- Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.32a
- Bacula code: Total files = 251 Total lines = 74,714 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 259 Total lines = 77,873 (*.h *.c *.in)
Major Changes this Release:
-- 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.
+- Implemented forward space file/block whenever possible
+ during restore. Restoring a small number of files is now
+ much faster.
+- There is a new option to restore that allows you
+ to restore files based on their Filename. You can
+ also specify a file to read which contains the list.
+- Added ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob.
+- Implemented Include | and < in File daemon.
+- Automatic labeling of tape Volumes should work now.
+- Recycling has been completely restructured and should work.
+- Implemented full length time interval qualifiers (e.g
+ "5n is now "5 min" or "5 minutes". A modifier is now required!
+- Fixed gnome-console to compile with RH9 (Gnome 2.0)
+- Implemented "list nextvol job=xxx", which displays the
+ next volume to be used by job xxx. The Volume name to
+ be used is also added to the "status dir" output.
+- Lots of fixes with variable expansion and counter variables
+- Implemented a new Include/Exclude syntax.
+- While writing a tape, an end of file mark will be written
+ every 1Gb. This makes restores faster. If you want to
+ change this use "Maximum File Size" in the SD Device
+ resource.
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.
-- Beginning of support for SSL encryption.
-- Beggining of support for Base level backups.
-- 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).
-
+- Fixed sparse file bug.
+- A warning message is sent when a job starts that will be
+ blocked because the user did an "unmount".
+- Block checksum errors if any are printed in the job report.
+- Implemented a single routine to read_records. It also returns
+ a different record packet for each session. This means
+ that multiple simultaneous jobs should work.
+- Added SDConnectTimeout to FD.
+- Lots of doc enhancements
+- Fixed a PurgeOldestVolume bug (VolStatus not returned)
+- Don't crash if DB address record not specified.
+- Return VolStatus on find_next_volume.
+- Use alist for incexe name_list.
+- Use bget_dirmsg() everywhere possible when talking to FD.
+- Delete old semaphore job and workq job scheduling code.
+- edit_run_codes in one place (/lib) Add Job name
+- Update query.sql to find current backups correctly.
+- Correct ambiguous SQL statement for pruning.
+- Set heartbeat interval to zero by default.
+- Fix a possible race condition in stopping the
+ heartbeat thread.
+- Eliminate gnome2-console directory. Everything is in gnome-console
+- Enhanced "packet too big" message to indicate who sent it.
+- Corrected console prompt problem in non-readline versions.
+- Correct a number of variable expansion problems.
+- Added a number of new regression tests.
+- In an attempt to make configuration a bit less confusing, I've changed
+ the name of a number of variables. The old ones still work, but will
+ be phased out over time. FDAddress, FDPassword, SDAddress SDPassword,
+ SDDeviceName, and DBPassword.
+- A possible fix to the very intermittent SD crashes that Alex gets.
+
Items to note: !!!!!
-- 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. 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:
+- Modifiers (sec, min, hour, day, ...) are now required on conf file
+ time interval specifications.
+- Duplicate names within the same conf resource are prohibited.
+- If you have used a prior BETA version of 1.32, please do
+ the following to cleanup any zero length spool files:
- 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
+ cd <working-directory-as-in-Bacula-conf>
+ rm -f *.spool.*
- 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.
-
+ Please be sure there are no spaces between the asterisks
+ and the periods.
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