1 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
2 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
4 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
6 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
10 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
14 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
15 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
17 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
24 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
25 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
30 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
31 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
32 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
33 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
34 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
35 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
36 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
37 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
38 - Fix segfault in accurate code
39 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
41 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
46 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
47 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
49 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
51 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
55 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
56 additions and performance improvements.
58 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
59 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
60 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
61 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
63 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
67 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
70 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
71 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
76 - Implement -t option for Bat
77 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
78 - Get new lib/plugins.h
79 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
80 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
81 - Add Systemd configure options
82 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
83 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
84 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
85 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
86 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
87 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
88 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
89 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
90 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
92 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
93 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
94 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
95 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
96 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
97 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
98 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
99 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
100 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
102 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
103 -----------------------
108 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
109 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
112 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
114 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
119 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
120 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
121 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
122 number of important new features:
126 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
127 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
132 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
135 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
136 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
143 - Purge Migration Job
144 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
145 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
146 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
147 - Additions to RunScript variables
148 - Additions to the Plugin API
151 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
152 - Hash List Enhancements
154 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
155 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
158 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
159 ---------------------
160 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
161 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
162 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
163 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
164 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
165 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
168 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
170 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
171 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
172 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
173 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
177 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
178 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
179 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
181 Packaging the SQL backend:
182 --------------------------
183 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
184 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
185 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
186 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
189 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
194 Order of testing for database is
199 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
200 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
202 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
203 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
204 the default backend type.
206 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
207 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
208 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
210 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
212 And update the default backend in the following files:
214 create_bacula_database
217 grant_bacula_privileges
222 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
223 -----------------------------------------------
224 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
225 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
226 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
227 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
228 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
231 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
232 source (i.e. manually):
233 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
234 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
235 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
236 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
237 at the bottom of this file.
238 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
239 5. ./update_bacula_tables
240 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
241 script and put the name of another database, and then
242 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
243 catalogs have been updated.
244 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
245 not print any error messages.
247 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
248 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
249 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
250 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
251 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
252 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
253 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
254 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
257 ================================================================
261 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
262 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
263 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
264 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
265 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
266 - limit command in some list commands
267 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
268 - Faster crc32 algorithm
270 Security Enhancements:
271 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
272 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
274 Features Enhancements:
275 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
276 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
277 - Tray monitor for Windows
278 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
279 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
280 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
281 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
282 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
283 - Indent lsmark during restore
284 - Disable batch insert config item
285 - Director selection option in bconsole
286 - restorejob command in bconsole
287 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
288 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
289 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
290 - Improved hash table for hard links
291 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
292 and %h (Client Address)
295 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
297 - New database format
298 - Many new plugin API features
299 - Improved memory handling for restores
300 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
301 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
302 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
305 ===========================================================================
308 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
309 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
311 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
312 It includes new code and some new features.
313 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
315 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
316 the 5.0.1 release section.
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 5.0.3
325 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
328 Changes and New Features:
329 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
330 it printed a warning message and continued.
331 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
332 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
333 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
334 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
335 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
336 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
337 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
338 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
342 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
344 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
345 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
346 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
347 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
348 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
349 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
350 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
351 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
352 - Add archlinux to os.m4
353 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
354 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
355 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
356 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
357 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
358 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
359 - Up maximum block size to 20M
360 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
361 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
362 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
363 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
364 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
365 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
366 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
367 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
368 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
369 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
370 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
371 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
372 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
373 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
374 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
375 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
376 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
378 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
379 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
380 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
381 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
382 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
383 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
384 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
385 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
386 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
387 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
388 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
389 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
390 - Added new bacula-libs package.
391 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
392 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
394 See ChangeLog for more details.
397 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
398 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
400 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
401 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
402 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
403 and we are very pleased.
