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