- Release Notes for Bacula 1.29
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 228 Total lines = 62,662 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-Major Changes this Release:
-- This release is primarily a bug fix release. I spent a great
- deal of time searching for any possible buffer overflow, stress
- testing the memory allocator, and eliminating places where bad
- input or strange characters could cause a crash.
-- All known 1.28 bugs have been fixed.
-- Allow dynamic input of files into Include statements via a
- program or reading a file. E.g.
- Include = {
- "|program input"
- "<file_input"
-- Allow backup of raw partitions.
-- Allow input of data for backup via a fifo -- good for doing a
- "hot" backup of a database.
-- Fixed a major bug that caused Bacula to crash if there were error
- messages in the catalog interface code and you started two jobs
- at the same time.
-- Fixed a buffer overrun bug found by James MacLean in filename quoting
- if you had very long filenames with many single quotes in it.
-- Fixed a number of "recursive" calls to the print routines that would
- eventually cause a crash -- pointed out by James MacLean.
-
-
-Other Changes this Release:
-- Bigendian is detected in configure making porting easier.
-- Added beginning of Gentoo platform files
-- Improved mtx-changer for handling subtle differences between differen
- versions of mtx. Also beginning of handling Bar Code reading.
-- Quite a number of updates to the manual, with more examples ...
-- Documented tape drive modes expected by Bacula.
-- Enhanced the dbcheck program with a few more options and better
- user control as well as better display.
-- Fixed a bug in VolumeUseDuration reported by George Motter.
-- Implemented thread timer routines, currently used to time out FIFO's,
- but ultimately will monitor connections.
-- Improved error reporting. Initial errors no longer changed by later errors.
- Both FD and SD exit status reported in Backup output report.
-- Cancel now work within the File daemon (previously it always traversed all
- files).
-- New Volume Files option for "update" that allows correcting incorrect volume
- file count entries in catalog due to a program crash.
-- Removed virtually all sm_check()s -- should run a bit faster.
-
-
-Items to note:
-- Version 1.28 File daemons can be used with version 1.29, but it
- is preferable to upgrade.
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 1.33.4
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 301 Total lines = 89,118 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+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
+
+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.
+
+Most Significant Changes since 1.32f-4
+- 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 lable 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.
+- 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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