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