1 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
2 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
4 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
7 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
11 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
12 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
15 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
16 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
17 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
18 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
19 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
20 when doing fixup_write_error ...
21 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
22 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
23 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
24 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
25 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
26 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
27 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
28 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
29 tweak space on projects file
30 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
31 Apply Frank's slash patch
32 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
33 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
34 Add more info when SD connection refused
35 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
36 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
38 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
39 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
40 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
41 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
42 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
43 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
44 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
45 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
46 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
47 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
50 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
53 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
54 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
59 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
60 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
61 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
64 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
65 some enhancements (see below).
70 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
71 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
74 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
75 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
76 - Fix bugs in xattr code
77 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
78 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
81 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
82 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
83 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
84 This is project 31 in the projects file.
85 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
86 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
87 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
88 This is project 2 in the projects file.
89 - Add new Nagios plugin
92 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
95 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
96 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
100 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
101 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
103 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
105 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
106 one enhancement (see below).
110 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
113 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
114 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
115 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
116 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
117 - Updated projects file
118 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
119 and keep fields order.
120 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
121 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
124 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
125 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
126 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
127 tape deadlock situations.
129 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
130 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
131 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
132 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
133 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
134 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
137 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
139 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
142 1. Missing documentation.
143 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
144 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
147 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
148 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
149 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
153 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
154 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
156 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
157 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
160 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
161 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
162 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
164 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
166 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
167 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
168 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
170 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
171 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
174 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
175 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
176 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
177 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
178 your help will be appreciated.
180 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
182 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
183 we missed documenting some).
185 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
186 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
188 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
189 while it is running. He is working on this.
191 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
192 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
193 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
194 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
195 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
196 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
197 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
199 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
202 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
203 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
204 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
205 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
206 most current release ...
208 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
209 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
210 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
211 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
213 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
214 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
215 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
216 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
217 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
218 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
219 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
221 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
222 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
223 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
225 Personal contributions:
226 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
227 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
228 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
229 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
230 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
231 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
232 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
233 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
234 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
235 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
237 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
239 === List of new features ===
243 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
244 - Extended Attribute support
245 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
247 --enable-libtool (default)
250 - Catalog Format Enhancements
251 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
253 - Duplicate Job Control
255 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
256 - State File updated at Job Termination
261 - Console Enhancements
266 - Restore seek optimization
267 - Virtual Tape Emulation
269 - RunScript Enhancements
270 - Status enhancements
271 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
272 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
273 - FD Version compatibily flag
274 - Statistics Enhancements
275 - Faster Attribute despooling
276 - Document split into 6 manuals
277 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
279 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
280 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
281 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
282 - New configure install options
283 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
284 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
285 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
286 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
291 - Exclude Dirs Containing
295 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
297 - Max Console Connections
298 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
299 - Allow Mixed Priorities
300 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
301 - Allow Higher Duplicates
302 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
303 - Cancel Running Duplicates
305 - Console (in RunScript)
307 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
309 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
310 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
311 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
312 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
313 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
314 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
315 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
316 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
317 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
319 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
320 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
321 Item n: Split documentation into several books
322 ================================
325 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
327 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
329 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
330 represents an enormous effort.
332 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
333 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
334 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
335 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
336 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
338 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
340 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
341 -----------------------------------------------------
343 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
344 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
345 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
346 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
347 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
350 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
352 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
353 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
354 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
355 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
356 at the bottom of this file.
357 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
358 5. ./update_bacula_tables
359 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
360 script and put the name of another database, and then
361 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
362 catalogs have been updated.
363 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
364 not print any error messages.
366 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
367 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
368 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
369 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
371 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
372 backup it before executing the script.
374 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
375 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
376 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
377 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
378 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
379 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
380 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
381 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
385 Important New configure options :
386 ----------------------
388 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
389 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
390 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
391 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
392 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
393 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
394 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
395 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
397 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
399 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
400 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
401 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
403 ./configure --disable-libtool
405 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
406 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
407 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
408 want to put them elsewhere use:
410 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
412 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
413 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
414 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
415 want to put them elsewhere use:
417 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
419 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
420 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
421 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
424 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
426 ==============================================================
428 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
429 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
430 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
433 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
434 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
436 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
438 The ChangeLog has more details.
441 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
442 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
443 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
444 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
445 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
446 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
447 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
448 available for normal operations.
