1 Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
3 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
5 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
9 The 5.2.7 version is a significan bug fix release. (The
10 diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
14 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
15 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
16 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
17 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
18 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
22 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
23 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
24 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
25 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
26 that the project cannot properly support.
27 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
29 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
30 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
31 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
32 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
33 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
34 repeat them each bug fix release.
35 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
39 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
42 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
43 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
49 - Correct Qt version needed for bat
50 - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
51 - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
52 - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
53 - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
54 - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
55 - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
56 - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
57 - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
58 - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
59 - Add first Dutch translation
60 - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
61 - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
62 - Remove old shared objects before install
63 - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
64 - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
65 - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
66 - Add more checks to bvfs
67 - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
68 - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
69 - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
70 - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
71 - Fix class member shadowing.
72 - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
73 - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
74 - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
75 - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
76 - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
77 - Fix restore_job restore keyword
78 - Allow plugin to backup a directory
79 - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
80 - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
81 - Backport new StorageId code
82 - More definitive fix for update slots bug
83 - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
84 - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
85 - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
87 - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
88 - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
89 - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
92 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
93 1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
97 Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
98 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
100 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
102 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
106 The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
108 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
109 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
110 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
111 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
112 SQL shared libraries.
113 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
115 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
116 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
117 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
118 each time the Director starts.
119 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
123 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
126 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
127 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
131 - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
132 part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
133 time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
134 but */xx* will not match the above filename.
139 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
140 - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
141 - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
142 - Make cd accept wildcards
143 - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
144 - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
145 - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
146 - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
147 - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
148 - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
149 - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
150 - Add wait on bad connection for security
151 - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
152 - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
153 - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
154 - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
155 - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
156 - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
158 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
162 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
163 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
164 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
166 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
170 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
172 Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
173 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
174 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
177 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
178 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
179 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
180 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
181 SQL shared libraries.
182 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
184 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
185 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
186 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
187 each time the Director starts.
188 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
192 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
195 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
196 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
202 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
203 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
204 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
205 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
206 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
208 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
209 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
214 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
215 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
217 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
219 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
223 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
225 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
226 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
227 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
228 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
229 SQL shared libraries.
230 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
232 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
233 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
234 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
235 each time the Director starts.
236 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
240 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
243 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
244 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
247 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
248 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
250 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
251 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
252 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
253 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
254 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
255 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
256 - Compiler warning cleanups
258 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
263 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
264 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
265 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
266 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
268 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
269 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
270 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
271 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
272 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
274 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
276 - Fix systemd pid files.
277 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
278 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
279 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
280 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
281 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
283 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
284 - Backport Enterprise spec files
285 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
286 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
287 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
288 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
289 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
290 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
291 - Add new features in plugin
292 - Add helper for ini files
293 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
294 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
295 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
296 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
297 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
298 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
299 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
300 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
302 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
303 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
306 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
307 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
309 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
311 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
315 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
317 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
318 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
319 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
320 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
321 SQL shared libraries.
322 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
326 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
329 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
330 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
335 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
336 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
337 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
338 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
339 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
340 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
341 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
342 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
343 - Fix segfault in accurate code
344 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
346 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
351 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
352 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
354 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
356 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
360 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
361 additions and performance improvements.
363 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
364 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
365 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
366 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
367 SQL shared libraries.
368 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
372 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
375 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
376 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
381 - Implement -t option for Bat
382 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
383 - Get new lib/plugins.h
384 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
385 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
386 - Add Systemd configure options
387 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
388 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
389 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
390 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
391 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
392 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
393 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
394 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
395 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
397 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
398 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
399 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
400 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
401 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
402 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
403 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
404 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
405 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
407 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
408 -----------------------
413 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
414 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
417 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
419 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
424 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
425 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
426 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
427 number of important new features:
431 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
432 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
437 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
440 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
441 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
448 - Purge Migration Job
449 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
450 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
451 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
452 - Additions to RunScript variables
453 - Additions to the Plugin API
456 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
457 - Hash List Enhancements
459 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
460 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
463 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
464 ---------------------
465 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
466 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
467 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
468 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
469 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
470 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
473 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
475 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
476 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
477 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
478 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
482 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
483 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
484 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
486 Packaging the SQL backend:
487 --------------------------
488 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
489 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
490 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
491 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
494 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
499 Order of testing for database is
504 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
505 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
507 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
508 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
509 the default backend type.
