Kern's ToDo List
- 27 January 2004
+ 22 July 2004
+
+1.35 Items to do:
+- Do tape alerts -- see tapealert.txt
+- Fix errno handling in win32 compat routines.
+- Add better error codes to run_program (10000+)
+- Revisit and revise Disaster Recovery (fix SCSI and RAID
+ disk detection)
+- Document a get out of jail procedure if everything breaks if
+ you lost/broke the Catalog -- do the same for "I know my
+ file is there how do I get it back?".
+- When passwords do not match, print message that points the
+ user to the doc.
+- Make Verify jobs require exclusive use of Volume as Restore
+ jobs do.
+- Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
+- Look at adding Client run command that will use the
+ port opened by the client.
+- Fix find_device in stored/dircmd.c:462
+- Add new DCR calling sequences everywhere in SD.
+ This will permit simultaneous use of multiple
+ devices by a single job.
+- bscan does not put first of two volumes back with all info in
+ bscan-test.
+- Fix restore ++++ that get intermingled with "Building directory tree"
+- Solve the termcap.h problem on Solaris configure.
Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
-- Document running a test version.
- Document query file format.
-- Document static linking
- Document problems with Verify and pruning.
- Document how to use multiple databases.
-- For FreeBSD typical /dev/nrsa0 and for mtx /dev/pass1
- VXA drives have a "cleaning required"
indicator, but Exabyte recommends preventive cleaning after every 75
hours of operation.
changing tape settings while a job is running.)
- Lookup HP cleaning recommendations.
- Lookup HP tape replacement recommendations (see trouble shooting autochanger)
-- Create a man page for each binary (Debian package requirement).
+- Add more obvious documentation of @ for conf files.
+- Document doing table repair
Testing to do: (painful)
- Test drive polling!
-- that ALL console command line options work and are always implemented
- blocksize recognition code.
- Test if rewind at end of tape waits for tape to rewind.
- 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.
- This should read 'Document LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/termcap" ... '
-- 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.
- Add Dan's work to manual
- See ssl.txt
+For 1.37 Testing/Documentation:
- Add db check test to regression. Test each function like delete,
purge, ...
-- Add subsections to the Disaster Recovery index section.
-- Document Pool keyword for restore.
- If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
-- In the Bacula User Guide you write:"Note, one major disadvantage of
- writing to a NFS mounted volume as I do isthat if the other machine goes
- down, the OS will wait forever on the fopen()call that Bacula makes. As
- a consequence, Bacula will completely stall untilthe machine exporting
- the NSF mounts comes back up. If someone knows a wayaround this, please
- let me know."I haven't tried using NFS in years, but I think that the
- "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
-
-For 1.33
-- Allow "delete job jobid=xx jobid=xxx".
+
+Wish list:
+- Figure out how to make named console messages go only to that
+ console and to the non-restricted console (new console class?).
+- Make restricted console prompt for password if *ask* is set or
+ perhaps if password is undefined.
+- Implement "from ISO-date/time every x hours/days/weeks/months" in
+ schedules.
+- Compaction of Disk space by "migrating" Volumes that have pruned
+ Jobs (what criteria? size, #jobs, time).
+- Add prune all command
+- Document fact that purge can destroy a part of a restore by purging
+ one volume while others remain valid -- perhaps mark Jobs.
+- Add multiple-media-types.txt
+- look at mxt-changer.html
+- Make ? do a help command (no return needed).
+- Implement restore directory.
+- Add All Local Partitions = yes to new style saves.
+- Document streams and how to implement them.
+- Possibly implement "Ensure Full Backup = yes" looks for a failed full backup
+ and upgrades the current backup if one exists.
+- Check that barcode reading and update slots scan works.
+- Try not to re-backup a file if a new hard link is added.
+- Add feature to backup hard links only, but not the data.
+- Add "All Local = yes" option to save to include all local partitions.
+- Fix stream handling to be simpler.
+- Add Priority and Bootstrap to Run a Job.
+- Eliminate Restore "Run Restore Job" prompt by allowing new "run command
+ to be issued"
+- Remove View FileSet button from Run a Job dialog.
