4 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
5 - Document query file format.
6 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
7 - Document how to use multiple databases.
8 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
9 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
12 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
13 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
14 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
15 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
17 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
18 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
19 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
20 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
21 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
22 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
23 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
24 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
26 Testing to do: (painful)
28 - blocksize recognition code.
29 - Test if rewind at end of tape waits for tape to rewind.
32 For 1.33 Testing/Documentation:
33 - Figure out how to use ssh or stunnel to protect Bacula communications.
34 Add Dan's work to manual See ssl.txt
35 - Add db check test to regression. Test each function like delete,
37 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
38 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
41 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
42 - look at mxt-changer.html
46 - Add check for tape alerts.
47 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
48 which is needed by all packages.
49 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
50 space test fails in btape.
51 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
52 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
53 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
54 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
55 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
57 - Check that all change in wait status in the SD are
58 signaled to the Director.
59 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
60 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
61 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
62 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
64 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
65 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
66 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
67 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
68 - Add level to estimate command.
69 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
70 then list last 20 backups.
71 - Add all pools in Dir conf to DB also update them to catch changed
72 LabelFormats and such.
73 - Update volumes FromPool=xxx does all volumes.
74 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
75 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
76 - Add code to check for tape alerts -- tapeinfo.
77 - Make sure list of Volumes needed is in correct order for restore.
79 - Remove paths (and files that reference them) that have no trailing slash
80 in dbcheck -- or add a trailing slash.
81 - Remove Filenames (and files that reference them) that have a trailing
82 slash in dbcheck -- or remove the trailing slash.
83 - Remove orphaned paths/filenames by copying them to a new table with a
84 reference count, then mark all referenced files/paths and remove unreferenced
86 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
87 Do both a long and short form.
88 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
89 stat data on each file).
90 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
92 - Allow "delete job jobid=xxx,yyy,aaa-bbb" i.e. list + ranges.
93 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
94 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
95 - Make btape accept Device Names in addition to Archive names.
96 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
97 - Add John's appended files:
98 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
99 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
100 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
101 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
102 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
103 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
104 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
105 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
106 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
107 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
108 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
109 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
110 - Add disk seeking on restore. - Allow
111 for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
112 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
113 - Bizarre message: Error: Could not open WriteBootstrap file:
114 - Build console in client only build.
115 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
116 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
117 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
118 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
119 - Multiple drive autochanger support -- see below.
120 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
121 - Fix FreeBSD mt_count problem.
122 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
123 BackupClient RestoreClient).
124 - Automatic "update slots" on user configuration directive when a
126 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
127 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
128 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
129 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
130 - When I restore to Windows the Created, Accessed and Modifiedtimes are
131 those of the time of the restore, not those of the originalfile.
132 The dates you will find in your restore log seem to be the original
134 - Volume "add"ed to Pool gets recycled in first use. VolBytes=0
135 - If a tape is recycled while it is mounted, Stanislav Tvrudy must do an
136 additional mount to deblock the job.
138 bscan: sql_update.c:65 UPDATE File SET MD5='Ij+5kwN6TFIxK+8l8+/I+A' WHERE FileId=0
139 bscan: bscan.c:1074 Could not add MD5/SHA1 to File record. ERR=sql_update.c:65 Update problem: affected_rows=0
140 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
141 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
142 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
143 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
144 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
146 - Mark Volume in error on error from WEOF.
147 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
149 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
150 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
151 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
152 the proper storage type.
153 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
154 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
155 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
156 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
157 - Having dashes in filenames apparently creates problems for restore
158 by filename??? hard to believe.
159 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
160 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
161 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
162 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
163 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
164 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
165 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
166 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
167 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
168 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
169 which in turn overrides Pool.
170 - Print a message when a job starts if the conf file is not current.
171 - To pass Include 1 or two letter commands
172 I Name Include name - first record
173 B Name Base name - repeat
176 E zzz Exclude expression (wild card)
178 D "reader" Reader program
179 T "writer" Writer program
180 O Options In current commpressed format
181 (compression, signature, onefs, recurse, sparse,
182 replace, verify options, ...)
184 B BaseName Start second option set any letter
187 F Number Number of filenames to follow
192 F Number Number of filenames to follow
196 - Spooling ideas taken from Volker Sauer's and other's emails:
197 > IMHO job spooling should be turned on
203 > where and 2) overrides 1) and 3) is independent.
