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.
72 - Implement wait on multiple objects
76 - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
77 - Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD.
78 - Implement continue spooling while despooling.
79 - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
80 - Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
81 - Use E'xxx' to escape PostgreSQL strings.
82 - No where in restore causes kaboom.
83 - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
84 - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
85 multiplexing Dir connection).
86 - Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
87 - Look at mincore: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html
88 - Unicode input http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
89 - Add TLS to bat (should be done).
90 - When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
91 - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
92 now prints warnings too often.
93 - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
95 - Add Catalog = to Pool resource so that pools will exist
96 in only one catalog -- currently Pools are "global".
97 - Look at sg_logs -a /dev/sg0 for getting soft errors.
98 - btape "test" command with Offline on Unmount = yes
100 This test is essential to Bacula.
102 I'm going to write one record in file 0,
103 two records in file 1,
104 and three records in file 2
106 02-Feb 11:00 btape: ABORTING due to ERROR in dev.c:715
107 dev.c:714 Bad call to rewind. Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) not open
108 02-Feb 11:00 btape: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation
109 Kaboom! btape, btape got signal 11. Attempting traceback.
111 - Encryption -- email from Landon
112 > The backup encryption algorithm is currently not configurable, and is
113 > set to AES_128_CBC in src/filed/backup.c. The encryption code
114 > supports a number of different ciphers (as well as adding arbitrary
115 > new ones) -- only a small bit of code would be required to map a
116 > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is
117 > interested in implementing this functionality.
119 - Why doesn't @"xxx abc" work in a conf file?
120 - Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes.
121 - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info.
122 - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field.
123 - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing
124 to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732).
125 - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL,
126 and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
127 - Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
128 does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
129 - Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
130 Pool in the default conf files.
132 - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
133 - Encryption documentation
134 - Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
135 - Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
140 - Access Mode = Read-Only, Read-Write, Unavailable, Destroyed, Offsite
142 - Maximum number of scratch volumes
144 - Next Pool (already have)
145 - Reclamation threshold
147 - Reuse delay (after all files purged from volume before it can be used)
148 - Copy Pool = xx, yyy (or multiple lines).
150 - Allow pool selection during restore.
152 - Average tape size from Eric
153 SELECT COALESCE(media_avg_size.volavg,0) * count(Media.MediaId) AS volmax, GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
154 count(Media.MediaId) AS volnum,
155 sum(Media.VolBytes) AS voltotal,
156 Media.PoolId AS PoolId,
157 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
159 LEFT JOIN (SELECT avg(Media.VolBytes) AS volavg,
160 Media.MediaType AS MediaType
162 WHERE Media.VolStatus = 'Full'
163 GROUP BY Media.MediaType
164 ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType)
165 GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg
169 - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation
171 http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501
173 - Despool attributes in separate thread
176 - Check why restore repeatedly sends Rechdrs between
177 each data chunk -- according to James Harper 9Jan07.
180 - Full at least once a month, ...
181 - Cancel Inc if Diff/Full running
182 - More intelligent re-run
183 - New/deleted file backup
185 - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow
189 - Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912.
190 - Look at mondo/mindi
191 - Don't restore Solaris Door files:
192 #define S_IFDOOR in st_mode.
193 see: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5173/6mbb8ae23?a=view#indexterm-360
194 - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ...
195 - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the
196 immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it.
197 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
198 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
199 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
200 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
201 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
202 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
203 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
204 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
205 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
206 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
207 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
208 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
209 - Remove queue.c code.
210 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
212 - New dot commands from Arno.