+- Don't count higher level non-saved directories in Files expected
+ in restore report.
+- Handle prompt for restore job at end of Restore command.
+- Add display of total selected files to Restore window.
+- Add tree pane to left of window.
+- Add progress meter.
+- Polling does not work for restore. It tries a number of times,
+ gives up, and crashes the SD.
+- Lock jcr_chain when doing attach/detach in acquire.c
+- Add assert in free_jcr if attach/detach chain active.
+- Max wait time or max run time causes seg fault -- see runtime-bug.txt
+- Document writing to a CD/DVD with Bacula.
+- Add check for tape alerts.
+- Add a "base" package to the window installer for pthreadsVCE.dll
+ which is needed by all packages.
+- Add message to user to check for fixed block size when the forward
+ space test fails in btape.
+- When unmarking a directory check if all files below are unmarked and
+ then remove the + flag -- in the restore tree.
+- Possibly implement: Action = Unmount Device="TapeDrive1" in Admin jobs.
+- Setup lrrd graphs: (http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/) Mike Acar.
+- Revisit the question of multiple Volumes (disk) on a single device.
+- Finish SIGHUP work.
+- Check that all change in wait status in the SD are
+ signaled to the Director.
+- Add a block copy option to bcopy.
+- Investigate adding Mac Resource Forks.
+- Finish work on Gnome restore GUI.
+- Fix "llist jobid=xx" where no fileset or client exists.
+- Check pruning of restore jobs.
+- 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.
+- Add level to estimate command.
+- For each job type (Admin, Restore, ...) require only the really necessary
+ fields.
+- Fix option 2 of restore -- list where file is backed up -- require Client,
+ then list last 20 backups.
+- Add all pools in Dir conf to DB also update them to catch changed
+ LabelFormats and such.
+- Update volumes FromPool=xxx does all volumes.
+- Pass Director resource name as an option to the Console.
+- Add a "batch" mode to the Console (no unsolicited queries, ...).
+- Add code to check for tape alerts -- tapeinfo.
+- Make sure list of Volumes needed is in correct order for restore.
+ See havana.
+- Remove paths (and files that reference them) that have no trailing slash
+ in dbcheck -- or add a trailing slash.
+- Remove Filenames (and files that reference them) that have a trailing
+ slash in dbcheck -- or remove the trailing slash.
+- Remove orphaned paths/filenames by copying them to a new table with a
+ reference count, then mark all referenced files/paths and remove unreferenced
+ ones.
+- Add a .list all files in the restore tree (probably also a list all files)
+ Do both a long and short form.
+- Allow browsing the catalog to see all versions of a file (with
+ stat data on each file).
+- Restore attributes of directory if replace=never set but directory
+ did not exist.
- Allow "delete job jobid=xxx,yyy,aaa-bbb" i.e. list + ranges.
-- Implement multiple Volume in "purge jobs volume=".
+- Use SHA1 on authentication if possible.
+- See comtest-xxx.zip for Windows code to talk to USB.
+- 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.
+- Add "limit=n" for "list jobs"
+- Check new HAVE_WIN32 open bits.
+- Check if the tape has moved before writing.
+- Handling removable disks -- see below:
+- Multiple drive autochanger support -- see below.
+- Keep track of tape use time, and report when cleaning is necessary.
+- Fix FreeBSD mt_count problem.
+- Add FromClient and ToClient keywords on restore command (or
+ BackupClient RestoreClient).
+- Automatic "update slots" on user configuration directive when a
+ slot error occurs.
- 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.
-- Enhance cancel to timout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
+- Enhance cancel to timeout BSOCK packets after a specific delay.
- When I restore to Windows the Created, Accessed and Modifiedtimes are
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
- R "xxx" Regexp
- W "xxx" Wild Card
- E zzz Exclude expression (wild card)
- P "plugin" Plugin
- D "reader" Reader program
- T "writer" Writer program
- O Options In current commpressed format
- (compression, signature, onefs, recurse, sparse,
- replace, verify options, ...)
