- Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.33.3
- Bacula code: Total files = 258 Total lines = 76,681 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 284 Total lines = 88,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
-Major Changes this Release:
-- Implemented a new job scheduling algorithm with priorities.
-- The database format has changed from version 1.30a. 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 -- complain to Microsoft about this.
-- 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. However, I still don't
- using recommend it.
-- Implemented tape block rejection, which means that restores with
- several incremental backups will run orders of magnitude faster.
+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
+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.
-Other Changes this Release:
-- New Priority record in Jobs for setting job priorities.
-- The name of Recycle Oldest Volume has now become Purge Oldest Volume.
-- Implemented a Recycle Oldest Volume, which respects Retention periods.
-- Implemented a Recycle Current Volume, which respects Retention periods.
-- 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 and statistics from both
- the FD and SD for backups.
-- 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).
-- Added backup script to the examples directory. This allows one command
- to backup any client. For Win32, the release now contains CygwinBackup.bat
- and Backup.bat, as well as backup. The bat files call the backup file.
- By placing an icon on your desktop, you can double click and backup
- your client.
+Most Significant Changes since 1.32f-4
+- 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 lable is not in the first
+ tape block, so the tape is not recognized.
+Other Changes since 1.32d
+- 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.
Items to note: !!!!!
-- Recycle Oldest Volume has changed to be Purge Oldest Volume
- Please change your Director's .conf file. Recycle Oldest Volume
- still works but respects retention periods.
+- FreeBSD users NOTE!!!!!
+ You MUST add the following two records to your SD Device resource for
+ tape drives.
-- The default time interval is now days instead of seconds. Please
- check your .conf files!
+ TWOEOF = yes
+ Fast Forward Space File = no
-- 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 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
-- The format of the catalog database has changed, so you must either
- re-initialize your database (losing all the old info) with:
+ which will delete ALL prior catalog information, or you can
+ update your database with:
- ./drop_bacula_tables
- ./make_bacula_tables
+ ./update_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.
+ Please save your old database before dropping the tables or doing
+ an upgrade or you may regret it later.
- 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.
-
+- 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!
projects / bacula / bacula / blobdiff