1 Kern;;;11 June 2012 at 20:15 CET
2 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.8 to Source Forge
4 This release is identical to release 5.2.8, with the exception
7 "Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871"
9 has been removed because it is not portable to all systems or
13 Kern;;;10 June 2012 at 12:04 CET
15 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.8
17 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
21 The 5.2.8 version is a bug fix release.
23 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
25 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
26 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
27 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
28 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
29 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
31 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
32 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
33 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
34 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
35 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
36 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
37 that the project cannot properly support.
38 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
40 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
41 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
42 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
43 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
44 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
45 repeat them each bug fix release.
46 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
50 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
53 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.8
54 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
61 - Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871
62 - Ensure cancel status is set for canceled duplicate jobs -- partial fix for
64 - Enhance Win32 error messages -- fixes bug #1879
65 - Apply patch from bug 1876 to permit dot commands in a runscript
66 - Remove config variables from examples/devices fixes bug #1884
67 - Add more debug code for bug 1885
68 - Add more debug to block.c when read rejected
69 - Fail job that attempts to read from closed device -- reported in bug 1885 but
71 - Detect Python 2.7 fixes bug #1888
72 - Apply systemd patch from bug #1886
73 - Rewrite some SD subroutines as class members
74 - New overhaul of xattr code.
75 - Use IPPROTO_TCP for SOL_TCP if SOL_TCP isn't defined.
76 - Fix compiler warning.
78 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
79 1851 1871 1879 1884 1886 1888
82 Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
84 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
86 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
90 The 5.2.7 version is a significan bug fix release. (The
91 diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
93 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
94 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
95 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
96 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
97 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
98 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
99 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
101 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
102 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
103 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
104 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
105 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
106 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
107 that the project cannot properly support.
108 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
110 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
111 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
112 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
113 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
114 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
115 repeat them each bug fix release.
116 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
120 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
123 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
124 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
130 - Correct Qt version needed for bat
131 - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
132 - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
133 - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
134 - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
135 - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
136 - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
137 - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
138 - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
139 - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
140 - Add first Dutch translation
141 - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
142 - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
143 - Remove old shared objects before install
144 - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
145 - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
146 - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
147 - Add more checks to bvfs
148 - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
149 - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
150 - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
151 - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
152 - Fix class member shadowing.
153 - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
154 - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
155 - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
156 - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
157 - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
158 - Fix restore_job restore keyword
159 - Allow plugin to backup a directory
160 - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
161 - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
162 - Backport new StorageId code
163 - More definitive fix for update slots bug
164 - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
165 - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
166 - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
168 - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
169 - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
170 - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
171 between two Include{}
173 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
174 1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
178 Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
179 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
181 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
183 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
187 The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
189 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
190 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
191 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
192 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
193 SQL shared libraries.
194 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
196 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
197 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
198 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
199 each time the Director starts.
200 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
204 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
207 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
208 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
212 - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
213 part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
214 time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
215 but */xx* will not match the above filename.
220 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
221 - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
222 - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
223 - Make cd accept wildcards
224 - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
225 - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
226 - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
227 - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
228 - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
229 - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
230 - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
231 - Add wait on bad connection for security
232 - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
233 - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
234 - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
235 - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
236 - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
237 - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
239 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
243 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
244 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
245 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
247 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
251 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
253 Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
254 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
255 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
258 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
259 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
260 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
261 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
262 SQL shared libraries.
263 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
265 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
266 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
267 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
268 each time the Director starts.
269 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
273 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
276 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
277 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
283 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
284 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
285 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
286 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
287 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
289 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
290 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
295 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
296 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
298 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
300 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
304 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
306 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
307 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
308 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
309 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
310 SQL shared libraries.
311 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
313 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
314 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
315 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
316 each time the Director starts.
317 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
321 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
324 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
325 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
328 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
329 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
331 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
332 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
333 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
334 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
335 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
336 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
337 - Compiler warning cleanups
339 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
344 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
345 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
346 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
347 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
349 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
350 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
351 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
352 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
353 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
355 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
357 - Fix systemd pid files.