213 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
214 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
215 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
216 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
217 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
218 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
219 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
222 - Article: http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83231
223 - Article: http://www.golem.de/0701/49756.html
224 - Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/209809/
225 - Article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/09/bacula.html
226 - Article: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
227 - Article: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
228 - Article: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm
230 - Wikis mentioning Bacula
231 http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Admin:Backups
232 http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Bacula
233 http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=bacula
234 http://www.iterating.com/products/Bacula
235 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Net-snmp_extensions
236 http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Bacula_for_Tape_Backups
237 http://bacula.darwinports.com/
238 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Corporate/Server_4/Notes#Bacula
239 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacula
242 http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/
243 http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php
244 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
245 http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula
246 http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
247 http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
249 - Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
250 - It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race
251 condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they
252 were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However,
253 one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was
254 loaded into drive 1 so it decided to unload it from drive 1 and
255 then loaded it into drive 0, while the second thread went on
256 thinking that the Volume could be used in drive 1 not realizing
257 that in between time, it was loaded in drive 0.
258 I'll look at the code to see if there is some way we can avoid
259 this kind of problem. Probably the best solution is to make the
260 first thread simply start using the Volume in drive 1 rather than
261 transferring it to drive 0.
262 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
263 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
264 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
265 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
266 == changequote.m4 ===
267 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
268 ==== query.sql.in ===
269 :List next 20 volumes to expire
271 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
276 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
278 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
282 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
283 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
287 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
289 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
291 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
292 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
293 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
294 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
295 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
300 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
301 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
304 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
306 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
309 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
311 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
312 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
314 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
315 significant changes to Bacula.
320 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
321 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
322 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
323 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
324 order by Path.Path ASC;
326 - Look into using Dart for testing
327 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
329 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
330 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
332 === Migration from David ===
333 What I'd like to see:
336 Name = "<poolname>-migrate"
340 Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil | OldestVol | PoolOccupancy |
341 Client | PoolResidence | Volume | JobName | SQLquery
342 Migration Selection Pattern = "regexp"
343 Next Pool = <override>
346 There should be no need for a Level (migration is always Full, since you
347 don't calculate differential/incremental differences for migration),
348 Storage should be determined by the volume types in the pool, and Client
349 is really a selection issue. Migration should always occur to the
350 NextPool defined in the pool definition. If no nextpool is defined, the
351 job should end with a reason of "no place to go". If Next Pool statement
352 is present, we override the check in the pool definition and use the
355 Here's how I'd define Migration Selection Types:
358 Client -- Migrate data from selected client only. Migration Selection
359 Pattern regexp provides pattern to select client names, eg ^FS00* makes
360 all client names starting with FS00 eligible for migration.
362 Jobname -- Migration all jobs matching name. Migration Selection Pattern
363 regexp provides pattern to select jobnames existing in pool.
365 Volume -- Migrate all data on specified volumes. Migration Selection
366 Pattern regexp provides selection criteria for volumes to be migrated.
367 Volumes must exist in pool to be eligible for migration.
371 LowestUtil -- Identify the volume in the pool with the least data on it
372 and empty it. No Migration Selection Pattern required.
374 OldestVol -- Identify the LRU volume with data written, and empty it. No
375 Migration Selection Pattern required.
377 PoolOccupancy -- if pool occupancy exceeds <highmig>, migrate volumes
378 (starting with most full volumes) until pool occupancy drops below
379 <lowmig>. Pool highmig and lowmig values are in pool definition, no
380 Migration Selection Pattern required.
384 SQLQuery -- Migrate all jobuids returned by the supplied SQL query.
385 Migration Selection Pattern contains SQL query to execute; should return
386 a list of 1 or more jobuids to migrate.
388 PoolResidence -- Migrate data sitting in pool for longer than
389 PoolResidence value in pool definition. Migration Selection Pattern
390 optional; if specified, override value in pool definition (value in
394 [ possibly a Python event -- kes ]
396 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
397 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
398 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
399 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
400 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
401 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
402 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
403 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
404 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
405 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
406 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
407 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
409 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
410 select * from Storage;
411 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
412 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
413 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
414 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
415 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
416 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
417 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
418 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
419 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
420 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
421 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
422 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
424 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
425 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
426 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
427 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
436 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
437 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
438 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
449 VolRetention: 31,536,000
461 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
468 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
469 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
470 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
481 VolRetention: 31,536,000
494 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
495 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
496 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
497 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
498 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
499 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
500 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
501 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
503 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
504 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
506 - http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/commercial-floss.html
507 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
508 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
509 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
510 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
511 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
512 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
513 Win32 for sparse files.
514 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
515 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
516 - Directive: at <event> "command"
517 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
518 attach to a specific job?
