6 - Add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression.
7 - Do tape alerts -- see tapealert.txt
8 - Document a get out of jail procedure if everything breaks if
9 you lost/broke the Catalog -- do the same for "I know my
10 file is there how do I get it back?".
11 - When passwords do not match, print message that points the
13 - Make Verify jobs require exclusive use of Volume as Restore
15 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
16 - Look at adding Client run command that will use the
17 port opened by the client.
18 - Fix find_device in stored/dircmd.c:462
19 - Add new DCR calling sequences everywhere in SD.
20 This will permit simultaneous use of multiple
21 devices by a single job.
22 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
24 - Fix restore ++++ that get intermingled with "Building directory tree"
25 - Solve the termcap.h problem on Solaris configure.
26 - Fix ./configure to handle installed SQLite
27 - Test Win32 errno handling.
29 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
30 - Document query file format.
31 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
32 - Document how to use multiple databases.
33 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
34 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
37 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
38 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
39 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
40 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
42 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
43 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
44 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
45 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
46 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
47 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
48 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
49 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
50 - Add more obvious documentation of @ for conf files.
51 - Document doing table repair
53 Testing to do: (painful)
55 - blocksize recognition code.
56 - Test if rewind at end of tape waits for tape to rewind.
59 For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
60 - Add db check test to regression. Test each function like delete,
62 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
63 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
66 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
67 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
68 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
69 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
70 perhaps if password is undefined.
71 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
73 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
74 - the help-command should be more verbose
75 (it should explain the paramters of the different
77 -> it´s time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
78 you need a special parameter
79 -> maybe it´s more easy to maintain this, if the
80 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
82 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
83 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
84 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
85 it´s faster to enter the specified directory
86 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
87 you should be asked for it.
88 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
89 which shouldn´t know the password for bacula.
90 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
91 to forget to remove the password after usage
93 the protection of that file is less important
94 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
95 like the unix more/less-command does
96 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
97 be a little long and complex
98 - command-output should be shown column by column
99 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
101 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
103 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
104 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
105 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
107 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
108 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
109 - Add prune all command
110 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
111 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
112 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
113 - look at mxt-changer.html
114 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
115 - Implement restore directory.
116 - Add All Local Partitions = yes to new style saves.
117 - Document streams and how to implement them.
118 - Possibly implement "Ensure Full Backup = yes" looks for a failed full backup
119 and upgrades the current backup if one exists.
120 - Check that barcode reading and update slots scan works.
121 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
122 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
123 - Add "All Local = yes" option to save to include all local partitions.
124 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
125 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
126 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
128 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
129 - Don't count higher level non-saved directories in Files expected
131 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
132 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
133 - Add tree pane to left of window.
134 - Add progress meter.
135 - Polling does not work for restore. It tries a number of times,
136 gives up, and crashes the SD.
137 - Lock jcr_chain when doing attach/detach in acquire.c
138 - Add assert in free_jcr if attach/detach chain active.
139 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
140 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
141 - Add check for tape alerts.
142 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
143 which is needed by all packages.
144 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
145 space test fails in btape.
146 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
147 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
148 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
149 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
150 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
151 - Finish SIGHUP work.
152 - Check that all change in wait status in the SD are
153 signaled to the Director.
154 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
155 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
156 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
157 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
158 - Check pruning of restore jobs.
160 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
161 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
162 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
163 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
164 - Add level to estimate command.
165 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
167 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
168 then list last 20 backups.
169 - Add all pools in Dir conf to DB also update them to catch changed
170 LabelFormats and such.
171 - Update volumes FromPool=xxx does all volumes.
172 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
173 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
174 - Add code to check for tape alerts -- tapeinfo.
175 - Make sure list of Volumes needed is in correct order for restore.
177 - Remove paths (and files that reference them) that have no trailing slash
178 in dbcheck -- or add a trailing slash.
179 - Remove Filenames (and files that reference them) that have a trailing
180 slash in dbcheck -- or remove the trailing slash.
