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 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
28 saving only *.doc files.
29 - Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
30 - Optimized bootstrap.
33 - Add a restore directory-x
34 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
35 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
36 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
37 - Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
38 - See multiple-store.txt for Multiple Storage implementation
40 - Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
41 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
42 - Add disk seeking on restore.
43 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
44 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
45 get the bootstrap file.
46 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
47 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
48 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
49 - Add performance testing hooks
50 - Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
51 Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
52 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
54 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
55 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
56 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
57 - Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.1 See:
58 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
60 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
61 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
62 Automatically selected Pool: Default
63 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
64 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
65 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
66 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
67 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
68 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
69 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
71 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
72 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
73 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
74 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
76 Regression tests (Jo):
77 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
78 - Add delete JobId to regression.
79 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
80 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
81 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
82 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
83 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
85 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
86 on the restore prompt)
87 - Add IPv6 to regression
88 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
91 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
92 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
93 more than 1000 files per directory.
97 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
98 The bacula-devel list is CC'ed (I'm also subscribed to the list right now,
99 so I will also get the responses).
101 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
102 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
103 benefit from as well.
105 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
106 NextJobs = job1,job2.
109 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
110 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
111 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
112 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
113 the job after it needn't to be run
114 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
117 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
118 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
119 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
122 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
123 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
124 execute different actions based on the return value
126 2. Priorities also for the Schedule Resource
130 With this it is possible to run monthly jobs at the end of the month
131 instead of the beginning of the next month, so one could define
132 weekly and monthly pools to be run on Fridays and if there are
133 2 Jobs resulting on the same time, the one with the higher priority
134 takes precedence. This is also helpfull to implement a daily
135 rotation scheme with an additional 2 weeks changing weekly pool
139 Name = "NightlyBackup"
140 Run = Priority = 1,Pool=Weekly friday at 21:00
141 Run = Priority = 2,Pool=Weekly monthly on friday at 21:00
142 Run = Priority = 3,Pool=Weekly yearly on friday at 21:00
145 3. offline capability to bconsole
148 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
149 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
150 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
151 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
153 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
154 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
155 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
156 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
157 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
160 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
164 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
165 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
166 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
168 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
171 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
172 I would have the possibilty to define
173 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
174 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
176 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
179 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
180 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
181 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
183 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
184 french and Morre (western african language).
186 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
187 due to the design of bacula.
189 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
190 the "Label Format" Directive.
194 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
195 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
196 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
197 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
198 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
199 name in the correct language.
201 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
202 - Specify a single directory to restore.
203 - Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
204 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
205 rpm and Win32 releases.
206 - Browse generations of files.
207 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
208 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
209 size. Relevant information is at
210 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
211 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
212 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
213 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
214 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
215 - Supported autochanger:
223 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
224 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
225 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
226 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
227 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
229 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
230 - Include within include does it work?
231 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
232 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
233 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
234 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
235 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
236 savings time changes.
237 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
238 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
239 even after Files are pruned.
240 - Promote to Full = Time period
241 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
242 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
243 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
244 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
245 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
246 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
247 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
249 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
250 - How to handle backing up portables ...
251 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
252 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
253 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
256 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
257 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
258 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
259 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
260 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
261 - Document query file format.
262 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
263 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
264 - Document how to use multiple databases.
265 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
266 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
269 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
270 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
271 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
272 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
274 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
275 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
276 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
277 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
278 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
279 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
280 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
281 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
282 - Document doing table repair
285 Testing to do: (painful)
288 For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
289 - Add bandwidth limiting.
290 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
291 the line from timing out.
292 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
293 up through the prompt.
294 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
295 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
296 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
297 units, perhaps via a directive.
298 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
299 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
300 - Add a read-only mode to the mount option.
301 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
302 with multiple priorities.
303 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
304 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
306 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
308 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
309 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
310 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
311 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
312 are not using the same tape(s).
313 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
314 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
316 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
317 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
318 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
319 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
320 perhaps if password is undefined.
321 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
326 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
327 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
329 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
330 - the help-command should be more verbose
331 (it should explain the paramters of the different
333 -> it´s time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
334 you need a special parameter
335 -> maybe it´s more easy to maintain this, if the
336 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
338 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
339 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
340 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
341 it´s faster to enter the specified directory
342 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
343 you should be asked for it.
344 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
345 which shouldn´t know the password for bacula.
346 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
347 to forget to remove the password after usage
349 the protection of that file is less important
350 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
351 like the unix more/less-command does
352 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
353 be a little long and complex
354 - command-output should be shown column by column
355 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
357 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
359 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
360 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
361 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
363 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
364 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
365 - Add prune all command
366 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
367 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
368 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
369 - look at mxt-changer.html
370 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
371 - Implement restore directory.
