7 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
8 ========================================================
10 Final items for 1.37 before release:
12 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
13 - Mount after manually unloading changer causes hang in SD
14 - Check if ANSI tape labeling works with drive in
16 > > btape: label.c:299 write_volume_label()
17 > > btape: label.c:302 Label type=0
18 > > btape: dev.c:648 rewind_dev fd=3 "VTS0" (/dev/tape0)
19 > > btape: label.c:530 Start create_volume_label()
22 > > Id : Bacula 1.0 immortal
27 > > LabelType : PRE_LABEL
29 > > PoolName : Default
32 > > HostName : sysrmr.eia.doe.gov
33 > > btape: ansi_label.c:282 Write ANSI label type=2
34 > > 15-Sep 13:12 btape: btape Fatal error: ansi_label.c:303 Could not
36 > > label. ERR=Bad file descriptor
38 - Check "update slots=7 scan storage=DLT drive=0" with
39 non-bacula tape in the drive.
41 - --without-openssl breaks at least on Solaris.
42 - Figure out how to package gui, and rescue programs.
44 - Arno had to do -- to get update slots=x to work
45 UPDATE Media SET InChanger=0,Slot=0 WHERE InChanger>0 AND Slot>0; (MySQL)
48 - Add scratch pool event.
49 - Implement NeedVolume event
50 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
54 - datadir for po files.
55 - AM_GNU_GETTEXT finds the library if you specify
57 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
58 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
59 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
60 - Pruning with Admin job.
61 - Restore of all files for a Job or set of jobs even if the file
62 records have been removed from the catalog.
63 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
66 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
67 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
68 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
69 before doing Interval testing).
70 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
71 - Fix store_yesno to be store_bitmask.
72 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
73 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
74 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
75 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
77 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
78 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
79 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch
82 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
83 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
84 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
86 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
87 days before it needs changing.
88 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
89 if the job is not scheduled.
90 --- create_file.c.orig Fri Jul 8 12:13:05 2005
91 +++ create_file.c Fri Jul 8 12:13:07 2005
93 attr->ofname, be.strerror());
96 + } else if(S_ISSOCK(attr->statp.st_mode)) {
97 + Dmsg1(200, "Skipping socket: %s\n", attr->ofname);
99 Dmsg1(200, "Restore node: %s\n", attr->ofname);
100 if (mknod(attr->ofname, attr->statp.st_mode, attr->statp.st_rdev) != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
101 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
102 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
103 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
104 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
106 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
107 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
108 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
110 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
111 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
113 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
114 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
116 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
117 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
118 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
119 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
120 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
121 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
123 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
124 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
126 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
127 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
128 - Reserve blocks other restore jobs when first cannot connect
130 - Add true/false to conf same as yes/no
131 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
132 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
133 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
134 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
135 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
136 - Remove old spool files on startup.
137 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
138 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
140 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
141 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
142 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
143 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
144 - Python script to do backup.
146 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
147 at the start of a job.
148 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
149 as an error when writing a DVD?
150 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
151 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
152 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
153 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
154 resources were locked.
155 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
158 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
159 entry does not contain bytes.
160 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
161 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
162 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
163 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
167 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
168 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
169 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
170 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
171 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
172 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
173 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
174 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
175 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
176 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
177 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
178 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
179 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
180 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
181 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
182 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
183 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
184 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
185 - Implement copies and stripes.
186 - Add history file to console.
187 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
188 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
189 16 hours to build the restore list.
190 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
191 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
192 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
193 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
194 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
195 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
197 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
198 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
199 Automatically selected Pool: Default
200 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
201 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
202 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
203 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
204 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
205 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
206 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
207 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
208 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
209 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
210 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
212 ==== Keeping track of deleted files ====
213 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
214 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
215 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
216 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
217 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
218 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
219 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
220 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
221 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
222 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
223 that at that point in time the file was deleted.
225 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
226 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
227 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
228 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
229 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
230 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
233 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
234 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
235 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
236 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
237 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
238 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
239 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
240 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
241 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
242 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
243 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
244 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
245 saved me a *lot* of time.
247 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
248 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
250 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
251 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
253 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
254 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
256 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
257 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
259 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
260 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
262 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
263 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
268 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
269 - Add delete JobId to regression.
