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 - Implement unmount of USB volumes.
75 - Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for
76 Win32 to avoid patent problems.
78 - Implement Despooling data status.
79 === Duplicate jobs ===
80 hese apply only to backup jobs.
82 1. Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | Higher (Yes)
84 2. Duplicate Job Interval = <time-interval> (0)
86 The defaults are in parenthesis and would produce the same behavior as today.
88 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to No, then any job starting while a job of the
89 same name is running will be canceled.
91 If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to Higher, then any job starting with the same
92 or lower level will be canceled, but any job with a Higher level will start.
93 The Levels are from High to Low: Full, Differential, Incremental
95 Finally, if you have Duplicate Job Interval set to a non-zero value, any job
96 of the same name which starts <time-interval> after a previous job of the
97 same name would run, any one that starts within <time-interval> would be
98 subject to the above rules. Another way of looking at it is that the Allow
99 Duplicate Jobs directive will only apply after <time-interval> of when the
100 previous job finished (i.e. it is the minimum interval between jobs).
104 Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | HigherLevel | CancelLowerLevel (Yes)
106 Where HigherLevel cancels any waiting job but not any running job.
107 Where CancelLowerLevel is same as HigherLevel but cancels any running job or
110 Duplicate Job Proximity = <time-interval> (0)
112 Skip = Do not allow two or more jobs with the same name to run
113 simultaneously within the proximity interval. The second and subsequent
114 jobs are skipped without further processing (other than to note the job
115 and exit immediately), and are not considered errors.
117 Fail = The second and subsequent jobs that attempt to run during the
118 proximity interval are cancelled and treated as error-terminated jobs.
120 Promote = If a job is running, and a second/subsequent job of higher
121 level attempts to start, the running job is promoted to the higher level
122 of processing using the resources already allocated, and the subsequent
123 job is treated as in Skip above.
125 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
126 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
127 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
128 its faster to enter the specified directory
129 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
130 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
131 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
132 by handling spaces better.
136 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
137 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
138 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
139 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
140 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
141 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
142 before doing Interval testing).
143 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
144 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
145 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
146 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
147 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
148 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
149 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
150 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
151 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
152 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
153 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
154 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
155 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
156 transferring it to drive 0.
158 - Complete Catalog in Pool
159 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
164 - True automatic pruning
166 Run, Fail, Skip, Higher, Promote, CancelLowerLevel
169 - Auto update of slot:
170 rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10
171 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03
172 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4"
173 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.
174 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
175 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
176 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
177 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life.
178 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51
179 - Eliminate: /var is a different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /var
180 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog
181 - Create FileVersions table
182 - Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
183 - Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
184 - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
186 - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105
187 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the
188 generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL
189 and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is
190 cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message.
192 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
193 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
194 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
195 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
196 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
197 - Use E'xxx' to escape PostgreSQL strings.
198 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
199 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
200 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
201 multiplexing Dir connection).
202 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
203 - Look at mincore: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
204 - Unicode input http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
205 - Add TLS to bat (should be done).
206 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
207 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
208 now prints warnings too often.
209 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
211 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
212 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
213 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
214 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
216 This test is essential to Bacula.
218 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
219 two records in file 1,
220 and three records in file 2
222 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
223 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
224 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
225 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
227 - Encryption -- email from Landon
228 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
229 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
230 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
231 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
232 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
233 > interested in implementing this functionality.
235 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
236 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
237 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
238 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
239 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
240 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
241 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
242 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
243 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
244 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
245 Pool in the default conf files.
247 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
248 - Encryption documentation
249 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
250 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
255 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
257 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
259 - Next Pool (already have)
260 - Reclamation threshold
262 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
263 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
265 - Allow pool selection during restore.
267 - Average tape size from Eric
268 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
269 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
270 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
271 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
272 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
274 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
275 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
277 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
278 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
279 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
280 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
284 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
286 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
288 - Despool attributes in separate thread
291 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
292 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
295 - Full at least once a month, ...
296 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
297 - More intelligent re-run
298 - New/deleted file backup
300 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
304 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
305 - Look at mondo/mindi
306 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
307 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
308 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
309 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
310 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
311 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
312 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
313 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
314 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
315 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
316 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
317 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
318 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
319 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
320 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
321 - Remove queue.c code.
322 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
324 - New dot commands from Arno.
