4 Release before 15 April
6 New features needing documentation:
7 - Eliminated license problems with OpenSSL.
8 - The exchange plugin truncates the exchange logs as soon as it has
9 sent the data to the sd. If the sd is spooling and something
10 goes wrong and the data doesn't make it to the backup medium then
11 the logs are lost, which could be a problem under some
13 - Regex filtered bsrs Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> 15Aug08
14 - Allow Mixed Priorities Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> 30Jun08
15 - New configure options --disable-libtool, --docdir, --htmldir, ...
16 - Virtual Full and Pools
18 Code to be completed before 3.0.0 is released:
19 2. Finish documentation (some noted above)
21 New features implemented:
25 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
26 - Extended Attribute support
27 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
29 --enable-libtool (default)
32 - Catalog Format Enhancements
33 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
35 - Duplicate Job Control
37 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
38 - State File updated at Job Termination
43 - Console Enhancements
48 - Restore seek optimization
49 - Virtual Tape Emulation
51 - RunScript Enhancements
53 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
54 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
55 - FD Version compatibily flag
56 - Statistics Enhancements
57 - Faster Attribute despooling
58 - Document split into 6 manuals
59 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
61 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
62 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
63 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
64 - New configure install options
65 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
66 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
71 - Exclude Dirs Containing
75 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
77 - Max Console Connections
78 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
79 - Allow Mixed Priorities
80 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
81 - Allow Higher Duplicates
82 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
83 - Cancel Running Duplicates
85 - Console (in RunScript)
87 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
89 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
90 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
91 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
92 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
93 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
94 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
95 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
96 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
97 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file contexts
98 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
99 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
100 Item n: Split documentation into several books
102 Features that will not be completed in 3.0:
104 - Dir plugin implementation somewhat minimal
105 - No example Dir plugin
106 - SD plugin implementation somewhat minimal
107 - No example SD plugin
108 - Install manual should be split into Install a
109 separate Configuration manual.
110 - Not all new features are tested or tested well
112 - Normal (as opposed to command) plugins are not yet
113 implemented (these are plugins can register to receive
114 specific backup/restore events).
115 See section 3.1 of the manual for more details.