270 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
271 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
272 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
273 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
274 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
276 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
277 on the restore prompt)
278 - Add IPv6 to regression
279 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
282 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
283 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
284 more than 1000 files per directory.
288 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
289 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
291 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
292 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
293 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
295 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
297 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
298 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
299 benefit from as well.
301 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
302 NextJobs = job1,job2.
305 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
306 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
307 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
308 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
309 the job after it needn't to be run
310 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
313 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
314 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
315 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
318 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
319 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
320 execute different actions based on the return value
323 3. offline capability to bconsole
326 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
327 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
328 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
329 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
331 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
332 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
333 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
334 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
335 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
338 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
342 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
343 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
344 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
346 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
349 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
350 I would have the possibilty to define
351 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
352 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
354 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
357 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
358 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
359 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
361 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
362 french and Morre (western african language).
364 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
365 due to the design of bacula.
367 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
368 the "Label Format" Directive.
372 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
373 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
374 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
375 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
376 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
377 name in the correct language.
379 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
380 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
381 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
382 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
385 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
386 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
387 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
390 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
391 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
392 presenting in a browser.
393 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
394 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
395 rpm and Win32 releases.
396 - Browse generations of files.
397 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
398 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
399 size. Relevant information is at
400 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
401 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
402 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
403 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
404 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
405 - Supported autochanger:
413 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
414 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
415 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
416 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
417 - Include within include does it work?
418 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
419 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
420 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
421 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
422 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
423 savings time changes.
424 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
425 - Promote to Full = Time period
426 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
427 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
428 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
430 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
431 - How to handle backing up portables ...
432 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
433 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
434 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
437 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
438 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
439 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
440 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
441 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
442 - Document query file format.
443 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
444 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
445 - Document how to use multiple databases.
446 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
447 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
450 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
451 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
452 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
453 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
455 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
456 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
457 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
458 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
459 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
460 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
461 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
462 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
463 - Document doing table repair
466 ===================================
467 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
468 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
469 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
470 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
472 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
473 - Autorestart on crash.
474 - Add bandwidth limiting.
475 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
476 the line from timing out.
477 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
478 up through the prompt.
479 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
480 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
481 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
482 units, perhaps via a directive.
483 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
484 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
485 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
486 with multiple priorities.
487 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
488 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
490 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
492 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
493 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
494 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
495 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
496 are not using the same tape(s).
497 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
498 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
500 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
501 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
502 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
503 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
504 perhaps if password is undefined.
505 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
508 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
509 - the help-command should be more verbose
510 (it should explain the paramters of the different
512 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
513 you need a special parameter
514 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
515 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
517 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
518 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
519 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
520 its faster to enter the specified directory
521 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
522 you should be asked for it.
523 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
524 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
525 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
526 to forget to remove the password after usage
528 the protection of that file is less important
529 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
530 like the unix more/less-command does
531 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
532 be a little long and complex
533 - command-output should be shown column by column
534 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
536 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
538 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
539 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
540 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
542 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
543 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
544 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
545 permissions *can* be restored.
546 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
547 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
548 - Add prune all command
549 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
550 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
551 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
552 - look at mxt-changer.html
553 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
554 - Implement restore directory.
555 - Document streams and how to implement them.
556 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
557 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
558 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
559 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
560 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
562 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
563 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
564 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
565 - Add tree pane to left of window.
566 - Add progress meter.
567 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
568 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
569 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
570 which is needed by all packages.
571 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
572 space test fails in btape.
573 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
574 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
575 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
576 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
577 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
578 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
579 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
580 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
581 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
582 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
583 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
584 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
585 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
586 Do both a long and short form.
587 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
588 stat data on each file).
589 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
591 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
592 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
593 - Add John's appended files:
594 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
595 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
596 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
597 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
598 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
599 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
600 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
601 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
602 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
603 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
604 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
605 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
606 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
607 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
608 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
609 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
610 BackupClient RestoreClient).
611 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
612 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
613 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
614 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
615 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
616 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
617 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
618 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
619 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
621 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
623 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
624 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
625 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
626 the proper storage type.
627 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
628 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
629 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
630 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
631 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
632 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
633 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
634 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
635 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
636 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
637 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
638 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
639 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
640 which in turn overrides Pool.
