1 Kern;;;12 December 2013 at 21:21 CET
2 Letter to the Community concerning Bareos
4 Letter to the Community
8 Please keep in mind that what I discuss here are my own personal
9 thoughts and not those of Bacula Systems. Bacula Systems statements
10 and positions will be communicated on the Bacula Systems web site or
11 by other official Bacula Systems communications.
13 I am obliged to write about Bareos. Many or most of the things that I
14 will write are statements of facts, but certain are allegations that myself
15 and Bacula Systems have made. In the case of the allegations, particularly
16 the most serious, they are yet to be determined by a court of law.
18 When I use the terms Bacula Systems or Bacula Enterprise Edition, I am
19 referring to the code which is proprietary, and when I refer to
20 Bacula, unless otherwise stated, I am referring to the fully open source
24 Since the whole story is a bit long, I will break it into smaller
27 1. General Background.
29 2. The theft of proprietary software and unfair competition that
30 led to the Bacula Systems lawsuit against Bareos.
32 3. The fork itself and what went wrong --
33 copyright violations, plagiarism, moral wrong doing, and attempts
34 to destroy Bacula and me personally through abusive language.
36 4. The Future of Bacula
41 1. General Background.
43 Most of you already know that I am a founder of two companies:
44 Autodesk Inc, in 1982 and Bacula Systems SA in 2008. However,
45 more importantly, I consider myself as a developer -- mostly in
46 C/C++ of system applications. I took an early retirement in 1995,
47 and since 1998, I have been a full time passionate open source
48 developer. I started with the APCUPSD project then in 2000 started
49 the Bacula project, which I released to SourceForge in April of
50 2002. Since 2000 all my available time has been devoted to making
51 Bacula the best open source backup program possible. In January, it
52 will be 14 years that I have been working on it, and for the moment
53 I see no end in sight.
55 I created Bacula Systems in 2008 with 7 other founders to ensure the
56 long term growth and success of Bacula the community version. The
57 concept was to earn money to fund development by providing enterprises
58 with support for Bacula as a much less expensive alternative to
59 existing commercial software. Most of these founders were and are
60 passionate open source fans, each invested their own money in Bacula
61 Systems to fund development and today a number of them depend on
62 salaries from Bacula Systems to live.
65 Bacula Systems hasn't in the least diminished my or the other
66 founder's dedication to open source software. It has just provided a
67 means to ensure that Bacula evolves faster with a corporation behind
68 it. The state of maturity of Bacula is like a dream come true for me.
72 2. The theft of proprietary software and unfair competition that
73 led to the Bacula Systems lawsuit against Bareos.
76 The arrival of Bareos early this year is like the worst nightmare I
77 can imagine in a dream come true and has led to the lawsuit mentioned
78 at the following link:
80 http://www.baculasystems.com/blog/bacula-systems-sa-files-lawsuit-against-bareos-gmbh-co-kg
82 Now that Bacula Systems has announced the lawsuit I can be more open
83 about what has been going on.
86 How and why have we gotten there?
88 The basis of the problem is related to a community developer who began
89 working with Bacula in 2008, and then as a consultant helped Bacula
90 Systems in 2010 with the Solaris packaging. To work with the Solaris
91 packaging, he requested access to the Bacula Enterprise software. To
92 have this access, he signed an NDA, which is normal when you give a
93 "consultant" access to proprietary software.
95 This consultant did the Solaris packaging for Bacula Systems, then
96 later continued developing the community version, all the while with
97 access to the Enterprise code. He even had a SIP telephone that
98 connected directly into the Bacula Systems corporate telephone system
99 including the internal conference centers. He continued working on
100 the community version where he was responsible for applying patches to
101 the Bacula community version, since he had full write permission,
102 while at the same time, he also helped port code from the Enterprise
103 version into the community version.
105 On the 27th of February 2013, I learned that Bareos had been created
106 and that this consultant/developer was a managing director as well as
107 CTO of Bareos, and that they had a competing commercial fork of Bacula
108 that he had been working on since 2010.
110 You can imagine my stupefaction since the consultant had never
111 mentioned that he had created a commercial fork of Bacula to me or
112 anyone in Bacula Systems, nor did Bacula Systems learn about this fork
113 from the Bacula Systems partner DassIT, which apparently created
114 Bareos and with which it shares their headquarters and the four
115 managing directors. Furthermore until Bacula Systems removed his git
116 access to our Enterprise source code, the consultant continued daily
117 downloads of the Enterprise software it even after Bareos was up and
120 Bacula Systems immediately wrote to the consultant requesting him to
121 delete the Enterprise source code and stop using it, which in a rather
122 emotional email, he refused to do.
124 At that point, what would you do? We looked more carefully at the
125 Bareos source code and determined that it included a few very
126 important enterprise enhancements that were only in the Bacula
127 Enterprise code. So, the only conclusion possible is that the
128 consultant had taken pieces of the enterprise code and used them in
129 the Bareos release. In addition, there were many serious copyright
130 problems in the Bareos code that I will elaborate more later in this
133 Bacula Systems then took two approaches to resolving these problems.
134 One was to make it clear that Bareos did not have the right to possess
135 or use the Bacula Enterprise code, and the other was to request the
136 Free Software Foundation Europe to resolve the copyright issues with
137 Bareos. From my personal point of view, working with Bareos was very
138 frustrating since they essentially put up every kind of obstacle
139 possible including denying everything, which complicated and dragged
140 out the discussions. In the end, both the Bareos lawyer and the
141 consultant's lawyer wrote letters asserting that their clients claimed
142 to have destroyed the Enterprise source or in the case of Bareos that
143 they have never had it. This whole process took many months, and in
144 August Bacula Systems believed that the problems with Bareos were
147 My next surprise was in late September. In a rather massive several
148 thousand line commit, we found over four hundred lines of Bacula
149 Enterprise code that were also buried in that commit. This code was
150 very obviously copied directly from the Enterprise code and not simply
151 written by the author of the commit, who is another of the managing
152 directors of Bareos. This also meant that despite the fact that both
153 the consultant and Bareos claimed to not have the Enterprise code,
154 they did. This put a whole new dimension to the Bareos release,
155 because there was clear new theft of Bacula Systems proprietary code
156 despite Bareos' and the consultant's claims not to possess it. This
157 was very serious as the code the consultant had contains a
158 considerable amount of other Bacula Systems code that could also be
159 copied and released to the public. At this point Bacula Systems had
160 no choice but to file a lawsuit, which was prepared and filed on the
161 6th of December 2013 in the Swiss Cantonal court.
163 Given that it is clearly published on the Bareos web site that the
164 Bareos code has been under development since 2010, one can only imagine
165 that the whole affair was planned from the beginning and it appears
166 that it is industrial espionage and software piracy that was planned
167 and executed in secret for during two or three years.
169 For me personally, it was a real deception since this consultant had
170 stayed in my house, then myself and other colleagues from Bacula
171 Systems had spent considerable time and effort working with the
172 consultant helping him improve his programming and more particularly
173 how to program within Bacula. It is even more painful to think that
174 he did this secretly for apparently many years.
176 What follows is my discussion of the fork and the copyright violations
177 that do not form a part of the lawsuit, but are very important for
178 the future of Bacula and more in general for the future of open
181 3. The fork itself and what went wrong --
182 copyright violations, plagiarism, moral wrong doing, and attempts to
183 destroy Bacula and me personally through abusive language.
185 As mentioned above, on the 27th of February, Bacula Systems and myself
186 became aware of a fork called Bareos, so obviously, I was interested
187 in what they were doing. Aside from the negative attitude they openly
188 postulated toward Bacula on their web site (since removed), I was
189 rather surprised by the copyright violations in the source code, that
190 they describe on their web site as
192 "We had some minor formal issuse [sic] regarding version history
193 and header files at the beginning of our project".
195 In fact the copyright violations consisted of the following items:
197 1. In the original release, they added the Bareos copyright (as well as
198 others) to all the original Bacula files, including those that they had not
201 2. They removed all the copyright on all the binaries and replaced them with
202 "Copyright (C) 2013-2013 Bareos GmbH & Co. KG"
204 Both of these are serious copyright violations. Bareos' first attempt
205 at fixing the violations was what I would call minimal and had to be
206 redone later with far more significant changes.