372 - Document streams and how to implement them.
373 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
374 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
375 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
376 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
377 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
379 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
380 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
381 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
382 - Add tree pane to left of window.
383 - Add progress meter.
384 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
385 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
386 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
387 which is needed by all packages.
388 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
389 space test fails in btape.
390 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
391 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
392 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
393 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
394 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
395 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
396 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
397 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
398 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
400 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
401 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
402 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
403 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
404 - Add level to estimate command.
405 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
407 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
408 then list last 20 backups.
409 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
410 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
411 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
412 Do both a long and short form.
413 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
414 stat data on each file).
415 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
417 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
418 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
419 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
420 - Add John's appended files:
421 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
422 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
423 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
424 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
425 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
426 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
427 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
428 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
429 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
430 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
431 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
432 - Allow for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
433 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
434 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
435 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
436 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
437 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
438 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
439 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
440 BackupClient RestoreClient).
441 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
442 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
443 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
444 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
445 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
446 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
447 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
448 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
449 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
451 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
453 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
454 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
455 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
456 the proper storage type.
457 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
458 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
459 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
460 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
461 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
462 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
463 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
464 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
465 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
466 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
467 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
468 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
469 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
470 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
471 which in turn overrides Pool.
473 - New Storage specifications:
474 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
475 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
476 - Want to read/write simultaneously
477 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
479 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
483 MediaType -> Next MediaType
485 Device -> Next Device
487 Allow multiple Storage specifications
495 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
497 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
498 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
499 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
500 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
501 is contained in only one device.
502 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
504 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
505 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
507 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
508 even more important, it's not flaky
509 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
510 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
512 Macintosh file client
513 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
514 working bare iron recovery for windows
515 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
516 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
517 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
518 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
519 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
521 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
522 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
523 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
524 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
525 support for Oracle database ??
527 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
528 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
529 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
530 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
531 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
533 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
534 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
535 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
536 is needed to properly specify ranges.
537 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
538 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
539 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
540 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
541 Job report (Volker Sauer).
542 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
543 - Implement Console mtx commands.
544 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
545 the users could specify a system command to be performed
546 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
547 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
548 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
549 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
550 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
551 depending on the exact nature of the device.
552 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
553 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
554 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
555 once he had actually inserted the disk.
556 - Implement dump/print label to UA
557 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
559 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
560 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
561 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
562 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
563 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
564 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
565 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
566 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
567 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
568 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
569 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
570 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
571 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
572 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
573 it a command line option.
574 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
575 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
576 by handling spaces better.
577 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
578 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
579 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
582 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
583 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
584 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
585 necessary parameters.
587 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
588 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
590 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
591 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
592 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
593 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
594 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
595 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
596 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
597 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
598 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
599 automatically generate the Volume name.
600 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
601 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
602 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
603 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
604 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
605 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
606 time as the user walks through the tree).
607 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
608 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
609 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
610 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
611 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
612 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
613 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
614 run the job but don't save the files.
615 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
618 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
619 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
620 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
621 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
622 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
623 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
624 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
625 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
627 - Implement a Recycle command
628 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
629 verify if it is the correct client.
630 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
631 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
632 - Test a second language e.g. french.
633 - Start working on Base jobs.
634 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
635 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
637 - From Phil Stracchino:
638 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
639 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
640 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
641 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
642 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
643 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
644 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
645 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
646 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
647 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
648 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
649 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
650 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
651 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
652 if there is an error.
653 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
654 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
655 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
657 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
658 - Implement console @echo command.
659 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
660 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
661 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
662 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
663 - Implement create "FileSet"?
664 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
665 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
667 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
668 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
669 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
670 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
671 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
673 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
674 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
675 - Refine SD waiting output:
676 Device is being positioned
677 > Device is being positioned for append
678 > Device is being positioned to file x
680 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
681 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
682 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
683 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
684 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
685 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
686 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
687 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
688 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
689 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
690 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
691 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
692 speed up things. Test with testfind().
693 - Priority job to go to top of list.
694 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
695 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
696 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
697 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
698 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
699 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
700 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
701 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
702 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
703 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
704 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
705 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
706 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
707 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
708 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
709 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
710 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
711 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
712 - Add UA rc and history files.
713 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
714 allow -with-termcap-dir.
715 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
716 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
717 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
718 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
719 - Write an applet for Linux.
720 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
721 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
722 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
723 - Maximum Operator Wait
724 - Minimum Message Interval
725 - Maximum Message Interval
726 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
727 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
728 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
730 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
731 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
732 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
733 reading a new config file at any time.
