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 - Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html
70 and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes
74 - Detect deadlocks in reservations.
76 - Add list during dump
77 - Add in plugin code flag
78 - Add bRC_EndJob -- stops more calls to plugin this job
79 - Add bRC_Term (unload plugin)
80 - remove time_t from Jmsg and use utime_t?
82 - Deadlock detection, watchdog sees if counter advances when jobs are
83 running. With debug on, can do a "status" command.
84 - User options for plugins.
85 - Pool Storage override precidence over command line.
86 - Autolabel only if Volume catalog information indicates tape not
87 written. This will avoid overwriting a tape that gets an I/O
88 error on reading the volume label.
89 - I/O error, SD thinks it is not the right Volume, should check slot
90 then disable volume, but Asks for mount.
91 - Can be posible modify package to create and use configuration files in
96 /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
97 /etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf
98 /etc/bacula/conf.d/clients.conf
99 /etc/bacula/conf.d/storages.conf
101 and into bacula-dir.conf file include
103 @/etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf
104 @/etc/bacula/conf.d/clients.conf
105 @/etc/bacula/conf.d/storages.conf
106 - Possibly add an Inconsistent state when a Volume is in error
108 - Fix #ifdefing so that smartalloc can be disabled. Check manual
109 -- the default is enabled.
110 - Change calling sequence to delete_job_id_range() in ua_cmds.c
111 the preceding strtok() is done inside the subroutine only once.
112 - Dangling softlinks are not restored properly. For example, take a
113 soft link such as src/testprogs/install-sh, which points to /usr/share/autoconf...
114 move the directory to another machine where the file /usr/share/autoconf does
115 not exist, back it up, then try a full restore. It fails.
116 - Softlinks that point to non-existent file are not restored in restore all,
117 but are restored if the file is individually selected. BUG!
118 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
120 - Prune by Job Level (Full, Differential, Incremental)
121 - Strict automatic pruning
122 - Implement unmount of USB volumes.
123 - Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for
124 Win32 to avoid patent problems.
125 - Implement multiple jobid specification for the cancel command,
126 similar to what is permitted on the update slots command.
127 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
128 - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
130 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
131 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
132 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
133 its faster to enter the specified directory
134 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
135 by handling spaces better.
139 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
140 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
141 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
142 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
143 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
144 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
145 before doing Interval testing).
146 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
148 - Auto update of slot:
149 rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10
150 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03
151 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4"
152 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.
153 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
154 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
155 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
156 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life.
157 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51
158 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog
159 - Create FileVersions table
160 - Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
161 - Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
162 - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105
163 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the
164 generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL
165 and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is
166 cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message.
168 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
169 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
170 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
171 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
172 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
173 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
174 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
175 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
176 multiplexing Dir connection).
177 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
178 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
179 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
180 now prints warnings too often.
181 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
183 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
184 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
186 This test is essential to Bacula.
188 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
189 two records in file 1,
190 and three records in file 2
192 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
193 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
194 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
195 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
197 - Encryption -- email from Landon
198 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
199 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
200 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
201 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
202 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
203 > interested in implementing this functionality.
205 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
206 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
207 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
208 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
209 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
210 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
211 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
212 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
213 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
215 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
216 - Encryption documentation
217 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
218 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
223 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
225 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
227 - Next Pool (already have)
228 - Reclamation threshold
230 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
231 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
233 - Allow pool selection during restore.
235 - Average tape size from Eric
236 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
237 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
238 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
239 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
240 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
242 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
243 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
245 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
246 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
247 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
248 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
252 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
254 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
256 - Despool attributes in separate thread
259 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
260 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
263 - More intelligent re-run
265 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
268 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
269 - Look at mondo/mindi
270 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
271 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
272 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
273 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
274 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
275 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
276 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
277 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
278 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
279 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
280 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
281 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
282 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
283 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
284 - Remove queue.c code.
285 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
287 - New dot commands from Arno.
288 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
289 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
290 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
291 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
292 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
293 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
294 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
297 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
298 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
299 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
300 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
301 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
302 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
303 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
305 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
306 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
307 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
308 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
309 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
310 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
311 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
312 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
313 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
314 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
317 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
318 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
319 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
320 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
321 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
322 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
324 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
325 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
326 == changequote.m4 ===
327 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
328 ==== query.sql.in ===
329 :List next 20 volumes to expire
331 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
336 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
338 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
342 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
343 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
347 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
349 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
354 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
355 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
356 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
357 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
358 order by Path.Path ASC;
360 - Look into using Dart for testing
361 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
363 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
364 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
366 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
367 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
368 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
369 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
370 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
371 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
372 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
373 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
374 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
375 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
376 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
377 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
379 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
380 select * from Storage;
381 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
382 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
383 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
384 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
385 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
386 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
387 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
388 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
389 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
390 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
391 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
392 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
394 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
395 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
396 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
397 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
406 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
407 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
408 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
419 VolRetention: 31,536,000
431 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
438 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
439 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
440 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
451 VolRetention: 31,536,000
464 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
465 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
466 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
467 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
468 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
469 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
470 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
471 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
473 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
474 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
476 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
477 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
478 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
479 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
480 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
481 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
482 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
483 Win32 for sparse files.
484 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
485 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
486 - Directive: at <event> "command"
487 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
488 attach to a specific job?