642 - New Storage specifications:
643 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
644 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
645 - Want to read/write simultaneously
646 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
648 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
652 MediaType -> Next MediaType
654 Device -> Next Device
656 Allow multiple Storage specifications
664 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
666 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
667 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
668 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
669 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
670 is contained in only one device.
671 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
673 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
674 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
676 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
677 even more important, it's not flaky
678 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
679 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
681 Macintosh file client
682 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
683 working bare iron recovery for windows
684 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
685 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
686 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
687 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
688 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
690 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
691 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
692 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
693 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
694 support for Oracle database ??
696 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
697 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
698 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
699 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
700 is needed to properly specify ranges.
701 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
702 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
703 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
704 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
705 - Implement Console mtx commands.
706 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
707 the users could specify a system command to be performed
708 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
709 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
710 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
711 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
712 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
713 depending on the exact nature of the device.
714 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
715 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
716 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
717 once he had actually inserted the disk.
718 - Implement dump/print label to UA
719 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
721 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
722 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
723 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
724 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
725 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
726 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
727 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
728 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
729 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
730 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
731 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
732 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
733 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
734 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
735 by handling spaces better.
736 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
737 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
738 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
741 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
742 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
743 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
744 necessary parameters.
746 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
747 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
749 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
750 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
751 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
752 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
753 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
754 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
755 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
756 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
757 automatically generate the Volume name.
758 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
759 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
760 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
761 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
762 time as the user walks through the tree).
763 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
764 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
765 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
766 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
767 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
768 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
769 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
770 run the job but don't save the files.
771 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
774 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
775 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
776 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
777 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
779 - Implement a Recycle command
780 - Test a second language e.g. french.
781 - Start working on Base jobs.
782 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
783 - From Phil Stracchino:
784 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
785 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
786 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
787 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
788 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
789 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
790 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
791 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
792 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
793 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
794 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
795 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
796 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
797 if there is an error.
798 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
800 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
801 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
802 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
803 - Implement create "FileSet"?
804 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
805 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
806 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
807 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
808 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
810 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
811 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
812 - Refine SD waiting output:
813 Device is being positioned
814 > Device is being positioned for append
815 > Device is being positioned to file x
817 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
818 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
819 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
820 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
821 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
822 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
823 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
824 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
825 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
826 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
827 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
828 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
829 speed up things. Test with testfind().
830 - Priority job to go to top of list.
831 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
832 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
833 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
834 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
835 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
836 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
837 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
838 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
839 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
840 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
841 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
842 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
843 - Add UA rc and history files.
844 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
845 allow -with-termcap-dir.
846 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
847 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
848 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
849 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
850 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
851 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
852 - Maximum Operator Wait
853 - Minimum Message Interval
854 - Maximum Message Interval
855 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
856 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
857 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
859 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
860 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
861 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
862 reading a new config file at any time.
863 - Handle ctl-c in Console
864 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
865 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
866 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
867 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
868 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
869 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
870 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
871 - Restore files modified after date
872 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
873 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
874 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
875 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
876 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
877 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
880 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
881 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
882 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
884 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
885 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
886 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
887 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
888 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
891 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
894 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
895 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
899 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
900 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
901 - Partial Read error code
902 - Partial write error code
903 - Nonformatted read error
904 - Nonformatted write error
905 - WriteProtected error
909 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
919 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
921 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
922 at end of save retry and report any errors.
923 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
924 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
926 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
927 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
928 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
929 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
931 - Ensure that /dev/null works
932 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
933 report resource where report=group of messages
934 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
935 fill in code for "since" option
936 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
937 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
938 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
939 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
940 - Need a structure for pending actions:
942 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
944 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
945 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
946 owner, group, user, quotas
947 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
948 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
950 ========= ideas ===============
951 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
952 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
953 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
954 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
956 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
957 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
958 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
959 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
960 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
961 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
962 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
963 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
964 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
965 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
967 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
968 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
969 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
970 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
971 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
972 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
973 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
976 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
977 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
978 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
979 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
980 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
981 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
982 implementing something like this.
985 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
987 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
988 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
990 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
992 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
993 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
995 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
997 the Migration to tape later.
