Kern's ToDo List
- 27 January 2004
+ 9 March 2004
Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
- DB upgrade to version 5 in bacula-1.27b, DB upgrade to
- Test cancel at EOM.
For 1.33 Testing/Documentation:
-- Newly labeled tapes are chosen before ones already in use.
-- Document new alias records in Director. SDAddress SDDeviceName, SDPassword.
- FDPassword, FDAddress, DBAddress, DBPort, DBPassword.
- Document new Include/Exclude ...
-- Add test of exclusion, test multiple Include {} statements.
- Add counter variable test.
- Document ln -sf /usr/lib/libncurses.so /usr/lib/libtermcap.so
and install the esound-dev package for compiling Console on SuSE.
- Add an example of using a FIFO in dirdconf.wml
- Add an item to the FAQ about running jobs in different timezones.
- Add some examples of job editing codes.
-
- Document Dan's new --with-dir-user, ... options.
See userid.txt
- Figure out how to use ssh or stunnel to protect Bacula communications.
"soft" and "intr"remount options may well help you. The only way of
being sure would be totry it.See, for example,
http://howtos.linux.com/guides/nag2/x-087-2-nfs.mountd.shtml
+- Add the following devices as working:
+ Adic Scalar 100 DLT
+ Adic Fastor 22 DLT
+ (both HVD)
+ Overland LoaderXpress LTO (LVD)
+ Overland Neo2000 (LVD)
For 1.33
-- Remove h_errno from bnet.c by including proper header.
-- Do not err job if could not write bootstrap file.
+From Chris Hull:
+ it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
+ hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
+ Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
+ should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
+- Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
+- Check: Run = Level=Differential feb-dec 1 at 1:05 to see if wday is empty.
+- Look at installation file permissions with Scott so that make install
+ and the rpms agree.
+- Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
+ did not exist.
+- Allow "delete job jobid=xx jobid=xxx".
+- Allow "delete job jobid=xxx,yyy,aaa-bbb" i.e. list + ranges.
+- Implement multiple Volume in "purge jobs volume=".
+- Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
+ then list last 20 backups.
+- Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
+ stat data on each file).
+- Finish code passing files=nnn to restore start.
+- Add level to estimate command.
+- Symbolic link a directory to another one, then backup the symbolic link.
+- Check and possibly fix problems with hard links.
+- Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
+- Add all pools in Dir conf to DB also update them to catch changed
+ LabelFormats and such.
+- Build console in client-only build.
+- Write a Qmsg() to be used in bnet.c to prevent recursion. Queue the
+ message. If dequeueing toss the messages. Lock while dequeuing so that
+ it cannot be called recursively and set dequeuing flag.
+- Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
+ Do both a long and short form.
+- Finish work on conio.c
+- See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
+- Phil says that Windows file sizes mismatch in Verify when they should,
+ and that either the file size or the catalog size was zero.
+- Check time/dates printed during restore when using Win32 API.
+- Add ctl-c to console to stop current command and discard buffered
+ output.
+- Estimate to Tibs never returns.
+
+- Later:
+- Make btape accept Device Names in addition to Archive names.
+- Add Events and Perl scripting.
+- Add John's appended files:
+ Appended = { /files/server/logs/http/*log }
+ and such files would be treated as follows.On a FULL backup, they would
+ be backed up like any other file.On an INCREMENTAL backup, where a
+ previous INCREMENTAL or FULL was already in thecatalogue and the length
+ of the file wasgreater than the length of the last backup, only thedata
+ added since the last backup will be dumped.On an INCREMENTAL backup, if
+ the length of the file is less than thelength of the file with the same
+ name last backed up, the completefile is dumped.On Windows systems, with
+ creation date of files, we can be evensmarter about this and not count
+ entirely upon the length.On a restore, the full and all incrementals
+ since it will beapplied in sequence to restore the file. - Add a
+ regression test for dbcheck. - Add disk seeking on restore. - Allow
+ for optional cancelling of SD and FD in case DIR
+ gets a fatal error. Requested by Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
- Bizarre message: Error: Could not open WriteBootstrap file:
- Build console in client only build.
-- For "list jobs" order by EndTime.
- Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
- Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
-- Make column listing for running jobs.
- JobId Level Type Started Name Status
-- Make two tape fill test work.
- Check if the tape has moved before writing.
-- Save and restore last_job across executions.
-- Implement restart of daemon.
- Handling removable disks -- see below:
- Multiple drive autochanger support -- see below.
- Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
-- Add Events and Perl scripting.
-- See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
- Fix FreeBSD mt_count problem.
-- During install, copy any console.conf to bconsole.conf.
-- Have each daemon save the last_jobs structure when exiting and
- read it back in when starting up.
-- "restore jobid=1 select" calls get_storage_xxx, which prints "JobId 1 is
- not running."
- Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
BackupClient RestoreClient).
