417 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1418 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1419 implementing something like this.
1422 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1424 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1425 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1427 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1429 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1430 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1432 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1434 the Migration to tape later.
1436 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1437 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1438 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1439 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1440 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1441 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1442 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1443 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1444 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1445 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1446 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1447 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1448 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1449 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1451 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1452 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1453 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1454 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1458 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1460 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1463 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1464 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1465 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1466 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1467 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1468 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1469 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1470 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1471 each row of the files table.
1473 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1474 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1475 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1477 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1478 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1479 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1484 ==============================
1487 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1488 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1489 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1490 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1491 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1492 the caller can change the break characters.
1493 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1494 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1495 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1496 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1497 buffer messages for later.
1498 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1499 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1500 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1501 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1502 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1503 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1504 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1505 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1509 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1510 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1513 ======================================================
1515 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1516 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1518 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1519 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1521 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1522 JobId - JobId currently running
1523 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1524 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1525 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1526 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1527 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1528 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1529 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1530 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1531 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1532 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1533 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1534 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1535 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1536 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1538 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1539 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1540 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1542 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1544 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1545 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1546 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1547 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1548 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1549 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1550 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1551 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1552 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1554 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1560 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1561 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1562 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1563 =========================================================
1566 ==========================================================
1568 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1569 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1570 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1571 a list of Unsaved files.
1573 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1577 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1578 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1579 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1580 =============================================================
1584 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1585 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1586 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1587 Address 480 is Empty
1589 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1590 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1591 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1592 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1593 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1594 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1595 Storage Element 1:Empty
1596 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1597 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1598 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1599 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1600 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1601 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1602 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1603 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1604 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1605 Storage Element 11:Empty
1606 Storage Element 12:Empty
1607 Storage Element 13:Empty
1608 Storage Element 14:Empty
1609 Storage Element 15:Empty
1610 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1611 Storage Element 28:Empty
1612 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1613 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1614 Storage Element 57:Empty
1615 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1616 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1617 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1619 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1621 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1622 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1624 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1625 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1626 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1627 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1628 from an offset point either.something like
1630 Autochanger drives = 2
1631 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1632 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1633 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1634 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1640 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1641 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1642 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1643 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1644 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1645 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1646 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1647 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1648 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1649 slot number as the destination.AB
1655 undef# camcontrol devlist
1656 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1657 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1658 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1660 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1661 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1662 Product Type: Tape Drive
1664 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1666 Attached Changer: No
1667 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1668 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1675 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1678 DataCompEnabled: yes
1679 DataCompCapable: yes
1680 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1687 Handling removable disks
1689 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1691 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1692 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1693 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1694 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1696 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1697 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1698 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1699 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1701 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1703 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1704 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1705 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1706 scattered in many subdirectories.
1711 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1713 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1714 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1715 /* TCP socket options */
1716 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1717 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to
1719 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
1720 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
1721 - Please mount volume "xxx" on Storage device ... should also list
1722 Pool and MediaType in case user needs to create a new volume.
1723 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
1724 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1725 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
1726 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
1727 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
1728 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1729 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1730 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1731 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
1732 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
1733 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
1734 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
1735 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
1736 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
1737 started the director.
1738 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.