- Release Notes for Bacula 1.37.24
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.37.36
- Bacula code: Total files = 433 Total lines = 140,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 420 Total lines = 137,650 (*.h *.c *.in)
Major Changes:
-- This version has a new DIR <--> SD protocol. Both must be
- upgraded at the same time. Deamons are not compatible with
- prior versions. All FDs must be upgraded.
+- Improved algorithm for reserving drives in multiple drive
+ autochangers.
- There is a new database format that is not compatible
- with previous databases.
-- SQLite3 support, but it seems to run at 1/2 to 1/4 the speed of
- SQLite2.
-- Multiple drive autochanger support.
+ with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting
+ from 1.36.x. No changes from version 1.37.30.
+- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are
+ Deamons are not compatible with prior versions.
+ All FDs must be upgraded at the same time.
+- Multiple drive autochanger support. You *must* update
+ your SD conf file.
- Support for ANSI/IBM labels.
- New communications protocol between DIR and SD to reserve
drives.
Volume name.
- DVD writing support, using parts, and a lot of new directives in
the Device resource of the Storage configuration file thanks
- to Nicolas Boichat.
+ to Nicolas Boichat. Please note that this code is still
+ experimental and should be carefully tested before using in
+ production.
- Seven new options keywords in a FileSet resource:
ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir,
and regexfile thanks to Pruben Guldberg). See below for details.
records have been removed from the catalog.
- Restore of a directory (non-recursive, i.e. only one level).
- Support for TLS (ssl) between all the daemon connections thanks
- to Landon Fuller.
+ to Landon Fuller. This is mostly untested.
- Any Volume in the Pool named Scratch may be reassigned to any
other Pool when a new Volume is needed.
- You may clone a Job and thus write (almost) the same data
- Unicode filename support for Win32 (thanks to Thorsten Engel)
- Volume Shadow Copy support for Win32 thus the capability to
backup exclusively opened files (thanks to Thorsten Engel).
+ A VSS enabled Win32 FD is available. You must explicitly
+ turn on VSS with "Enable VSS = yes" in your FileSet resource.
- New manual format with an index (thanks to Karl Cunningham).
- New Web site format (thanks to Michael Scherer).
-- Seeking on disk Volumes during restore.
+- SQLite3 support, but it seems to run at 1/2 to 1/4 the speed of
+ SQLite2.
+- Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances,
+ is now included in the Bacula GUI release (yet to be fully
+ created).
+- The code is now Internationalized so that it can be localized
+ in native languages. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat.
New Directives:
- New Job directive "Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no" causes the
sure no Python scripts are running. This permits you to change
a Python script and get Bacula to use the new script.
+New configure options:
+- --with-libintl-prefix for defining alternate locations for
+ the NLS internationalization libraries. Not normally required.
+- --datadir for defining where the language files will be installed
+ required only if you do not want the default /usr/share.
+
Items to note!!!
-- TLS for wx-console is only partially implemented. TLS for
- the Gnome console is not yet implemented.
- You must add --with-python=[DIR] to the configure command line
- if you want Python support. Python 2.2 and 2.3 should be automatically
- detected if in the standard place.
-- With Python 2.2 version, the link of the Director gets a few linker
- warnings due to the fact that Python pulls in some old non-secure
- libraries.
-- With Python 2.3, there are a few compiler warnings.
-- The Python implementation has a few memory leaks not yet cleaned
- up. As long as you restart Bacula once a month, this shouldn't
- be an issue.
+ if you want Python support. Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 should be
+ automatically detected if in the standard place.
+- When linking with --with-python, there are a few warnings that
+ can be ignored.
- You must either create a new catalog database or upgrade your
- old database (the PostgreSQL upgrade scripts not yet tested).
+ old database.
+- The TLS code is for the most part untested.
- You must add --with-openssl to the configure command line if
you want TLS communications encryption support.
-- The new DVD code is currently non-functional.
+- If you use an Autochanger, you *must* update your SD conf file
+ to use the new Autochanger resource. Otherwise, certain commands
+ such as "update slots" may not work.
+- Disk seeking during restores does not yet work correctly in
+ all cases, so it is turned off.
Other Items:
- 2 new scripts, dvd-writepart and dvd-freespace, in the scripts directory,
which are designed to be used as parameters to Write Part Command and
Free Space Command. They need the dvd+rw-tools to be installed
(http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/).
-- Part files support: File volumes can now be splitted in multiple
+ You must have Python installed to run the scripts.
+- Part files support: File volumes can now be split into multiple
files, called "parts".
- For the details of the Python scripting support, please see the new
projects / bacula / bacula / blobdiff