9 - Document cleaning up the spool files:
10 db, pid, state, bsr, mail, conmsg, spool
11 - Document the multiple-drive-changer.txt script.
12 - Pruning with Admin job.
13 - Does WildFile match against full name? Doc.
14 - %d and %v only valid on Director, not for ClientRunBefore/After.
15 - During tests with the 260 char fix code, I found one problem:
16 if the system "sees" a long path once, it seems to forget it's
17 working drive (e.g. c:\), which will lead to a problem during
18 the next job (create bootstrap file will fail). Here is the
19 workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
20 bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
22 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
23 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
24 - Add example of proper index output to doc.
26 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
27 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
28 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
29 building the French PDF.
30 - Document more DVD stuff -- particularly that recycling doesn't work,
31 and all the other things too.
44 - When reading through parts on the DVD, the DVD is mounted and
45 unmounted for each part.
46 - Make sure that the restore options don't permit "seeing" other
47 Client's job data. -- mostly fixed.
48 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
49 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
50 broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
51 - add udev rules for Bacula devices.
52 - If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
53 Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
54 - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
55 writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
56 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
57 - Try turning on disk seek code.
58 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
59 - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common
61 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
62 - Remove queue.c code.
63 - Some users claim that they must do two prune commands to get a
64 Volume marked as purged.
65 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
67 - New dot commands from Arno.
68 .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
69 devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
70 .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
71 better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
72 .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
73 target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
74 .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
77 - Check to see if jcr->stime is lost during rescheduling of
79 - Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
80 a block, and check if block was written by a different job
81 (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
82 - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
84 changequote(`[',`]')dnl
86 :List next 20 volumes to expire
88 Pool.Name AS PoolName,
93 [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
95 [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
99 ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
100 WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
104 Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
106 The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
108 - Get Perl replacement for bregex.c
109 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
110 little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
111 simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
112 solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
113 write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
118 Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
119 reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
122 /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
124 and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
127 /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
129 and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
130 executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
132 I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
133 significant changes to Bacula.
138 select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
139 # Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
140 select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
141 File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
142 order by Path.Path ASC;
144 - Look into using Dart for testing
145 http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
147 - Look into replacing autotools with cmake
148 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
150 === Migration from David ===
151 What I'd like to see:
154 Name = "<poolname>-migrate"
158 Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil | OldestVol | PoolOccupancy |
159 Client | PoolResidence | Volume | JobName | SQLquery
160 Migration Selection Pattern = "regexp"
161 Next Pool = <override>
164 There should be no need for a Level (migration is always Full, since you
165 don't calculate differential/incremental differences for migration),
166 Storage should be determined by the volume types in the pool, and Client
167 is really a selection issue. Migration should always occur to the
168 NextPool defined in the pool definition. If no nextpool is defined, the
169 job should end with a reason of "no place to go". If Next Pool statement
170 is present, we override the check in the pool definition and use the
173 Here's how I'd define Migration Selection Types:
176 Client -- Migrate data from selected client only. Migration Selection
177 Pattern regexp provides pattern to select client names, eg ^FS00* makes
178 all client names starting with FS00 eligible for migration.
180 Jobname -- Migration all jobs matching name. Migration Selection Pattern
181 regexp provides pattern to select jobnames existing in pool.
183 Volume -- Migrate all data on specified volumes. Migration Selection
184 Pattern regexp provides selection criteria for volumes to be migrated.
185 Volumes must exist in pool to be eligible for migration.
189 LowestUtil -- Identify the volume in the pool with the least data on it
190 and empty it. No Migration Selection Pattern required.
192 OldestVol -- Identify the LRU volume with data written, and empty it. No
193 Migration Selection Pattern required.
195 PoolOccupancy -- if pool occupancy exceeds <highmig>, migrate volumes
196 (starting with most full volumes) until pool occupancy drops below
197 <lowmig>. Pool highmig and lowmig values are in pool definition, no
198 Migration Selection Pattern required.
202 SQLQuery -- Migrate all jobuids returned by the supplied SQL query.
203 Migration Selection Pattern contains SQL query to execute; should return
204 a list of 1 or more jobuids to migrate.
206 PoolResidence -- Migrate data sitting in pool for longer than
207 PoolResidence value in pool definition. Migration Selection Pattern
208 optional; if specified, override value in pool definition (value in
212 [ possibly a Python event -- kes ]
214 - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes:
215 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
216 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
217 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
218 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
219 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
220 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
221 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
222 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
223 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
224 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
225 - If Drive 0 is blocked, and drive 1 is set "Autoselect=no", drive 1 will
227 - Autochanger did not change volumes.
228 select * from Storage;
229 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
230 | StorageId | Name | AutoChanger |
231 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
232 | 1 | LTO-changer | 0 |
233 +-----------+-------------+-------------+
234 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result is Slot 11.
235 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Warning: Director wanted Volume "LT
236 Current Volume "LT0-002" not acceptable because:
237 1997 Volume "LT0-002" not in catalog.
238 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Autochanger Volume "LT0-002"
239 Setting InChanger to zero in catalog.
240 05-May 03:50 roxie-dir: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Error: Unable to get Media record
242 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Error getting Volume i
243 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: Job 530 canceled.
244 05-May 03:50 roxie-sd: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: spool.c:249 Fatal appe
245 05-May 03:49 Tibs: Tibs.2006-05-05_03.05.02 Fatal error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula
254 FirstWritten: 2006-05-05 03:11:54
255 LastWritten: 2006-05-05 03:50:23
256 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
267 VolRetention: 31,536,000
279 Note VolStatus is blank!!!!!
286 FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
287 LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
288 LabelDate: 2005-12-26 16:52:40
299 VolRetention: 31,536,000
312 Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer
313 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0
314 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
315 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
316 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
317 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
318 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) because:
319 Couldn't rewind device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found.
321 3905 Device "LTO-Drive1" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
322 If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume.
324 - Add VolumeState (enable, disable, archive)
325 - Add VolumeLock to prevent all but lock holder (SD) from updating
326 the Volume data (with the exception of VolumeState).