208 In addition to the copyright violations, there are still clear
209 examples of plagiarism (in other terms copyright violations) that
210 exist in their code that were added more recently. For example, the
211 file bacula/src/stored/fd_cmds.c from the original Bacula source code
212 was copied into sd_cmds.c and then modified to replace all references
213 to the fd or File daemon by sd or Storage daemon respectively. This
214 is normal, but what was not normal was despite probably 80-90% of the
215 code remaining identical to the original including comments, they
216 totally stripped the Free Software Foundation Europe copyright and
217 replaced it with a Bareos copyright. This is probably one of the most
218 common form of copyright violation, and it is very hard to detect
219 without spending a large amount of time examining the code.
221 In addition, they removed my name from the source code, which was
227 Marco van Wieringen, November 2012
229 This is clearly plagiarism, and it still exists in their source code
230 today. As far as I can tell, there are several other such cases,
231 where significant portions of an original Bacula file have been copied
232 into a new file (or even the whole file taken and edited as in the
233 case of sd_cmds.c). The result is a totally new file with the old
234 copyright and accreditation removed. In my opinion, this practice is
235 extremely serious for the future of open source and Bacula, because
236 imagine carrying this a bit farther. If they continue this procedure
237 on other files, one could imagine that in a few years after numerous
238 releases and changes, the whole code body gets shuffled around, put in
239 new files, and all the Free Software Foundation Europe's copyrights
240 disappear. Then the source code can be taken proprietary, and Bareos
241 could have their own proprietary copy of code that was previously open
242 source. This is, of course, speculation but it is possible.
244 Now I would like to discuss moral wrong doing. This is not a legal point
245 because as far as I can tell these are not violations of the law, but
246 they are in my opinion moral violations of standard practices particularly
247 among open source programmers.
249 The original Bacula source code header includes the following statement
250 inside the copyright section:
252 "The main author of Bacula is Kern Sibbald, with contributions from
253 many others, a complete list can be found in the file AUTHORS."
255 Although the AUTHORS file is in the Bareos release, they totally
256 stripped all the references to it from the header files, thus
257 effectively hiding the AUTHORS. I was rather surprised by this,
258 because that eliminated the most important part of attributions to
259 both myself and everyone else.
261 To my surprise, under the GPL according to the Free Software
262 Foundation, this is legal.
264 They removed a number of other accreditations as well including the
265 word Bacula from all the code.
267 Removing accreditations in this way, to me seems rather brutal, and
268 is something I feel is, at the least, morally wrong.
271 Concerning the point about attempts to destroy Bacula and me
272 personally through abusive language. I take two simple examples:
275 Fri 4 October 2013 15:30
276 Presentation at Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC)
278 "Since a few years (uh) we have seen (that only uh) that features
279 were only (uh) developed in the closed source enterprise edition ...
280 and it (uh) even happened that (uh) patches that were submitted by
281 community developers were rejected by the project leader for the
282 reason (uh) that he said he wanted to have this feature only in the
283 enterprise version, which is (uh) not open source."
286 1. It is patently false that for a "few years (uh) ... (uh) that features
287 were only (uh) developed in the close source enterprise edition".
288 Bacula Systems has the right to develop code and has contributed a
289 lot of it back to Bacula and will continue to do so. Bacula
290 Systems' development takes nothing away from the community but adds
293 2. To say that patches submitted by the community were rejected by me
294 (Kern) because they were enterprise features is a totally false.
295 This is a shameless, untrue personal attack that is designed to
296 discredit me as well as Bacula.
298 3. Since Mr. Aussendorf has never worked with me or the Bacula
299 community, in the quote above, one can only assume that he is
300 repeating something that he heard from someone else, and either has
301 misunderstood the information or purposely has distorted it. In
302 any case, a person that makes statements of such importance without
303 first hand knowledge is not very credible.
306 The second example is:
308 Email to Bacula-users 2 June 2013
310 "... My personal frustration started with the creation of Bacula
311 Enterprise, which has until now never (from what I've seen) reversed
312 an Enterprise feature back to the community."
314 It is very surprising that Bruno Friedmann who knows Bacula would
315 say that Bacula Systems has never "reversed" an Enterprise feature
316 back to the community since the Bacula manual clearly documents many
317 (but not all) of the features that Bacula Systems has contributed to
318 Bacula over the years or simply look at the long list of Bacula
319 Systems contributed fixes of the 20 February 2013 release on the
320 News section of the web site.
322 I have a hard time understanding why people feel they have to publicly
323 make such ridiculous remarks. I use a lot of open source software,
324 and some of it is produced by open core companies that offer better
325 and nicer commercial features that I would really like to have, but I
326 don't have any sense that these companies are taking anything away
327 from me or are in any way doing something wrong. On the contrary,
328 most of them are fixing bugs and enhancing the community version.
330 I guess this sort of verbal abuse is a sign of the times. Instead of
331 trying to tear down years of work, why can't these people just be
332 content with what has been given to them free.
334 4. The Future of Bacula
336 Obviously at this point, Bacula Systems does not know what the outcome
337 of the lawsuit will be, but I hope that at a minimum it stops the
338 theft of the Enterprise code, the copyright violations, and that it
339 puts a stop to the public smear campaign against Bacula, myself, and
340 Bacula Systems that the managing directors of Bareos have maintained
341 for the last nine months.
343 Although the Bacula project has been on hold since February while
344 trying to sort out these issues, the future looks very bright since
345 Bacula Systems has continued developing new features in the Enterprise
346 version at an even faster pace, and since Bacula Systems feels that
347 the differentiation between the community version and the Enterprise
348 version is sufficient, you can expect over the next three to four
349 months to see several things:
351 1. An improved bacula.org web site with a new design sponsored by
352 Bacula Systems, and with the help of a long time community
355 2. More new features backported to the community version of Bacula.
357 3. An annual Bacula Conference with the first one in Berlin starting
358 with a dinner the evening of 20 March and taking place on the 21st
361 4. Long term continuation of Bacula through sponsorship by Bacula Systems
362 which has always contributed significant pieces of code that it
363 developed to the community version and will continue to do so.
364 This has always been our stated objective, but now it is more
365 formal since Bacula Systems has an agreement with the Free Software
366 Foundation Europe wherein it states that Bacula Systems will
367 contribute back to the community version all new features developed
368 by Bacula Systems after at most five years that are not encumbered
369 by third party proprietary agreement. The maximum delay of five
370 years is important to allow Bacula Systems to grow and thus
371 continue to contribute to the community version. Being an open
372 core company is not a new business strategy -- companies such as:
373 RedHat, MySQL, Zimbra, SugarCRM, Eucalyptus, Pentaho, and Carafe
374 (note, at one time I argued for RedHat as an open source company,
375 but I was arguing with a highly placed FSF person, who was probably
376 right). However, I don't think that any other open core company
377 has yet made such a strong open source commitment.
379 I plan additional blogs on these subjects particularly as important
380 events happen, but I hope this helps you understand what myself and
381 Bacula have been through for the last nine months, and that my
382 commitment remains as strong as ever to make Bacula the best open
383 source backup program.
385 Thank you for your understanding and for using Bacula.
388 Bacula Project Manager
392 Kern;;;25 November 2013 at 17:53 CET
397 I would like to speak to you about the following points:
399 1. The rumors of the death of Bacula (the Community version)
400 2. The Bareos fork of Bacula
401 3. Bacula Systems and the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe)
402 4. The future of Bacula (the Community version)
404 1. The rumors of the death of Bacula (the Community version):
406 I borrow words from a quote of Mark Twain : The rumors of the death
407 of Bacula are highly exaggerated!
409 I began working on Bacula 14 years ago (in January 2000), and it has
410 been Open Source from the time it was publicly released in April
411 2002, and it will remain Open Source. I have been and am fully
412 devoted to Open Source, and in particular to Bacula, which is like
413 my “baby”. So to hear rumors that Bacula is dead or that I have
414 withheld commits because they are Enterprise features is shocking
415 and hurtful to me as well as not true.
