- Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.1
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 344 Total lines = 98,746 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Changes for 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.
-
-
-
-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.
-
-
-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.
-
- 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:
-
- ./drop_bacula_tables
- ./make_bacula_tables
-
- which will delete ALL prior catalog information, or you can
- update your 1.32 database with:
-
- ./update_bacula_tables
-
- 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.
-
-- 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!
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.9
+ Bacula code: Total files = 498 Total lines = 167,596 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
+
+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.
+
+Version 2.2.9 is a bug fix to version 2.2.8:
+- *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()
+- Undo bug #1047 heap overrun fix as it is not correct.
+- 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
+
+- Add ./configure search in qwt-qt4 for qwt package
+- Apply Martin Simmons patch that should turn off the new API usage
+ when batch insert is turned off allowing building on older
+ PostgreSQLs.
+- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
+ program.
+
+Version 2.2.2 is a minor bug fix release to 2.2.1
+- Detect if new PosgreSQL batch insert API is present.
+- Correct incorrect mempool call causing Director crash on older
+ systems that do not have va_copy().
+- Update spec files for 2.2.1 release
+
+Version 2.2.1 is mainly a minor bug fix release to version 2.2.0,
+ the main changes since 2.2.0 are:
+- Fixed bugs #921, 930, and 923.
+- More portable timezone offset in bsmtp thaks to Attila Fülöp.
+- Fix several bat issues.
+- Use GTK+ calls instead of egg files in tray-monitor.
+- Win32 service routines rewritten
+- Updated projects file
+Please see the ChangeLog for details.
+
+Notes on 2.2.0 release follow:
+
+Areas requiring caution or testing:
+- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
+ to build with MySQL enabled.
+- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
+ your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
+- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
+ to what we do with sockets).
+- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
+ bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
+- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
+ This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
+ of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
+ The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
+- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
+ test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
+ points.
+- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
+
+The major new features are:
+- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
+ many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
+- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
+ bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
+ must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
+ (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
+ must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
+- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
+- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
+ thanks to Eric.
+- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
+- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
+ swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
+ implemented.
+- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
+ conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
+- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
+- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
+- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
+- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
+- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
+- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
+ during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
+- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
+ mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
+
+New ./configure options:
+- --enable-bwx-console
+- --enable-bat
+- --with-qwt=
+- --with-db-name=
+- --with-db-user=
+- --enable-batch-insert
+
+New bconsole commands:
+- exec
+- memory
+- update recyclepool
+- .sql
+- .api
+- .pwd (in restore tree)
+- restoreclient (keyword)
+- backupclient (keyword)
+- regexwhere (keyword)
+- update jobid (new command)
+- recyclepool (keyword)
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 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.
-
-
-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.
+- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
+- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
+- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
+- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
+- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
+- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
+- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
+
+Other features or bug fixes:
+- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
+ 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
+ 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
+ 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
+ 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
+ 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
+ 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
+- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
+ --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
+- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
+ needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
+ these packages in the distro.
+- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
+ of prepending.
+- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
+ Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
+ directives are defined.
+- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
+- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
+ Use the command line or the Services panne.
+- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
+- More debug output in status storage.
+- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
+ critical columns were lost).
+- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
+ which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
+ should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
+ (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
+ concurrent jobs should run much faster.
+- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
+ the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
+- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
+ pool and media type when a job is waiting.
+- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
+- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
+- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
+- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
+- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
+- Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
+- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
+ in front of the configuration path/filename.
+- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
+ memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
+- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
+ filename restrictions.
+- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
+- Additional version information added to Job reports.
+- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
+- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
+ is already a < in the target.
+- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
+ mounted by another job.
+- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
+- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
+- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
+- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
+- Drop from root done before database is opened.
+- Database user and name can be configured with:
+ --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
+- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
+- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
+ This appears to have been an unreported bug.
+- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
+- Better restricted console ACL checking.
+- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
+ users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
+- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
+ job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
+- Sockets are no longer restored.
+- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
+- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
+ large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
+- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
+- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
+ which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
+ the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
+ not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
+- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
+ catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
+ and DVD).