- Release Notes for Bacula 1.30
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
- Bacula code: Total files = 235 Total lines = 67,287 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 251 Total lines = 74,714 (*.h *.c *.in)
Major Changes this Release:
-- Support for SHA1 signatures in addition to MD5 (more secure).
-- The btape "test" command is much more comprehensive and automatically
- tries different options.
-- Implemented support for autochanger barcodes ("label barcodes",
- "update slots").
-- Make Incremental and Differential saves backup all files changed as
- well as all files moved into save path (added st_ctime to check).
-- Preliminary support for identifying cleaning tapes in autochangers.
-- Restores directory permissions and times correctly.
-- Hard linked files are restored even if only one of links is chosen.
-- Relabel Purged tapes with the relabel command.
-- Support for Win95 systems (I hope).
-- RunBeforeJob now checks the return status. If it is non-zero, the job
- will be terminated in error.
-- The Windows Client now uses Cygwin 1.3.20 and should be
- more reliable.
-- Implemented save/restore of chflags for FreeBSD systems.
-- Support for FreeBSD tape drives.
-- Lots more documentation.
-- Console "run" command now permits setting a start date/time.
-- There is a new "default" configuration file that permits saving and
- restoring the Bacula source code immediately on installation. This
- is documented in the "Running Bacula" chapter.
-- Finer contol of multiple simultaneous Jobs with specifications for
- the Director as a whole (previous implementation), Jobs, Clients,
- and Storage. Thus if you are careful, you can run multiple simultaneous
- jobs and still have only one simultaneous Job per Volume.
-- Rpm spec files thanks to Scott Barninger.
+- 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:
-- Tightened up file permissions (additional security) for all created
- files.
-- Eliminated a lot of strcpy() to prevent possible buffer overruns.
-- Added "BSF at EOM = yes/no" for supporting FreeBSD tape drives.
-- The | and < options are now available for Excludes.
-- Multiple Directors in the GNOME Console now work (thanks Lutz Kttler).
-- Gnome console runs on GNOME 2.0 (haven't tried 2.2 yet).
-- Installation on Win32 systems with Cygwin is now supported.
-- GNOME Console has font support thanks to Phil Stracchino.
-- Solaris 2.6 now supported.
-- Support for Darwin (at least partially)
-- Support connection to MySQL on address:port.
-- Partial support for AIX systems (see README.AIX)
-- Cycle through tapes with "RecycleOldestVolume=yes" (dangerous).
-- Console program now supported on Win32 systems as well as
- several other utility programs.
-- Full vertical listing of most catalog records (llist command).
-- Correct backwards path separators on Win32 systems to
- prevent creating files names with mixed conventions.
-- Print IP address on failed connections to servers.
-- Cancel command works much better (cancels waiting jobs in Dir
- and in SD).
-- Now have reasonable (but still small) regression script.
-- New Console commands for aiding scripting (@input, @output, @tee,
- @time, @version and wait).
-- logrotate script in scripts/logrotate
-- Prevent configuring subsys directory to be the same as sbindir.
-- New Cleaning Prefix record in Pool for defining autochanger cleaning
- tapes.
-
-Items to note:
-- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- On WinXP systems, and possibly Win2K, Bacula runs under the
- LocalSystem account, so all files that are restored are created with
- that account. I have spent an enormous amount of time trying to
- resolve this but have not yet succeeded. I have included chown
- in the binary release but it will probably not work without a
- full cygwin installation. You might also try the CACLS program,
- but you will probably need to boot into safemode (F8 during boot)
- to get sufficient permissions. It is also possible to run
- Bacula under your userid, but the system tray icon will not
- be present -- however, this option permits saving and restoring
- files with your userid.
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Version 1.29 File daemons can be used with version 1.30. However,
- there may be an incompatibility if you use Exclude lists.
-- RunBeforeJob now checks the return status. If it is non-zero, the job
- will be terminated in error.
-- If you have an autochanger with barcodes and you wish to use cleaning
- tapes and you are using MySQL, you must run:
- <bacula-source>/src/cats/alter_mysql_tables
- this script will add one additional VolStatus (Cleaning).
+- 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
+ 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).
+
+
+
+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.
+
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