9 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
10 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
11 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
12 - Pruning with Admin job.
13 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
14 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
19 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
20 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
21 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
22 - JobStatus and Termination codes.
23 - Some users claim that they must do two prune commands to get a
24 Volume marked as purged.
25 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
27 === Migration from David ===
31 Name = "<poolname>-migrate"
35 Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil | OldestVol | PoolOccupancy |
36 Client | PoolResidence | Volume | JobName | SQLquery
37 Migration Selection Pattern = "regexp"
38 Next Pool = <override>
41 There should be no need for a Level (migration is always Full, since you
42 don't calculate differential/incremental differences for migration),
43 Storage should be determined by the volume types in the pool, and Client
44 is really a selection issue. Migration should always occur to the
45 NextPool defined in the pool definition. If no nextpool is defined, the
46 job should end with a reason of "no place to go". If Next Pool statement
47 is present, we override the check in the pool definition and use the
50 Here's how I'd define Migration Selection Types:
53 Client -- Migrate data from selected client only. Migration Selection
54 Pattern regexp provides pattern to select client names, eg ^FS00* makes
55 all client names starting with FS00 eligible for migration.
57 Jobname -- Migration all jobs matching name. Migration Selection Pattern
58 regexp provides pattern to select jobnames existing in pool.
60 Volume -- Migrate all data on specified volumes. Migration Selection
61 Pattern regexp provides selection criteria for volumes to be migrated.
62 Volumes must exist in pool to be eligible for migration.
66 LowestUtil -- Identify the volume in the pool with the least data on it
67 and empty it. No Migration Selection Pattern required.
69 OldestVol -- Identify the LRU volume with data written, and empty it. No
70 Migration Selection Pattern required.
72 PoolOccupancy -- if pool occupancy exceeds <highmig>, migrate volumes
73 (starting with most full volumes) until pool occupancy drops below
74 <lowmig>. Pool highmig and lowmig values are in pool definition, no
75 Migration Selection Pattern required.
79 SQLQuery -- Migrate all jobuids returned by the supplied SQL query.
80 Migration Selection Pattern contains SQL query to execute; should return
81 a list of 1 or more jobuids to migrate.
83 PoolResidence -- Migrate data sitting in pool for longer than
84 PoolResidence value in pool definition. Migration Selection Pattern
85 optional; if specified, override value in pool definition (value in
89 [ possibly a Python event -- kes ]
91 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
92 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
93 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
94 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
95 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
96 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
97 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
99 - Detect resource deadlock in Migrate when same job wants to read
100 and write the same device.
101 - Make hardlink code at line 240 of find_one.c use binary search.
102 - Queue warning/error messages during restore so that they
103 are reported at the end of the report rather than being
104 hidden in the file listing ...
105 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
106 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
107 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
108 - Make selection of Database used in restore correspond to
110 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
111 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
112 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
113 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
115 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
116 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
120 - Add ACL to restore only to original location.
121 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
122 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
123 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
124 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
125 before doing Interval testing).
126 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
127 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
128 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
129 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
130 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
132 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
133 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
134 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
136 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
137 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
138 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
140 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
141 days before it needs changing.
142 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
143 if the job is not scheduled.
144 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
145 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
146 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
147 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
149 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
150 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
151 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
153 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
154 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
156 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
157 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
159 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
160 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
161 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
162 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
163 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
164 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
166 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
167 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
168 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
169 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
170 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
171 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
172 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
173 - Remove old spool files on startup.
174 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
175 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
177 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
178 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
179 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
180 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
181 - Python script to do backup.
183 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
184 at the start of a job.
185 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
186 as an error when writing a DVD?
187 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
188 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
189 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
190 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
191 resources were locked.
192 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
195 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
196 entry does not contain bytes.
197 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
198 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
199 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
200 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
204 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
205 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
206 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
207 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
208 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
209 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
210 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
211 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
212 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
213 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
214 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
215 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
216 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
217 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
218 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
219 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
220 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
221 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
222 - Implement copies and stripes.
223 - Add history file to console.
224 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
225 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
226 16 hours to build the restore list.
227 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
228 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
229 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
230 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
231 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
232 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
234 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
235 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
236 Automatically selected Pool: Default
237 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
238 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
239 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
240 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
241 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
242 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
243 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
244 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
245 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
246 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
247 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
249 ==== Keeping track of deleted files ====
250 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
251 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
252 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
253 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
254 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
255 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
256 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
257 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
258 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
259 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
260 that at that point in time the file was deleted.
