- Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 251 Total lines = 74,714 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Major Changes this Release:
-- The database format has changed. 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.
-- 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.
-- Implemented tape block rejection, which means that restores with
- several incremental backups will run orders of magnitude faster.
-
-
-Other Changes this Release:
-- 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.
-- Beginning of support for SSL encryption.
-- Beggining of support for Base level backups.
-- Improvements to gnome-console.
-- Prune orphaned jobs (no files saved, no Volume used).
-- Added non-fatal errors to Job reports.
-- 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).
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.1
+ Bacula code: Total files = 306 Total lines = 91,155 (*.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.
+- 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 reduces tape shoe-shine during Inc backups,
+ and permits multiple simultaneous backups without interleaved blocks.
+- 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 (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 "status" is recovered across daemon executions.
+- Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands.
Items to note: !!!!!
-- The default time interval is now days instead of seconds. Please
- check your .conf files!
-- 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 format of the catalog database has changed, so you must either
- re-initialize your database (losing all the old info) with:
-
- ./drop_bacula_tables
- ./make_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.
-
- BEFORE APPLYING THE ALTER SCRIPT PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATABASE. 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.
-
+- 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.
+- "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
+- SpoolData=yes/no in DIR Job resource
+- SpoolData=yes/no in Run override directive.
+- MaximumSpoolSize 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"
+- 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.
+- 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:
+- 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
+ 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 label is not in the first
+ tape block, so the tape is not recognized.
+- 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.
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