417 I did inform the Bacula Community several years ago that my personal
418 participation in Bacula would decrease a bit for several years to
419 allow me to focus more on getting Bacula Systems started. In my
420 opinion, that has not been a serious disadvantage for the Bacula
421 project since Bacula Systems over that period has contributed far
422 more code to Bacula than I could have alone over the same period,
423 and as you will see a bit later in this status report, Bacula
424 Systems contributions are absolutely guaranteed to continue in the
425 long run, and even increase.
427 2. The Bareos fork of Bacula:
429 The Bacula repository has been on “hold” since our last release
430 in early February, because on 27 February 2013, I learned that there
431 was a fork of Bacula made by a former “consultant” of Bacula
432 Systems with a former reseller of Bacula Systems. Unfortunately,
433 despite the fact that Bareos hired one of the best German Open
434 Source lawyers , there were a number of serious copyright violations
435 with their code. Since the Bacula code is copyrighted by the Free
436 Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), I provided the technical support,
437 and the FSFE worked with Bareos to clean up their copyright
438 violations. That took a significant amount of time (many months),
439 and the Bareos code though significantly improved is still not
440 totally free of copyright infringements. I won't go into the
441 details here as all of you may not be interested, but will have much
442 more to say about Bareos in later blogs, and when the blog is setup
445 I find Bareos an unusual fork, because it wasn't done in what I
446 believe to be the normal Open Source way. Normally a fork is made
447 when a project is blocked or has serious disagreements with the
448 users. Its also normally done in open communication rather than
449 underhanded or in secret. In the case of Bacula, though some of the
450 development slowed down (I will go into this in detail later), it
451 certainly was by no means stopped. To complain about active
452 development in Bacula Systems, is, in my opinion, incorrect first
453 because adding features to the Enterprise version costs Bacula
454 Systems a lot mostly in salaries yet takes absolutely nothing from
455 Bacula. In fact, when you read the next section, you will see that
456 the more that Bacula Systems develops, the more features that Bacula
457 over time will have. Going back to what I find abnormal about the
458 Bareos fork is that they claim that they spent three years
459 developing a lot of new features, thus they are more feature rich
460 than Bacula. Yes, for the moment, they have a few features that
461 Bacula does not yet have, but not for long, and more importantly
462 over the three years of development of those features they never
463 offered these new features to Bacula nor to any Open Source project.
464 Instead they were developed in secret. I find that a very strange
465 behavior for a self-proclaimed Open Source company (actually, they
466 are “forced” to be Open Source because of the Bacula AGPLv3
467 license). So as Bacula contributors and users, you would be within
468 your rights to feel very upset with Bareos, because they never
469 offered you the code they developed.
471 I assure that I will do all in my power to ensure that any
472 worthwhile features that Bareos implements will be implemented in
473 Bacula, and most likely better integrated and more robust, and where
474 possible with even more functionality and growth potential.
477 3. Bacula Systems and the FSFE:
479 If you have been a long time Bacula user you may recall that I
480 discussed the possibility in 2006-2007 of creating a company, now
481 called Bacula Systems, to ensure the continuation of Bacula when I
482 will no longer be able to personally contribute – say in 10 or 20
483 years, as well as to provide the financial means to add high-end
484 features to Bacula (a fibre channel network costs about $50K to
485 setup). Much to my surprise 95% or more of the responses I got were
486 very positive. Bacula Systems was created in July 2008, and for the
487 first two years, the Enterprise code base and the Community code
488 base were identical. Unfortunately, that didn't work financially
489 for Bacula Systems. Companies willing to pay, were willing to pay
490 for features and support but not support alone, so Bacula Systems
491 embarked on development to continue maintenance and improvement of
492 Bacula while at the same time creating mostly plugins to add
493 differentiation to the Enterprise version.
495 Now this may not sound very Open Source to you, and I understand,
496 because I feel the same way. Were it at all possible, I would give
497 you all of Bacula Systems code, unfortunately, that is not
498 economically feasible at the current time, and yet without Bacula
499 Systems, I fear the Bacula project will die or worse yet fall into
500 the hands of someone incapable of maintaining the high quality we
503 While I was consulting with the Free Software Foundation Europe
504 (FSFE) on the Bareos copyright violations, Bacula Systems and I
505 began discussions with the FSFE on how to guarantee the long term
506 survival of Bacula. These discussions, extremely positive on both
507 sides and all points, recently lead to a formal written agreement
508 between myself, Bacula Systems, and the FSFE. There are a number of
509 points in the agreement, but probably the most important of all is
510 that Bacula Systems has now put in writing that it is an Open Source
511 company (at its heart), as it has always proclaimed, and will
512 contribute all the Enterprise code it creates to the Bacula
513 Community code base within at most a 5 year period. One exception
514 is that Bacula Systems is legally unable to contribute certain code
515 encumbered by third party proprietary license. The 5 year delay
516 gives Bacula Systems the chance to develop Enterprise features that
517 differentiate it, but ensures the continual growth of the Bacula
518 Community code. This model can possibly be used across the industry
519 to ensure the future of open source software in an environment where
520 development costs, particularly for hardware to do testing, are
521 prohibitive to the standard models of today.
523 5. The future of Bacula (the Community version):
525 If you have read section 4 above, hopefully if you were not already
526 convinced that Bacula is alive that you can now see that it will
527 have a long and successful future ahead of it. If you have any
528 doubts, please do not hesitate to either send me an email on the
529 bacula-users list or directly to me (if you want it private).
530 Hopefully, by mid-December I will have a blog setup (need a major
531 upgrade of bacula.org to do so), and I will then fill you in on the
532 details of the Bareos fork as well as more details on what next to
535 Thank you for contributing to and/or using Bacula ...
542 Kern;;;20 February 2013 at 13:43 CET
543 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.13 to Source Forge
545 Version 5.2.13 version has 20 bug fixes since the last
546 release. Some of the bug fixes are important.
548 Important changes since last release:
551 - Fix build/configure problems with bpluginfo.c
552 - Refactor lock_volumes so most lock a vol rather than globally
553 - Add virtualfull-extreme test
554 - Apply patch for chio-changer-openbsd from bug #1984 -- Implements listall
555 - Add bat Mac patch from bug #1953
556 - Fix bug #1812 cannot run Copy/Migrate jobs from bat
557 - Fix loading of bat translations. Patch from bug #1890
558 - Fix text input in bat. Fixe bug #1965
559 - Remove Device from show command as it is not used or updated
560 - Fix #1982 update enabled keyword in help command
561 - Fix update_postgresql_tables 10 to 11
562 - Clean after building doc binaries requested by Willem vd Akker for Debian
564 - Require Qt version 4.8.4
565 - Fix bug #1955 that OK to run? does not retry on bad response
566 - Backport new lock calls + debug for SD
567 - Fix bug #1975 new label ignored when first is duplicate.
568 - Pull src/lib changes from master
569 - Pull SD files from master
570 - Turn off prune-test
571 - Add logdir and bsrdir to regression config
572 - Add bsrdir and logdir to regress-config
573 - Changed default directories from /var/bacula to /opt/bacula
574 - Make spool size max message more explicit
575 - Display more info when maximum spool size is reached
576 - Fix TERM defs for Solaris 11 in conio.c
577 - Allow group to cd to sysconfdir
578 - Make sysconfdir belong to Bacula user/group and exclude others
579 - Fix Virtual Full file close bug -- race condition
580 - Enhance mount message to include read/append
581 - Improve vol_mgr swap messages
582 - Enhance output of Using Device to include for read/write
583 - Add jobid to Pmsg output
584 - Fix bug #1959 input validation on delete of jobs.
585 - Fix bug #1956 Authorization Errors false
586 - Add workaround for #5507 where autoprune and reload are in deadlock
587 - Allow conf file quoted strings to be used in a list
588 - Make bfgets handle very long lines
589 - Avoid seg fault by checking for NULL client -- reported by Arno
590 - Final fix of bug #1943
591 - Fix bug #1948 MailOnSuccess get executed on error.
592 - Fix missing index on Media table
593 - Fix bug #1943 no message storage on closed database connection.