- N End option set
- B BaseName Start second option set any letter
- ...
- E
- F Number Number of filenames to follow
- <file-name>
- B Name
- ...
- N End option set
- F Number Number of filenames to follow
- <file-name>
- ...
- Spooling ideas taken from Volker Sauer's and other's emails:
> IMHO job spooling should be turned on
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
> woorkstations to be shut down overnight to save power.
>
-- From Terry Manderson <terry@apnic.net>
- jobdefs { # new structure
- name = "monthlyUnixBoxen"
- type = backup
- level = full
- schedule = monthly
- storage = DLT
- messages = Standard
- pool = MonthlyPool
- priority = 10
- }
-
- job {
- name = "wakame"
- jobdefs = "genericUnixSet"
- client = wakame-fd
- }
-
- job {
- name = "durian"
- jobdefs = "genericUnixSet"
- client = durian-fd
- }
-
- job {
- name = "soy"
- jobdefs = "UnixDevelBoxSet"
- client = soy-fd
- }
-
-
- Autolabel should be specified by DIR instead of SD.
- Storage daemon
- Add media capacity
VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
=========================================================
-
-
-=============================================================
-
- Request For Comments For File Backup Options
- 10 November 2002
-
-Subject: File Backup Options
-
-Problem:
- A few days ago, a Bacula user who is backing up to file volumes and
- using compression asked if it was possible to suppress compressing
- all .gz files since it was a waste of CPU time. Although Bacula
- currently permits using different options (compression, ...) on
- a directory by directory basis, it cannot do it on a file by
- file basis, which is clearly what was desired.
-
-Proposed Implementation:
- To solve this problem, I propose the following:
-
- - Add a new Director resource type called Options.
-
- - The Options resource will have records for all
- options that can currently be specified on the Include record
- (in a FileSet). Examples below.
-
- - The Options resource will permit an exclude option as well
- as a number of additional options.
-
- - The heart of the Options resource is the ability to
- supply any number of Match records which specify POSIX
- regular expressions. These Match regular expressions are
- applied to the fully qualified filename (path and all). If
- one matches, then the Options will be used.
-
- - When an Match specification matches an included file, the
- options specified in the Options resource will override
- the default options specified on the Include record.
-
- - Include records will be modified to permit referencing one or
- more Options resources. The Options will be used
- in the order listed on the Include record and the first
- one that matches will be applied.
-
- - Options (or specifications) currently supplied on the Include
- record will be deprecated (i.e. removed in a later version a
- year or so from now).
-
- - The Exclude record will be deprecated as the same functionality
- can be obtained by using an Exclude = yes in the Options.
-
-Options records:
- The following records can appear in the Options resource. An
- asterisk preceding the name indicates a feature not currently
- implemented.
-
- - Regexp "xxx" - Match regular expression
- - Wild "xxx" - Do a wild card match
-
- For Backup Jobs:
- - Compression= (GZIP, ...)
- - Signature= (MD5, SHA1, ...)
- - *Encryption=
- - OneFs= (yes/no) - remain on one filesystem
- - Recurse= (yes/no) - recurse into subdirectories
- - Sparse= (yes/no) - do sparse file backup
- - *Exclude= (yes/no) - exclude file from being saved
- - *Reader= (filename) - external read (backup) program
- - *Plugin= (filename) - read/write plugin module
-
- - Include= (yes/no) - Include the file matched no additional
- patterns are applied.
-
- For Verify Jobs:
- - verify= (ipnougsamc5) - verify options
-
- For Restore Jobs:
- - replace= (always/ifnewer/ifolder/never) - replace options currently
- implemented in 1.31
- - *Writer= (filename) - external write (restore) program
-
-
-Implementation:
- Currently options specifying compression, MD5 signatures, recursion,
- ... of a FileSet are supplied on the Include record. These will now
- all be collected into a Options resource, which will be
- specified in the Include in place of the options. Multiple Options
- may be specified. Since the Options may contain regular expressions
- that are applied to the full filename, this will give the ability
- to specify backup options on a file by file basis to whatever level
- of detail you wish.