327 - The btape fill command does not seem to use the Autochanger
328 - Make Windows installer default to system disk drive.
329 - Look at using ioctl(FIOBMAP, ...) on Linux, and
330 DeviceIoControl(..., FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES, ...) on
331 Win32 for sparse files.
332 http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/sparse-files.phtml
333 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
334 - Directive: at <event> "command"
335 - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to
336 attach to a specific job?
337 - Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code.
338 - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t
339 - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t
340 - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64
341 - Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes.
342 - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code.
343 - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume?
344 - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would
346 - Detect resource deadlock in Migrate when same job wants to read
347 and write the same device.
348 - Queue warning/error messages during restore so that they
349 are reported at the end of the report rather than being
350 hidden in the file listing ...
351 - Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
352 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere
353 - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD.
354 - Make selection of Database used in restore correspond to
356 - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files.
357 http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/fibmap.html
358 - Implement a mode that says when a hard read error is
359 encountered, read many times (as it currently does), and if the
360 block cannot be read, skip to the next block, and try again. If
361 that fails, skip to the next file and try again, ...
363 create table LevelType (LevelType binary(1), LevelTypeLong tinyblob);
364 insert into LevelType (LevelType,LevelTypeLong) values
368 - Add ACL to restore only to original location.
369 - Show files/second in client status output.
370 - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
371 - "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
372 of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
373 running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
374 before doing Interval testing).
375 - Look at simplifying File exclusions.
376 - New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
377 - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and
378 let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can
379 see if it become stable and I just have to supervise
381 - If I want to remove this pool, I set RecyclePoolId = MyScratchPool's
382 PoolId, and when it is empty remove it.
383 - Figure out how to recycle Scratch volumes back to the Scratch Pool.
385 - Allow Check Labels to be used with Bacula labels.
386 - "Resuming" a failed backup (lost line for example) by using the
387 failed backup as a sort of "base" job.
389 - Email to the user when the tape is about to need changing x
390 days before it needs changing.
391 - Command to show next tape that will be used for a job even
392 if the job is not scheduled.
393 - From: Arunav Mandal <amandal@trolltech.com>
394 1. When jobs are running and bacula for some reason crashes or if I do a
395 restart it remembers and jobs it was running before it crashed or restarted
396 as of now I loose all jobs if I restart it.
398 2. When spooling and in the midway if client is disconnected for instance a
399 laptop bacula completely discard the spool. It will be nice if it can write
400 that spool to tape so there will be some backups for that client if not all.
402 3. We have around 150 clients machines it will be nice to have a option to
403 upgrade all the client machines bacula version automatically.
405 4. Atleast one connection should be reserved for the bconsole so at heavy load
406 I should connect to the director via bconsole which at sometimes I can't
408 5. Another most important feature that is missing, say at 10am I manually
409 started backup of client abc and it was a full backup since client abc has
410 no backup history and at 10.30am bacula again automatically started backup of
411 client abc as that was in the schedule. So now we have 2 multiple Full
412 backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of
413 client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed.
415 - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
416 ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
417 - For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/
418 - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the
419 last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the
420 retention period for the last Full backup that was done.
421 - update volume=xxx --- add status=Full
422 - Remove old spool files on startup.
423 - Exclude SD spool/working directory.
424 - Refuse to prune last valid Full backup. Same goes for Catalog.
426 - Make a callback when Rerun failed levels is called.
427 - Give Python program access to Scheduled jobs.
428 - Add setting Volume State via Python.
429 - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
430 - Python script to do backup.
432 - Change the Priority, Client, Storage, JobStatus (error)
433 at the start of a job.
434 - Why is SpoolDirectory = /home/bacula/spool; not reported
435 as an error when writing a DVD?
436 - Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
437 - Remove all old Device resource code in Dir and code to pass it
438 back in SD -- better, rework it to pass back device statistics.
439 - Check locking of resources -- be sure to lock devices where previously
440 resources were locked.
441 - The last part is left in the spool dir.
444 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
445 entry does not contain bytes.
446 - To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
447 when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
448 a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
449 by the FD at the same time as the backup.
453 MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4
454 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
455 - Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
456 - Implement Files/Bytes,... stats for restore job.
457 - Implement Total Bytes Written, ... for restore job.
458 - Despool attributes simultaneously with data in a separate
459 thread, rejoined at end of data spooling.
460 - 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
461 and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
462 - Add start/end date editing in messages (%t %T, %e?) ...
463 - Add ClientDefs similar to JobDefs.
464 - Print more info when bextract -p accepts a bad block.
465 - Fix FD JobType to be set before RunBeforeJob in FD.
466 - Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
467 label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
468 - If the user puts "Purge Oldest Volume = yes" or "Recycle Oldest Volume = yes"
469 and there is only one volume in the pool, refuse to do it -- otherwise
470 he fills the Volume, then immediately starts reusing it.
471 - Implement copies and stripes.
472 - Add history file to console.
473 - Each file on tape creates a JobMedia record. Peter has 4 million
474 files spread over 10000 tape files and four tapes. A restore takes
475 16 hours to build the restore list.
476 - Add and option to check if the file size changed during backup.
477 - Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
478 - Delete old spool files when SD starts.
479 - When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
480 the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
481 - Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
483 Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
484 Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
485 Automatically selected Pool: Default
486 Connecting to Storage daemon DLTDrive at 192.168.68.104:9103 ...
487 Sending relabel command from "DLT-28Jun03" to "DLT-20Dec04" ...
488 block.c:552 Write error at 0:0 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Bad file descriptor.
489 Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable.
490 dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
491 askdir.c:219 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't happen!!!
492 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.c:1207 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/nst0. ERR=Permission denied.
