- Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.24
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 447 Total lines = 149,711 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-New Features in 1.39.24
-- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
-- Win32 external script excution is much more flexible -- handles
- spaces in names better, ...
-- Lots of DVD fixes -- I think they now work!
-- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
- any Catalog ACL.
-- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
- patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
-- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
- from Eric Bollengier.
-- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
- in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
-- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
- display data_len instead of data content (may be binary)
-- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
-- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir
-- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
- the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
- path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
- over where users can restore files. This is untested.
-- Install man pages with 'make install'
-- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
-- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
-- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
-
-==== IMPORTANT a stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash =====
-- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
- the tape drive. Workaround, load a Fedora kernel, which works fine,
- or load the SuSE 10.2 rc5 kernel which also works fine.
-
-==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
-- The database format has been updated from what was used in
- Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
- running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. Please backup your previous
- version of the database before running the update. The update
- script will be automatically installed in your scripts directory,
- or can also be found in <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
-
- ./update_bacula_tables
-
- It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to a
- 1.39.x beta or to 1.40.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter
- does not require updating the database again. Depending on the size of your
- database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but in
- general, it should be very fast.
-
-==== IMPORTANT DVD Volume format changed ====
-- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
- the format written by previous versions. The two formats
- are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
- be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
-
-==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
-- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
- removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
- occurrence of this directive for the Director to run.
-- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
- directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
- mandir/man1 as appropriate.
-- The "Accept Any Volume" directive has been removed. It was never
- implemented. Bacula will always accept any valid tape that is in
- the drive for appending.
-- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 1.39.18 Director
- and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
- data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
-- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
-- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
- of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
- device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
- will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
- with the correct MediaType.
-- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
- format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
- jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
- difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
- default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
- the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
- more testing is still needed.
-
-==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
- For Win32 migrations from versions prior to the new installer nothing special
- needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
- automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\Bacula
- directory (mostly out of paranoia, we can change that prior to release if
- everyone is comfortable with it).
-
- Prior to using the current installer, if you used a prior 1.39.x
- beta version, you must do one of the following three things:
-
- 1) Uninstall prior beta version and select the option to delete
- the configuration and state files. This will get rid of the bogus
- configuration files. Reinstall the new 1.39.22 version.
-
- 2) Manually copy the *.conf files from C:\Bacula\bin to
- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula.
-
- 3) Manually edit the *.conf files in C:\Documents and
- Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. The links in the Bacula menu
- can be used to avoid having to enter that ugly path.
-
- After one of these has been done the upgrade should work fine.
-
- If you have problems with the above, try the following
- The new Win32 installer requires that you deinstall any
- previous 1.39.x beta version before installing the new version.
- The following is not necessary if you are upgrading from
- a 1.38.x installation.
-
- The simplest way to do clean up a prior 1.39.x beta is in a DOS shell:
-
- cd c:\bacula\bin
- net stop bacula
- net stop baculfd
- ./bacula-fd /remove
- (Install the new Bacula)
-
- Note, one or both of the 'net stop' commands may fail. Don't
- worry about it.
-
- If you didn't read the release notes or forgot to do those
- commands, try the following:
-
- cd c:\bacula\bin
- net stop bacula
- net stop baculafd
- sc delete bacula
- sc delete baculafd
-
- Note, at least one of the 'net' commands and possibly both
- will fail, and at least one of the 'sc' commands will fail.
- Don't worry about it. After that, try again to install
- the new Bacula.
-
-
-New Features in 1.40.0:
-- The basic features of Migration are now complete.
-- There is a Migration chapter in the doc.
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
-- There is an Encryption chapter in the doc.
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
-- Additional support for removable devices. See the
- Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
- Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
- Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
- same chapter.
-- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio.
-- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
- command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
-- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
- triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
-- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
-- Implement mount command for autochanger
-- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
- from File= was not found.
-- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
- do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
- have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
- Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
-- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
- cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
- then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
- cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
- also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
- all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
- drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
- Finally, he also ported the Directory and the Storage daemon to
- Win32.
-- Data encryption done in the Client is now supported due to code
- submitted by Landon Fuller.
-- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
- any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
- the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
- to Thorsten Engel for this code.
-- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
- eliminated thanks to Thorsted Engel.
-- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
- the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
- plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
- of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
-- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
- creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
- Andrew J. Millar.
-- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
-- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
- can be enabled by changing one define, but this has never been tested.
-- 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. This patch was probably back ported to 1.38.x
-- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
- Christian Masopust.
-- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
- appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
- listing where they could be "lost".
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
- correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
- Bug # 506.
-- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
-- 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.
-- 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, ...).
-- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
- should get Bacula into the correct groups.
-- Implement support for removable filesystems.
-- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
- to a user submission.
-- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
- in the Status report.
-- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
-- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
- all other Storage specifications.
-- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
-- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
- from a database table for restore.
-- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
- designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
-- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
- accept time qualifiers.
-- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
- suggested by Eric Bollengier.
-- Apply patch for enhancing wait from Eric Bollengier. One can now:
- wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
- wait jobid=nn
- wait jobuid=unique id
- wait job=job-name
-- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
- Job Level, only during JobInit event.
-- 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 the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
- one at a time). This is not well tested.
-- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
- Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
-- 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
-- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
- explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
-- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
- wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
-- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
-- Apply patch from Christopher Hull
- - Allow multiple connections to database with different
- parameters.
- - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
- fault, but still 60 second window.
- - Additional info in Reschedule message.
- - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
- cancel, error.
- - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
- - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
- - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
- - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
- - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
- - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
- - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
-- Add /silent option to Win32 FD for Install/Remove service.
- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
- routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
- author of bug #565.
-- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
- Hull.
-- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
-- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
- O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
- updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
- happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
- prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
- only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
- programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
- categories).
- You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
- noatime = yes
- The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
- it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
-- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
-- Implement a number of user supplied patches for DVD writing.
-- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
- Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
- Delete MAC table
- Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
- Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
- Add Cost to Location table.
- Enabled to Media table and Location table.
-- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
- and forcing a 6 second wait.
-- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
- -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
-- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. This could cause print output
- to look different. The reason for this code is to eliminate the
- security problems associated with using the system libraries
- print routines.
-- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
- came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
- it is all very complicated.
-- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
- for restore.
-- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
- class.
-- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
- job report in the Log database table.
-- Spend a lot of time integrating mkcdrec with the rescue disk.
-- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
-- Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
-- Allow true/false in some yes/no questions.
-- Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
-
-Additional Features Added for Win32:
-
-Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
-resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
-is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
-has the concept of drives.
-
-Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
-resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
-
-When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
-Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
-
- Patterns conform to Posix
- \ is not a special character in character classification []
- To match a - it must be the first or last character
- To match a ] it must be the first character
-
- fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
- so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
-
-Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
-against the filename portion. This in combination with the
-FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
-abc*.def work as expected.
-
-Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
-
-Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
-
-# Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
-WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and
-Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
-WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and
-Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
-WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
-Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
-WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
-Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
-WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local
-Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"
-
-
-
-Here are some hints if you want to play with the Windows Director and/or
-Storage daemon.
-
-Changer and Tape device names in Windows are Changer0, Changer1, etc and
-Tape0, Tape1, etc. If there isn't a device driver loaded for the Changer
-then you need to use the address <Port>:<Bus>:<Target>:<Lun>. Port is the
-SCSI Adapter Number, Bus is the Bus Number on the adapter (usually 0 since
-most adapters only have one bus), Target is the device's Target Device ID,
-Lun is the Logical Unit Number.
-
-You must specify DeviceType = tape in the Device resource in bacula-sd.conf
-since detection doesn't currently work.
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.5.40
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 522 Total lines = 204,340 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
+represents an enormous effort.
+
+This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
+but they should be compatible with all 2.4.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. However, the next
+BETA release (after version 2.5.40) will require a database upgrade.
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+New Catalog format in version 2.5.40
+------------------------------------
+
+This BETA release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 2.5.x (version
+11). If you are using already a 2.5 version, you can drop the JobHistory
+table before upgrading your catalog (if you are using the new "long term
+statistics" module, you can upgrade this table the same way we do with
+the Job table, see the src/cats/update_bacula_table script).
+
+The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
+from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
+DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
+so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million files
+catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
+backup it before executing the script.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40,
+then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will be found
+in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure command.
+As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown
+Bacula and be aware that running the script can take some time depending
+on your database size.
+
+
+New configure option :
+----------------------
+
+This BETA release of Bacula 2.5.x development code uses libtool
+to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
+being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
+the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
+directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
+where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
+to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
+line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
+
+If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
+way of building static libraries, you can do so by disabling
+libtool on the configure command line with:
+
+ ./configure --disable-libtool
+==============================================================
+
+This release includes large number of new features and changes.
+It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
+and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
+features.
+
+Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
+some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
+
+http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+
+The ChangeLog has more details.
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