- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.6-beta3
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.18
- Bacula code: Total files = 418 Total lines = 136,328 (*.h *.c *.in)
- 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
+ Bacula code: Total files = 448 Total lines = 150,330 (*.h *.c *.in)
-New features:
-- For autochanger get Scratch tape if in autochanger if
- no appendable Volumes are available.
-- New virtual disk autochanger. See scripts/disk-changer for
- documentation.
-- New optional Device resource directive in SD. 'Device Type =',
- which may have types: File, DVD, Tape, or FIFO. This can
- be useful for writing DVDs on FreeBSD where Bacula cannot
- correctly detect the DVD.
-- Faster restore tree building and uses less memory.
-- The command line keyword job (or jobname) now refers to the
- name of the job specified in the Job resource; jobid refers
- as before to the non-unique numeric jobid; and ujobid refers
- to the unique job identification that Bacula creates for each
- job.
-- The job report for Backups has a few more user friendly ways
- of displaying the information submitted by John Kodis
- <kodis at comcast.net>.
-- The wait command can now be made to wait for jobids.
-- New command line keywords are permitted in update volume. They
- are Inchanger=yes/no, slot=nn.
-
-Major bug fixes:
-- Fix race condition in multiple-drive autochangers where
- both drives want the same Volume.
-- Do not allow opening default catalog for restricted console
- if it is not in ACL.
-- Writable FIFOs now work for restore.
-- ACLs are now checked in all dot commands.
-- Multiple drive autochangers and multiple different autochangers
- should now work correctly (no race conditions for Volume names,
- update slots use correct StorageId).
-- Fix bug where drive was always reserved if a restore job failed
- while in the reservation process.
-
+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 Bollingier).
+- 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:
-Minor bug fixes:
-- See below:
+ 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:
-Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06
-04Mar06
-- The po files should now be current.
-- Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the
- buffers in all cases.
-- Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object).
-- 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 listing by any of the above.
-- Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time
- and rates with suffexes submitted by John Kodis <kodis at comcast.net>
-- Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items.
-- Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by
- Bacula.
-- Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid.
-- Add ACL checking for the dot commands.
-- Fix restore of writable FIFOs.
-- Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early.
+ bacula-fd /remove
-26Feb06
-- Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls
-- Update the po files at Eric's request.
+ 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:
-Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06
-25Feb06
-- Add sql_use_result() define.
+ net start baculafd
-Changes to 1.38.6-beta1
-- Don't open default catalog if not in ACL.
-- Add virtual disk autochanger code.
-- Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work
- correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks.
-- Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage().
-- Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably
- trashed the stack.
-- When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode
- exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search
- for a Scratch Volume.
-- Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix.
-- Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning.
-- Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected.
-- Check that user supplied a value before referencing
- it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian.
-- Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code.
-- Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when
- updating all volumes in a Pool.
-- Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr.
-- Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that
- two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time.
-- Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape,
- dvd, and fifo.
-- Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across
- a re-open to change read/write permission on a device.
-- Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger
- scripts.
-- Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable.
-- Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds
- up restore tree building and reduces the memory load.
-- Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from
- the Scratch Pool.
-- Implement additional command line options for update Volume.
-- Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating
- all Volumes in a pool.
+ or use the Windows Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Component
+ Services menu item.
-Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06:
-- Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka.
-- Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk
- so that SD will by default have access to tape drives.
-- Allow users to specify user/group and start options
- for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file.
-Changes to 1.38.4 released 17Jan06:
-- The main changes are to the Director and the Storage daemon,
- thus there is no need to update your File daemons. Just the
- same, I do recommend running with the release 1.38.3 Win32
- FD or later.
-- 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, ...).
-- Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory
- pool by releasing free buffers.
-- Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c
-- Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5.
-- Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the
- number of items goes to zero.
-- Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level
- so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before
- waiting.
-- Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built
- and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system.
- These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve
- a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple
- messages will generally print for each JobId because they
- represent the different problems with either the same drive
- or different drives. If this output proves too confusing
- of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1
- or greater is enabled in the SD.
+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.
-- During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the
- StorageId is zero (old Media records).
-- Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned
- slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer.
-- Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs.
-- Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the
- drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes
- Arno's changer bug.
-- Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time.
-- Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file
- differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h
- hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c
- util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto
- upgrades.
-- Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The
- incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking
- routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed
- from under the walk routines.
-
-
-Changes to 1.38.3 released 05Jan06:
-- This is mainly a bug release fix. In addition, the multiple drive
- reservation algorithm has been rewritten.
-- In addition, the method of handling waiting for tapes to be
- mounted and the mount messages has been modified.
- (the above two items are a potential source of problems).
-- Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable
- volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait code.
-- Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns.
-- Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and
- it is not an autochanger.
-- Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument.
- This permits closing and reopening the drive if the
- rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the
- file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor.
-- Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing
- if the device is open or not. This should eliminate
- Arnos problem.
-- Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device.
-- Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information.
-- Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat
- code. This should fix bug #500.
-- Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch.
-- Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless
- of the mode.
-- If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of
- You have messages.
-- Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use
- only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug
- #514.
-- Implement load balancing code with multiple drive autochangers.
-- Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be
- more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of
- jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive.
-- Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513
-- Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things.
-- Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file.
-- Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506
-- Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505.
-- Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try
- for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere.
-- Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler.
-- Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund.
-- Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives,
- and always open nonblocking.
-- Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen).
-- Eliminate 3 argument to tape open().
-- Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload
- message.
-- With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero.
-- Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast().
-- When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal.
-- Remove unused code in wait_for_device.
-- Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait.
-- Use localhost if no network configured
-- Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509.
-- Update specs to include mysql4 define.
-- Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal
- and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan
- to get FileIndex at EOT correct.
-- Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls.
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
- correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
- Bug # 506.
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified)
- to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client
- IP. Fixes bug # 508.
-- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
- Christian Masopust.
-- Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files
- from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages.
-- Reset timeout values before select() per patch from
- Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets.
-- Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets
- errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems.
-- Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume.
-- Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool.
-- Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it
- caused an error.
-- Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied.
-- Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used
- at the same time.
-- 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.
-- Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501.
-- Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault
- fixes bug 502
-- Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32.
-- Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible.
-- Remove old code from winservice.cpp
-- Break on error in scan.
-- Fix typo in signal.c
-- Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr.
-- Cleanup how find_device() works.
-- Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris. Bug #491.
-
-Changes to 1.38.2:
-- Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479.
-- Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486
-- Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481
-- Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487
-- Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488
-- Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c
-- Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource
- fork filename. Bug #489
-- Add Pool name to SD status output.
-- Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492
-
-Changes to 1.38.1:
-- Corrected ACL for Solaris (David Duchscher and Attila Fulop).
-- Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes
- a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted
- by Adrew J. Millar.
-- Unmount command now unloads autochanger.
-- Fix hang in FD (Martin Simmons)
-- Fix Win98 stat() problem in FD (Thorsten Engel)
-- Fix update slots which did not clear missing tapes.
-- Fix autostart install for FreeBSD (user reported)
-- Fix several problems with PostgreSQL scripts (Eric Bollinger)
-- Critical: allow restore of the first file of non-portable Win32 backup.
-- Important: with muliple concurrent jobs the autochanger could get
- confused because of a missing mutex.
-- Fix accessing last slot in label and update slots.
-- Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog
- scripts.
-- Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb
-- Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in
- autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457.
-- Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested
- by user. Fixes bug #456.
-- AMD64 users see compiler bug warning below!!!!!!!!!
+- 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.
+ Implement 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).
-Major Changes in 1.38:
-- Fixed out of order Volumes in restore.
-- Improved algorithm for reserving drives in multiple drive
- autochangers. Autochange users MUST use the new Autochanger
- resource in the Storage daemon.
-- There is a new database format that is not compatible
- 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.
-- Support for ANSI/IBM labels.
-- Faster database inserts due to combining the MD5/SHA1 into
- the attributes record, eliminating one INSERT/file backed up.
-- Python Event support has been added. See below for
- configuration and details. The implementation is somewhat minimal,
- so the functionality is not complete. The Python interface
- has not been extensively tested, so please consider it BETA.
-- DVD writing support, using parts, and some new directives in
- the Device resource of the Storage configuration file thanks
- to Nicolas Boichat. Please note that this code is still
- BETA 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.
-- Restore of all files for a Job or set of jobs even if the file
- 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.
-- 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
- to multiple Volumes simultaneously (see below). Actually,
- any Job may start any other Job with this mechanism, so it
- also be used to group jobs.
-- 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).
-- SQLite3 support.
-- Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances,
- is now included in the Bacula GUI release. This is a management
- level tool for reporting the state of Bacula jobs.
-- The code is now Internationalized so that it can be localized
- in native languages. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat.
+ Recent versions of the Linux kernel and glibc have support for it (the
+ glibc support being mostly copying the O_NOATIME definition to
+ bits/fcntl.h). If there's no support for it on the kernel, trying to use
+ it does nothing (since the kernel ignores unknown flags).
-New Directives:
-- New Job directive 'Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no' causes the
- SD to select either an Autochanger or a drive with a valid
- Volume already mounted in preference. If none is available,
- it will select the first available drive.
-- New Run directive in Job resource of DIR. It permits
- cloning of jobs. To clone a copy of the current job, use
- Run = 'job-name level=%l since=\'%s\''
- Note, job-name is normally the same name as the job that
- is running but there is no restriction on what you put. If you
- want to start the job by hand and use job overrides such as
- storage=xxx, realize that the job will be started with the
- default storage values not the overrides. The level=%l guarantees
- that the chosen level of the job is the same, and the since=...
- ensures that the job uses *exactly* the same time/date for incremental
- and differential jobs. The since=... is ignored when level=Full.
- A cloned job will not start additional clones, so it is not possible
- to recurse.