262 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
263 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
264 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
265 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
266 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
267 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
270 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
271 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
272 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
273 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
274 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
275 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
276 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
277 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
278 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
279 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
280 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
281 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
282 saved me a *lot* of time.
284 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
285 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
287 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
288 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
290 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
291 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
293 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
294 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
296 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
297 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
299 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
300 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
304 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
305 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
306 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
310 Name = "Migration-Policy"
312 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
313 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
314 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
315 Job Template = <template-name>
318 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
319 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
320 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
321 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
322 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
323 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
328 Name = "Migration-Policy"
330 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
332 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
333 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
336 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
337 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
338 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
340 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
341 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
342 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
343 depending on various criteria).
349 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
350 - Add delete JobId to regression.
351 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
352 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
353 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
354 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
355 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
357 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
358 on the restore prompt)
359 - Add IPv6 to regression
360 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
363 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
364 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
365 more than 1000 files per directory.
369 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
370 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
372 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
373 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
374 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
376 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
378 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
379 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
380 benefit from as well.
382 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
383 NextJobs = job1,job2.
386 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
387 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
388 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
389 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
390 the job after it needn't to be run
391 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
394 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
395 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
396 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
399 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
400 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
401 execute different actions based on the return value
404 3. offline capability to bconsole
407 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
408 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
409 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
410 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
412 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
413 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
414 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
415 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
416 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
419 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
423 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
424 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
425 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
427 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
430 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
431 I would have the possibilty to define
432 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
433 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
435 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
438 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
439 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
440 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
442 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
443 french and Morre (western african language).
445 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
446 due to the design of bacula.
448 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
449 the "Label Format" Directive.
453 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
454 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
455 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
456 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
457 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
458 name in the correct language.
460 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
461 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
462 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
463 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
466 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
467 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
468 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
471 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
472 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
473 presenting in a browser.
474 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
475 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
476 rpm and Win32 releases.
477 - Browse generations of files.
478 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
479 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
480 size. Relevant information is at
481 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
482 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
483 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
484 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
485 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
486 - Supported autochanger:
494 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
495 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
496 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
497 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
498 - Include within include does it work?
499 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
500 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
501 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
502 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
503 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
504 savings time changes.
505 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
506 - Promote to Full = Time period
507 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
508 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
509 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
511 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
512 - How to handle backing up portables ...
513 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
514 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
515 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
518 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
519 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
520 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
521 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
522 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
523 - Document query file format.
524 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
525 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
526 - Document how to use multiple databases.
527 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
528 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
531 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
532 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
533 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
534 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
536 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
537 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
538 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
539 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
540 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
541 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
542 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
543 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
544 - Document doing table repair
547 ===================================
548 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
549 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
550 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
551 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
553 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
554 - Autorestart on crash.
555 - Add bandwidth limiting.
556 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
557 the line from timing out.
558 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
559 up through the prompt.
560 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
561 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
562 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
563 units, perhaps via a directive.
564 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
565 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
566 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
567 with multiple priorities.
568 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
569 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
571 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
573 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
574 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
575 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
576 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
577 are not using the same tape(s).
578 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
579 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
581 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
582 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
583 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
584 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
585 perhaps if password is undefined.
586 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
589 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
590 - the help-command should be more verbose
591 (it should explain the paramters of the different
593 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
594 you need a special parameter
595 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
596 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
598 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
599 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
600 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
601 its faster to enter the specified directory
602 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
603 you should be asked for it.
604 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
605 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
606 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
607 to forget to remove the password after usage
609 the protection of that file is less important
610 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
611 like the unix more/less-command does
612 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
613 be a little long and complex
614 - command-output should be shown column by column
615 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
617 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
619 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
620 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
621 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
623 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
624 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
625 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
626 permissions *can* be restored.
627 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
628 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
629 - Add prune all command
630 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
631 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
632 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
633 - look at mxt-changer.html
634 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
635 - Implement restore directory.
636 - Document streams and how to implement them.
637 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
638 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
639 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
640 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
641 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
643 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
644 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
645 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
646 - Add tree pane to left of window.
647 - Add progress meter.
648 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
649 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
650 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
651 which is needed by all packages.
652 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
653 space test fails in btape.
654 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
655 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
656 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
657 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
658 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
659 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
660 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
661 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
662 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
663 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
664 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
665 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
666 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
667 Do both a long and short form.
668 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
669 stat data on each file).