205 Yes, this is the minimum that I think is necessary.
209 > It should be switched by job, because the job that backs up the machine
210 > with the bacula-sd on doesn't need spooling.
211 > It should be switched by schedule, because for full-backups I don't need
212 > spooling, so I can switch it off (because the network faster then the
215 True, with the exception that if you have enough disk spool space,
216 and you want to run concurrent jobs, spooling can eliminate the block
217 interleaving restore inefficiencies.
219 > And you should be able to turn it of by sd for sd-machines with low disk
220 > capacity or if you just don't need or want this feature.
223 > - definitly the possibility for multipe spool direcories
225 Having multiple directories is no problem -- having different maximum
226 sizes creates specification problems. At some point, I will probably
227 have a common SD pool of spool directories as well as a set of
228 private spool directories for each device. The first implementation
229 will be a set of private spool directories for each device since
230 managing a global pool with a bunch of threads writing into the same
231 directory is *much* more complicated and prone to error.
233 > - the ability to spool parts of a backup (not the whole client)
235 This may change in the future, but for the moment, it will spool
236 either to a job high water mark, or until the directory is full
237 (reaches max spool size or I/O error). It will then write to tape,
238 truncate the spool file, and begin spooling again.
240 > - spooling while writing to tape
242 Not within a job, but yes, if you run concurrent jobs -- each is a
243 different thread. Within a job could be a feature, but *much* later.
245 > - parallel spooling (like parallel jobs/ concurrent jobs) of clients
247 Yes, this is one of my main motivations for doing it (aside from
248 eliminating tape "shoe shine" during incremental backups.
250 > - flushing a backup that only went to disk (like amflush in amanda)
252 This will be a future feature, since spooling is different from backing
253 up to disk. The future feature will be "migration" which will move a job
254 from one backup Volume to another.
256 - New Storage specifications:
257 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
261 MediaType -> Next MediaType
263 Device -> Next Device
264 Write Copy Resource that makes a copy of a resource.
266 Allow multiple Storage specifications
274 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
276 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications
277 Allow Multiple Device specifications
278 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
279 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
280 is contained in only one device.
281 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
284 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
286 Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
287 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
289 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
290 even more important, it's not flaky
291 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
292 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
294 I don't remember an include file directive for config files
295 (not filesets, actual config directives)
296 can you check the configs without starting the daemon?
297 some warnings about possible common mistakes
299 doing the testing and blessing of concurrent backup writes
300 this is absolutely necessary in the enterprise
301 easy user recovery GUI with full access checking
302 Macintosh file client
303 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
304 working bare iron recovery for windows
305 much better handling on running config changes
306 thinking through the logic of what happens to jobs in progress
307 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
308 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
309 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
310 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
311 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
313 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
314 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
315 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
316 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
317 support for Oracle database ??
319 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
320 - Restore: Enter Filename: 'C:/Documents and Settings/Comercial/My
321 Documents/MOP/formulário de registro BELAS ARTES.doc' causes Bacula to
323 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
324 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
325 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
326 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
328 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
329 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
330 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
331 is needed to properly specify ranges.
332 - Print bsmtp output to job report so that problems will be seen.
333 - Pass the number of files to be restored to the FD for reporting
334 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
335 - Don't continue Restore if no files selected.
336 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
337 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
338 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
339 Job report (Volker Sauer).
340 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
341 - Implement Console mtx commands.
342 - Add a default DB password to MySQL.
343 GRANT all privileges ON bacula.* TO bacula@localhost IDENTIFIED BY
346 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
347 the users could specify a system command to be performed
348 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
349 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
350 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
351 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
352 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
353 depending on the exact nature of the device.
354 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
355 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
356 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
357 once he had actually inserted the disk.
358 - Implement dump/print label to UA
359 - Implement disk spooling. Two parts: 1. Spool to disk then
360 immediately to tape to speed up tape operations. 2. Spool to
361 disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
363 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
364 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
365 - Add Progress command that periodically reports the progress of
367 - Restrict characters permitted in a Resource name, and don't permit
369 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
370 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
371 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
372 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
373 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
374 - Implement multiple Consoles.
375 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
377 Two jobs ready to go, first one blocked waiting for media
378 Cancel 2nd job ("waiting execution" one)
381 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
382 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
383 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
384 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
385 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
386 - Think about how space could be freed up on a tape -- perhaps this
387 is a Merge or Compact feature that is needed.