493 Label command failed for Volume DLT-20Dec04.
494 Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
495 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
496 in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
498 ==== Keeping track of deleted files ====
499 My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
500 Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
501 have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
502 FD will make a pass through all the files and send their
503 names to the DIR (*exactly* the same as what a Verify job
504 currently does). This will probably be done at the same
505 time the files are being sent to the SD avoiding a second
506 pass. The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
507 the catalog. Any files in the catalog but not in what the
508 FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
509 that at that point in time the file was deleted.
511 During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
512 backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
513 marked "delete" will be removed from the tree, so will not
514 be restored. If a file with the same name is later OK it
515 will be inserted in the tree -- this already happens. All
516 will be consistent except for possible changes during the
519 Since I'm on the subject, some of you may be wondering what
520 the utility of the in memory tree is if you are going to
521 restore everything (at least it comes up from time to time
522 on the list). Well, it is still *very* useful because it
523 allows only the last item found for a particular filename
524 (full path) to be entered into the tree, and thus if a file
525 is backed up 10 times, only the last copy will be restored.
526 I recently (last Friday) restored a complete directory, and
527 the Full and all the Differential and Incremental backups
528 spanned 3 Volumes. The first Volume was not even mounted
529 because all the files had been updated and hence backed up
530 since the Full backup was made. In this case, the tree
531 saved me a *lot* of time.
533 Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
534 that it can be restored directly from the tape.
536 Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
537 Ok, that should cover the basics. There are few issues though:
539 - Restore will depend on the catalog. I think it is better to include the
540 extra data in the backup as well, so it can be seen by bscan and bextract.
542 - I'm not sure if it will preserve multiple hard links to the same inode. Or
543 maybe adding or removing links will cause the data to be dumped again?
545 - I'm not sure if it will handle renamed directories. Possibly it will work
546 by dumping the whole tree under a renamed directory?
548 - It remains to be seen how the backup performance of the DIR's will be
549 affected when comparing the catalog for a large filesystem.
553 How about introducing a Type = MgmtPolicy job type? That job type would
554 be responsible for scanning the Bacula environment looking for specific
555 conditions, and submitting the appropriate jobs for implementing said
559 Name = "Migration-Policy"
561 Policy Selection Job Type = Migrate
562 Scope = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
563 Threshold = "<keyword> <operator> <regexp>"
564 Job Template = <template-name>
567 Where <keyword> is any legal job keyword, <operator> is a comparison
568 operator (=,<,>,!=, logical operators AND/OR/NOT) and <regexp> is a
569 appropriate regexp. I could see an argument for Scope and Threshold
570 being SQL queries if we want to support full flexibility. The
571 Migration-Policy job would then get scheduled as frequently as a site
572 felt necessary (suggested default: every 15 minutes).
577 Name = "Migration-Policy"
579 Policy Selection Job Type = Migration
581 Threshold = "Migration Selection Type = LowestUtil"
582 Job Template = "MigrationTemplate"
585 would select all pools for examination and generate a job based on
586 MigrationTemplate to automatically select the volume with the lowest
587 usage and migrate it's contents to the nextpool defined for that pool.
589 This policy abstraction would be really handy for adjusting the behavior
590 of Bacula according to site-selectable criteria (one thing that pops
591 into mind is Amanda's ability to automatically adjust backup levels
592 depending on various criteria).
598 - Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
599 - Add delete JobId to regression.
600 - Add a regression test for dbcheck.
601 - New test to add bscan to four-concurrent-jobs regression,
602 i.e. after the four-concurrent jobs zap the
603 database as is done in the bscan-test, then use bscan to
604 restore the database, do a restore and compare with the
606 - Add restore of specific JobId to regression (item 3
607 on the restore prompt)
608 - Add IPv6 to regression
609 - Add database test to regression. Test each function like delete,
612 - AntiVir can slow down backups on Win32 systems.
613 - Win32 systems with FAT32 can be much slower than NTFS for
614 more than 1000 files per directory.
618 - A HOLD command to stop all jobs from starting.
619 - A PAUSE command to pause all running jobs ==> release the
621 - Media Type = LTO,LTO-2,LTO-3
622 Media Type Read = LTO,LTO2,LTO3
623 Media Type Write = LTO2, LTO3
625 === From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
627 Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
628 could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
629 benefit from as well.
631 1. NextJob/NextJobs Directive within a Job Resource in the form of
632 NextJobs = job1,job2.
635 I currently solved the problem with running multiple jobs each after each
636 by setting the Max Wait Time for a job to 8 hours, and give
637 the jobs different Priorities. However, there scenarios where
638 1 Job is directly depending on another job, so if the former job fails,
639 the job after it needn't to be run
640 while maybe other jobs should run despite of that
643 A Backup Job and a Verify job, if the backup job fails there is no need to run
644 the verify job, as the backup job already failed. However, one may like
645 to backup the Catalog to disk despite of that the main backup job failed.
648 I see that this is related to the Event Handlers which are on the ToDo
649 list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
650 execute different actions based on the return value
653 3. offline capability to bconsole
656 Currently I use a script which I execute within the last Job via the
657 RunAfterJob Directive, to release and eject the tape.
658 So I have to call bconsole "release=Storage-Name" and afterwards
659 mt -f /dev/nst0 eject to get the tape out.
661 If I have multiple Storage Devices, than these may not be /dev/nst0 and
662 I have to modify the script or call it with parameters etc.
663 This would actually not be needed, as everything is already defined
664 in bacula-sd.conf and if I can invoke bconsole with the
665 storage name via $1 in the script than I'm done and information is
668 4. %s for Storage Name added to the chars being substituted in "RunAfterJob"
672 For the reason mentioned in 3. to have the ability to call a
673 script with /scripts/foobar %s and in the script use $1
674 to pass the Storage Name to bconsole
676 5. Setting Volume State within a Job Resource
679 Instead of using "Maximum Volume Jobs" in the Pool Resource,
680 I would have the possibilty to define
681 in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
682 should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
684 6. Localization of Bacula Messages
687 Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
688 So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
689 would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
691 I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
692 french and Morre (western african language).
694 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
695 due to the design of bacula.