670 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
672 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
673 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
674 - Add John's appended files:
675 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
676 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
677 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
678 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
679 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
680 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
681 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
682 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
683 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
684 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
685 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
686 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
687 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
688 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
689 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
690 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
691 BackupClient RestoreClient).
692 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
693 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
694 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
695 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
696 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
697 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
698 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
699 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
700 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
702 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
704 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
705 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
706 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
707 the proper storage type.
708 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
709 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
710 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
711 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
712 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
713 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
714 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
715 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
716 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
717 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
718 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
719 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
720 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
721 which in turn overrides Pool.
723 - New Storage specifications:
724 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
725 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
726 - Want to read/write simultaneously
727 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
729 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
733 MediaType -> Next MediaType
735 Device -> Next Device
737 Allow multiple Storage specifications
745 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
747 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
748 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
749 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
750 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
751 is contained in only one device.
752 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
754 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
755 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
757 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
758 even more important, it's not flaky
759 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
760 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
762 Macintosh file client
763 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
764 working bare iron recovery for windows
765 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
766 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
767 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
768 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
769 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
771 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
772 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
773 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
774 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
775 support for Oracle database ??
777 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
778 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
779 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
780 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
781 is needed to properly specify ranges.
782 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
783 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
784 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
785 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
786 - Implement Console mtx commands.
787 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
788 the users could specify a system command to be performed
789 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
790 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
791 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
792 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
793 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
794 depending on the exact nature of the device.
795 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
796 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
797 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
798 once he had actually inserted the disk.
799 - Implement dump/print label to UA
800 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
802 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
803 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
804 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
805 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
806 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
807 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
808 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
809 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
810 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
811 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
812 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
813 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
814 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
815 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
816 by handling spaces better.
817 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
818 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
819 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
822 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
823 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
824 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
825 necessary parameters.
827 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
828 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
830 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
831 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
832 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
833 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
834 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
835 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
836 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
837 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
838 automatically generate the Volume name.
839 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
840 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
841 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
842 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
843 time as the user walks through the tree).
844 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
845 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
846 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
847 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
848 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
849 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
850 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
851 run the job but don't save the files.
852 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
855 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
856 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
857 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
858 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
860 - Implement a Recycle command
861 - Test a second language e.g. french.
862 - Start working on Base jobs.
863 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
864 - From Phil Stracchino:
865 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
866 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
867 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
868 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
869 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
870 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
871 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
872 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
873 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
874 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
875 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
876 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
877 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
878 if there is an error.
879 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
881 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
882 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
883 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
884 - Implement create "FileSet"?
885 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
886 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
887 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
888 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
889 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
891 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
892 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
893 - Refine SD waiting output:
894 Device is being positioned
895 > Device is being positioned for append
896 > Device is being positioned to file x
898 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
899 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
900 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
901 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
902 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
903 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
904 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
905 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
906 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
907 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
908 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
909 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
910 speed up things. Test with testfind().
911 - Priority job to go to top of list.
912 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
913 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
914 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
915 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
916 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
917 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
918 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
919 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
920 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
921 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
922 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
923 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
924 - Add UA rc and history files.
925 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
926 allow -with-termcap-dir.
927 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
928 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
929 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
930 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
931 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
932 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
933 - Maximum Operator Wait
934 - Minimum Message Interval
935 - Maximum Message Interval
936 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
937 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
938 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
940 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
941 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
942 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
943 reading a new config file at any time.
944 - Handle ctl-c in Console
945 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
946 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
947 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
948 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
949 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
950 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
951 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
952 - Restore files modified after date
953 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
954 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
955 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
956 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
957 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
958 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
961 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
962 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
963 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
965 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
966 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
967 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
968 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
969 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
972 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
975 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
976 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
980 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
981 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
982 - Partial Read error code
983 - Partial write error code
984 - Nonformatted read error
985 - Nonformatted write error
986 - WriteProtected error
990 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1000 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1002 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1003 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1004 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1005 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1007 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1008 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1009 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1010 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1011 - Verify from Volume
1012 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1013 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1014 report resource where report=group of messages
1015 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1016 fill in code for "since" option
1017 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1018 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1019 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1020 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1021 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1023 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1025 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1026 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1027 owner, group, user, quotas
1028 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1029 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1031 ========= ideas ===============
1032 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1033 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1034 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1035 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1037 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1038 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1039 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1040 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1041 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1042 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1043 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1044 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1045 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1046 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1048 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1049 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1050 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1051 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1052 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1053 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1054 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1057 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1058 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1059 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1060 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1061 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1062 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1063 implementing something like this.
1066 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1068 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1069 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1071 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1073 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1074 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1076 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1078 the Migration to tape later.