388 - Modify FileSet, did not upgrade the current Increment job, but
389 waited for the next job to be upgraded.
390 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
391 - Implement a where command for the tree telling where a file
393 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
394 it a command line option.
395 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
396 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
397 by handling spaces better.
398 - Write your PID file and chown root:wheel before drop.
399 - Make sure there is no symlink in a file before creating a
401 - Look at mktemp or mkstemp(3).
402 mktemp and mkstemp create files with predictable names too. That's
403 not the vulnerability. The vulnerability is in creating files without
404 using the O_EXCL flag, which means "only create this file if it doesn't
405 exist, including if the file is a dangling symlink."
407 It is *NOT* enough to do the equivalent of
409 if doesn't exist $filename
410 then create $filename
412 because between the test and the create another process could have
413 gotten the CPU and created the file. You must use atomic functions
414 (those that don't get interrupted by other processes) and O_EXCL is
415 the only way for this particular example.
416 - Automatically create pools, but instead of looking for what
417 in in Job records, walk through the pool resources.
418 - Check and double check tree code, why does it take so long?
419 - Add device name to "Current Volume not acceptable because ..."
420 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
421 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
422 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
425 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
426 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
427 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
428 necessary parameters.
430 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
431 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
433 - Eliminate orphaned jobs: dbcheck, normal pruning, delete job command.
434 Hm. Well, there are the remaining orphaned job records:
436 | 105 | Llioness Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | D | 0 | 0 | f |
437 | 110 | Llioness Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | I | 0 | 0 | f |
438 | 115 | Llioness Save | 2003-09-10 02:22:03 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A |
439 | 128 | Catalog Save | 2003-09-11 03:53:32 | B | I | 0 | 0 | C |
440 | 131 | Catalog Save | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | B | I | 0 | 0 | f |
442 As you can see, three of the five are failures. I already deleted the
443 one restore and one other failure using the by-client option. Deciding
444 what is an orphaned job is a tricky problem though, I agree. All these
445 records have or had 0 files/ 0 bytes, except for the restore. With no
446 files, of course, I don't know of the job ever actually becomes
447 associated with a Volume.
449 (I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere -- what are the meanings of
450 all the possible JobStatus codes?)
452 Looking at my database, it appears to me as though all the "orphaned"
453 jobs fit into one of two categories:
455 1) The Job record has a StartTime but no EndTime, and the job is not
458 2) The Job record has an EndTime, indicating that it completed, but
459 it has no associated JobMedia record.
462 This does suggest an approach. If failed jobs (or jobs that, for some
463 other reason, write no files) are associated with a volume via a
464 JobMedia record, then they should be purged when the associated volume
465 is purged. I see two ways to handle jobs that are NOT associated with a
468 1) purge them automatically whenever any volume is manually purged;
470 2) add an option to the purge command to manually purge all jobs with
471 no associated volume.
473 I think Restore jobs also fall into category 2 above .... so one might
474 want to make that "The Job record has an EndTime,, but no associated
475 JobMedia record, and is not a Restore job."
476 - make "btape /tmp" work.
477 - Make sure a rescheduled job is properly reported by status.
478 - Walk through the Pool records rather than the Job records
479 in dird.c to create/update pools.
480 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
481 - When job rescheduled, status gives is waiting for Client Rufus
482 to connect to Storage File. Dir needs to inform SD that job
484 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
485 - Enable trace output at runtime for Win32
486 - Available volumes for autochangers (see patrick@baanboard.com 3 Sep 03
487 and 4 Sep) scan slots.
488 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
489 - Do a complete audit of all pthreads_mutex, cond, ... to ensure that
490 any that are dynamically initialized are destroyed when no longer used.
491 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
492 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
493 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
494 - Turn on SIGHUP in dird.c and test.
495 - Use system dependent calls to get more precise info on tape errors.
496 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
497 - Suppress read error on blank tape when doing a label.
498 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
499 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
500 automatically generate the Volume name.
501 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
502 - Look at libkse (man kse) for FreeBSD threading.
503 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
504 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
505 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
506 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
507 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
508 time as the user walks through the tree).
509 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
510 - Orphaned Dir buffer at parse_conf.c:373 => store_dir
511 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
512 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
513 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
514 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
515 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
516 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
517 run the job but don't save the files.