181 - Remove orphaned paths/filenames by copying them to a new table with a
182 reference count, then mark all referenced files/paths and remove unreferenced
184 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
185 Do both a long and short form.
186 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
187 stat data on each file).
188 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
190 - Allow "delete job jobid=xxx,yyy,aaa-bbb" i.e. list + ranges.
191 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
192 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
193 - Make btape accept Device Names in addition to Archive names.
194 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
195 - Add John's appended files:
196 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
197 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
198 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
199 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
200 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
201 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
202 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
203 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
204 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
205 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
206 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
207 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
208 - Add disk seeking on restore. - Allow
209 for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
210 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
211 - Bizarre message: Error: Could not open WriteBootstrap file:
212 - Build console in client only build.
213 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
214 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
215 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
216 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
217 - Multiple drive autochanger support -- see below.
218 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
219 - Fix FreeBSD mt_count problem.
220 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
221 BackupClient RestoreClient).
222 - Automatic "update slots" on user configuration directive when a
224 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
225 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
226 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
227 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
228 - When I restore to Windows the Created, Accessed and Modifiedtimes are
229 those of the time of the restore, not those of the originalfile.
230 The dates you will find in your restore log seem to be the original
232 - Volume "add"ed to Pool gets recycled in first use. VolBytes=0
233 - If a tape is recycled while it is mounted, Stanislav Tvrudy must do an
234 additional mount to deblock the job.
236 bscan: sql_update.c:65 UPDATE File SET MD5='Ij+5kwN6TFIxK+8l8+/I+A' WHERE FileId=0
237 bscan: bscan.c:1074 Could not add MD5/SHA1 to File record. ERR=sql_update.c:65 Update problem: affected_rows=0
238 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
239 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
240 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
241 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
242 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
244 - Mark Volume in error on error from WEOF.
245 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
247 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
248 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
249 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
250 the proper storage type.
251 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
252 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
253 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
254 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
255 - Having dashes in filenames apparently creates problems for restore
256 by filename??? hard to believe.
257 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
258 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
259 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
260 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
261 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
262 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
263 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
264 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
265 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
266 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
267 which in turn overrides Pool.
268 - Print a message when a job starts if the conf file is not current.
270 - Spooling ideas taken from Volker Sauer's and other's emails:
271 > IMHO job spooling should be turned on
277 > where and 2) overrides 1) and 3) is independent.
279 Yes, this is the minimum that I think is necessary.
283 > It should be switched by job, because the job that backs up the machine
284 > with the bacula-sd on doesn't need spooling.
285 > It should be switched by schedule, because for full-backups I don't need
286 > spooling, so I can switch it off (because the network faster then the
289 True, with the exception that if you have enough disk spool space,
290 and you want to run concurrent jobs, spooling can eliminate the block
291 interleaving restore inefficiencies.
293 > And you should be able to turn it of by sd for sd-machines with low disk
294 > capacity or if you just don't need or want this feature.
297 > - definitly the possibility for multipe spool direcories
299 Having multiple directories is no problem -- having different maximum
300 sizes creates specification problems. At some point, I will probably
301 have a common SD pool of spool directories as well as a set of
302 private spool directories for each device. The first implementation
303 will be a set of private spool directories for each device since
304 managing a global pool with a bunch of threads writing into the same
305 directory is *much* more complicated and prone to error.
307 > - the ability to spool parts of a backup (not the whole client)
309 This may change in the future, but for the moment, it will spool
310 either to a job high water mark, or until the directory is full
311 (reaches max spool size or I/O error). It will then write to tape,
312 truncate the spool file, and begin spooling again.
314 > - spooling while writing to tape
316 Not within a job, but yes, if you run concurrent jobs -- each is a
317 different thread. Within a job could be a feature, but *much* later.
319 > - parallel spooling (like parallel jobs/ concurrent jobs) of clients
321 Yes, this is one of my main motivations for doing it (aside from
322 eliminating tape "shoe shine" during incremental backups.
324 > - flushing a backup that only went to disk (like amflush in amanda)
326 This will be a future feature, since spooling is different from backing
327 up to disk. The future feature will be "migration" which will move a job
328 from one backup Volume to another.