358 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
359 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
360 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
361 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
362 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
364 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
365 - Backport Enterprise spec files
366 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
367 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
368 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
369 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
370 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
371 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
372 - Add new features in plugin
373 - Add helper for ini files
374 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
375 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
376 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
377 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
378 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
379 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
380 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
381 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
383 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
384 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
387 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
388 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
390 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
392 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
396 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
398 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
399 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
400 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
401 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
402 SQL shared libraries.
403 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
407 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
410 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
411 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
416 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
417 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
418 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
419 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
420 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
421 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
422 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
423 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
424 - Fix segfault in accurate code
425 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
427 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
432 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
433 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
435 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
437 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
441 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
442 additions and performance improvements.
444 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
445 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
446 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
447 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
448 SQL shared libraries.
449 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
453 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
456 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
457 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
462 - Implement -t option for Bat
463 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
464 - Get new lib/plugins.h
465 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
466 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
467 - Add Systemd configure options
468 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
469 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
470 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
471 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
472 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
473 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
474 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
475 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
476 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
478 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
479 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
480 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
481 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
482 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
483 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
484 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
485 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
486 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
488 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
489 -----------------------
494 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
495 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
498 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
500 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
505 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
506 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
507 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
508 number of important new features:
512 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
513 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
518 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
521 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
522 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
529 - Purge Migration Job
530 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
531 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
532 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
533 - Additions to RunScript variables
534 - Additions to the Plugin API
537 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
538 - Hash List Enhancements
540 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
541 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
544 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
545 ---------------------
546 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
547 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
548 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
549 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
550 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
551 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
554 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
556 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
557 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
558 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
559 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
563 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
564 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
565 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
567 Packaging the SQL backend:
568 --------------------------
569 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
570 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
571 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
572 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
575 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
580 Order of testing for database is
585 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
586 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
588 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
589 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
590 the default backend type.
592 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
593 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
594 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
596 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
598 And update the default backend in the following files:
600 create_bacula_database
603 grant_bacula_privileges
608 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
609 -----------------------------------------------
610 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
611 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
612 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
613 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
614 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
617 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
618 source (i.e. manually):
619 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
620 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
621 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
622 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
623 at the bottom of this file.
624 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
625 5. ./update_bacula_tables
626 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
627 script and put the name of another database, and then
628 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
629 catalogs have been updated.
630 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
631 not print any error messages.
633 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
634 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
635 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
636 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
637 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
638 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
639 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
640 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
643 ================================================================
647 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
648 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
649 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
650 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
651 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
652 - limit command in some list commands
653 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
654 - Faster crc32 algorithm
656 Security Enhancements:
657 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
658 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
660 Features Enhancements:
661 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
662 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
663 - Tray monitor for Windows
664 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
665 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
666 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
667 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
668 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
669 - Indent lsmark during restore
670 - Disable batch insert config item
671 - Director selection option in bconsole
672 - restorejob command in bconsole
673 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
674 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
675 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
676 - Improved hash table for hard links
677 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
678 and %h (Client Address)
681 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
683 - New database format
684 - Many new plugin API features
685 - Improved memory handling for restores
686 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
687 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
688 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
691 ===========================================================================
694 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
695 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
697 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
698 It includes new code and some new features.
699 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
701 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
702 the 5.0.1 release section.
707 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
710 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
711 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
714 Changes and New Features:
715 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
716 it printed a warning message and continued.
717 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
718 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
719 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
720 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
721 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
722 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
723 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
724 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
728 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
730 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
731 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
732 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
733 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
734 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
735 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
736 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
737 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
738 - Add archlinux to os.m4
739 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
740 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
741 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
742 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
743 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
744 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
745 - Up maximum block size to 20M
746 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
747 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
748 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
749 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
750 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
751 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
752 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
753 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
754 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
755 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
756 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
757 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
758 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
759 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
760 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
761 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
762 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
764 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
765 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
766 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
767 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
768 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
769 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
770 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
771 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
772 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
773 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
774 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
775 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
776 - Added new bacula-libs package.
777 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
778 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
780 See ChangeLog for more details.
783 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
784 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
786 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
787 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
788 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
789 and we are very pleased.