518 - Implement FileOptions (see end of this document)
519 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
522 - Bacula needs to propagate SD errors.
523 > > cluster-dir: Start Backup JobId 252, Job=REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12
524 > > prod4-sd: REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12 Error: Write error on device
525 /dev/nst0. ERR=Input/output error.
526 > > prod4-sd: REUTERS.2003-08-11_15.04.12 Error: Re-read of last block failed.
527 Last block=5162 Current block=5164.
528 > > prod4-sd: End of medium on Volume "REU007" Bytes=16,303,521,933
530 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
531 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
532 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
533 - Make bextract release the drive properly between tapes
534 so that an autochanger can be made to work.
535 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
536 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
537 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
538 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
539 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
541 - lstat() is not going to work on Win32 for testing date.
542 - Implement a Recycle command
543 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
544 verify if it is the correct client.
545 - Add JobLevel in FD status (but make sure it is defined).
546 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
547 - Check Jmsg in bnet, may not work, must dup bsock.
548 - Suppress Job Name in Jmsg for console
549 - Create Pools that are referenced in a Run statement at startup if possible.
550 - Use runbeforejob to unload, then reload a volume previously used,
551 then the next job run gets an error reading the drive.
552 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
553 - Test a second language e.g. french.
554 - Start working on Base jobs.
555 - Make "make binary-release" work from any directory.
556 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
557 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
559 - Implement table driven single argc/argv scanner to pickup all arguments.
560 Much like xxx_conf.c scan table.
561 keyword, handler(store_routine), store_address, code, flags, default.
562 - From Phil Stracchino:
563 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
564 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
565 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
566 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
567 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
568 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
569 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
570 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
571 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
572 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
573 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
574 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
575 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
576 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
577 if there is an error.
578 - Make sure all restore counters are working correctly in the FD.
579 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
580 - Look at ALL higher level routines that call block.c to be sure
581 they don't expect something in errmsg.
582 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
583 - Add thread specific data to hold the jcr -- send error messages from
584 low level routines by accessing it and using Jmsg().
585 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
587 - Examine Bare Metal restore problem (a FD crash exists somewhere ...).
588 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
589 - Implement console @echo command.
590 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
591 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
592 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
593 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
594 - Implement create "FileSet"?
595 - Fix watchdog pthread crash on Win32 (this is pthread_kill() Cygwin bug)
596 - Implement "scratch pool" where tapes are defined and can be
597 taken by any pool that needs them.
598 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
599 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
601 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
602 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
603 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
604 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
605 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
607 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
608 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
609 - Refine SD waiting output:
610 Device is being positioned
611 > Device is being positioned for append
612 > Device is being positioned to file x
614 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
615 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
616 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
617 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
618 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
619 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
620 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
621 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
622 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
623 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
624 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
625 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
626 speed up things. Test with testfind().
627 - Priority job to go to top of list.
628 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
629 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
630 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
631 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
632 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
633 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
634 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
635 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
636 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
637 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
638 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
639 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
640 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
641 - Restore program that errs in SD due to no tape, reports
642 OK incorrectly in output.
643 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
644 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
645 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
646 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
647 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
648 - Add UA rc and history files.
649 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
650 allow -with-termcap-dir.
651 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
652 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
653 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
654 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
655 - Write an applet for Linux.
656 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
657 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
658 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
659 - Maximum Operator Wait
660 - Minimum Message Interval
661 - Maximum Message Interval
662 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
663 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
664 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
666 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
667 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
668 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
669 reading a new config file at any time.
670 - Handle ctl-c in Console
671 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
672 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
673 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
674 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
675 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
676 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
677 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
678 - Implement throttled work queue.
679 - Restore files modified after date
680 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
681 - Implement Restore FileSet=
682 - Create a protocol.h and protocol.c where all protocol messages
684 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
685 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
686 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
687 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
688 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
691 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
692 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
693 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
695 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
696 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
697 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
698 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
699 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
702 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
705 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
706 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
710 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
711 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
712 - Partial Read error code
713 - Partial write error code
714 - Nonformatted read error
715 - Nonformatted write error
716 - WriteProtected error
720 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
730 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
732 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
733 at end of save retry and report any errors.