-
-Example:
-
- Today:
-
- FileSet {
- Name = "FullSet"
- Include = compression=GZIP signature=MD5 {
- /
- }
- }
-
- Proposal:
-
- FileSet {
- Name = "FullSet"
- Include {
- Compression = GZIP;
- Signature = MD5
- Wild = /*.?*/ # matches all files.
- File = /
- }
- }
-
- That's a lot more to do the same thing, but it gives the ability to
- apply options on a file by file basis. For example, suppose you
- want to compress all files but not any file with extensions .gz or .Z.
- In that case, you will need to group two sets of options using
- the Options resource. Files may be anywhere except in an
- option set??? All OptionSets apply to all files in the order
- the OptionSets were specified. To have files included with
- different option sets without using wild-cards, use two or more
- Includes -- each one is handled in turn using only the files and
- optionsets specified in the include.
-
- FileSet {
- Name = "FullSet"
- Include {
- OptionSet {
- Signature = MD5
- # Note multiple Matches are ORed
- Wild = "*.gz" # matches .gz files
- Wild = "*.Z" # matches .Z files
- }
- OptionSet {
- Compression = GZIP
- Signature = MD5
- Wild = "*.?*" # matches all files
- }
- File = /
- }
- }
-
- Now, since the no Compression option is specified in the
- first group of Options, *.gz or *.Z file will have an MD5 signature computed,
- but will not be compressed. For all other files, the *.gz *.Z will not
- match, so the second group of options will be used which will include GZIP
- compression.
-
-Questions:
- - Is it necessary to provide some means of ANDing regular expressions
- and negation? (not currently planned)
-
- e.g. Wild = /*.gz/ && !/big.gz/
-
- - I see that Networker has a "null" module which, if specified, does not
- backup the file, but does make an record of the file in the catalog
- so that the catalog will reflect an exact picture of the filesystem.
- The result is that the file can be "seen" when "browsing" the save
- sets, but it cannot be restored.
-
- Is this really useful? Should it be implemented in Bacula?
-
-Results:
- After implementing the above, the user will be able to specify
- on a file by file basis (using regular expressions) what options are
- applied for the backup.
-
-
-=============================================
==========================================================
Unsaved File design
- Implement forward spacing block/file: position_device(bsr) --
just before read_block_from_device();
-=== for 1.33
-- Change console to bconsole.
-- Change smtp to bsmtp.
-- Fix time difference problem between Bacula and Client
- so that everything is in GMT.
-- Fix TimeZone problem!
-- Mount a tape that is not right for the job (wrong # files on tape)
- Bacula asks for another tape, fix problems with first tape and
- say "mount". All works OK, but status shows:
- Device /dev/nst0 open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
- Total Bytes=1,153,820,213 Blocks=17,888 Bytes/block=64,502
- Positioned at File=9 Block=3,951
- Full Backup job Rufus.2003-10-26_16.45.31 using Volume "DLT-24Oct03" on device /dev/nst0
- Files=21,003 Bytes=253,954,408 Bytes/sec=2,919,016
- FDReadSeqNo=192,134 in_msg=129830 out_msg=5 fd=7
-- Upgrade to cygwin 1.5
-- Optimize fsf not to read.
-- Use ioctl() fsf if it exists. Figure out where we are from
- the mt_status command. Use slow fsf only if other does not work.
-- Enhance "update slots" to include a "scan" feature
- scan 1; scan 1-5; scan 1,2,4 ... to update the catalog
-- Allow a slot or range of slots on the label barcodes command.
-- Finish implementation of Verify=DiskToCatalog
-- Make sure that Volumes are recycled based on "Least recently used"
- rather than lowest MediaId.
-- Add flag to write only one EOF mark on the tape.
-- Implement autochanger testing in btape "test" command.
-- Implement lmark to list everyfile marked.
-- Make mark/unmark report how many files marked/unmarked.
-- Keep last 5 or 10 completed jobs and show them in a similar list.
-- Make a Running Jobs: output similar to current Scheduled Jobs:
-- Change "create_media_record in bscan to use Archive instead of Full.
