1 Kern;;;2005/10/31;;;12:30
2 Bacula is now able to accept direct donations, and as of
3 31 October 2005, we have received the following:
6 $ 50 Ludovic Strappazon
7 $100 Pontis Corporation, Pavlo Tabashov
11 Total $258.27 After PayPal fees are deducted
13 Many thanks to these Bacula supporters.
15 Kern;;;2005/09/28;;;16:30
16 Results to date of donations to EFF for the Data Encryption project
32 Goal: $3000 Total: $2,820
34 Additional information is available from Landon at:
36 http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/bacula
38 Read on for details of the project, which is now partially
39 implemented and being worked on by Landon in the Branch-1_38-encryption
40 branch of the Bacula CVS.
42 Kern;;;2005/07/26;;;14:30
43 BACULA COMMUNITY NEWS RELEASE
44 Backup Data Encryption Development Project
48 After initial discussions between Bacula project manager Kern
49 Sibbald, freelance open source developer Landon Fuller, and Craig
50 Thompson, President of WingNET Internet Services, an agreement
51 has been reached to begin work on the inclusion of data
52 encryption as an integral part of Bacula.
55 The purpose of this project is to provide backup clients with the
56 ability to securely encrypt their data for storage on Bacula
57 storage servers without having to worry about the possibility of
58 the data being accessed either by hackers or third parties. Data
59 that is encrypted on Volumes on the remote server can give your
60 customer (or CEO) an additional peace of mind that makes the
61 difference between a sale or no sale.
64 WingNET recently expressed an interest in seeing this
65 functionality developed. The concept had also been requested by
66 numerous individuals and companies in the recent past on the
67 various Bacula mailing lists. Kern suggested asking Landon to
68 work on the project in order to speed up the process.
71 Landon Fuller has agreed to begin working on the project. As
72 compensation for his time, his goal is to raise approximately
73 $3,000 for donation to the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
74 WingNET has offered to provide an initial donation of $500 for
75 the project. However, YOUR support is needed to make the project
76 a success. The data encryption project needs individuals and
77 companies who would be willing to donate any amount of money
78 toward the completion of the project.
81 You may contribute by going to the EFF site donation page at:
83 https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash&JServSessionIdr006=h0do7dkvl1.app2a
85 and clicking on the "Gift Memberships >>" button. You will
86 be asked to provide "Tribute Information" and to select an eCard
87 recipient. Please use "The Bacula Project" as the honored
88 individual name, and please choose to send an eCard to Kern
89 Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>. Please do not forget to
90 include the amount of your donation on the message that goes with
91 the eCard. It is not necessary to specify a snail-mail
94 By correctly sending an eCard, including the donation amount, we can
95 track the total amount donated for this project.
97 Can your company contribute $250 or $500? How about $100? And
98 if your budget is really tight, why not forego a couple of fast
99 food meals and contribute $20?
101 This is a community project, and this can be your way of helping make
102 Bacula an even better product for the good of the whole community.
104 If you have any questions related to this project, please contact
105 Kern Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>.
108 Kern;;;2005/04/26;;;12:00
109 The Bacula Version 1.36.3 tar file is released to Source Forge.
111 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.3
113 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 118,000 (*.h *.c *.in)
115 Major Changes to version 1.36.3:
116 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.2 (see below)
117 - Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4 GB.
118 - Thanks to Karl Cunningham's hard work and skilled Perl
119 programming, the manual is now in LaTeX format
121 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes (see below).
123 New Directives in 1.36.3:
124 - None, but see 1.36.2 additions below.
129 Items to note for 1.36.3!!!
130 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes. Matt Howard has
131 supplied a handy Perl program that will do a good job of
132 converting your FileSets. It can be found in
133 examples/conf/fileset_convert.pl
134 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
135 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
136 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
137 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
142 04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch
143 This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the
144 client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should
147 04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch
148 This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple
149 simultaneous jobs from different pools.
151 09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch
152 This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message
153 when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32
154 doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case.