450 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
451 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
452 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
455 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
456 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
457 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
459 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
460 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
461 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
462 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
463 range of Bacula users.
465 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
466 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
467 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
468 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
469 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
470 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
473 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
474 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
475 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
476 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
477 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
478 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
479 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
480 home for Bacula project development.
482 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
483 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
484 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
485 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
486 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
488 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
489 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
490 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
491 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
492 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
493 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
494 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
495 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
496 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
497 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
499 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
500 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
501 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
502 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
503 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
504 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
505 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
506 training, documentation and certified binaries.
508 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
509 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
510 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
511 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
512 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
515 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
516 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
517 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
518 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
520 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
521 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
522 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
523 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
524 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
525 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
526 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
527 and certified binaries.
529 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
530 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
531 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
532 company, Bacula Systems.
534 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
541 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
542 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
543 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
544 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
548 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
549 with other 2.4.x versions.
552 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
555 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
556 a non created job faster.
557 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
558 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
559 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
560 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
561 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
563 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
564 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
565 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
567 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
568 this never caused a bug.
569 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
570 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
571 using default variables.
572 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
573 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
574 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
575 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
576 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
578 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
579 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
581 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
582 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
583 given. This fixes bug #1140.
584 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
585 This closes bug #1129.
587 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
588 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
592 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
593 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
594 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
595 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
597 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
600 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
604 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
605 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
606 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
607 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
608 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
609 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
610 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
611 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
612 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
613 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
614 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
615 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
616 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
617 This fixes bug #1124.
618 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
619 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
620 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
622 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
623 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
624 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
625 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
626 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
627 version 2.5.x and above.
630 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
631 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
632 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
633 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
636 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
640 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
641 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
642 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
643 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
644 would occasionally not be restored.
645 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
646 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
647 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
649 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
650 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
651 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
652 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
653 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
654 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
655 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
656 older 'incorrect' headers.
657 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
658 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
659 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
660 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
661 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
662 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
663 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
664 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
665 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
666 is read on that drive.
667 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
668 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
670 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
671 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
672 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
673 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
674 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
675 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
676 be opened. Reported by Eric.
677 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
678 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
679 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
680 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
681 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
682 have the requested MediaType.
683 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
684 the configuration routines.
685 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
686 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
687 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
688 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
689 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
690 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
694 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
695 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
696 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
697 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
699 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
700 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
701 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
702 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
703 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
704 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
705 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
707 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
708 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
709 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
710 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
711 no database upgrade needed.
713 =====================================================
715 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
717 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
719 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
720 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
721 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
722 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
723 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
724 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
726 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
727 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
728 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
729 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
730 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
731 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
732 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
734 ======================================================
736 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
737 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
738 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
739 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
740 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
741 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
742 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
745 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
746 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
749 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
750 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
752 Release Version 2.4.0
753 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
754 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
755 This fixes bug #1095.
756 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
757 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
758 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
760 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
761 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
762 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
763 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
764 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
765 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
766 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
767 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
768 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
769 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
771 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
772 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
773 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
774 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
775 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
776 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
777 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
778 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
779 This fixes bug #1041.
780 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
781 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
782 - Implement --without-qwt
783 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
784 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
785 with or without the QWT libaries.
786 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
787 from one drive to another.
788 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
789 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
790 This fixes bug #1083.
791 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
792 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
794 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
795 This fixes bug #1078.
796 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
797 warning rather than an error.
798 - Fix SQL query in migration code
799 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
800 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
801 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
802 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
803 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
804 same volume name twice in a row.
805 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
806 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
807 handling the responsibilities.
808 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
809 causes a seg fault in many cases.
