6 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
7 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
8 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
9 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
10 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
11 - Pruning with Admin job.
12 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
13 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
14 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
15 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
16 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
17 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
18 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
19 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
21 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
22 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
23 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
24 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
25 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
26 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
27 building the French PDF.
28 - Document more DVD stuff
36 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
37 the Bacula data encryption code.
38 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
39 for disaster recovery.
42 - Migration from other vendors
46 - Backup conf/exe (all daemons)
47 - Backup up system state
48 - Detect state change of system (verify)
49 - Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed)
51 - Modules for Databases, Exchange, ...
52 - Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html
53 - Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code.
54 - When glibc crash, get address with
56 - How to sync remote offices.
58 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/exchbkup.mspx
61 Extract capability (#25)
62 Continued enhancement of bweb
63 Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be
65 Client triggered backups
66 Complete rework of the scheduling system (not in list)
67 Performance and usage instrumentation (not in list)
68 See email of 21Aug2007 for details.
69 - Implement Diff,Inc Retention Periods
70 - Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html
71 and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes
74 === Duplicate jobs ===
75 hese apply only to backup jobs.
77 1. Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | Higher (Yes)
79 2. Duplicate Job Interval = <time-interval> (0)
81 The defaults are in parenthesis and would produce the same behavior as today.
83 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to No, then any job starting while a job of the
84 same name is running will be canceled.
86 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to Higher, then any job starting with the same
87 or lower level will be canceled, but any job with a Higher level will start.
88 The Levels are from High to Low: Full, Differential, Incremental
90 Finally, if you have Duplicate Job Interval set to a non-zero value, any job
91 of the same name which starts <time-interval> after a previous job of the
92 same name would run, any one that starts within <time-interval> would be
93 subject to the above rules. Another way of looking at it is that the Allow
94 Duplicate Jobs directive will only apply after <time-interval> of when the
95 previous job finished (i.e. it is the minimum interval between jobs).
99 Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | HigherLevel | CancelLowerLevel (Yes)
101 Where HigherLevel cancels any waiting job but not any running job.
102 Where CancelLowerLevel is same as HigherLevel but cancels any running job or
105 Duplicate Job Proximity = <time-interval> (0)
107 Skip = Do not allow two or more jobs with the same name to run
108 simultaneously within the proximity interval. The second and subsequent
109 jobs are skipped without further processing (other than to note the job
110 and exit immediately), and are not considered errors.
112 Fail = The second and subsequent jobs that attempt to run during the
113 proximity interval are cancelled and treated as error-terminated jobs.
115 Promote = If a job is running, and a second/subsequent job of higher
116 level attempts to start, the running job is promoted to the higher level
117 of processing using the resources already allocated, and the subsequent
118 job is treated as in Skip above.
120 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
121 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
122 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
123 its faster to enter the specified directory
124 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
125 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
126 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
127 by handling spaces better.
131 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
132 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
133 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
134 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
135 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
136 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
137 before doing Interval testing).
138 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
139 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
140 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
141 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
142 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
143 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
144 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
145 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
146 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
147 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
148 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
149 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
150 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
151 transferring it to drive 0.
152 - Complete Catalog in Pool
153 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
157 - True automatic pruning
159 Run, Fail, Skip, Higher, Promote, CancelLowerLevel
162 - Auto update of slot:
163 rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10
164 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03
165 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4"
166 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Invalid slot=0 defined in catalog for Volume "Vol001" on "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0). Manual load my be required.
167 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
168 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
169 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
170 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life.
171 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51
172 - Eliminate: /var is a different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /var
173 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog
174 - Create FileVersions table
175 - Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
176 - Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
177 - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
179 - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105
180 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the
181 generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL
182 and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is
183 cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message.
185 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
186 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
187 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
188 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
189 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
190 - Use E'xxx' to escape PostgreSQL strings.
191 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
192 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
193 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
194 multiplexing Dir connection).
195 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
196 - Look at mincore: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
197 - Unicode input http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
198 - Add TLS to bat (should be done).
199 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
200 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
201 now prints warnings too often.
202 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
204 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
205 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
206 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
207 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
209 This test is essential to Bacula.
211 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
212 two records in file 1,
213 and three records in file 2
215 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
216 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
217 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
218 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
220 - Encryption -- email from Landon
221 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
222 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
223 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
224 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
225 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
226 > interested in implementing this functionality.
228 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
229 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
230 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
231 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
232 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
233 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
234 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
235 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
236 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
237 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
238 Pool in the default conf files.
240 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
241 - Encryption documentation
242 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
243 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
248 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
250 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
252 - Next Pool (already have)
253 - Reclamation threshold
255 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
256 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
258 - Allow pool selection during restore.