511 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
512 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
513 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
515 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
517 And update the default backend in the following files:
519 create_bacula_database
522 grant_bacula_privileges
527 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
528 -----------------------------------------------
529 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
530 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
531 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
532 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
533 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
536 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
537 source (i.e. manually):
538 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
539 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
540 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
541 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
542 at the bottom of this file.
543 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
544 5. ./update_bacula_tables
545 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
546 script and put the name of another database, and then
547 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
548 catalogs have been updated.
549 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
550 not print any error messages.
552 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
553 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
554 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
555 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
556 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
557 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
558 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
559 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
562 ================================================================
566 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
567 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
568 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
569 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
570 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
571 - limit command in some list commands
572 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
573 - Faster crc32 algorithm
575 Security Enhancements:
576 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
577 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
579 Features Enhancements:
580 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
581 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
582 - Tray monitor for Windows
583 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
584 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
585 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
586 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
587 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
588 - Indent lsmark during restore
589 - Disable batch insert config item
590 - Director selection option in bconsole
591 - restorejob command in bconsole
592 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
593 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
594 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
595 - Improved hash table for hard links
596 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
597 and %h (Client Address)
600 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
602 - New database format
603 - Many new plugin API features
604 - Improved memory handling for restores
605 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
606 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
607 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
610 ===========================================================================
613 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
614 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
616 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
617 It includes new code and some new features.
618 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
620 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
621 the 5.0.1 release section.
626 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
629 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
630 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
633 Changes and New Features:
634 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
635 it printed a warning message and continued.
636 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
637 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
638 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
639 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
640 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
641 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
642 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
643 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
647 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
649 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
650 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
651 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
652 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
653 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
654 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
655 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
656 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
657 - Add archlinux to os.m4
658 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
659 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
660 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
661 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
662 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
663 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
664 - Up maximum block size to 20M
665 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
666 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
667 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
668 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
669 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
670 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
671 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
672 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
673 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
674 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
675 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
676 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
677 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
678 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
679 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
680 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
681 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
683 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
684 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
685 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
686 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
687 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
688 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
689 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
690 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
691 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
692 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
693 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
694 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
695 - Added new bacula-libs package.
696 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
697 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
699 See ChangeLog for more details.
702 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
703 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
705 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
706 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
707 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
708 and we are very pleased.
711 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
712 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
714 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
716 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
721 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
724 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
725 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
732 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
734 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
735 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
736 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
737 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
738 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
739 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
740 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
741 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
742 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
743 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
744 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
745 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
747 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
748 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
749 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
750 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
751 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
752 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
753 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
754 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
755 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
756 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
757 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
758 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
759 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
760 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
764 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
765 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
767 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
768 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
770 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
771 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
772 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
773 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
774 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
775 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
776 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
778 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
779 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
780 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
781 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
782 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
783 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
785 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
786 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
787 release there is no database upgrade needed.
789 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
790 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
791 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
793 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
799 ============= Performance Note ==================
801 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
802 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
803 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
804 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
805 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
806 versions, on a well configured database it should run
809 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
810 In general, these will cause very significant performance
811 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
812 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
813 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
814 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
815 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
816 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
817 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
818 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
820 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
821 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
822 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
823 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
824 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
825 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
827 ==========================================
830 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
832 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
834 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
835 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
836 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
838 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
839 features section of the manual.
841 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
842 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
843 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
844 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
845 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
846 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
850 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
851 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
852 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
853 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
854 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
855 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
858 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
859 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
860 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
861 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
863 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
864 section in the manual.
