1 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
2 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
3 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
4 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
8 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
9 with other 2.4.x versions.
12 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
15 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
16 a non created job faster.
17 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
18 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
19 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
20 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
21 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
23 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
24 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
25 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
27 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
28 this never caused a bug.
29 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
30 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
31 using default variables.
32 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
33 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
34 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
35 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
36 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
38 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
39 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
41 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
42 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
43 given. This fixes bug #1140.
44 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
45 This closes bug #1129.
47 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
48 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
52 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
53 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
54 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
55 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
57 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
60 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
64 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
65 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
66 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
67 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
68 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
69 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
70 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
71 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
72 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
73 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
74 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
75 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
76 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
78 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
79 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
80 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
82 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
83 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
84 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
85 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
86 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
87 version 2.5.x and above.
90 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
91 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
92 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
93 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
96 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
100 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
101 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
102 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
103 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
104 would occasionally not be restored.
105 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
106 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
107 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
109 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
110 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
111 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
112 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
113 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
114 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
115 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
116 older 'incorrect' headers.
117 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
118 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
119 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
120 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
121 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
122 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
123 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
124 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
125 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
126 is read on that drive.
127 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
128 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
130 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
131 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
132 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
133 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
134 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
135 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
136 be opened. Reported by Eric.
137 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
138 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
139 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
140 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
141 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
142 have the requested MediaType.
143 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
144 the configuration routines.
145 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
146 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
147 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
148 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
149 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
150 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
154 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
155 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
156 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
157 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
159 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
160 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
161 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
162 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
163 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
164 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
165 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
167 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
168 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
169 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
170 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
171 no database upgrade needed.
173 =====================================================
175 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
177 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
179 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
180 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
181 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
182 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
183 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
184 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
186 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
187 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
188 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
189 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
190 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
191 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
192 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
194 ======================================================
196 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
197 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
198 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
199 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
200 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
201 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
202 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
205 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
206 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
209 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
210 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
212 Release Version 2.4.0
213 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
214 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
215 This fixes bug #1095.
216 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
217 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
218 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
220 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
221 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
222 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
223 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
224 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
225 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
226 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
227 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
228 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
229 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
231 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
232 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
233 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
234 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
235 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
236 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
237 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
238 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
239 This fixes bug #1041.
240 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
241 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
242 - Implement --without-qwt
243 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
244 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
245 with or without the QWT libaries.
246 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
247 from one drive to another.
248 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
249 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
250 This fixes bug #1083.
251 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
252 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
254 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
255 This fixes bug #1078.
256 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
257 warning rather than an error.
258 - Fix SQL query in migration code
259 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
260 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
261 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
262 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
263 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
264 same volume name twice in a row.
265 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
266 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
267 handling the responsibilities.
268 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
269 causes a seg fault in many cases.
270 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
272 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
273 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
274 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
275 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
276 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
277 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
278 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
279 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
280 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
281 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
282 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
283 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
284 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
285 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
286 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
287 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
289 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
290 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
291 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
292 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
293 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
294 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
295 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
296 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
297 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
298 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
299 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
300 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
301 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
302 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
303 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
304 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
305 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
306 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
308 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
309 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
310 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
311 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
312 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
313 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
314 the ./configure line.
315 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
319 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
320 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
321 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
322 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
323 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
325 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
326 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
328 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
329 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
330 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
331 and are difficult to reproduce.
332 See the ChangeLog for more details.
333 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
334 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
338 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
339 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
340 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
341 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
342 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
344 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
345 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
346 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
349 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
350 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
351 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
352 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
354 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
356 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
357 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
358 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
359 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
360 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
361 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
362 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
363 bar, thanks to the above patch.
364 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
366 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
367 driver with version 8.3.
368 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
370 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
371 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
372 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
373 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
375 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
376 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
378 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
379 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
381 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
382 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
384 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
385 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
386 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
387 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
389 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
390 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
391 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
392 957, 908, 958, and 955.
393 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
394 out by Chris Howells.
396 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
397 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
399 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
400 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
401 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
402 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
403 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
404 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
405 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
406 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
407 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
408 the conditions noted above.
410 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
411 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
412 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
413 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
414 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
417 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
418 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
419 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
421 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
422 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
424 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
425 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
427 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
428 It contains the following fixes:
430 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
431 - Possible fix for bug #908.
432 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
433 file to always be deleted.
434 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
436 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
437 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
439 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
440 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
441 are released as soon as possible.
442 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
443 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
444 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
445 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
446 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
447 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
448 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
449 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
451 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
452 and not memory usage.
454 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
457 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
458 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
460 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
461 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
462 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
463 kind of problem many times.
