- Release Notes for Bacula 1.30
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.33.4
- Bacula code: Total files = 235 Total lines = 67,287 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ Bacula code: Total files = 306 Total lines = 90,715 (*.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.
+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.
-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).
+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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