5 - Document to have patience when SD first starts.
6 - Document running a test version.
7 - Document saving MySQL databases, where to find code for shutting
8 down and saving other databases.
9 http://www.backupcentral.com/free-backup-software1.html
10 mysqldump -f --opt bacula >bacula
13 - that restore options work in FD.
14 - that mod of restore options works.
15 - that console command line options work
16 - blocksize recognition code.
21 - Ensure that restore of differential jobs works (check SQL).
22 - Enhance schedule to have 1stSat, ...
23 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
24 - Make Job err if WriteBootstrap fails.
25 - Flush all the daemon messages at the end of every job.
26 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
27 - Check if we can bump Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
28 - Implement FileOptions.
29 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
30 - Need return status on read_cb() from read_records(). Need multiple
31 records -- one per Job, maybe a JCR or some other structure with
33 - Continue improving the restore process (handling
34 of tapes, efficiency improvements e.g. use FSF to
35 position the tape, ...)
36 - Work more on how to to a Bacula restore beginning with
37 just a Bacula tape and a boot floppy (bare metal recovery).
38 - Try bare metal Windows restore
39 - Fix read_record to handle multiple sessions.
40 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
41 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
42 - Put system type returned by FD into catalog.
43 - Add VOLUME_CAT_INFO to the EOS tape record (as
44 well as to the EOD record).
45 - Add code to fast seek to proper place on tape/file
46 when doing Restore. If it doesn't work, try linear
48 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
49 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
50 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
51 - Strip trailing slashes from Include directory names in the FD.
52 - Use read_record.c in SD code.
53 - Add EOM records ???????
54 - Why don't we get an error message from Win32 FD when bootstrap
55 file cannot be created for restore command?
56 - Put MaximumVolumeSize in Director (MaximumVolumeJobs, MaximumVolumeFiles,
58 - When Marking a file in Restore that is a hard link, also
59 mark the link so that the data will be reloaded.
60 - Restore program that errors in SD due to no tape reports
61 OK incorrectly in output.
62 - Make BSR accept count (total files to be restored).
63 - Make BSR return next_block when it knows record is not
64 in block, done when count is reached, and possibly other
65 optimizations. I.e. add a state word.
67 - Running multiple simultaneous jobs has a problem when one Job
68 must label the volume -- the others apparently do not wait.
70 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-dir: Start Backup JobId 20, Job=save-rho.2002-11-13_02.06.00
71 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-dir: Start Backup JobId 21, Job=save-beta.2002-11-13_02.06.01
72 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-dir: Start Backup JobId 22, Job=save-dump01.2002-11-13_02.06.02
73 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-sd: Created Volume label File0013 on device /dump7/bacula.
74 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume File0013 on device /dump7/bacula
75 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-sd: save-beta.2002-11-13_02.06.01 Fatal error: Device /dump7/bacula is
76 > busy writing with another Volume.
77 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-sd: save-dump01.2002-11-13_02.06.02 Fatal error: Device /dump7/bacula is
78 > busy writing with another Volume.
79 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 beta-fd: save-beta.2002-11-13_02.06.01 Error: bnet.c:292 Write error sending to
80 > Storage daemon:dump01:9103: ERR=Broken pipe
81 > 13-Nov-2002 02:06 dump01-fd: save-dump01.2002-11-13_02.06.02 Error: bnet.c:319 Write error sending
82 > to Storage daemon:dump01:9103: ERR=Broken pipe
83 > 13-Nov-2002 02:08 dump01-dir: 13-Nov-2002 02:08
86 - Add VolumeUseDuration and MaximumVolumeJobs to Pool db record and
88 - Figure out how compress everything except .gz,... files.
89 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
90 - Make sure catalog doesn't keep growing.
91 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
92 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
93 - Fix db_get_fileset in cats/sql_get.c for multiple records.
94 - Fix start/end blocks for File devices
95 - Add new code to scheduler.c and run_conf.c
96 schedule options (1-sat, 2-sat, ...).
97 - Fix catalog filename truncation in sql_get and sql_create. Use
98 only a single filename split routine.