865 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
868 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
869 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
871 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
872 - Fix three-pool regress bug
873 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
874 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
875 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
877 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
878 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
879 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
881 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
882 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
883 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
884 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
885 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
886 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
887 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
888 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
889 - Fix missing console page in bat
890 - Add bat help files to Window install
891 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
892 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
893 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
894 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
895 - Update the bsock error URL
896 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
897 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
898 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
899 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
900 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
901 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
902 - Remove file_index sequential check
903 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
906 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
907 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
908 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
909 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
910 not installed by the Makefiles
912 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
913 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
914 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
915 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
917 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
918 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
919 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
920 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
921 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
922 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
923 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
925 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
926 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
927 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
928 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
929 this problem (bug) does not exist.
931 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
932 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
933 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
934 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
935 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
936 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
938 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
939 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
940 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
941 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
944 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
945 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
946 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
950 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
953 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
955 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
956 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
957 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
958 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
959 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
960 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
961 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
962 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
963 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
964 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
965 --enable-smartalloc \
966 --enable-tray-monitor \
969 --with-dump-email=${email} \
970 --with-job-email=${email} \
971 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
974 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
975 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
976 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
977 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
979 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
980 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
981 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
983 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
984 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
985 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
986 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
987 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
988 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
989 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
990 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
991 different versions of the shared objects.
993 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
994 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
995 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
996 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
997 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
998 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
999 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
1000 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
1001 use readline or not as you please.
1005 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
1006 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
1009 -----------------------------------------------------------
1010 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
1011 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
1012 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
1013 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
1014 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
1015 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
1016 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
1017 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
1018 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
1019 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
1020 version is more advanced or has more features than the
1021 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
1022 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
1023 will be version 4.0.0.
1026 --------------------------------------------------------------
1027 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
1031 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
1032 -------------------------------------------------------
1035 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
1036 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
1040 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
1041 responding to the bsmtp program
1042 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
1043 - Fix various problems with the reload command
1044 - Fix problems with conio
1045 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
1048 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
1049 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
1050 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
1051 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
1052 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
1054 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
1055 checksum verification for example.
1056 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
1057 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
1058 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
1059 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
1060 - Add new speed test to btape program
1061 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
1062 - Windows version of Bat
1063 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
1064 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
1065 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
1067 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
1068 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
1069 - Many ACL improvements
1070 - Level added to FD status Job entry
1071 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
1072 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
1073 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
1076 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1077 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
1078 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
1079 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
1081 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
1082 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1083 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
1084 as is reasonable for your situation.
1086 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1088 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
1089 -----------------------------------------------------
1091 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1092 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
1093 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1094 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1095 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1098 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1100 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1101 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1102 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
1103 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1104 at the bottom of this file.
1105 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1106 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1107 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1108 script and put the name of another database, and then
1109 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1110 catalogs have been updated.
1111 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1112 not print any error messages.
1114 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1115 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1116 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
1117 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1118 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1119 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1120 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1121 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1123 ================================================================
1126 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1127 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
1128 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
1129 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
1130 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
1131 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
1132 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
1133 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
1135 ================================================================
1137 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1138 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
1139 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
1140 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
1141 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
1142 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
1143 ================================================================
1145 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
1146 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
1147 the manual for more details.
1149 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1151 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
1153 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
1154 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
1155 are still some that need fixing.
1157 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
1160 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1161 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1162 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1166 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1167 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1168 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1171 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1172 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1174 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
1176 The ChangeLog has more details.
1181 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
1182 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
1184 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1187 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
1189 Changes since 3.0.2:
1191 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
1192 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
1195 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
1196 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
1197 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
1198 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
1199 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
1200 when doing fixup_write_error ...