697 Implementation of Backtics ( `command` ) for shell comand execution to
698 the "Label Format" Directive.
702 Currently I have defined BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK="day1|day2..." resulting in
703 Label Format = "HolyBackup-${BACULA_DAY_OF_WEEK[${WeekDay}]}". If I could
704 use backticks than I could use "Label Format = HolyBackup-`date +%A` to have
705 the localized name for the day of the week appended to the
706 format string. Then I have the tape labeled automatically with weekday
707 name in the correct language.
709 - Yes, that is surely the case. I probably should turn those into Warning
710 errors. In addition, you just made me think that it might not be bad to
711 add an option to check the file size after backing up the file and
712 report if it changes. This would be done as an option because it would
715 Kern, good idea. If you do do that, mention in the output: file
716 shrunk, or file expanded, just to make it obvious to the user
717 (without having to the refer to file size), just how the file size
720 Would this option be for all file, or just one file? Or a fileset?
721 - Make output from status use html table tags for nicely
722 presenting in a browser.
723 - Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
724 - Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
725 rpm and Win32 releases.
726 - Browse generations of files.
727 - I've seen an error when my catalog's File table fills up. I
728 then have to recreate the File table with a larger maximum row
729 size. Relevant information is at
730 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
731 "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
732 about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
733 - For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
734 - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
735 - Supported autochanger:
743 Wangtek 6525ES (SCSI-1 QIC drive, 525MB), under Linux 2.4.something,
744 bacula 1.36.0/1 works with blocksize 16k INSIDE bacula-sd.conf.
745 - Add regex from http://www.pcre.org to Bacula for Win32.
746 - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
747 - Include within include does it work?
748 - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
749 - Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
750 - Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
751 - Think about making certain database errors fatal.
752 - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
753 savings time changes.
754 - Add a "real" timer to network connections.
755 - Promote to Full = Time period
756 - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
757 - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
758 - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
760 - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
761 - How to handle backing up portables ...
762 - Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
763 - Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
764 the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
767 Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
768 - Doc to do unmount before removing magazine.
769 - Alternative to static linking "ldd prog" save all binaries listed,
770 restore them and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to them.
771 - Document add "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" to the bacula-fd command line
772 - Document query file format.
773 - Add more documentation for bsr files.
774 - Document problems with Verify and pruning.
775 - Document how to use multiple databases.
776 - VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
777 indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
780 In this context, it should be noted that Exabyte has a command-line
781 vxatool utility available for free download. (The current version is
782 vxatool-3.72.) It can get diagnostic info, read, write and erase tapes,
783 test the drive, unload tapes, change drive settings, flash new firmware,
785 Of particular interest in this context is that vxatool <device> -i will
786 report, among other details, the time since last cleaning in tape motion
787 minutes. This information can be retrieved (and settings changed, for
788 that matter) through the generic-SCSI device even when Bacula has the
789 regular tape device locked. (Needless to say, I don't recommend
790 changing tape settings while a job is running.)
791 - Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
792 - Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
793 - Document doing table repair
796 ===================================
797 - Add macro expansions in JobDefs.
798 Run Before Job = "SomeFile %{Level} %{Client}"
799 Write Bootstrap="/some/dir/%{JobName}_%{Client}.bsr"
800 - Use non-blocking network I/O but if no data is available, use
802 - Use gather write() for network I/O.
803 - Autorestart on crash.
804 - Add bandwidth limiting.
805 - Add acks every once and a while from the SD to keep
806 the line from timing out.
807 - When an error in input occurs and conio beeps, you can back
808 up through the prompt.
809 - Detect fixed tape block mode during positioning by looking at
810 block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
811 - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
812 units, perhaps via a directive.
813 - If opening a tape in read/write mode fails attempt to open
814 it in read-only mode, and mark the tape for read only.
815 - Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
816 with multiple priorities.
817 - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
818 non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
820 - see lzma401.zip in others directory for new compression
822 - Minimal autochanger handling in Bacula and in btape.
823 - Look into how tar does not save sockets and the possiblity of
824 not saving them in Bacula (Martin Simmons reported this).
825 - Fix restore jobs so that multiple jobs can run if they
826 are not using the same tape(s).
827 - Allow the user to select JobType for manual pruning/purging.
828 - bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
830 - Implement the FreeBSD nodump flag in chflags.
831 - Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
832 console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
833 - Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
834 perhaps if password is undefined.
835 - Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
838 ==== from Marc Schoechlin
839 - the help-command should be more verbose
840 (it should explain the paramters of the different
842 -> its time-comsuming to consult the manual anytime
843 you need a special parameter
844 -> maybe its more easy to maintain this, if the
845 descriptions of that commands are outsourced to
847 - the cd-command should allow complete paths
848 i.e. cd /foo/bar/foo/bar
849 -> if a customer mails me the path to a certain file,
850 its faster to enter the specified directory
851 - if the password is not configured in bconsole.conf
852 you should be asked for it.
853 -> sometimes you like to do restore on a customer-machine
854 which shouldnt know the password for bacula.
855 -> adding the password to the file favours admins
856 to forget to remove the password after usage
858 the protection of that file is less important
859 - long-listed-output of commands should be scrollable
860 like the unix more/less-command does
861 -> if someone runs 200 and more machines, the lists could
862 be a little long and complex
863 - command-output should be shown column by column
864 to reduce scrolling and to increase clarity
866 - lsmark should list the selected files with full
868 - wildcards for selecting and file and directories would be nice
869 - any actions should be interuptable with STRG+C
870 - command-expansion would be pretty cool
872 - When the replace Never option is set, new directory permissions
873 are not restored. See bug 213. To fix this requires creating a
874 list of newly restored directories so that those directory
875 permissions *can* be restored.
876 - Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
877 Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
878 - Add prune all command
879 - Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
880 one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
881 - Add multiple-media-types.txt
882 - look at mxt-changer.html
883 - Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
884 - Implement restore directory.
885 - Document streams and how to implement them.
886 - Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
887 - Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
888 - Fix stream handling to be simpler.