99 - Add command to reset VolFiles to a larger value (don't allow
100 a smaller number or print big warning).
101 - Make Restore report an error if FD or SD term codes are not OK.
102 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
103 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
104 - Add JobLevel in FD status (but make sure it is defined).
105 - Make Pool resource handle Counter resources.
106 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
107 - Fix gethostbyname() to use gethostbyname_r()
108 - Implement ./configure --with-client-only
109 - Strip trailing / from Include
110 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
111 - Cleanup db_update_media and db_update_pool
112 - Add UA rc and history files.
113 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
114 allow -with-termcap-dir.
115 - Enhance time and size scanning routines.
116 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
117 - DateWritten field on tape may be wrong.
118 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
119 - No READLINE_SRC if found in alternate directory.
120 - Add Client FS/OS id (Linux, Win95/98, ...).
124 Bacula Projects Roadmap
126 last update 7 October 2002
128 Item 1: Multiple simultaneous Jobs. (done)
131 What: Permit multiple simultaneous jobs in Bacula.
133 Why: An enterprise level solution needs to go fast without the
134 need for the system administrator to carefully tweak
135 timing. Based on the benchmarks, during a full
136 backup, NetWorker typically hit 10 times the bandwidth to
137 the tape compared to Bacula--largely. This is probably due to
138 running parallel jobs and multi-threaded filling of buffers
139 and writing them to tape. This should also make things work
140 better when you have a mix of fast and slow machines backing
143 Notes: Bacula was designed to run multiple simultaneous jobs. Thus
144 implementing this is a matter of some small cleanups and
148 Item 2: Make the Storage daemon use intermediate file storage to buffer data.
149 Deferred -- not necessary yet.
151 What: If data is coming into the SD too fast, buffer it to
152 disk if the user has configured this option.
154 Why: This would be nice, especially if it more or less falls out
155 when implementing (1) above. If not, it probably should not
156 be given a high priority because fundamentally the backup time
157 is limited by the tape bandwidth. Even though you may finish a
158 client job quicker by spilling to disk, you still have to
159 eventually get it onto tape. If intermediate disk buffering
160 allows us to improve write bandwidth to tape, it may make
163 Notes: Whether or not this is implemented will depend upon performance
164 testing after item 1 is implemented.
167 Item 3: Write the bscan program.
170 What: Write a program that reads a Bacula tape and puts all the
171 appropriate data into the catalog. This allows recovery
172 from a tape that is no longer in the database, or it allows
173 re-creation of a database if lost.
175 Why: This is a fundamental robustness and disaster recovery tool
176 which will increase the comfort level of a sysadmin
177 considering adopting Bacula.
179 Notes: A skeleton of this program already exists, but much work
180 needs to be done. Implementing this will also make apparent
181 any deficiencies in the current Bacula tape format.
184 Item 4: Implement Base jobs.
186 What: A base job is sort of like a Full save except that you
187 will want the FileSet to contain only files that are unlikely
188 to change in the future (i.e. a snapshot of most of your
189 system after installing it). After the base job has been run,
190 when you are doing a Full save, you can specify to exclude
191 all files saved by the base job that have not been modified.
193 Why: This is something none of the competition does, as far as we know
194 (except BackupPC, which is a Perl program that saves to disk
195 only). It is big win for the user, it makes Bacula stand out
196 as offering a unique optimization that immediately saves time
199 Notes: Big savings in tape usage. Will require more resources because
200 the e. DIR must send FD a list of files/attribs, and the FD must
201 search the list and compare it for each file to be saved.
204 Item 5: Implement Label templates
206 What: This is a mechanism whereby Bacula can automatically create
207 a tape label for new tapes according to a detailed specification
208 provided by the user.
210 Why: It is a major convenience item for folks who use automated label
213 Notes: Bacula already has a working form of automatic tape label
214 creation, but it is very crude. The design for the complete
215 tape labeling project is already documented in the manual.
218 Item 6: Write a regression script.
221 What: This is an automatic script that runs and tests as many features
222 of Bacula as possible. The output is compared to previous
223 versions of Bacula and any differences are reported.
225 Why: This is an enormous help in preventing introduction of new
226 errors in parts of the program that already work correctly.