519 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
520 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
521 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
522 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
523 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
524 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
525 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
526 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
528 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
529 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
530 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
531 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
532 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
533 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
534 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
535 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
536 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
538 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
539 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
543 - Show files/second in client status output.
544 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
545 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
546 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
547 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
548 before doing Interval testing).
549 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
550 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
551 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
552 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
553 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
555 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
556 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
557 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
559 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
560 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
561 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
563 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
564 days before it needs changing.
565 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
566 if the job is not scheduled.
567 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
568 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
569 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
570 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
572 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
573 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
574 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
576 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
577 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
579 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
580 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
582 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
583 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
584 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
585 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
586 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
587 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
589 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
590 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
591 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
592 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
593 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
594 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
595 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
596 - Remove old spool files on startup.
597 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
598 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
600 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
601 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
602 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
603 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
604 - Python script to do backup.
606 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
607 at the start of a job.
608 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
609 as an error when writing a DVD?
610 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
611 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
612 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
613 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
614 resources were locked.
615 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
618 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
619 entry does not contain bytes.
623 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
624 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
625 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
626 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
627 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
628 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
629 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
630 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
631 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
632 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
633 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
634 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
635 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
636 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
637 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
638 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
639 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
640 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
641 - Implement copies and stripes.
642 - Add history file to console.
643 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
644 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
645 16 hours to build the restore list.
646 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
647 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
648 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
649 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
650 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
651 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
653 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
654 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
655 Automatically selected Pool: Default
656 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
657 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
658 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
659 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
660 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
661 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
662 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
663 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
664 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
665 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
666 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
668 ==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
669 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
670 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
671 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
672 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
674 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
675 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
676 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
677 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
678 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
679 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
680 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
681 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
682 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
683 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
684 that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
685 either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
686 the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
687 indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
688 A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
689 of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
690 some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
693 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
694 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
695 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
696 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
697 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
698 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
701 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
702 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
703 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
704 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
705 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
706 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
707 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
708 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
709 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
710 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
711 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
712 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
713 saved me a *lot* of time.
715 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
716 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
718 All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
719 saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
720 Catalog command. It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
721 the last InitCatalog. It is more or less a "simple" matter of
722 taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
724 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
725 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
727 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
728 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
730 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
731 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
733 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
734 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
736 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
737 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
741 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
742 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
743 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
747 Name = "Migration-Policy"
749 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
750 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
751 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
752 Job Template = <template-name>
755 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
756 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
757 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
758 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
759 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
760 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
765 Name = "Migration-Policy"
767 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
769 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
770 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
773 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
774 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
775 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
777 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
778 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
779 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
780 depending on various criteria).
786 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
787 - Add delete JobId to regression.
788 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
789 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
790 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
791 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
792 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
794 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
795 on the restore prompt)
796 - Add IPv6 to regression
797 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
800 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
801 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
802 more than 1000 files per directory.
806 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
807 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
809 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
810 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
811 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
813 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
815 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
816 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
817 benefit from as well.
819 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
820 NextJobs = job1,job2.
823 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
824 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
825 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
826 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
827 the job after it needn't to be run
828 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
831 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
832 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
833 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
836 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
837 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
838 execute different actions based on the return value
841 3. offline capability to bconsole
844 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
845 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
846 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
847 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
849 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
850 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
851 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
852 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
853 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
856 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
860 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
861 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
862 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
864 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
867 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
868 I would have the possibilty to define
869 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
870 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
872 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
875 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
876 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
877 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
879 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
880 french and Morre (western african language).
