- Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.3
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 364 Total lines = 102,925 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Changes for 1.34.3:
-Major Features:
-- Implemented and documented the first cut of the new FileSet directives.
- The first cut permits using wild-card matches for including files in
- addition to excluding files.
-- The Windows rescue procedure is confirmed for WinXP/2K (probably not NT).
-- Modification of the PostgreSQL database creation scripts to improve
- performance by removing foreign keys.
-- Use trasactions on PostgreSQL to improve performance.
-- Restore jobs will now not start until they can get exclusive use
- of the Storage daemon Device previously they erred.
-- Permit execution of more kinds of Win32 files with ClientRunxxxJob.
- If an absolute path is specified, the filename must contain the correct
- extention.
-
-Items to note!!!!
-- If you are upgrading from 1.32, please be sure to see the database
- upgrade procedure under the 1.34.0 notes.
-- Although the daemons are compatible for all 1.34.2 features,
- the new FileSet directives are not compatible with 1.34.2 daemons.
-- Fixed several query.sql bugs.
-- The behavior of the hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly keywords in
- the Run directive have been changed to be more logical -- they only
- affect the one item mentioned rather than all items.
-
-Other items:
-- The wx-console has had significant improvements.
-- Upgraded to latest autoconf files.
-- Added BaculaRoadmap_v1.1.pdf in doc directory
-- Fixed a crash in the btape "fill" command.
-- Added a new alpha directory to platforms -- first cut.
-- The mtx-changer script was broken in 1.34.2 -- it is now fixed.
-- Pass all arguments on database creation scripts.
-- I finally found and fixed the bug that in some cases required a double
- mount to get Bacula to look at the tape again.
-- Thanks to user input corrected (I think) the negative values that
- sometimes occurred in the spooling statistics.
-- Fixed several bsmpt bugs thanks to user input.
-- Added user supplied code to read the Directors's conf file in dbcheck so
- that remote databases could be contacted as well as the working directory
- and other catalog parameters obtained.
-- Fixed changing a Volume from one Pool to another in "update volumes".
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-Changes for 1.34.2:
-Major Features:
-- wx-console can now be built both under GTK and Win32. It is
- now part of the Win32 binary release. It has a very nice tree
- oriented restore. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat for this program.
-- bconsole is now included in the Win32 binary release.
-
-Items to note!!!
-- bscan restored StartBlocks one block off resulting in loss of
- data if any bscanned volumes were restored. Thanks to Gregory
- for reporting this. It is fixed in this release.
-- Due to an oversight, "Maximum Job Spool Size" was is not implemented.
- It will be in the next release.
-- To build wx-console on Linux. Download wxWidgets 2.4.2 from wxwidgets.org,
- build and install it on your system, then add --enable-wx-console on
- your Bacula ./configure and it will be built and installed.
-- For both the Win32 and Linux GTK versions of wx-console, you must
- create a wx-console.conf in the current directory. The contents are
- identical to a bconsole.conf file.
-
-Other items:
-- Make SD utility programs accept device name as well as archive device
- on command line.
-- Update docs
-- Remove old debug code from Win32 FD.
-- A new version of depkgs-win32 was released containing the Win32
- wxWidgets source code.
-- Disable SIGHUP code in Director which is not yet complete.
-
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-Release 1.34.1:
-- Autochanger users, please note you must add %d to the end of the
- changer command line in your Device resource in your bacula-sd.conf
- file.
-- There is a new wx-console program that does restores with a
- tree allowing you to visually select what files are to be restored.
- It is in a preliminary stage of development, but can be easily
- be built under Linux with GTK, and with just a bit more difficulty
- under Win32 with MinGW.
-- Fixed a major race condition in the job scheduler when multiple
- simultaneous jobs is enabled. This occurred only when on job had
- blocked another because of resource usage.
-- Fixed crash in SD during restore.
-- Changed the backup report to indicate "Backup OK -- with warnings
- if any warning messages were generated.
-- Change output of restore report to indicate:
- "Restore OK -- warning file count mismatch"
-- Make backup report say "Backup OK with warnings" if either FD or SD
- report any non-fatal errors.
-- Modify bscan to print some elementary statistics (#Jobs, #Files, ...)
- added to catalog.
-- Added --enable-wx-console and updated Makefile.in
-- Fix mtx-changer so that the calling sequence is compatible
- with the previous version (the new one required arguments that
- were not necessarily used).
-- Document how to use stunnel with Bacula.
-- Fix crash in query command.
-- Remove schedule from the default restore job.
-- Fix data spooler to use min/max tape blocking factors.
-- Automatically turn of conio if library not found instead of bombing.
-- Cleaned up a lot of copyright dates.
-- Try to keep spool statistics from going negative.
-- Added new Pools chapter. Doc about using two disks.
-- Attempt to keep the spool file statistics size from going
- negative.
-- Fix the Director's Scheduled Jobs: list to have a ===
- termination.
-- Fixed ./configure to disable readline rather than stop if
- readline.h is not found
-- Fixed a typo in the SQLite database update script as reported
- by Robert J. Clark - thanks.
-- Removed src/win32/pthreads and src/win32/zlib from the source
- tree.
-- Created a new depkgs-win32 that has the pthreads and zlib source
- code.
-- Removed the JobDefs from the default Restore job as it has a
- schedule. Thanks to Matt Howard for this.
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-Release 1.34.0
-Major Features:
-- Data spooling which reduces tape shoe-shine during Inc backups,
- and permits multiple simultaneous backups without interleaved blocks.