999 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1000 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1001 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1002 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1003 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1004 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1005 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1006 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1007 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1008 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1009 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1010 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1011 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1012 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1014 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1015 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1016 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1017 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1021 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1023 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1026 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1027 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1028 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1029 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1030 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1031 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1032 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1033 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1034 each row of the files table.
1036 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1037 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1038 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1040 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1041 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1042 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1047 ==============================
1050 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1051 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1052 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1053 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1054 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1055 the caller can change the break characters.
1056 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1057 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1058 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1059 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1060 buffer messages for later.
1061 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1062 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1063 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1064 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1065 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1066 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1067 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1068 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1072 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1073 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1075 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
1077 Migration triggered by:
1081 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1086 ======================================================
1088 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1089 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1091 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1092 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1094 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1095 JobId - JobId currently running
1096 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1097 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1098 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1099 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1100 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1101 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1102 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1103 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1104 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1105 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1106 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1107 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1108 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1109 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1111 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1112 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1113 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1115 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1117 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1118 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1119 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1120 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1121 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1122 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1123 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1124 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1125 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1127 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1133 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1134 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1135 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1136 =========================================================
1139 ==========================================================
1141 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1142 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1143 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1144 a list of Unsaved files.
1146 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1150 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1151 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1152 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1153 =============================================================
1157 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1158 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1159 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1160 Address 480 is Empty
1162 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1163 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1164 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1165 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1166 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1167 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1168 Storage Element 1:Empty
1169 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1170 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1171 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1172 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1173 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1174 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1175 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1176 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1177 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1178 Storage Element 11:Empty
1179 Storage Element 12:Empty
1180 Storage Element 13:Empty
1181 Storage Element 14:Empty
1182 Storage Element 15:Empty
1183 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1184 Storage Element 28:Empty
1185 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1186 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1187 Storage Element 57:Empty
1188 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1189 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1190 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1192 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1194 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1195 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1197 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1198 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1199 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1200 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1201 from an offset point either.something like
1203 Autochanger drives = 2
1204 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1205 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1206 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1207 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1213 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1214 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1215 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1216 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1217 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1218 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1219 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1220 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1221 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1222 slot number as the destination.AB
1228 undef# camcontrol devlist
1229 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1230 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1231 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1233 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1234 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1235 Product Type: Tape Drive
1237 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1239 Attached Changer: No
1240 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1241 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1248 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1251 DataCompEnabled: yes
1252 DataCompCapable: yes
1253 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1260 Handling removable disks
1262 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1264 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1265 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1266 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1267 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1269 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1270 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1271 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1272 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1274 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1276 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1277 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1278 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1279 scattered in many subdirectories.
1284 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1285 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1286 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1287 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1288 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1289 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1290 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1291 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1292 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1293 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1294 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1295 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1296 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1297 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1298 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1299 when the SD started.
1300 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1301 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1302 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1303 for operator intervention.
1304 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1305 - Add performance testing hooks
1306 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1307 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1308 saving only *.doc files.
1310 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
1311 Storage: DDS-4-changer
1315 The defined Storage resources are:
1316 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
1317 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
1318 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
1319 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
1320 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
1321 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
1322 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
1325 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
1326 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
1327 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
1328 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
1329 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
1330 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
1331 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
1332 or need them to be different for each device.
1333 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
1334 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
1335 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
1336 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
1337 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
1339 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
1340 #5 Events that call a Python program
1341 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
1342 - Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
1343 - Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
1344 - Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
1345 - Implement IBM labels.
1346 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
1347 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
1348 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
1349 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
1350 - 28-Mar 23:19 rufus-sd: acquire.c:379 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
1351 is busy reading. Job 6 canceled.
1352 - Remove separate thread for opening devices in SD. On the other
1353 hand, don't block waiting for open() for devices.
1354 - Fix code to either handle updating NumVol or to calculate it in
1356 - Ensure that you cannot exclude a directory or a file explicitly
1358 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
1359 (Implemented in Dir/SD/FD)
1360 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
1361 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
1364 - Add disk seeking on restore; turn off seek on tapes.
1366 - Look at dird_conf.c:1000: warning: `int size'
1367 might be used uninitialized in this function
1368 - Indicate when a Job is purged/pruned during restore.