406 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
407 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
409 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
411 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
416 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
419 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
420 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
427 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
429 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
430 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
431 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
432 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
433 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
434 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
435 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
436 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
437 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
438 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
439 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
440 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
442 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
443 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
444 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
445 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
446 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
447 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
448 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
449 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
450 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
451 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
452 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
453 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
454 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
455 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
459 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
460 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
462 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
463 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
465 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
466 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
467 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
468 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
469 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
470 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
471 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
473 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
474 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
475 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
476 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
477 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
478 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
480 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
481 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
482 release there is no database upgrade needed.
484 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
485 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
486 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
488 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
494 ============= Performance Note ==================
496 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
497 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
498 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
499 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
500 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
501 versions, on a well configured database it should run
504 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
505 In general, these will cause very significant performance
506 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
507 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
508 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
509 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
510 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
511 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
512 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
513 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
515 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
516 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
517 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
518 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
519 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
520 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
522 ==========================================
525 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
527 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
529 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
530 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
531 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
533 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
534 features section of the manual.
536 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
537 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
538 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
539 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
540 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
541 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
545 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
546 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
547 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
548 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
549 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
550 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
553 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
554 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
555 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
556 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
558 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
559 section in the manual.
560 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
563 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
564 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
566 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
567 - Fix three-pool regress bug
568 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
569 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
570 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
572 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
573 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
574 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
576 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
577 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
578 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
579 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
580 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
581 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
582 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
583 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
584 - Fix missing console page in bat
585 - Add bat help files to Window install
586 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
587 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
588 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
589 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
590 - Update the bsock error URL
591 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
592 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
593 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
594 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
595 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
596 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
597 - Remove file_index sequential check
598 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
601 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
602 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
603 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
604 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
605 not installed by the Makefiles
607 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
608 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
609 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
610 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
612 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
613 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
614 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
615 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
616 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
617 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
618 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
620 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
621 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
622 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
623 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
624 this problem (bug) does not exist.
626 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
627 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
628 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
629 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
630 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
631 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
633 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
634 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
635 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
636 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
639 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
640 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
641 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
645 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
648 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
650 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
651 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
652 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
653 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
654 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
655 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
656 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
657 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
658 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
659 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
660 --enable-smartalloc \
661 --enable-tray-monitor \
664 --with-dump-email=${email} \
665 --with-job-email=${email} \
666 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
669 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
670 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
671 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
672 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
674 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
675 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
676 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
678 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
679 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
680 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
681 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
682 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
683 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
684 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
685 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
686 different versions of the shared objects.
688 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
689 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
690 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
691 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
692 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
693 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
694 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
695 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
696 use readline or not as you please.
700 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
701 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
704 -----------------------------------------------------------
705 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
706 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
707 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
708 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
709 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
710 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
711 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
712 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
713 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
714 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
715 version is more advanced or has more features than the
716 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
717 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
718 will be version 4.0.0.
721 --------------------------------------------------------------
722 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
726 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
727 -------------------------------------------------------
730 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
731 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
735 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
736 responding to the bsmtp program
737 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
738 - Fix various problems with the reload command
739 - Fix problems with conio
740 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
743 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
744 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
745 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
746 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
747 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
749 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
750 checksum verification for example.
751 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
752 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
753 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
754 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
755 - Add new speed test to btape program
756 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
757 - Windows version of Bat
758 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
759 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
760 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
762 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
763 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
764 - Many ACL improvements
765 - Level added to FD status Job entry
766 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
767 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
768 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
771 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
772 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
773 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
774 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
776 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
777 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
778 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
779 as is reasonable for your situation.
781 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
783 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
784 -----------------------------------------------------
786 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
787 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
788 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
789 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
790 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
793 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
795 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
796 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
797 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
798 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
799 at the bottom of this file.
800 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
801 5. ./update_bacula_tables
802 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
803 script and put the name of another database, and then
804 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
805 catalogs have been updated.
806 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
807 not print any error messages.
809 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
810 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
811 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
812 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
813 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
814 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
815 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
816 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
818 ================================================================
821 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
822 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
823 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
824 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
825 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
826 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
827 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
828 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
830 ================================================================
832 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
833 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
834 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
835 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
836 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
837 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
838 ================================================================
840 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
841 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
842 the manual for more details.