734 - Handle ctl-c in Console
735 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
736 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
737 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
738 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
739 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
740 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
741 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
742 - Restore files modified after date
743 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
744 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
745 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
746 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
747 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
748 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
751 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
752 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
753 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
755 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
756 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
757 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
758 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
759 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
762 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
765 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
766 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
770 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
771 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
772 - Partial Read error code
773 - Partial write error code
774 - Nonformatted read error
775 - Nonformatted write error
776 - WriteProtected error
780 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
790 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
792 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
793 at end of save retry and report any errors.
794 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
795 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
797 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
798 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
799 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
800 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
802 - Ensure that /dev/null works
803 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
804 report resource where report=group of messages
805 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
806 fill in code for "since" option
807 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
808 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
809 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
810 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
811 - Need a structure for pending actions:
813 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
815 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
816 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
817 owner, group, user, quotas
818 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
819 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
821 ========= ideas ===============
822 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
823 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
824 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
825 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
827 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
828 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
829 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
830 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
831 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
832 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
833 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
834 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
835 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
836 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
838 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
839 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
840 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
841 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
842 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
843 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
844 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
847 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
848 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
849 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
850 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
851 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
852 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
853 implementing something like this.
856 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
858 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
859 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
861 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
863 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
864 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
866 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
868 the Migration to tape later.
870 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
871 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
872 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
873 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
874 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
875 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
876 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
877 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
878 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
879 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
880 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
881 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
882 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
883 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
885 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
886 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
887 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
888 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
892 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
894 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
897 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
898 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
899 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
900 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
901 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
902 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
903 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
904 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
905 each row of the files table.
907 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
908 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
909 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
911 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
912 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
913 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
918 ==============================
921 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
922 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
923 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
924 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
925 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
926 the caller can change the break characters.
927 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
928 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
929 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
930 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
931 buffer messages for later.
932 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
933 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
934 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
935 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
936 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
937 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
938 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
939 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
943 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
944 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
946 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
948 Migration triggered by:
952 Highwater mark (keep total size)
957 ======================================================
959 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
960 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
962 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
963 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
965 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
966 JobId - JobId currently running
967 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
968 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
969 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
970 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
971 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
972 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
973 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
974 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
975 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
976 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
977 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
978 by the FD for each Base Filename.
979 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
980 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
982 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
983 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
984 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
986 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
988 - At end of Job, FD returns:
989 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
990 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
991 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
992 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
993 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
994 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
995 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
996 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
998 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1004 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1005 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1006 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1007 =========================================================
1010 ==========================================================
1012 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1013 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1014 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1015 a list of Unsaved files.
1017 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1021 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1022 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1023 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1024 =============================================================
1027 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
1030 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
1031 and no error message.
1032 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
1033 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
1034 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1035 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
1036 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
1037 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
1038 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
1039 Use "mount" command to release Job.
1040 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
1041 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
1042 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
1043 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
1045 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
1046 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
1047 just before read_block_from_device();
1050 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1051 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1052 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1053 Address 480 is Empty
1055 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1056 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1057 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1058 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1059 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1060 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1061 Storage Element 1:Empty
1062 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1063 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1064 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1065 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1066 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1067 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1068 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1069 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1070 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1071 Storage Element 11:Empty
1072 Storage Element 12:Empty
1073 Storage Element 13:Empty
1074 Storage Element 14:Empty
1075 Storage Element 15:Empty
1076 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1077 Storage Element 28:Empty
1078 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1079 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1080 Storage Element 57:Empty
1081 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1082 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1083 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1085 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1087 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1088 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1090 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1091 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1092 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1093 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1094 from an offset point either.something like
1096 Autochanger drives = 2
1097 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1098 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1099 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1100 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1106 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1107 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1108 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1109 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1110 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1111 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1112 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1113 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1114 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1115 slot number as the destination.AB
1121 undef# camcontrol devlist
1122 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1123 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1124 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1126 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1127 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1128 Product Type: Tape Drive
1130 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1132 Attached Changer: No
1133 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1134 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1141 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1144 DataCompEnabled: yes
1145 DataCompCapable: yes
1146 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1153 Handling removable disks
1155 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1157 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1158 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1159 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1160 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1162 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1163 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1164 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1165 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1167 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1169 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1170 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1171 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1172 scattered in many subdirectories.
1177 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with onefs=yes.
1178 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
1179 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
1180 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
1181 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
1182 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
1183 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
1184 bare metal restore. (done by Scott)
1185 - Fix orphanned buffers:
1186 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
1187 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
1188 - Implement Preben's suggestion to add
1189 File System Types = ext2, ext3
1190 to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.