-- Have some way to estimate the restore size or have it printed.
-- Volume problems occurs if you have valid volume, written, then it is
- truncated. You get 12-Nov-2003 11:48 rufus-sd: kernsave.2003-11-12_11.48.09 Warning: mount.c:228 Volume on /tmp is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because:
- block.c:640 Read zero bytes on device /tmp.
-- Make sure that 64 bit I/O packets are used on Cygwin.
-- Add to supported autochangers
- OS : FreeBSD-4.9
- Auto-Changer : QUALSTAR TLS-4210
- Manufufactur : Qualstar
- Tapes : 12 (AIT1: 36GB, AIT2: 50GB all uncompressed)
- Drives : 2xAIT2 (installed in the Qualstar: SONY SDX-500C AIT2)
-- Document estimate command in tree.
-- Document lsmark command in tree.
-- Setup a standard job that builds a bootstrap file and saves
- it with the catalog database.
-- See if a restore job can add a file to the tape (prohibit this).
-- Restrict characters permitted in a name.
-- In restore, provide option for limiting to a particular Pool.
-- In restore, list FileSets that only have different base names --
- i.e. any FileSet with the same name should be treated as the same.
-- Make Scheduler sort jobs by StartTime, Priority.
-- Make sure smtp and any other useful program is executable by the world
- in case Bacula is not running as root.
-- Look at Dan's field width problems in PostgreSQL.
-- Look at effect of removing GROUP BYs.
-- In restore take all filesets with same base name.
-- From Alan Brown <ajb2@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
- BTW, there's a make install bug in 1.33 - with --enable-gnome,
- gnome-console is built, but the binary and .conf are not being installed.
-- Permit Bacula and apcupsd donations (not done for apcupsd).
-- Fix Ctl-C crashing the Console (readline?).
-- Look at code in recycle_oldes_purged_volume() recycle.c. Why not
- let SQL do ORDER BY LastWritten ASC?
-- Look at find_next_volume() algorithm. Currently, it selects:
- +---------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
- | MediaId | VolumeName | LastWritten | VolBytes |
- +---------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
- | 3 | Test13 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 1 |
- | 4 | Test14 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 1 |
- | 1 | test11 | 2003-12-03 18:39:55 | 4,004,926 |
- | 2 | test12 | 2004-01-04 15:25:56 | 2,078,691 |
- +---------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
- but perhaps it should fill already used Volumes first, and use
- Append volumes before Purged, or Recycled, ...
-- Possibly remove the "|| ap == NULL" on lines 123 and 207 of lib/var.c,
- which creates compile problems on alpha systems.
- var.c:123: no match for `va_list & == long int'
-- Check "restore" 3 (JobId), then it asks for Storage resource. Does
- it verify that the correct volume is chosen?
-- Make Bacula "poll a drive".
-- Notes for final checking of Nic's code:
- Could I get you to double check the switch () statements in the
- job_check_maxwaittime and job_check_maxruntime functions in
- src/dird/job.c?
-- Define week of year for scheduler. W01, W02, ...
- Week 01 of a year is per definition the first week that has the
- Thursday in this year, which is equivalent to the week that contains the
- fourth day of January. In other words, the first week of a new year is
- the week that has the majority of its days in the new year. Week 01
- might also contain days from the previous year and the week before week
- 01 of a year is the last week (52 or 53) of the previous year even if it
- contains days from the new year. A week starts with Monday (day 1) and
- ends with Sunday (day 7). For example, the first week of the year 1997
- lasts from 1996-12-30 to 1997-01-05 and can be written in standard
- notation as
- 1997-W01 or 1997W01
- The week notation can also be extended by a number indicating the day
- of the week. For example, the day 1996-12-31, which is the Tuesday (day
- 2) of the first week of 1997, can also be written as
- 1997-W01-2 or 1997W012
-- Either restrict the characters in a name, or fix the problem
- emailing with names containing / (smtp command line breaks).
-- Implement .consolerc for Console
-- Implement scan: for every slot it finds, zero the slot of
- Volume other volume having that slot.
-- Make restore job check if all the files are actually restored.
