1 Kern;;;2005/08/31;;;10:20
2 Results to date of donations for the Data Encryption project
18 Goal: $3000 Total: $2,750
20 Note, the official list is kept by Landon at:
22 http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/bacula
24 Read on for details of the project.
26 Kern;;;2005/07/26;;;14:30
27 BACULA COMMUNITY NEWS RELEASE
28 Backup Data Encryption Development Project
32 After initial discussions between Bacula project manager Kern
33 Sibbald, freelance open source developer Landon Fuller, and Craig
34 Thompson, President of WingNET Internet Services, an agreement
35 has been reached to begin work on the inclusion of data
36 encryption as an integral part of Bacula.
39 The purpose of this project is to provide backup clients with the
40 ability to securely encrypt their data for storage on Bacula
41 storage servers without having to worry about the possibility of
42 the data being accessed either by hackers or third parties. Data
43 that is encrypted on Volumes on the remote server can give your
44 customer (or CEO) an additional peace of mind that makes the
45 difference between a sale or no sale.
48 WingNET recently expressed an interest in seeing this
49 functionality developed. The concept had also been requested by
50 numerous individuals and companies in the recent past on the
51 various Bacula mailing lists. Kern suggested asking Landon to
52 work on the project in order to speed up the process.
55 Landon Fuller has agreed to begin working on the project. As
56 compensation for his time, his goal is to raise approximately
57 $3,000 for donation to the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
58 WingNET has offered to provide an initial donation of $500 for
59 the project. However, YOUR support is needed to make the project
60 a success. The data encryption project needs individuals and
61 companies who would be willing to donate any amount of money
62 toward the completion of the project.
65 You may contribute by going to the EFF site donation page at:
67 https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash&JServSessionIdr006=h0do7dkvl1.app2a
69 and clicking on the "Gift Memberships >>" button. You will
70 be asked to provide "Tribute Information" and to select an eCard
71 recipient. Please use "The Bacula Project" as the honored
72 individual name, and please choose to send an eCard to Kern
73 Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>. Please do not forget to
74 include the amount of your donation on the message that goes with
75 the eCard. It is not necessary to specify a snail-mail
78 By correctly sending an eCard, including the donation amount, we can
79 track the total amount donated for this project.
81 Can your company contribute $250 or $500? How about $100? And
82 if your budget is really tight, why not forego a couple of fast
83 food meals and contribute $20?
85 This is a community project, and this can be your way of helping make
86 Bacula an even better product for the good of the whole community.
88 If you have any questions related to this project, please contact
89 Kern Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>.
92 Kern;;;2005/04/26;;;12:00
93 The Bacula Version 1.36.3 tar file is released to Source Forge.
95 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.3
97 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 118,000 (*.h *.c *.in)
99 Major Changes to version 1.36.3:
100 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.2 (see below)
101 - Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4 GB.
102 - Thanks to Karl Cunningham's hard work and skilled Perl
103 programming, the manual is now in LaTeX format
105 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes (see below).
107 New Directives in 1.36.3:
108 - None, but see 1.36.2 additions below.
113 Items to note for 1.36.3!!!
114 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes. Matt Howard has
115 supplied a handy Perl program that will do a good job of
116 converting your FileSets. It can be found in
117 examples/conf/fileset_convert.pl
118 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
119 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
120 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
121 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
126 04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch
127 This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the
128 client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should
131 04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch
132 This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple
133 simultaneous jobs from different pools.
135 09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch
136 This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message
137 when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32
138 doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case.
140 15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch
141 This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs()
142 on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258.
144 16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch
145 This patch causes the output directed to a file to be
146 flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but
147 a user complained about it.
149 17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch
150 This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2
151 which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This
152 is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather
153 than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The
154 introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed
155 Bacula truncating tapes after a restore.
156 Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make.
158 18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch
159 This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and
160 the job attempts to call the SD.
162 18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch
163 This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled.
164 The storage pointers were being released when they should not
167 24Mar05 1.36.2-wx-console-bugfixes.patch
168 Major wx-console fixes (see src/wx-console/CHANGELOG for details).
170 28Mar05 1.36.2-tray-monitor-memleak.patch
171 This patch should fix memory leaks in tray-monitor.
173 Kern;;;2005/02/28;;;12:00
174 The Bacula Version 1.36.2 tar file is released to Source Forge.
176 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.2
178 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 117,915 (*.h *.c *.in)
180 Major Changes to version 1.36.2:
181 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.1 (see below)
182 - Added new directives from 1.37 code (see below).
183 - Applied Tim's patch for ACLS.
184 - Eight new options keywords in a FileSet resource:
185 ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir,
186 and regexfile, hardlinks. See below for details.
187 - Fix deadlock in multiple simultaneous jobs.
188 - Fix tape "truncation"/"number of files" after restore bug.
189 - Fix ClientRun jobs on Win32 to faile if the
190 return code is not zero.
192 New Directives in 1.36.2:
193 - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive:
195 Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not
198 Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not
201 Will do a regular expression match against directories (files
202 will not be matched).
204 Will do a regular expression match against files( directories
205 will not be matched).
206 - IgnoreCase = yes | no
207 Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches.
208 This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant.
210 where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc,
211 reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3
212 systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives
213 and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type
214 specified on the fstype directive does not match the
215 filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will
216 not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent
217 backing up non-local filesystems.
218 - HFS Plus Support = yes | no
219 If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored.
220 - In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have
221 a lot, it can be very expensive), by using:
223 in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks.
228 Items to note for 1.36.2!!!
229 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
230 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
231 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
232 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
237 03Dec04 1.36.1-pool.patch
238 This patch should hold jobs in the Director's start queue if
239 more than one simultaneous backup job wants to use the same
240 Storage device with two different Pools (i.e. 2 Volumes).
242 03Dec04 1.16.1-slots.patch
243 This patch should fix "update slots" with two different
244 magazines in different pools by checking the pool when zapping
247 18Dec04 1.36.1-spool.patch
248 This patch fixes the despooling size printed in the Job
249 report. Previously, it reported the total size for the
250 device. This patch makes it report the size for the job.
252 21Dec04 1.36.1-store.patch
253 This patch fixes a problem with overriding storage daemon
254 specifications. Previously they were not always honored.
255 This implements more uniform handling. It also eliminates
256 an orphaned buffer situation using JobDefs.
258 21Dec04 1.36.1-reload.patch
259 This patch fixes Bacula so that it does not exit if there
260 is a syntax error in its conf file during a reload command.
262 24Dec04 1.36.1-fileset.patch
263 This patch should correct a seg fault in the FD that occurs
264 at the end of a job when the job uses old style include/excludes.
265 Old style include/excludes are deprecated and should be
266 converted to the new style as soon as possible.
268 30Jan05 1.36.1-acl.patch
269 This patch fixes some typos with ACL checking that results
270 in the incorrect name being used for the check.
271 This fixes possible security problems with unwanted
272 access by restricted consoles.
274 15Feb05 1.36.1-truncate.patch
275 This patch fixes a bug where a tape gets "truncated" after
276 doing a restore. The number of files in the catalog do not
277 agree with what Bacula thinks is on tape, then the tape is
282 Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59
283 News-Page for the Bacula-Website finished
284 When you read this, you read the first news posted by me *hehe*
285 through the new Bacula-News-System.
287 Its file-based, no fancy database need.