8 Data encryption Meno Abels (see projects)
9 Communication encryption Meno Abels
10 Version 1.37 Kern (see below)
11 ========================================================
14 - Fix orphanned buffers:
15 Orphaned buffer: 24 bytes allocated at line 808 of rufus-dir job.c
16 Orphaned buffer: 40 bytes allocated at line 45 of rufus-dir alist.c
17 - Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
20 #3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
21 #4 Embedded Python Scripting
22 #5 Events that call a Python program
23 #6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
24 #7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
27 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
28 - Add delete JobId to regression.
29 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
30 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
31 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
32 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
33 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
35 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
36 on the restore prompt)
37 - Add IPv6 to regression
38 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
43 - Add offline command to Bacula console.
44 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
45 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
46 size. Relevant information is at
47 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
48 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
49 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
50 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
51 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
52 - Supported autochanger:
59 - Save mount point for directories not traversed with
61 - Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
62 saving only *.doc files.
63 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
64 - Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
65 - Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
66 get the bootstrap file.
67 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
68 - Document PostgreSQL performance problems bug 131.
70 - Add performance testing hooks
71 - if 2 concurrent backups are attempted on the same tape
72 drive (autoloader) into different tape pools, one of them will exit
73 fatally instead of halting until the drive is idle
74 - Add seconds to start and end times in the Job report output.
75 - Add disk seeking on restore.
76 - Document that ChangerDevice is used for Alert command.
77 - Include within include does it work?
78 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
79 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
80 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
81 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
82 - Look at correcting the time jump in the sceduler for daylight
84 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
85 - Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
86 - Write non-optimized bsrs from the JobMedia and Media records,
87 even after Files are pruned.
88 - Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
90 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
91 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
92 - Promote to Full = Time period
93 - Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
94 - Update StartTime if job held in Job Queue.
95 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
96 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
97 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
98 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
99 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
100 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
101 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
103 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
104 - How to handle backing up portables ...
105 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
106 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
107 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
110 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
111 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
112 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
113 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
114 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
115 - Document query file format.
116 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
117 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
118 - Document how to use multiple databases.
119 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
120 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
123 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
124 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
125 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
126 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
128 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
129 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
130 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
131 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
132 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
133 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
134 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
135 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
136 - Document doing table repair
139 Testing to do: (painful)
142 For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
143 - Add bandwidth limiting.
144 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
145 the line from timing out.
146 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
147 up through the prompt.
148 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
149 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
150 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
151 units, perhaps via a directive.
152 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
153 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
154 - Add a read-only mode to the mount option.
155 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
156 with multiple priorities.
157 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
158 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
160 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
162 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
163 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
164 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
165 - Add All Local Partitions = yes to new style saves.
166 - localmounts=`awk '/ext/ { print $2 }' /proc/mounts` # or whatever
167 find $localmounts -xdev -type s -ls
168 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
169 are not using the same tape(s).
170 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
171 - Look at adding Client run command that will use the
172 port opened by the client.
173 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
175 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
176 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
177 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
178 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
179 perhaps if password is undefined.
180 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
182 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
183 - the help-command should be more verbose
184 (it should explain the paramters of the different
186 -> it´s time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
187 you need a special parameter
188 -> maybe it´s more easy to maintain this, if the
189 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
191 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
192 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
193 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
194 it´s faster to enter the specified directory
195 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
196 you should be asked for it.
197 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
198 which shouldn´t know the password for bacula.
199 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
200 to forget to remove the password after usage
202 the protection of that file is less important
203 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
204 like the unix more/less-command does
205 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
206 be a little long and complex
207 - command-output should be shown column by column
208 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
210 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
212 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
213 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
214 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
216 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
217 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
218 - Add prune all command
219 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
220 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
221 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
222 - look at mxt-changer.html
223 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
224 - Implement restore directory.
225 - Document streams and how to implement them.
226 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
227 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
228 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
229 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
230 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
232 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
233 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
234 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
235 - Add tree pane to left of window.
236 - Add progress meter.
237 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
238 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
239 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
240 which is needed by all packages.
241 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
242 space test fails in btape.
243 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
244 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
245 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
246 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
247 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
248 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
249 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
250 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
251 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
253 it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
254 hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
255 Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
256 should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
257 - Add level to estimate command.
258 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
260 - Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
261 then list last 20 backups.
262 - Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
263 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
264 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
265 Do both a long and short form.
266 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
267 stat data on each file).
268 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
270 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
271 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
272 - Add Events and Perl scripting.
273 - Add John's appended files:
274 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
275 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
276 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
277 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
278 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
279 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
280 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
281 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
282 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
283 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
284 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
285 - Allow for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
286 gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
287 - Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
288 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
289 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
290 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
291 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
292 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
293 BackupClient RestoreClient).
294 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
295 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
296 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
297 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
298 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
299 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
300 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
301 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
302 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
304 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
306 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
307 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
308 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
309 the proper storage type.
