Kern's ToDo List
- 25 March 2003
+ 22 April 2003
Documentation to do: (a little bit at a time)
- Document running a test version.
- Document how to automatically backup all local partitions
- Document problems with Verify and pruning.
- Document how to use multiple databases.
-- Document Maximum File Size
-
-***** Write up how to use/manage disk Volume Storage. ******
- Add a section to the doc on Manual cycling of Volumes.
-- Document new MaximumConcurrentJob records (Job, Client, Storage)
+
Testing to do: (painful)
- that ALL console command line options work and are always implemented
- blocksize recognition code.
- multiple simultaneous Volumes
For 1.30 release:
+- Bug: up arrow prints garbage in command line on gnome-console!
+- Bug: fix access problems on files restored on WinXP (possibly do
+ this in a later update.
+- Fix Bare Metal restore problem.
+- Test multiple simultaneous Volumes
+
+- Document new transparent Console commands and wait command.
+- Document new immediate File save configuration (walk user
+ through first save to file Volume with automatic Volume labeling?).
+- Document OPTIMIZE TABLE in MySQL
+- Document labeling a whole magazine using "cat"
+- Document Lutz Kittler's trick of using "Run Before Job" to
+ abort a job on a particular day.
+- Document Ludovic Strappazon's Win32 raw device save/restore.
+- Document not to restore .journal .autofsck
+- Document logrotate
+- Document . and @ commands
+- Document run when.
+
+- Figure out how to use ssh or stunnel to protect Bacula communications.
+
+After 1.30:
+- Implement a Slot priority (loaded/not loaded).
+- Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
+- Implement create "FileSet"?
+- Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
+- Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
+ be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
+ prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
+ run the job but don't save the files.
+- Implement all command line args on run.
+- Implement command line "restore" args.
+- Implement "restore current select=no"
+- Fix watchdog pthread crash on Win32
- Fix "access not allowed" for backup of files on WinXP.
-- Implement | and < in Exclude statements.
-- Fix restoring c: to an alternate directory. Windows
- does not accept /tmp/c:/....
+- Implement "scratch pool" where tapes are defined and can be
+ taken by any pool that needs them.
+- Implement restore "current system", but take all files without
+ doing selection tree -- so that jobs without File records can
+ be restored.
+- Implement scheduling of one time "run" jobs (i.e. instead of
+ starting immediately start at some specified time).
+- Make | and < work on FD side.
+- Pass prefix_links to FD.
+- Implement a M_SECURITY message class.
+- Implement disk spooling. Two parts: 1. Spool to disk then
+ immediately to tape to speed up tape operations. 2. Spool to
+ disk only when the tape is full, then when a tape is hung move
+ it to tape.
+- From Phil Stracchino:
+ It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
+ something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
+ would do is, when you successfully complete a Differential backup of a
+ client, it would automatically purge all Incremental backups for that
+ client that are rendered redundant by that Differential. Likewise,
+ when a Full backup on a client completed, it would automatically purge
+ all Differential and Incremental jobs obsoleted by that Full backup.
+ This would let people minimize the number of tapes they're keeping on
+ hand without having to master the art of retention times.
+
+- Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
+ a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
+ can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
+- Implement dump label to UA
+- Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
+- Look at Python for a Bacula scripting language -- www.python.org
- Issue message to mount a new tape before the rewind.
- Simplified client job initiation for portables.
- If SD cannot open a drive, make it periodically retry.
- Implement LabelTemplate (at least first cut).
-- Figure out some way to specify a retention period for files
- that no longer exist on the machine -- so that we maintain
- say backups for 30 days, but if the file is deleted, we maintain
- the last copy for 1 year.
-- Have Bacula "poll" the tape to see if it is there.
- Add more of the config info to the tape label.
-- Implement bar code reader for autochangers
-- Add a default File storage so that new users can do backup
- and restores right away.
- Implement a Mount Command and an Unmount Command where
the users could specify a system command to be performed
to do the mount, after which Bacula could attempt to
- Make Restore report an error if FD or SD term codes are not OK.
- CD into subdirectory when open()ing files for backup to
speed up things. Test with testfind().
-- Add prefixlinks to where or not where absolute links to FD.
- Priority job to go to top of list.
- Find out why Full saves run slower and slower (hashing?)
- Why are save/restore of device different sizes (sparse?) Yup! Fix it.