489 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
490 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
491 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
492 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
493 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
494 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
495 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
496 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
498 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
499 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
500 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
501 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
502 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
503 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
504 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
505 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
506 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
508 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
509 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
513 - Show files/second in client status output.
514 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
515 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
516 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
518 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
519 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
521 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
522 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
523 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
525 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
526 days before it needs changing.
527 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
528 if the job is not scheduled.
529 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
530 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
531 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
532 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
534 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
535 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
536 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
538 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
539 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
541 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
542 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
544 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
545 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
546 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
547 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
548 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
549 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
551 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
552 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
553 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
554 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
555 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
556 - Remove old spool files on startup.
557 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
558 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
560 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
561 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
562 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
563 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
564 - Python script to do backup.
566 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
567 at the start of a job.
568 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
569 as an error when writing a DVD?
570 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
571 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
572 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
573 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
574 resources were locked.
575 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
578 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
579 entry does not contain bytes.
582 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
583 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
584 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
585 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
586 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
587 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
588 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
589 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
590 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
591 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
592 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
593 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
594 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
595 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
596 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
597 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
598 - Implement copies and stripes.
599 - Add history file to console.
600 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
601 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
602 16 hours to build the restore list.
603 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
604 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
605 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
606 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
607 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
608 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
610 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
611 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
612 Automatically selected Pool: Default
613 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
614 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
615 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
616 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
617 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
618 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
619 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
620 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
621 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
622 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
623 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
628 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
629 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
630 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
634 Name = "Migration-Policy"
636 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
637 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
638 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
639 Job Template = <template-name>
642 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
643 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
644 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
645 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
646 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
647 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
652 Name = "Migration-Policy"
654 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
656 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
657 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
660 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
661 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
662 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
664 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
665 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
666 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
667 depending on various criteria).
673 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
674 - Add delete JobId to regression.
675 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
676 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
677 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
678 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
679 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
681 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
682 on the restore prompt)
683 - Add IPv6 to regression
684 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
687 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
688 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
689 more than 1000 files per directory.
693 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
694 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
696 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
697 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
698 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
700 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
702 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
703 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
704 benefit from as well.
706 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
707 NextJobs = job1,job2.
710 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
711 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
712 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
713 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
714 the job after it needn't to be run
715 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
718 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
719 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
720 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
723 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
724 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
725 execute different actions based on the return value
728 3. offline capability to bconsole
731 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
732 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
733 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
734 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
736 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
737 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
738 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
739 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
740 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
743 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
747 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
748 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
749 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
751 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
754 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
755 I would have the possibilty to define
756 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
757 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
759 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
762 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
763 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
764 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
766 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
767 french and Morre (western african language).
769 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
770 due to the design of bacula.
772 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
773 the "Label Format" Directive.
777 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
778 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
779 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
780 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
781 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
782 name in the correct language.
784 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
785 presenting in a browser.
786 - Browse generations of files.
787 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
788 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
789 size. Relevant information is at
790 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
791 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
792 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
793 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
794 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
795 - Supported autochanger:
803 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
804 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
805 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
806 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
807 - Include within include does it work?
808 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
809 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
810 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
811 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
812 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
813 savings time changes.
814 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
815 - Promote to Full = Time period
816 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
817 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
818 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
820 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
821 - How to handle backing up portables ...
822 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
823 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
824 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
827 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
828 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
829 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
830 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
831 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
832 - Document query file format.
833 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
834 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
835 - Document how to use multiple databases.
836 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
837 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
840 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
841 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
842 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
843 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
845 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
846 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
847 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
848 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
849 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
850 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
851 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
852 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
853 - Document doing table repair
856 ===================================
857 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
858 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
859 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
860 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
862 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
863 - Autorestart on crash.
864 - Add bandwidth limiting.
865 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
866 up through the prompt.
867 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
868 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
869 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
870 units, perhaps via a directive.
871 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
872 with multiple priorities.
873 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
874 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
876 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
878 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
879 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
881 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
882 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
883 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
884 perhaps if password is undefined.
885 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
888 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
889 - the help-command should be more verbose
890 (it should explain the paramters of the different
892 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
893 you need a special parameter
894 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
895 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
897 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
898 you should be asked for it.
899 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
900 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
901 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
902 to forget to remove the password after usage
904 the protection of that file is less important
905 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
906 like the unix more/less-command does
907 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
908 be a little long and complex
909 - command-output should be shown column by column
910 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
912 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
914 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
915 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
916 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
918 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
919 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
920 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
921 permissions *can* be restored.
922 - Add prune all command
923 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
924 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
925 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
926 - look at mxt-changer.html
927 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
928 - Implement restore directory.
929 - Document streams and how to implement them.
930 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
931 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
932 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
933 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
934 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
936 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
937 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
938 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
939 - Add tree pane to left of window.
940 - Add progress meter.
941 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
942 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
943 space test fails in btape.