889 - Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
890 - Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
892 - Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
893 - Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
894 - Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
895 - Add tree pane to left of window.
896 - Add progress meter.
897 - Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
898 - Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
899 - Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
900 which is needed by all packages.
901 - Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
902 space test fails in btape.
903 - When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
904 then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
905 - Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
906 - Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
907 - Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
908 - Add a block copy option to bcopy.
909 - Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
910 - Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
911 - Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
912 - For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
913 fields.- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
914 - Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
915 - Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
916 Do both a long and short form.
917 - Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
918 stat data on each file).
919 - Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
921 - Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
922 - See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
923 - Add John's appended files:
924 Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
925 and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
926 be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
927 previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
928 of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
929 added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
930 the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
931 name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
932 creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
933 entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
934 since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file.
935 - Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
936 - Check if the tape has moved before writing.
937 - Handling removable disks -- see below:
938 - Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
939 - Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
940 BackupClient RestoreClient).
941 - Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
942 JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
943 Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
944 - Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
945 - Do scheduling by UTC using gmtime_r() in run_conf, scheduler, and
946 ua_status.!!! Thanks to Alan Brown for this tip.
947 - Look at updating Volume Jobs so that Max Volume Jobs = 1 will work
948 correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
949 - Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
951 - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
953 - Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
954 and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
955 - Make multiple restore jobs for multiple media types specifying
956 the proper storage type.
957 - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
958 pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
959 - Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
960 - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
961 which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
962 - Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
963 - Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
964 - Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
965 to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
966 - Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
967 Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
968 resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
969 in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
970 which in turn overrides Pool.
972 - New Storage specifications:
973 - Want to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously
974 - Want to write to multiple storage devices sequentially (in one job)
975 - Want to read/write simultaneously
976 - Key is MediaType -- it must match
978 Passed to SD as a sort of BSR record called Storage Specification
982 MediaType -> Next MediaType
984 Device -> Next Device
986 Allow multiple Storage specifications
994 Allow Multiple Pool specifications (note, Pool currently
996 Allow Multiple MediaType specifications in Dir conf
997 Allow Multiple Device specifications in Dir conf
998 Perhaps keep this in a single SSR
999 Tie a Volume to a specific device by using a MediaType that
1000 is contained in only one device.
1001 In SD allow Device to have Multiple MediaTypes
1003 - Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
1004 First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
1006 more importantly it's active. Thank you so much for that
1007 even more important, it's not flaky
1008 it has an open access catalog, opening many possibilities
1009 it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
1011 Macintosh file client
1012 macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
1013 working bare iron recovery for windows
1014 the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
1015 a) use both change and inode update time against base time
1016 b) do the full catalog check (expensive but accurate)
1017 sizing guide (how much system is needed to back up N systems/files)
1018 consultants on using bacula in building a disaster recovery system
1019 an integration guide
1020 or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
1021 logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
1022 linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
1023 win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
1024 support for Oracle database ??
1026 - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
1027 - Make dev->file and dev->block_num signed integers so that -1 can
1028 be an invalid value which happens with BSR.
1029 - Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
1030 is needed to properly specify ranges.
1031 - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
1032 - Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
1033 - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
1034 - Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
1035 - Implement Console mtx commands.
1036 - Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
1037 the users could specify a system command to be performed
1038 to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
1039 read the device. This is for Removeable media such as a CDROM.
1040 - Most likely, this mount command would be invoked explicitly
1041 by the user using the current Console "mount" and "unmount"
1042 commands -- the Storage Daemon would do the right thing
1043 depending on the exact nature of the device.
1044 - As with tape drives, when Bacula wanted a new removable
1045 disk mounted, it would unmount the old one, and send a message
1046 to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
1047 once he had actually inserted the disk.
1048 - Implement dump/print label to UA
1049 - Spool to disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
1051 - bextract is sending everything to the log file ****FIXME****
1052 - Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
1053 a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
1054 can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
1055 - Implement some way for the File daemon to contact the Director
1056 to start a job or pass its DHCP obtained IP number.
1057 - Implement a query tape prompt/replace feature for a console
1058 - Copy console @ code to gnome2-console
1059 - Make AES the only encryption algorithm see
1060 http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
1061 an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
1062 review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
1063 - Take a careful look at SetACL http://setacl.sourceforge.net
1064 - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly
1065 by handling spaces better.
1066 - Make sure that Bacula rechecks the tape after the 20 min wait.
1067 - Set IO_NOWAIT on Bacula TCP/IP packets.
1068 - Try doing a raw partition backup and restore by mounting a
1070 - From Lars Kellers:
1071 Yes, it would allow to highly automatic the request for new tapes. If a
1072 tape is empty, bacula reads the barcodes (native or simulated), and if
1073 an unused tape is found, it runs the label command with all the
1074 necessary parameters.
1076 By the way can bacula automatically "move" an empty/purged volume say
1077 in the "short" pool to the "long" pool if this pool runs out of volume
1079 - What to do about "list files job=xxx".
1080 - Get and test MySQL 4.0
1081 - Look at how fuser works and /proc/PID/fd that is how Nic found the
1082 file descriptor leak in Bacula.
1083 - Implement WrapCounters in Counters.
1084 - Add heartbeat from FD to SD if hb interval expires.
1085 - Can we dynamically change FileSets?
1086 - If pool specified to label command and Label Format is specified,
1087 automatically generate the Volume name.
1088 - Why can't SQL do the filename sort for restore?
1089 - Add ExhautiveRestoreSearch
1090 - Look at the possibility of loading only the necessary
1091 data into the restore tree (i.e. do it one directory at a
1092 time as the user walks through the tree).
1093 - Possibly use the hash code if the user selects all for a restore command.
1094 - Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
1095 - Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
1096 - Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
1097 - Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
1098 be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
1099 prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
1100 run the job but don't save the files.
1101 - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
1104 - Use autochanger to handle multiple devices.
1105 - On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
1106 a file (and thus restore it) because the total length is too long.
1107 We must cd into the directory then create the file without the
1109 - Implement a Recycle command
1110 - Test a second language e.g. french.
