Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.4 Bacula code: Total files = 424 Total lines = 140,955 (*.h *.c *.in) 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3 Changes to 1.38.4 BETA: 09Jan06 - Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer. - Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs. - Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes Arno's changer bug. - Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time. - Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto upgrades. - Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed from under the walk routines. Changes to 1.38.3 released 05Jan06: - This is mainly a bug release fix. In addition, the multiple drive reservation algorithm has been rewritten. - In addition, the method of handling waiting for tapes to be mounted and the mount messages has been modified. (the above two items are a potential source of problems). - Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait code. - Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns. - Return a zero when "autochanger drives" is called and it is not an autochanger. - Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument. This permits closing and reopening the drive if the rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor. - Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing if the device is open or not. This should eliminate Arnos problem. - Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device. - Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information. - Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat code. This should fix bug #500. - Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch. - Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless of the mode. - If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of You have messages. - Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug #514. - Implement load balancing code with multiple drive autochangers. - Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive. - Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513 - Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things. - Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file. - Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506 - Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505. - Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere. - Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler. - Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund. - Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives, and always open nonblocking. - Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen). - Eliminate 3 argument to tape open(). - Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload message. - With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero. - Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast(). - When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal. - Remove unused code in wait_for_device. - Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait. - Use localhost if no network configured - Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509. - Update specs to include mysql4 define. - Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan to get FileIndex at EOT correct. - Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls. - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. Bug # 506. - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client IP. Fixes bug # 508. - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by Christian Masopust. - Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages. - Reset timeout values before select() per patch from Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets. - Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems. - Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume. - Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool. - Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it caused an error. - Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied. - Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used at the same time. - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with "list nextvol days=xx" or "status dir days=xx" My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during the weekend. - Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501. - Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault fixes bug 502 - Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32. - Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible. - Remove old code from winservice.cpp - Break on error in scan. - Fix typo in signal.c - Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr. - Cleanup how find_device() works. - Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris. Bug #491. Changes to 1.38.2: - Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479. - Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486 - Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481 - Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487 - Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488 - Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c - Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource fork filename. Bug #489 - Add Pool name to SD status output. - Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492 Changes to 1.38.1: - Corrected ACL for Solaris (David Duchscher and Attila Fulop). - Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by Adrew J. Millar. - Unmount command now unloads autochanger. - Fix hang in FD (Martin Simmons) - Fix Win98 stat() problem in FD (Thorsten Engel) - Fix update slots which did not clear missing tapes. - Fix autostart install for FreeBSD (user reported) - Fix several problems with PostgreSQL scripts (Eric Bollinger) - Critical: allow restore of the first file of non-portable Win32 backup. - Important: with muliple concurrent jobs the autochanger could get confused because of a missing mutex. - Fix accessing last slot in label and update slots. - Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog scripts. - Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb - Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457. - Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested by user. Fixes bug #456. - AMD64 users see compiler bug warning below!!!!!!!!! Major Changes in 1.38: - Fixed out of order Volumes in restore. - Improved algorithm for reserving drives in multiple drive autochangers. Autochange users MUST use the new Autochanger resource in the Storage daemon. - There is a new database format that is not compatible with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting from 1.36.x. No changes from version 1.37.30. - The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are Deamons are not compatible with prior versions. All FDs must be upgraded at the same time. - Support for ANSI/IBM labels. - Faster database inserts due to combining the MD5/SHA1 into the attributes record, eliminating one INSERT/file backed up. - Python Event support has been added. See below for configuration and details. The implementation is somewhat minimal, so the functionality is not complete. The Python interface has not been extensively tested, so please consider it BETA. - DVD writing support, using parts, and some new directives in the Device resource of the Storage configuration file thanks to Nicolas Boichat. Please note that this code is still BETA and should be carefully tested before using in production. - Seven new options keywords in a FileSet resource: ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir, and regexfile thanks to Pruben Guldberg). See below for details. - Restore of all files for a Job or set of jobs even if the file records have been removed from the catalog. - Restore of a directory (non-recursive, i.e. only one level). - Support for TLS (ssl) between all the daemon connections thanks to Landon Fuller. - Any Volume in the Pool named Scratch may be reassigned to any other Pool when a new Volume is needed. - You may clone a Job and thus write (almost) the same data to multiple Volumes simultaneously (see below). Actually, any Job may start any other Job with this mechanism, so it also be used to group jobs. - Unicode filename support for Win32 (thanks to Thorsten Engel) - Volume Shadow Copy support for Win32 thus the capability to backup exclusively opened files (thanks to Thorsten Engel). A VSS enabled Win32 FD is available. You must explicitly turn on VSS with "Enable VSS = yes" in your FileSet resource. - New manual format with an index (thanks to Karl Cunningham). - New Web site format (thanks to Michael Scherer). - SQLite3 support. - Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances, is now included in the Bacula GUI release. This is a management level tool for reporting the state of Bacula jobs. - The code is now Internationalized so that it can be localized in native languages. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat. New Directives: - New Job directive "Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no" causes the SD to select either an Autochanger or a drive with a valid Volume already mounted in preference. If none is available, it will select the first available drive. - New Run directive in Job resource of DIR. It permits cloning of jobs. To clone a copy of the current job, use Run = "job-name level=%l since=\"%s\"" Note, job-name is normally the same name as the job that is running but there is no restriction on what you put. If you want to start the job by hand and use job overrides such as storage=xxx, realize that the job will be started with the default storage values not the overrides. The level=%l guarantees that the chosen level of the job is the same, and the since=... ensures that the job uses *exactly* the same time/date for incremental and differential jobs. The since=... is ignored when level=Full. A cloned job will not start additional clones, so it is not possible to recurse. - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive (backported to 1.36.3): - WildDir xxx Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not be matched). - WildFile xxx Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not be matched). - RegexDir xxx Will do a regular expression match against directories (files will not be matched). - RegexFile xxx Will do a regular expression match against files( directories will not be matched). - IgnoreCase = yes | no Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches. This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant. - FsType = string where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc, reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3 systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type specified on the fstype directive does not match the filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent backing up non-local filesystems. - HFS Plus Support = yes | no If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored. - Label Type = ANSI | IBM | Bacula Implemented in Director Pool resource and in SD Device resource. If it is specified in the SD Device resource, it will take precedence over the value passed from the Director to the SD. - Check Labels = yes | no Implemented in the SD Device resource. If you intend to read ANSI or IBM labels, this *must* be set. Even if the volume is not ANSI labeled, you can set this to yes, and Bacula will check the label type. - Scripts Directory = name. Defines the directory from which Bacula scripts will be called for events. In fact, Bacula appends this name to the standard Python list of search directories, so the script could also be in any of the Python system directories. - In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have a lot, it can be very expensive), by using: HardLinks = no in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks. - MaximumPartSize = bytes (SD, Device resource) Defines the maximum part size. - Requires Mount = Yes/No (SD, Device resource) Defines if the device require to be mounted to be read, and if it must be written in a special way. If it set, the following directives must be defined in the same Device resource: + Mount Point = directory Directory where the device must be mounted. + Mount Command = name-string Command that must be executed to mount the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the Mount Point. + Unmount Command = name-string Command that must be executed to unmount the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the Mount Point. + Write Part Command = name-string Command that must be executed to write a part to the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename. + Free Space Command = name-string Command that must be executed to check how much free space is left on the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename. - Write Part After Job = Yes/No (DIR, Job Resource, and Schedule Resource) If this directive is set to yes (default no), a new part file will be created after the job is finished. - A pile of new Directives to support TLS. Please see the TLS chapter of the manual. New Commands: - "python restart" restarts the Python interpreter. Rather brutal, make sure no Python scripts are running. This permits you to change a Python script and get Bacula to use the new script. New configure options: - --with-libintl-prefix for defining alternate locations for the NLS internationalization libraries. Not normally required. - --datadir for defining where the language files will be installed required only if you do not want the default /usr/share. Items to note!!! - The Storage daemon now keeps track of what tapes it is using (was not the case in 1.36.x). This means that you must be much more careful when removing tapes and putting up a new one. In general, you should always do a "unmount" prior to removing a tape, and a "mount" after putting a new one into the drive. - If you use an Autochanger, you MUST update your SD conf file to use the new Autochanger resource. Otherwise, certain commands such as "update slots" may not work. - You must add --with-python=[DIR] to the configure command line if you want Python support. Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 should be automatically detected if in the standard place. - When linking with --with-python, there are a few warnings that can be ignored. - You must either create a new catalog database or upgrade your old database. After installation, run from your scripts directory: ./upgrade_bacula_tables You can also find this script in the /src/cats directory. - The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are Deamons are not compatible with prior versions. All FDs must be upgraded at the same time. - You must add --with-openssl to the configure command line if you want TLS communications encryption support. - Disk seeking during restores does not yet work correctly in all cases, so it is turned off. - Note, with gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) on an AMD64 CPU running 64 bit CentOS4, there is a compiler bug that generates bad code that causes Bacula to segment fault. Typically you will see this in the Storage daemon first. The solution is to compile Bacula ensuring that no optimization is turned on (normally it is -O2). This same compiler bug has been reported and confirmed with gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) running on an AMD64 CPU. This for the moment, I would recommend that all users of GCC 4.0.1 or greater turn off all optimization when compiling. Other Items: - Security fixes for temp files created in mtx-changer, during ./configure, and during making of Rescue disk. - A new script, dvd-handler, in the scripts directory, which is designed to be used as parameters to Write Part Command and Free Space Command. They need the dvd+rw-tools to be installed (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/) AND, the growisofs program must be patched using the /patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch You must have Python installed to run the scripts. - Part files support: File volumes can now be split into multiple files, called "parts". - For the details of the Python scripting support, please see the new Python Scripting chapter in the manual. - The default user/group for the Director and Storage daemon installed by rpms is bacula/bacula, thus you may need to add additional permissions to your database, or modify the permissions of the tape drive. If all else fails, change to using user=root. However, it is more secure to use user=bacula.