4 Release before 15 April
6 New features implemented:
10 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
11 - Extended Attribute support
12 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
14 --enable-libtool (default)
17 - Catalog Format Enhancements
18 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
20 - Duplicate Job Control
22 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
23 - State File updated at Job Termination
28 - Console Enhancements
33 - Restore seek optimization
34 - Virtual Tape Emulation
36 - RunScript Enhancements
38 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
39 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
40 - FD Version compatibily flag
41 - Statistics Enhancements
42 - Faster Attribute despooling
43 - Document split into 6 manuals
44 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
46 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
47 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
48 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
49 - New configure install options
50 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
51 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
52 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
53 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
58 - Exclude Dirs Containing
62 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
64 - Max Console Connections
65 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
66 - Allow Mixed Priorities
67 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
68 - Allow Higher Duplicates
69 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
70 - Cancel Running Duplicates
72 - Console (in RunScript)
74 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
76 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
77 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
78 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
79 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
80 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
81 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
82 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
83 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
84 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file contexts
85 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
86 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
87 Item n: Split documentation into several books
89 Features that will not be completed in 3.0:
91 - Dir plugin implementation somewhat minimal
92 - No example Dir plugin
93 - SD plugin implementation somewhat minimal
94 - No example SD plugin
95 - Install manual should be split into Install a
96 separate Configuration manual.
97 - Not all new features are tested or tested well
99 - Normal (as opposed to command) plugins are not yet
100 implemented (these are plugins can register to receive
101 specific backup/restore events).
102 See section 3.1 of the manual for more details.