1369 - Implement some way to turn off automatic pruning in Jobs.
1370 - Implement a way an Admin Job can prune, possibly multiple
1371 clients -- Python script?
1372 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
1373 - SD crashes after a tape restore then doing a backup.
1374 - If drive is opened read/write, close it and re-open
1375 read-only if doing a restore, and vice-versa.
1377 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
1378 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
1379 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
1380 > Prozess verwendet wird.
1381 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
1382 to set the attributes of e:
1383 from failed jobs.- Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
1384 and fix SD messages.
1385 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
1386 - Add a restore directory-x
1387 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
1388 even after Files are pruned.
1389 - Delete Stripe and Copy from VolParams to save space.
1390 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
1391 then list last 20 backups.
1392 - Finish implementation of passing all Storage and Device needs to
1394 - Move test for max wait time exceeded in job.c up -- Peter's idea.
1395 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
1396 ## Move rescue to its own project.
1397 - Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
1399 - Fix the Rescue CDROM.
1400 - By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
1401 bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
1402 /html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
1403 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
1404 - Specify a single directory to restore.
1405 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
1406 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
1407 Job report (Volker Sauer).
1408 - Add level to estimate command.
1409 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
1410 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
1411 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
1413 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
1414 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
1415 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
1416 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
1417 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
1418 get the bootstrap file.
1419 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
1420 - Fix 3993 error in SD. It forgets to look at autochanger
1421 resource for device command, ...
1422 - 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
1423 autochanger, by checking if a Volume is mounted on another drive
1425 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.12 See:
1426 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
1427 - Add # Job Level date to bsr file
1428 - Implement "PreferMountedVolumes = yes|no" in Job resource.
1429 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
1431 - Cleaning tapes should have Status "Cleaning" rather than append.
1432 - Make sure that Python has access to Client address/port so that
1433 it can check if Clients are alive.
1434 - Review all items in "restore".
1435 - Fix PostgreSQL GROUP BY problems in restore.
1436 - Fix PostgreSQL sql problems in bugs.
1438 04-Jul 13:01 MainSD: Rufus.2005-07-04_01.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume
1440 Current Volume "DLT-04Jul05" not acceptable because:
1441 1997 Volume "DLT-13Feb04" not in catalog.
1442 04-Jul 13:01 MainSD: Please mount Volume "DLT-04Jul05" on Storage Device
1443 "HP DLT 80" (/dev/nst0) for Job Rufus.2005-07-04_01.05.02
1444 ## Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
1445 - Make "update slots" when pointing to Autochanger, remove
1446 all Volumes from other drives. "update slots all-drives"?
1447 No, this is done by modifying mtx-changer to list what is
1449 - Finish TLS implementation.
1450 - Port limiting -m in iptables to prevent DoS attacks
1451 could cause broken pipes on Bacula.
1452 6. Build and test the Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) for Win32.
1453 - Allow cancel of unknown Job
1454 - State not saved when closing Win32 FD by icon
1455 - bsr-opt-test fails. bsr deleted. Fix.
1456 - Move Python daemon variables from Job to Bacula object.
1457 WorkingDir, ConfigFile
1458 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
1460 - Document details of ANSI/IBM labels
1462 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
1463 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
1465 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
1466 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
1467 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
1468 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
1469 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
1471 - Document Heartbeat Interval in the dealing with firewalls section.
1472 - Document new CDROM directory.
1473 - On Win32 working directory must have drive letter ????
1474 - On Win32 working directory must be writable by SYSTEM to
1476 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
1477 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
1478 8. Take one more try at making DVD writing work (no go)
1479 7. Write a bacula-web document
1480 - Why isn't the DEVICE structure defined when doing
1482 - Multi-drive changer seems to only use drive 0
1483 Multiple drives don't seem to be opened.
1484 - My database is growing
1485 - Call GetLastError() in the berrno constructor rather
1486 than delaying until strerror.
1487 - Tape xxx in drive 0, requested in drive 1
1488 - The mount command does not work with drives other than 0.
1489 - A mount should cause the SD to re-examine what Slot is
1491 - The SD locks on to the first available drive then
1492 wants a Volume that is released but in another drive --
1494 - Run the regression scripts on Solaris and FreeBSD