734 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
735 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
737 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
738 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
739 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
740 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
742 - Ensure that /dev/null works
743 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
744 report resource where report=group of messages
745 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
746 fill in code for "since" option
747 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
748 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
749 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
750 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
751 - Need a structure for pending actions:
753 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
755 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
756 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
757 owner, group, user, quotas
758 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
759 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
762 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
763 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
764 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
765 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
766 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
767 the caller can change the break characters.
768 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
769 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
770 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
771 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
772 buffer messages for later.
773 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
774 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
775 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
776 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
777 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
778 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
779 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
780 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
784 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
785 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
787 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
789 Migration triggered by:
793 Highwater mark (keep total size)
798 ======================================================
800 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
801 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
803 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
804 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
806 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
807 JobId - JobId currently running
808 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
809 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
810 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
811 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
812 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
813 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
814 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
815 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
816 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
817 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
818 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
819 by the FD for each Base Filename.
820 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
821 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
823 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
824 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
825 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
827 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
829 - At end of Job, FD returns:
830 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
831 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
832 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
833 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
834 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
835 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
836 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
837 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
839 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
845 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
846 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
847 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
848 =========================================================
850 =============================================================
852 File Backup Options Project
856 Subject: File Backup Options
859 Bacula users who are using compression would like to suppress
860 compressing all .gz files since it was a waste of CPU time.
861 Although Bacula currently permits using different options
862 (compression, ...) on a directory by directory basis, it cannot
863 do it on a file by file basis, which is clearly what was
866 Proposed Implementation:
867 To solve this problem, I propose the following:
869 - Add a new Director resource type called Options.
871 - The Options resource will have records for all options that
872 can currently be specified on the Include record (in a
873 FileSet). Examples below.
875 - The Options resource will permit an exclude option as well
876 as a number of additional options.
878 - The heart of the Options resource is the ability to supply
879 any number of Regex records which specify POSIX regular
880 expressions. These regular expressions are applied to the
881 fully qualified filename (path and all). If one matches,
882 then the Options will be used.
884 - When a Regex specification matches an included file, the
885 options specified in the Options resource will override the
886 default options specified on the Include record.
888 - Include records will be modified to permit referencing one or
889 more Options resources. The Options will be used in the
890 order listed on the Include record and the first one that
891 matches will be applied.
893 - Options (or specifications) currently supplied on the Include
894 record will be deprecated (i.e. removed in a later version a
895 year or so from now).
897 - The Exclude record will be deprecated as the same functionality
898 can be obtained by using an Exclude = yes in the Options or
899 an Exclude = xxxx directive.
902 The following records can appear in the Options resource. An
903 asterisk preceding the name indicates a feature not currently
906 - Regexp "xxx" - Match regular expression
907 - Wild "xxx" - Do a wild card match
910 - Compression= (GZIP, ...)
911 - Signature= (MD5, SHA1, ...)
913 - OneFs= (yes/no) - remain on one filesystem
914 - Recurse= (yes/no) - recurse into subdirectories
915 - Sparse= (yes/no) - do sparse file backup
916 - *Exclude= (yes/no) - exclude file from being saved
917 - *INclude= (yes/no) - include the file (needed??)
918 - *Reader= (filename) - external read (backup) program
919 - *Plugin= (filename) - read/write plugin module
922 - verify= (ipnougsamc5) - verify options
925 - replace= (always/ifnewer/ifolder/never) - replace options currently
927 - *Writer= (filename) - external write (restore) program
931 Currently options specifying compression, MD5 signatures,
932 recursion, ... of a FileSet are supplied on the Include
933 record. These will now all be collected into a Options
934 resource, which will be specified in the Include in place of
935 the options. Multiple Options may be specified. Since the
936 Options may contain regular expressions that are applied to the
937 full filename, this will give the ability to specify backup
938 options on a file by file basis to whatever level of detail you
947 Include = compression=GZIP signature=MD5 {
960 Wild = /*.?*/ # matches all files.
966 That's a lot more to do the same thing, but it gives the ability to
967 apply options on a file by file basis. For example, suppose you
968 want to compress all files but not any file with extensions .gz or .Z.
969 In that case, you will need to group two sets of options using
970 the Options resource. Files may be anywhere except in an
971 option set ??? All Options apply to all files in the order
972 the Options were specified. To have files included with
973 different option sets without using wild-cards, use two or more
974 Includes -- each one is handled in turn using only the files and
975 optionsets specified in the include.