844 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
846 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
848 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
849 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
850 are still some that need fixing.
852 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
855 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
856 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
857 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
861 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
862 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
863 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
866 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
867 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
869 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
871 The ChangeLog has more details.
876 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
877 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
879 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
882 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
886 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
887 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
890 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
891 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
892 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
893 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
894 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
895 when doing fixup_write_error ...
896 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
897 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
898 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
899 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
900 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
901 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
902 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
903 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
904 tweak space on projects file
905 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
906 Apply Frank's slash patch
907 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
908 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
909 Add more info when SD connection refused
910 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
911 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
913 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
914 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
915 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
916 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
917 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
918 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
919 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
920 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
921 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
922 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
925 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
928 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
929 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
934 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
935 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
936 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
939 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
940 some enhancements (see below).
945 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
946 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
949 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
950 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
951 - Fix bugs in xattr code
952 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
953 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
956 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
957 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
958 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
959 This is project 31 in the projects file.
960 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
961 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
962 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
963 This is project 2 in the projects file.
964 - Add new Nagios plugin
967 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
970 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
971 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
975 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
976 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
978 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
980 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
981 one enhancement (see below).
985 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
988 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
989 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
990 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
991 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
992 - Updated projects file
993 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
994 and keep fields order.
995 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
996 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
999 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1000 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1001 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1002 tape deadlock situations.
1004 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1005 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1006 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1007 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1008 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1009 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1012 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1014 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1017 1. Missing documentation.
1018 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1019 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1022 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1023 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1024 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1028 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1029 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1031 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1032 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1035 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1036 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1037 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1039 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1041 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1042 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1043 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1045 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1046 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1049 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1050 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1051 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1052 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1053 your help will be appreciated.
1055 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1057 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1058 we missed documenting some).
1060 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1061 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1063 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1064 while it is running. He is working on this.
1066 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1067 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1068 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1069 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1070 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1071 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1072 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1074 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1075 bit of a rare case).
1077 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1078 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1079 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1080 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1081 most current release ...
1083 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1084 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1085 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1086 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1088 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1089 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1090 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1091 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1092 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1093 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1094 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1096 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1097 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1098 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1100 Personal contributions:
1101 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1102 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1103 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1104 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1105 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1106 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1107 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1108 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1109 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1110 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1112 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1114 === List of new features ===
1118 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1119 - Extended Attribute support
1120 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1122 --enable-libtool (default)
1125 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1126 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1128 - Duplicate Job Control
1129 - TLS Authentication
1130 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1131 - State File updated at Job Termination
1134 - FD Exchange plugin
1136 - Console Enhancements
1141 - Restore seek optimization
1142 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1144 - RunScript Enhancements
1145 - Status enhancements
1146 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1147 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1148 - FD Version compatibily flag
1149 - Statistics Enhancements
1150 - Faster Attribute despooling
1151 - Document split into 6 manuals
1152 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1154 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1155 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1156 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1157 - New configure install options
1158 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1159 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1160 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1161 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1165 - Honor No Dump Flag
1166 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1168 - Max Run Sched Time
1170 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1172 - Max Console Connections
1173 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1174 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1175 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1176 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1177 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1178 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1180 - Console (in RunScript)
1182 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1184 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1185 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1186 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1187 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1188 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1189 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1190 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1191 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1192 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1194 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1195 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1196 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1197 ================================
1200 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1202 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1204 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1205 represents an enormous effort.
1207 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1208 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1209 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1210 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1211 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1213 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1215 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1216 -----------------------------------------------------
1218 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1219 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1220 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1221 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1222 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1225 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1227 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1228 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1229 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1230 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1231 at the bottom of this file.
1232 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1233 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1234 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1235 script and put the name of another database, and then
1236 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1237 catalogs have been updated.
1238 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1239 not print any error messages.
1241 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1242 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1243 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1244 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1246 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1247 backup it before executing the script.