594 - Fix bug #1946 Fix problem with MySQL with big Base jobs.
595 - Reduce wait time in regression RunScripts
596 - Implement a timeout on regression tests of 15 minutes
597 - Fix #5346 .bvfs_lsfiles and .bvfs_restore to handle deleted files
598 - Fix spooldata, accurate and ingnoreduplicate run argument
599 - Fix messages segfault
600 - Implement feature request #1939
601 - fix #1938 about PATH_MAX on hurd
602 - fix #1938 about MAXPATHLEN on hurd
603 - Fix bug #1937 OpenBSD autochanger example script
604 - Fix #4996 about MaxRunTime canceling the job too early
605 - Fix bug #1934 Wrong values at media list in BAT
606 - Fix race condition in close_msg that causes seg fault
608 - More tests for freeing NULL pointers
609 - Add MaximumConcurrentReadJobs directive to Storage resource
610 - Add ujobid to .bvfs_get_jobids
611 - Avoid problem when stripping a relative path
612 - Fix #4513 about HIDDEN attribute set to parent directory during restore
614 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
615 1812 1890 1934 1937 1938 1939 1943 1946 1948 1953 1955 1956 1959 1965 1975
616 1982 1984 4513 4996 5346 5507
620 Kern;;;11 September 2012 at 13:43 CET
621 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.11 to Source Forge
623 Version 5.2.11 version is a bug fix release.
625 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
628 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.11
629 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
632 Important changes since last release:
633 - A new bpluginfo utility tool
634 - Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
635 - Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
636 - Important Copy job bug fixed.
639 - Add JobId to SD debug output
640 - Commit batch session every 800,000 files
641 - Simplify safer delete code using a single regex
642 - Clean up error message generation during update attributes -- should fix bug
644 - Eliminate heartbeat error messages. Fixes bug #1925
645 - Apply patch from bug #1911 to implement --with-logdir
646 - Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
647 - mysql database install/update scripts patch. Fixes bug #1901
648 - Delegate uid/gid changing to systemd. Fixes bug #1905
650 - Fix manpage errors, fixes bug #1907
651 - Final fix for #1859 missed one query.
652 - bpluginfo - Utility tool display various information
653 - Backport more master code
654 - Fix Makefile.in so that testfind builds with acl dependency
655 - Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
656 - backport code from master
657 - Fix #1923 about MySQL 4 support for BVFS
658 - Fix #1902 about bad status slots output
659 - Fix Sigma Copy bug #4377
661 - Reset bsmtp to only send to IPv4 mailhosts.
663 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
664 1823 1859 1901 1902 1903 1905 1906 1907 1911 1923 1925 4377
668 Kern;;;28 June 2012 at 20:55 CET
669 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.10 to Source Forge
673 The 5.2.10 version is a significant bug fix release including
674 our first cut of AFS support.
676 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
677 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
678 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
679 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
680 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
681 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
682 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
684 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
685 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
686 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
687 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
688 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
689 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
690 that the project cannot properly support.
691 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
693 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
694 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.9, please
695 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
696 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
697 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
698 repeat them each bug fix release.
699 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
703 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
706 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.9
707 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
710 Major changes since 5.2.9:
711 - IPv6 networking should work correctly now
712 - SQL Counter problems resolved
713 - Bat hanging after running a number of jobs
714 - dbcheck rw_writelock problem
715 - Windows VSS restore bug
718 - Add rudimentary support for backing up AFS
721 - Add extra test for unsupported Protocol Families.
722 - Fix inet_pton call.
723 - Real fix of bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
724 - Fix bug #1891 wrong daemon name printed with -? option
725 - Fix bug #1859 INSERT INTO Counters fails
726 - First try at fixing bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
727 - Convert write_rec_to_block() to a state machine
728 - Fix bat from eating all Dir connections -- fixes bug #1872
729 - Back port fixes from BEE to fix Windows restore bug #1892
730 - Add block checksum flag to version.h
731 - Add block checksum debug code
732 - Fix bug #1893 dbcheck -B gives rwl_writelock error.
733 - Remove restriction of network buffer size being multiple of a tape block
734 - Add rudimentary support for saving AFS acls.
735 - Send level before the fileset in estimate_cmd() like in backup()
737 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
738 1859 1872 1891 1892 1893 1897
742 Kern;;;11 June 2012 at 20:15 CET
743 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.8 to Source Forge
745 This release is identical to release 5.2.8, with the exception
748 "Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871"
750 has been removed because it is not portable to all systems or
751 versions of readline.
755 Kern;;;10 June 2012 at 12:04 CET
757 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.8
759 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
763 The 5.2.8 version is a bug fix release.
765 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
766 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
767 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
768 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
769 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
770 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
771 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
773 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
774 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
775 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
776 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
777 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
778 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
779 that the project cannot properly support.
780 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
782 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
783 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
784 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
785 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
786 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
787 repeat them each bug fix release.
788 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
792 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
795 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.8
796 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
803 - Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871
804 - Ensure cancel status is set for canceled duplicate jobs -- partial fix for
806 - Enhance Win32 error messages -- fixes bug #1879
807 - Apply patch from bug 1876 to permit dot commands in a runscript
808 - Remove config variables from examples/devices fixes bug #1884
809 - Add more debug code for bug 1885
810 - Add more debug to block.c when read rejected
811 - Fail job that attempts to read from closed device -- reported in bug 1885 but
813 - Detect Python 2.7 fixes bug #1888
814 - Apply systemd patch from bug #1886
815 - Rewrite some SD subroutines as class members
816 - New overhaul of xattr code.
817 - Use IPPROTO_TCP for SOL_TCP if SOL_TCP isn't defined.
818 - Fix compiler warning.
820 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
821 1851 1871 1879 1884 1886 1888
825 Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
827 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
829 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
833 The 5.2.7 version is a significant bug fix release. (The
834 diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
836 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
837 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
838 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
839 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
840 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
841 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
842 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
844 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
845 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
846 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
847 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
848 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
849 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
850 that the project cannot properly support.
851 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
853 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
854 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
855 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
856 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
857 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
858 repeat them each bug fix release.
859 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
863 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
866 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
867 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
873 - Correct Qt version needed for bat
874 - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
875 - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
876 - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
877 - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
878 - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
879 - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
880 - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
881 - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
882 - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
883 - Add first Dutch translation
884 - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
885 - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
886 - Remove old shared objects before install
887 - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
888 - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
889 - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
890 - Add more checks to bvfs
891 - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
892 - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
893 - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
894 - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
895 - Fix class member shadowing.
896 - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
897 - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
898 - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
899 - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
900 - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
901 - Fix restore_job restore keyword
902 - Allow plugin to backup a directory
903 - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
904 - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
905 - Backport new StorageId code
906 - More definitive fix for update slots bug
907 - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
908 - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
909 - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
911 - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
912 - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
913 - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
914 between two Include{}
916 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
917 1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
922 Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
923 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
925 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
927 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
931 The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
933 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
934 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
935 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
936 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
937 SQL shared libraries.
938 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
940 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
941 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
942 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
943 each time the Director starts.
944 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
948 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
951 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
952 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
956 - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
957 part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
958 time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
959 but */xx* will not match the above filename.
964 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
965 - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
966 - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
967 - Make cd accept wildcards
968 - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
969 - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
970 - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
971 - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
972 - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
973 - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
974 - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
975 - Add wait on bad connection for security
976 - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
977 - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
978 - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
979 - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
980 - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
981 - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
983 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
988 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
989 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
990 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
992 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
996 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
998 Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
999 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
1000 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
1001 from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5.
1003 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1004 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
1005 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
1006 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
1007 SQL shared libraries.
1008 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1010 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1011 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
1012 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
1013 each time the Director starts.
1014 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1018 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1021 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
1022 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1025 Changes since 5.2.4:
1028 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
1029 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
1030 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
1031 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
1032 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
1034 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
1035 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
1040 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
1041 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
1043 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
1045 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
1049 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
1051 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1052 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
1053 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
1054 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
1055 SQL shared libraries.
1056 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1058 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1059 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
1060 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
1061 each time the Director starts.