882 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
883 due to the design of bacula.
885 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
886 the "Label Format" Directive.
890 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
891 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
892 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
893 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
894 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
895 name in the correct language.
897 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
898 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
899 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
900 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
903 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
904 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
905 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
908 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
909 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
910 presenting in a browser.
911 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
912 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
913 rpm and Win32 releases.
914 - Browse generations of files.
915 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
916 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
917 size. Relevant information is at
918 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
919 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
920 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
921 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
922 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
923 - Supported autochanger:
931 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
932 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
933 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
934 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
935 - Include within include does it work?
936 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
937 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
938 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
939 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
940 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
941 savings time changes.
942 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
943 - Promote to Full = Time period
944 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
945 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
946 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
948 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
949 - How to handle backing up portables ...
950 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
951 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
952 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
955 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
956 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
957 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
958 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
959 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
960 - Document query file format.
961 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
962 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
963 - Document how to use multiple databases.
964 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
965 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
968 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
969 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
970 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
971 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
973 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
974 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
975 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
976 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
977 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
978 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
979 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
980 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
981 - Document doing table repair
984 ===================================
985 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
986 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
987 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
988 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
990 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
991 - Autorestart on crash.
992 - Add bandwidth limiting.
993 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
994 the line from timing out.
995 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
996 up through the prompt.
997 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
998 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
999 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
1000 units, perhaps via a directive.
1001 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
1002 with multiple priorities.
1003 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
1004 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
1006 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
1008 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
1009 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
1011 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
1012 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
1013 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
1014 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
1015 perhaps if password is undefined.
1016 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
1019 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
1020 - the help-command should be more verbose
1021 (it should explain the paramters of the different
1023 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
1024 you need a special parameter
1025 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
1026 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
1028 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
1029 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
1030 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
1031 its faster to enter the specified directory
1032 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
1033 you should be asked for it.
1034 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
1035 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
1036 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
1037 to forget to remove the password after usage
1039 the protection of that file is less important
1040 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
1041 like the unix more/less-command does
1042 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
1043 be a little long and complex
1044 - command-output should be shown column by column
1045 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
1047 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
1049 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
1050 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
1051 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
1053 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
1054 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
1055 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
1056 permissions *can* be restored.
1057 - Add prune all command
1058 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
1059 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
1060 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
1061 - look at mxt-changer.html
1062 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
1063 - Implement restore directory.
1064 - Document streams and how to implement them.
1065 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
1066 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
1067 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
1068 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
1069 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
1071 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
1072 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
1073 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
1074 - Add tree pane to left of window.
1075 - Add progress meter.
1076 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
1077 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
1078 space test fails in btape.
1079 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
1080 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
1081 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
1082 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
1083 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
1084 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
1085 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
1086 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
1087 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
1088 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
1089 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
1090 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
1091 Do both a long and short form.
1092 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
1093 stat data on each file).
1094 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
1096 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
1097 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
1098 - Add John's appended files:
1099 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
1100 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
1101 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
1102 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
1103 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
1104 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
1105 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
1106 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
1107 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
1108 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
1109 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
1110 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
1111 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
1112 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
1113 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
1114 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
1115 BackupClient RestoreClient).
1116 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
1117 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
1118 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
1119 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
1120 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
1121 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
1122 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
1123 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
1124 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
1126 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
1128 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
1129 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
1130 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
1131 the proper storage type.
1132 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
1133 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
1134 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
1135 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
1136 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
1137 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
1138 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
1139 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
1140 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
1141 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
1142 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
1143 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
1144 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
1145 which in turn overrides Pool.
1147 - New Storage specifications:
1148 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
1149 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
1150 - Want to read/write simultaneously
1151 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
1153 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
1157 MediaType -> Next MediaType
1159 Device -> Next Device
1161 Allow multiple Storage specifications
1169 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
1171 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
1172 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
1173 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
1174 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1175 is contained in only one device.