1201 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
1202 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
1203 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
1204 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
1205 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
1206 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
1207 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
1208 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
1209 tweak space on projects file
1210 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
1211 Apply Frank's slash patch
1212 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
1213 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
1214 Add more info when SD connection refused
1215 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
1216 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
1217 3.0.2-accurate.patch
1218 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
1219 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
1220 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
1221 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
1222 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
1223 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
1224 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
1225 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
1226 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
1227 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
1230 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1233 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
1234 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1239 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
1240 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
1241 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1244 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
1245 some enhancements (see below).
1247 Changes since 3.0.1:
1250 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
1251 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
1254 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
1255 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
1256 - Fix bugs in xattr code
1257 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
1258 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
1261 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
1262 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
1263 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
1264 This is project 31 in the projects file.
1265 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
1266 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
1267 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
1268 This is project 2 in the projects file.
1269 - Add new Nagios plugin
1272 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1275 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
1276 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
1280 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
1281 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1283 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
1285 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
1286 one enhancement (see below).
1288 Changes since 3.0.0:
1290 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
1293 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
1294 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
1295 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
1296 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
1297 - Updated projects file
1298 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
1299 and keep fields order.
1300 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
1301 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
1304 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1305 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1306 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1307 tape deadlock situations.
1309 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1310 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1311 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1312 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1313 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1314 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1317 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1319 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1322 1. Missing documentation.
1323 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1324 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1327 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1328 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1329 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1333 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1334 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1336 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1337 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1340 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1341 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1342 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1344 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1346 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1347 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1348 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1350 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1351 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1354 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1355 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1356 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1357 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1358 your help will be appreciated.
1360 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1362 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1363 we missed documenting some).
1365 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1366 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1368 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1369 while it is running. He is working on this.
1371 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1372 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1373 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1374 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1375 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1376 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1377 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1379 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1380 bit of a rare case).
1382 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1383 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1384 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1385 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1386 most current release ...
1388 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1389 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1390 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1391 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1393 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1394 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1395 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1396 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1397 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1398 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1399 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1401 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1402 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1403 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1405 Personal contributions:
1406 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1407 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1408 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1409 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1410 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1411 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1412 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1413 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1414 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1415 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1417 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1419 === List of new features ===
1423 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1424 - Extended Attribute support
1425 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1427 --enable-libtool (default)
1430 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1431 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1433 - Duplicate Job Control
1434 - TLS Authentication
1435 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1436 - State File updated at Job Termination
1439 - FD Exchange plugin
1441 - Console Enhancements
1446 - Restore seek optimization
1447 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1449 - RunScript Enhancements
1450 - Status enhancements
1451 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1452 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1453 - FD Version compatibily flag
1454 - Statistics Enhancements
1455 - Faster Attribute despooling
1456 - Document split into 6 manuals
1457 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1459 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1460 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1461 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1462 - New configure install options
1463 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1464 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1465 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1466 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1470 - Honor No Dump Flag
1471 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1473 - Max Run Sched Time
1475 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1477 - Max Console Connections
1478 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1479 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1480 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1481 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1482 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1483 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1485 - Console (in RunScript)
1487 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1489 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1490 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1491 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1492 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1493 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1494 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1495 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1496 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1497 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1499 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1500 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1501 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1502 ================================
1505 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1507 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1509 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1510 represents an enormous effort.
1512 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1513 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1514 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1515 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1516 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1518 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1520 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1521 -----------------------------------------------------
1523 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1524 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1525 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1526 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1527 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1530 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1532 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1533 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1534 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1535 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1536 at the bottom of this file.
1537 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1538 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1539 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1540 script and put the name of another database, and then
1541 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1542 catalogs have been updated.
1543 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1544 not print any error messages.
1546 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1547 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1548 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1549 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1551 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1552 backup it before executing the script.
