- Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.20
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 448 Total lines = 150,330 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Version 1.39.20:
-- The basic features of Migration are now complete.
-- There is a Migration chapter in the doc.
-- There is an Encryption chapter in the doc.
-
-New Features in 1.39.20:
-- 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
-
-Fixes for 1.39.20:
-- Writing DVDs should work much better thans to Richard Mortimer.
-- 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.
-- Many cleanups/enhancements for Win32 systems.
-- Correct improperly formated list command output reported by Dan.
-- Eric fixed RunScripts, which I (Kern) had broken in the last beta.
-- Correct Client migration SQL as pointed out by Marc.
-
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-
-Warning for version 1.39.18 and greater:
-- The documentation is almost non-existent for all new features
- except RunScripts (written and documented by Eric Bollengier).
-- If you have an old pre 1.39.18 database, you must upgrade it using
- the upgrade_bacula_tables script. Please backup your database before
- upgrading just in case.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- To install the 1.39.18 Win32 FD, you *must* first stop any
- previous version that is running in a DOS shell with:
-
- net stop bacula
-
- or select the 'Close Bacula' menu item from the Bacula tray icon,
- you should then save your bacula-fd.conf file, and either
- uninstall (using Uninstall.bat in the c:\bacula directory) or
- remove the old installation by manually in a DOS shell in the
- Bacula directory enter:
-
- bacula-fd /remove
-
- after that you can proceed with the installation. My experience
- is that it does not properly create the new bacula-fd.conf file, so
- copy the one saved to the directory you chose to install Bacula,
- or to the directory chosen by the Installer to put the bacula-fd.conf
- file. Then you can start Bacula in a DOS shell with:
-
- net start baculafd
-
- or use the Windows Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Component
- Services menu item.
-
-
-A Lot of New features for 1.39.18:
-- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
- cross-compiling. The inital 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.
-- 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 mixted 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
- explictly 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.
-- 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 2.1.8
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 458 Total lines = 170,197 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+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. However, bat works only with
+a 2.1.8 Director.
+
+The major features are:
+- First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
+ bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
+ must have the Qt4 libraries loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4
+ tools must be available.
+- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
+- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times).
+- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files.
+- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
+- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance.
+- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
+- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
+ conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
+- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
+- New Recycle Pool feature.
+- 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.
+
+Other features or bug fixes:
+- Fixed bugs: 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.
+- Only the minumum number of volumes are pruned rather than
+ all volumes in the pool.
+- wx-console renamed to bwx-console
+- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console
+- 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 a in use buffer dump.
+- Solaris door and event port files are no longer restored.
+- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
+ filename restrictions.
+- Corrected 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.
+- Perfer 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).
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