792 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
793 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
795 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
797 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
802 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
805 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
806 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
813 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
815 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
816 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
817 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
818 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
819 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
820 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
821 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
822 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
823 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
824 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
825 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
826 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
828 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
829 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
830 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
831 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
832 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
833 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
834 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
835 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
836 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
837 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
838 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
839 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
840 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
841 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
845 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
846 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
848 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
849 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
851 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
852 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
853 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
854 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
855 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
856 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
857 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
859 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
860 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
861 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
862 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
863 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
864 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
866 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
867 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
868 release there is no database upgrade needed.
870 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
871 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
872 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
874 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
880 ============= Performance Note ==================
882 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
883 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
884 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
885 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
886 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
887 versions, on a well configured database it should run
890 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
891 In general, these will cause very significant performance
892 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
893 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
894 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
895 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
896 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
897 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
898 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
899 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
901 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
902 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
903 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
904 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
905 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
906 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
908 ==========================================
911 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
913 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
915 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
916 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
917 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
919 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
920 features section of the manual.
922 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
923 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
924 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
925 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
926 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
927 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
931 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
932 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
933 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
934 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
935 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
936 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
939 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
940 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
941 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
942 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
944 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
945 section in the manual.
946 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
949 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
950 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
952 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
953 - Fix three-pool regress bug
954 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
955 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
956 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
958 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
959 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
960 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
962 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
963 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
964 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
965 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
966 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
967 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
968 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
969 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
970 - Fix missing console page in bat
971 - Add bat help files to Window install
972 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
973 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
974 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
975 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
976 - Update the bsock error URL
977 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
978 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
979 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
980 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
981 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
982 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
983 - Remove file_index sequential check
984 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
987 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
988 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
989 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
990 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
991 not installed by the Makefiles
993 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
994 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
995 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
996 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
998 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
999 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
1000 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
1001 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
1002 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
1003 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
1004 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
1006 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
1007 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
1008 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
1009 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
1010 this problem (bug) does not exist.
1012 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
1013 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
1014 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
1015 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
1016 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
1017 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
1019 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
1020 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
1021 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
1022 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
1025 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
1026 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
1027 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
1031 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
1034 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
1036 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
1037 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
1038 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
1039 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
1040 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
1041 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
1042 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
1043 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
1044 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
1045 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
1046 --enable-smartalloc \
1047 --enable-tray-monitor \
1050 --with-dump-email=${email} \
1051 --with-job-email=${email} \
1052 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
1053 --with-baseport=9101
1055 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
1056 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
1057 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
1058 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
1060 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
1061 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
1062 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
1064 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
1065 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
1066 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
1067 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
1068 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
1069 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
1070 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
1071 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
1072 different versions of the shared objects.
1074 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
1075 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
1076 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
1077 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
1078 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
1079 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
1080 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
1081 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
1082 use readline or not as you please.
1086 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
1087 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
1090 -----------------------------------------------------------
1091 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
1092 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
1093 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
1094 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
1095 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
1096 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
1097 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
1098 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
1099 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
1100 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
1101 version is more advanced or has more features than the
1102 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
1103 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
1104 will be version 4.0.0.
1107 --------------------------------------------------------------
1108 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
1112 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
1113 -------------------------------------------------------
1116 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
1117 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
1121 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
1122 responding to the bsmtp program
1123 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
1124 - Fix various problems with the reload command
1125 - Fix problems with conio
1126 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
1129 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
1130 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
1131 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
1132 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
1133 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
1135 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
1136 checksum verification for example.
1137 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
1138 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
1139 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
1140 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
1141 - Add new speed test to btape program
1142 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
1143 - Windows version of Bat
1144 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
1145 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
1146 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
1148 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
1149 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
1150 - Many ACL improvements
1151 - Level added to FD status Job entry
1152 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
1153 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
1154 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
1157 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1158 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
1159 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
1160 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
1162 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
1163 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1164 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
1165 as is reasonable for your situation.
1167 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1169 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
1170 -----------------------------------------------------
1172 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1173 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
1174 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1175 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1176 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1179 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1181 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1182 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1183 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
1184 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1185 at the bottom of this file.