1554 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1555 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1556 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1557 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1558 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1559 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1560 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1561 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1565 Important New configure options :
1566 ----------------------
1568 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1569 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1570 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1571 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1572 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1573 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1574 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1575 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1577 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1579 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1580 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1581 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1583 ./configure --disable-libtool
1585 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1586 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1587 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1588 want to put them elsewhere use:
1590 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1592 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1593 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1594 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1595 want to put them elsewhere use:
1597 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1599 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1600 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1601 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1604 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1606 ==============================================================
1608 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1609 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1610 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1613 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1614 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1616 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1618 The ChangeLog has more details.
1621 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1622 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1623 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1624 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1625 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1626 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1627 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1628 available for normal operations.
1630 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1631 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1632 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1635 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1636 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1637 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1639 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1640 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1641 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1642 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1643 range of Bacula users.
1645 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1646 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1647 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1648 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1649 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1650 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1653 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1654 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1655 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1656 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1657 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1658 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1659 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1660 home for Bacula project development.
1662 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1663 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1664 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1665 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1666 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1668 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1669 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1670 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1671 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1672 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1673 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1674 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1675 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1676 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1677 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1679 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1680 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1681 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1682 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1683 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1684 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1685 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1686 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1688 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1689 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1690 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1691 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1692 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1695 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1696 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1697 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1698 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1700 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1701 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1702 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1703 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1704 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1705 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1706 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1707 and certified binaries.
1709 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1710 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1711 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1712 company, Bacula Systems.
1714 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1721 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1722 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1723 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1724 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1728 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1729 with other 2.4.x versions.
1732 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1735 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1736 a non created job faster.
1737 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1738 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1739 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1740 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1741 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1743 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1744 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1745 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1747 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1748 this never caused a bug.
1749 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1750 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1751 using default variables.
1752 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1753 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1754 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1755 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1756 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1758 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1759 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1761 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1762 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1763 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1764 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1765 This closes bug #1129.
1767 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1768 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1772 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1773 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1774 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1775 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1777 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1780 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1784 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1785 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1786 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1787 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1788 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1789 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1790 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1791 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1792 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1793 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1794 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1795 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1796 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1797 This fixes bug #1124.
1798 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1799 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1800 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1802 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1803 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1804 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1805 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1806 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1807 version 2.5.x and above.
1810 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1811 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1812 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1813 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1816 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1820 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1821 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1822 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1823 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1824 would occasionally not be restored.
1825 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1826 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1827 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1829 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1830 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1831 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1832 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1833 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1834 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1835 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1836 older 'incorrect' headers.
1837 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1838 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1839 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1840 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1841 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1842 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1843 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1844 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1845 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1846 is read on that drive.
1847 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1848 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
1850 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
1851 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
1852 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
1853 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
1854 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
1855 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
1856 be opened. Reported by Eric.
1857 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
1858 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
1859 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
1860 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
1861 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
1862 have the requested MediaType.
1863 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
1864 the configuration routines.
1865 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
1866 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
1867 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
1868 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
1869 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
1870 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
1874 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
1875 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
1876 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1877 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1879 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1880 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1881 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1882 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1883 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1884 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1885 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1887 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
1888 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
1889 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
1890 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
1891 no database upgrade needed.
1893 =====================================================
1895 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
1897 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
1899 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1900 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1901 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1902 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1903 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
1904 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
1906 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1907 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
1908 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
1909 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
1910 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
1911 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
1912 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
1914 ======================================================
1916 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1917 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1918 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1919 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1920 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1921 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1922 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1925 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
1926 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
1929 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
1930 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
1932 Release Version 2.4.0
1933 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
1934 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
1935 This fixes bug #1095.
1936 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
1937 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
1938 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
1940 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
1941 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
1942 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
1943 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
1944 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
1945 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
1946 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
1947 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
1948 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
1949 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
1951 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
1952 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
1953 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
1954 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
1955 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
1956 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
1957 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
1958 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
1959 This fixes bug #1041.
1960 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
1961 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
1962 - Implement --without-qwt
1963 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
1964 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
1965 with or without the QWT libaries.
1966 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
1967 from one drive to another.
