- Release Notes for Bacula 1.33.4
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.1
- Bacula code: Total files = 306 Total lines = 90,715 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 343 Total lines = 98,503 (*.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.
+- 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 eliminates tape shoe-shine during Inc backups,
+- Data spooling which reduces tape shoe-shine during Inc backups,
and permits multiple simultaneous backups without interleaved blocks.
-- Polling of devices eliminating need to unmount and mount from
- console.
- 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.
+- 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 statistics memory.
+- 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!
+
+
New directives:
- "Close on Poll = yes/no" in SD Device resource.
- "Volume Poll Interval = time-interval" in SD Device resource.
- SpoolData=yes/no in DIR Job resource
- SpoolData=yes/no in Run override directive.
- MaximumSpoolSize in SD Device resource
-- MaximumSpoolJobSize 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"
- "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:
-- Implement Gnome 2.0 restore GUI
+- 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
- 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.
-
-Items to note: !!!!!
-- FreeBSD users NOTE!!!!!
- You MUST add the following two records to your SD Device resource for
- tape drives.
-
- TWOEOF = yes
- Fast Forward Space File = no
-
-- The daemon protocol has changed, 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 database with:
-
- ./update_bacula_tables
-
- Please save your old database before dropping the tables or doing
- an upgrade or you may regret it later.
-
-- smtp has now become bsmtp
-- console has now become bconsole.
-- console.conf is now bconsole.conf
-- Please don't underestimate the repercussions of the bsmtp and bconsole
- name changes!