944 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
945 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
946 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
947 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
948 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
949 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
950 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
951 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
952 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
953 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
954 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
955 stat data on each file).
956 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
958 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
959 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
960 - Add John's appended files:
961 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
962 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
963 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
964 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
965 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
966 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
967 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
968 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
969 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
970 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
971 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
972 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
973 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
974 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
975 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
976 BackupClient RestoreClient).
977 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
978 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
979 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
980 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
981 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
982 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
984 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
985 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
986 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
987 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
988 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
989 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
990 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
991 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
992 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
993 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
994 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
995 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
996 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
997 which in turn overrides Pool.
999 - New Storage specifications:
1000 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1001 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1002 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1003 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1005 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1009 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1011 Device -> Next Device
1013 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1021 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1023 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1024 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1025 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1026 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1027 is contained in only one device.
1028 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1030 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1031 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1033 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1034 even more important, it's not flaky
1035 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1036 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1038 Macintosh file client
1039 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1040 working bare iron recovery for windows
1041 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1042 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1043 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1044 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1045 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1046 an integration guide
1047 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1048 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1049 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1050 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1051 support for Oracle database ??
1053 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1054 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1055 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1056 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1057 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1058 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1059 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1060 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1061 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1062 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1063 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1064 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1065 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1066 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1067 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1068 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1069 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1070 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1071 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1072 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1073 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1074 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1076 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1077 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1078 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1079 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1080 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1081 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1082 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1083 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1084 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1085 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1087 - From Lars Kellers:
1088 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1089 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1090 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1091 necessary parameters.
1093 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1094 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1096 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1097 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1098 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1099 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1100 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1101 automatically generate the Volume name.
1102 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1103 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1104 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1105 time as the user walks through the tree).
1106 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1107 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1108 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1109 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1110 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1111 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1112 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1113 run the job but don't save the files.
1114 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1116 - Implement a Recycle command
1117 - Start working on Base jobs.
1118 - From Phil Stracchino:
1119 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1120 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1121 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1122 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1123 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1124 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1125 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1126 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1127 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1128 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1129 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1130 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1131 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1132 if there is an error.
1133 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1135 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1136 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1137 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1138 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1139 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1140 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1141 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1142 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1143 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1145 - Refine SD waiting output:
1146 Device is being positioned
1147 > Device is being positioned for append
1148 > Device is being positioned to file x
1150 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1151 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1152 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1153 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1154 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1155 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1156 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1157 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1158 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1159 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1160 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1161 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1162 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1163 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1164 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1165 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1166 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1167 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1168 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1169 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1170 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1171 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1172 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1173 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1174 - Add UA rc and history files.
1175 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1176 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1177 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1178 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1179 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1180 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1181 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1182 - Maximum Operator Wait
1183 - Minimum Message Interval
1184 - Maximum Message Interval
1185 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1186 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1187 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1189 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1190 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1191 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1192 reading a new config file at any time.
1193 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1194 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1195 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1196 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1197 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1198 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1199 - Restore files modified after date
1200 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1201 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1202 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1203 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1204 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1205 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1208 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1209 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1210 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1212 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1213 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1214 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1215 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1216 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1219 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1221 - Add media capacity
1222 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1223 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1227 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1228 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1229 - Partial Read error code
1230 - Partial write error code
1231 - Nonformatted read error
1232 - Nonformatted write error
1233 - WriteProtected error
1237 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1247 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1248 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1250 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1251 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1252 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1253 - Verify from Volume
1254 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1255 report resource where report=group of messages
1256 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1257 fill in code for "since" option
1258 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1259 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1260 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1261 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1262 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1264 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1266 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1267 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1268 owner, group, user, quotas
1269 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1270 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1272 ========= ideas ===============
1273 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1274 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1275 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1276 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1278 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1279 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1280 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1281 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1282 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1283 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1284 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1285 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1286 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1287 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1289 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1290 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1291 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1292 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1293 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1294 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1295 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1298 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1299 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1300 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1301 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1302 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1303 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1304 implementing something like this.
1307 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1309 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1310 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1312 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1314 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1315 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1317 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1319 the Migration to tape later.
1321 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1322 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1323 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1324 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1325 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1326 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1327 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1328 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1329 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1330 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1331 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1332 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1333 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1334 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1336 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1337 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1338 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1339 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1343 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1345 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1351 ==============================
1354 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1355 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1356 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1357 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1358 the caller can change the break characters.
1359 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1360 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1361 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1362 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1363 buffer messages for later.
1364 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1365 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1367 ======================================================
1369 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1370 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1372 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1373 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1375 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1376 JobId - JobId currently running
1377 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1378 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1379 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1380 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1381 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1382 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1383 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1384 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1385 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1386 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1387 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1388 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1389 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1390 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1392 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1393 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1394 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1396 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1398 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1399 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1400 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1401 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1402 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1403 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1404 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1405 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1406 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1408 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1414 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1415 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1416 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1417 =========================================================
1420 Handling removable disks
1422 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1424 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1425 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1426 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1427 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1429 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1430 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1431 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1432 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1434 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1436 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1437 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1438 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1439 scattered in many subdirectories.
1446 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
1447 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.