1968 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
1969 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
1970 This fixes bug #1083.
1971 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
1972 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
1974 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
1975 This fixes bug #1078.
1976 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
1977 warning rather than an error.
1978 - Fix SQL query in migration code
1979 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
1980 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
1981 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
1982 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
1983 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
1984 same volume name twice in a row.
1985 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
1986 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
1987 handling the responsibilities.
1988 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
1989 causes a seg fault in many cases.
1990 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
1992 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
1993 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
1994 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
1995 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
1996 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
1997 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
1998 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
1999 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
2000 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
2001 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
2002 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
2003 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
2004 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
2005 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
2006 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
2007 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
2009 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
2010 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
2011 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
2012 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
2013 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2014 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
2015 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
2016 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
2017 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
2018 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
2019 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
2020 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
2021 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
2022 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
2023 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
2024 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
2025 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
2026 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
2028 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
2029 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
2030 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
2031 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
2032 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
2033 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
2034 the ./configure line.
2035 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
2039 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
2040 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
2041 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2042 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
2043 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
2045 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
2046 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
2048 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
2049 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
2050 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
2051 and are difficult to reproduce.
2052 See the ChangeLog for more details.
2053 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
2054 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
2058 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
2059 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
2060 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2061 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
2062 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
2064 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
2065 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
2066 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
2069 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
2070 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
2071 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
2072 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
2074 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
2075 since version 2.2.6:
2076 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
2077 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
2078 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
2079 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
2080 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
2081 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
2082 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
2083 bar, thanks to the above patch.
2084 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
2086 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
2087 driver with version 8.3.
2088 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
2090 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
2091 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
2092 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
2093 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
2095 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
2096 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
2098 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
2099 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
2101 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
2102 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
2104 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
2105 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
2106 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
2107 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
2109 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
2110 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
2111 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
2112 957, 908, 958, and 955.
2113 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
2114 out by Chris Howells.
2116 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
2117 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
2119 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
2120 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
2121 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
2122 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
2123 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
2124 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
2125 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
2126 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
2127 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
2128 the conditions noted above.
2130 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
2131 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
2132 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
2133 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
2134 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
2137 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
2138 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
2139 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
2141 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
2142 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
2144 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
2145 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
2147 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
2148 It contains the following fixes:
2150 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
2151 - Possible fix for bug #908.
2152 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
2153 file to always be deleted.
2154 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
2155 This fixes bug #950.
2156 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
2157 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
2159 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
2160 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
2161 are released as soon as possible.
2162 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
2163 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
2164 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
2165 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
2166 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
2167 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
2168 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
2169 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
2171 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
2172 and not memory usage.
2174 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
2177 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
2178 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
2180 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
2181 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
2182 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
2183 kind of problem many times.
2185 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
2188 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
2189 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
2190 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
2191 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
2194 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
2196 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
2199 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
2200 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
2201 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
2203 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
2204 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
2206 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
2208 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
2209 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
2212 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
2213 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
2214 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
2215 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
2217 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
2218 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
2219 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
2220 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
2222 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
2223 affected by this bug.
2225 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
2226 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
2229 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
2230 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
2233 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
2234 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
2235 an updated Storage daemon.
2237 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
2238 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
2239 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
2240 reproduced the problem.
2242 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
2243 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2245 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
2247 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
2251 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
2253 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2255 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
2257 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
2258 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
2260 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2261 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2262 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2263 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2264 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
2266 Areas requiring caution or testing:
2267 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
2268 to build with MySQL enabled.
2269 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
2270 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
2271 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
2272 to what we do with sockets).
