Release Notes for Bacula 1.31
- Bacula code: Total files = 241 Total lines = 69,771 (*.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.
- 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.
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:
+- 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.
+- 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.
+ 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.
+