1111 - Start working on Base jobs.
1112 - Implement UnsavedFiles DB record.
1113 - From Phil Stracchino:
1114 It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
1115 something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
1116 would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
1117 client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
1118 client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
1119 when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
1120 all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
1121 This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
1122 hand without having to master the art of retention times.
1123 - When doing a Backup send all attributes back to the Director, who
1124 would then figure out what files have been deleted.
1125 - Currently in mount.c:236 the SD simply creates a Volume. It should have
1126 explicit permission to do so. It should also mark the tape in error
1127 if there is an error.
1128 - Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
1130 - Implement timeout in response() when it should come quickly.
1131 - Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
1132 - Implement "vacation" Incremental only saves.
1133 - Implement create "FileSet"?
1134 - Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
1135 - Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
1136 - Simplified client job initiation for portables.
1137 - If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
1138 - Add more of the config info to the tape label.
1140 - If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
1141 failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
1142 - Refine SD waiting output:
1143 Device is being positioned
1144 > Device is being positioned for append
1145 > Device is being positioned to file x
1147 - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting
1148 a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs
1149 where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious.
1150 - Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
1151 - Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
1152 actual data on the Volume and compare it.
1153 - Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
1154 - Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
1155 - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
1156 Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
1157 - Add Signature type to File DB record.
1158 - CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
1159 speed up things. Test with testfind().
1160 - Priority job to go to top of list.
1161 - Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
1162 - Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
1163 - Solaris -I on tar for include list
1164 - Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
1165 - bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
1166 - Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
1167 - Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
1168 - Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
1169 - Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
1170 - Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
1171 long and a job is waiting on the drive.
1172 - After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
1173 - Add UA rc and history files.
1174 - put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
1175 allow -with-termcap-dir.
1176 - Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
1177 - Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
1178 - Make all database Ids 64 bit.
1179 - Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
1180 - Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
1181 - Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
1182 - Maximum Operator Wait
1183 - Minimum Message Interval
1184 - Maximum Message Interval
1185 - Send Operator message when cannot read tape label.
1186 - Verify level=Volume (scan only), level=Data (compare of data to file).
1187 Verify level=Catalog, level=InitCatalog
1189 - Add keyword search to show command in Console.
1190 - Events : tape has more than xxx bytes.
1191 - Complete code in Bacula Resources -- this will permit
1192 reading a new config file at any time.
1193 - Handle ctl-c in Console
1194 - Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
1195 - Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
1196 - Write Unix emulator for Windows.
1197 - Put memory utilization in Status output of each daemon
1198 if full status requested or if some level of debug on.
1199 - Make database type selectable by .conf files i.e. at runtime
1200 - Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
1201 - Restore files modified after date
1202 - SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
1203 - Remove duplicate fields from jcr (e.g. jcr.level and jcr.jr.Level, ...).
1204 - Timout a job or terminate if link goes down, or reopen link and query.
1205 - Concept of precious tapes (cannot be reused).
1206 - Make bcopy copy with a single tape drive.
1207 - Permit changing ownership during restore.
1210 > My suggestion: Add a feature on the systray menu-icon menu to request
1211 > an immediate backup now. This would be useful for laptop users who may
1212 > not be on the network when the regular scheduled backup is run.
1214 > My wife's suggestion: Add a setting to the win32 client to allow it to
1215 > shut down the machine after backup is complete (after, of course,
1216 > displaying a "System will shut down in one minute, click here to cancel"
1217 > warning dialog). This would be useful for sites that want user
1218 > woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
1221 - Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
1223 - Add media capacity
1224 - AutoScan (check checksum of tape)
1225 - Format command = "format /dev/nst0"
1229 - Seek resolution (usually corresponds to buffer size)
1230 - EODErrorCode=ENOSPC or code
1231 - Partial Read error code
1232 - Partial write error code
1233 - Nonformatted read error
1234 - Nonformatted write error
1235 - WriteProtected error
1239 - IgnoreCloseErrors=yes
1249 - FD sends unsaved file list to Director at end of job (see
1251 - File daemon should build list of files skipped, and then
1252 at end of save retry and report any errors.
1253 - Write a Storage daemon that uses pipes and
1254 standard Unix programs to write to the tape.
1256 - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
1257 times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
1258 - Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
1259 - device driver = "xxxx" for drives.
1260 - Verify from Volume
1261 - Ensure that /dev/null works
1262 - Need report class for messages. Perhaps
1263 report resource where report=group of messages
1264 - enhance scan_attrib and rename scan_jobtype, and
1265 fill in code for "since" option
1266 - Director needs a time after which the report status is sent
1267 anyway -- or better yet, a retry time for the job.
1268 - Don't reschedule a job if previous incarnation is still running.
1269 - Some way to automatically backup everything is needed????
1270 - Need a structure for pending actions:
1272 - termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
1274 Read, Write, Clean, Delete
1275 - Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
1276 owner, group, user, quotas
1277 - Store info on each file system type (probably in the job header on tape.
1278 This could be the output of df; or perhaps some sort of /etc/mtab record.
1280 ========= ideas ===============
1281 From: "Jerry K. Schieffer" <jerry@skylinetechnology.com>
1282 To: <kern@sibbald.com>
1283 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] future large programming jobs
1284 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:34:54 -0600
1286 I noticed the subject thread and thought I would offer the following
1287 merely as sources of ideas, i.e. something to think about, not even as
1288 strong as a request. In my former life (before retiring) I often
1289 dealt with backups and storage management issues/products as a
1290 developer and as a consultant. I am currently migrating my personal
1291 network from amanda to bacula specifically because of the ability to
1292 cross media boundaries during storing backups.
1293 Are you familiar with the commercial product called ADSM (I think IBM
1294 now sells it under the Tivoli label)? It has a couple of interesting
1295 ideas that may apply to the following topics.