2273 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
2274 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
2275 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
2276 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
2277 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
2278 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
2279 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
2280 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
2282 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
2284 The major new features are:
2285 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
2286 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
2287 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
2288 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
2289 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
2290 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
2291 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
2292 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
2293 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
2295 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
2296 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
2297 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
2299 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
2300 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
2301 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
2302 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
2303 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
2304 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2305 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2306 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2307 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2308 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2309 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2311 New ./configure options:
2312 - --enable-bwx-console
2317 - --enable-batch-insert
2319 New bconsole commands:
2322 - update recyclepool
2325 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2326 - restoreclient (keyword)
2327 - backupclient (keyword)
2328 - regexwhere (keyword)
2329 - update jobid (new command)
2330 - recyclepool (keyword)
2333 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2334 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2335 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2336 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2337 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2338 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2339 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2340 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2341 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2342 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2343 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2345 Other features or bug fixes:
2346 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2347 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2348 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2349 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2350 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2351 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2352 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2353 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2354 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2355 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2356 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2357 these packages in the distro.
2358 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2360 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2361 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2362 directives are defined.
2363 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2364 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2365 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2366 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2367 - More debug output in status storage.
2368 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2369 critical columns were lost).
2370 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2371 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2372 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2373 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2374 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2375 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2376 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2377 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2378 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2379 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2380 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2381 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2382 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2383 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2384 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2385 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2386 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2387 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2388 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2389 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2390 filename restrictions.
2391 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2392 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2393 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2394 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2395 is already a < in the target.
2396 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2397 mounted by another job.
2398 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2399 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2400 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2401 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2402 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2403 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2404 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2405 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2406 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2407 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2408 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2409 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2410 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2411 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2412 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2413 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2414 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2415 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2416 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2417 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2418 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2419 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2420 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2421 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2422 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2423 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2424 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2429 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2431 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2432 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2433 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2436 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2437 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2441 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2442 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2443 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2444 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2446 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2449 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2450 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2452 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2453 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2455 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2456 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2459 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2461 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2463 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2466 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2467 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2469 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2471 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2472 If you want to use this, you can apply
2473 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2475 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2476 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2477 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2479 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2480 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2481 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2482 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2484 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2485 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2486 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2487 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2488 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2491 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2493 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2494 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2495 was opened, it is closed.
2497 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2498 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2499 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2501 kes Update projects list.
2503 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2504 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2506 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2507 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2508 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2510 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2511 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2513 Switch to using Subversion
2514 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2516 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2517 plus the entrypoints.
2518 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2519 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2520 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2522 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2523 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2525 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2526 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2527 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2529 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2530 problem is with read or append.
2532 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2533 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2534 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2535 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2536 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2537 (i.e. migration jobs).
2538 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2539 a memory leak problem.
2540 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2541 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2542 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2543 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2544 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2545 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2546 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2548 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2549 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2553 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2555 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2557 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2559 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2561 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2562 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2563 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2564 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2566 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2568 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2569 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2570 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2571 other DIR specifications.
2573 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2574 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2575 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2577 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2579 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2580 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2581 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2585 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2587 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2588 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2589 the following fixes:
2591 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2592 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2593 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2595 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2596 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2597 This *should* fix bug #747.
2598 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2600 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2601 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2602 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2603 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2604 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2605 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2607 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2608 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2612 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2614 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2616 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2618 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2620 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2622 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2626 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2628 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2630 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2632 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2633 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2634 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2635 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2636 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2637 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2638 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2639 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2640 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2642 ./update_bacula_tables
2644 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2645 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2646 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2647 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2648 in general, it should be very fast.
2650 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2651 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2652 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2653 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2654 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2656 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2657 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2658 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2659 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2660 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2661 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2662 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2663 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2664 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2665 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2666 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2667 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2668 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2669 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2670 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2671 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2672 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2673 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2674 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2675 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2676 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2677 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2678 with the correct MediaType.
2679 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2680 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2681 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2682 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2683 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2684 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2685 more testing is still needed.
2686 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2687 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2688 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2689 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2690 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2691 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2692 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2693 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2694 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2695 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2696 and fixed it as follows:
2698 No filters = Works fine
2700 Compression = Works fine
2701 Encryption = Works fine
2702 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2704 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2705 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2706 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2709 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2710 not properly restored.