1249 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1250 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1251 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1252 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1253 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1254 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1255 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1256 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1260 Important New configure options :
1261 ----------------------
1263 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1264 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1265 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1266 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1267 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1268 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1269 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1270 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1272 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1274 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1275 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1276 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1278 ./configure --disable-libtool
1280 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1281 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1282 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1283 want to put them elsewhere use:
1285 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1287 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1288 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1289 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1290 want to put them elsewhere use:
1292 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1294 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1295 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1296 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1299 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1301 ==============================================================
1303 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1304 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1305 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1308 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1309 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1311 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1313 The ChangeLog has more details.
1316 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1317 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1318 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1319 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1320 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1321 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1322 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1323 available for normal operations.
1325 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1326 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1327 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1330 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1331 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1332 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1334 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1335 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1336 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1337 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1338 range of Bacula users.
1340 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1341 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1342 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1343 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1344 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1345 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1348 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1349 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1350 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1351 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1352 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1353 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1354 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1355 home for Bacula project development.
1357 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1358 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1359 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1360 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1361 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1363 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1364 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1365 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1366 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1367 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1368 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1369 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1370 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1371 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1372 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1374 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1375 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1376 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1377 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1378 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1379 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1380 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1381 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1383 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1384 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1385 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1386 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1387 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1390 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1391 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1392 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1393 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1395 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1396 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1397 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1398 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1399 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1400 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1401 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1402 and certified binaries.
1404 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1405 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1406 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1407 company, Bacula Systems.
1409 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1416 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1417 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1418 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1419 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1423 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1424 with other 2.4.x versions.
1427 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1430 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1431 a non created job faster.
1432 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1433 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1434 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1435 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1436 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1438 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1439 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1440 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1442 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1443 this never caused a bug.
1444 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1445 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1446 using default variables.
1447 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1448 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1449 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1450 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1451 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1453 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1454 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1456 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1457 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1458 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1459 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1460 This closes bug #1129.
1462 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1463 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1467 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1468 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1469 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1470 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1472 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1475 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1479 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1480 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1481 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1482 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1483 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1484 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1485 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1486 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1487 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1488 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1489 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1490 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1491 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1492 This fixes bug #1124.
1493 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1494 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1495 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1497 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1498 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1499 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1500 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1501 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1502 version 2.5.x and above.
1505 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1506 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1507 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1508 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1511 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1515 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1516 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1517 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1518 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1519 would occasionally not be restored.
1520 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1521 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1522 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1524 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1525 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1526 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1527 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1528 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1529 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1530 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1531 older 'incorrect' headers.
1532 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1533 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1534 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1535 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1536 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1537 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1538 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1539 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1540 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1541 is read on that drive.
1542 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1543 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
1545 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
1546 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
1547 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
1548 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
1549 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
1550 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
1551 be opened. Reported by Eric.
1552 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
1553 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
1554 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
1555 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
1556 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
1557 have the requested MediaType.
1558 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
1559 the configuration routines.
1560 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
1561 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
1562 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
1563 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
1564 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
1565 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
1569 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
1570 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
1571 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1572 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1574 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1575 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1576 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1577 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1578 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1579 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1580 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1582 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
1583 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
1584 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
1585 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
1586 no database upgrade needed.
1588 =====================================================
1590 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
1592 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
1594 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1595 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1596 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1597 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1598 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
1599 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
1601 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1602 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
1603 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
1604 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
1605 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
1606 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
1607 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
1609 ======================================================
1611 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1612 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1613 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1614 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1615 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1616 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1617 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1620 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
1621 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
1624 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
1625 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
1627 Release Version 2.4.0
1628 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
1629 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
1630 This fixes bug #1095.
1631 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
1632 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
1633 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
1635 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
1636 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
1637 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
1638 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
1639 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
1640 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
1641 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
1642 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
1643 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
1644 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
1646 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
1647 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
1648 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
1649 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
1650 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
1651 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
1652 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
1653 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
1654 This fixes bug #1041.
1655 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
1656 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
1657 - Implement --without-qwt
1658 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
1659 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
1660 with or without the QWT libaries.