325 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
326 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
327 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
328 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
329 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
330 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
331 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
334 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
335 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
336 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
337 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
338 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
339 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
340 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
342 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
343 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
344 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
345 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
346 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
347 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
348 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
349 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
350 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
351 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
354 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
355 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
356 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
357 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
358 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
359 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
361 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
362 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
363 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
364 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
365 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
366 == changequote.m4 ===
367 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
368 ==== query.sql.in ===
369 :List next 20 volumes to expire
371 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
376 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
378 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
382 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
383 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
387 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
389 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
391 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
392 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
393 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
394 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
395 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
400 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
401 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
404 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
406 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
409 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
411 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
412 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
414 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
415 significant changes to Bacula.
420 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
421 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
422 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
423 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
424 order by Path.Path ASC;
426 - Look into using Dart for testing
427 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
429 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
430 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
432 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
433 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
434 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
435 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
436 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
437 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
438 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
439 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
440 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
441 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
442 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
443 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
445 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
446 select * from Storage;
447 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
448 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
449 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
450 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
451 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
452 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
453 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
454 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
455 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
456 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
457 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
458 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
460 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
461 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
462 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
463 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
472 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
473 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
474 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
485 VolRetention: 31,536,000
497 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
504 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
505 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
506 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
517 VolRetention: 31,536,000
530 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
531 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
532 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
533 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
534 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
535 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
536 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
537 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
539 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
540 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
542 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
543 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
544 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
545 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
546 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
547 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
548 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
549 Win32 for sparse files.
550 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
551 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
552 - Directive: at <event> "command"
553 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
554 attach to a specific job?
555 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
556 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
557 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
558 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
559 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
560 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
561 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
562 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
564 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
565 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
566 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
567 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
568 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
569 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
570 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
571 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
572 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
574 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
575 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
579 - Show files/second in client status output.
580 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
581 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
582 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
584 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
585 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
587 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
588 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
589 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
591 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
592 days before it needs changing.
593 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
594 if the job is not scheduled.
595 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
596 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
597 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
598 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
600 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
601 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
602 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
604 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
605 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
607 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
608 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
610 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
611 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
612 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
613 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
614 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
615 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
617 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
618 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
619 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
620 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
621 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
622 - Remove old spool files on startup.
623 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
624 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
626 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
627 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
628 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
629 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
630 - Python script to do backup.
632 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
633 at the start of a job.
634 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
635 as an error when writing a DVD?
636 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
637 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
638 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
639 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
640 resources were locked.
641 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
644 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
645 entry does not contain bytes.
648 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
649 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
650 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
651 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
652 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
653 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
654 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
655 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
656 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
657 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
658 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
659 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
660 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
661 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
662 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
663 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
664 - Implement copies and stripes.
665 - Add history file to console.
666 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
667 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
668 16 hours to build the restore list.
669 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
670 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
671 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
672 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
673 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
674 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
676 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
677 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
678 Automatically selected Pool: Default
679 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
680 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
681 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
682 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
683 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
684 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
685 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
686 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
687 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
688 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
689 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
691 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
692 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
693 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
694 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
695 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
697 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
698 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
699 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
700 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
701 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
702 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
703 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
704 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
705 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
706 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
707 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
708 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
709 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
710 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
711 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
712 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
713 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
716 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
717 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
718 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
719 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
720 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
721 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
724 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
725 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
726 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
727 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
728 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
729 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
730 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
731 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
732 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
733 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
734 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
735 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
736 saved me a *lot* of time.
738 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
739 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
741 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
742 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
743 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
744 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
745 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
747 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
748 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
750 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
751 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
753 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
754 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
756 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
757 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
759 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
760 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
762 1. Use the current Director in-memory tree code (very fast), but currently in
763 memory. It probably could be paged.
765 2. Use some DB such as Berkeley DB or SQLite. SQLite is already compiled and
766 built for Win32, and it is something we could compile into the program.
768 3. Implement our own custom DB code.
770 Note, by appropriate use of Directives in the Director, we can dynamically
771 decide if the work is done in the Director or in the FD, and we can even
772 allow the user to choose.
774 === most recent accurate file backup/restore ===
775 Here is a sketch (i.e. more details must be filled in later) that I recently
776 made of an algorithm for doing Accurate Backup.
778 1. Dir informs FD that it is doing an Accurate backup and lookup done by
781 2. FD passes through the file system doing a normal backup based on normal
782 conditions, recording the names of all files and their attributes, and
783 indicating which files were backed up. This is very similar to what Verify
786 3. The Director receives the two lists of files at the end of the FD backup.