1062 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1066 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1069 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
1070 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1073 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
1074 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
1076 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
1077 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
1078 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
1079 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
1080 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
1081 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
1082 - Compiler warning cleanups
1084 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
1086 Changes since 5.2.3:
1089 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
1090 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
1091 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
1092 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
1094 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
1095 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
1096 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
1097 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
1098 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
1100 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
1102 - Fix systemd pid files.
1103 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
1104 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
1105 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
1106 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
1107 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
1109 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
1110 - Backport Enterprise spec files
1111 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
1112 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
1113 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
1114 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
1115 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
1116 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
1117 - Add new features in plugin
1118 - Add helper for ini files
1119 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
1120 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
1121 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
1122 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
1123 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
1124 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
1125 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
1126 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
1128 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
1129 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
1133 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
1134 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
1136 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
1138 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
1142 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
1144 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1145 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
1146 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
1147 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
1148 SQL shared libraries.
1149 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1153 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1156 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
1157 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1160 Changes since 5.2.2:
1162 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
1163 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
1164 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
1165 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
1166 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
1167 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
1168 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
1169 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
1170 - Fix segfault in accurate code
1171 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
1173 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
1179 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
1180 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
1182 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
1184 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
1188 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
1189 additions and performance improvements.
1191 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1192 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
1193 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
1194 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
1195 SQL shared libraries.
1196 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1200 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1203 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
1204 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1207 Changes since 5.2.1:
1209 - Implement -t option for Bat
1210 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
1211 - Get new lib/plugins.h
1212 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
1213 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
1214 - Add Systemd configure options
1215 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
1216 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
1217 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
1218 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
1219 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
1220 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
1221 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
1222 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
1223 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
1225 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
1226 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
1227 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
1228 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
1229 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
1230 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
1231 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
1232 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
1233 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
1235 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
1236 -----------------------
1242 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
1243 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
1246 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
1248 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
1253 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
1254 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
1255 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
1256 number of important new features:
1260 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
1261 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
1266 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1269 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
1270 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1277 - Purge Migration Job
1278 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
1279 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
1280 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
1281 - Additions to RunScript variables
1282 - Additions to the Plugin API
1284 - XATTR enhancements
1285 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
1286 - Hash List Enhancements
1288 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
1289 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
1292 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
1293 ---------------------
1294 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
1295 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
1296 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
1297 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
1298 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
1299 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
1302 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1304 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
1305 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
1306 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
1307 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
1311 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
1312 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
1313 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
1315 Packaging the SQL backend:
1316 --------------------------
1317 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
1318 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
1319 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
1320 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
1323 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
1328 Order of testing for database is
1333 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
1334 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
1336 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
1337 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
1338 the default backend type.
1340 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
1341 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
1342 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
1344 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
1346 And update the default backend in the following files:
1348 create_bacula_database
1349 drop_bacula_database
1351 grant_bacula_privileges
1354 update_bacula_tables
1356 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
1357 -----------------------------------------------
1358 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1359 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
1360 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
1361 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1362 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1365 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1366 source (i.e. manually):
1367 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1368 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1369 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
1370 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1371 at the bottom of this file.
1372 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1373 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1374 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1375 script and put the name of another database, and then
1376 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1377 catalogs have been updated.
1378 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1379 not print any error messages.
1381 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1382 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1383 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
1384 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1385 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1386 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1387 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1388 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1391 ================================================================
1395 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
1396 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
1397 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
1398 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
1399 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
1400 - limit command in some list commands
1401 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
1402 - Faster crc32 algorithm
1404 Security Enhancements:
1405 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
1406 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
1408 Features Enhancements:
1409 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
1410 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
1411 - Tray monitor for Windows
1412 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
1413 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
1414 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
1415 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
1416 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
1417 - Indent lsmark during restore
1418 - Disable batch insert config item
1419 - Director selection option in bconsole
1420 - restorejob command in bconsole
1421 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
1422 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
1423 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
1424 - Improved hash table for hard links
1425 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
1426 and %h (Client Address)
1429 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
1431 - New database format
1432 - Many new plugin API features
1433 - Improved memory handling for restores
1434 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
1435 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
1436 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
1439 ===========================================================================
1443 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
1444 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
1446 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
1447 It includes new code and some new features.
1448 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
1450 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
1451 the 5.0.1 release section.
1456 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1459 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
1460 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1463 Changes and New Features:
1464 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
1465 it printed a warning message and continued.
1466 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
1467 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
1468 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
1469 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
1470 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
1471 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
1472 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
1473 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
1477 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
1479 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
1480 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
1481 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
1482 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
1483 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
1484 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
1485 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
1486 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
1487 - Add archlinux to os.m4
1488 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
1489 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
1490 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
1491 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
1492 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
1493 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
1494 - Up maximum block size to 20M
1495 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
1496 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
1497 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
1498 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
1499 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
1500 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
1501 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
1502 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
1503 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
1504 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
1505 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
1506 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
1507 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
1508 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
1509 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
1510 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
1511 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
1513 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
1514 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
1515 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
1516 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
1517 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
1518 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
1519 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
1520 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
1521 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
1522 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
1523 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
1524 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
1525 - Added new bacula-libs package.
1526 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
1527 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
1529 See ChangeLog for more details.
1533 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
1534 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
1536 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
1537 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
1538 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
1539 and we are very pleased.
1543 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
1544 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
1546 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
1548 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
1553 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1556 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
1557 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1564 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
1566 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
1567 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
1568 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
1569 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
1570 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
1571 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
1572 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
1573 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
1574 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
1575 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
1576 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
1577 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
1579 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
1580 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
1581 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
1582 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
1583 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
1584 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
1585 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
1586 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
1587 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
1588 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
1589 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
1590 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
1591 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
1592 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
1596 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
1597 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
1599 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
1600 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
1602 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
1603 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
1604 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
1605 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
1606 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
1607 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
1608 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
1610 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
1611 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
1612 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
1613 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
1614 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
1615 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
1617 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
1618 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
1619 release there is no database upgrade needed.
1621 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
1622 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
1623 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
1625 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
1631 ============= Performance Note ==================
1633 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
1634 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
1635 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
1636 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
1637 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
1638 versions, on a well configured database it should run
1641 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
1642 In general, these will cause very significant performance
1643 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
1644 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
1645 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
1646 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
1647 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
1648 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
1649 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
1650 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
1652 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
1653 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
1654 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
1655 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
1656 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
1657 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
1659 ==========================================
1662 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
1664 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
1666 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1667 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
1668 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
1670 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
1671 features section of the manual.
1673 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
1674 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
1675 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
1676 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
1677 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
1678 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1682 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
1683 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
1684 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
1685 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
1686 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
1687 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
1690 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
1691 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
1692 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1693 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
1695 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
1696 section in the manual.
1697 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
1700 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
1701 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
1703 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
1704 - Fix three-pool regress bug
1705 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
1706 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
1707 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
1709 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
1710 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
1711 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
1713 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
1714 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
1715 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
1716 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
1717 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
1718 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
1719 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
1720 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
1721 - Fix missing console page in bat
1722 - Add bat help files to Window install
1723 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
1724 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
1725 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
1726 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
1727 - Update the bsock error URL
1728 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
1729 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
1730 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
1731 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
1732 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
1733 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
1734 - Remove file_index sequential check
1735 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
1738 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
1739 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
1740 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
1741 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
1742 not installed by the Makefiles
1744 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
1745 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
1746 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
1747 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
1749 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
1750 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
1751 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
1752 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
1753 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
1754 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
1755 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
1757 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
1758 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
1759 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
1760 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
1761 this problem (bug) does not exist.
1763 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
1764 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
1765 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
1766 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
1767 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
1768 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
1770 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
1771 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
1772 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
1773 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
1776 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
1777 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
1778 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
1782 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
1785 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
1787 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
1788 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
1789 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
1790 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
1791 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
1792 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
1793 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
1794 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
1795 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
1796 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
1797 --enable-smartalloc \
1798 --enable-tray-monitor \
1801 --with-dump-email=${email} \
1802 --with-job-email=${email} \
1803 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
1804 --with-baseport=9101
1806 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
1807 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
1808 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
1809 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
1811 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
1812 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
1813 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
1815 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
1816 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
1817 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
1818 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
1819 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
1820 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
1821 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
1822 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
1823 different versions of the shared objects.
