9 - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were
10 written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled.
11 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
12 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
13 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
14 - Pruning with Admin job.
15 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
16 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
17 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
18 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
19 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
20 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
21 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
22 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
24 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
25 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
26 - Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
27 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
28 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
29 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
30 building the French PDF.
31 - Document more DVD stuff
39 - Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
40 the Bacula data encryption code.
41 - Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
42 for disaster recovery.
46 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
48 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
49 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
50 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
51 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
53 This test is essential to Bacula.
55 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
56 two records in file 1,
57 and three records in file 2
59 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
60 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
61 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
62 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
64 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
66 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
68 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
69 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
70 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
71 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
72 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
73 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
74 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
75 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
76 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
77 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
78 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
79 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
80 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
81 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
82 Pool in the default conf files.
83 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
85 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
86 - Encryption documentation
87 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
88 - bacula-1.38.2-ssl.patch
89 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
96 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
98 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
100 - FD-SD quick disconnect
101 - Despool attributes in separate thread
104 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
105 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
106 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.
109 - Full at least once a month, ...
110 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
111 - More intelligent re-run
112 - New/deleted file backup
114 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
120 - Look at mondo/mindi
121 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
122 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
123 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
124 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
125 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
126 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
127 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
128 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
129 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
130 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
131 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
132 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
133 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
134 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
135 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
136 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
137 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
138 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
139 - Remove queue.c code.
140 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
142 - New dot commands from Arno.
143 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
144 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
145 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
146 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
147 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
148 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
149 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
152 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
153 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
154 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
155 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
156 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
157 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
158 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
160 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
161 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
162 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
163 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
164 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
165 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
166 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
167 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
168 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
169 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
170 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
171 transferring it to drive 0.
172 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
173 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
174 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
175 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
176 == changequote.m4 ===
177 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
178 ==== query.sql.in ===
179 :List next 20 volumes to expire
181 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
186 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
188 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
192 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
193 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
197 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
199 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
201 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
202 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
203 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
204 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
205 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
210 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
211 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
214 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
216 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
219 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
221 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
222 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
224 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
225 significant changes to Bacula.
230 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
231 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
232 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
233 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
234 order by Path.Path ASC;
236 - Look into using Dart for testing
237 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
239 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
240 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
242 === Migration from David ===
243 What I'd like to see:
246 Name = "<poolname>-migrate"
250 Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil | OldestVol | PoolOccupancy |
251 Client | PoolResidence | Volume | JobName | SQLquery
252 Migration Selection Pattern = "regexp"
253 Next Pool = <override>
256 There should be no need for a Level (migration is always Full, since you
257 don't calculate differential/incremental differences for migration),
258 Storage should be determined by the volume types in the pool, and Client
259 is really a selection issue. Migration should always occur to the
260 NextPool defined in the pool definition. If no nextpool is defined, the
261 job should end with a reason of "no place to go". If Next Pool statement
262 is present, we override the check in the pool definition and use the
265 Here's how I'd define Migration Selection Types:
268 Client -- Migrate data from selected client only. Migration Selection
269 Pattern regexp provides pattern to select client names, eg ^FS00* makes
270 all client names starting with FS00 eligible for migration.
272 Jobname -- Migration all jobs matching name. Migration Selection Pattern
273 regexp provides pattern to select jobnames existing in pool.
275 Volume -- Migrate all data on specified volumes. Migration Selection
276 Pattern regexp provides selection criteria for volumes to be migrated.
277 Volumes must exist in pool to be eligible for migration.
281 LowestUtil -- Identify the volume in the pool with the least data on it
282 and empty it. No Migration Selection Pattern required.
284 OldestVol -- Identify the LRU volume with data written, and empty it. No
285 Migration Selection Pattern required.
287 PoolOccupancy -- if pool occupancy exceeds <highmig>, migrate volumes
288 (starting with most full volumes) until pool occupancy drops below
289 <lowmig>. Pool highmig and lowmig values are in pool definition, no
290 Migration Selection Pattern required.
294 SQLQuery -- Migrate all jobuids returned by the supplied SQL query.
295 Migration Selection Pattern contains SQL query to execute; should return
296 a list of 1 or more jobuids to migrate.
