- Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.2
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.7
- Bacula code: Total files = 345 Total lines = 99,835 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 419 Total lines = 137,078 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
-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.
+!!!! Important !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ In Bacula version 1.38.5 and prior, there was apparently a
+ compiler bug that caused the Storage daemon to seg fault.
+ I have applied a workaround in version 1.38.6 and greater that
+ seems to work. If you experience problems, follow the instructions
+ below.
-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.
+ If you are compiling for a 64 bit machine, you need to ensure
+ that the code is compiled with the -O0 (- oh zero) option otherwise
+ the SD will crash on most all operations -- apparently due to
+ a compiler bug in gcc's 64 bit code generation.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+New features:
+- For autochanger get Scratch tape if in autochanger if
+ no appendable Volumes are available.
+- New virtual disk autochanger. See scripts/disk-changer for
+ documentation.
+- New optional Device resource directive in SD. 'Device Type =',
+ which may have types: File, DVD, Tape, or FIFO. This can
+ be useful for writing DVDs on FreeBSD where Bacula cannot
+ correctly detect the DVD.
+- Faster restore tree building and uses less memory.
+- The command line keyword job (or jobname) now refers to the
+ name of the job specified in the Job resource; jobid refers
+ as before to the non-unique numeric jobid; and ujobid refers
+ to the unique job identification that Bacula creates for each
+ job.
+- The job report for Backups has a few more user friendly ways
+ of displaying the information.
+- The wait command can now be made to wait for jobids.
+- New command line keywords are permitted in update volume. They
+ are Inchanger=yes/no, slot=nn.
+- Add two new console commands: enable job=<job-name> and
+ disable job=<job-name>. When a job is disabled, it will not
+ be started by the scheduler. If you disable a job and restart
+ Bacula or reload the .conf file, the job will be re-enabled.
+- Add a new Job resource directive "enable = yes|no".
+- There is a new program named regex in the tools directory that
+ allows you to try regular expressions on your system.
+
+Major bug fixes:
+- Fix race condition in multiple-drive autochangers where
+ both drives want the same Volume.
+- Do not allow opening default catalog for restricted console
+ if it is not in ACL.
+- Writable FIFOs now work for restore.
+- ACLs are now checked in all dot commands.
+- Multiple drive autochangers and multiple different autochangers
+ should now work correctly (no race conditions for Volume names,
+ update slots use correct StorageId).
+- Fix bug where drive was always reserved if a restore job failed
+ while in the reservation process.
+
-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.
+Minor bug fixes:
+- See below:
+Release 1.38.6-1 (05Apr06) released
+- Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet
+ implemented.
+- Correct bacula.in script to reference bacula-ctl-xx in the
+ sysconfig directory rather than the bin directory.
+Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06
+28Mar06
+- Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr()
+ and new jcr chain locking.
+26Mar06
+- Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts.
+- Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm.
+- Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid
+ as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible.
+25Mar06
+- Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
+ bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
+ bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
+ bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
+ bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
+- Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574.
+- Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c
+- Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple
+ threads by bashing in a local.
+- Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error
+ message rather than nothing.
+- Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs
+ are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape.
+- Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid
+ possible non-release of reservation_lock().
+- Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between
+ reservation lock and device mutex.
+- Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch.
+- Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for
+ tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build.
+- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
+ Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
+- Implement regex test program in tools directory.
+- Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs.
+- Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user.
-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.
+Release 1.38.6 beta6 16Mar06
+- Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for
+ restore, if polling is turned on.
+- Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's
+ problem.
+- Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid.
+- If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to
+ the working-dir. Fixes bug #533.
+- If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD.
+ Fixes bugs #566 and 557.
+- Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict.
+Release 1.38.6 beta5 14Mar06
+- Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private.
+- Create lock/unlock methods for jcr.
+- Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading
+ records to get to seek position.
+- Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions.
+- Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread
+ terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy
+ SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local
+ mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor
+ use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs.
+- Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in
+ lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing.
+- Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with
+ multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list.
+- Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique.
+- Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations
+ system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c.
+ This could possibly fix bug #543.
+- Stop SD command loop if job is canceled.
-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.
+Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
+04Mar06
+- The po files should now be current.
+- Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
+ buffers in all cases.
+- Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
+- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
+ to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
+ be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
+- Allow listing by any of the above.
+- Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
+ and rates with suffexes.
+- Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
+- Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
+ Bacula.
+- Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
+- Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
+- Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
+- Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
- TWOEOF = yes
- Fast Forward Space File = no
+26Feb06
+- Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
+- Update the po files at Eric's request.
- 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.
+Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
+25Feb06
+- Add sql_use_result() define.
-- 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:
-
- ./drop_bacula_tables
- ./make_bacula_tables
+Changes to 1.38.6-beta1
+- Don't open default catalog if not in ACL.
+- Add virtual disk autochanger code.
+- Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work
+ correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks.
+- Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage().
+- Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably
+ trashed the stack.
+- When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode
+ exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search
+ for a Scratch Volume.
+- Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix.
+- Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning.
+- Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected.
+- Check that user supplied a value before referencing
+ it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian.
+- Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code.
+- Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when
+ updating all volumes in a Pool.
+- Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr.
+- Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that
+ two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time.
+- Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape,
+ dvd, and fifo.
+- Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across
+ a re-open to change read/write permission on a device.
+- Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger
+ scripts.
+- Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable.
+- Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds
+ up restore tree building and reduces the memory load.
+- Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from
+ the Scratch Pool.
+- Implement additional command line options for update Volume.
+- Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating
+ all Volumes in a pool.
+
+Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06:
+- Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka.
+- Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk
+ so that SD will by default have access to tape drives.
+- Allow users to specify user/group and start options
+ for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file.
+
+Changes to 1.38.4 released 17Jan06:
+- The main changes are to the Director and the Storage daemon,
+ thus there is no need to update your File daemons. Just the
+ same, I do recommend running with the release 1.38.3 Win32
+ FD or later.
+- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
+ list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
+ lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
+- Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory
+ pool by releasing free buffers.
+- Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c
+- Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5.
+- Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the
+ number of items goes to zero.
+- Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level
+ so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before
+ waiting.
+- Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built
+ and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system.
+ These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve
+ a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple
+ messages will generally print for each JobId because they
+ represent the different problems with either the same drive
+ or different drives. If this output proves too confusing
+ of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1
+ or greater is enabled in the SD.
+- Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
+ the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
+ the job can be manually started from the console.
+- During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the
+ StorageId is zero (old Media records).
+- 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.
- which will delete ALL prior catalog information, or you can
- update your 1.32 database with:
- ./update_bacula_tables
+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.
- Please save your old database before dropping the tables or doing
- an upgrade or you may regret it later.
-- If you are updating versions older than 1.32, you can look in
- the updatedb directory for scripts that you can use. You will need
- to manually set the paths for your system.
+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
-- smtp has now become bsmtp -- you *must* modify your .conf files.
-- console has now become bconsole.
-- console.conf is now bconsole.conf
-- Please don't underestimate the repercussions of the bsmtp and bconsole
- name changes!
+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:
-- "Close on Poll = yes/no" in SD Device resource.
-- "Volume Poll Interval = time-interval" in SD Device resource.
-- "Two EOF = yes/no" in SD Device resource.
-- "Maximum Network Buffer Size = size" in SD Device resource.
-- "Maximum Network Buffer Size = size" in FD FileDaemon (or Client) resource.
-- "Console" new resource in Director conf file.
- New directives: Name, Description, Password, JobACL, ClientACL,
- StorageACL, ScheduleACL, RunACL, PoolACL, CommandACL,
- FileSetACL, CatalogACL.
-- "Max Run Time = duration" in Director Job resource.
-- "Max Wait Time = duration" in Director Job resource (not fully implemented).
-- "JobDefs = name-of-resource" in Director Job resource.
-- "Jobdefs" new resource in Director. Same directives as for a Job.
-- "Full Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director.
-- "Incremental Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director.
-- "Differential Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director.
-- Three new options on the Run override statement in a Schedule resource:
- FullPool=xxx
- IncrementalPool=xxx
- DifferentialPool=xxx
-- SpoolData=yes/no in DIR Job resource
-- SpoolData=yes/no in Run override directive.
-- MaximumSpoolSize in SD Device resource
-- MaximumJobSpoolSize in SD Device resource
-- SpoolDirectory in SD Device resource.
-- Drive Index in SD Device resource for using two autochanger
- drives.
-- mtimeonly=yes/no on Include directive.
-- keepatime=yes/no on Include directive.
+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 = <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:
-- "SetIP"
-- Added "pool=xxx" to restore command line.
-- Added "fileset=xxx" to restore command line.
-- Fixed "storage=xxx" on restore command line.