260 - Average tape size from Eric
261 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
262 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
263 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
264 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
265 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
267 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
268 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
270 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
271 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
272 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
273 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
277 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
279 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
281 - Despool attributes in separate thread
284 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
285 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
288 - Full at least once a month, ...
289 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
290 - More intelligent re-run
291 - New/deleted file backup
293 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
297 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
298 - Look at mondo/mindi
299 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
300 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
301 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
302 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
303 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
304 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
305 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
306 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
307 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
308 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
309 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
310 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
311 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
312 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
313 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
314 - Remove queue.c code.
315 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
317 - New dot commands from Arno.
318 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
319 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
320 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
321 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
322 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
323 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
324 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
327 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
328 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
329 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
330 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
331 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
332 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
333 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
335 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
336 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
337 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
338 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
339 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
340 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
341 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
342 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
343 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
344 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
347 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
348 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
349 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
350 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
351 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
352 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
354 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
355 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
356 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
357 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
358 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
359 == changequote.m4 ===
360 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
361 ==== query.sql.in ===
362 :List next 20 volumes to expire
364 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
369 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
371 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
375 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
376 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
380 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
382 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
384 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
385 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
386 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
387 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
388 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
393 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
394 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
397 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
399 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
402 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
404 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
405 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
407 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
408 significant changes to Bacula.
413 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
414 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
415 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
416 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
417 order by Path.Path ASC;
419 - Look into using Dart for testing
420 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
422 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
423 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
425 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
426 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
427 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
428 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
429 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
430 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
431 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
432 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
433 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
434 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
435 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
436 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
438 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
439 select * from Storage;
440 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
441 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
442 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
443 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
444 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
445 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
446 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
447 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
448 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
449 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
450 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
451 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
453 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
454 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
455 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
456 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
465 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
466 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
467 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
478 VolRetention: 31,536,000
490 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
497 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
498 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
499 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
510 VolRetention: 31,536,000
523 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
524 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
525 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
526 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
527 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
528 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
529 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
530 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
532 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
533 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
535 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
536 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
537 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
538 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
539 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
540 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
541 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
542 Win32 for sparse files.
543 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
544 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
545 - Directive: at <event> "command"
546 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
547 attach to a specific job?
548 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
549 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
550 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
551 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
552 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
553 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
554 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
555 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
557 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
558 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
559 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
560 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
561 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
562 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
563 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
564 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
565 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
567 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
568 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
572 - Show files/second in client status output.
573 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
574 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
575 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
577 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
578 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
580 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
581 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
582 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
584 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
585 days before it needs changing.
586 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
587 if the job is not scheduled.
588 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
589 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
590 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
591 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
593 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
594 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
595 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
597 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
598 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
600 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
601 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
603 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
604 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
605 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
606 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
607 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
608 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
610 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
611 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
612 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
613 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
614 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
615 - Remove old spool files on startup.
616 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
617 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
619 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
620 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
621 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
622 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
623 - Python script to do backup.
625 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
626 at the start of a job.
627 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
628 as an error when writing a DVD?
629 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
630 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
631 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
632 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
633 resources were locked.
634 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
637 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
638 entry does not contain bytes.
641 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
642 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
643 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
644 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
645 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
646 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
647 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
648 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
649 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
650 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
651 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
652 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
653 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
654 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
655 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
656 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
657 - Implement copies and stripes.
658 - Add history file to console.
659 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
660 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
661 16 hours to build the restore list.
662 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
663 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
664 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
665 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
666 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
667 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
669 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
670 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
671 Automatically selected Pool: Default
672 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
673 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
674 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
675 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
676 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
677 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
678 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
679 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
680 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
681 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
682 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
684 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
685 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
686 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
687 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
688 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
690 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
691 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
692 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
693 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
694 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
695 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
696 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
697 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
698 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
699 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
700 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
701 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
702 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
703 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
704 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
705 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
706 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
709 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
710 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
711 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
712 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
713 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
714 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
717 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
718 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
719 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
720 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
721 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
722 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
723 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
724 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
725 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
726 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
727 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
728 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
729 saved me a *lot* of time.
731 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
732 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
734 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
735 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
736 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
737 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
738 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
740 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
741 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
743 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
744 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
746 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
747 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
749 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
750 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
752 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
753 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
755 1. Use the current Director in-memory tree code (very fast), but currently in
756 memory. It probably could be paged.
758 2. Use some DB such as Berkeley DB or SQLite. SQLite is already compiled and
759 built for Win32, and it is something we could compile into the program.
761 3. Implement our own custom DB code.