1825 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
1826 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
1827 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
1828 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
1829 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
1830 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
1831 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
1832 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
1833 use readline or not as you please.
1838 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
1839 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
1842 -----------------------------------------------------------
1843 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
1844 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
1845 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
1846 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
1847 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
1848 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
1849 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
1850 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
1851 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
1852 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
1853 version is more advanced or has more features than the
1854 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
1855 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
1856 will be version 4.0.0.
1859 --------------------------------------------------------------
1860 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
1864 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
1865 -------------------------------------------------------
1868 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
1869 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
1873 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
1874 responding to the bsmtp program
1875 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
1876 - Fix various problems with the reload command
1877 - Fix problems with conio
1878 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
1881 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
1882 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
1883 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
1884 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
1885 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
1887 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
1888 checksum verification for example.
1889 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
1890 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
1891 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
1892 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
1893 - Add new speed test to btape program
1894 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
1895 - Windows version of Bat
1896 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
1897 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
1898 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
1900 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
1901 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
1902 - Many ACL improvements
1903 - Level added to FD status Job entry
1904 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
1905 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
1906 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
1909 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1910 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
1911 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
1912 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
1914 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
1915 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1916 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
1917 as is reasonable for your situation.
1919 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1921 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
1922 -----------------------------------------------------
1924 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1925 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
1926 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1927 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1928 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1931 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1933 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1934 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1935 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
1936 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1937 at the bottom of this file.
1938 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1939 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1940 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1941 script and put the name of another database, and then
1942 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1943 catalogs have been updated.
1944 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1945 not print any error messages.
1947 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1948 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1949 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
1950 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1951 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1952 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1953 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1954 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1956 ================================================================
1959 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1960 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
1961 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
1962 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
1963 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
1964 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
1965 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
1966 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
1968 ================================================================
1970 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1971 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
1972 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
1973 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
1974 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
1975 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
1976 ================================================================
1978 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
1979 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
1980 the manual for more details.
1982 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1984 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
1986 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
1987 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
1988 are still some that need fixing.
1990 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
1993 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1994 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1995 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1999 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
2000 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
2001 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
2004 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
2005 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
2007 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
2009 The ChangeLog has more details.
2014 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
2015 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
2017 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
2020 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
2022 Changes since 3.0.2:
2024 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
2025 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
2028 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
2029 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
2030 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
2031 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
2032 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
2033 when doing fixup_write_error ...
2034 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
2035 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
2036 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
2037 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
2038 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
2039 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
2040 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
2041 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
2042 tweak space on projects file
2043 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
2044 Apply Frank's slash patch
2045 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
2046 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
2047 Add more info when SD connection refused
2048 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
2049 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
2050 3.0.2-accurate.patch
2051 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
2052 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
2053 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
2054 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
2055 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
2056 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
2057 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
2058 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
2059 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
2060 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
2063 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
2066 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
2067 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
2072 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
2073 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
2074 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
2077 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
2078 some enhancements (see below).
2080 Changes since 3.0.1:
2083 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
2084 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
2087 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
2088 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
2089 - Fix bugs in xattr code
2090 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
2091 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
2094 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
2095 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
2096 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
2097 This is project 31 in the projects file.
2098 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
2099 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
2100 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
2101 This is project 2 in the projects file.
2102 - Add new Nagios plugin
2105 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
2108 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
2109 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
2114 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
2115 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2117 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
2119 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
2120 one enhancement (see below).
2122 Changes since 3.0.0:
2124 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
2127 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
2128 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
2129 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
2130 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
2131 - Updated projects file
2132 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
2133 and keep fields order.
2134 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
2135 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
2138 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
2139 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
2140 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
2141 tape deadlock situations.
2143 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
2144 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
2145 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
2146 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
2147 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
2148 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
2151 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
2153 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
2156 1. Missing documentation.
2157 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
2158 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
2161 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
2162 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
2163 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
2168 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
2169 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2171 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
2172 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
2175 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
2176 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
2177 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
2179 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
2181 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
2182 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
2183 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
2185 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
2186 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
2189 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
2190 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
2191 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
2192 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
2193 your help will be appreciated.
2195 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
2197 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
2198 we missed documenting some).
2200 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
2201 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
2203 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
2204 while it is running. He is working on this.
2206 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
2207 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
2208 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
2209 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
2210 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
2211 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
2212 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
2214 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
2215 bit of a rare case).
2217 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
2218 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
2219 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
2220 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
2221 most current release ...
2223 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
2224 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
2225 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
2226 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
2228 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
2229 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
2230 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
2231 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
2232 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
2233 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
2234 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
2236 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
2237 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
2238 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
2240 Personal contributions:
2241 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
2242 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
2243 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
2244 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
2245 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
2246 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
2247 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
2248 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
2249 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
2250 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
2252 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
2254 === List of new features ===
2258 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
2259 - Extended Attribute support
2260 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
2262 --enable-libtool (default)
2265 - Catalog Format Enhancements
2266 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
2268 - Duplicate Job Control
2269 - TLS Authentication
2270 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
2271 - State File updated at Job Termination
2274 - FD Exchange plugin
2276 - Console Enhancements
2281 - Restore seek optimization
2282 - Virtual Tape Emulation
2284 - RunScript Enhancements
2285 - Status enhancements
2286 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
2287 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
2288 - FD Version compatibily flag
2289 - Statistics Enhancements
2290 - Faster Attribute despooling
2291 - Document split into 6 manuals
2292 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
2294 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
2295 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
2296 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
2297 - New configure install options
2298 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
2299 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
2300 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
2301 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
2305 - Honor No Dump Flag
2306 - Exclude Dirs Containing
2308 - Max Run Sched Time
2310 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
2312 - Max Console Connections
2313 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
2314 - Allow Mixed Priorities
2315 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
2316 - Allow Higher Duplicates
2317 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
2318 - Cancel Running Duplicates
2320 - Console (in RunScript)
2322 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
2324 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
2325 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
2326 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
2327 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
2328 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
2329 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
2330 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
2331 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
2332 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
2334 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
2335 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
2336 Item n: Split documentation into several books
2337 ================================
2340 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
2342 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
2344 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
2345 represents an enormous effort.
2347 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2348 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
2349 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2350 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
2351 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
2353 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
2355 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
2356 -----------------------------------------------------
2358 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
2359 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
2360 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
2361 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
2362 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
2365 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
2367 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
2368 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
2369 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
2370 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
2371 at the bottom of this file.
2372 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
2373 5. ./update_bacula_tables
2374 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
2375 script and put the name of another database, and then
2376 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
2377 catalogs have been updated.
2378 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
2379 not print any error messages.
2381 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
2382 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
2383 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
2384 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
2386 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
2387 backup it before executing the script.
2389 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
2390 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
2391 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
2392 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
2393 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
2394 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
2395 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
2396 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
2400 Important New configure options :
2401 ----------------------
2403 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
2404 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
2405 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
2406 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
2407 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
2408 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
2409 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
2410 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
2412 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
2414 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
2415 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
2416 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
2418 ./configure --disable-libtool
2420 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
2421 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
2422 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
2423 want to put them elsewhere use:
2425 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
2427 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
2428 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
2429 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
2430 want to put them elsewhere use:
2432 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
2434 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
2435 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
2436 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
2439 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
2441 ==============================================================
2443 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
2444 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
2445 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
2448 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
2449 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
2451 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
2453 The ChangeLog has more details.
2457 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
2458 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
2459 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
2460 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
2461 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
2462 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
2463 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
2464 available for normal operations.
2466 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
2467 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
2468 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
2472 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
2473 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
2474 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
2476 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
2477 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
2478 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
2479 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
2480 range of Bacula users.
2482 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
2483 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
2484 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
2485 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
2486 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
2487 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
2490 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
2491 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
2492 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
2493 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
2494 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
2495 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
2496 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
2497 home for Bacula project development.