156 15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch
157 This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs()
158 on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258.
160 16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch
161 This patch causes the output directed to a file to be
162 flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but
163 a user complained about it.
165 17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch
166 This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2
167 which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This
168 is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather
169 than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The
170 introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed
171 Bacula truncating tapes after a restore.
172 Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make.
174 18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch
175 This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and
176 the job attempts to call the SD.
178 18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch
179 This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled.
180 The storage pointers were being released when they should not
183 24Mar05 1.36.2-wx-console-bugfixes.patch
184 Major wx-console fixes (see src/wx-console/CHANGELOG for details).
186 28Mar05 1.36.2-tray-monitor-memleak.patch
187 This patch should fix memory leaks in tray-monitor.
189 Kern;;;2005/02/28;;;12:00
190 The Bacula Version 1.36.2 tar file is released to Source Forge.
192 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.2
194 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 117,915 (*.h *.c *.in)
196 Major Changes to version 1.36.2:
197 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.1 (see below)
198 - Added new directives from 1.37 code (see below).
199 - Applied Tim's patch for ACLS.
200 - Eight new options keywords in a FileSet resource:
201 ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir,
202 and regexfile, hardlinks. See below for details.
203 - Fix deadlock in multiple simultaneous jobs.
204 - Fix tape "truncation"/"number of files" after restore bug.
205 - Fix ClientRun jobs on Win32 to faile if the
206 return code is not zero.
208 New Directives in 1.36.2:
209 - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive:
211 Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not
214 Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not
217 Will do a regular expression match against directories (files
218 will not be matched).
220 Will do a regular expression match against files( directories
221 will not be matched).
222 - IgnoreCase = yes | no
223 Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches.
224 This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant.
226 where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc,
227 reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3
228 systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives
229 and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type
230 specified on the fstype directive does not match the
231 filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will
232 not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent
233 backing up non-local filesystems.
234 - HFS Plus Support = yes | no
235 If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored.
236 - In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have
237 a lot, it can be very expensive), by using:
239 in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks.
244 Items to note for 1.36.2!!!
245 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
246 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
247 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
248 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
253 03Dec04 1.36.1-pool.patch
254 This patch should hold jobs in the Director's start queue if
255 more than one simultaneous backup job wants to use the same
256 Storage device with two different Pools (i.e. 2 Volumes).
258 03Dec04 1.16.1-slots.patch
259 This patch should fix "update slots" with two different
260 magazines in different pools by checking the pool when zapping
263 18Dec04 1.36.1-spool.patch
264 This patch fixes the despooling size printed in the Job
265 report. Previously, it reported the total size for the
266 device. This patch makes it report the size for the job.
268 21Dec04 1.36.1-store.patch
269 This patch fixes a problem with overriding storage daemon
270 specifications. Previously they were not always honored.
271 This implements more uniform handling. It also eliminates
272 an orphaned buffer situation using JobDefs.
274 21Dec04 1.36.1-reload.patch
275 This patch fixes Bacula so that it does not exit if there
276 is a syntax error in its conf file during a reload command.
278 24Dec04 1.36.1-fileset.patch
279 This patch should correct a seg fault in the FD that occurs
280 at the end of a job when the job uses old style include/excludes.
281 Old style include/excludes are deprecated and should be
282 converted to the new style as soon as possible.
284 30Jan05 1.36.1-acl.patch
285 This patch fixes some typos with ACL checking that results
286 in the incorrect name being used for the check.
287 This fixes possible security problems with unwanted
288 access by restricted consoles.
290 15Feb05 1.36.1-truncate.patch
291 This patch fixes a bug where a tape gets "truncated" after
292 doing a restore. The number of files in the catalog do not
293 agree with what Bacula thinks is on tape, then the tape is
298 Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59
299 News-Page for the Bacula-Website finished
300 When you read this, you read the first news posted by me *hehe*
301 through the new Bacula-News-System.
303 Its file-based, no fancy database need.