1297 1. Migration: Consider that when you need to restore a system, there
1298 may be pressure to hurry. If all the information for a single client
1299 can eventually end up on the same media (and in chronological order),
1300 the restore is facillitated by not having to search past information
1301 from other clients. ADSM has the concept of "client affinity" that
1302 may be associated with it's storage pools. It seems to me that this
1303 concept (as an optional feature) might fit in your architecture for
1306 ADSM also has the concept of defining one or more storage pools as
1307 "copy pools" (almost mirrors, but only in the sense of contents).
1308 These pools provide the ability to have duplicte data stored both
1309 onsite and offsite. The copy process can be scheduled to be handled
1310 by their storage manager during periods when there is no backup
1311 activity. Again, the migration process might be a place to consider
1312 implementing something like this.
1315 > It strikes me that it would be very nice to be able to do things
1317 > have the Job(s) backing up the machines run, and once they have all
1318 > completed, start a migration job to copy the data from disks Volumes
1320 > a tape library and then to offsite storage. Maybe this can already
1322 > done with some careful scheduling and Job prioritzation; the events
1323 > mechanism described below would probably make it very easy.
1325 This is the goal. In the first step (before events), you simply
1327 the Migration to tape later.
1329 2. Base jobs: In ADSM, each copy of each stored file is tracked in
1330 the database. Once a file (unique by path and metadata such as dates,
1331 size, ownership, etc.) is in a copy pool, no more copies are made. In
1332 other words, when you start ADSM, it begins like your concept of a
1333 base job. After that it is in the "incremental" mode. You can
1334 configure the number of "generations" of files to be retained, plus a
1335 retention date after which even old generations are purged. The
1336 database tracks the contents of media and projects the percentage of
1337 each volume that is valid. When the valid content of a volume drops
1338 below a configured percentage, the valid data are migrated to another
1339 volume and the old volume is marked as empty. Note, this requires
1340 ADSM to have an idea of the contents of a client, i.e. marking the
1341 database when an existing file was deleted, but this would solve your
1342 issue of restoring a client without restoring deleted files.
1344 This is pretty far from what bacula now does, but if you are going to
1345 rip things up for Base jobs,.....
1346 Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially
1347 with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
1351 > Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
1353 Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
1356 3. Restoring deleted files: Since I think my comments in (2) above
1357 have low probability of implementation, I'll also suggest that you
1358 could approach the issue of deleted files by a mechanism of having the
1359 fd report to the dir, a list of all files on the client for every
1360 backup job. The dir could note in the database entry for each file
1361 the date that the file was seen. Then if a restore as of date X takes
1362 place, only files that exist from before X until after X would be
1363 restored. Probably the major cost here is the extra date container in
1364 each row of the files table.
1366 Thanks for "listening". I hope some of this helps. If you want to
1367 contact me, please send me an email - I read some but not all of the
1368 mailing list traffic and might miss a reply there.
1370 Please accept my compliments for bacula. It is doing a great job for
1371 me!! I sympathize with you in the need to wrestle with excelence in
1372 execution vs. excelence in feature inclusion.
1377 ==============================
1380 - Design at hierarchial storage for Bacula. Migration and Clone.
1381 - Implement FSM (File System Modules).
1382 - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
1383 - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
1384 Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
1385 the caller can change the break characters.
1386 - Make a single T_BREAK to replace T_COMMA, etc.
1387 - Ensure that File daemon and Storage daemon can
1388 continue a save if the Director goes down (this
1389 is NOT currently the case). Must detect socket error,
1390 buffer messages for later.
1391 - Enhance time/duration input to allow multiple qualifiers e.g. 3d2h
1392 - Add ability to backup to two Storage devices (two SD sessions) at
1393 the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
1394 - Add the ability to consolidate old backup sets (basically do a restore
1395 to tape and appropriately update the catalog). Compress Volume sets.
1396 Might need to spool via file is only one drive is available.
1397 - Compress or consolidate Volumes of old possibly deleted files. Perhaps
1398 someway to do so with every volume that has less than x% valid
1402 Migration: Move a backup from one Volume to another
1403 Clone: Copy a backup -- two Volumes
1405 Bacula Migration is based on Jobs (apparently Networker is file by file).
1407 Migration triggered by:
1411 Highwater mark (keep total size)
1416 ======================================================
1418 It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
1419 the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
1421 - A Base backup is same as Full backup, just different type.
1422 - New BaseFiles table that contains:
1424 BaseJobId - Base JobId referenced for this FileId (needed ???)
1425 JobId - JobId currently running
1426 FileId - File not backed up, exists in Base Job
1427 FileIndex - FileIndex from Base Job.
1428 i.e. for each base file that exists but is not saved because
1429 it has not changed, the File daemon sends the JobId, BaseId,
1430 FileId, FileIndex back to the Director who creates the DB entry.
1431 - To initiate a Base save, the Director sends the FD
1432 the FileId, and full filename for each file in the Base.
1433 - When the FD finds a Base file, he requests the Director to
1434 send him the full File entry (stat packet plus MD5), or
1435 conversely, the FD sends it to the Director and the Director
1436 says yes or no. This can be quite rapid if the FileId is kept
1437 by the FD for each Base Filename.
1438 - It is probably better to have the comparison done by the FD
1439 despite the fact that the File entry must be sent across the
1441 - An alternative would be to send the FD the whole File entry
1442 from the start. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of
1443 space. The advantage is that it requires less communications
1445 - The Job record must be updated to indicate that one or more
1447 - At end of Job, FD returns:
1448 1. Count of base files/bytes not written to tape (i.e. matches)
1449 2. Count of base file that were saved i.e. had changed.
1450 - No tape record would be written for a Base file that matches, in the
1451 same way that no tape record is written for Incremental jobs where
1452 the file is not saved because it is unchanged.
1453 - On a restore, all the Base file records must explicitly be
1454 found from the BaseFile tape. I.e. for each Full save that is marked
1455 to have one or more Base Jobs, search the BaseFile for all occurrences
1457 - An optimization might be to make the BaseFile have:
1463 This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
1464 the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
1465 VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
1466 =========================================================
1469 ==========================================================
1471 For each Incremental job that is run, there may be files that
1472 were found but not saved because they were locked (this applies
1473 only to Windows). Such a system could send back to the Director
1474 a list of Unsaved files.