810 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
812 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
813 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
814 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
815 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
816 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
817 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
818 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
819 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
820 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
821 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
822 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
823 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
824 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
825 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
826 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
827 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
829 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
830 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
831 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
832 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
833 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
834 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
835 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
836 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
837 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
838 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
839 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
840 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
841 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
842 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
843 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
844 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
845 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
846 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
848 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
849 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
850 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
851 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
852 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
853 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
854 the ./configure line.
855 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
859 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
860 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
861 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
862 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
863 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
865 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
866 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
868 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
869 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
870 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
871 and are difficult to reproduce.
872 See the ChangeLog for more details.
873 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
874 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
878 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
879 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
880 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
881 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
882 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
884 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
885 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
886 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
889 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
890 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
891 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
892 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
894 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
896 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
897 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
898 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
899 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
900 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
901 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
902 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
903 bar, thanks to the above patch.
904 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
906 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
907 driver with version 8.3.
908 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
910 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
911 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
912 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
913 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
915 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
916 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
918 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
919 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
921 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
922 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
924 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
925 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
926 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
927 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
929 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
930 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
931 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
932 957, 908, 958, and 955.
933 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
934 out by Chris Howells.
936 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
937 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
939 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
940 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
941 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
942 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
943 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
944 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
945 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
946 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
947 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
948 the conditions noted above.
950 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
951 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
952 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
953 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
954 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
957 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
958 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
959 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
961 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
962 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
964 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
965 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
967 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
968 It contains the following fixes:
970 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
971 - Possible fix for bug #908.
972 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
973 file to always be deleted.
974 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
976 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
977 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
979 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
980 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
981 are released as soon as possible.
982 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
983 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
984 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
985 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
986 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
987 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
988 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
989 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
991 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
992 and not memory usage.
994 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
997 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
998 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
1000 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
1001 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
1002 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
1003 kind of problem many times.
1005 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
1008 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
1009 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
1010 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
1011 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
1014 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
1016 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
1019 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
1020 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
1021 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
1023 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
1024 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
1026 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
1028 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
1029 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
1032 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
1033 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
1034 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
1035 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
1037 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
1038 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
1039 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
1040 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
1042 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
1043 affected by this bug.
1045 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
1046 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
1049 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
1050 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
1053 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
1054 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
1055 an updated Storage daemon.
1057 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
1058 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
1059 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
1060 reproduced the problem.
1062 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
1063 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
1065 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
1067 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
1071 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
1073 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1075 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
1077 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
1078 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
1080 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1081 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1082 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1083 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1084 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
1086 Areas requiring caution or testing:
1087 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
1088 to build with MySQL enabled.
1089 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
1090 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
1091 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
1092 to what we do with sockets).
1093 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
1094 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
1095 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
1096 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
1097 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
1098 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
1099 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
1100 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
1102 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
1104 The major new features are:
1105 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
1106 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
1107 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
1108 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
1109 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
1110 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
1111 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
1112 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
1113 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
1115 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
1116 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
1117 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
1119 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
1120 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
1121 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
1122 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
1123 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
1124 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
1125 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
1126 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
1127 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
1128 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
1129 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
1131 New ./configure options:
1132 - --enable-bwx-console
1137 - --enable-batch-insert
1139 New bconsole commands:
1142 - update recyclepool
1145 - .pwd (in restore tree)
1146 - restoreclient (keyword)
1147 - backupclient (keyword)
1148 - regexwhere (keyword)
1149 - update jobid (new command)
1150 - recyclepool (keyword)
1153 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
1154 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
1155 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
1156 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1157 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1158 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1159 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1160 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
1161 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
1162 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
1163 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
1165 Other features or bug fixes:
1166 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
1167 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
1168 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
1169 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
1170 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
1171 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
1172 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
1173 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
1174 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
1175 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
1176 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
1177 these packages in the distro.
1178 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
1180 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
1181 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
1182 directives are defined.
1183 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
1184 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
1185 Use the command line or the Services panne.
1186 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
1187 - More debug output in status storage.
1188 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
1189 critical columns were lost).
