- Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.32
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 153,698 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-
-Version 1.39.32 contains mainly bug fixes to 1.39.30 Please
- see the ChangeLog for more details.
-
-
-==== IMPORTANT Encrypted Volume data may be unreadable ====
-- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
- be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
- with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
- be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
- carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
- with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
- and fixed it as follows:
- As of 1.39.27:
- No filters = Works fine
- Sparse = Works fine
- Compression = Works fine
- Encryption = Works fine
- Sparse + Compression = Works fine
-
- Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
- Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
- Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
-
- As of 1.39.28:
- Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
- not properly restored.
-
- As of 1.39.30:
- All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
-
- Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
- data to be sure it all works correctly.
-
-==== IMPORTANT a stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash =====
-- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
- the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
- kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
-
-==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
-- The database format has been updated from what was used in
- Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
- running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. Please backup your previous
- version of the database before running the update. The update
- script will be automatically installed in your scripts directory,
- or can also be found in <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
-
- ./update_bacula_tables
-
- It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
- a 1.39.x beta or to 1.40.0. Upgrading the Bacula version
- thereafter does not require updating the database again.
- Depending on the size of your database the script make take a
- bit of time, to run, but in general, it should be very fast.
-
-==== IMPORTANT DVD Volume format changed ====
-- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
- the format written by previous versions. The two formats
- are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
- be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
-
-==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
-- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
- should. If you have multiple catalogs, you will need to select
- the catalog (this I will fix). More importantly, in restore
- mode, the restore tree is no longer shown in the left pane. I
- suspect this is due to incompatible changes in the GTK+ API,
- and hence have given up on gnome and gtk+, as this has already
- happened several times previously. At some point there
- will be a new GUI console.
-- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
- removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
- occurrence of this directive for the Director to run.
-- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
- directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
- mandir/man1 as appropriate.
-- The "Accept Any Volume" directive has been removed. It was never
- implemented. Bacula will always accept any valid tape that is in
- the drive for appending.
-- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 1.39.18 Director
- and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
- data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
-- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
-- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
- of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
- device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
- will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
- with the correct MediaType.
-- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
- format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
- jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
- difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
- default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
- the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
- more testing is still needed.
-
-==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
- For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
- needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
- automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\Bacula
- directory (mostly out of paranoia, we can change that prior to release if
- everyone is comfortable with it).
-
- Prior to using the current installer, if you used a version of the beta
- prior to 1.39.26, you must do one of the following three things:
-
- 1) Uninstall prior beta version and select the option to delete
- the configuration and state files. This will get rid of the bogus
- configuration files. Reinstall the new 1.39.26 version.
-
- 2) Manually copy the *.conf files from C:\Bacula\bin to
- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula.
-
- 3) Manually edit the *.conf files in C:\Documents and
- Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. The links in the Bacula menu
- can be used to avoid having to enter that ugly path.
-
- After one of these has been done the upgrade should work fine.
-======
-
-New Features in 1.39.30:
-- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
- Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
- and the LICENSE file has been updated.
-- Turn on disk seek code for restores.
-- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
- Mail On Success directive.
-- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
- report.
-- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
- are printed in the Job report.
-
-Major new Features in 1.40.0:
-- The basic features of Migration are now complete, and
- are documented in a new Migration chapter in the manual
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
-- There is an Encryption chapter in the doc.
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
-- Additional support for removable devices. See the
- Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
- Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
- Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
- same chapter.
-- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
- cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
- then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
- cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
- also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
- all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
- drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
-- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
- This code is working but should still be considered beta (i.e.
- test carefully before putting into production).
-- Data encryption done in the Client is now supported due to code
- submitted by Landon Fuller.
-- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
- any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
- the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
- to Thorsten Engel for this code.
-- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
- eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel.
-- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
- the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
- plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
- of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
-- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
-- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
- If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
- "list nextvol days=xx"
- or
- "status dir days=xx"
- This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
- next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
- the weekend.
-- Apply patch for enhancing wait from Eric Bollengier. One can now:
- wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
- wait jobid=nn
- wait jobuid=unique id
- wait job=job-name
-- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
- are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
- Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
-- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
- job report in the Log database table.
-
-
-New Features in 1.40.0:
-- Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
- the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
- the job can be manually started from the console.
-- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
- can be enabled by changing one define, but this has never been tested.
-- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
- the restore cd command.
-- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
- will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
- Bollengier.
-- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
- conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
- are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
-- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
-- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
- spaces in names better, ...
-- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
-- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
- any Catalog ACL.
-- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
- patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
-- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
- from Eric Bollengier.
-- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
- in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
-- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
- display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
-- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
-- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
-- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
- the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
- path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
- over where users can restore files. This is untested.
-- Install man pages with 'make install'.
-- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
-- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
-- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
-- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio.
-- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
- command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
-- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
- triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
-- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
-- Implement mount command for autochanger
-- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
- from File= was not found.
-- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
- do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
- have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
- Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
-- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
- creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
- Andrew J. Millar.
-- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
- Christian Masopust.
-- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
- appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
- listing where they could be "lost".
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
- correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
- Bug # 506.
-- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
-- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
- list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
- lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
-- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
- should get Bacula into the correct groups.
-- Implement support for removable filesystems.
-- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
- to a user submission.
-- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
- in the Status report.
-- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
-- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
- all other Storage specifications.
-- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
-- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
- from a database table for restore.
-- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
- designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
-- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
- accept time qualifiers.
-- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
- suggested by Eric Bollengier.
-- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
- Job Level, only during JobInit event.
-- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
- to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
- be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
-- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
- one at a time). This is not well tested.
-- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
- Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
-- Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
- bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
- bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
- bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
- bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
-- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
- explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
-- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
- wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
-- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
-- Apply patch from Christopher Hull
- - Allow multiple connections to database with different
- parameters.
- - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
- fault, but still 60 second window.
- - Additional info in Reschedule message.
- - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
- cancel, error.
- - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
- - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
- - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
- - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
- - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
- - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
- - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
-- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
- routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
- author of bug #565.
-- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
- Hull.
-- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
-- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
- O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
- updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
- happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
- prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
- only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
- programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
- categories).
- You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
- noatime = yes
- The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
- it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
-- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
-- Implement a number of user supplied patches for DVD writing.
-- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
- Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
- Delete MAC table
- Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
- Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
- Add Cost to Location table.
- Enabled to Media table and Location table.
-- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
- and forcing a 6 second wait.
-- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
- -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
-- Turn on new bsnprintf() code.
- The reason for this code is to eliminate the
- security problems associated with using the system libraries
- print routines.
-- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
- came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
- it is all very complicated.
-- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
- for restore.
-- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
- class.
-- Spend a lot of time integrating mkcdrec with the rescue disk.
-- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
-- Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
-- Allow true/false in some yes/no questions.
-
-Additional Features Added for Win32:
-- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
- resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
- is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
- has the concept of drives.
-
-- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
- resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
-
- When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
- Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
-
- Patterns conform to Posix
- \ is not a special character in character classification []
- To match a - it must be the first or last character
- To match a ] it must be the first character
-
- fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
- so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
-
-- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
- against the filename portion. This in combination with the
- FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
- abc*.def work as expected.
-
-- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
-
- Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
-
- # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"
+ Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.2
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 1,009 Total lines = 205,726 (Using SLOCCount)
+
+Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
+below. Important!!!
+
+Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
+some enhancements (see below).
+
+Changes since 3.0.1:
+
+Bug fixes:
+ 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
+ 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
+
+Fixed:
+ - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
+ - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
+ - Fix bugs in xattr code
+ - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
+ - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
+
+Enhancements:
+ - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
+ - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
+ - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
+ This is project 31 in the projects file.
+ - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
+ - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
+ - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
+ This is project 2 in the projects file.
+ - Add new Nagios plugin
+
+Compatibility:
+Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+the same time.
+
+Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
+Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
+Daemon.
+
+============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
+
+Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
+following areas:
+
+1. Missing documentation.
+2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
+3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
+4. Much more.
+
+The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
+manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
+you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
+=====
+
+================== 3.0.1 Release Notes ========================
+
+Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
+one enhancement.
+
+================== 3.0.0 Release Notes ========================
+
+The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
+represents an enormous effort.
+
+This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
+but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
+use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
+not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
+release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
+11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
+detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
+recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
+using rpms.
+
+The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
+source:
+1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
+2. Save a copy of your existing database.
+3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
+ Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
+ at the bottom of this file.
+4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
+5. ./update_bacula_tables
+6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
+ script and put the name of another database, and then
+ execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
+ catalogs have been updated.
+7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
+ not print any error messages.
+
+The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
+from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
+DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
+so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million files
+catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
+backup it before executing the script.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
+table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
+(e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
+be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
+command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
+aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
+size.
+
+
+Important New configure options :
+----------------------
+
+This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
+to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
+being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
+the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
+directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
+where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
+to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
+line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
+
+ ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
+
+If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
+way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
+can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
+
+ ./configure --disable-libtool
+
+During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
+bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
+are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
+want to put them elsewhere use:
+
+ ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
+
+During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
+ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
+files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
+want to put them elsewhere use:
+
+ ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
+
+During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
+installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
+same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
+location with:
+
+ ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
+
+==============================================================
+
+This release includes large number of new features and changes.
+It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
+and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
+features.
+
+Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
+some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
+
+http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+
+
+
+
+The ChangeLog has more details.
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