228 Notes: This probably should be ranked higher, it's something the typical
229 user doesn't see. Depending on how it's implemented, it may
230 make sense to defer it until the archival tape format and
231 user interface mature.
234 Item 7: GUI for interactive restore
235 Item 8: GUI for interactive backup
237 What: The current interactive restore is implemented with a tty
238 interface. It would be much nicer to be able to "see" the
239 list of files backed up in typical GUI tree format.
240 The same mechanism could also be used for creating
241 ad-hoc backup FileSets (item 8).
243 Why: Ease of use -- especially for the end user.
245 Notes: Rather than implementing in Gtk, we probably should go directly
246 for a Browser implementation, even if doing so meant the
247 capability wouldn't be available until much later. Not only
248 is there the question of Windows sites, most
249 Solaris/HP/IRIX, etc, shops can't currently run Gtk programs
250 without installing lots of stuff admins are very wary about.
251 Real sysadmins will always use the command line anyway, and
252 the user who's doing an interactive restore or backup of his
253 own files will in most cases be on a Windows machine running
257 Item 9: Add SSL to daemon communications.
259 What: This provides for secure communications between the daemons.
261 Why: This would allow doing backup across the Internet without
262 privacy concerns (or with much less concern).
264 Notes: The vast majority of near term potential users will be backing up
265 a single site over a LAN and, correctly or not, they probably
266 won't be concerned with security, at least not enough to go to
267 the trouble to set up keys, etc. to screw things down. We suspect
268 that many users genuinely interested in multi-site backup
269 already run some form of VPN software in their internetwork
270 connections, and are willing to delegate security to that layer.
273 Item 10: Define definitive tape format.
274 Mostly done (version 1.27)
276 What: Define that definitive tape format that will not change
277 for the next millennium.
279 Why: Stability, security.
281 Notes: See notes for item 11 below.
284 Item 11: New daemon communication protocol.
286 What: The current daemon to daemon protocol is basically an ASCII
287 printf() and sending the buffer. On the receiving end, the
288 buffer is sscanf()ed to unpack it. The new scheme would
289 be a binary format that allows quick packing and unpacking
290 of any data type with named fields.
292 Why: Using binary packing would be faster. Named fields will permit
293 error checking to ensure that what is sent is what the
294 receiver really wants.
296 Notes: These are internal improvements in the interest of the
297 long-term stability and evolution of the program. On the one
298 hand, the sooner they're done, the less code we have to rip
299 up when the time comes to install them. On the other hand, they
300 don't bring an immediately perceptible benefit to potential
301 users. Item 10 and possibly item 11 should be deferred until Bacula
302 is well established with a growing user community more or
303 less happy with the feature set. At that time, it will make a
304 good "next generation" upgrade in the interest of data
309 I haven't put these in any particular order.
312 - Rework Storage daemon with new rwl_lock routines.
313 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
314 - Restore options (overwrite, overwrite if older,
315 overwrite if newer, never overwrite, ...)
316 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
317 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
318 - Write an applet for Linux.
319 - Add estimate to Console commands
320 - Find solution to blank filename (i.e. path only) problem.
321 - Implement new daemon communications protocol.
324 mysqldump -f --opt bacula >bacula
328 - Remove PoolId from Job table, it exists in Media.
329 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
330 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
331 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
332 - Maximum Operator Wait
333 - Minimum Message Interval
334 - Maximum Message Interval
335 - Add EOM handling variables
337 - Require EOD records
338 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
339 - Think about how to handle I/O error on MTEOM.
340 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
341 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
343 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
344 - Fix Win2000 error with no messages during startup.
345 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
346 - Write general list maintenance subroutines.
347 - Restrict characters permitted in a Resource name.
348 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
349 reading a new config file at any time.
350 - Handle ctl-c in Console
351 - Implement LabelTemplate (at least first cut).
352 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
354 - see setgroup and user for Bacula p4-5 of stunnel.c
355 - Implement new serialize subroutines
356 send(socket, "string", &Vol, "uint32", &i, NULL)
357 - On I/O error, write EOF, then try to write again ????