763 Note, by appropriate use of Directives in the Director, we can dynamically
764 decide if the work is done in the Director or in the FD, and we can even
765 allow the user to choose.
767 === most recent accurate file backup/restore ===
768 Here is a sketch (i.e. more details must be filled in later) that I recently
769 made of an algorithm for doing Accurate Backup.
771 1. Dir informs FD that it is doing an Accurate backup and lookup done by
774 2. FD passes through the file system doing a normal backup based on normal
775 conditions, recording the names of all files and their attributes, and
776 indicating which files were backed up. This is very similar to what Verify
779 3. The Director receives the two lists of files at the end of the FD backup.
780 One, files backed up, and one files not backed up. It then looks up all the
781 files not backed up (using Verify style code).
783 4. The Dir sends the FD a list of:
784 a. Additional files to backup (based on user specified criteria, name, size
785 inode date, hash, ...).
788 5. Dir deletes list of file not backed up.
790 6. FD backs up additional files generates a list of those backed up and sends
791 it to the Director, which adds it to the list of files backed up. The list
792 is now complete and current.
794 7. The FD generates delete records for all the files that were deleted and
797 8. The Dir deletes the previous CurrentBackup list, and then does a
798 transaction insert of the new list that it has.
800 9. The rest works as before ...
804 Two new tables needed.
805 1. CurrentBackupId table that contains Client, JobName, FileSet, and a unique
806 BackupId. This is created during a Full save, and the BackupId can be set to
807 the JobId of the Full save. It will remain the same until another Full
808 backup is done. That is when new records are added during a Differential or
809 Incremental, they must use the same BackupId.
811 2. CurrentBackup table that contains essentially a File record (less a number
812 of fields, but with a few extra fields) -- e.g. a flag that the File was
813 backed up by a Full save (this permits doing a Differential). The unique
814 BackupId allows us to look up the CurrentBackup for a particular Client,
815 Jobname, FileSet using that unique BackupId as the key, so this table must be
816 indexed by the BackupId.
818 Note any time a file is saved by the FD other than during a Full save, the
819 Full save flag is cleared. When doing a Differential backup, if a file has
820 the Full save flag set, it is skipped, otherwise it is backed up. For an
821 Incremental backup, we check to see if the file has changed since the last
822 time we backed it up.
824 Deleted files should have FileIndex == 0
828 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
829 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
830 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
834 Name = "Migration-Policy"
836 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
837 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
838 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
839 Job Template = <template-name>
842 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
843 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
844 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
845 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
846 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
847 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
852 Name = "Migration-Policy"
854 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
856 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
857 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
860 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
861 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
862 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
864 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
865 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
866 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
867 depending on various criteria).
873 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
874 - Add delete JobId to regression.
875 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
876 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
877 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
878 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
879 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
881 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
882 on the restore prompt)
883 - Add IPv6 to regression
884 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
887 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
888 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
889 more than 1000 files per directory.
893 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
894 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
896 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
897 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
898 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
900 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
902 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
903 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
904 benefit from as well.
906 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
907 NextJobs = job1,job2.
910 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
911 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
912 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
913 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
914 the job after it needn't to be run
915 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
918 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
919 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
920 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
923 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
924 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
925 execute different actions based on the return value
928 3. offline capability to bconsole
931 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
932 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
933 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
934 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
936 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
937 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
938 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
939 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
940 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
943 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
947 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
948 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
949 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
951 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
954 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
955 I would have the possibilty to define
956 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
957 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
959 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
962 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
963 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
964 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
966 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
967 french and Morre (western african language).
969 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
970 due to the design of bacula.
972 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
973 the "Label Format" Directive.
977 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
978 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
979 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
980 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
981 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
982 name in the correct language.
984 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
985 presenting in a browser.
986 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
987 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
988 rpm and Win32 releases.
989 - Browse generations of files.
990 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
991 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
992 size. Relevant information is at
993 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
994 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
995 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
996 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
997 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
998 - Supported autochanger:
1006 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
1007 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
1008 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
1009 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
1010 - Include within include does it work?
1011 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
1012 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
1013 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
1014 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
1015 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
1016 savings time changes.
1017 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
1018 - Promote to Full = Time period
1019 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
1020 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
1021 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
1023 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
1024 - How to handle backing up portables ...
1025 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
1026 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
1027 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
1030 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
1031 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
1032 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
1033 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
1034 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
1035 - Document query file format.
1036 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
1037 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
1038 - Document how to use multiple databases.
1039 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
1040 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
1043 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
1044 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
1045 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
1046 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
1048 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
1049 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
1050 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
1051 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
1052 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
1053 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
1054 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
1055 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
1056 - Document doing table repair
1059 ===================================
1060 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
1061 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
1062 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
1063 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
1065 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
1066 - Autorestart on crash.