1186 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1187 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1188 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1189 script and put the name of another database, and then
1190 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1191 catalogs have been updated.
1192 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1193 not print any error messages.
1195 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1196 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1197 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
1198 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1199 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1200 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1201 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1202 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1204 ================================================================
1207 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1208 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
1209 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
1210 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
1211 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
1212 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
1213 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
1214 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
1216 ================================================================
1218 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1219 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
1220 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
1221 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
1222 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
1223 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
1224 ================================================================
1226 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
1227 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
1228 the manual for more details.
1230 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1232 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
1234 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
1235 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
1236 are still some that need fixing.
1238 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
1241 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1242 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1243 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1247 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1248 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1249 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1252 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1253 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1255 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
1257 The ChangeLog has more details.
1262 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
1263 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
1265 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1268 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
1270 Changes since 3.0.2:
1272 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
1273 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
1276 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
1277 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
1278 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
1279 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
1280 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
1281 when doing fixup_write_error ...
1282 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
1283 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
1284 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
1285 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
1286 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
1287 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
1288 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
1289 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
1290 tweak space on projects file
1291 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
1292 Apply Frank's slash patch
1293 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
1294 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
1295 Add more info when SD connection refused
1296 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
1297 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
1298 3.0.2-accurate.patch
1299 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
1300 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
1301 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
1302 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
1303 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
1304 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
1305 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
1306 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
1307 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
1308 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
1311 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1314 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
1315 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1320 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
1321 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
1322 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1325 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
1326 some enhancements (see below).
1328 Changes since 3.0.1:
1331 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
1332 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
1335 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
1336 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
1337 - Fix bugs in xattr code
1338 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
1339 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
1342 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
1343 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
1344 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
1345 This is project 31 in the projects file.
1346 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
1347 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
1348 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
1349 This is project 2 in the projects file.
1350 - Add new Nagios plugin
1353 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1356 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
1357 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
1361 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
1362 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1364 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
1366 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
1367 one enhancement (see below).
1369 Changes since 3.0.0:
1371 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
1374 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
1375 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
1376 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
1377 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
1378 - Updated projects file
1379 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
1380 and keep fields order.
1381 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
1382 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
1385 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1386 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1387 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1388 tape deadlock situations.
1390 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1391 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1392 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1393 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1394 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1395 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1398 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1400 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1403 1. Missing documentation.
1404 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1405 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1408 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1409 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1410 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1414 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1415 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1417 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1418 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1421 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1422 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1423 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1425 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1427 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1428 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1429 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1431 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1432 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1435 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1436 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1437 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1438 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1439 your help will be appreciated.
1441 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1443 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1444 we missed documenting some).
1446 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1447 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1449 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1450 while it is running. He is working on this.
1452 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1453 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1454 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1455 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1456 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1457 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1458 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1460 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1461 bit of a rare case).
1463 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1464 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1465 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1466 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1467 most current release ...
1469 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1470 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1471 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1472 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1474 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1475 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1476 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1477 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1478 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1479 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1480 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1482 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1483 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1484 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1486 Personal contributions:
1487 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1488 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1489 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1490 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1491 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1492 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1493 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1494 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1495 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1496 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1498 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1500 === List of new features ===
1504 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1505 - Extended Attribute support
1506 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1508 --enable-libtool (default)
1511 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1512 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1514 - Duplicate Job Control
1515 - TLS Authentication
1516 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1517 - State File updated at Job Termination
1520 - FD Exchange plugin
1522 - Console Enhancements
1527 - Restore seek optimization
1528 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1530 - RunScript Enhancements
1531 - Status enhancements
1532 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1533 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1534 - FD Version compatibily flag
1535 - Statistics Enhancements
1536 - Faster Attribute despooling
1537 - Document split into 6 manuals
1538 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1540 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1541 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1542 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1543 - New configure install options
1544 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1545 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1546 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1547 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1551 - Honor No Dump Flag
1552 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1554 - Max Run Sched Time
1556 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1558 - Max Console Connections
1559 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1560 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1561 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1562 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1563 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1564 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1566 - Console (in RunScript)
1568 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1570 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1571 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1572 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1573 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1574 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1575 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1576 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1577 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1578 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1580 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1581 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1582 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1583 ================================
1586 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1588 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1590 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1591 represents an enormous effort.