- Implement some way for the Console to dynamically create a job.
- Restore to a particular time -- e.g. before date, after date.
-- Implement disk spooling
- Solaris -I on tar for include list
-- Enable avoid backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
+- Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
- Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
- bscan without -v is too quiet -- perhaps show jobs.
- Add code to reject whole blocks if not wanted on restore.
- Start working on Base jobs.
+- Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
- Make sure the MaxVolFiles is fully implemented in SD
- Check if both CatalogFiles and UseCatalog are set to SD.
-- Check if we can increase Bacula FD priorty in Win2000
- Need return status on read_cb() from read_records(). Need multiple
records -- one per Job, maybe a JCR or some other structure with
a block and a record.
- Add JobLevel in FD status (but make sure it is defined).
- Make Pool resource handle Counter resources.
- Remove NextId for SQLite. Optimize.
-- Strip trailing / from Include
- Move all SQL statements into a single location.
- Add UA rc and history files.
- put termcap (used by console) in ./configure and
- Fix Autoprune for Volumes to respect need for full save.
- Fix Win32 config file definition name on /install
- No READLINE_SRC if found in alternate directory.
-- Add Client FS/OS id (Linux, Win95/98, ...).
- Test a second language e.g. french.
- Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
- Make all database Ids 64 bit.
- Implement script driven addition of File daemon to config files.
- Think about how to make Bacula work better with File (non-tape) archives.
- Write Unix emulator for Windows.
-
- Implement new serialize subroutines
send(socket, "string", &Vol, "uint32", &i, NULL)
- Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
- Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
- Implement throttled work queue.
- Check for EOT at ENOSPC or EIO or ENXIO (unix Pc)
-- Allow multiple Storage specifications (or multiple names on
- a single Storage specification) in the Job record. Thus a job
- can be backed up to a number of storage devices.
-- Implement dump label to UA
-- Concept of VolumeSet during restore which is a list
- of Volume names needed.
- Restore files modified after date
- Restore file modified before date
- Emergency restore info:
- Need a structure for pending actions:
- buffered messages
- termination status (part of buffered msgs?)
-- Concept of grouping Storage devices and job can use
- any of a number of devices
- Drive management
Read, Write, Clean, Delete
- Login to Bacula; Bacula users with different permissions:
- Identify unchanged or "system" files and save them to a
special tape thus removing them from the standard
backup FileSet -- BASE backup.
-- Turn virutally all sprintfs into snprintfs.
- Heartbeat between daemons.
- Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
- Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
Item 6: Write a regression script.
-Started
+Done -- Continue to expand its testing.
What: This is an automatic script that runs and tests as many features
of Bacula as possible. The output is compared to previous
- Need to specify MaximumConcurrentJobs in the Job resource.
- ***test GetFileAttributexEx, and remove MessageBox at 335 of winservice.cpp ****
- Implement finer multiprocessing options.
-
+- Implement | and < in Exclude statements.
+- Figure out some way to specify a retention period for files
+ that no longer exist on the machine -- so that we maintain
+ say backups for 30 days, but if the file is deleted, we maintain
+ the last copy for 1 year. -- answer Volume retention.
+- Make non-zero status from RunJobBefore/After error the job.
+- Need define of int_least16_t in sha1.h for SuSE.
+- Implement bar code reader for autochangers
+- Document new MaximumConcurrentJob records (Job, Client, Storage)
+- Write up how to use/manage disk Volume Storage. ******
+- Remove kern and kelvin from mysql_grant...
+- Install grant_mysql...
+- Strip trailing / from Include
+- add #define ENABLE_NLS for Gnome compile on SuSE.
+- Add Client FS/OS id (Linux, Win95/98, ...).
+- Concept of VolumeSet during restore which is a list
+ of Volume names needed.
+- Turn virutally all sprintfs into snprintfs.
+- Update volume=Test01 requests pool, then lists volumes.
+ **** Test select_pool_and_media ...
+- Document relabel
+- Add IP address to authentication failures.
+- Add a default File storage so that new users can do backup
+ and restores right away.
+- Forbid sbindir and with-subsys-dir from being the same (otherwise
+ the binary gets deleted when the daemon is stopped in the
+ rc.d/inid.d directory.
+- Do not ignore SIGCHLD
+- Add Cleaning to list of volume statuses
+- Implement run at "xxx"
projects / bacula / bacula / blobdiff