8 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
9 ========================================================
12 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
13 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
14 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
15 #5 Events that call a Python program
16 (Implemented in Dir/SD)
17 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
18 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
20 ## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
22 ## Consider moving docs to their own project.
24 Suggestions for Preben:
25 - Look at adding Client run command that will use the
26 port opened by the client.
27 - Optimized bootstrap.
31 Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
32 Storage: DDS-4-changer
36 The defined Storage resources are:
37 - Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
38 to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
40 to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
41 exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
42 http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
43 There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
44 disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
46 - 3.Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
48 - 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
49 Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
50 You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
51 or need them to be different for each device.
52 - 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
53 that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
54 script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
55 automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
56 be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
58 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
59 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
60 - 8. Automatic updating of Drive status from SD to DIR when something
61 changes (Volume, offline, append, read, ...).
64 - 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
65 - 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
66 selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
67 - 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
68 to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
71 - Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
72 - Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
73 - Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
74 than one loads a tape and any time (done)
78 - Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
79 - Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
80 - Add and option to see if the file size changed
82 - Implement "update device" from SD so that DIR will
83 always have current version of device.
84 - Add disk seeking on restore.
85 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
86 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
88 - Lock all devices when using changer script.
89 - Check if Volume is mounted on another device
90 - Find a free drive if Changer name used.
94 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
95 - Python script to do backup.
97 data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
98 > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
99 > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
100 > Prozess verwendet wird.
101 Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
102 to set the attributes of e:
103 - Add better documentation on how restores can be done
105 - Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
107 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
108 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
109 - When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
110 recycled and no label created. This happens when using
111 autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
112 - Add a restore directory-x
113 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
114 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
115 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
116 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
117 - See multiple-store.txt for Multiple Storage implementation
119 - Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
120 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
121 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
122 get the bootstrap file.
123 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
124 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
125 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
127 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
128 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
129 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
130 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.1 See:
131 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
133 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
134 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
135 Automatically selected Pool: Default
136 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
137 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
138 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
139 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
140 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
141 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
142 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
144 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
145 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
146 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
147 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
149 Regression tests (Scott):
150 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
151 - Add delete JobId to regression.
152 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
153 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
154 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
155 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
156 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
158 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
159 on the restore prompt)
160 - Add IPv6 to regression
161 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
164 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
165 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
166 more than 1000 files per directory.
170 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
172 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
173 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
174 benefit from as well.
176 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
177 NextJobs = job1,job2.
180 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
181 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
182 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
183 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
184 the job after it needn't to be run
185 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
188 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
189 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
190 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
193 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
194 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
195 execute different actions based on the return value
197 2. Priorities also for the Schedule Resource
201 With this it is possible to run monthly jobs at the end of the month
202 instead of the beginning of the next month, so one could define
203 weekly and monthly pools to be run on Fridays and if there are
204 2 Jobs resulting on the same time, the one with the higher priority
205 takes precedence. This is also helpfull to implement a daily
206 rotation scheme with an additional 2 weeks changing weekly pool
210 Name = "NightlyBackup"
211 Run = Priority = 1,Pool=Weekly friday at 21:00
212 Run = Priority = 2,Pool=Weekly monthly on friday at 21:00
213 Run = Priority = 3,Pool=Weekly yearly on friday at 21:00
216 3. offline capability to bconsole
219 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
220 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
221 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
222 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
224 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
225 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
226 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
227 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
228 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
231 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
235 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
236 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
237 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
239 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
242 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
243 I would have the possibilty to define
244 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
245 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
247 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
250 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
251 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
252 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
254 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
255 french and Morre (western african language).
257 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
258 due to the design of bacula.
260 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
261 the "Label Format" Directive.
265 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
266 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
267 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
268 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
269 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
270 name in the correct language.
272 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
273 - Specify a single directory to restore.
274 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
275 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
276 rpm and Win32 releases.
277 - Browse generations of files.
278 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
279 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
280 size. Relevant information is at
281 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
282 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
283 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
284 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
285 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
286 - Supported autochanger:
294 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
295 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
296 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
297 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
298 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
300 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
301 - Include within include does it work?
302 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
303 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
304 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
305 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
306 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
307 savings time changes.
308 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
309 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
310 even after Files are pruned.
311 - Promote to Full = Time period
312 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
313 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
314 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
315 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
316 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
317 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
318 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
320 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
321 - How to handle backing up portables ...
322 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
323 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
324 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
327 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
328 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
329 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
330 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
331 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
332 - Document query file format.
333 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
334 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
335 - Document how to use multiple databases.
336 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
337 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
340 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
341 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
342 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
343 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
345 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
346 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
347 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
348 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
349 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
350 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
351 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
352 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
353 - Document doing table repair
356 Testing to do: (painful)
359 For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
360 - Add bandwidth limiting.
361 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
362 the line from timing out.
363 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
364 up through the prompt.
365 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
366 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
367 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
368 units, perhaps via a directive.
369 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
370 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
371 - Add a read-only mode to the mount option.
372 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
373 with multiple priorities.