982 # Note multiple Matches are ORed
983 Wild = "*.gz" # matches .gz files
984 Wild = "*.Z" # matches .Z files
989 Wild = "*.?*" # matches all files
995 Now, since the no Compression option is specified in the
996 first group of Options, *.gz or *.Z file will have an MD5 signature computed,
997 but will not be compressed. For all other files, the *.gz *.Z will not
998 match, so the second group of options will be used which will include GZIP
1004 After implementing the above, the user will be able to specify
1005 on a file by file basis (using regular expressions) what options are
1006 applied for the backup.
1009 =============================================
1012 ==========================================================
1014 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1015 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1016 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1017 a list of Unsaved files.
1019 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1023 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1024 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1025 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1026 =============================================================
1029 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
1032 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
1033 and no error message.
1034 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
1035 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
1036 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1037 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
1038 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
1039 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
1040 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1041 Use "mount" command to release Job.
1042 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
1043 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
1044 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
1045 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
1047 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
1048 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
1049 just before read_block_from_device();
1052 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1053 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1054 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1055 Address 480 is Empty
1057 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1058 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1059 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1060 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1061 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1062 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1063 Storage Element 1:Empty
1064 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1065 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1066 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1067 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1068 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1069 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1070 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1071 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1072 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1073 Storage Element 11:Empty
1074 Storage Element 12:Empty
1075 Storage Element 13:Empty
1076 Storage Element 14:Empty
1077 Storage Element 15:Empty
1078 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1079 Storage Element 28:Empty
1080 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1081 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1082 Storage Element 57:Empty
1083 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1084 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1085 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1087 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1089 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1090 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1092 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1093 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1094 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1095 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1096 from an offset point either.something like
1098 Autochanger drives = 2
1099 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1100 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1101 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1102 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1108 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1109 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1110 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1111 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1112 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1113 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1114 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1115 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1116 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1117 slot number as the destination.AB
1123 undef# camcontrol devlist
1124 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1125 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1126 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1128 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1129 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1130 Product Type: Tape Drive
1132 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1134 Attached Changer: No
1135 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1136 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1143 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1146 DataCompEnabled: yes
1147 DataCompCapable: yes
1148 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1155 Handling removable disks
1157 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1159 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1160 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1161 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1162 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1164 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1165 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1166 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1167 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1169 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1171 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1172 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1173 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1174 scattered in many subdirectories.
1179 - Change console to bconsole.
1180 - Change smtp to bsmtp.
1181 - Fix time difference problem between Bacula and Client
1182 so that everything is in GMT.
1183 - Fix TimeZone problem!
1184 - Mount a tape that is not right for the job (wrong # files on tape)
1185 Bacula asks for another tape, fix problems with first tape and
1186 say "mount". All works OK, but status shows:
1187 Device /dev/nst0 open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
1188 Total Bytes=1,153,820,213 Blocks=17,888 Bytes/block=64,502
1189 Positioned at File=9 Block=3,951
1190 Full Backup job Rufus.2003-10-26_16.45.31 using Volume "DLT-24Oct03" on device /dev/nst0
1191 Files=21,003 Bytes=253,954,408 Bytes/sec=2,919,016
1192 FDReadSeqNo=192,134 in_msg=129830 out_msg=5 fd=7
1193 - Upgrade to cygwin 1.5
1194 - Optimize fsf not to read.
1195 - Use ioctl() fsf if it exists. Figure out where we are from
1196 the mt_status command. Use slow fsf only if other does not work.
1197 - Enhance "update slots" to include a "scan" feature
1198 scan 1; scan 1-5; scan 1,2,4 ... to update the catalog
1199 - Allow a slot or range of slots on the label barcodes command.
1200 - Finish implementation of Verify=DiskToCatalog
1201 - Make sure that Volumes are recycled based on "Least recently used"
1202 rather than lowest MediaId.
1203 - Add flag to write only one EOF mark on the tape.
1204 - Implement autochanger testing in btape "test" command.
1205 - Implement lmark to list everyfile marked.
1206 - Make mark/unmark report how many files marked/unmarked.
1207 - Keep last 5 or 10 completed jobs and show them in a similar list.
1208 - Make a Running Jobs: output similar to current Scheduled Jobs:
1209 - Change "create_media_record in bscan to use Archive instead of Full.
1210 - Have some way to estimate the restore size or have it printed.