1593 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1594 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1595 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1596 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1597 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1599 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1601 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1602 -----------------------------------------------------
1604 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1605 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1606 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1607 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1608 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1611 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1613 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1614 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1615 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1616 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1617 at the bottom of this file.
1618 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1619 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1620 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1621 script and put the name of another database, and then
1622 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1623 catalogs have been updated.
1624 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1625 not print any error messages.
1627 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1628 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1629 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1630 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1632 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1633 backup it before executing the script.
1635 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1636 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1637 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1638 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1639 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1640 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1641 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1642 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1646 Important New configure options :
1647 ----------------------
1649 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1650 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1651 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1652 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1653 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1654 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1655 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1656 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1658 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1660 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1661 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1662 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1664 ./configure --disable-libtool
1666 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1667 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1668 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1669 want to put them elsewhere use:
1671 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1673 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1674 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1675 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1676 want to put them elsewhere use:
1678 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1680 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1681 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1682 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1685 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1687 ==============================================================
1689 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1690 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1691 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1694 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1695 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1697 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1699 The ChangeLog has more details.
1702 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1703 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1704 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1705 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1706 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1707 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1708 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1709 available for normal operations.
1711 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1712 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1713 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1716 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1717 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1718 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1720 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1721 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1722 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1723 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1724 range of Bacula users.
1726 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1727 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1728 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1729 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1730 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1731 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1734 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1735 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1736 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1737 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1738 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1739 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1740 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1741 home for Bacula project development.
1743 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1744 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1745 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1746 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1747 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1749 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1750 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1751 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1752 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1753 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1754 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1755 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1756 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1757 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1758 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1760 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1761 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1762 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1763 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1764 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1765 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1766 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1767 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1769 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1770 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1771 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1772 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1773 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1776 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1777 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1778 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1779 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1781 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1782 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1783 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1784 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1785 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1786 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1787 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1788 and certified binaries.
1790 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1791 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1792 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1793 company, Bacula Systems.
1795 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1802 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1803 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1804 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1805 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1809 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1810 with other 2.4.x versions.
1813 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1816 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1817 a non created job faster.
1818 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1819 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1820 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1821 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1822 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1824 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1825 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1826 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1828 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1829 this never caused a bug.
1830 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1831 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1832 using default variables.
1833 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1834 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1835 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1836 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1837 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1839 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1840 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1842 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1843 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1844 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1845 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1846 This closes bug #1129.
1848 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1849 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1853 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1854 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1855 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1856 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1858 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1861 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1865 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1866 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1867 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1868 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1869 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1870 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1871 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1872 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1873 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1874 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1875 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1876 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1877 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1878 This fixes bug #1124.
1879 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1880 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1881 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1883 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1884 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1885 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1886 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1887 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1888 version 2.5.x and above.
1891 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1892 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1893 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1894 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1897 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1901 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1902 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1903 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1904 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1905 would occasionally not be restored.
1906 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1907 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1908 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1910 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1911 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1912 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1913 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1914 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1915 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1916 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1917 older 'incorrect' headers.
1918 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1919 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1920 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1921 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1922 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1923 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1924 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1925 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1926 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1927 is read on that drive.
1928 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1929 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
1931 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
1932 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
1933 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
1934 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
1935 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
1936 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
1937 be opened. Reported by Eric.
1938 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
1939 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
1940 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
1941 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
1942 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
1943 have the requested MediaType.
1944 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
1945 the configuration routines.
1946 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
1947 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
1948 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
1949 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
1950 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
1951 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
1955 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
1956 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
1957 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1958 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1960 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1961 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1962 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1963 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1964 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1965 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1966 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1968 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
1969 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
1970 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
1971 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
1972 no database upgrade needed.