1067 - Add bandwidth limiting.
1068 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
1069 the line from timing out.
1070 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
1071 up through the prompt.
1072 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
1073 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
1074 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
1075 units, perhaps via a directive.
1076 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
1077 with multiple priorities.
1078 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
1079 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
1081 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
1083 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
1084 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
1086 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
1087 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
1088 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
1089 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
1090 perhaps if password is undefined.
1091 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
1094 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
1095 - the help-command should be more verbose
1096 (it should explain the paramters of the different
1098 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
1099 you need a special parameter
1100 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
1101 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
1103 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
1104 you should be asked for it.
1105 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
1106 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
1107 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
1108 to forget to remove the password after usage
1110 the protection of that file is less important
1111 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
1112 like the unix more/less-command does
1113 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
1114 be a little long and complex
1115 - command-output should be shown column by column
1116 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
1118 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
1120 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
1121 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
1122 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
1124 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
1125 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
1126 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
1127 permissions *can* be restored.
1128 - Add prune all command
1129 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
1130 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
1131 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
1132 - look at mxt-changer.html
1133 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
1134 - Implement restore directory.
1135 - Document streams and how to implement them.
1136 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
1137 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
1138 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
1139 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
1140 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
1142 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
1143 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
1144 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
1145 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1146 - Add progress meter.
1147 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1148 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1149 space test fails in btape.
1150 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1151 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1152 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1153 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1154 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1155 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1156 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1157 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1158 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1159 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1160 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1161 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1162 Do both a long and short form.
1163 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1164 stat data on each file).
1165 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1167 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1168 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1169 - Add John's appended files:
1170 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1171 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1172 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1173 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1174 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1175 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1176 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1177 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1178 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1179 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1180 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1181 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1182 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1183 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1184 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1185 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1186 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1187 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1188 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1189 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1190 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1191 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1192 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1193 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1194 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1195 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1197 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1199 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1200 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1201 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1202 the proper storage type.
1203 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1204 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1205 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1206 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1207 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1208 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1209 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1210 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1211 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1212 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1213 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1214 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1215 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1216 which in turn overrides Pool.
1218 - New Storage specifications:
1219 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1220 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1221 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1222 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1224 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1228 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1230 Device -> Next Device
1232 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1240 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1242 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1243 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1244 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1245 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1246 is contained in only one device.
1247 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1249 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1250 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1252 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1253 even more important, it's not flaky
1254 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1255 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1257 Macintosh file client
1258 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1259 working bare iron recovery for windows
1260 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1261 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1262 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1263 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1264 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1265 an integration guide
1266 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1267 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1268 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1269 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1270 support for Oracle database ??
1272 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1273 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1274 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1275 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1276 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1277 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1278 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1279 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1280 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1281 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1282 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1283 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1284 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1285 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1286 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1287 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1288 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1289 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1290 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1291 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1292 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1293 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1294 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1295 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1297 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1298 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1299 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1300 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1301 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1302 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1303 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1304 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1305 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1306 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1307 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1309 - From Lars Kellers:
1310 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1311 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1312 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1313 necessary parameters.
1315 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1316 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1318 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1319 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1320 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1321 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1322 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1323 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1324 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1325 automatically generate the Volume name.
1326 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1327 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1328 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1329 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1330 time as the user walks through the tree).
1331 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1332 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1333 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1334 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1335 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1336 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1337 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1338 run the job but don't save the files.
1339 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1341 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1342 - Implement a Recycle command
1343 - Start working on Base jobs.
1344 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1345 - From Phil Stracchino:
1346 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1347 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1348 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1349 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1350 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1351 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1352 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1353 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1354 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1355 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1356 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1357 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1358 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1359 if there is an error.
1360 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1362 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1363 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1364 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1365 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1366 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1367 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1368 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1369 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1370 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1372 - Refine SD waiting output:
1373 Device is being positioned
1374 > Device is being positioned for append
1375 > Device is being positioned to file x
1377 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1378 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1379 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1380 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1381 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1382 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1383 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1384 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1385 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1386 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1387 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1388 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1389 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1390 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1391 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1392 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1393 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1394 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1395 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1396 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1397 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1398 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1399 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1400 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1401 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1402 - Add UA rc and history files.
1403 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1404 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1405 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1406 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1407 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1408 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1409 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1410 - Maximum Operator Wait
1411 - Minimum Message Interval
1412 - Maximum Message Interval
1413 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1414 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1415 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1417 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1418 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1419 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1420 reading a new config file at any time.
