Kern's ToDo List
- 22 February 2005
+ 07 March 2005
Major development:
Project Developer
#3 Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
#4 Embedded Python Scripting
(Implemented in Dir/SD)
-#5 Events that call a Python program
- (Implemented in Dir/SD)
-#6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
#7 Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
## Integrate web-bacula into a new Bacula project with
bimagemgr.
## Consider moving docs to their own project.
-Suggestions for Preben:
-- Look at adding Client run command that will use the
- port opened by the client.
-- Optimized bootstrap.
-
Autochangers:
-- Fix
- Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
- Storage: DDS-4-changer
- Media type:
- Pool: Default
- label
- The defined Storage resources are:
-- Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
- to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
-- 3.Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
+- 3. Prevent two drives requesting the same Volume in any given
autochanger.
-- 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
- Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
- You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
- or need them to be different for each device.
-- 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
- that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
- script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
- automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
- be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
- AutoChanger name.
+- 3. Check if a Volume is mounted on another drive in an Autochanger.
- 7. Implement new Console commands to allow offlining/reserving drives,
and possibly manipulating the autochanger (much asked for).
- 8. Automatic updating of Drive status from SD to DIR when something
changes (Volume, offline, append, read, ...).
-- 9. Check if a Volume is mounted on another drive in an Autochanger.
-
-Autochangers Done:
-- 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
-- 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
- selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
-- 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
- to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
- this) (done)
-- Locking (done)
-- Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
-- Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
-- Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
- than one loads a tape and any time (done)
-
-
For 1.37:
+- Add disk seeking on restore.
+- Don't start a second file job if one is already running.
+- Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
+ Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
+- SD Python
+ - Solicit Events
+- FD Python
+ - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
+ - Python script to do backup.
+- When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
+ recycled and no label created. This happens when using
+ autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
+- Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
+- Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
+- Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
+ label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
+- Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
+- Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
+- Implement EOF/EOV labels for ANSI labels
+- Implement IBM labels.
+
+Maybe in 1.37:
- By the way: on page http://www.bacula.org/?page=tapedrives , at the
bottom, the link to "Tape Testing Chapter" is broken. It goes to
/html-manual/... while the others point to /rel-manual/...
a small reference.
- Linux Sony LIB-D81, AIT-3 library works.
- Device resource needs the "name" of the SD.
-- Add and option to see if the file size changed
- during backup.
-- Implement "update device" from SD so that DIR will
- always have current version of device.
-- Add disk seeking on restore.
-- Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
- Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
-- SD Python
- - Solicit Events
-- FD Python
- - Python script to save with Python, not save, save with Bacula.
- - Python script to do backup.
+- Add and option to see if the file size changed during backup.
- Windows restore:
data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
> ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
and fix SD messages.
- Make sure SD deletes spool files on error exit.
- Delete old spool files when SD starts.
-- When Python creates a new label, the tape is immediately
- recycled and no label created. This happens when using
- autolabeling -- even when Python doesn't generate the name.
- Add a restore directory-x
- When labeling tapes, if you enter 000026, Bacula uses
the tape index rather than the Volume name 000026.
- Max Vols limit in Pool off by one?
-- Look at Preben's acl.c error handling code.
-- See multiple-store.txt for Multiple Storage implementation
- design.
-- Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
- Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
- Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
get the bootstrap file.
- Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
- Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
turned off.
-- Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
- label so that bscan can get *all* the info.
-- Scratch Pool where the volumes can be re-assigned to any Pool.
- Upgrade to MySQL 4.1.1 See:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_SQL_mode.html
- Add client version to the Client name line that prints in
list, also it is maybe a good idea to check for the return value and
execute different actions based on the return value
-2. Priorities also for the Schedule Resource
-
- Why:
-
- With this it is possible to run monthly jobs at the end of the month
- instead of the beginning of the next month, so one could define
- weekly and monthly pools to be run on Fridays and if there are
- 2 Jobs resulting on the same time, the one with the higher priority
- takes precedence. This is also helpfull to implement a daily
- rotation scheme with an additional 2 weeks changing weekly pool
-
-Example:
- Schedule {
- Name = "NightlyBackup"
- Run = Priority = 1,Pool=Weekly friday at 21:00
- Run = Priority = 2,Pool=Weekly monthly on friday at 21:00
- Run = Priority = 3,Pool=Weekly yearly on friday at 21:00
- }
3. offline capability to bconsole
==========
- Can one write tapes faster with 8192 byte block sizes?
- Specify a single directory to restore.
-- Implement Maximum Job Spool Size
- Document security problems with the same password for everyone in
rpm and Win32 releases.
- Browse generations of files.
- Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
- Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
saving only *.doc files.
+- Fix
+ Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
+ Storage: DDS-4-changer
+ Media type:
+ Pool: Default
+ label
+ The defined Storage resources are:
+- Copy Changer Device and Changer Command from Autochanger
+ to Device resource in SD if none given in Device resource.
+- 1. Automatic use of more than one drive in an autochanger (done)
+- 2. Automatic selection of the correct drive for each Job (i.e.
+ selects a drive with an appropriate Volume for the Job) (done)
+- 6. Allow multiple simultaneous Jobs referencing the same pool write
+ to several tapes (some new directive(s) are are probably needed for
+ this) (done)
+- Locking (done)
+- Key on Storage rather than Pool (done)
+- Allow multiple drives to use same Pool (change jobq.c DIR) (done).
+- Synchronize multiple drives so that not more
+ than one loads a tape and any time (done)
+- 4. Use Changer Device and Changer Command specified in the
+ Autochanger resource, if none is found in the Device resource.
+ You can continue to specify them in the Device resource if you want
+ or need them to be different for each device.
+- 5. Implement a new Device directive (perhaps "Autoselect = yes/no")
+ that can allow a Device be part of an Autochanger, and hence the changer
+ script protected, but if set to no, will prevent the Device from being
+ automatically selected from the changer. This allows the device to
+ be directly accessed through its Device name, but not through the
+ AutoChanger name.
+#6 Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
+#5 Events that call a Python program
+ (Implemented in Dir/SD)
+- Make sure the Device name is in the Query packet returned.
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