1974 =====================================================
1976 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
1978 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
1980 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1981 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1982 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1983 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1984 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
1985 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
1987 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1988 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
1989 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
1990 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
1991 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
1992 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
1993 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
1995 ======================================================
1997 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1998 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1999 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2000 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2001 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2002 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2003 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2006 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
2007 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
2010 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
2011 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
2013 Release Version 2.4.0
2014 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
2015 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
2016 This fixes bug #1095.
2017 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
2018 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
2019 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
2021 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
2022 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
2023 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
2024 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
2025 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
2026 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
2027 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
2028 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
2029 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
2030 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
2032 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
2033 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
2034 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
2035 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
2036 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
2037 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
2038 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
2039 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
2040 This fixes bug #1041.
2041 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
2042 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
2043 - Implement --without-qwt
2044 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
2045 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
2046 with or without the QWT libaries.
2047 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
2048 from one drive to another.
2049 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
2050 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
2051 This fixes bug #1083.
2052 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
2053 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
2055 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
2056 This fixes bug #1078.
2057 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
2058 warning rather than an error.
2059 - Fix SQL query in migration code
2060 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
2061 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
2062 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
2063 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
2064 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
2065 same volume name twice in a row.
2066 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
2067 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
2068 handling the responsibilities.
2069 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
2070 causes a seg fault in many cases.
2071 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
2073 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
2074 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
2075 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
2076 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
2077 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
2078 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
2079 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
2080 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
2081 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
2082 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
2083 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
2084 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
2085 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
2086 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
2087 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
2088 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
2090 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
2091 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
2092 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
2093 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
2094 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2095 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
2096 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
2097 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
2098 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
2099 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
2100 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
2101 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
2102 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
2103 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
2104 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
2105 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
2106 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
2107 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
2109 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
2110 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
2111 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
2112 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
2113 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
2114 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
2115 the ./configure line.
2116 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
2120 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
2121 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
2122 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2123 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
2124 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
2126 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
2127 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
2129 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
2130 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
2131 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
2132 and are difficult to reproduce.
2133 See the ChangeLog for more details.
2134 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
2135 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
2139 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
2140 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
2141 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2142 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
2143 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
2145 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
2146 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
2147 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
2150 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
2151 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
2152 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
2153 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
2155 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
2156 since version 2.2.6:
2157 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
2158 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
2159 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
2160 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
2161 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
2162 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
2163 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
2164 bar, thanks to the above patch.
2165 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
2167 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
2168 driver with version 8.3.
2169 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
2171 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
2172 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
2173 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
2174 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
2176 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
2177 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
2179 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
2180 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
2182 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
2183 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
2185 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
2186 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
2187 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
2188 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
2190 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
2191 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
2192 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
2193 957, 908, 958, and 955.
2194 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
2195 out by Chris Howells.
2197 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
2198 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
2200 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
2201 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
2202 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
2203 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
2204 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
2205 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
2206 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
2207 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
2208 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
2209 the conditions noted above.
2211 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
2212 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
2213 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
2214 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
2215 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
2218 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
2219 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
2220 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
2222 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
2223 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
2225 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
2226 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
2228 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
2229 It contains the following fixes:
2231 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
2232 - Possible fix for bug #908.
2233 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
2234 file to always be deleted.
2235 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
2236 This fixes bug #950.
2237 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
2238 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
2240 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
2241 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
2242 are released as soon as possible.
2243 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
2244 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
2245 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
2246 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
2247 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
2248 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
2249 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
2250 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
2252 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
2253 and not memory usage.
2255 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
2258 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
2259 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
2261 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
2262 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
2263 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
2264 kind of problem many times.
2266 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
2269 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
2270 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
2271 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
2272 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
2275 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
2277 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
2280 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
2281 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
2282 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
2284 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
2285 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
2287 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
2289 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
2290 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
2293 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
2294 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
2295 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
2296 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
2298 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
2299 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
2300 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
2301 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
2303 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
2304 affected by this bug.
2306 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
2307 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
2310 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
2311 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
2314 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
2315 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
2316 an updated Storage daemon.
2318 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
2319 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
2320 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
2321 reproduced the problem.
2323 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
2324 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2326 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
2328 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
2332 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
2334 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2336 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
2338 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
2339 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
2341 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2342 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2343 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2344 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2345 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
2347 Areas requiring caution or testing:
2348 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
2349 to build with MySQL enabled.
