Release Notes for Bacula 1.33.4
- Bacula code: Total files = 301 Total lines = 89,118 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ 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.
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"
- "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
+
-Most Significant Changes since 1.32f-4
+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
- 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
+ a single Volume where the volume label is not in the first
tape block, so the tape is not recognized.
-
-Other Changes since 1.32d
- Restore directory tree automatically selects all higher level
directories to be restored.
- Implement conio.c to use in console program -- mini-readline.