374 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
375 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
377 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
379 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
380 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
381 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
382 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
383 are not using the same tape(s).
384 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
385 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
387 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
388 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
389 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
390 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
391 perhaps if password is undefined.
392 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
397 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
398 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
400 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
401 - the help-command should be more verbose
402 (it should explain the paramters of the different
404 -> it´s time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
405 you need a special parameter
406 -> maybe it´s more easy to maintain this, if the
407 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
409 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
410 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
411 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
412 it´s faster to enter the specified directory
413 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
414 you should be asked for it.
415 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
416 which shouldn´t know the password for bacula.
417 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
418 to forget to remove the password after usage
420 the protection of that file is less important
421 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
422 like the unix more/less-command does
423 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
424 be a little long and complex
425 - command-output should be shown column by column
426 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
428 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
430 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
431 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
432 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
434 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
435 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
436 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
437 permissions *can* be restored.
438 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
439 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
440 - Add prune all command
441 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
442 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
443 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
444 - look at mxt-changer.html
445 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
446 - Implement restore directory.
447 - Document streams and how to implement them.
448 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
449 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
450 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
451 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
452 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
454 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
455 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
456 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
457 - Add tree pane to left of window.
458 - Add progress meter.
459 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
460 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
461 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
462 which is needed by all packages.
463 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
464 space test fails in btape.
465 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
466 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
467 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
468 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
469 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
470 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
471 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
472 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
473 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
475 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
476 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
477 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
478 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
479 - Add level to estimate command.
480 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
482 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
483 then list last 20 backups.
484 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
485 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
486 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
487 Do both a long and short form.
488 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
489 stat data on each file).
490 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
492 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
493 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
494 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
495 - Add John's appended files:
496 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
497 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
498 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
499 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
500 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
501 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
502 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
503 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
504 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
505 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
506 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
507 - Allow for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
508 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
509 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
510 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
511 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
512 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
513 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
514 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
515 BackupClient RestoreClient).
516 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
517 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
518 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
519 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
520 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
521 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
522 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
523 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
524 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
526 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
528 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
529 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
530 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
531 the proper storage type.
532 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
533 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
534 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
535 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
536 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
537 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
538 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
539 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
540 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
541 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
542 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
543 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
544 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
545 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
546 which in turn overrides Pool.
548 - New Storage specifications:
549 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
550 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
551 - Want to read/write simultaneously
552 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
554 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
558 MediaType -> Next MediaType
560 Device -> Next Device
562 Allow multiple Storage specifications
570 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
572 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
573 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
574 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
575 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
576 is contained in only one device.
577 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
579 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
580 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
582 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
583 even more important, it's not flaky
584 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
585 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
587 Macintosh file client
588 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
589 working bare iron recovery for windows
590 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
591 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
592 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
593 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
594 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
596 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
597 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
598 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
599 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
600 support for Oracle database ??
602 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
603 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
604 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
605 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
606 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
608 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
609 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
610 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
611 is needed to properly specify ranges.
612 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
613 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
614 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
615 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
616 Job report (Volker Sauer).
617 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
618 - Implement Console mtx commands.
619 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
620 the users could specify a system command to be performed
621 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
622 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
623 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
624 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
625 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
626 depending on the exact nature of the device.
627 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
628 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
629 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
630 once he had actually inserted the disk.
631 - Implement dump/print label to UA
632 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
634 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
635 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
636 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
637 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
638 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
639 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
640 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
641 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
642 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
643 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
644 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
645 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
646 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
647 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
648 it a command line option.
649 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
650 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
651 by handling spaces better.
652 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
653 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
654 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
657 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
658 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
659 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
660 necessary parameters.
662 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
663 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
665 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
666 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
667 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
668 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
669 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
670 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
671 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
672 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
673 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
674 automatically generate the Volume name.
675 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
676 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
677 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
678 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
679 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
680 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
681 time as the user walks through the tree).
682 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
683 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
684 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
685 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
686 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
687 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
688 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
689 run the job but don't save the files.
690 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
693 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
694 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
695 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
696 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
697 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
698 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
699 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
700 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
702 - Implement a Recycle command
703 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
704 verify if it is the correct client.
705 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
706 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
707 - Test a second language e.g. french.
708 - Start working on Base jobs.
709 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
710 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
712 - From Phil Stracchino:
713 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
714 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
715 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
716 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
717 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
718 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
719 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
720 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
721 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
722 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
723 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
724 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
725 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
726 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
727 if there is an error.
728 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
729 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
730 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
732 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
733 - Implement console @echo command.
734 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
735 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
736 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
737 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
738 - Implement create "FileSet"?
739 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
740 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
742 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
743 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
744 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
745 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
746 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
748 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
749 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
750 - Refine SD waiting output:
751 Device is being positioned
752 > Device is being positioned for append
753 > Device is being positioned to file x
755 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
756 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
757 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
758 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
759 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
760 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
761 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
762 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
763 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
764 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
765 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
766 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
767 speed up things. Test with testfind().
768 - Priority job to go to top of list.