465 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
468 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
469 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
470 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
471 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
474 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
476 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
479 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
480 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
481 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
483 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
484 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
486 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
488 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
489 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
492 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
493 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
494 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
495 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
497 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
498 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
499 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
500 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
502 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
503 affected by this bug.
505 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
506 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
509 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
510 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
513 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
514 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
515 an updated Storage daemon.
517 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
518 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
519 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
520 reproduced the problem.
522 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
523 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
525 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
527 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
531 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
533 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
535 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
537 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
538 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
540 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
541 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
542 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
543 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
544 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
546 Areas requiring caution or testing:
547 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
548 to build with MySQL enabled.
549 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
550 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
551 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
552 to what we do with sockets).
553 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
554 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
555 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
556 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
557 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
558 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
559 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
560 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
562 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
564 The major new features are:
565 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
566 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
567 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
568 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
569 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
570 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
571 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
572 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
573 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
575 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
576 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
577 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
579 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
580 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
581 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
582 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
583 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
584 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
585 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
586 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
587 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
588 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
589 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
591 New ./configure options:
592 - --enable-bwx-console
597 - --enable-batch-insert
599 New bconsole commands:
605 - .pwd (in restore tree)
606 - restoreclient (keyword)
607 - backupclient (keyword)
608 - regexwhere (keyword)
609 - update jobid (new command)
610 - recyclepool (keyword)
613 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
614 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
615 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
616 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
617 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
618 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
619 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
620 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
621 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
622 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
623 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
625 Other features or bug fixes:
626 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
627 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
628 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
629 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
630 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
631 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
632 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
633 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
634 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
635 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
636 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
637 these packages in the distro.
638 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
640 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
641 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
642 directives are defined.
643 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
644 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
645 Use the command line or the Services panne.
646 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
647 - More debug output in status storage.
648 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
649 critical columns were lost).
650 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
651 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
652 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
653 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
654 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
655 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
656 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
657 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
658 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
659 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
660 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
661 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
662 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
663 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
664 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
665 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
666 in front of the configuration path/filename.
667 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
668 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
669 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
670 filename restrictions.
671 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
672 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
673 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
674 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
675 is already a < in the target.
676 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
677 mounted by another job.
678 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
679 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
680 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
681 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
682 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
683 - Database user and name can be configured with:
684 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
685 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
686 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
687 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
688 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
689 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
690 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
691 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
692 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
693 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
694 - Sockets are no longer restored.
695 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
696 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
697 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
698 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
699 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
700 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
701 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
702 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
703 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
704 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
709 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
711 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
712 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
713 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
716 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
717 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
721 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
722 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
723 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
724 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
726 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
729 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
730 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
732 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
733 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
735 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
736 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
739 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
741 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
743 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
746 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
747 than English. Fixes bug #788.
749 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
751 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
752 If you want to use this, you can apply
753 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
755 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
756 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
757 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
759 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
760 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
761 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
762 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
764 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
765 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
766 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
767 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
768 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
771 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
773 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
774 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
775 was opened, it is closed.
777 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
778 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
779 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
781 kes Update projects list.
783 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
784 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
786 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
787 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
788 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
790 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
791 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
793 Switch to using Subversion
794 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
796 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
797 plus the entrypoints.
798 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
799 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
800 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
802 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
803 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
805 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
806 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
807 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
809 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
810 problem is with read or append.
812 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
813 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
814 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
815 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
816 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
817 (i.e. migration jobs).
818 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
819 a memory leak problem.
820 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
821 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
822 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
823 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
824 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
825 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
826 (hides some of the ugly casting).
828 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
829 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
833 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
835 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
837 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
839 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
841 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
842 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
843 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
844 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
846 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
848 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
849 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
850 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
851 other DIR specifications.
853 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
854 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
855 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
857 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
859 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
860 backup. This should fix bug #755.
861 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
865 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
867 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
868 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
871 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
872 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
873 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
875 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
876 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
877 This *should* fix bug #747.
878 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
880 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
881 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
882 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
883 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
884 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
885 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
887 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
888 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
892 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
894 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
896 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
898 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
900 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
902 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
906 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
908 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
910 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
912 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
913 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
914 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
915 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
916 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
917 Please backup your previous version of the database before
918 running the update. The update script will be automatically
919 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
920 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
922 ./update_bacula_tables
924 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
925 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
926 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
927 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
928 in general, it should be very fast.
930 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
931 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
932 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
933 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
934 directory mostly out of paranoia.
936 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
937 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
938 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
939 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
940 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
941 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
942 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
943 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
944 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
945 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
946 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
947 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
948 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
949 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
950 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
951 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
952 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
953 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
954 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
955 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
956 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
957 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
958 with the correct MediaType.