2350 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
2351 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
2352 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
2353 to what we do with sockets).
2354 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
2355 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
2356 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
2357 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
2358 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
2359 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
2360 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
2361 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
2363 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
2365 The major new features are:
2366 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
2367 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
2368 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
2369 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
2370 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
2371 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
2372 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
2373 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
2374 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
2376 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
2377 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
2378 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
2380 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
2381 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
2382 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
2383 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
2384 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
2385 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2386 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2387 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2388 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2389 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2390 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2392 New ./configure options:
2393 - --enable-bwx-console
2398 - --enable-batch-insert
2400 New bconsole commands:
2403 - update recyclepool
2406 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2407 - restoreclient (keyword)
2408 - backupclient (keyword)
2409 - regexwhere (keyword)
2410 - update jobid (new command)
2411 - recyclepool (keyword)
2414 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2415 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2416 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2417 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2418 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2419 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2420 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2421 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2422 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2423 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2424 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2426 Other features or bug fixes:
2427 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2428 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2429 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2430 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2431 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2432 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2433 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2434 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2435 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2436 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2437 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2438 these packages in the distro.
2439 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2441 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2442 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2443 directives are defined.
2444 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2445 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2446 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2447 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2448 - More debug output in status storage.
2449 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2450 critical columns were lost).
2451 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2452 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2453 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2454 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2455 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2456 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2457 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2458 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2459 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2460 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2461 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2462 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2463 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2464 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2465 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2466 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2467 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2468 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2469 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2470 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2471 filename restrictions.
2472 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2473 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2474 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2475 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2476 is already a < in the target.
2477 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2478 mounted by another job.
2479 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2480 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2481 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2482 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2483 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2484 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2485 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2486 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2487 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2488 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2489 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2490 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2491 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2492 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2493 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2494 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2495 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2496 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2497 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2498 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2499 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2500 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2501 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2502 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2503 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2504 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2505 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2510 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2512 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2513 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2514 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2517 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2518 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2522 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2523 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2524 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2525 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2527 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2530 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2531 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2533 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2534 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2536 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2537 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2540 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2542 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2544 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2547 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2548 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2550 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2552 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2553 If you want to use this, you can apply
2554 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2556 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2557 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2558 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2560 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2561 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2562 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2563 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2565 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2566 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2567 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2568 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2569 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2572 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2574 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2575 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2576 was opened, it is closed.
2578 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2579 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2580 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2582 kes Update projects list.
2584 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2585 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2587 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2588 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2589 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2591 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2592 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2594 Switch to using Subversion
2595 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2597 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2598 plus the entrypoints.
2599 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2600 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2601 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2603 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2604 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2606 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2607 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2608 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2610 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2611 problem is with read or append.
2613 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2614 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2615 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2616 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2617 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2618 (i.e. migration jobs).
2619 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2620 a memory leak problem.
2621 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2622 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2623 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2624 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2625 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2626 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2627 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2629 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2630 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2634 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2636 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2638 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2640 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2642 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2643 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2644 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2645 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2647 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2649 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2650 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2651 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2652 other DIR specifications.
2654 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2655 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2656 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2658 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2660 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2661 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2662 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2666 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2668 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2669 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2670 the following fixes:
2672 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2673 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2674 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2676 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2677 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2678 This *should* fix bug #747.
2679 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2681 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2682 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2683 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2684 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2685 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2686 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2688 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2689 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2693 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2695 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2697 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2699 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2701 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2703 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2707 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2709 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2711 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2713 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2714 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2715 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2716 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2717 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2718 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2719 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2720 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2721 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2723 ./update_bacula_tables
2725 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2726 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2727 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2728 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2729 in general, it should be very fast.
2731 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2732 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2733 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2734 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2735 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2737 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2738 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2739 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2740 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2741 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2742 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2743 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2744 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2745 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2746 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2747 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2748 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2749 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2750 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2751 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2752 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2753 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2754 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2755 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2756 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2757 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2758 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2759 with the correct MediaType.
2760 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2761 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2762 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2763 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2764 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2765 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2766 more testing is still needed.