1661 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
1662 from one drive to another.
1663 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
1664 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
1665 This fixes bug #1083.
1666 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
1667 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
1669 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
1670 This fixes bug #1078.
1671 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
1672 warning rather than an error.
1673 - Fix SQL query in migration code
1674 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
1675 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
1676 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
1677 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
1678 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
1679 same volume name twice in a row.
1680 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
1681 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
1682 handling the responsibilities.
1683 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
1684 causes a seg fault in many cases.
1685 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
1687 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
1688 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
1689 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
1690 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
1691 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
1692 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
1693 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
1694 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
1695 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
1696 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
1697 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
1698 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
1699 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
1700 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
1701 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
1702 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
1704 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
1705 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
1706 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
1707 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
1708 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
1709 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
1710 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
1711 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
1712 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
1713 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
1714 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
1715 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
1716 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
1717 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
1718 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
1719 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
1720 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
1721 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
1723 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
1724 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
1725 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
1726 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
1727 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
1728 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
1729 the ./configure line.
1730 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
1734 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
1735 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
1736 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
1737 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
1738 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
1740 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
1741 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
1743 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
1744 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
1745 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
1746 and are difficult to reproduce.
1747 See the ChangeLog for more details.
1748 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
1749 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
1753 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
1754 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
1755 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
1756 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
1757 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
1759 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
1760 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
1761 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
1764 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
1765 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
1766 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
1767 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
1769 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
1770 since version 2.2.6:
1771 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
1772 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
1773 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
1774 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
1775 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
1776 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
1777 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
1778 bar, thanks to the above patch.
1779 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
1781 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
1782 driver with version 8.3.
1783 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
1785 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
1786 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
1787 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
1788 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
1790 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
1791 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
1793 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
1794 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
1796 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
1797 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
1799 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
1800 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
1801 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
1802 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
1804 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
1805 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
1806 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
1807 957, 908, 958, and 955.
1808 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
1809 out by Chris Howells.
1811 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
1812 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
1814 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
1815 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
1816 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
1817 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
1818 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
1819 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
1820 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
1821 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
1822 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
1823 the conditions noted above.
1825 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
1826 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
1827 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
1828 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
1829 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
1832 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
1833 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
1834 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
1836 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
1837 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
1839 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
1840 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
1842 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
1843 It contains the following fixes:
1845 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
1846 - Possible fix for bug #908.
1847 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
1848 file to always be deleted.
1849 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
1850 This fixes bug #950.
1851 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
1852 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
1854 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
1855 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
1856 are released as soon as possible.
1857 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
1858 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
1859 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
1860 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
1861 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
1862 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
1863 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
1864 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
1866 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
1867 and not memory usage.
1869 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
1872 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
1873 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
1875 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
1876 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
1877 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
1878 kind of problem many times.
1880 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
1883 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
1884 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
1885 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
1886 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
1889 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
1891 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
1894 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
1895 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
1896 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
1898 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
1899 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
1901 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
1903 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
1904 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
1907 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
1908 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
1909 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
1910 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
1912 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
1913 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
1914 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
1915 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
1917 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
1918 affected by this bug.
1920 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
1921 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
1924 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
1925 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
1928 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
1929 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
1930 an updated Storage daemon.
1932 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
1933 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
1934 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
1935 reproduced the problem.
1937 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
1938 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
1940 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
1942 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
1946 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
1948 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1950 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
1952 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
1953 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
1955 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1956 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1957 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1958 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1959 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
1961 Areas requiring caution or testing:
1962 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
1963 to build with MySQL enabled.
1964 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
1965 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
1966 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
1967 to what we do with sockets).