787 One, files backed up, and one files not backed up. It then looks up all the
788 files not backed up (using Verify style code).
790 4. The Dir sends the FD a list of:
791 a. Additional files to backup (based on user specified criteria, name, size
792 inode date, hash, ...).
795 5. Dir deletes list of file not backed up.
797 6. FD backs up additional files generates a list of those backed up and sends
798 it to the Director, which adds it to the list of files backed up. The list
799 is now complete and current.
801 7. The FD generates delete records for all the files that were deleted and
804 8. The Dir deletes the previous CurrentBackup list, and then does a
805 transaction insert of the new list that it has.
807 9. The rest works as before ...
811 Two new tables needed.
812 1. CurrentBackupId table that contains Client, JobName, FileSet, and a unique
813 BackupId. This is created during a Full save, and the BackupId can be set to
814 the JobId of the Full save. It will remain the same until another Full
815 backup is done. That is when new records are added during a Differential or
816 Incremental, they must use the same BackupId.
818 2. CurrentBackup table that contains essentially a File record (less a number
819 of fields, but with a few extra fields) -- e.g. a flag that the File was
820 backed up by a Full save (this permits doing a Differential). The unique
821 BackupId allows us to look up the CurrentBackup for a particular Client,
822 Jobname, FileSet using that unique BackupId as the key, so this table must be
823 indexed by the BackupId.
825 Note any time a file is saved by the FD other than during a Full save, the
826 Full save flag is cleared. When doing a Differential backup, if a file has
827 the Full save flag set, it is skipped, otherwise it is backed up. For an
828 Incremental backup, we check to see if the file has changed since the last
829 time we backed it up.
831 Deleted files should have FileIndex == 0
835 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
836 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
837 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
841 Name = "Migration-Policy"
843 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
844 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
845 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
846 Job Template = <template-name>
849 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
850 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
851 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
852 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
853 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
854 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
859 Name = "Migration-Policy"
861 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
863 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
864 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
867 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
868 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
869 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
871 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
872 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
873 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
874 depending on various criteria).
880 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
881 - Add delete JobId to regression.
882 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
883 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
884 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
885 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
886 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
888 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
889 on the restore prompt)
890 - Add IPv6 to regression
891 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
894 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
895 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
896 more than 1000 files per directory.
900 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
901 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
903 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
904 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
905 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
907 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
909 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
910 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
911 benefit from as well.
913 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
914 NextJobs = job1,job2.
917 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
918 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
919 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
920 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
921 the job after it needn't to be run
922 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
925 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
926 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
927 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
930 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
931 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
932 execute different actions based on the return value
935 3. offline capability to bconsole
938 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
939 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
940 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
941 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
943 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
944 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
945 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
946 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
947 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
950 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
954 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
955 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
956 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
958 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
961 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
962 I would have the possibilty to define
963 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
964 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
966 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
969 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
970 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
971 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
973 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
974 french and Morre (western african language).
976 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
977 due to the design of bacula.
979 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
980 the "Label Format" Directive.
984 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
985 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
986 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
987 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
988 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
989 name in the correct language.
991 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
992 presenting in a browser.
993 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
994 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
995 rpm and Win32 releases.
996 - Browse generations of files.
997 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
998 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
999 size. Relevant information is at
1000 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
1001 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
1002 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
1003 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
1004 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
1005 - Supported autochanger:
1013 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
1014 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
1015 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
1016 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
1017 - Include within include does it work?
1018 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
1019 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
1020 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
1021 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
1022 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
1023 savings time changes.
1024 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
1025 - Promote to Full = Time period
1026 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
1027 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
1028 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
1030 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
1031 - How to handle backing up portables ...
1032 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
1033 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
1034 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
1037 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
1038 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
1039 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
1040 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
1041 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
1042 - Document query file format.
1043 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
1044 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
1045 - Document how to use multiple databases.
1046 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
1047 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
1050 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
1051 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
1052 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
1053 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
1055 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
1056 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
1057 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
1058 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
1059 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
1060 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
1061 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
1062 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
1063 - Document doing table repair
1066 ===================================
1067 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
1068 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
1069 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
1070 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
1072 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
1073 - Autorestart on crash.
1074 - Add bandwidth limiting.
1075 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
1076 the line from timing out.
1077 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
1078 up through the prompt.
1079 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
1080 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
1081 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
1082 units, perhaps via a directive.
1083 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
1084 with multiple priorities.