1190 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
1191 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
1192 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
1193 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
1194 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
1195 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
1196 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
1197 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
1198 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
1199 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
1200 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
1201 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
1202 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
1203 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
1204 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
1205 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
1206 in front of the configuration path/filename.
1207 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
1208 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
1209 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
1210 filename restrictions.
1211 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
1212 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
1213 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
1214 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
1215 is already a < in the target.
1216 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
1217 mounted by another job.
1218 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
1219 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
1220 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
1221 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
1222 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
1223 - Database user and name can be configured with:
1224 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
1225 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
1226 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
1227 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
1228 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
1229 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
1230 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
1231 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
1232 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
1233 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
1234 - Sockets are no longer restored.
1235 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
1236 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
1237 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
1238 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
1239 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
1240 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
1241 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
1242 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
1243 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
1244 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
1249 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
1251 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
1252 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
1253 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
1256 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
1257 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
1261 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
1262 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
1263 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
1264 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
1266 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
1269 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
1270 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
1272 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
1273 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
1275 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
1276 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
1279 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
1281 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
1283 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
1286 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
1287 than English. Fixes bug #788.
1289 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
1291 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
1292 If you want to use this, you can apply
1293 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
1295 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
1296 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
1297 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
1299 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
1300 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
1301 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
1302 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
1304 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
1305 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
1306 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
1307 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
1308 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
1311 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
1313 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
1314 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
1315 was opened, it is closed.
1317 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
1318 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
1319 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
1321 kes Update projects list.
1323 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
1324 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
1326 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
1327 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
1328 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
1330 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
1331 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
1333 Switch to using Subversion
1334 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
1336 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
1337 plus the entrypoints.
1338 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
1339 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
1340 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
1342 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
1343 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
1345 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
1346 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
1347 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
1349 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
1350 problem is with read or append.
1352 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
1353 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
1354 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
1355 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
1356 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
1357 (i.e. migration jobs).
1358 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
1359 a memory leak problem.
1360 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
1361 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
1362 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
1363 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
1364 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
1365 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
1366 (hides some of the ugly casting).
1368 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
1369 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
1373 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
1375 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
1377 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
1379 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
1381 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
1382 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
1383 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
1384 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
1386 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
1388 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
1389 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
1390 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
1391 other DIR specifications.
1393 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
1394 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
1395 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
1397 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
1399 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
1400 backup. This should fix bug #755.
1401 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
1405 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
1407 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1408 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
1409 the following fixes:
1411 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
1412 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
1413 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
1415 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
1416 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
1417 This *should* fix bug #747.
1418 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
1420 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
1421 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
1422 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
1423 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
1424 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
1425 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
1427 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
1428 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
1432 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
1434 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1436 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
1438 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
1440 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
1442 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
1446 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
1448 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
1450 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
1452 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
1453 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
1454 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
1455 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
1456 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
1457 Please backup your previous version of the database before
1458 running the update. The update script will be automatically
1459 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
1460 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
1462 ./update_bacula_tables
1464 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
1465 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
1466 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
1467 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
1468 in general, it should be very fast.
1470 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
1471 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
1472 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
1473 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
1474 directory mostly out of paranoia.
1476 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
1477 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
1478 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
1479 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
1480 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
1481 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
1482 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
1483 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
1484 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
1485 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
1486 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
1487 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
1488 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
1489 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
1490 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
1491 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
1492 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
1493 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
1494 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
1495 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
1496 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
1497 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
1498 with the correct MediaType.
1499 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
1500 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
1501 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
1502 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
1503 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
1504 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
1505 more testing is still needed.
1506 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
1507 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
1508 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
1509 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
1510 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
1511 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
1512 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
1513 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
1514 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
1515 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
1516 and fixed it as follows:
1518 No filters = Works fine
1520 Compression = Works fine
1521 Encryption = Works fine
1522 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
1524 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
1525 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
1526 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
1529 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
1530 not properly restored.
1533 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
1535 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
1536 data to be sure it all works correctly.