310 - Implement MediaType keyword in bsr?
311 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
312 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
313 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
314 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
315 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
316 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
317 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
318 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
319 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
320 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
321 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
322 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
323 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
324 which in turn overrides Pool.
326 - New Storage specifications:
327 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
328 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
329 - Want to read/write simultaneously
330 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
332 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
336 MediaType -> Next MediaType
338 Device -> Next Device
340 Allow multiple Storage specifications
348 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
350 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
351 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
352 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
353 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
354 is contained in only one device.
355 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
357 - Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
359 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
360 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
362 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
363 even more important, it's not flaky
364 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
365 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
367 Macintosh file client
368 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
369 working bare iron recovery for windows
370 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
371 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
372 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
373 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
374 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
376 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
377 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
378 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
379 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
380 support for Oracle database ??
382 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
383 - Each DVD-RAM disk would be a volume, just like each tape is
384 a volume. It's a 4.7GB media with random access, but there's nothing about
385 it that I can see that makes it so different than a tape from bacula's
386 perspective. Why couldn't I back up to a bare floppy as a volume (ignoring
388 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
389 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
390 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
391 is needed to properly specify ranges.
392 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
393 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
394 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
395 - Add a date and time stamp at the beginning of every line in the
396 Job report (Volker Sauer).
397 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
398 - Implement Console mtx commands.
399 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
400 the users could specify a system command to be performed
401 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
402 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
403 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
404 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
405 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
406 depending on the exact nature of the device.
407 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
408 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
409 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
410 once he had actually inserted the disk.
411 - Implement dump/print label to UA
412 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
414 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
415 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
416 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
417 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
418 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
419 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
420 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
421 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
422 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
423 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
424 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
425 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
426 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
427 - Take a careful look at Level for the estimate command, maybe make
428 it a command line option.
429 - Add Volume name to "I cannot write on this volume because"
430 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
431 by handling spaces better.
432 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
433 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
434 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
437 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
438 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
439 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
440 necessary parameters.
442 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
443 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
445 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
446 - Make Dmsg look at global before calling subroutine.
447 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
448 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
449 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
450 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
451 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
452 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
453 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
454 automatically generate the Volume name.
455 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
456 - Look into Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service VSS for backing
457 up system state components (Active Directory, System Volume, ...)
458 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
459 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
460 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
461 time as the user walks through the tree).
462 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
463 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
464 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
465 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
466 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
467 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
468 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
469 run the job but don't save the files.
470 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
473 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
474 - Add SuSE install doc to list.
475 - Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
476 - User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
477 - Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
478 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
479 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
480 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
482 - Implement a Recycle command
483 - Add client name to cram-md5 challenge so Director can immediately
484 verify if it is the correct client.
485 - Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
486 - Make bootstrap filename unique.
487 - Test a second language e.g. french.
488 - Start working on Base jobs.
489 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
490 - Implement argc/argv for daemon command line scanning using table driven
492 - From Phil Stracchino:
493 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
494 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
495 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
496 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
497 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
498 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
499 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
500 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
501 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
502 - Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
503 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
504 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
505 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
506 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
507 if there is an error.
508 - SD Bytes Read is wrong.
509 - Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
510 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
512 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
513 - Implement console @echo command.
514 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
515 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
516 - Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
517 - Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
518 - Implement create "FileSet"?
519 - Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
520 doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
522 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
523 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
524 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
525 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
526 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
528 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
529 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
530 - Refine SD waiting output:
531 Device is being positioned
532 > Device is being positioned for append
533 > Device is being positioned to file x
535 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
536 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
537 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
538 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
539 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
540 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
541 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
542 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
543 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
544 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
545 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
546 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
547 speed up things. Test with testfind().
548 - Priority job to go to top of list.
549 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
550 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
551 - Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
552 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
553 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
554 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
555 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
556 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
557 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
558 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
559 - Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
560 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
561 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
562 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
563 - Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
564 and read to %(variable-name). Idea from TMDA.
565 - Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
566 - Move all SQL statements into a single location.
567 - Add UA rc and history files.
568 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
569 allow -with-termcap-dir.
570 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
571 - Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
572 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
573 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
574 - Write an applet for Linux.
575 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
576 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
577 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
578 - Maximum Operator Wait
579 - Minimum Message Interval
580 - Maximum Message Interval
581 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
582 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
583 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
585 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
586 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
587 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
588 reading a new config file at any time.
589 - Handle ctl-c in Console
590 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
591 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
592 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
593 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
594 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
595 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
596 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
597 - Restore files modified after date
598 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
599 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
600 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
601 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
602 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
603 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
606 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
607 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
608 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
610 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
611 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
612 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
613 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
614 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
617 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
620 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
621 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
625 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
626 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
627 - Partial Read error code
628 - Partial write error code
629 - Nonformatted read error
630 - Nonformatted write error
631 - WriteProtected error
635 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
645 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
647 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
648 at end of save retry and report any errors.