298 PoolResidence -- Migrate data sitting in pool for longer than
299 PoolResidence value in pool definition. Migration Selection Pattern
300 optional; if specified, override value in pool definition (value in
304 [ possibly a Python event -- kes ]
306 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
307 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
308 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
309 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
310 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
311 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
312 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
313 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
314 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
315 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
316 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
317 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
319 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
320 select * from Storage;
321 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
322 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
323 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
324 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
325 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
326 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
327 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
328 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
329 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
330 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
331 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
332 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
334 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
335 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
336 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
337 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
346 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
347 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
348 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
359 VolRetention: 31,536,000
371 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
378 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
379 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
380 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
391 VolRetention: 31,536,000
404 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
405 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
406 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
407 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
408 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
409 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
410 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
411 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
413 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
414 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
416 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
417 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
418 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
419 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
420 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
421 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
422 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
423 Win32 for sparse files.
424 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
425 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
426 - Directive: at <event> "command"
427 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
428 attach to a specific job?
429 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
430 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
431 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
432 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
433 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
434 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
435 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
436 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
438 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
439 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
440 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
441 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
442 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
443 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
444 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
445 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
446 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
448 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
449 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
453 - Show files/second in client status output.
454 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
455 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
456 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
457 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
458 before doing Interval testing).
459 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
460 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
461 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
462 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
463 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
465 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
466 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
467 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
469 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
470 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
471 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
473 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
474 days before it needs changing.
475 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
476 if the job is not scheduled.
477 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
478 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
479 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
480 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
482 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
483 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
484 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
486 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
487 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
489 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
490 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
492 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
493 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
494 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
495 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
496 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
497 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
499 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
500 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
501 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
502 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
503 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
504 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
505 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
506 - Remove old spool files on startup.
507 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
508 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
510 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
511 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
512 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
513 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
514 - Python script to do backup.
516 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
517 at the start of a job.
518 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
519 as an error when writing a DVD?
520 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
521 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
522 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
523 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
524 resources were locked.
525 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
528 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
529 entry does not contain bytes.
533 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
534 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
535 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
536 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
537 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
538 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
539 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
540 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
541 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
542 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
543 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
544 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
545 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
546 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
547 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
548 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
549 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
550 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
551 - Implement copies and stripes.
552 - Add history file to console.
553 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
554 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
555 16 hours to build the restore list.
556 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
557 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
558 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
559 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
560 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
561 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
563 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
564 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
565 Automatically selected Pool: Default
566 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
567 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
568 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
569 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
570 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
571 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
572 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
573 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
574 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
575 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
576 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
578 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
579 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
580 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
581 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
582 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
584 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
585 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
586 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
587 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
588 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
589 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
590 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
591 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
592 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
593 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
594 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
595 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
596 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
597 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
598 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
599 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
600 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
603 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
604 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
605 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
606 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
607 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
608 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
611 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
612 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
613 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
614 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
615 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
616 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
617 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
618 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
619 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
620 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
621 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
622 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
623 saved me a *lot* of time.
625 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
626 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
628 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
629 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
630 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
631 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
632 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
634 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
635 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
637 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
638 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
640 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
641 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
643 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
644 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
646 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
647 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
651 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
652 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
653 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
657 Name = "Migration-Policy"
659 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
660 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
661 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
662 Job Template = <template-name>
665 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
666 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
667 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
668 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
669 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
670 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
675 Name = "Migration-Policy"
677 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
679 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
680 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
683 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
684 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
685 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
687 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
688 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
689 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
690 depending on various criteria).
696 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
697 - Add delete JobId to regression.
698 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
699 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
700 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
701 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
702 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
704 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
705 on the restore prompt)
706 - Add IPv6 to regression
707 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
710 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
711 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
712 more than 1000 files per directory.
716 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
717 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
719 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
720 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
721 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
723 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
725 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
726 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
727 benefit from as well.
729 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
730 NextJobs = job1,job2.
733 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
734 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
735 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
736 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
737 the job after it needn't to be run
738 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
741 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
742 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
743 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
746 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
747 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
748 execute different actions based on the return value
751 3. offline capability to bconsole
754 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
755 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
756 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
757 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
759 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
760 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
761 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
762 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
763 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
766 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
770 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
771 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
772 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
774 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
777 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
778 I would have the possibilty to define
779 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
780 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
782 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
785 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
786 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
787 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
789 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
790 french and Morre (western african language).
792 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
793 due to the design of bacula.
795 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
796 the "Label Format" Directive.
800 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
801 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
802 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
803 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
804 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
805 name in the correct language.
807 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
808 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
809 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
810 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
813 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
814 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
815 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
818 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
819 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
820 presenting in a browser.
821 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
822 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
823 rpm and Win32 releases.
824 - Browse generations of files.
825 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
826 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
827 size. Relevant information is at
828 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
829 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
830 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
831 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
832 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
833 - Supported autochanger:
841 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
842 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
843 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
844 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
845 - Include within include does it work?