1968 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
1969 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
1970 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
1971 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
1972 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
1973 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
1974 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
1975 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
1977 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
1979 The major new features are:
1980 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
1981 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
1982 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
1983 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
1984 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
1985 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
1986 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
1987 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
1988 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
1990 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
1991 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
1992 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
1994 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
1995 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
1996 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
1997 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
1998 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
1999 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2000 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2001 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2002 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2003 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2004 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2006 New ./configure options:
2007 - --enable-bwx-console
2012 - --enable-batch-insert
2014 New bconsole commands:
2017 - update recyclepool
2020 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2021 - restoreclient (keyword)
2022 - backupclient (keyword)
2023 - regexwhere (keyword)
2024 - update jobid (new command)
2025 - recyclepool (keyword)
2028 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2029 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2030 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2031 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2032 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2033 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2034 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2035 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2036 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2037 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2038 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2040 Other features or bug fixes:
2041 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2042 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2043 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2044 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2045 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2046 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2047 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2048 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2049 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2050 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2051 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2052 these packages in the distro.
2053 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2055 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2056 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2057 directives are defined.
2058 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2059 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2060 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2061 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2062 - More debug output in status storage.
2063 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2064 critical columns were lost).
2065 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2066 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2067 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2068 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2069 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2070 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2071 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2072 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2073 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2074 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2075 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2076 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2077 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2078 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2079 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2080 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2081 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2082 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2083 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2084 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2085 filename restrictions.
2086 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2087 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2088 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2089 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2090 is already a < in the target.
2091 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2092 mounted by another job.
2093 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2094 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2095 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2096 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2097 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2098 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2099 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2100 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2101 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2102 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2103 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2104 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2105 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2106 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2107 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2108 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2109 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2110 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2111 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2112 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2113 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2114 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2115 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2116 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2117 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2118 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2119 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2124 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2126 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2127 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2128 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2131 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2132 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2136 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2137 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2138 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2139 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2141 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2144 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2145 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2147 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2148 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2150 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2151 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2154 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2156 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2158 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2161 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2162 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2164 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2166 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2167 If you want to use this, you can apply
2168 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2170 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2171 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2172 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2174 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2175 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2176 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2177 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2179 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2180 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2181 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2182 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2183 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2186 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2188 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2189 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2190 was opened, it is closed.
2192 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2193 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2194 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2196 kes Update projects list.
2198 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2199 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2201 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2202 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2203 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2205 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2206 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2208 Switch to using Subversion
2209 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2211 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2212 plus the entrypoints.
2213 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2214 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2215 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2217 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2218 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2220 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2221 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2222 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2224 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2225 problem is with read or append.
2227 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2228 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2229 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2230 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2231 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2232 (i.e. migration jobs).
2233 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2234 a memory leak problem.
2235 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2236 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2237 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2238 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2239 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2240 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2241 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2243 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2244 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2248 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2250 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2252 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2254 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2256 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2257 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2258 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2259 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2261 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2263 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2264 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2265 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2266 other DIR specifications.
2268 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2269 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2270 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2272 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2274 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2275 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2276 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2280 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2282 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2283 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2284 the following fixes:
2286 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2287 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2288 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2290 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2291 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2292 This *should* fix bug #747.
2293 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2295 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2296 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2297 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2298 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2299 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2300 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2302 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2303 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2307 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2309 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2311 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2313 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2315 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2317 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2321 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2323 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2325 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2327 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2328 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2329 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2330 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2331 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2332 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2333 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2334 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2335 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2337 ./update_bacula_tables
2339 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2340 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2341 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2342 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2343 in general, it should be very fast.
2345 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2346 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2347 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2348 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2349 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2351 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2352 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2353 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2354 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2355 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2356 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2357 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2358 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2359 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2360 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2361 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2362 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2363 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2364 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2365 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2366 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2367 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2368 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2369 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2370 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2371 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2372 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2373 with the correct MediaType.
2374 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2375 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2376 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2377 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2378 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2379 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2380 more testing is still needed.
2381 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2382 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2383 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2384 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2385 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2386 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2387 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2388 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2389 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2390 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2391 and fixed it as follows:
2393 No filters = Works fine
2395 Compression = Works fine
2396 Encryption = Works fine
2397 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2399 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2400 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2401 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2404 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2405 not properly restored.