1085 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
1086 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
1088 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
1090 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
1091 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
1093 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
1094 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
1095 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
1096 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
1097 perhaps if password is undefined.
1098 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
1101 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
1102 - the help-command should be more verbose
1103 (it should explain the paramters of the different
1105 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
1106 you need a special parameter
1107 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
1108 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
1110 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
1111 you should be asked for it.
1112 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
1113 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
1114 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
1115 to forget to remove the password after usage
1117 the protection of that file is less important
1118 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
1119 like the unix more/less-command does
1120 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
1121 be a little long and complex
1122 - command-output should be shown column by column
1123 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
1125 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
1127 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
1128 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
1129 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
1131 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
1132 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
1133 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
1134 permissions *can* be restored.
1135 - Add prune all command
1136 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
1137 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
1138 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
1139 - look at mxt-changer.html
1140 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
1141 - Implement restore directory.
1142 - Document streams and how to implement them.
1143 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
1144 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
1145 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
1146 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
1147 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
1149 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
1150 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
1151 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
1152 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1153 - Add progress meter.
1154 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1155 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1156 space test fails in btape.
1157 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1158 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1159 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1160 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1161 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1162 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1163 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1164 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1165 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1166 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1167 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1168 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1169 Do both a long and short form.
1170 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1171 stat data on each file).
1172 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1174 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1175 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1176 - Add John's appended files:
1177 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1178 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1179 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1180 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1181 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1182 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1183 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1184 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1185 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1186 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1187 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1188 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1189 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1190 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1191 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1192 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1193 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1194 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1195 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1196 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1197 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1198 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1199 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1200 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1201 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1202 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1204 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1206 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1207 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1208 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1209 the proper storage type.
1210 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1211 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1212 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1213 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1214 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1215 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1216 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1217 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1218 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1219 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1220 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1221 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1222 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1223 which in turn overrides Pool.
1225 - New Storage specifications:
1226 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1227 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1228 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1229 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1231 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1235 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1237 Device -> Next Device
1239 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1247 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1249 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1250 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1251 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1252 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1253 is contained in only one device.
1254 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1256 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1257 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1259 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1260 even more important, it's not flaky
1261 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1262 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1264 Macintosh file client
1265 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1266 working bare iron recovery for windows
1267 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1268 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1269 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1270 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1271 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1272 an integration guide
1273 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1274 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1275 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1276 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1277 support for Oracle database ??
1279 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1280 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1281 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1282 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1283 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1284 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1285 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1286 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1287 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1288 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1289 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1290 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1291 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1292 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1293 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1294 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1295 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1296 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1297 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1298 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1299 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1300 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1301 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1302 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1304 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1305 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1306 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1307 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1308 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1309 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1310 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1311 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1312 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1313 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1314 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1316 - From Lars Kellers:
1317 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1318 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1319 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1320 necessary parameters.
1322 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1323 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1325 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1326 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1327 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1328 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1329 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1330 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1331 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1332 automatically generate the Volume name.
1333 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1334 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1335 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1336 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1337 time as the user walks through the tree).
1338 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1339 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1340 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1341 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1342 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1343 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1344 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1345 run the job but don't save the files.
1346 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1348 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1349 - Implement a Recycle command
1350 - Start working on Base jobs.
1351 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1352 - From Phil Stracchino:
1353 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1354 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1355 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1356 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1357 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1358 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1359 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1360 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1361 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1362 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1363 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1364 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1365 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1366 if there is an error.
1367 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1369 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1370 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1371 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1372 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1373 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1374 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1375 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1376 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1377 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1379 - Refine SD waiting output:
1380 Device is being positioned
1381 > Device is being positioned for append
1382 > Device is being positioned to file x
1384 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1385 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1386 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1387 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1388 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1389 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1390 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1391 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1392 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1393 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1394 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1395 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1396 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1397 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1398 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1399 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1400 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1401 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1402 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1403 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1404 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1405 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1406 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1407 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1408 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1409 - Add UA rc and history files.
1410 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1411 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1412 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1413 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1414 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1415 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1416 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1417 - Maximum Operator Wait
1418 - Minimum Message Interval
1419 - Maximum Message Interval
1420 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1421 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1422 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1424 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1425 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1426 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1427 reading a new config file at any time.