2767 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2768 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2769 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2770 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2771 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2772 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2773 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2774 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2775 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2776 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2777 and fixed it as follows:
2779 No filters = Works fine
2781 Compression = Works fine
2782 Encryption = Works fine
2783 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2785 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2786 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2787 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2790 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2791 not properly restored.
2794 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2796 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2797 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2798 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2799 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2800 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2801 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2802 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2803 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2804 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2805 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2806 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2809 Block Positioning = no
2811 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2813 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2814 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2815 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2817 New Features in 2.0.0:
2818 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2819 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2820 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2821 Bacula, then as root run:
2823 cd <bacula-source>/po
2826 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2828 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2829 Migration chapter in the manual
2830 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2831 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2832 a new chapter of the manual at:
2833 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2834 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2835 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2836 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2837 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2838 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2840 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2841 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2842 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2843 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2844 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2845 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2846 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2847 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2848 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2849 before putting into production.
2850 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2851 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2852 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2853 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2854 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2855 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2856 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2857 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2859 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2860 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2861 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2862 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2863 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2864 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2865 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2866 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2867 "list nextvol days=xx"
2869 "status dir days=xx"
2870 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2871 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2873 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2874 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2876 wait jobuid=unique id
2878 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2879 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2880 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2881 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2882 job report in the Log database table.
2883 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2884 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2885 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2886 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2887 the job can be manually started from the console.
2888 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2889 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2890 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2891 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2892 the restore cd command.
2893 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2894 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2896 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2897 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2898 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2899 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2900 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2901 spaces in names better, ...
2902 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2903 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2905 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2906 the restore command.
2907 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2908 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2909 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2910 from Eric Bollengier.
2911 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2912 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2913 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2914 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2915 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2916 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2917 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2918 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2919 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2920 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2921 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2922 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2923 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2924 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2925 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2926 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2927 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2928 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2929 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
2930 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2931 - Implement mount command for autochanger
2932 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
2933 from File= was not found.
2934 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
2935 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
2936 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
2937 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
2938 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
2939 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
2941 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
2943 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
2944 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
2945 listing where they could be "lost".
2946 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
2947 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
2949 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
2950 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
2951 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
2952 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
2953 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
2954 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
2955 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
2956 and mount, unmount directives.
2957 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
2958 to a user submission.
2959 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
2960 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
2961 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
2962 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
2963 device will be blocked.
2964 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
2965 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
2966 all other Storage specifications.
2967 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
2968 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
2969 from a database table for restore.
2970 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
2971 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
2972 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
2973 accept time qualifiers.
2974 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
2975 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
2976 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
2977 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
2978 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
2979 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
2980 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
2981 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
2983 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
2984 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
2985 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
2986 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
2987 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
2988 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
2989 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
2990 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
2991 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
2992 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
2993 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
2994 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
2995 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
2996 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
2998 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
2999 fault, but still 60 second window.
3000 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
3001 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
3003 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
3004 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
3005 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
3006 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
3007 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
3008 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
3009 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
3010 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
3011 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
3013 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
3015 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
3016 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
3017 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
3018 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
3019 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
3020 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
3021 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
3022 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
3024 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
3026 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
3027 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
3028 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
3029 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
3030 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
3032 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
3033 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
3034 Add Cost to Location table.
3035 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
3036 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
3037 and forcing a 6 second wait.
3038 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
3039 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
3040 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
3041 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
3042 system libraries print routines.
3043 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
3044 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
3045 it is all very complicated.
3046 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
3048 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
3050 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
3051 chapter of the manual
3052 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
3053 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
3054 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
3055 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
3056 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
3057 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
3058 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
3059 Mail On Success directive.
3060 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
3062 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
3063 are printed in the Job report.
3065 Additional Features Added for Win32:
3066 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3067 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
3068 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
3069 has the concept of drives.
3071 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3072 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
3074 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
3075 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
3077 Patterns conform to Posix
3078 \ is not a special character in character classification []
3079 To match a - it must be the first or last character
3080 To match a ] it must be the first character
3082 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
3083 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
3085 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
3086 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
3087 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
3088 abc*.def work as expected.
3090 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
3092 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
3094 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
3095 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
3096 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
3097 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
3098 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
3099 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"