Kern's ToDo List
- 22 February 2006
+ 19 August 2006
Major development:
Project Developer
workaround: specify absolute working and pid directory in
bacula-fd.conf (e.g. c:\bacula\working instead of
\bacula\working).
-
-Priority:
-
-For 1.39:
-- Implement VolumeState as discussed with Arno.
-- Install man pages
- Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
- Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
- Add example of proper index output to doc.
show index from File;
+- Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
+- Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
+- Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
+ building the French PDF.
+- Document more DVD stuff -- particularly that recycling doesn't work,
+ and all the other things too.
+
+Priority:
+
+For 1.39:
+- Fix wx-console scanning problem with commas in names.
+- Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
+ broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
+- add udev rules for Bacula devices.
+- Add manpages to the list of directories for make install.
+- If a job terminates, the DIR connection can close before the
+ Volume info is updated, leaving the File count wrong.
+- Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in
+ writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
+- Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
+- Ensure that connection to daemon failure always indicates what
+ daemon it was trying to connect to.
+- Try turning on disk seek code.
+- Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
+- Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common
+ routines.
+- Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
+- Remove queue.c code.
+- Add bconsole option to use stdin/out instead of conio.
+- Fix ClientRunBefore/AfterJob compatibility.
- Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
a block, and check if block was written by a different job
(i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
-- JobStatus and Termination codes.
- Some users claim that they must do two prune commands to get a
Volume marked as purged.
- Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
UTF-8.
+- New dot commands from Arno.
+ .update volume [enabled|disabled|*see below]
+ > However, I could easily imagine an option to "update slots" that says
+ > "enable=yes|no" that would automatically enable or disable all the Volumes
+ > found in the autochanger. This will permit the user to optionally mark all
+ > the Volumes in the magazine disabled prior to taking them offsite, and mark
+ > them all enabled when bringing them back on site. Coupled with the options
+ > to the slots keyword, you can apply the enable/disable to any or all volumes.
+ .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
+ devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
+ .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with
+ better machine-readable output like "Ok" or "Error busy"
+ .move eject device=xxx toslot=yyy the same as above, but with a new
+ target slot. The catalog should be updated accordingly.
+ .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
+
+Low priority:
+- Get Perl replacement for bregex.c
+- Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
+ little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
+ simple solution (i.e. some bug that was introduced). What might be a better
+ solution would be to use a FIFO as a sort of "key" to tell Bacula to read and
+ write data to a program rather than the FIFO. For example, suppose you
+ create a FIFO named:
+
+ /home/kern/my-fifo
+
+ Then, I could imagine if you backup and restore this file with a direct
+ reference as is currently done for fifos, instead, during backup Bacula will
+ execute:
+
+ /home/kern/my-fifo.backup
+
+ and read the data that my-fifo.backup writes to stdout. For restore, Bacula
+ will execute:
+
+ /home/kern/my-fifo.restore
+
+ and send the data backed up to stdout. These programs can either be an
+ executable or a shell script and they need only read/write to stdin/stdout.
+
+ I think this would give a lot of flexibility to the user without making any
+ significant changes to Bacula.
+
+
+==== SQL
+# get null file
+select FilenameId from Filename where Name='';
+# Get list of all directories referenced in a Backup.
+select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and
+ File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId
+ order by Path.Path ASC;
+
+- Look into using Dart for testing
+ http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml
+
+- Look into replacing autotools with cmake
+ http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
+
=== Migration from David ===
What I'd like to see:
- Does ClientRunAfterJob fail the job on a bad return code?
- Make hardlink code at line 240 of find_one.c use binary search.
- Add ACL error messages in src/filed/acl.c.
-
+- Make authentication failures single threaded.
+- Make Dir and SD authentication errors single threaded.
+- Install man pages
+- Fix catreq.c digestbuf at line 411 in src/dird/catreq.c
+- Make base64.c (bin_to_base64) take a buffer length
+ argument to avoid overruns.
+ and verify that other buffers cannot overrun.
+- Implement VolumeState as discussed with Arno.
+- Add LocationId to update volume
+- Add LocationLog
+ LogId
+ Date
+ User text
+ MediaId
+ LocationId
+ NewState???
+- Add Comment to Media record
+- Fix auth compatibility with 1.38
+- Update dbcheck to include Log table
+- Update llist to include new fields.
+- Make unmount unload autochanger. Make mount load slot.
+- Fix bscan to report the JobType when restoring a job.
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