- Release Notes for Bacula 1.27
- Bacula code: Total files = 222 Total lines = 60,233 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 253 Total lines = 75,225 (*.h *.c *.in)
Major Changes this Release:
-- Implemented support for Sparse files.
-- Implemented support for all Win32 attributes.
-- New Volume format. Will permit faster restores,
- and correct restores of Volumes written with multiple
- simultaneous jobs.
-- Important change to communications protocol. Eliminated
- deprecated 0 signal.
-- Implemented VolumeUseDuration (duration Volume can be written)
-- Implemented MaximumVolumeJobs (max jobs written to volume) see
- the Pool documentation for the Director for more details.
-- Rework of the Web site.
-- New format for the User's Guide (manual).
-- New bcopy tool.
-- All bxxx tool programs MUST read a Storage daemon configuration
- file.
-- Mount Anonymous Volumes is now dropped from the Storage
- daemon configuration files.
-- Accept Any Volume is by default "Yes" and permits Bacula
- to accept any appendable volume from the pool. Previously,
- it would accept ONLY the next appendable volume. To get
- the old behavior add "Accept Any Volume = No" to the
- Storage resources of your Director's configuration file.
-
-Minor Changes this Release:
-- A number of small bug fixes.
-- Improve handling of the "Where" prefix on Win32 by first
- stripping any previous drive. This allows restoration to
- any drive.
-- Modified Director-FD logon sequence to pass the OS id strings
- to the director.
-- Fixed mount loop when the autochanger slot is incorrect in
- the catalog.
-- Updated the bacula script to work on more systems.
-
-Items to note:
-- The Dir-SD protocol has changed since 1.26, so you must
- update the Director and Storage daemons.
-- The Dir-FD protocol has changed since 1.26 (and earlier versions
- of 1.27).
+- The database format has changed. Please see below.
+- Support to save and restore all files on WinNT/2K/XP systems
+ including the permissions. Unfortunately files that are in use by another
+ program cannot be saved.
+- Support for Win95 systems (untested since I don't have Win95).
+- Heartbeat every 20 minutes between daemons to prevent network
+ timeouts. The heartbeat interval can be set.
+- Volume names may now only contain letters, numbers, colon, period, dash,
+ and underscore.
+- Added readline to depkgs (removed from depkgs1) and fixed configuration if
+ it is not installed in your system libraries.
+- Implemented generalized tape label formats including counter variables
+ for automatic naming of Volumes.
+- Multiple simultaneous jobs now work.
+- Implemented tape block rejection, which means that restores with
+ several incremental backups will run orders of magnitude faster.
+
+
+Other Changes this Release:
+- Restore checks block numbers to ensure that no block is lost.
+- The new console var command allows testing variable expansion
+ used in automatic tape name generation.
+- The new console estimate command allows you to test FileSets
+ to see how many files and bytes will be saved and optionally
+ to have an "ls -l" style listing of the files.
+- During a normal restore (replace = yes), any existing file is deleted
+ and the restored file is then created. This corrects links and other
+ wierd files that changed between the backup and the restore.
+- Preliminary support for BSDi.
+- Use smtp instead of mail to send the traceback message.
+- Fixed a race condition in the "list" command while a backup is
+ in progress.
+- Improvements to gnome-console.
+- Prune orphaned jobs (no files saved, no Volume used).
+- Added non-fatal errors to Job reports.
+- Eliminate need for SubsysDirectory in each daemon -- please remove
+ these records from your .conf files.
+- Add a lot more "command line" options to console commands.
+- More info in traceback (database type, ...).
+- Better handling of errors with autochangers during restore.
+- Better cancellation of jobs in Storage daemon (doesn't try
+ to cleanup twice).
+- Better cancellation of File daemon (except on Cygwin systems).
+- SD error messages such as autochanger errors are now properly
+ directed back to Console -- previously some were lost.
+- A Storage daemon crash on FreeBSD systems (due to a different FreeBSD
+ pthreads implementation) is fixed.
+- Better Job termination report particularly for Verify and Restore jobs.
+- Update Verify VolumeToCatalog to use new BSR records.
+- Fixed list last 20 jobs in restore command (previously reported any
+ 20 jobs).
+- Gnome command line history works better.
+- Better messages if a job is upgraded from Diff or Inc to Full.
+- Replaced FileSet MD5 with date created -- more aestetic and readable.
+- Fixed a FD crash on long directory names (Win32 specific).
+
+
+
+Items to note: !!!!!
+- Recycle Oldest Volume has changed to be Purge Oldest Volume
+ Please change your Director's .conf file.
+- The default time interval is now days instead of seconds. Please
+ check your .conf files!
+- For MySQL users, you must have the thread safe client libraries
+ available. If you build MySQL yourself, add the --enable-thread-safe-client
+ option on the ./configure. You will most likely need to do an ldconfig.
+ Please see the installation documentation for building MySQL.
+- Version 1.31 and 1.30 daemons/Director are not compatible. You must
+ upgrade all or nothing.
+
+- The format of the catalog database has changed, so you must either
+ re-initialize your database (losing all the old info) with:
+
+ ./drop_bacula_tables
+ ./make_bacula_tables
+
+ or you can use the appropriate script (you must choose the name according
+ to which database you have) in the <bacula-source>/src/cats directory.
+
+ BEFORE APPLYING THE ALTER SCRIPT PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATABASE.
+ If you have previously upgraded to version 1.31, please do not run
+ this procedure a second time. Do one of the following only if you
+ wish to keep your old tables (not doing the re-initialize documented
+ above), and do this only after configuring an building the new Bacula,
+ but before trying to run it:
+
+ MySQL:
+ cd working-directory (or where you want to backup the catalog)
+ mysqladmin -f --opt bacula >bacula.sql
+ cd <bacula-source>/src/cats
+ ./alter_mysql_tables
+
+ SQLite:
+ cd working-directory
+ echo '.dump' sqlite bacula.db >bacula.sql
+ cd <bacula-source>/src/cats
+ ./alter_sqlite_tables
+
+ When you are sure that Bacula is running with your upgraded database,
+ please delete the bacula.sql copy you made.
+
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