846 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
847 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
848 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
849 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
850 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
851 savings time changes.
852 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
853 - Promote to Full = Time period
854 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
855 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
856 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
858 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
859 - How to handle backing up portables ...
860 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
861 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
862 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
865 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
866 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
867 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
868 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
869 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
870 - Document query file format.
871 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
872 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
873 - Document how to use multiple databases.
874 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
875 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
878 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
879 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
880 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
881 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
883 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
884 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
885 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
886 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
887 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
888 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
889 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
890 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
891 - Document doing table repair
894 ===================================
895 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
896 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
897 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
898 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
900 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
901 - Autorestart on crash.
902 - Add bandwidth limiting.
903 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
904 the line from timing out.
905 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
906 up through the prompt.
907 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
908 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
909 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
910 units, perhaps via a directive.
911 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
912 with multiple priorities.
913 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
914 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
916 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
918 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
919 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
921 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
922 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
923 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
924 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
925 perhaps if password is undefined.
926 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
929 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
930 - the help-command should be more verbose
931 (it should explain the paramters of the different
933 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
934 you need a special parameter
935 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
936 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
938 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
939 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
940 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
941 its faster to enter the specified directory
942 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
943 you should be asked for it.
944 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
945 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
946 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
947 to forget to remove the password after usage
949 the protection of that file is less important
950 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
951 like the unix more/less-command does
952 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
953 be a little long and complex
954 - command-output should be shown column by column
955 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
957 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
959 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
960 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
961 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
963 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
964 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
965 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
966 permissions *can* be restored.
967 - Add prune all command
968 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
969 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
970 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
971 - look at mxt-changer.html
972 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
973 - Implement restore directory.
974 - Document streams and how to implement them.
975 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
976 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
977 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
978 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
979 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
981 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
982 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
983 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
984 - Add tree pane to left of window.
985 - Add progress meter.
986 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
987 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
988 space test fails in btape.
989 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
990 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
991 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
992 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
993 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
994 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
995 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
996 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
997 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
998 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
999 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1000 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1001 Do both a long and short form.
1002 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1003 stat data on each file).
1004 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1006 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1007 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1008 - Add John's appended files:
1009 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1010 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1011 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1012 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1013 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1014 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1015 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1016 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1017 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1018 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1019 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1020 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1021 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1022 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1023 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1024 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1025 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1026 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1027 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1028 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1029 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1030 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1031 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1032 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1033 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1034 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1036 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1038 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1039 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1040 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1041 the proper storage type.
1042 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1043 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1044 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1045 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1046 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1047 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1048 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1049 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1050 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1051 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1052 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1053 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1054 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1055 which in turn overrides Pool.
1057 - New Storage specifications:
1058 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1059 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1060 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1061 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1063 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1067 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1069 Device -> Next Device
1071 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1079 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1081 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1082 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1083 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1084 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1085 is contained in only one device.
1086 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1088 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1089 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1091 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1092 even more important, it's not flaky
1093 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1094 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1096 Macintosh file client
1097 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1098 working bare iron recovery for windows
1099 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1100 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1101 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1102 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1103 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1104 an integration guide
1105 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1106 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1107 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1108 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1109 support for Oracle database ??
1111 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1112 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1113 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1114 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1115 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1116 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1117 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1118 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1119 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1120 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1121 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1122 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1123 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1124 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1125 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1126 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1127 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1128 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1129 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1130 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1131 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1132 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1133 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1134 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1136 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1137 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1138 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1139 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1140 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1141 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1142 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1143 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1144 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
1145 by handling spaces better.
1146 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1147 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1148 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1150 - From Lars Kellers:
1151 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1152 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1153 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1154 necessary parameters.
1156 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1157 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1159 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1160 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1161 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1162 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1163 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1164 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1165 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1166 automatically generate the Volume name.
1167 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1168 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1169 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1170 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1171 time as the user walks through the tree).
1172 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1173 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1174 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1175 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1176 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1177 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1178 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1179 run the job but don't save the files.
1180 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1182 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1183 - Implement a Recycle command
1184 - Start working on Base jobs.
1185 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1186 - From Phil Stracchino:
1187 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1188 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1189 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1190 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1191 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1192 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1193 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1194 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1195 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1196 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1197 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1198 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1199 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1200 if there is an error.
