Kern's ToDo List
- 23 January 2005
+ 22 February 2005
Major development:
Project Developer
Suggestions for Preben:
- Look at adding Client run command that will use the
port opened by the client.
-- Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
- saving only *.doc files.
-- Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
- 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
+ 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.
+- 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:
+- 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/...
+- OS linux 2.4
+ 1) ADIC, DLT, FastStor 4000, 7*20GB
+ 2) Sun, DDS, (Suns name unknown - Archive Python DDS drive), 1.2GB
+ 3) Wangtek, QIC, 6525ES, 525MB (fixed block size 1k, block size etc.
+ driver dependent - aic7xxx works, ncr53c8xx with problems)
+ 4) HP, DDS-2, C1553A, 6*4GB
+- Doc the following
+ to activate, check or disable the hardware compression feature on my
+ exb-8900 i use the exabyte "MammothTool" you can get it here:
+ http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/index.cfm
+ There is a solaris version of this tool. With option -C 0 or 1 you can
+ disable or activate compression. Start this tool without any options for
+ 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.
+- Windows restore:
+ data-fd: RestoreFiles.2004-12-07_15.56.42 Error:
+ > ..\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:275 Could not open e:/: ERR=Der
+ > Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von einem anderen
+ > Prozess verwendet wird.
+ Restore restores all files, but then fails at the end trying
+ to set the attributes of e:
+- Add better documentation on how restores can be done
+ from failed jobs.
+- Resolve the problem between Device name and Archive name,
+ 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
design.
- Create a new GUI chapter explaining all the GUI programs.
- Tell the "restore" user when browsing is no longer possible.
-- Add disk seeking on restore.
-- Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
- Require restore via the restore command or make a restore Job
get the bootstrap file.
-- Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
- Make bootstrap file handle multiple MediaTypes (SD)
- Add offline tape command to Bacula console.
-- Add performance testing hooks
-- Add Python writable variable for changing the Priority,
- Client, Storage, JobStatus (error), ...
- Document that Bootstrap files can be written with cataloging
turned off.
- Look at adding full Volume and Pool information to a Volume
- 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
+ the Job report.
- Bug:
Enter MediaId or Volume name: 32
Enter new Volume name: DLT-20Dec04
- Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
-Regression tests (Jo):
+Regression tests (Scott):
- Add Pool/Storage override regression test.
- Add delete JobId to regression.
- Add a regression test for dbcheck.
1.37 Possibilities:
=== From Carsten Menke <bootsy52@gmx.net>
-The bacula-devel list is CC'ed (I'm also subscribed to the list right now,
-so I will also get the responses).
Following is a list of what I think in the situations where I'm faced with,
could be a usefull enhancement to bacula, which I'm certain other users will
- Implement Preben's suggestion to add
File System Types = ext2, ext3
to FileSets, thus simplifying backup of *all* local partitions.
+- Try to open a device on each Job if it was not opened
+ when the SD started.
+- Add dump of VolSessionId/Time and FileIndex with bls.
+- If Bacula does not find the right tape in the Autochanger,
+ then mark the tape in error and move on rather than asking
+ for operator intervention.
+- Cancel command should include JobId in list of Jobs.
+- Add performance testing hooks
+- Bootstrap from JobMedia records.
+- Implement WildFile and WildDir to solve problem of
+ saving only *.doc files.
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