1211 - Volume problems occurs if you have valid volume, written, then it is
1212 truncated. You get 12-Nov-2003 11:48 rufus-sd: kernsave.2003-11-12_11.48.09 Warning: mount.c:228 Volume on /tmp is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because:
1213 block.c:640 Read zero bytes on device /tmp.
1214 - Make sure that 64 bit I/O packets are used on Cygwin.
1215 - Add to supported autochangers
1217 Auto-Changer : QUALSTAR TLS-4210
1218 Manufufactur : Qualstar
1219 Tapes : 12 (AIT1: 36GB, AIT2: 50GB all uncompressed)
1220 Drives : 2xAIT2 (installed in the Qualstar: SONY SDX-500C AIT2)
1221 - Document estimate command in tree.
1222 - Document lsmark command in tree.
1223 - Setup a standard job that builds a bootstrap file and saves
1224 it with the catalog database.
1225 - See if a restore job can add a file to the tape (prohibit this).
1226 - Restrict characters permitted in a name.
1227 - In restore, provide option for limiting to a particular Pool.
1228 - In restore, list FileSets that only have different base names --
1229 i.e. any FileSet with the same name should be treated as the same.
1230 - Make Scheduler sort jobs by StartTime, Priority.
1231 - Make sure smtp and any other useful program is executable by the world
1232 in case Bacula is not running as root.
1233 - Look at Dan's field width problems in PostgreSQL.
1234 - Look at effect of removing GROUP BYs.
1235 - In restore take all filesets with same base name.
1236 - From Alan Brown <ajb2@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
1237 BTW, there's a make install bug in 1.33 - with --enable-gnome,
1238 gnome-console is built, but the binary and .conf are not being installed.
1239 - Permit Bacula and apcupsd donations (not done for apcupsd).
1240 - Fix Ctl-C crashing the Console (readline?).
1241 - Look at code in recycle_oldes_purged_volume() recycle.c. Why not
1242 let SQL do ORDER BY LastWritten ASC?
1243 - Look at find_next_volume() algorithm. Currently, it selects:
1244 +---------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
1245 | MediaId | VolumeName | LastWritten | VolBytes |
1246 +---------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
1247 | 3 | Test13 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 1 |
1248 | 4 | Test14 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 1 |
1249 | 1 | test11 | 2003-12-03 18:39:55 | 4,004,926 |
1250 | 2 | test12 | 2004-01-04 15:25:56 | 2,078,691 |
1251 +---------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
1252 but perhaps it should fill already used Volumes first, and use
1253 Append volumes before Purged, or Recycled, ...
1254 - Possibly remove the "|| ap == NULL" on lines 123 and 207 of lib/var.c,
1255 which creates compile problems on alpha systems.
1256 var.c:123: no match for `va_list & == long int'
1257 - Check "restore" 3 (JobId), then it asks for Storage resource. Does
1258 it verify that the correct volume is chosen?
1259 - Make Bacula "poll a drive".
1260 - Notes for final checking of Nic's code:
1261 Could I get you to double check the switch () statements in the
1262 job_check_maxwaittime and job_check_maxruntime functions in
1264 - Define week of year for scheduler. W01, W02, ...
1265 Week 01 of a year is per definition the first week that has the
1266 Thursday in this year, which is equivalent to the week that contains the
1267 fourth day of January. In other words, the first week of a new year is
1268 the week that has the majority of its days in the new year. Week 01
1269 might also contain days from the previous year and the week before week
1270 01 of a year is the last week (52 or 53) of the previous year even if it
1271 contains days from the new year. A week starts with Monday (day 1) and
1272 ends with Sunday (day 7). For example, the first week of the year 1997
1273 lasts from 1996-12-30 to 1997-01-05 and can be written in standard
1276 The week notation can also be extended by a number indicating the day
1277 of the week. For example, the day 1996-12-31, which is the Tuesday (day
1278 2) of the first week of 1997, can also be written as
1279 1997-W01-2 or 1997W012
1280 - Either restrict the characters in a name, or fix the problem
1281 emailing with names containing / (smtp command line breaks).
1282 - Implement .consolerc for Console
1283 - Implement scan: for every slot it finds, zero the slot of
1284 Volume other volume having that slot.
1285 - Make restore job check if all the files are actually restored.
1286 - Look at 2Gb limit for SQLite.