358 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
359 - If ./btape is called without /dev, assume argument is a Storage resource name.
360 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
361 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
362 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
363 - gethostbyname failure in bnet_connect() continues
364 generating errors -- should stop.
365 - Add HOST to Volume label.
366 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
367 - Implement throttled work queue.
368 - Check for EOT at ENOSPC or EIO or ENXIO (unix Pc)
369 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
370 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
371 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
372 - Implement full MediaLabel code.
373 - Implement dump label to UA
374 - Copy volume using single drive.
375 - Copy volume with multiple driven (same or different block size).
376 - Add block size (min, max) to Vol label.
377 - Concept of VolumeSet during restore which is a list
378 of Volume names needed.
379 - Restore files modified after date
380 - Restore file modified before date
381 - Emergency restore info:
383 - Backup working directory
385 - Restore options (do not overwrite)
386 - Restore -- do nothing but show what would happen
387 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
388 - Implement Restore FileSet=
389 - Write a scanner for the UA (keyword, scan-routine, result, prompt).
390 - Create a protocol.h and protocol.c where all protocol messages
392 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
393 - Put Bacula version somewhere in Job stream, probably Start Session
395 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
396 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
397 - Fill all fields in Vol/Job Header -- ensure that everything
398 needed is written to tape. Think about restore to Catalog
399 from tape. Client record needs improving.
400 - Find general solution for sscanf size problems (as well
401 as sprintf. Do at run time?
402 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
403 - Allow FD to run from inetd ???
405 - Restore should get Device and Pool information from
406 job record rather than from config.
407 - Autolabel should be specified by DR instead of SD.
408 - Find out how to get the system tape block limits, e.g.:
409 Apr 22 21:22:10 polymatou kernel: st1: Block limits 1 - 245760 bytes.
410 Apr 22 21:22:10 polymatou kernel: st0: Block limits 2 - 16777214 bytes.
413 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
414 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
418 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
419 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
420 - Partial Read error code
421 - Partial write error code
422 - Nonformatted read error
423 - Nonformatted write error
424 - WriteProtected error
428 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
438 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job.
439 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
440 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
442 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
443 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
445 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
446 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
447 - restart: paranoid: read label fsf to
448 eom read append block, and go
449 super-paranoid: read label, read all files
450 in between, read append block, and go
451 verify: backspace, read append block, and go
452 permissive: same as above but frees drive
453 if tape is not valid.
455 - Ensure that /dev/null works
456 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
457 at end of save retry and report any errors.
458 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
459 report resource where report=group of messages
460 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
461 fill in code for "since" option
462 - To buffer messages, we need associated jobid and Director name.
463 - Need to save contents of FileSet to tape?
464 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
465 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
466 Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
467 - Figure out how to save the catalog (possibly a special FileSet).
468 - Figure out how to restore the catalog.
469 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
470 - Need a structure for pending actions:
472 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
473 - Concept of grouping Storage devices and job can use
474 any of a number of devices
476 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
477 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
478 owner, group, user, quotas
479 - Tape recycle destination
480 - Job Schedule Status
484 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
485 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
488 - Use media 1 time (so that we can do 6 days of incremental
489 backups before switching to another tape) (already)
490 specify # times (jobs)
491 specify bytes (already)
492 specify time (seconds, hours, days)
493 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
494 - Identify unchanged or "system" files and save them to a
495 special tape thus removing them from the standard
496 backup FileSet -- BASE backup.
497 - Turn virutally all sprintfs into snprintfs.
498 - Heartbeat between daemons.
499 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
500 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
501 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
502 the caller can change the break characters.
503 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
504 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
505 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
506 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
507 buffer messages for later.
510 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
513 - Check if GZIP1 is working -- check speed.
514 - Document forcing a new tape to be used.
515 - Ensure that AcceptAnyVolume works.
516 - Document running multiple Jobs
517 - Preserve block number when EOT and writing on next tape.
518 - Document how to cancel a job that is waiting on a Volume.
519 Must "cancel" then "mount".
520 - Document Volume Bytes shows bytes on last volume written in Job summary.
521 - Restore all Windows attributes. Leave hooks for ACLs and security.