-- New Options keywords in a FileSet directive (backported to 1.36.3):
- - WildDir xxx
- Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not
- be matched).
- - WildFile xxx
- Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not
- be matched).
- - RegexDir xxx
- Will do a regular expression match against directories (files
- will not be matched).
- - RegexFile xxx
- Will do a regular expression match against files( directories
- will not be matched).
- - IgnoreCase = yes | no
- Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches.
- This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant.
- - FsType = string
- where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc,
- reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3
- systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives
- and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type
- specified on the fstype directive does not match the
- filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will
- not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent
- backing up non-local filesystems.
- - HFS Plus Support = yes | no
- If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored.
-- Label Type = ANSI | IBM | Bacula
- Implemented in Director Pool resource and in SD Device resource.
- If it is specified in the SD Device resource, it will take
- precedence over the value passed from the Director to the SD.
-- Check Labels = yes | no
- Implemented in the SD Device resource. If you intend to read
- ANSI or IBM labels, this *must* be set. Even if the volume
- is not ANSI labeled, you can set this to yes, and Bacula will
- check the label type.
-- Scripts Directory = <directory> name. Defines the directory from
- which Bacula scripts will be called for events. In fact, Bacula
- appends this name to the standard Python list of search directories,
- so the script could also be in any of the Python system directories.
-- In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have
- a lot, it can be very expensive), by using:
- HardLinks = no
- in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks.
-- MaximumPartSize = bytes (SD, Device resource)
- Defines the maximum part size.
-- Requires Mount = Yes/No (SD, Device resource)
- Defines if the device require to be mounted to be read, and if it
- must be written in a special way. If it set, the following directives
- must be defined in the same Device resource:
- + Mount Point = directory
- Directory where the device must be mounted.
- + Mount Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to mount the device. Before the command
- is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the
- Mount Point.
- + Unmount Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to unmount the device. Before the
- command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and
- %m with the Mount Point.
- + Write Part Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to write a part to the device. Before
- the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m
- with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based),
- and %v with the current part filename.
- + Free Space Command = name-string
- Command that must be executed to check how much free space is left
- on the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with
- the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part
- number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename.
-- Write Part After Job = Yes/No (DIR, Job Resource, and Schedule Resource)
- If this directive is set to yes (default no), a new part file will be
- created after the job is finished.
-- A pile of new Directives to support TLS. Please see the TLS chapter
- of the manual.
+ If the kernel has support for it, trying to use it either works, fails
+ silently (mostly in remote filesystems), or returns errno=EPERM (if you
+ are not either the owner of the file or root). A simple way to prevent the
+ failure is to open the file without the flag and set it later with
+ fcntl(F_SETFL), ignoring any EPERM errors.
+- 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)
-New Commands:
-- 'python restart' restarts the Python interpreter. Rather brutal, make
- sure no Python scripts are running. This permits you to change
- a Python script and get Bacula to use the new script.
+Additional Features Added for Win32:
-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.
+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.
-Items to note!!!
-- The Storage daemon now keeps track of what tapes it is using
- (was not the case in 1.36.x). This means that you must be much
- more careful when removing tapes and putting up a new one. In
- general, you should always do a 'unmount' prior to removing a
- tape, and a 'mount' after putting a new one into the drive.
-- 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.
-- You must add --with-python=[DIR] to the configure command line
- 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. After installation, run from your scripts
- directory:
+Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
- ./upgrade_bacula_tables
+# 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"
- You can also find this script in the <bacula-source>/src/cats
- directory.
-- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are
- Deamons are not compatible with prior versions.
- All FDs must be upgraded at the same time.
-- You must add --with-openssl to the configure command line if
- you want TLS communications encryption support.
-- Disk seeking during restores does not yet work correctly in
- all cases, so it is turned off.
-- Note, with gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) on an
- AMD64 CPU running 64 bit CentOS4, there is a compiler bug that
- generates bad code that causes Bacula to segment fault.
- Typically you will see this in the Storage daemon first. The
- solution is to compile Bacula ensuring that no optimization is
- turned on (normally it is -O2).
- This same compiler bug has been reported and confirmed with
- gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) running on
- an AMD64 CPU. This for the moment, I would recommend that all
- users of GCC 4.0.1 or greater turn off all optimization when
- compiling.
-Other Items Fixed:
-- Security fixes for temp files created in mtx-changer, during
- ./configure, and during making of Rescue disk.
-- A new script, dvd-handler, in the scripts directory,
- which is 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/) AND, the growisofs
- program must be patched using the
- <bacula-source>/patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch
- 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
- Python Scripting chapter in the manual.
-- The default user/group for the Director and Storage daemon installed
- by rpms is bacula/bacula, thus you may need to add additional permissions
- to your database, or modify the permissions of the tape drive. If
- all else fails, change to using user=root. However, it is more secure
- to use user=bacula.
+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.
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