769 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
770 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
771 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
772 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
773 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
774 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
775 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
776 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
777 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
778 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
779 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
780 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
781 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
782 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
783 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
784 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
785 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
786 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
787 - Add UA rc and history files.
788 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
789 allow -with-termcap-dir.
790 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
791 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
792 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
793 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
794 - Write an applet for Linux.
795 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
796 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
797 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
798 - Maximum Operator Wait
799 - Minimum Message Interval
800 - Maximum Message Interval
801 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
802 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
803 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
805 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
806 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
807 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
808 reading a new config file at any time.
809 - Handle ctl-c in Console
810 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
811 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
812 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
813 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
814 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
815 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
816 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
817 - Restore files modified after date
818 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
819 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
820 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
821 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
822 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
823 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
826 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
827 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
828 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
830 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
831 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
832 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
833 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
834 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
837 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
840 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
841 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
845 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
846 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
847 - Partial Read error code
848 - Partial write error code
849 - Nonformatted read error
850 - Nonformatted write error
851 - WriteProtected error
855 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
865 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
867 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
868 at end of save retry and report any errors.
869 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
870 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
872 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
873 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
874 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
875 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
877 - Ensure that /dev/null works
878 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
879 report resource where report=group of messages
880 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
881 fill in code for "since" option
882 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
883 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
884 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
885 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
886 - Need a structure for pending actions:
888 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
890 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
891 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
892 owner, group, user, quotas
893 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
894 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
896 ========= ideas ===============
897 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
898 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
899 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
900 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
902 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
903 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
904 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
905 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
906 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
907 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
908 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
909 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
910 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
911 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
913 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
914 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
915 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
916 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
917 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
918 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
919 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
922 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
923 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
924 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
925 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
926 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
927 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
928 implementing something like this.
931 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
933 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
934 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
936 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
938 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
939 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
941 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
943 the Migration to tape later.
945 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
946 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
947 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
948 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
949 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
950 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
951 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
952 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
953 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
954 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
955 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
956 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
957 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
958 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
960 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
961 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
962 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
963 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
967 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
969 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
972 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
973 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
974 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
975 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
976 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
977 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
978 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
979 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
980 each row of the files table.
982 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
983 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
984 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
986 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
987 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
988 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
993 ==============================
996 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
997 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
998 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
999 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1000 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1001 the caller can change the break characters.
1002 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1003 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1004 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1005 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1006 buffer messages for later.
1007 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1008 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1009 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1010 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1011 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1012 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1013 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1014 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1018 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1019 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1021 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
1023 Migration triggered by:
1027 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1032 ======================================================
1034 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1035 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1037 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1038 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1040 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1041 JobId - JobId currently running
1042 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1043 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1044 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1045 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1046 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1047 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1048 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1049 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1050 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1051 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1052 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1053 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1054 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1055 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1057 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1058 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1059 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1061 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1063 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1064 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1065 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1066 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1067 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1068 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1069 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1070 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1071 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1073 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1079 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1080 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1081 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1082 =========================================================
1085 ==========================================================
1087 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1088 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1089 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1090 a list of Unsaved files.
1092 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1096 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1097 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1098 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1099 =============================================================
1102 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
1105 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
1106 and no error message.
1107 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
1108 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
1109 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1110 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
1111 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
1112 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
1113 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1114 Use "mount" command to release Job.
1115 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
1116 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
1117 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
1118 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
1120 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
1121 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
1122 just before read_block_from_device();
1125 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1126 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1127 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1128 Address 480 is Empty
1130 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1131 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1132 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1133 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1134 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1135 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1136 Storage Element 1:Empty
1137 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1138 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1139 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1140 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1141 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1142 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1143 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1144 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1145 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1146 Storage Element 11:Empty
1147 Storage Element 12:Empty
1148 Storage Element 13:Empty
1149 Storage Element 14:Empty
1150 Storage Element 15:Empty
1151 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1152 Storage Element 28:Empty
1153 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1154 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1155 Storage Element 57:Empty
1156 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1157 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1158 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1160 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1162 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1163 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1165 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1166 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1167 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1168 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1169 from an offset point either.something like
1171 Autochanger drives = 2
1172 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1173 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1174 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1175 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1181 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1182 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1183 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1184 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1185 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1186 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1187 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1188 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1189 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1190 slot number as the destination.AB
1196 undef# camcontrol devlist
1197 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1198 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1199 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1201 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1202 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1203 Product Type: Tape Drive
1205 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1207 Attached Changer: No
1208 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1209 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1216 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1219 DataCompEnabled: yes
1220 DataCompCapable: yes
1221 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1228 Handling removable disks
1230 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1232 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1233 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1234 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1235 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1237 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1238 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1239 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1240 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1242 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1244 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1245 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1246 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1247 scattered in many subdirectories.
1252 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1253 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1254 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1255 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1256 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1257 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1258 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1259 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1260 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1261 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1262 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1263 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1264 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1265 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
1266 - Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
1267 when the SD started.
1268 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
1269 - If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
1270 then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
1271 for operator intervention.
1272 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
1273 - Add performance testing hooks
1274 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
1275 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
1276 saving only *.doc files.