1428 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1429 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1430 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1431 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1432 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1433 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1434 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1435 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1436 - Restore files modified after date
1437 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1438 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1439 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1440 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1441 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1442 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1445 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1446 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1447 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1449 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1450 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1451 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1452 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1453 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1456 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1458 - Add media capacity
1459 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1460 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1464 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1465 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1466 - Partial Read error code
1467 - Partial write error code
1468 - Nonformatted read error
1469 - Nonformatted write error
1470 - WriteProtected error
1474 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1484 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1486 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1487 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1488 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1489 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1491 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1492 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1493 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1494 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1495 - Verify from Volume
1496 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1497 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1498 report resource where report=group of messages
1499 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1500 fill in code for "since" option
1501 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1502 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1503 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1504 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1505 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1507 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1509 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1510 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1511 owner, group, user, quotas
1512 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1513 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1515 ========= ideas ===============
1516 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1517 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1518 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1519 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1521 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1522 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1523 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1524 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1525 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1526 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1527 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1528 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1529 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1530 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1532 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1533 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1534 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1535 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1536 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1537 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1538 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1541 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1542 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1543 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1544 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1545 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1546 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1547 implementing something like this.
1550 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1552 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1553 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1555 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1557 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1558 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1560 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1562 the Migration to tape later.
1564 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1565 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1566 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1567 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1568 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1569 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1570 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1571 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1572 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1573 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1574 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1575 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1576 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1577 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1579 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1580 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1581 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1582 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1586 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1588 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1591 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1592 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1593 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1594 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1595 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1596 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1597 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1598 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1599 each row of the files table.
1601 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1602 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1603 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1605 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1606 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1607 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1612 ==============================
1615 - Implement wait on multiple objects
1616 - Multiple max times
1618 - socket input ready
1619 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1620 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1621 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1622 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1623 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1624 the caller can change the break characters.
1625 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1626 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1627 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1628 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1629 buffer messages for later.
1630 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1631 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1632 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1633 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1634 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1638 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1639 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1642 ======================================================
1644 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1645 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1647 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1648 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1650 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1651 JobId - JobId currently running
1652 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1653 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1654 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1655 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1656 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1657 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1658 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1659 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1660 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1661 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1662 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1663 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1664 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1665 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1667 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1668 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1669 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1671 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1673 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1674 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1675 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1676 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1677 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1678 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1679 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1680 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1681 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1683 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1689 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1690 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1691 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1692 =========================================================
1695 ==========================================================
1697 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1698 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1699 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1700 a list of Unsaved files.
1702 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1706 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1707 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1708 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1709 =============================================================
1713 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1714 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1715 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1716 Address 480 is Empty
1718 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1719 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1720 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1721 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1722 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1723 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1724 Storage Element 1:Empty
1725 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1726 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1727 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1728 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1729 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1730 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1731 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1732 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1733 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1734 Storage Element 11:Empty
1735 Storage Element 12:Empty
1736 Storage Element 13:Empty
1737 Storage Element 14:Empty
1738 Storage Element 15:Empty
1739 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1740 Storage Element 28:Empty
1741 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1742 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1743 Storage Element 57:Empty
1744 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1745 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1746 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1748 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1750 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1751 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1753 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1754 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1755 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1756 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1757 from an offset point either.something like
1759 Autochanger drives = 2
1760 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1761 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1762 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1763 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1769 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1770 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1771 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1772 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1773 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1774 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1775 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1776 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1777 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1778 slot number as the destination.AB
1784 undef# camcontrol devlist
1785 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1786 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1787 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1789 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1790 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1791 Product Type: Tape Drive
1793 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1795 Attached Changer: No
1796 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1797 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1804 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1807 DataCompEnabled: yes
1808 DataCompCapable: yes
1809 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1816 Handling removable disks
1818 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1820 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1821 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1822 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1823 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1825 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1826 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1827 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1828 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1830 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1832 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1833 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1834 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1835 scattered in many subdirectories.
1840 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1842 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1843 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1844 /* TCP socket options */
1845 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1846 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to
1848 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
1849 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
1850 - Please mount volume "xxx" on Storage device ... should also list
1851 Pool and MediaType in case user needs to create a new volume.
1852 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
1853 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1854 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
1855 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
1856 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
1857 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1858 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1859 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1860 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
1861 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
1862 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
1863 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
1864 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
1865 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
1866 started the director.
1867 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.
1868 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
1869 does the right thing.
1870 - FD-SD quick disconnect
1871 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
1872 - Erabt if min_block_size > max_block_size
1873 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1874 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1875 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1876 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
1877 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
1878 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
1879 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
1880 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.