1537 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
1538 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
1539 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
1540 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
1541 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
1542 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
1543 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
1544 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
1545 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
1548 Block Positioning = no
1550 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
1552 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
1553 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
1554 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
1556 New Features in 2.0.0:
1557 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
1558 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
1559 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
1560 Bacula, then as root run:
1562 cd <bacula-source>/po
1565 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
1567 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
1568 Migration chapter in the manual
1569 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
1570 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
1571 a new chapter of the manual at:
1572 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
1573 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
1574 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
1575 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
1576 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
1577 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
1579 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
1580 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
1581 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
1582 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
1583 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
1584 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
1585 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
1586 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
1587 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
1588 before putting into production.
1589 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
1590 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
1591 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
1592 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
1593 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
1594 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
1595 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
1596 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
1598 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
1599 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
1600 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
1601 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
1602 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
1603 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
1604 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
1605 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
1606 "list nextvol days=xx"
1608 "status dir days=xx"
1609 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
1610 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
1612 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
1613 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
1615 wait jobuid=unique id
1617 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
1618 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
1619 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
1620 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
1621 job report in the Log database table.
1622 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
1623 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
1624 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
1625 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
1626 the job can be manually started from the console.
1627 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
1628 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
1629 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
1630 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
1631 the restore cd command.
1632 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
1633 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
1635 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
1636 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
1637 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
1638 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
1639 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
1640 spaces in names better, ...
1641 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
1642 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
1644 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
1645 the restore command.
1646 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
1647 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
1648 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
1649 from Eric Bollengier.
1650 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
1651 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
1652 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
1653 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
1654 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
1655 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
1656 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
1657 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
1658 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
1659 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
1660 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
1661 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
1662 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
1663 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
1664 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
1665 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
1666 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
1667 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
1668 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
1669 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
1670 - Implement mount command for autochanger
1671 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
1672 from File= was not found.
1673 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
1674 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
1675 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
1676 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
1677 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
1678 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
1680 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
1682 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
1683 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
1684 listing where they could be "lost".
1685 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
1686 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
1688 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
1689 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
1690 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
1691 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
1692 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
1693 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
1694 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
1695 and mount, unmount directives.
1696 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
1697 to a user submission.
1698 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
1699 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
1700 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
1701 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
1702 device will be blocked.
1703 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
1704 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
1705 all other Storage specifications.
1706 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
1707 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
1708 from a database table for restore.
1709 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
1710 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
1711 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
1712 accept time qualifiers.
1713 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
1714 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
1715 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
1716 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
1717 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
1718 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
1719 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
1720 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
1722 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
1723 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
1724 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
1725 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
1726 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
1727 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
1728 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
1729 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
1730 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
1731 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
1732 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
1733 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
1734 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
1735 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
1737 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
1738 fault, but still 60 second window.
1739 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
1740 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
1742 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
1743 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
1744 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
1745 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
1746 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
1747 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
1748 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
1749 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
1750 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
1752 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
1754 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
1755 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
1756 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
1757 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
1758 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
1759 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
1760 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
1761 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
1763 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
1765 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
1766 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
1767 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
1768 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
1769 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
1771 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
1772 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
1773 Add Cost to Location table.
1774 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
1775 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
1776 and forcing a 6 second wait.
1777 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
1778 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
1779 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
1780 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
1781 system libraries print routines.
1782 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
1783 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
1784 it is all very complicated.
1785 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
1787 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
1789 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
1790 chapter of the manual
1791 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
1792 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
1793 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
1794 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
1795 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
1796 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
1797 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
1798 Mail On Success directive.
1799 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
1801 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
1802 are printed in the Job report.
1804 Additional Features Added for Win32:
1805 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
1806 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
1807 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
1808 has the concept of drives.
1810 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
1811 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
1813 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
1814 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
1816 Patterns conform to Posix
1817 \ is not a special character in character classification []
1818 To match a - it must be the first or last character
1819 To match a ] it must be the first character
1821 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
1822 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
1824 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
1825 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
1826 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
1827 abc*.def work as expected.
1829 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
1831 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
1833 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
1834 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
1835 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
1836 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
1837 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
1838 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"