Kern's ToDo List
- 9 April 2003
+ 22 April 2003
Documentation to do: (a little bit at a time)
- Document running a test version.
- Document how to use multiple databases.
- Add a section to the doc on Manual cycling of Volumes.
-- Document logrotate
-- Document default file backup
-- Document . command
Testing to do: (painful)
- that ALL console command line options work and are always implemented
- multiple simultaneous Volumes
For 1.30 release:
-- Do not ignore SIGCHLD
+- 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.
-- Fix "access not allowed" for backup of files on WinXP.
+- Test multiple simultaneous Volumes
+
- Document new transparent Console commands and wait command.
-- Document new immediate File save capability.
+- 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 "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.
- 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
- Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
- Need a verbose mode in restore, perhaps to bsr.
- 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"
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