649 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
650 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
652 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
653 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
654 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
655 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
657 - Ensure that /dev/null works
658 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
659 report resource where report=group of messages
660 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
661 fill in code for "since" option
662 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
663 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
664 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
665 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
666 - Need a structure for pending actions:
668 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
670 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
671 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
672 owner, group, user, quotas
673 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
674 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
676 ========= ideas ===============
677 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
678 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
679 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
680 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
682 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
683 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
684 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
685 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
686 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
687 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
688 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
689 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
690 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
691 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
693 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
694 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
695 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
696 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
697 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
698 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
699 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
702 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
703 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
704 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
705 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
706 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
707 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
708 implementing something like this.
711 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
713 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
714 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
716 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
718 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
719 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
721 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
723 the Migration to tape later.
725 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
726 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
727 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
728 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
729 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
730 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
731 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
732 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
733 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
734 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
735 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
736 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
737 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
738 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
740 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
741 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
742 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
743 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
747 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
749 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
752 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
753 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
754 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
755 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
756 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
757 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
758 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
759 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
760 each row of the files table.
762 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
763 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
764 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
766 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
767 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
768 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
773 ==============================
776 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
777 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
778 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
779 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
780 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
781 the caller can change the break characters.
782 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
783 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
784 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
785 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
786 buffer messages for later.
787 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
788 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
789 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
790 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
791 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
792 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
793 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
794 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
798 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
799 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
801 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
803 Migration triggered by:
807 Highwater mark (keep total size)
812 ======================================================
814 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
815 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
817 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
818 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
820 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
821 JobId - JobId currently running
822 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
823 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
824 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
825 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
826 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
827 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
828 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
829 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
830 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
831 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
832 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
833 by the FD for each Base Filename.
834 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
835 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
837 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
838 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
839 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
841 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
843 - At end of Job, FD returns:
844 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
845 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
846 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
847 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
848 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
849 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
850 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
851 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
853 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
859 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
860 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
861 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
862 =========================================================
865 ==========================================================
867 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
868 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
869 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
870 a list of Unsaved files.
872 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
876 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
877 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
878 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
879 =============================================================
882 Done: (see kernsdone for more)
885 - John's Full save failed with 1.32c FD and 1.31 Dir no FD status,
886 and no error message.
887 - Add fd and st as Console keywords.
888 - Recycling volume with a Slot requires an operator intervention:
889 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 18, Job=kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
890 rufus-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Vol01 from catalog.
891 rufus-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume Vol01. Marking it purged.
892 rufus-dir: Recycled volume "Vol01"
893 rufus-sd: Please mount Volume "Vol01" on Storage Device "DDS-4" for Job kernsave.2003-11-01_21.23.52
894 Use "mount" command to release Job.
895 - Implement Dan's bacula script (email of 26 Oct).
896 - Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
897 - Edit the Client/Storage name into authentication failure messages.
898 - Fix packet too big problem. This is most likely a Windows TCP stack
900 - Implement ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
901 - Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
902 just before read_block_from_device();
905 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
906 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
907 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
910 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
911 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
912 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
913 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
914 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
915 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
916 Storage Element 1:Empty
917 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
918 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
919 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
920 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
921 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
922 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
923 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
924 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
925 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
926 Storage Element 11:Empty
927 Storage Element 12:Empty
928 Storage Element 13:Empty
929 Storage Element 14:Empty
930 Storage Element 15:Empty
931 Storage Element 16:Empty....
932 Storage Element 28:Empty
933 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
934 Storage Element 30:Empty....
935 Storage Element 57:Empty
936 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
937 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
938 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
940 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
942 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
943 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
945 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
946 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
947 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
948 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
949 from an offset point either.something like
951 Autochanger drives = 2
952 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
953 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
954 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
955 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
961 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
962 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
963 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
964 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
965 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
966 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
967 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
968 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
969 came from', other than to explicitly use that
970 slot number as the destination.AB
976 undef# camcontrol devlist
977 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
978 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
979 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
981 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
982 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
983 Product Type: Tape Drive
985 Product ID: 'C5713A '
988 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
989 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
996 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1000 DataCompCapable: yes
1001 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1008 Handling removable disks
1010 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1012 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1013 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1014 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1015 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1017 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1018 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1019 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1020 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1022 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1024 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1025 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1026 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1027 scattered in many subdirectories.
1032 - Add "Rerun failed levels = yes/no" to Job resource.
1033 - Fix CDROM make script to permit picking up already installed
1035 - Add date/time to each Jmsg.