330 - New Storage specifications:
331 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
335 MediaType -> Next MediaType
337 Device -> Next Device
338 Write Copy Resource that makes a copy of a resource.
340 Allow multiple Storage specifications
348 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
350 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications
351 Allow Multiple Device specifications
352 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
353 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
354 is contained in only one device.
355 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
358 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
360 Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
361 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
363 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
364 even more important, it's not flaky
365 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
366 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
368 I don't remember an include file directive for config files
369 (not filesets, actual config directives)
370 can you check the configs without starting the daemon?
371 some warnings about possible common mistakes
373 doing the testing and blessing of concurrent backup writes
374 this is absolutely necessary in the enterprise
375 easy user recovery GUI with full access checking
376 Macintosh file client
377 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
378 working bare iron recovery for windows
379 much better handling on running config changes
380 thinking through the logic of what happens to jobs in progress
381 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
382 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
383 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
384 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
385 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
387 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
388 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
389 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
390 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
391 support for Oracle database ??
393 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
394 - Restore: Enter Filename: 'C:/Documents and Settings/Comercial/My
395 Documents/MOP/formulário de registro BELAS ARTES.doc' causes Bacula to
397 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
398 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
399 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
400 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
402 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
403 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
404 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
405 is needed to properly specify ranges.
406 - Print bsmtp output to job report so that problems will be seen.
407 - Pass the number of files to be restored to the FD for reporting
408 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
409 - Don't continue Restore if no files selected.
410 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
411 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
412 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
413 Job report (Volker Sauer).
414 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
415 - Implement Console mtx commands.
416 - Add a default DB password to MySQL.
417 GRANT all privileges ON bacula.* TO bacula@localhost IDENTIFIED BY
420 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
421 the users could specify a system command to be performed
422 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
423 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
424 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
425 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
426 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
427 depending on the exact nature of the device.
428 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
429 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
430 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
431 once he had actually inserted the disk.
432 - Implement dump/print label to UA
433 - Implement disk spooling. Two parts: 1. Spool to disk then
434 immediately to tape to speed up tape operations. 2. Spool to
435 disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
437 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
438 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
439 - Add Progress command that periodically reports the progress of
441 - Restrict characters permitted in a Resource name, and don't permit
443 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
444 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
445 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
446 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
447 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
448 - Implement multiple Consoles.
449 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
451 Two jobs ready to go, first one blocked waiting for media
452 Cancel 2nd job ("waiting execution" one)
455 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
456 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
457 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
458 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
459 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
460 - Think about how space could be freed up on a tape -- perhaps this
461 is a Merge or Compact feature that is needed.
462 - Modify FileSet, did not upgrade the current Increment job, but
463 waited for the next job to be upgraded.
464 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
465 - Implement a where command for the tree telling where a file
467 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
468 it a command line option.
469 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
470 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
471 by handling spaces better.
472 - Write your PID file and chown root:wheel before drop.
473 - Make sure there is no symlink in a file before creating a
475 - Look at mktemp or mkstemp(3).
476 mktemp and mkstemp create files with predictable names too. That's
477 not the vulnerability. The vulnerability is in creating files without
478 using the O_EXCL flag, which means "only create this file if it doesn't
479 exist, including if the file is a dangling symlink."
481 It is *NOT* enough to do the equivalent of
483 if doesn't exist $filename
484 then create $filename
486 because between the test and the create another process could have
487 gotten the CPU and created the file. You must use atomic functions
488 (those that don't get interrupted by other processes) and O_EXCL is
489 the only way for this particular example.
490 - Automatically create pools, but instead of looking for what
491 in in Job records, walk through the pool resources.
492 - Check and double check tree code, why does it take so long?
493 - Add device name to "Current Volume not acceptable because ..."
494 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
495 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
496 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
499 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
500 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
501 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
502 necessary parameters.
504 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
505 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
507 - Eliminate orphaned jobs: dbcheck, normal pruning, delete job command.
