- Release Notes for Bacula 1.27
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 222 Total lines = 60,486 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Major Changes this Release:
-- Implemented support for Sparse files.
-- Implemented support for all Win32 attributes.
-- New Volume format. Will permit faster restores,
- and correct restores of Volumes written with multiple
- simultaneous jobs.
-- Important change to communications protocol. Eliminated
- deprecated 0 signal.
-- Implemented VolumeUseDuration (duration Volume can be written)
-- Implemented MaximumVolumeJobs (max jobs written to volume) see
- the Pool documentation for the Director for more details.
-- Rework of the Web site.
-- New format for the User's Guide (manual).
-- New bcopy tool (works but not totally complete).
-- All bxxx tool programs MUST read a Storage daemon configuration file.
-- Mount Anonymous Volumes is now dropped from the Storage
- daemon configuration files.
-- Accept Any Volume is by default "Yes" and permits Bacula
- to accept any appendable volume from the pool. Previously,
- it would accept ONLY the next appendable volume. To get
- the old behavior add "Accept Any Volume = No" to the
- Storage resources of your Director's configuration file.
-- New database format. You must either re-initialize your database or
- use <bacula-src>/src/cats/alter_mysql_tables (or alter_sqlite_tables)
- to upgrade an existing database.
-
-Minor Changes this Release:
-- A number of small bug fixes.
-- Improve handling of the "Where" prefix on Win32 by first
- stripping any previous drive. This allows restoration to
- any drive.
-- Modified Director-FD logon sequence to pass the OS id strings
- to the director.
-- Fixed mount loop when the autochanger slot is incorrect in
- the catalog.
-- Updated the bacula start/stop script to work on more systems.
-- Fixed many places prone to buffer overflows.
-- Scripts are now found in <bacula-src>/scripts
-- A mtx-changer script was contributed for the Sony
- TLS-11000 autochanger. It is in <bacula-src>/examples
-
-Items to note:
-- You must re-initialize or alter your databases.
-- The inter-daemon protocol has changed so you must
- upgrade all your daemons (and all Clients).
-
-Altering your database:
-- First make a backup.
-- Configure and build Bacula
-
-- For MySQL
- cd <bacula-src>/src/cats
- ./alter_mysql_tables
-
-- For SQLite
- cd <bacula-src>/src/cats
- ./alter_sqlite_tables
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.33.4
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 306 Total lines = 90,715 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+Major Features:
+- Data spooling which eliminates tape shoe-shine during Inc backups,
+ and permits multiple simultaneous backups without interleaved blocks.
+- Polling of devices eliminating need to unmount and mount from
+ console.
+- Native Win32 client -- much faster and restores permissions correctly
+ (thanks to Christopher Hull)
+- PostgreSQL database driver (thanks to Dan Langille).
+- Improved Autochange support of Slots (update slots scan).
+- Autochanger support for multiple drives.
+- 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 statistics memory.
+- Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands.
+
+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
+- MaximumSpoolJobSize in SD Device resource
+- SpoolDirectory in SD Device resource.
+
+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
+
+
+Additional changes:
+- Implement Gnome 2.0 restore GUI
+- 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.
+
+Items to note: !!!!!
+- FreeBSD users NOTE!!!!!
+ You MUST add the following two records to your SD Device resource for
+ tape drives.
+
+ TWOEOF = yes
+ Fast Forward Space File = no
+
+- The daemon protocol has changed, 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 database with:
+
+ ./update_bacula_tables
+
+ Please save your old database before dropping the tables or doing
+ an upgrade or you may regret it later.
+
+- smtp has now become bsmtp
+- console has now become bconsole.
+- console.conf is now bconsole.conf
+- Please don't underestimate the repercussions of the bsmtp and bconsole
+ name changes!
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