1476 - New UnSavedFiles table that contains:
1480 - Then in the next Incremental job, the list of Unsaved Files will be
1481 feed to the FD, who will ensure that they are explicitly chosen even
1482 if standard date/time check would not have selected them.
1483 =============================================================
1487 Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
1488 mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
1489 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
1490 Address 480 is Empty
1492 (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
1493 > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
1494 no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
1495 > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
1496 Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
1497 Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
1498 Storage Element 1:Empty
1499 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
1500 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
1501 Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
1502 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
1503 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
1504 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
1505 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
1506 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
1507 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
1508 Storage Element 11:Empty
1509 Storage Element 12:Empty
1510 Storage Element 13:Empty
1511 Storage Element 14:Empty
1512 Storage Element 15:Empty
1513 Storage Element 16:Empty....
1514 Storage Element 28:Empty
1515 Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
1516 Storage Element 30:Empty....
1517 Storage Element 57:Empty
1518 Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
1519 Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1520 Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
1522 Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
1524 (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
1525 overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
1527 There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
1528 multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
1529 changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
1530 drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
1531 from an offset point either.something like
1533 Autochanger drives = 2
1534 Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
1535 Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
1536 IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
1537 times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
1543 MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
1544 unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
1545 Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
1546 <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
1547 drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
1548 omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
1549 loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
1550 to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
1551 came from', other than to explicitly use that
1552 slot number as the destination.AB
1558 undef# camcontrol devlist
1559 <WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
1560 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
1561 <ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
1563 tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
1564 [kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
1565 Product Type: Tape Drive
1567 Product ID: 'C5713A '
1569 Attached Changer: No
1570 TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
1571 TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
1578 Medium Type: Not Loaded
1581 DataCompEnabled: yes
1582 DataCompCapable: yes
1583 DataDeCompEnabled: yes
1590 Handling removable disks
1592 From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
1594 My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
1595 idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
1596 things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
1597 have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
1599 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
1600 by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
1601 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
1602 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
1604 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
1606 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
1607 important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
1608 better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
1609 scattered in many subdirectories.
1614 - Make sure that all do_prompt() calls in Dir check for
1615 -1 (error) and -2 (cancel) returns.
1616 - Fix foreach_jcr() to have free_jcr() inside next().
1617 jcr=jcr_walk_start();
1618 for ( ; jcr; (jcr=jcr_walk_next(jcr)) )
1621 - A Volume taken from Scratch should take on the retention period
1623 - Correct doc for Maximum Changer Wait (and others) accepting only
1625 - Implement status that shows why a job is being held in reserve, or
1626 rather why none of the drives are suitable.
1627 - Implement a way to disable a drive (so you can use the second
1628 drive of an autochanger, and the first one will not be used or
1630 - Make sure Maximum Volumes is respected in Pools when adding
1631 Volumes (e.g. when pulling a Scratch volume).
1632 - Keep same dcr when switching device ...
1633 - Implement code that makes the Dir aware that a drive is an
1634 autochanger (so the user doesn't need to use the Autochanger = yes
1636 - Make catalog respect ACL.
1637 - Add recycle count to Media record.
1638 - Add initial write date to Media record.
1639 - Fix store_yesno to be store_bitmask.
1640 --- create_file.c.orig Fri Jul 8 12:13:05 2005
1641 +++ create_file.c Fri Jul 8 12:13:07 2005
1643 attr->ofname, be.strerror());
1646 + } else if(S_ISSOCK(attr->statp.st_mode)) {
1647 + Dmsg1(200, "Skipping socket: %s\n", attr->ofname);
1649 Dmsg1(200, "Restore node: %s\n", attr->ofname);
1650 if (mknod(attr->ofname, attr->statp.st_mode, attr->statp.st_rdev) != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
1651 - Add true/false to conf same as yes/no
1652 - Reserve blocks other restore jobs when first cannot connect to SD.
1653 - Fix Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
1654 accept time qualifiers.
1655 - Does ClientRunAfterJob fail the job on a bad return code?
1656 - Make hardlink code at line 240 of find_one.c use binary search.
1657 - Add ACL error messages in src/filed/acl.c.
1658 - Make authentication failures single threaded.
1659 - Make Dir and SD authentication errors single threaded.
1660 - Fix catreq.c digestbuf at line 411 in src/dird/catreq.c
1661 - Make base64.c (bin_to_base64) take a buffer length
1662 argument to avoid overruns.
1663 and verify that other buffers cannot overrun.
1664 - Implement VolumeState as discussed with Arno.
1665 - Add LocationId to update volume
1673 - Add Comment to Media record
1674 - Fix auth compatibility with 1.38
1675 - Update dbcheck to include Log table
1676 - Update llist to include new fields.
1677 - Make unmount unload autochanger. Make mount load slot.
1678 - Fix bscan to report the JobType when restoring a job.
1679 - Fix wx-console scanning problem with commas in names.
1680 - Add manpages to the list of directories for make install. Notify
1682 - Add bconsole option to use stdin/out instead of conio.
1683 - Fix ClientRunBefore/AfterJob compatibility.
1684 - Ensure that connection to daemon failure always indicates what
1685 daemon it was trying to connect to.
1686 - Freespace on DVD requested over and over even with no intervening
1688 - .update volume [enabled|disabled|*see below]
1689 > However, I could easily imagine an option to "update slots" that says
1690 > "enable=yes|no" that would automatically enable or disable all the Volumes
1691 > found in the autochanger. This will permit the user to optionally mark all
1692 > the Volumes in the magazine disabled prior to taking them offsite, and mark
1693 > them all enabled when bringing them back on site. Coupled with the options
1694 > to the slots keyword, you can apply the enable/disable to any or all volumes.
1695 - Restricted consoles start in the Default catalog even if it