1287 - Fix get_storage_from_media_type (ua_restore) to use command line
1289 - Don't print "Warning: Wrong Volume mounted ..." if mounting second volume.
1290 - Write a mini-readline with history and editing.
1291 - Take a careful look a the Basic recycling algorithm. When Bacula
1292 chooses, the order should be:
1294 - Look for Recycle or Purged
1297 Instead of using lowest media Id, find the least recently used
1300 When the tape is mounted and Bacula requests the status
1301 - Do everything possible to use it.
1303 Define a "available" status, which is the currently mounted
1304 Volume and all volumes that are currently in the autochanger.
1305 - Is a pool specification really needed for a restore? Yes, and
1306 you may want to exclude archive Pools.
1307 - Implement a PostgreSQL driver.
1308 - Fix restore to list errors if Invalid block found, and if # files
1309 restored does not match # expected.
1310 - Something is not right in last block of fill command.
1311 - Add FileSet to command line arguments for restore.
1312 - Enhance time and size scanning routines.
1313 - Add Console usr permissions -- do by adding filters for
1314 jobs, clients, storage, ...
1315 - Put max network buffer size on a directive.
1316 - Why does "mark cygwin" take so long!!!!!!!!
1317 - Implement alist processing for ACLs from Console.
1318 - When a file is set for restore, walk back up the chain of
1319 directories, setting them to be restored.
1320 - Figure out a way to set restore on a directory without recursively
1321 decending. (recurse off?).
1322 - Fix restore to only pull in last Differential and later Incrementals.
1323 - Implement 3 Pools for a Job:
1326 Full Backup Pool = xxx
1327 Incremental Backup Pool = yyy
1328 Differential Backup Pool = zzz
1330 - Look at ASSERT() at 384 src/lib/bnet.c
1331 - Dates are wrong in restore list from Win32 FD.
1332 - Dates are wrong in catalog from Win32 FD.
1333 - Remove h_errno from bnet.c by including proper header.
1334 - For "list jobs" order by EndTime.
1335 - Make two tape fill test work.
1336 - Add atime preservation.
1337 - Do not err job if could not write bootstrap file.
1338 - Save and restore last_job across executions.
1339 - Have each daemon save the last_jobs structure when exiting and
1340 read it back in when starting up.
1341 - "restore jobid=1 select" calls get_storage_xxx, which prints "JobId 1 is
1343 - Make column listing for running jobs JobId Level Type Started Name Status
1344 - Why does Bacula need the drive open to do "autochanger list" ?
1345 - Add data compare on write/read in btape "test".
1346 - Rescue builds incorrect script files on Rufus.
1347 - Release SQLite 2.8.9
1348 - During install, copy any console.conf to bconsole.conf.
1349 - Check: Run = Level=Differential feb-dec 1 at 1:05 to see if wday is empty.
1350 - Look at installation file permissions with Scott so that make install
1352 - Finish code passing files=nnn to restore start.
1353 - Add ctl-c to console to stop current command and discard buffered
1355 - Estimate to Tibs never returns.
1356 - Symbolic link a directory to another one, then backup the symbolic link.
1357 - Check and possibly fix problems with hard links.
1358 - Fix query buffer clobber ua_query.c
1359 - Allow "delete job jobid=xx jobid=xxx".
1360 - Update volume FromPool (or FromPool=xxx) refreshes the Volume defaults from Pool.
1361 - Implement multiple Volume in "purge jobs volume=".
1362 - Test Qmsg() code to be used in bnet.c to prevent recursion. Queue the
1363 message. If dequeueing toss the messages. Lock while dequeuing so that
1364 it cannot be called recursively and set dequeuing flag.
1365 - On unknown client in restore "client=xxx"
1366 Could not find Client "Matou": ERR=Query failed: DROP TABLE temp1:
1367 ERR=no such table: temp1
1368 - Null dlist head and tail pointers if all items are removed.
1369 - Build console in client-only build.
1370 - Phil says that Windows file sizes mismatch in Verify when they should,
1371 and that either the file size or the catalog size was zero.
1372 - Check time/dates printed during restore when using Win32 API.
1373 - Once a job is canceled, make sure the status reflects that even if the
1374 job is "stuck" in the run queue.
1375 - Test work on conio.c -- particularly linking.
1376 - Complete Win32 installer
1377 - Add ms disk example