508 Hm. Well, there are the remaining orphaned job records:
510 | 105 | Llioness Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | D | 0 | 0 | f |
511 | 110 | Llioness Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | I | 0 | 0 | f |
512 | 115 | Llioness Save | 2003-09-10 02:22:03 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A |
513 | 128 | Catalog Save | 2003-09-11 03:53:32 | B | I | 0 | 0 | C |
514 | 131 | Catalog Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | I | 0 | 0 | f |
516 As you can see, three of the five are failures. I already deleted the
517 one restore and one other failure using the by-client option. Deciding
518 what is an orphaned job is a tricky problem though, I agree. All these
519 records have or had 0 files/ 0 bytes, except for the restore. With no
520 files, of course, I don't know of the job ever actually becomes
521 associated with a Volume.
523 (I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere -- what are the meanings of
524 all the possible JobStatus codes?)
526 Looking at my database, it appears to me as though all the "orphaned"
527 jobs fit into one of two categories:
529 1) The Job record has a StartTime but no EndTime, and the job is not
532 2) The Job record has an EndTime, indicating that it completed, but
533 it has no associated JobMedia record.
536 This does suggest an approach. If failed jobs (or jobs that, for some
537 other reason, write no files) are associated with a volume via a
538 JobMedia record, then they should be purged when the associated volume
539 is purged. I see two ways to handle jobs that are NOT associated with a
542 1) purge them automatically whenever any volume is manually purged;
544 2) add an option to the purge command to manually purge all jobs with
545 no associated volume.
547 I think Restore jobs also fall into category 2 above .... so one might
548 want to make that "The Job record has an EndTime,, but no associated
549 JobMedia record, and is not a Restore job."
550 - make "btape /tmp" work.
551 - Make sure a rescheduled job is properly reported by status.
552 - Walk through the Pool records rather than the Job records
553 in dird.c to create/update pools.
554 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
555 - When job rescheduled, status gives is waiting for Client Rufus
556 to connect to Storage File. Dir needs to inform SD that job
558 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
559 - Enable trace output at runtime for Win32
560 - Available volumes for autochangers (see patrick@baanboard.com 3 Sep 03
561 and 4 Sep) scan slots.
562 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
563 - Do a complete audit of all pthreads_mutex, cond, ... to ensure that
564 any that are dynamically initialized are destroyed when no longer used.
565 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
566 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
567 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
568 - Turn on SIGHUP in dird.c and test.
569 - Use system dependent calls to get more precise info on tape errors.
570 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
571 - Suppress read error on blank tape when doing a label.
572 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
573 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
574 automatically generate the Volume name.
575 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
576 - Look at libkse (man kse) for FreeBSD threading.
577 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
578 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
579 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
580 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
581 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
582 time as the user walks through the tree).
583 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
584 - Orphaned Dir buffer at parse_conf.c:373 => store_dir
585 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
586 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
587 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
588 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
589 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
590 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
591 run the job but don't save the files.
592 - Implement FileOptions (see end of this document)
593 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
596 - Bacula needs to propagate SD errors.
597 > > cluster-dir: Start Backup JobId 252, Job=REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12
598 > > prod4-sd: REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12 Error: Write error on device
599 /dev/nst0. ERR=Input/output error.
600 > > prod4-sd: REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12 Error: Re-read of last block failed.
601 Last block=5162 Current block=5164.
602 > > prod4-sd: End of medium on Volume "REU007" Bytes=16,303,521,933
604 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
605 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
606 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
607 - Make bextract release the drive properly between tapes
608 so that an autochanger can be made to work.
609 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
610 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
611 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
612 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
613 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
615 - lstat() is not going to work on Win32 for testing date.
616 - Implement a Recycle command
617 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
618 verify if it is the correct client.
619 - Add JobLevel in FD status (but make sure it is defined).
620 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
621 - Check Jmsg in bnet, may not work, must dup bsock.
622 - Suppress Job Name in Jmsg for console
623 - Create Pools that are referenced in a Run statement at startup if possible.
624 - Use runbeforejob to unload, then reload a volume previously used,
625 then the next job run gets an error reading the drive.
626 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
627 - Test a second language e.g. french.
