1 Kern;;;2005/10/28;;;16:30
2 Bacula has been accepting direct donations now for about a month,
3 and as of today 28 October 2005, whe have received the following:
10 Kern;;;2005/09/28;;;16:30
11 Results to date of donations to EFF for the Data Encryption project
27 Goal: $3000 Total: $2,820
29 Additional information is available from Landon at:
31 http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/bacula
33 Read on for details of the project, which is now partially
34 implemented and being worked on by Landon in the Branch-1_38-encryption
35 branch of the Bacula CVS.
37 Kern;;;2005/07/26;;;14:30
38 BACULA COMMUNITY NEWS RELEASE
39 Backup Data Encryption Development Project
43 After initial discussions between Bacula project manager Kern
44 Sibbald, freelance open source developer Landon Fuller, and Craig
45 Thompson, President of WingNET Internet Services, an agreement
46 has been reached to begin work on the inclusion of data
47 encryption as an integral part of Bacula.
50 The purpose of this project is to provide backup clients with the
51 ability to securely encrypt their data for storage on Bacula
52 storage servers without having to worry about the possibility of
53 the data being accessed either by hackers or third parties. Data
54 that is encrypted on Volumes on the remote server can give your
55 customer (or CEO) an additional peace of mind that makes the
56 difference between a sale or no sale.
59 WingNET recently expressed an interest in seeing this
60 functionality developed. The concept had also been requested by
61 numerous individuals and companies in the recent past on the
62 various Bacula mailing lists. Kern suggested asking Landon to
63 work on the project in order to speed up the process.
66 Landon Fuller has agreed to begin working on the project. As
67 compensation for his time, his goal is to raise approximately
68 $3,000 for donation to the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
69 WingNET has offered to provide an initial donation of $500 for
70 the project. However, YOUR support is needed to make the project
71 a success. The data encryption project needs individuals and
72 companies who would be willing to donate any amount of money
73 toward the completion of the project.
76 You may contribute by going to the EFF site donation page at:
78 https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash&JServSessionIdr006=h0do7dkvl1.app2a
80 and clicking on the "Gift Memberships >>" button. You will
81 be asked to provide "Tribute Information" and to select an eCard
82 recipient. Please use "The Bacula Project" as the honored
83 individual name, and please choose to send an eCard to Kern
84 Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>. Please do not forget to
85 include the amount of your donation on the message that goes with
86 the eCard. It is not necessary to specify a snail-mail
89 By correctly sending an eCard, including the donation amount, we can
90 track the total amount donated for this project.
92 Can your company contribute $250 or $500? How about $100? And
93 if your budget is really tight, why not forego a couple of fast
94 food meals and contribute $20?
96 This is a community project, and this can be your way of helping make
97 Bacula an even better product for the good of the whole community.
99 If you have any questions related to this project, please contact
100 Kern Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>.
103 Kern;;;2005/04/26;;;12:00
104 The Bacula Version 1.36.3 tar file is released to Source Forge.
106 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.3
108 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 118,000 (*.h *.c *.in)
110 Major Changes to version 1.36.3:
111 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.2 (see below)
112 - Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4 GB.
113 - Thanks to Karl Cunningham's hard work and skilled Perl
114 programming, the manual is now in LaTeX format
116 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes (see below).
118 New Directives in 1.36.3:
119 - None, but see 1.36.2 additions below.
124 Items to note for 1.36.3!!!
125 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes. Matt Howard has
126 supplied a handy Perl program that will do a good job of
127 converting your FileSets. It can be found in
128 examples/conf/fileset_convert.pl
129 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
130 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
131 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
132 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
137 04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch
138 This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the
139 client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should
142 04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch
143 This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple
144 simultaneous jobs from different pools.
146 09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch
147 This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message
148 when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32
149 doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case.
151 15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch
152 This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs()
153 on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258.
155 16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch
156 This patch causes the output directed to a file to be
157 flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but
158 a user complained about it.
160 17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch
161 This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2
162 which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This
163 is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather
164 than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The
165 introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed
166 Bacula truncating tapes after a restore.
167 Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make.
169 18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch
170 This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and
171 the job attempts to call the SD.
173 18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch
174 This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled.
175 The storage pointers were being released when they should not
178 24Mar05 1.36.2-wx-console-bugfixes.patch
179 Major wx-console fixes (see src/wx-console/CHANGELOG for details).
181 28Mar05 1.36.2-tray-monitor-memleak.patch
182 This patch should fix memory leaks in tray-monitor.
184 Kern;;;2005/02/28;;;12:00
185 The Bacula Version 1.36.2 tar file is released to Source Forge.
187 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.2
189 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 117,915 (*.h *.c *.in)
191 Major Changes to version 1.36.2:
192 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.1 (see below)
193 - Added new directives from 1.37 code (see below).
194 - Applied Tim's patch for ACLS.
195 - Eight new options keywords in a FileSet resource:
196 ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir,
197 and regexfile, hardlinks. See below for details.
198 - Fix deadlock in multiple simultaneous jobs.
199 - Fix tape "truncation"/"number of files" after restore bug.
200 - Fix ClientRun jobs on Win32 to faile if the
201 return code is not zero.
203 New Directives in 1.36.2:
204 - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive:
206 Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not
209 Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not
212 Will do a regular expression match against directories (files
213 will not be matched).
215 Will do a regular expression match against files( directories
216 will not be matched).
217 - IgnoreCase = yes | no
218 Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches.
219 This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant.
221 where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc,
222 reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3
223 systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives
224 and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type
225 specified on the fstype directive does not match the
226 filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will
227 not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent
228 backing up non-local filesystems.
229 - HFS Plus Support = yes | no
230 If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored.
231 - In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have
232 a lot, it can be very expensive), by using:
234 in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks.
239 Items to note for 1.36.2!!!
240 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
241 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
242 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
243 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
248 03Dec04 1.36.1-pool.patch
249 This patch should hold jobs in the Director's start queue if
250 more than one simultaneous backup job wants to use the same
251 Storage device with two different Pools (i.e. 2 Volumes).
253 03Dec04 1.16.1-slots.patch
254 This patch should fix "update slots" with two different
255 magazines in different pools by checking the pool when zapping
258 18Dec04 1.36.1-spool.patch
259 This patch fixes the despooling size printed in the Job
260 report. Previously, it reported the total size for the
261 device. This patch makes it report the size for the job.
263 21Dec04 1.36.1-store.patch
264 This patch fixes a problem with overriding storage daemon
265 specifications. Previously they were not always honored.
266 This implements more uniform handling. It also eliminates
267 an orphaned buffer situation using JobDefs.
269 21Dec04 1.36.1-reload.patch
270 This patch fixes Bacula so that it does not exit if there
271 is a syntax error in its conf file during a reload command.
273 24Dec04 1.36.1-fileset.patch
274 This patch should correct a seg fault in the FD that occurs
275 at the end of a job when the job uses old style include/excludes.
276 Old style include/excludes are deprecated and should be
277 converted to the new style as soon as possible.
279 30Jan05 1.36.1-acl.patch
280 This patch fixes some typos with ACL checking that results
281 in the incorrect name being used for the check.
282 This fixes possible security problems with unwanted
283 access by restricted consoles.
285 15Feb05 1.36.1-truncate.patch
286 This patch fixes a bug where a tape gets "truncated" after
287 doing a restore. The number of files in the catalog do not
288 agree with what Bacula thinks is on tape, then the tape is
293 Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59
294 News-Page for the Bacula-Website finished
295 When you read this, you read the first news posted by me *hehe*
296 through the new Bacula-News-System.
298 Its file-based, no fancy database need.