522 (Handle x = (HANDLE)get_osfhandle(fd);
523 - Test Windows restore.
525 - Implement sparse files.
526 - Document sparse files.
527 - Document better Include (does it cross file systems ?).
528 - Document default config file locations.
529 - Document specifically how to add new File daemon to config files.
530 - Add VerNo to each Session label record.
531 - Add Job to Session records.
532 - Cold start full restore (restore catalog then
533 user selects what to restore). Write summary file containing only
534 Job, Media, and Catalog information. Store on another machine.
535 - Dump/Restore database
536 - Write bscan program that will syncronize the DB Media record with
537 the contents of the Volume -- for use after a crash.
538 - Figure out how to put a Volume into the catalog (from the tape)
539 - Figure out how to do a restore from a Volume
540 - Report compression % and other compression statistics if turned on.
541 - Put Windows files in Windows stream?
542 - Ensure that everyone uses btime routines (mostly done).
543 - Put Job statistics in End Session Label (files saved,
544 total bytes, start time, ...).
545 - Put FileSet name in the SOS label.
546 - Eliminate duplicate File records to shrink database.
547 - If Storage daemon aborts a job, ensure that this
548 is printed in the error message.
549 - Add save type to Session label.
550 - Correct date on Session label.
551 - Test restore of Windows backup
552 - Ability to recreate the catalog from a tape.
553 - Bug: anonymous Volumes requires mount in some cases.
554 - Define how we handle times to avoid problem with Unix dates (2049 ?).
555 - Add daemon JCR JobId=0 to have a daemon context
556 - Implement full restoration of all Windows attributes
557 (such as Hidden, System, creation dates, ...)
558 - Handle sparse files (i.e. files with holes in them)
559 - Enhance testing for Bacula compatibility with
561 - Turn on new BB02 tape format implemented in 1.26 but
563 - More testing of restoring on Unix systems.
564 - Implement additional tape format enhancements to better
565 support Windows and other non-Unix systems e.g.
567 - Upgrade to latest version of cygwin. (not possible)
568 - Add configure for gettimeofday.
569 - At line 51 of ua_input.c, why is = 0 necessary. Previously without
570 it, if cancel gnome-console during sql command, DIR crashed. However,
571 with it, blank line input for Where: is not possible.
572 - Make SD disallow writing on Volume with fewer files than in
574 - Label (asks for slot, return and it stops).
575 - Make SD reject writing on tape where Catalog and tape # files
576 don't agree (possibly OK if tape > catalog).
577 - Document all daemon tools MUST have a config file.
578 - Why does btape error when pointed to a file?
579 - Disallow compile if long long not 64 bits.
580 - Send Volumes needed during restore to Console (just after
581 create_volume_list) -- also in restore command?
582 - File system type from File daemon
583 - Move block size code from block.c to init_dev().
584 - Add FileSet MD5 to bscan.
585 - Finish implementation of restore "replace" options, and document.
587 - Document buffer size considerations with Sparse files --
588 - that restore prints volumes.
589 - Document that two Verifys at same time on same client do not work.
591 - MD5 in bscan is set in FileSet.
592 - that Bacula won't write on tape where tape/catalog files differ.
593 - Document how to recycle a tape in 7 days even if the backup takes a long time.
594 - Document tape cycling
595 - Implement VolumeUseDuration (maximum duration/period) a volume can be used).
596 Possibly VolumeUseTimes (MaximumVolumeJobs) This permits a volume to be
597 recycled even if it is not full.
598 - Decide what to do with JobTDate in catalog (make real utime_t?)
599 - Implement VolMaxJob and Duration check in next_volume().
600 - Make sure pruning of Jobs removes JobMediaId
601 - Write bcopy program -- recovery of bad tape.
602 - Make gethostbyname() thread safe in bnet.c
603 - Add ORDER BY JobId to list of Jobs in query.sql, and in
604 ua_output.c (list command).
605 - drive MaxVolJobs, VolUseDuration from media record
606 rather than Resource.
607 - Fix intmax_t on FreeBSD.
608 - make sure that update of volume new parameters works
609 - Document -i option on FD