628 - Start working on Base jobs.
629 - Make "make binary-release" work from any directory.
630 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
631 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
633 - Implement table driven single argc/argv scanner to pickup all arguments.
634 Much like xxx_conf.c scan table.
635 keyword, handler(store_routine), store_address, code, flags, default.
636 - From Phil Stracchino:
637 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
638 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
639 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
640 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
641 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
642 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
643 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
644 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
645 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
646 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
647 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
648 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
649 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
650 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
651 if there is an error.
652 - Make sure all restore counters are working correctly in the FD.
653 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
654 - Look at ALL higher level routines that call block.c to be sure
655 they don't expect something in errmsg.
656 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
657 - Add thread specific data to hold the jcr -- send error messages from
658 low level routines by accessing it and using Jmsg().
659 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
661 - Examine Bare Metal restore problem (a FD crash exists somewhere ...).
662 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
663 - Implement console @echo command.
664 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
665 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
666 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
667 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
668 - Implement create "FileSet"?
669 - Fix watchdog pthread crash on Win32 (this is pthread_kill() Cygwin bug)
670 - Implement "scratch pool" where tapes are defined and can be
671 taken by any pool that needs them.
672 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
673 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
675 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
676 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
677 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
678 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
679 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
681 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
682 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
683 - Refine SD waiting output:
684 Device is being positioned
685 > Device is being positioned for append
686 > Device is being positioned to file x
688 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
689 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
690 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
691 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
692 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
693 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
694 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
695 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
696 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
697 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
698 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
699 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
700 speed up things. Test with testfind().
701 - Priority job to go to top of list.
702 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
703 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
704 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
705 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
706 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
707 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
708 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
709 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
710 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
711 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
712 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
713 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
714 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
715 - Restore program that errs in SD due to no tape, reports
716 OK incorrectly in output.
717 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
718 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
719 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
720 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
721 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
722 - Add UA rc and history files.
723 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
724 allow -with-termcap-dir.
725 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
726 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
727 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
728 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
729 - Write an applet for Linux.
730 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
731 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
732 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
733 - Maximum Operator Wait
734 - Minimum Message Interval
735 - Maximum Message Interval
736 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
737 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
738 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
740 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
741 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
742 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
743 reading a new config file at any time.
744 - Handle ctl-c in Console
745 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
746 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
747 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
748 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
749 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
750 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
751 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
752 - Implement throttled work queue.
753 - Restore files modified after date
754 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
755 - Implement Restore FileSet=
756 - Create a protocol.h and protocol.c where all protocol messages
758 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
759 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
760 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
761 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
762 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
765 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
766 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
767 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
769 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
770 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
771 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
772 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
773 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
776 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
779 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
780 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
784 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
785 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
786 - Partial Read error code
787 - Partial write error code
788 - Nonformatted read error
789 - Nonformatted write error
790 - WriteProtected error
794 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
804 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
806 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
807 at end of save retry and report any errors.
808 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
809 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
811 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
812 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
813 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
814 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
816 - Ensure that /dev/null works
817 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
818 report resource where report=group of messages
819 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
820 fill in code for "since" option
821 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
822 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
823 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
824 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
825 - Need a structure for pending actions:
827 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
829 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
830 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
831 owner, group, user, quotas
832 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
833 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
836 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
837 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
838 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
839 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
840 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
841 the caller can change the break characters.
842 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
843 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
844 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
845 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
846 buffer messages for later.
847 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
848 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
849 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
850 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
851 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
852 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
853 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
854 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
858 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
859 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
861 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
863 Migration triggered by:
867 Highwater mark (keep total size)
872 ======================================================
874 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
875 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
877 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
878 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
880 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
881 JobId - JobId currently running
882 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
883 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
884 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
885 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
886 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
887 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
888 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
889 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
890 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
891 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
892 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
893 by the FD for each Base Filename.
894 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
895 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
897 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
898 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
899 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
901 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
903 - At end of Job, FD returns:
904 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
905 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
906 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
907 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
908 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
909 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
910 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
911 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
913 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
919 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
920 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
921 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
922 =========================================================
925 ==========================================================
927 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
928 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
929 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
930 a list of Unsaved files.
