Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
- Bacula code: Total files = 250 Total lines = 74,253 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 251 Total lines = 74,714 (*.h *.c *.in)
Major Changes this Release:
- The database format has changed. Please see below.
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.
+- 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:
+- 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
- Beginning of support for SSL encryption.
- Beggining of support for Base level backups.
- Improvements to gnome-console.
-- Prune certain orphaned jobs (no files saved, no Volume used).
+- 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.
- 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 an improper FreeBSD
- pthreads implementation -- IMO) is fixed.
+- 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).
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