2713 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2715 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2716 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2717 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2718 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2719 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2720 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2721 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2722 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2723 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2724 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2725 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2728 Block Positioning = no
2730 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2732 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2733 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2734 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2736 New Features in 2.0.0:
2737 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2738 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2739 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2740 Bacula, then as root run:
2742 cd <bacula-source>/po
2745 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2747 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2748 Migration chapter in the manual
2749 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2750 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2751 a new chapter of the manual at:
2752 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2753 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2754 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2755 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2756 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2757 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2759 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2760 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2761 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2762 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2763 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2764 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2765 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2766 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2767 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2768 before putting into production.
2769 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2770 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2771 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2772 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2773 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2774 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2775 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2776 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2778 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2779 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2780 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2781 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2782 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2783 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2784 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2785 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2786 "list nextvol days=xx"
2788 "status dir days=xx"
2789 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2790 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2792 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2793 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2795 wait jobuid=unique id
2797 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2798 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2799 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2800 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2801 job report in the Log database table.
2802 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2803 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2804 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2805 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2806 the job can be manually started from the console.
2807 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2808 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2809 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2810 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2811 the restore cd command.
2812 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2813 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2815 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2816 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2817 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2818 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2819 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2820 spaces in names better, ...
2821 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2822 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2824 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2825 the restore command.
2826 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2827 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2828 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2829 from Eric Bollengier.
2830 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2831 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2832 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2833 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2834 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2835 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2836 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2837 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2838 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2839 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2840 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2841 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2842 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2843 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2844 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2845 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2846 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2847 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2848 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
2849 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2850 - Implement mount command for autochanger
2851 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
2852 from File= was not found.
2853 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
2854 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
2855 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
2856 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
2857 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
2858 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
2860 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
2862 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
2863 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
2864 listing where they could be "lost".
2865 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
2866 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
2868 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
2869 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
2870 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
2871 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
2872 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
2873 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
2874 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
2875 and mount, unmount directives.
2876 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
2877 to a user submission.
2878 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
2879 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
2880 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
2881 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
2882 device will be blocked.
2883 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
2884 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
2885 all other Storage specifications.
2886 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
2887 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
2888 from a database table for restore.
2889 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
2890 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
2891 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
2892 accept time qualifiers.
2893 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
2894 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
2895 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
2896 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
2897 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
2898 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
2899 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
2900 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
2902 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
2903 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
2904 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
2905 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
2906 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
2907 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
2908 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
2909 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
2910 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
2911 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
2912 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
2913 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
2914 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
2915 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
2917 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
2918 fault, but still 60 second window.
2919 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
2920 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
2922 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
2923 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
2924 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
2925 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
2926 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
2927 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
2928 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
2929 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
2930 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
2932 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
2934 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
2935 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
2936 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
2937 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
2938 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
2939 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
2940 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
2941 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
2943 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
2945 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
2946 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
2947 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
2948 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
2949 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
2951 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
2952 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
2953 Add Cost to Location table.
2954 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
2955 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
2956 and forcing a 6 second wait.
2957 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
2958 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
2959 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
2960 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
2961 system libraries print routines.
2962 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
2963 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
2964 it is all very complicated.
2965 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
2967 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
2969 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
2970 chapter of the manual
2971 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
2972 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
2973 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
2974 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
2975 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
2976 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
2977 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
2978 Mail On Success directive.
2979 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
2981 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
2982 are printed in the Job report.
2984 Additional Features Added for Win32:
2985 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2986 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
2987 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
2988 has the concept of drives.
2990 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2991 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
2993 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
2994 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
2996 Patterns conform to Posix
2997 \ is not a special character in character classification []
2998 To match a - it must be the first or last character
2999 To match a ] it must be the first character
3001 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
3002 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
3004 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
3005 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
3006 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
3007 abc*.def work as expected.
3009 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
3011 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
3013 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
3014 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
3015 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
3016 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
3017 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
3018 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"