1421 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1422 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1423 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1424 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1425 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1426 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1427 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1428 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1429 - Restore files modified after date
1430 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1431 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1432 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1433 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1434 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1435 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1438 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1439 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1440 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1442 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1443 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1444 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1445 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1446 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1449 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1451 - Add media capacity
1452 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1453 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1457 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1458 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1459 - Partial Read error code
1460 - Partial write error code
1461 - Nonformatted read error
1462 - Nonformatted write error
1463 - WriteProtected error
1467 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1477 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1479 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1480 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1481 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1482 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1484 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1485 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1486 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1487 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1488 - Verify from Volume
1489 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1490 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1491 report resource where report=group of messages
1492 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1493 fill in code for "since" option
1494 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1495 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1496 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1497 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1498 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1500 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1502 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1503 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1504 owner, group, user, quotas
1505 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1506 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1508 ========= ideas ===============
1509 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1510 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1511 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1512 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1514 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1515 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1516 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1517 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1518 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1519 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1520 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1521 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1522 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1523 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1525 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1526 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1527 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1528 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1529 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1530 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1531 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1534 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1535 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1536 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1537 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1538 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1539 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1540 implementing something like this.
1543 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1545 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1546 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1548 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1550 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1551 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1553 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1555 the Migration to tape later.
1557 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1558 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1559 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1560 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1561 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1562 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1563 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1564 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1565 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1566 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1567 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1568 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1569 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1570 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1572 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1573 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1574 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1575 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1579 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1581 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1584 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1585 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1586 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1587 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1588 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1589 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1590 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1591 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1592 each row of the files table.
1594 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1595 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1596 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1598 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1599 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1600 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1605 ==============================
1608 - Implement wait on multiple objects
1609 - Multiple max times
1611 - socket input ready
1612 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1613 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1614 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1615 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1616 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1617 the caller can change the break characters.
1618 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1619 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1620 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1621 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1622 buffer messages for later.
1623 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1624 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1625 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1626 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1627 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1631 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1632 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1635 ======================================================
1637 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1638 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1640 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1641 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1643 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1644 JobId - JobId currently running
1645 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1646 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1647 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1648 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1649 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1650 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1651 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1652 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1653 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1654 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1655 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1656 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1657 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1658 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1660 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1661 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1662 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1664 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1666 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1667 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1668 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1669 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1670 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1671 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1672 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1673 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1674 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1676 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1682 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1683 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1684 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1685 =========================================================
1688 ==========================================================
1690 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1691 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1692 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1693 a list of Unsaved files.
1695 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1699 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1700 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1701 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1702 =============================================================
1706 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1707 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1708 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1709 Address 480 is Empty
1711 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1712 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1713 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1714 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1715 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1716 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1717 Storage Element 1:Empty
1718 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1719 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1720 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1721 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1722 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1723 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1724 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1725 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1726 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1727 Storage Element 11:Empty
1728 Storage Element 12:Empty
1729 Storage Element 13:Empty
1730 Storage Element 14:Empty
1731 Storage Element 15:Empty
1732 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1733 Storage Element 28:Empty
1734 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1735 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1736 Storage Element 57:Empty
1737 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1738 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1739 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1741 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1743 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1744 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1746 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1747 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1748 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1749 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1750 from an offset point either.something like
1752 Autochanger drives = 2
1753 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1754 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1755 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1756 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1762 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1763 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1764 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1765 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1766 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1767 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1768 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1769 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1770 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1771 slot number as the destination.AB
1777 undef# camcontrol devlist
1778 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1779 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1780 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1782 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1783 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1784 Product Type: Tape Drive
1786 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1788 Attached Changer: No
1789 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1790 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1797 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1800 DataCompEnabled: yes
1801 DataCompCapable: yes
1802 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1809 Handling removable disks
1811 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1813 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1814 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1815 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1816 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1818 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1819 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1820 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1821 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1823 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1825 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1826 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1827 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1828 scattered in many subdirectories.
1833 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1835 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1836 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1837 /* TCP socket options */
1838 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1839 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to
1841 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
1842 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
1843 - Please mount volume "xxx" on Storage device ... should also list
1844 Pool and MediaType in case user needs to create a new volume.
1845 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
1846 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1847 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
1848 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
1849 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
1850 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1851 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1852 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1853 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
1854 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
1855 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
1856 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
1857 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
1858 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
1859 started the director.
1860 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.
1861 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
1862 does the right thing.
1863 - FD-SD quick disconnect
1864 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
1865 - Erabt if min_block_size > max_block_size
1866 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1867 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1868 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1869 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
1870 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
1871 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
1872 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
1873 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.