2408 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2410 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2411 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2412 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2413 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2414 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2415 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2416 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2417 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2418 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2419 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2420 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2423 Block Positioning = no
2425 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2427 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2428 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2429 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2431 New Features in 2.0.0:
2432 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2433 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2434 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2435 Bacula, then as root run:
2437 cd <bacula-source>/po
2440 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2442 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2443 Migration chapter in the manual
2444 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2445 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2446 a new chapter of the manual at:
2447 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2448 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2449 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2450 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2451 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2452 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2454 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2455 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2456 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2457 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2458 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2459 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2460 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2461 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2462 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2463 before putting into production.
2464 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2465 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2466 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2467 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2468 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2469 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2470 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2471 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2473 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2474 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2475 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2476 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2477 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2478 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2479 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2480 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2481 "list nextvol days=xx"
2483 "status dir days=xx"
2484 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2485 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2487 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2488 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2490 wait jobuid=unique id
2492 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2493 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2494 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2495 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2496 job report in the Log database table.
2497 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2498 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2499 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2500 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2501 the job can be manually started from the console.
2502 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2503 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2504 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2505 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2506 the restore cd command.
2507 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2508 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2510 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2511 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2512 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2513 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2514 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2515 spaces in names better, ...
2516 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2517 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2519 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2520 the restore command.
2521 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2522 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2523 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2524 from Eric Bollengier.
2525 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2526 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2527 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2528 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2529 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2530 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2531 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2532 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2533 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2534 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2535 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2536 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2537 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2538 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2539 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2540 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2541 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2542 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2543 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
2544 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2545 - Implement mount command for autochanger
2546 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
2547 from File= was not found.
2548 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
2549 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
2550 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
2551 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
2552 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
2553 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
2555 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
2557 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
2558 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
2559 listing where they could be "lost".
2560 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
2561 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
2563 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
2564 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
2565 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
2566 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
2567 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
2568 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
2569 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
2570 and mount, unmount directives.
2571 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
2572 to a user submission.
2573 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
2574 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
2575 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
2576 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
2577 device will be blocked.
2578 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
2579 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
2580 all other Storage specifications.
2581 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
2582 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
2583 from a database table for restore.
2584 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
2585 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
2586 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
2587 accept time qualifiers.
2588 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
2589 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
2590 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
2591 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
2592 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
2593 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
2594 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
2595 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
2597 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
2598 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
2599 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
2600 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
2601 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
2602 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
2603 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
2604 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
2605 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
2606 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
2607 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
2608 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
2609 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
2610 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
2612 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
2613 fault, but still 60 second window.
2614 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
2615 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
2617 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
2618 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
2619 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
2620 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
2621 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
2622 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
2623 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
2624 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
2625 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
2627 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
2629 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
2630 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
2631 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
2632 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
2633 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
2634 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
2635 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
2636 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
2638 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
2640 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
2641 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
2642 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
2643 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
2644 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
2646 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
2647 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
2648 Add Cost to Location table.
2649 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
2650 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
2651 and forcing a 6 second wait.
2652 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
2653 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
2654 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
2655 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
2656 system libraries print routines.
2657 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
2658 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
2659 it is all very complicated.
2660 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
2662 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
2664 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
2665 chapter of the manual
2666 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
2667 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
2668 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
2669 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
2670 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
2671 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
2672 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
2673 Mail On Success directive.
2674 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
2676 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
2677 are printed in the Job report.
2679 Additional Features Added for Win32:
2680 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2681 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
2682 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
2683 has the concept of drives.
2685 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2686 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
2688 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
2689 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
2691 Patterns conform to Posix
2692 \ is not a special character in character classification []
2693 To match a - it must be the first or last character
2694 To match a ] it must be the first character
2696 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
2697 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
2699 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
2700 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
2701 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
2702 abc*.def work as expected.
2704 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
2706 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
2708 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
2709 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
2710 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
2711 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
2712 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
2713 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"