2499 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
2500 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
2501 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
2502 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
2503 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
2505 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
2506 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
2507 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
2508 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
2509 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
2510 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
2511 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
2512 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
2513 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
2514 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
2516 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
2517 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
2518 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
2519 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
2520 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
2521 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
2522 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
2523 training, documentation and certified binaries.
2525 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
2526 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
2527 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
2528 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
2529 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
2532 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
2533 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
2534 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
2535 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
2537 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
2538 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
2539 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
2540 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
2541 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
2542 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
2543 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
2544 and certified binaries.
2546 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
2547 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
2548 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
2549 company, Bacula Systems.
2551 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
2559 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
2560 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
2561 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
2562 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
2566 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
2567 with other 2.4.x versions.
2570 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
2573 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
2574 a non created job faster.
2575 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
2576 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
2577 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
2578 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
2579 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
2581 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
2582 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
2583 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
2585 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
2586 this never caused a bug.
2587 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
2588 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
2589 using default variables.
2590 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
2591 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
2592 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
2593 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
2594 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
2596 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
2597 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
2599 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
2600 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
2601 given. This fixes bug #1140.
2602 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
2603 This closes bug #1129.
2605 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
2606 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
2611 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
2612 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
2613 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
2614 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
2616 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
2619 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
2623 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
2624 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
2625 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
2626 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
2627 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
2628 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
2629 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
2630 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
2631 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
2632 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
2633 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
2634 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
2635 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
2636 This fixes bug #1124.
2637 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
2638 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
2639 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
2641 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
2642 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
2643 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
2644 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
2645 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
2646 version 2.5.x and above.
2649 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
2650 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
2651 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
2652 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
2655 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
2659 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
2660 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
2661 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
2662 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
2663 would occasionally not be restored.
2664 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
2665 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
2666 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
2668 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
2669 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
2670 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
2671 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
2672 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
2673 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
2674 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
2675 older 'incorrect' headers.
2676 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
2677 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
2678 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
2679 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
2680 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
2681 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
2682 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
2683 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
2684 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
2685 is read on that drive.
2686 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
2687 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
2689 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
2690 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
2691 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
2692 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
2693 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
2694 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
2695 be opened. Reported by Eric.
2696 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
2697 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
2698 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
2699 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
2700 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
2701 have the requested MediaType.
2702 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
2703 the configuration routines.
2704 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
2705 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
2706 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
2707 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
2708 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
2709 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
2713 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
2714 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
2715 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
2716 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
2718 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
2719 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
2720 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2721 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2722 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2723 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2724 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2726 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
2727 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
2728 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
2729 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
2730 no database upgrade needed.
2732 =====================================================
2734 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
2736 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
2738 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2739 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2740 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2741 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2742 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
2743 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
2745 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
2746 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
2747 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
2748 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
2749 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
2750 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
2751 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
2753 ======================================================
2755 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
2756 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
2757 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2758 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2759 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2760 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2761 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2764 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
2765 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
2768 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
2769 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
2771 Release Version 2.4.0
2772 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
2773 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
2774 This fixes bug #1095.
2775 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
2776 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
2777 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
2779 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
2780 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
2781 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
2782 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
2783 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
2784 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
2785 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
2786 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
2787 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
2788 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
2790 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
2791 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
2792 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
2793 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
2794 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
2795 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
2796 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
2797 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
2798 This fixes bug #1041.
2799 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
2800 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
2801 - Implement --without-qwt
2802 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
2803 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
2804 with or without the QWT libaries.
2805 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
2806 from one drive to another.
2807 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
2808 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
2809 This fixes bug #1083.
2810 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
2811 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
2813 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
2814 This fixes bug #1078.
2815 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
2816 warning rather than an error.
2817 - Fix SQL query in migration code
2818 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
2819 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
2820 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
2821 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
2822 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
2823 same volume name twice in a row.
2824 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
2825 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
2826 handling the responsibilities.
2827 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
2828 causes a seg fault in many cases.
2829 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
2831 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
2832 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
2833 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
2834 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
2835 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
2836 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
2837 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
2838 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
2839 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
2840 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
2841 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
2842 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
2843 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
2844 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
2845 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
2846 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
2848 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
2849 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
2850 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
2851 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
2852 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2853 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
2854 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
2855 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
2856 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
2857 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
2858 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
2859 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
2860 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
2861 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
2862 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
2863 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
2864 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
2865 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
2867 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
2868 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
2869 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
2870 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
2871 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
2872 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
2873 the ./configure line.
2874 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
2878 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
2879 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
2880 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2881 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
2882 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
2884 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
2885 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
2887 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
2888 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
2889 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
2890 and are difficult to reproduce.
2891 See the ChangeLog for more details.
2892 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
2893 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
2897 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
2898 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
2899 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2900 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
2901 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
2903 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
2904 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
2905 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
2908 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
2909 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
2910 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
2911 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
2913 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
2914 since version 2.2.6:
2915 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
2916 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
2917 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
2918 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
2919 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
2920 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
2921 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
2922 bar, thanks to the above patch.
2923 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
2925 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
2926 driver with version 8.3.
2927 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
2929 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
2930 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
2931 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
2932 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
2934 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
2935 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
2937 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
2938 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
2940 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
2941 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
2943 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
2944 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
2945 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
2946 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
2948 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
2949 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
2950 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
2951 957, 908, 958, and 955.
2952 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
2953 out by Chris Howells.
2955 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
2956 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
2958 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
2959 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
2960 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
2961 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
2962 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
2963 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
2964 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
2965 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
2966 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
2967 the conditions noted above.
2969 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
2970 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
2971 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
2972 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
2973 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
2976 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
2977 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
2978 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
2980 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
2981 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
2983 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
2984 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
2986 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
2987 It contains the following fixes:
2989 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
2990 - Possible fix for bug #908.
2991 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
2992 file to always be deleted.
2993 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
2994 This fixes bug #950.
2995 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
2996 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
2998 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
2999 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
3000 are released as soon as possible.
3001 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
3002 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
3003 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
3004 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
3005 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
3006 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
3007 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
3008 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
3010 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
3011 and not memory usage.
3013 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
3016 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
3017 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
3019 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
3020 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
3021 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
3022 kind of problem many times.
3024 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
3027 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
3028 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
3029 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
3030 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
3033 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
3035 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
3038 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
3039 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
3040 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
3042 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
3043 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
3045 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
3047 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
3048 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
3051 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
3052 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
3053 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
3054 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
3056 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
3057 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
3058 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
3059 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
3061 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
3062 affected by this bug.
3064 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
3065 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
3068 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
3069 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
3072 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
3073 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
3074 an updated Storage daemon.
3076 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
3077 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
3078 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
3079 reproduced the problem.
3081 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
3082 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
3084 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
3086 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
3090 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
3092 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
3094 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
3096 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
3097 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
3099 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
3100 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
3101 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
3102 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
3103 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
3105 Areas requiring caution or testing:
3106 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
3107 to build with MySQL enabled.
3108 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
3109 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
3110 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
3111 to what we do with sockets).
3112 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
3113 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
3114 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
3115 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
3116 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
3117 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
3118 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
3119 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
3121 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
3123 The major new features are:
3124 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
3125 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
3126 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
3127 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
3128 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
3129 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
3130 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
3131 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
3132 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
3134 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
3135 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
3136 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
3138 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
3139 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
3140 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
3141 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
3142 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
3143 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
3144 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
3145 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
3146 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
3147 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
3148 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
3150 New ./configure options:
3151 - --enable-bwx-console
3156 - --enable-batch-insert
3158 New bconsole commands:
3161 - update recyclepool
3164 - .pwd (in restore tree)
3165 - restoreclient (keyword)
3166 - backupclient (keyword)
3167 - regexwhere (keyword)
3168 - update jobid (new command)
3169 - recyclepool (keyword)
3172 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
3173 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
3174 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
3175 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
3176 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
3177 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
3178 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
3179 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
3180 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
3181 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
3182 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
3184 Other features or bug fixes:
3185 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
3186 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
3187 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
3188 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
3189 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
3190 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
3191 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
3192 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
3193 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
3194 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
3195 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
3196 these packages in the distro.
3197 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
3199 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
3200 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
3201 directives are defined.