-- Look at 2Gb limit for SQLite.
-- Fix get_storage_from_media_type (ua_restore) to use command line
- storage=
-- Don't print "Warning: Wrong Volume mounted ..." if mounting second volume.
-- Write a mini-readline with history and editing.
-- Take a careful look a the Basic recycling algorithm. When Bacula
- chooses, the order should be:
- - Look for Append
- - Look for Recycle or Purged
- - Prune volumes
- - Look for purged
- Instead of using lowest media Id, find the least recently used
- volume.
-
- When the tape is mounted and Bacula requests the status
- - Do everything possible to use it.
-
- Define a "available" status, which is the currently mounted
- Volume and all volumes that are currently in the autochanger.
-- Is a pool specification really needed for a restore? Yes, and
- you may want to exclude archive Pools.
-- Implement a PostgreSQL driver.
-- Fix restore to list errors if Invalid block found, and if # files
- restored does not match # expected.
-- Something is not right in last block of fill command.
-- Add FileSet to command line arguments for restore.
-- Enhance time and size scanning routines.
-- Add Console usr permissions -- do by adding filters for
- jobs, clients, storage, ...
-- Put max network buffer size on a directive.
-- Why does "mark cygwin" take so long!!!!!!!!
-- Implement alist processing for ACLs from Console.
-- When a file is set for restore, walk back up the chain of
- directories, setting them to be restored.
-- Figure out a way to set restore on a directory without recursively
- decending. (recurse off?).
-- Fix restore to only pull in last Differential and later Incrementals.
-- Implement 3 Pools for a Job:
- Job {
- Name = ...
- Full Backup Pool = xxx
- Incremental Backup Pool = yyy
- Differential Backup Pool = zzz
- }
-- Look at ASSERT() at 384 src/lib/bnet.c
+=====
+ Multiple drive autochanger data: see Alan Brown
+ mtx -f xxx unloadStorage Element 1 is Already Full(drive 0 was empty)
+ Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...source Element
+ Address 480 is Empty
+
+ (drive 0 was empty and so was slot 1)
+ > mtx -f xxx load 15 0
+ no response, just returns to the command prompt when complete.
+ > mtx -f xxx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:2 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
+ Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 15 Loaded):VolumeTag = HX001
+ Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
+ Storage Element 1:Empty
+ Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=HX002
+ Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=HX003
+ Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=HX004
+ Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=HX005
+ Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=HX006
+ Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=HX007
+ Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=HX008
+ Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=HX009
+ Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=HX010
+ Storage Element 11:Empty
+ Storage Element 12:Empty
+ Storage Element 13:Empty
+ Storage Element 14:Empty
+ Storage Element 15:Empty
+ Storage Element 16:Empty....
+ Storage Element 28:Empty
+ Storage Element 29:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU01L1
+ Storage Element 30:Empty....
+ Storage Element 57:Empty
+ Storage Element 58:Full :VolumeTag=NEX261L2
+ Storage Element 59 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
+ Storage Element 60 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
+ $ mtx -f xxx unload
+ Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 15...done
+
+ (just to verify it remembers where it came from, however it can be
+ overrriden with mtx unload {slotnumber} to go to any storage slot.)
+ Configuration wise:
+ There needs to be a table of drive # to devices somewhere - If there are
+ multiple changers or drives there may not be a 1:1 correspondance between
+ changer drive number and system device name - and depending on the way the
+ drives are hooked up to scsi busses, they may not be linearly numbered
+ from an offset point either.something like
+
+ Autochanger drives = 2
+ Autochanger drive 0 = /dev/nst1
+ Autochanger drive 1 = /dev/nst2
+ IMHO, it would be _safest_ to use explicit mtx unload commands at all
+ times, not just for multidrive changers. For a 1 drive changer, that's
+ just:
+
+ mtx load xx 0
+ mtx unload xx 0
+
+ MTX's manpage (1.2.15):
+ unload [<slotnum>] [ <drivenum> ]
+ Unloads media from drive <drivenum> into slot
+ <slotnum>. If <drivenum> is omitted, defaults to
+ drive 0 (as do all commands). If <slotnum> is
+ omitted, defaults to the slot that the drive was
+ loaded from. Note that there's currently no way
+ to say 'unload drive 1's media to the slot it
+ came from', other than to explicitly use that
+ slot number as the destination.AB
+====
+
+====
+SCSI info:
+FreeBSD
+undef# camcontrol devlist
+<WANGTEK 51000 SCSI M74H 12B3> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
+<ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,sa1)
+<ARCHIVE 4586XX 28887-XXX 4BGD> at scbus0 target 4 lun 1 (pass2)
+
+tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 with a bad tape in drive 1:
+[kern@rufus mtx-1.2.17kes]$ ./tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0
+Product Type: Tape Drive
+Vendor ID: 'HP '
+Product ID: 'C5713A '
+Revision: 'H107'
+Attached Changer: No
+TapeAlert[3]: Hard Error: Uncorrectable read/write error.