- Automatic "update slots" on user configuration directive when a
slot error occurs.
-- Allow "delete job jobid=xx jobid=xxx".
-- Allow "delete job jobid=xxx,yyy,aaa-bbb" i.e. list + ranges.
-- Implement multiple Volume in "purge jobs volume=".
- Implement a JobSet, which groups any number of jobs. If the
JobSet is started, all the jobs are started together.
Allow Pool, Level, and Schedule overrides.
those of the time of the restore, not those of the originalfile.
The dates you will find in your restore log seem to be the original
creation dates
-- Rescue builds incorrect script files on Rufus.
-- Write a Qmsg() to be used in bnet.c to prevent recursion. Queue the
- message. If dequeueing toss the messages. Lock while dequeuing so that
- it cannot be called recursively and set dequeuing flag.
-- Add all pools in Dir conf to DB also update them to catch changed
- LabelFormats and such.
-- Symbolic link a directory to another one, then backup the symbolic
- link.
-- Build console in client-only build.
-- Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
- did not exist.
-- Check why Phil's Verify exclude does not work.
-- Phil says that Windows file sizes mismatch in Verify when they should,
- and that either the file size or the catalog size was zero.
-- Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
- then list last 20 backups.
-- Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
- stat data on each file).
-- Finish code passing files=nnn to restore start.
-- Add level to estimate command.
-- Check time/dates printed during restore when using Win32 API.
- Volume "add"ed to Pool gets recycled in first use. VolBytes=0
- Get rid of 0 dates in LastWritten, ...
-- Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
-- Release SQLite 2.8.9
- If a tape is recycled while it is mounted, Stanislav Tvrudy must do an
additional mount to deblock the job.
- From Johan Decock:
- Correct code so that FileSet MD5 is calculated for < and | filename
generation.
- Mark Volume in error on error from WEOF.
-- Why does Bacula need the drive open to do "autochanger list" ?
-- Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
- Do both a long and short form.
- Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
addressing.
- Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
- Look at extracting Win data from BackupRead.
- Having dashes in filenames apparently creates problems for restore
- by filename.
-- Add data compare on write/read in btape "test".
+ by filename??? hard to believe.
- Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
which would take precidence over the Catalog "JobRetention".
- Implement Label Format in Add and Label console commands.
- Possibly up network buffers to 65K. Put on variable.
- Put email tape request delays on one or more variables. User wants
to cancel the job after a certain time interval. Maximum Mount Wait?
- Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
+- Job, Client, Device, Pool, or Volume?
Is it possible to make this a directive which is *optional* in multiple
resources, like Level? If so, I think I'd make it an optional directive
in Job, Client, and Pool, with precedence such that Job overrides Client
which in turn overrides Pool.
- Print a message when a job starts if the conf file is not current.
-- Finish work on conio.c
- To pass Include 1 or two letter commands
I Name Include name - first record
B Name Base name - repeat
After 1.33:
- Look at www.nu2.nu/pebuilder as a helper for full windows
bare metal restore.
-From Chris Hull:
- it seems to be complaining about 12:00pm which should be a valid 12
- hour time. I changed the time to 11:59am and everything works fine.
- Also 12:00am works fine. 0:00pm also works (which I don't think
- should). None of the values 12:00pm - 12:59pm work for that matter.
Ideas from Jerry Scharf:
First let's point out some big pluses that bacula has for this
it's open source
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/). It's
an officially adopted standard, has survived peer
review, and provides keys up to 256 bits.
-- Add ctl-c to console to stop current command and discard buffered
- output.
-- Estimate to Tibs never returns.
- Think about how space could be freed up on a tape -- perhaps this
is a Merge or Compact feature that is needed.
- Modify FileSet, did not upgrade the current Increment job, but
====
-=== for 1.33
+=== Done in 1.33
- Change console to bconsole.
- Change smtp to bsmtp.
- Fix time difference problem between Bacula and Client
Differential Backup Pool = zzz
}
- Look at ASSERT() at 384 src/lib/bnet.c
+- Dates are wrong in restore list from Win32 FD.
+- Dates are wrong in catalog from Win32 FD.
+- Remove h_errno from bnet.c by including proper header.
+- For "list jobs" order by EndTime.
+- Make two tape fill test work.
+- Add atime preservation.
+- Do not err job if could not write bootstrap file.
+- Save and restore last_job across executions.
+- Have each daemon save the last_jobs structure when exiting and
+ read it back in when starting up.
+- "restore jobid=1 select" calls get_storage_xxx, which prints "JobId 1 is
+ not running."
+- Make column listing for running jobs JobId Level Type Started Name Status
+- Why does Bacula need the drive open to do "autochanger list" ?
+- Add data compare on write/read in btape "test".
+- Rescue builds incorrect script files on Rufus.
+- Release SQLite 2.8.9
+- During install, copy any console.conf to bconsole.conf.
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