1201 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1203 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1204 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1205 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1206 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1207 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1208 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1209 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1210 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1211 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1213 - Refine SD waiting output:
1214 Device is being positioned
1215 > Device is being positioned for append
1216 > Device is being positioned to file x
1218 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1219 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1220 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1221 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1222 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1223 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1224 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
1225 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1226 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1227 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1228 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1229 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1230 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1231 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1232 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1233 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1234 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1235 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1236 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1237 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1238 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1239 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1240 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1241 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1242 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1243 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1244 - Add UA rc and history files.
1245 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1246 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1247 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1248 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1249 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1250 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1251 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1252 - Maximum Operator Wait
1253 - Minimum Message Interval
1254 - Maximum Message Interval
1255 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1256 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1257 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1259 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1260 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1261 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1262 reading a new config file at any time.
1263 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1264 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1265 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1266 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1267 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1268 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1269 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1270 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1271 - Restore files modified after date
1272 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1273 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1274 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1275 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1276 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1277 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1280 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1281 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1282 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1284 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1285 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1286 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1287 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1288 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1291 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1293 - Add media capacity
1294 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1295 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1299 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1300 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1301 - Partial Read error code
1302 - Partial write error code
1303 - Nonformatted read error
1304 - Nonformatted write error
1305 - WriteProtected error
1309 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1319 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1321 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1322 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1323 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1324 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1326 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1327 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1328 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1329 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1330 - Verify from Volume
1331 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1332 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1333 report resource where report=group of messages
1334 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1335 fill in code for "since" option
1336 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1337 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1338 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1339 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1340 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1342 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1344 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1345 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1346 owner, group, user, quotas
1347 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1348 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1350 ========= ideas ===============
1351 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1352 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1353 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1354 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1356 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1357 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1358 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1359 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1360 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1361 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1362 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1363 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1364 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1365 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1367 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1368 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1369 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1370 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1371 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1372 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1373 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1376 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1377 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1378 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1379 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1380 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1381 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1382 implementing something like this.
1385 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1387 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1388 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1390 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1392 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1393 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1395 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1397 the Migration to tape later.
1399 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1400 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1401 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1402 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1403 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1404 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1405 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1406 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1407 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1408 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1409 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1410 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1411 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1412 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1414 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1415 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1416 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1417 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1421 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1423 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1426 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1427 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1428 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1429 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1430 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1431 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1432 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1433 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1434 each row of the files table.
1436 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1437 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1438 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1440 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1441 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1442 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1447 ==============================
1450 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1451 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1452 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1453 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1454 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1455 the caller can change the break characters.
1456 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1457 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1458 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1459 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1460 buffer messages for later.
1461 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1462 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1463 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1464 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1465 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1466 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1467 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1468 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1472 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1473 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1476 ======================================================
1478 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1479 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1481 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1482 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1484 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1485 JobId - JobId currently running
1486 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1487 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1488 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1489 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1490 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1491 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1492 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1493 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1494 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1495 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1496 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1497 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1498 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1499 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1501 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1502 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1503 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1505 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1507 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1508 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1509 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1510 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1511 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1512 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1513 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1514 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1515 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1517 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1523 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1524 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1525 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1526 =========================================================
1529 ==========================================================
1531 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1532 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1533 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1534 a list of Unsaved files.
1536 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1540 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1541 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1542 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1543 =============================================================
1547 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1548 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1549 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1550 Address 480 is Empty
1552 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1553 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1554 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1555 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1556 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1557 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1558 Storage Element 1:Empty
1559 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1560 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1561 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1562 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1563 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1564 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1565 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1566 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1567 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1568 Storage Element 11:Empty
1569 Storage Element 12:Empty
1570 Storage Element 13:Empty
1571 Storage Element 14:Empty
1572 Storage Element 15:Empty
1573 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1574 Storage Element 28:Empty
1575 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1576 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1577 Storage Element 57:Empty
1578 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1579 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1580 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1582 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1584 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1585 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1587 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1588 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1589 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1590 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1591 from an offset point either.something like
1593 Autochanger drives = 2
1594 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1595 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1596 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1597 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1603 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1604 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1605 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1606 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1607 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1608 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1609 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1610 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1611 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1612 slot number as the destination.AB
1618 undef# camcontrol devlist
1619 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1620 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1621 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1623 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1624 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1625 Product Type: Tape Drive
1627 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1629 Attached Changer: No
1630 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1631 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1638 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1641 DataCompEnabled: yes
1642 DataCompCapable: yes
1643 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1650 Handling removable disks
1652 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1654 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1655 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1656 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1657 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1659 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1660 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1661 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1662 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1664 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1666 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1667 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1668 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1669 scattered in many subdirectories.