+TapeAlert[20]: Clean Now: The tape drive neads cleaning NOW.
+MinBlock:1
+MaxBlock:16777215
+SCSI ID: 5
+SCSI LUN: 0
+Ready: yes
+BufferedMode: yes
+Medium Type: Not Loaded
+Density Code: 0x26
+BlockSize: 0
+DataCompEnabled: yes
+DataCompCapable: yes
+DataDeCompEnabled: yes
+CompType: 0x20
+DeCompType: 0x0
+Block Position: 0
+=====
+
+====
+ Handling removable disks
+
+ From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
+
+ My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
+ idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
+ things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
+ have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
+
+ 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
+ by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
+ 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
+ 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
+ up.
+ 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
+ for each backup.
+ 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
+ important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
+ better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
+ scattered in many subdirectories.
+====
+
+
+=== Done in 1.34.3
+- To pass Include 1 or two letter commands
+ I Name Include name - first record
+ B Name Base name - repeat
+ R "xxx" Regexp
+ W "xxx" Wild Card
+ E zzz Exclude expression (wild card)
+ P "plugin" Plugin
+ D "reader" Reader program
+ T "writer" Writer program
+ O Options In current commpressed format
+ (compression, signature, onefs, recurse, sparse,
+ replace, verify options, ...)
+ N End option set
+ B BaseName Start second option set any letter
+ ...
+ E
+ F Number Number of filenames to follow
+ <file-name>
+ B Name
+ ...
+ N End option set
+ F Number Number of filenames to follow
+ <file-name>
+ ...
+- Add regression of btape "fill"
+==== Done in 1.34.4
+- Implement "label slots=1,2... pool=yyy barcodes"
+- Mark a non-removable disk Volume in error rather than asking sys op to
+ mount it.
+- Implement Fixed storage LabelFormat test.
+- Add reporting in attr despooling.
+- Figure out how to use ssh or stunnel to protect Bacula communications.
+ Add Dan's work to manual See ssl.txt
+
+==== Done in 1.35.0
+- Implement fast tree insert (doubly linked list)
+- Disallow using Internal database
+- Feedback while the restore tree is being built.
+- Add detection of Whitebox release in ./configure
+- Add InChanger to "list media"
+- Implement second cut of SIGHUP in Dir
+ (Implement resources on a single pointer)
+- Add regular expressions to FileSets (needs testing).
+- Test new despooling error recovery code when partition fills.
+- Sort Scheduled jobs status listing by start time.
+- Add priority to Scheduled jobs status listing.
+- Look at Win32 inc problem when new directory added files not saved???
+- Require resource names to be unique.
+- Make sure that all errors from libacl are printed.
+- Make FD run on Win95 if possible (not really possible).
+- Fix GROUP BYs in all SQL (done by Dan -- thanks)
+- Make entering multiple Storage names in Dir illegal.
+- Make btape release the drive during the "test" append.
+- Fix restore:
+ You have selected the following JobIds: 739,856,797
+ Building directory tree for JobId 739 ...
+ Building directory tree for JobId 856 ...
+ Building directory tree for JobId 797 ...3
+ Jobs inserted into the tree.
+
projects / bacula / bacula / blobdiff