1080 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1081 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1082 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1083 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1084 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1085 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1086 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1087 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1088 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1089 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1090 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1091 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1092 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1093 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1095 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1096 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1097 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1098 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1102 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1104 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1107 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1108 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1109 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1110 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1111 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1112 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1113 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1114 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1115 each row of the files table.
1117 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1118 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1119 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1121 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1122 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1123 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1128 ==============================
1131 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1132 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1133 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1134 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1135 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1136 the caller can change the break characters.
1137 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1138 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1139 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1140 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1141 buffer messages for later.
1142 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1143 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1144 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1145 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1146 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1147 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1148 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1149 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1153 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1154 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1156 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
1158 Migration triggered by:
1162 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1167 ======================================================
1169 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1170 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1172 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1173 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1175 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1176 JobId - JobId currently running
1177 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1178 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1179 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1180 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1181 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1182 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1183 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1184 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1185 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1186 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1187 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1188 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1189 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1190 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1192 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1193 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1194 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1196 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1198 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1199 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1200 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1201 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1202 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1203 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1204 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1205 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1206 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1208 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1214 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1215 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1216 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1217 =========================================================
1220 ==========================================================
1222 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1223 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1224 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1225 a list of Unsaved files.
1227 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1231 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1232 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1233 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1234 =============================================================
1238 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1239 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1240 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1241 Address 480 is Empty
1243 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1244 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1245 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1246 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1247 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1248 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1249 Storage Element 1:Empty
1250 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1251 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1252 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1253 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1254 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1255 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1256 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1257 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1258 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1259 Storage Element 11:Empty
1260 Storage Element 12:Empty
1261 Storage Element 13:Empty
1262 Storage Element 14:Empty
1263 Storage Element 15:Empty
1264 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1265 Storage Element 28:Empty
1266 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1267 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1268 Storage Element 57:Empty
1269 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1270 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1271 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1273 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1275 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1276 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1278 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1279 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1280 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1281 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1282 from an offset point either.something like
1284 Autochanger drives = 2
1285 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1286 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1287 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1288 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1294 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1295 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1296 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1297 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1298 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1299 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1300 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1301 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1302 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1303 slot number as the destination.AB
1309 undef# camcontrol devlist
1310 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1311 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1312 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1314 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1315 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1316 Product Type: Tape Drive
1318 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1320 Attached Changer: No
1321 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1322 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1329 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1332 DataCompEnabled: yes
1333 DataCompCapable: yes
1334 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1341 Handling removable disks
1343 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1345 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1346 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1347 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1348 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1350 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1351 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1352 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1353 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1355 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1357 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1358 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1359 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1360 scattered in many subdirectories.
1365 - Make sure that all do_prompt() calls in Dir check for
1366 -1 (error) and -2 (cancel) returns.
1367 - Fix foreach_jcr() to have free_jcr() inside next().
1368 jcr=jcr_walk_start();
1369 for ( ; jcr; (jcr=jcr_walk_next(jcr)) )
1372 - A Volume taken from Scratch should take on the retention period
1374 - Correct doc for Maximum Changer Wait (and others) accepting only
1376 - Implement status that shows why a job is being held in reserve, or
1377 rather why none of the drives are suitable.
1378 - Implement a way to disable a drive (so you can use the second
1379 drive of an autochanger, and the first one will not be used or
1381 - Make sure Maximum Volumes is respected in Pools when adding
1382 Volumes (e.g. when pulling a Scratch volume).
1383 - Keep same dcr when switching device ...
1384 - Implement code that makes the Dir aware that a drive is an
1385 autochanger (so the user doesn't need to use the Autochanger = yes
1387 - Make catalog respect ACL.
1388 - Add recycle count to Media record.
1389 - Add initial write date to Media record.
1390 - Fix store_yesno to be store_bitmask.
1391 --- create_file.c.orig Fri Jul 8 12:13:05 2005
1392 +++ create_file.c Fri Jul 8 12:13:07 2005
1394 attr->ofname, be.strerror());
1397 + } else if(S_ISSOCK(attr->statp.st_mode)) {
1398 + Dmsg1(200, "Skipping socket: %s\n", attr->ofname);
1400 Dmsg1(200, "Restore node: %s\n", attr->ofname);
1401 if (mknod(attr->ofname, attr->statp.st_mode, attr->statp.st_rdev) != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
1402 - Add true/false to conf same as yes/no
1403 - Reserve blocks other restore jobs when first cannot connect to SD.
1404 - Fix Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
1405 accept time qualifiers.
1406 - Does ClientRunAfterJob fail the job on a bad return code?