959 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
960 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
961 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
962 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
963 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
964 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
965 more testing is still needed.
966 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
967 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
968 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
969 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
970 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
971 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
972 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
973 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
974 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
975 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
976 and fixed it as follows:
978 No filters = Works fine
980 Compression = Works fine
981 Encryption = Works fine
982 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
984 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
985 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
986 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
989 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
990 not properly restored.
993 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
995 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
996 data to be sure it all works correctly.
997 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
998 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
999 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
1000 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
1001 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
1002 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
1003 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
1004 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
1005 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
1008 Block Positioning = no
1010 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
1012 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
1013 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
1014 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
1016 New Features in 2.0.0:
1017 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
1018 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
1019 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
1020 Bacula, then as root run:
1022 cd <bacula-source>/po
1025 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
1027 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
1028 Migration chapter in the manual
1029 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
1030 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
1031 a new chapter of the manual at:
1032 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
1033 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
1034 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
1035 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
1036 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
1037 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
1039 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
1040 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
1041 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
1042 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
1043 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
1044 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
1045 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
1046 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
1047 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
1048 before putting into production.
1049 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
1050 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
1051 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
1052 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
1053 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
1054 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
1055 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
1056 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
1058 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
1059 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
1060 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
1061 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
1062 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
1063 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
1064 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
1065 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
1066 "list nextvol days=xx"
1068 "status dir days=xx"
1069 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
1070 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
1072 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
1073 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
1075 wait jobuid=unique id
1077 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
1078 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
1079 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
1080 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
1081 job report in the Log database table.
1082 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
1083 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
1084 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
1085 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
1086 the job can be manually started from the console.
1087 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
1088 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
1089 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
1090 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
1091 the restore cd command.
1092 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
1093 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
1095 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
1096 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
1097 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
1098 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
1099 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
1100 spaces in names better, ...
1101 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
1102 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
1104 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
1105 the restore command.
1106 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
1107 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
1108 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
1109 from Eric Bollengier.
1110 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
1111 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
1112 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
1113 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
1114 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
1115 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
1116 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
1117 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
1118 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
1119 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
1120 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
1121 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
1122 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
1123 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
1124 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
1125 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
1126 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
1127 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
1128 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
1129 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
1130 - Implement mount command for autochanger
1131 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
1132 from File= was not found.
1133 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
1134 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
1135 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
1136 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
1137 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
1138 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
1140 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
1142 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
1143 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
1144 listing where they could be "lost".
1145 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
1146 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
1148 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
1149 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
1150 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
1151 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
1152 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
1153 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
1154 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
1155 and mount, unmount directives.
1156 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
1157 to a user submission.
1158 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
1159 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
1160 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
1161 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
1162 device will be blocked.
1163 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
1164 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
1165 all other Storage specifications.
1166 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
1167 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
1168 from a database table for restore.
1169 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
1170 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
1171 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
1172 accept time qualifiers.
1173 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
1174 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
1175 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
1176 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
1177 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
1178 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
1179 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
1180 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
1182 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
1183 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
1184 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
1185 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
1186 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
1187 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
1188 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
1189 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
1190 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
1191 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
1192 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
1193 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
1194 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
1195 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
1197 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
1198 fault, but still 60 second window.
1199 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
1200 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
1202 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
1203 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
1204 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
1205 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
1206 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
1207 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
1208 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
1209 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
1210 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
1212 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
1214 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
1215 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
1216 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
1217 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
1218 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
1219 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
1220 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
1221 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
1223 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
1225 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
1226 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
1227 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
1228 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
1229 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
1231 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
1232 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
1233 Add Cost to Location table.
1234 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
1235 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
1236 and forcing a 6 second wait.
1237 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
1238 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
1239 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
1240 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
1241 system libraries print routines.
1242 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
1243 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
1244 it is all very complicated.
1245 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
1247 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
1249 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
1250 chapter of the manual
1251 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
1252 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
1253 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
1254 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
1255 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
1256 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
1257 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
1258 Mail On Success directive.
1259 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
1261 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
1262 are printed in the Job report.
1264 Additional Features Added for Win32:
1265 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
1266 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
1267 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
1268 has the concept of drives.
1270 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
1271 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
1273 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
1274 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
1276 Patterns conform to Posix
1277 \ is not a special character in character classification []
1278 To match a - it must be the first or last character
1279 To match a ] it must be the first character
1281 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
1282 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
1284 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
1285 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
1286 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
1287 abc*.def work as expected.
1289 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
1291 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
1293 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
1294 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
1295 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
1296 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
1297 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
1298 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"