1176 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1178 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1179 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1181 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1182 even more important, it's not flaky
1183 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1184 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1186 Macintosh file client
1187 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1188 working bare iron recovery for windows
1189 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1190 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1191 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1192 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1193 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1194 an integration guide
1195 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1196 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1197 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1198 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1199 support for Oracle database ??
1201 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1202 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1203 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1204 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1205 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1206 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1207 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1208 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1209 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1210 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1211 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1212 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1213 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1214 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1215 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1216 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1217 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1218 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1219 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1220 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1221 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1222 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1223 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1224 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1226 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1227 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1228 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1229 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1230 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1231 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1232 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1233 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1234 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
1235 by handling spaces better.
1236 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1237 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1238 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1240 - From Lars Kellers:
1241 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1242 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1243 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1244 necessary parameters.
1246 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1247 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1249 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1250 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1251 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1252 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1253 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1254 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1255 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1256 automatically generate the Volume name.
1257 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1258 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1259 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1260 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1261 time as the user walks through the tree).
1262 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1263 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1264 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1265 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1266 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1267 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1268 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1269 run the job but don't save the files.
1270 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1272 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1273 - Implement a Recycle command
1274 - Start working on Base jobs.
1275 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1276 - From Phil Stracchino:
1277 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1278 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1279 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1280 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1281 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1282 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1283 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1284 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1285 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1286 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1287 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1288 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1289 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1290 if there is an error.
1291 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1293 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1294 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1295 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1296 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1297 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1298 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1299 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1300 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1301 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1303 - Refine SD waiting output:
1304 Device is being positioned
1305 > Device is being positioned for append
1306 > Device is being positioned to file x
1308 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1309 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1310 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1311 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1312 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1313 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1314 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
1315 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1316 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1317 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1318 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1319 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1320 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1321 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1322 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1323 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1324 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1325 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1326 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1327 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1328 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1329 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1330 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1331 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1332 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1333 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1334 - Add UA rc and history files.
1335 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1336 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1337 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1338 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1339 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1340 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1341 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1342 - Maximum Operator Wait
1343 - Minimum Message Interval
1344 - Maximum Message Interval
1345 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1346 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1347 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1349 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1350 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1351 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1352 reading a new config file at any time.
1353 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1354 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1355 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1356 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1357 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1358 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1359 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1360 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1361 - Restore files modified after date
1362 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1363 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1364 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1365 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1366 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1367 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1370 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1371 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1372 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1374 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1375 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1376 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1377 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1378 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1381 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1383 - Add media capacity
1384 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1385 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1389 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1390 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1391 - Partial Read error code
1392 - Partial write error code
1393 - Nonformatted read error
1394 - Nonformatted write error
1395 - WriteProtected error
1399 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1409 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1411 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1412 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1413 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1414 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1416 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1417 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1418 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1419 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1420 - Verify from Volume
1421 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1422 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1423 report resource where report=group of messages
1424 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1425 fill in code for "since" option
1426 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1427 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1428 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1429 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1430 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1432 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1434 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1435 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1436 owner, group, user, quotas
1437 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1438 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1440 ========= ideas ===============
1441 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1442 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1443 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1444 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1446 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1447 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1448 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1449 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1450 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1451 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1452 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1453 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1454 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1455 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1457 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1458 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1459 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1460 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1461 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1462 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1463 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1466 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1467 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1468 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1469 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1470 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1471 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1472 implementing something like this.
1475 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1477 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1478 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1480 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1482 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1483 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1485 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1487 the Migration to tape later.
1489 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1490 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1491 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1492 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1493 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1494 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1495 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1496 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1497 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1498 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1499 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1500 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1501 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1502 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1504 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1505 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1506 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1507 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1511 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1513 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1516 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1517 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1518 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1519 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1520 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1521 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1522 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1523 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1524 each row of the files table.