3202 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
3203 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
3204 Use the command line or the Services panne.
3205 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
3206 - More debug output in status storage.
3207 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
3208 critical columns were lost).
3209 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
3210 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
3211 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
3212 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
3213 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
3214 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
3215 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
3216 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
3217 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
3218 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
3219 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
3220 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
3221 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
3222 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
3223 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
3224 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
3225 in front of the configuration path/filename.
3226 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
3227 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
3228 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
3229 filename restrictions.
3230 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
3231 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
3232 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
3233 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
3234 is already a < in the target.
3235 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
3236 mounted by another job.
3237 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
3238 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
3239 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
3240 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
3241 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
3242 - Database user and name can be configured with:
3243 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
3244 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
3245 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
3246 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
3247 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
3248 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
3249 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
3250 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
3251 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
3252 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
3253 - Sockets are no longer restored.
3254 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
3255 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
3256 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
3257 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
3258 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
3259 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
3260 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
3261 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
3262 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
3263 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
3268 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
3270 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
3271 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
3272 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
3275 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
3276 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
3280 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
3281 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
3282 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
3283 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
3285 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
3288 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
3289 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
3291 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
3292 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
3294 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
3295 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
3298 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
3300 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
3302 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
3305 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
3306 than English. Fixes bug #788.
3308 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
3310 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
3311 If you want to use this, you can apply
3312 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
3314 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
3315 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
3316 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
3318 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
3319 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
3320 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
3321 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
3323 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
3324 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
3325 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
3326 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
3327 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
3330 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
3332 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
3333 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
3334 was opened, it is closed.
3336 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
3337 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
3338 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
3340 kes Update projects list.
3342 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
3343 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
3345 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
3346 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
3347 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
3349 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
3350 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
3352 Switch to using Subversion
3353 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
3355 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
3356 plus the entrypoints.
3357 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
3358 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
3359 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
3361 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
3362 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
3364 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
3365 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
3366 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
3368 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
3369 problem is with read or append.
3371 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
3372 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
3373 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
3374 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
3375 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
3376 (i.e. migration jobs).
3377 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
3378 a memory leak problem.
3379 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
3380 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
3381 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
3382 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
3383 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
3384 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
3385 (hides some of the ugly casting).
3387 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
3388 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
3392 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
3394 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
3396 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
3398 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
3400 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
3401 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
3402 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
3403 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
3405 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
3407 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
3408 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
3409 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
3410 other DIR specifications.
3412 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
3413 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
3414 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
3416 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
3418 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
3419 backup. This should fix bug #755.
3420 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
3424 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
3426 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
3427 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
3428 the following fixes:
3430 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
3431 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
3432 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
3434 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
3435 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
3436 This *should* fix bug #747.
3437 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
3439 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
3440 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
3441 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
3442 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
3443 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
3444 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
3446 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
3447 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
3451 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
3453 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
3455 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
3457 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
3459 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
3461 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
3465 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
3467 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
3469 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
3471 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
3472 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
3473 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
3474 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
3475 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
3476 Please backup your previous version of the database before
3477 running the update. The update script will be automatically
3478 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
3479 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
3481 ./update_bacula_tables
3483 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
3484 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
3485 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
3486 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
3487 in general, it should be very fast.
3489 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
3490 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
3491 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
3492 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
3493 directory mostly out of paranoia.
3495 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
3496 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
3497 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
3498 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
3499 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
3500 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
3501 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
3502 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
3503 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
3504 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
3505 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
3506 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
3507 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
3508 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
3509 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
3510 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
3511 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
3512 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
3513 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
3514 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
3515 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
3516 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
3517 with the correct MediaType.
3518 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
3519 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
3520 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
3521 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
3522 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
3523 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
3524 more testing is still needed.
3525 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
3526 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
3527 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
3528 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
3529 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
3530 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
3531 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
3532 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
3533 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
3534 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
3535 and fixed it as follows:
3537 No filters = Works fine
3539 Compression = Works fine
3540 Encryption = Works fine
3541 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
3543 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
3544 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
3545 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
3548 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
3549 not properly restored.
3552 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
3554 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
3555 data to be sure it all works correctly.
3556 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
3557 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
3558 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
3559 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
3560 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
3561 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
3562 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
3563 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
3564 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
3567 Block Positioning = no
3569 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
3571 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
3572 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
3573 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
3575 New Features in 2.0.0:
3576 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
3577 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
3578 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
3579 Bacula, then as root run:
3581 cd <bacula-source>/po
3584 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
3586 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
3587 Migration chapter in the manual
3588 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
3589 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
3590 a new chapter of the manual at:
3591 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
3592 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
3593 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
3594 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
3595 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
3596 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
3598 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
3599 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
3600 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
3601 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
3602 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
3603 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
3604 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
3605 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
3606 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
3607 before putting into production.
3608 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
3609 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
3610 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
3611 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
3612 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
3613 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
3614 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
3615 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
3617 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
3618 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
3619 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
3620 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
3621 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
3622 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
3623 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
3624 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
3625 "list nextvol days=xx"
3627 "status dir days=xx"
3628 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
3629 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
3631 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
3632 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
3634 wait jobuid=unique id
3636 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
3637 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
3638 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
3639 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
3640 job report in the Log database table.
3641 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
3642 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
3643 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
3644 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
3645 the job can be manually started from the console.
3646 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
3647 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
3648 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
3649 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
3650 the restore cd command.
3651 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
3652 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
3654 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
3655 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
3656 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
3657 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
3658 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
3659 spaces in names better, ...
3660 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
3661 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
3663 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
3664 the restore command.
3665 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
3666 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
3667 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
3668 from Eric Bollengier.
3669 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
3670 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
3671 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
3672 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
3673 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
3674 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
3675 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
3676 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
3677 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
3678 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
3679 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
3680 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
3681 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
3682 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
3683 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
3684 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
3685 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
3686 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
3687 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
3688 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
3689 - Implement mount command for autochanger
3690 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
3691 from File= was not found.
3692 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
3693 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
3694 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
3695 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
3696 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
3697 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
3699 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
3701 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
3702 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
3703 listing where they could be "lost".
3704 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
3705 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
3707 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
3708 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
3709 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
3710 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
3711 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
3712 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
3713 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
3714 and mount, unmount directives.
3715 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
3716 to a user submission.
3717 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
3718 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
3719 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
3720 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
3721 device will be blocked.
3722 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
3723 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
3724 all other Storage specifications.
3725 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
3726 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
3727 from a database table for restore.
3728 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
3729 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
3730 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
3731 accept time qualifiers.
3732 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
3733 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
3734 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
3735 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
3736 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
3737 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
3738 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
3739 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
3741 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
3742 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
3743 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
3744 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
3745 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
3746 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
3747 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
3748 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
3749 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
3750 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
3751 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
3752 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
3753 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
3754 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
3756 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
3757 fault, but still 60 second window.
3758 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
3759 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
3761 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
3762 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
3763 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
3764 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
3765 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
3766 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
3767 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
3768 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
3769 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
3771 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
3773 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
3774 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
3775 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
3776 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
3777 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
3778 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
3779 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
3780 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
3782 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
3784 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
3785 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
3786 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
3787 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
3788 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
3790 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
3791 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
3792 Add Cost to Location table.
3793 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
3794 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
3795 and forcing a 6 second wait.
3796 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
3797 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
3798 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
3799 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
3800 system libraries print routines.
3801 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
3802 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
3803 it is all very complicated.
3804 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
3806 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
3808 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
3809 chapter of the manual
3810 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
3811 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
3812 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
3813 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
3814 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
3815 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
3816 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
3817 Mail On Success directive.
3818 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
3820 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
3821 are printed in the Job report.
3823 Additional Features Added for Win32:
3824 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3825 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
3826 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
3827 has the concept of drives.
3829 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3830 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
3832 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
3833 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
3835 Patterns conform to Posix
3836 \ is not a special character in character classification []
3837 To match a - it must be the first or last character
3838 To match a ] it must be the first character
3840 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
3841 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
3843 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
3844 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
3845 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
3846 abc*.def work as expected.
3848 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
3850 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
3852 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
3853 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
3854 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
3855 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
3856 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
3857 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"