-- Native Win32 client -- much faster and restores permissions correctly
- (thanks to Christopher Hull)
-- New Windows style installer for the Win32 Client.
-- PostgreSQL database driver (thanks to Dan Langille).
-- Polling of devices eliminating need to unmount and mount from
- console.
-- Improved Autochange support of Slots (update slots scan).
-- Autochanger support for multiple drives (I think).
-- New conio code to implement Console command line editing and history.
-- JobDefs resource permits smaller .conf files for Director
-- Access console lists for the Console
-- Pool level overrides.
-- Daemon "status" is recovered across daemon executions.
-- Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands.
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-Items to note: !!!!!
-- If you have a RedHat system, be sure to delete the /lib/tls
- directory from your system. It contains defective pthreads code.
-- The restore default is changed to have nothing selected by default.
- You must either enter: "restore all" or after getting into the tree
- selection prompt enter "mark *" to have everything selected.
-- In previous versions the "all" keyword on the restore command caused
- it to return without user interaction after selecting everything.
- This function is now replaced by the "done" keyword (more logical).
- The "all" keyword now causes everything to be selected by default.
-- The default tape driver behavior is now to write only a single EOF
- at the end of the tape. For most tape drives, this is totally
- transparent and nothing needs to be done. For FreeBSD see below.
-- FreeBSD users NOTE!!!!!
- You may need the following two records to your SD Device resource for
- tape drives.
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- TWOEOF = yes
- Fast Forward Space File = no
-
- The "Fast Forward Space File" is surely needed, and the TWOEOF
- is needed on some systems and not others. Running the btape
- "test" command will tell you. If you get an error with TWOEOF set
- to yes, set it to no.
-
-- If you want either bsmtp or bconsole on Win32, you will need
- to load the 1.32 version along with cygwin1.dll. Some solution
- for this will be forthcoming in a future update.
-- The daemon protocol has changed from version 1.32, you must update
- everything at once.
-- The database level has been updated. You must either re-initialize
- your databases with:
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
+but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
+use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
+not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
+no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
+2.2.x to version 2.4.0
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
+any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
+specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
+FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
+be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
+reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
+in your FileSet.
+==============================================================
+
+This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
+but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
+Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
+code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
+with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
+said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
+the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
+
+Bugs fixed:
+ 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
+ 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
+
+New features:
+- You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
+ --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
+
+Release Version 2.4.0
+- Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
+- Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
+ This fixes bug #1095.
+- Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
+ fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
+- Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
+ #1086.
+- Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
+- Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
+- If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
+ try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
+ wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
+ this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
+- Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
+- Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
+- Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
+- Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
+ conditions.
+- Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
+- Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
+ many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
+- Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
+ reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
+ directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
+ with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
+ backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
+ This fixes bug #1041.
+- Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
+- Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
+- Implement --without-qwt
+- Fix layout of restore tree dialog
+- Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
+ with or without the QWT libaries.
+- Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
+ from one drive to another.
+- Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
+- Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
+ This fixes bug #1083.
+- Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
+ the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
+ bug #1083.
+- Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
+ This fixes bug #1078.
+- Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
+ warning rather than an error.
+- Fix SQL query in migration code
+- Fix bat seg fault at termination.
+- Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
+- Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
+- When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
+- Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
+ same volume name twice in a row.
+- Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
+ the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
+ handling the responsibilities.
+- Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
+ causes a seg fault in many cases.
+- Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
+ swapping volumes.
+- Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
+- Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
+- Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
+- Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
+ and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
+- Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
+- Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
+ autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
+- Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
+- Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
+ the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
+ another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
+- Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
+- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
+ when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
+- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
+ causes problems.
+- Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
+- Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
+- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
+- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
+ running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
+ <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
+- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
+ Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
+- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
+ of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
+- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
+- Implements autostart scripts for Debian
+- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
+- Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
+- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
+ GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
+- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
+- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
+ fix bug #1046.
+- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
+- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
+- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
+ proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
+- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
+- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
+ the ./configure line.
+- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
+ in job report.
+
+
+=========================================================================
+
+Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
+- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
+ 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
+ Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
+ and are difficult to reproduce.
+ See the ChangeLog for more details.
+
+Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
+ since version 2.2.6:
+- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
+ 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
+- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
+ exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
+- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
+ possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
+- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
+ bar, thanks to the above patch.
+- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
+ Nerijus Baliunas.
+- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
+ driver with version 8.3.
+- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
+
+Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.5
+- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
+ 993, 986, 976.
+- Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
+- Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
+
+Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
+- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
+ 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
+ 957, 908, 958, and 955.
+- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
+ out by Chris Howells.
+
+Version 2.2.4 is a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.3
+- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
+- Possible fix for bug #908.
+- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
+ file to always be deleted.
+- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
+ This fixes bug #950.
+- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
+ trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
+ Fixes bug #906.
+- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
+ should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
+ are released as soon as possible.
+- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
+ have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
+ in bug #942, but not the main problem.
+- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
+ by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
+- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
+ TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
+- Fix bug #946 about 'bacula-dir -t' which doesn't works
+ as expected.
+- Using 'm' in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
+ and not memory usage.
+
+- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
+ program.
+
+Version 2.2.3 is a critical bug fix release to version 2.2.2
+- Fix bug #935, and possibly also bug #903 where files were not
+ restored. MediaId was not properly set in JobMedia record after
+ a Volume change. This bug is known to affect all versions from
+ 2.0.0 on, and probably versions prior to that. A detailed analysis
+ of the bug can be found at:
+
+ http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-395.txt