932 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
936 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
937 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
938 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
939 =============================================================
942 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
945 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
946 and no error message.
947 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
948 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
949 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
950 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
951 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
952 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
953 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
954 Use "mount" command to release Job.
955 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
956 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
957 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
958 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
960 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
961 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
962 just before read_block_from_device();
965 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
966 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
967 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
970 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
971 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
972 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
973 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
974 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
975 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
976 Storage Element 1:Empty
977 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
978 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
979 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
980 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
981 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
982 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
983 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
984 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
985 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
986 Storage Element 11:Empty
987 Storage Element 12:Empty
988 Storage Element 13:Empty
989 Storage Element 14:Empty
990 Storage Element 15:Empty
991 Storage Element 16:Empty....
992 Storage Element 28:Empty
993 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
994 Storage Element 30:Empty....
995 Storage Element 57:Empty
996 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
997 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
998 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1000 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1002 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1003 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1005 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1006 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1007 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1008 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1009 from an offset point either.something like
1011 Autochanger drives = 2
1012 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1013 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1014 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1015 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1021 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1022 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1023 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1024 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1025 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1026 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1027 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1028 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1029 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1030 slot number as the destination.AB
1036 undef# camcontrol devlist
1037 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1038 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1039 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1041 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1042 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1043 Product Type: Tape Drive
1045 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1047 Attached Changer: No
1048 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1049 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1056 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1059 DataCompEnabled: yes
1060 DataCompCapable: yes
1061 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1068 Handling removable disks
1070 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1072 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1073 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1074 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1075 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1077 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1078 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1079 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1080 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1082 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1084 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1085 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1086 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1087 scattered in many subdirectories.
1092 - To pass Include 1 or two letter commands
1093 I Name Include name - first record
1094 B Name Base name - repeat
1097 E zzz Exclude expression (wild card)
1099 D "reader" Reader program
1100 T "writer" Writer program
1101 O Options In current commpressed format
1102 (compression, signature, onefs, recurse, sparse,
1103 replace, verify options, ...)
1105 B BaseName Start second option set any letter
1108 F Number Number of filenames to follow
1113 F Number Number of filenames to follow
1116 - Add regression of btape "fill"
1118 - Implement "label slots=1,2... pool=yyy barcodes"
1119 - Mark a non-removable disk Volume in error rather than asking sys op to
1121 - Implement Fixed storage LabelFormat test.
1122 - Add reporting in attr despooling.
1123 - Figure out how to use ssh or stunnel to protect Bacula communications.
1124 Add Dan's work to manual See ssl.txt
1127 - Implement fast tree insert (doubly linked list)
1128 - Disallow using Internal database
1129 - Feedback while the restore tree is being built.
1130 - Add detection of Whitebox release in ./configure
1131 - Add InChanger to "list media"
1132 - Implement second cut of SIGHUP in Dir
1133 (Implement resources on a single pointer)
1134 - Add regular expressions to FileSets (needs testing).
1135 - Test new despooling error recovery code when partition fills.
1136 - Sort Scheduled jobs status listing by start time.
1137 - Add priority to Scheduled jobs status listing.
1138 - Look at Win32 inc problem when new directory added files not saved???
1139 - Require resource names to be unique.
1140 - Make sure that all errors from libacl are printed.
1141 - Make FD run on Win95 if possible (not really possible).
1142 - Fix GROUP BYs in all SQL (done by Dan -- thanks)
1143 - Make entering multiple Storage names in Dir illegal.
1144 - Make btape release the drive during the "test" append.
1146 You have selected the following JobIds: 739,856,797
1147 Building directory tree for JobId 739 ...
1148 Building directory tree for JobId 856 ...
1149 Building directory tree for JobId 797 ...3
1150 Jobs inserted into the tree.
1151 - Fix errno handling in win32 compat routines.
1152 - Add better error codes to run_program (10000+)
1153 - Revisit and revise Disaster Recovery (fix SCSI and RAID