1526 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1527 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1528 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1530 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1531 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1532 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1537 ==============================
1540 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1541 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1542 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1543 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1544 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1545 the caller can change the break characters.
1546 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1547 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1548 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1549 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1550 buffer messages for later.
1551 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1552 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1553 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1554 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1555 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1556 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1557 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1558 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1562 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1563 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1566 ======================================================
1568 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1569 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1571 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1572 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1574 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1575 JobId - JobId currently running
1576 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1577 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1578 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1579 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1580 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1581 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1582 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1583 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1584 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1585 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1586 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1587 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1588 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1589 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1591 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1592 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1593 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1595 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1597 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1598 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1599 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1600 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1601 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1602 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1603 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1604 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1605 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1607 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1613 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1614 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1615 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1616 =========================================================
1619 ==========================================================
1621 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1622 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1623 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1624 a list of Unsaved files.
1626 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1630 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1631 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1632 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1633 =============================================================
1637 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1638 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1639 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1640 Address 480 is Empty
1642 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1643 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1644 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1645 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1646 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1647 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1648 Storage Element 1:Empty
1649 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1650 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1651 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1652 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1653 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1654 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1655 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1656 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1657 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1658 Storage Element 11:Empty
1659 Storage Element 12:Empty
1660 Storage Element 13:Empty
1661 Storage Element 14:Empty
1662 Storage Element 15:Empty
1663 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1664 Storage Element 28:Empty
1665 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1666 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1667 Storage Element 57:Empty
1668 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1669 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1670 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1672 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1674 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1675 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1677 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1678 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1679 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1680 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1681 from an offset point either.something like
1683 Autochanger drives = 2
1684 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1685 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1686 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1687 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1693 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1694 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1695 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1696 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1697 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1698 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1699 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1700 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1701 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1702 slot number as the destination.AB
1708 undef# camcontrol devlist
1709 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1710 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1711 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1713 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1714 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1715 Product Type: Tape Drive
1717 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1719 Attached Changer: No
1720 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1721 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1728 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1731 DataCompEnabled: yes
1732 DataCompCapable: yes
1733 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1740 Handling removable disks
1742 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1744 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1745 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1746 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1747 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1749 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1750 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1751 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1752 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1754 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1756 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1757 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1758 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1759 scattered in many subdirectories.
1764 - Why the heck doesn't bacula drop root priviledges before connecting to
1766 - Look at using posix_fadvise(2) for backups -- see bug #751.
1767 Possibly add the code at findlib/bfile.c:795
1768 /* TCP socket options */
1769 #define TCP_KEEPIDLE 4 /* Start keeplives after this period */
1770 - Fix bnet_connect() code to set a timer and to use time to
1772 - Implement 4th argument to make_catalog_backup that passes hostname.
1773 - Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
1774 - Please mount volume "xxx" on Storage device ... should also list
1775 Pool and MediaType in case user needs to create a new volume.
1776 - On restore add Restore Client, Original Client.
1777 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1778 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Python SD JobStart: JobId=55 Client=Rufus
1779 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Created new Volume "Full0001" in catalog.
1780 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-dir: Using Device "File"
1781 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1782 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48 Warning: Device "File" (/tmp) not configured to autolabel Volumes.
1783 01-Apr 00:42 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Full0001" on Storage Device "File" (/tmp) for Job kernsave.2007-04-01_00.42.48
1784 01-Apr 00:44 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Full0001" on device "File" (/tmp)
1785 - Check if gnome-console works with TLS.
1786 - the director seg faulted when I omitted the pool directive from a
1787 job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
1788 specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
1789 apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
1790 started the director.
1791 - Add Where: client:/.... to restore job report.
1792 - Ensure that moving a purged Volume in ua_purge.c to the RecyclePool
1793 does the right thing.
1794 - FD-SD quick disconnect
1795 - Building the in memory restore tree is slow.