-- "markdir" command in restore tree.
-- "unmarkdir" command in restore tree.
-- "quit" command in restore tree.
-- Trace option on "setdebug trace=1/0 ..."
-- Update slots scan
-- The "all" keyword on the restore command marks all files by default.
-- The "done" keyword prevents user interaction with the tree -- used
- mostly for batch scripting.
+- '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 <bacula-source>/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.
-Additional changes:
-- Slackware support
-- On multiple ctl-c, exit from console quickly.
-- Implement "delete job jobid=xxx jobid=yyy ..."
-- Implement "purge volume=xxx volume=yyy ..."
-- Add -p option to all SD programs including bacula-sd. It causes
- Bacula to proceed or forge on in case of I/O errors. It is unlikely
- this will help, and it is strongly recommended against running
- the daemon with this option in production.
-- Add a missing unlock in the jobq handler.
-- Fix bug where a soft linked file and a directory had the same name
- by treating the soft link as a directory and putting the entries under
- it. This fixes the bug reported by Alexander Mueller.
-- Apply Jess Guardiani's second fix to list autochanger volumes without
- opening the drive (necessary on FreeBSD if no tape is in the drive).
-- Reworked the command line handler in restore to walk through the
- arguments one at a time. This makes the file= entries work correctly.
- Also reworked the code that takes the MediaType and finds a
- storage device.
-- Add quit command to restore tree handler.
-- Make restore tree handler remember if a hard link is present, and
- in doing a mark, only get database entry if there is a hard link.
- mark commands thus run at least 2 orders of magnitude faster.
-- Add files=xxx field to run command submitted for restore.
-- Add yes to restore run command if either yes or run is command line
- argument.
-- Make "yes" on command line argument skip prompt for modification of
- run job.
-- Add markdir and unmarkdir -- both affect only the directory in
- question and do not do a recursive descent.
-- Make tree command automatically mark all higher level directories to
- be restored when a directory or a file is selected. Such directories
- are indicated by preceding the name with a + to indicate that only
- the directory entry is selected and not the whole directory tree.
-- Modify a few tree commands to walk through all arguments rather than
- just taking the first one.
-- Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands.
-- The ability to ask the Storage daemon on a device by device basis
- to "poll" the tape drive at a given interval (minimum 1 minute). If
- a tape is found, its label is read and if appropriate it is used.
- This eliminates the need to do "mount" commands.
-- The ability to close and re-open the device when a poll occurs.
- This permits dealing with certain recalcitrant autochangers that
- invalidate devices (typically on FreeBSD).
-- Dan Langille has written a PostgreSQL driver for Bacula.
-- Implement "update slots scan" that reads the volume label(s).
-- The full form of the scan is "scan=1,2,4-5,7". With no specification,
- all occupied slots are scanned.
-- Turn off changer Volumes that are not current in the changer when
- an "update slots" is done, or if any tape operation discovers that
- the right volume is not in the slot.
-- The console program will run all commands it finds in ~/.bconsolerc
- at startup.
-- Add Dan Langille's changes to the bacula start/stop script that
- permit dropping root permissions just after startup.
-- New version 1.5.5-1 Cygwin.
-- Modify SD to update the catalog database when it is shutdown,
- even if the job is canceled.
-- Fixed seg fault in restore of multiple simultaneous jobs to
- a single Volume.
-- Fixed thread race problem in multiple simultaneous jobs to
- a single Volume where the volume label is not in the first
- tape block, so the tape is not recognized.
-- Restore directory tree automatically selects all higher level
- directories to be restored.
-- Implement conio.c to use in console program -- mini-readline.
-- Enhance "fill" command of btape -- simpler output. Use -v to
- cause last block to be dumped after write and after re-read.
-- Added an autochanger test to the btape "test" command. It is
- automatically invoked if the autochanger is properly configured. It
- is still a bit primitive but covers the essential of testing
- the mtx-changer script with your autochanger.
-- Select the oldest LastWritten volume during recycling.
-- Added forward space file test to btape "test" command.
-- All 1.32d patches applied.
-- Fixed seg fault in restore of multiple simultaneous jobs to
- a single Volume.
-- Fixed thread race problem in multiple simultaneous jobs to
- a single Volume where the volume lable is not in the first
- tape block, so the tape is not recognized.
+Other Items Fixed:
+- 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
+ <bacula-source>/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.
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