1674 - Make sure that all do_prompt() calls in Dir check for
1675 -1 (error) and -2 (cancel) returns.
1676 - Fix foreach_jcr() to have free_jcr() inside next().
1677 jcr=jcr_walk_start();
1678 for ( ; jcr; (jcr=jcr_walk_next(jcr)) )
1681 - A Volume taken from Scratch should take on the retention period
1683 - Correct doc for Maximum Changer Wait (and others) accepting only
1685 - Implement status that shows why a job is being held in reserve, or
1686 rather why none of the drives are suitable.
1687 - Implement a way to disable a drive (so you can use the second
1688 drive of an autochanger, and the first one will not be used or
1690 - Make sure Maximum Volumes is respected in Pools when adding
1691 Volumes (e.g. when pulling a Scratch volume).
1692 - Keep same dcr when switching device ...
1693 - Implement code that makes the Dir aware that a drive is an
1694 autochanger (so the user doesn't need to use the Autochanger = yes
1696 - Make catalog respect ACL.
1697 - Add recycle count to Media record.
1698 - Add initial write date to Media record.
1699 - Fix store_yesno to be store_bitmask.
1700 --- create_file.c.orig Fri Jul 8 12:13:05 2005
1701 +++ create_file.c Fri Jul 8 12:13:07 2005
1703 attr->ofname, be.strerror());
1706 + } else if(S_ISSOCK(attr->statp.st_mode)) {
1707 + Dmsg1(200, "Skipping socket: %s\n", attr->ofname);
1709 Dmsg1(200, "Restore node: %s\n", attr->ofname);
1710 if (mknod(attr->ofname, attr->statp.st_mode, attr->statp.st_rdev) != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
1711 - Add true/false to conf same as yes/no
1712 - Reserve blocks other restore jobs when first cannot connect to SD.
1713 - Fix Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
1714 accept time qualifiers.
1715 - Does ClientRunAfterJob fail the job on a bad return code?
1716 - Make hardlink code at line 240 of find_one.c use binary search.
1717 - Add ACL error messages in src/filed/acl.c.
1718 - Make authentication failures single threaded.
1719 - Make Dir and SD authentication errors single threaded.
1720 - Fix catreq.c digestbuf at line 411 in src/dird/catreq.c
1721 - Make base64.c (bin_to_base64) take a buffer length
1722 argument to avoid overruns.
1723 and verify that other buffers cannot overrun.
1724 - Implement VolumeState as discussed with Arno.
1725 - Add LocationId to update volume
1733 - Add Comment to Media record
1734 - Fix auth compatibility with 1.38
1735 - Update dbcheck to include Log table
1736 - Update llist to include new fields.
1737 - Make unmount unload autochanger. Make mount load slot.
1738 - Fix bscan to report the JobType when restoring a job.
1739 - Fix wx-console scanning problem with commas in names.
1740 - Add manpages to the list of directories for make install. Notify
1742 - Add bconsole option to use stdin/out instead of conio.
1743 - Fix ClientRunBefore/AfterJob compatibility.
1744 - Ensure that connection to daemon failure always indicates what
1745 daemon it was trying to connect to.
1746 - Freespace on DVD requested over and over even with no intervening
1748 - .update volume [enabled|disabled|*see below]
1749 > However, I could easily imagine an option to "update slots" that says
1750 > "enable=yes|no" that would automatically enable or disable all the Volumes
1751 > found in the autochanger. This will permit the user to optionally mark all
1752 > the Volumes in the magazine disabled prior to taking them offsite, and mark
1753 > them all enabled when bringing them back on site. Coupled with the options
1754 > to the slots keyword, you can apply the enable/disable to any or all volumes.
1755 - Restricted consoles start in the Default catalog even if it
1757 - When reading through parts on the DVD, the DVD is mounted and
1758 unmounted for each part.
1759 - Make sure that the restore options don't permit "seeing" other
1761 - Restore of a raw drive should not try to check the volume size.
1762 - Lock tape drive door when open()
1763 - Make release unload any autochanger.
1764 - Arno's reservation deadlock.
1766 - Make sure the new level=Full syntax is used in all
1767 example conf files (especially in the manual).
1768 - Fix prog copyright (SD) all other files.
1769 - Document need for UTF-8 format
1770 - Try turning on disk seek code.
1771 - Some users claim that they must do two prune commands to get a
1772 Volume marked as purged.
1773 - Document fact that CatalogACL now needed for Tray monitor (fixed).
1774 - If you have two Catalogs, it will take the first one.
1775 - Migration Volume span bug