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- Status updated 26 January 2007
+ Status updated 14 April 2007
After re-ordering in vote priority
Items Completed:
Item: 18 Quick release of FD-SD connection after backup.
Item: 40 Include JobID in spool file name
Item: 25 Implement huge exclude list support using dlist
+Item: 41 Enable to relocate files and directories when restoring
Summary:
Item: 1 Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
Item: 38 Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
Item: 39 Message mailing based on backup types
Item: 40* Include JobID in spool file name
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+Item: 41* Enable to relocate files and directories when restoring
Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
Date: 28 November 2005
spoolfile name doesn't include that information. The date/time
stamp is useful (and should be retained).
+============= New Freature Requests after vote of 26 Jan 2007 ========
+Item 41: Enable to relocate files and directories when restoring
+ Date: 2007-03-01
+ Origin: Eric Bollengier <eric@eb.homelinux.org>
+ Status: Done.
+
+ What: The where= option is not powerful enough. It will be
+ a great feature if bacula can restore a file in the
+ same directory, but with a different name, or in
+ an other directory without recreating the full path.
+
+ Why: When i want to restore a production environment to a
+ development environment, i just want change the first
+ directory. ie restore /prod/data/file.dat to /rect/data/file.dat.
+ At this time, i have to move by hand files. You must have a big
+ dump space to restore and move data after.
+
+ When i use Linux or SAN snapshot, i mount them to /mnt/snap_xxx
+ so, when a restore a file, i have to move by hand
+ from /mnt/snap_xxx/file to /xxx/file. I can't replace a file
+ easily.
+
+ When a user ask me to restore a file in its personal folder,
+ (without replace the existing one), i can't restore from
+ my_file.txt to my_file.txt.old witch is very practical.
+
+
+ Notes: I think we can enhance the where= option very easily by
+ allowing regexp expression.
+
+ Since, many users think that regexp are not user friendly, i think
+ that bat, bconsole or brestore must provide a simple way to
+ configure where= option (i think to something like in
+ openoffice "search and replace").
+
+ Ie, if user uses where=/tmp/bacula-restore, we keep the old
+ fashion.
+
+ If user uses something like where=s!/prod!/test!, files will
+ be restored from /prod/xxx to /test/xxx.
+
+ If user uses something like where=s/$/.old/, files will
+ be restored from /prod/xxx.txt to /prod/xxx.txt.old.
+
+ If user uses something like where=s/txt$/old.txt/, files will
+ be restored from /prod/xxx.txt to /prod/xxx.old.txt
+
+ if user uses something like where=s/([a-z]+)$/old.$1/, files will
+ be restored from /prod/xxx.ext to /prod/xxx.old.ext
+
+Item n: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
+configuration
+ Origin: Alan Davis adavis@ruckus.com
+ Date: 6 March 2007
+ Status: Submitted
+
+ What: The current behavior is for the director to create all pools
+ found in the configuration file in all catalogs. Add a
+ Catalog directive to the Pool resource to specify which
+ catalog to use for each pool definition.
+
+ Why: This allows different catalogs to have different pool
+ attributes and eliminates the side-effect of adding
+ pools to catalogs that don't need/use them.
+
+ Notes:
+
+
+Item n: Implement NDMP protocol support
+ Origin: Alan Davis
+ Date: 06 March 2007
+ Status: Submitted
+
+ What: Network Data Management Protocol is implemented by a number of
+ NAS filer vendors to enable backups using third-party
+ software.
+
+ Why: This would allow NAS filer backups in Bacula without incurring
+ the overhead of NFS or SBM/CIFS.
+
+ Notes: Further information is available:
+ http://www.ndmp.org
+ http://www.ndmp.org/wp/wp.shtml
+ http://www.traakan.com/ndmjob/index.html
+
+ There are currently no viable open-source NDMP
+ implementations. There is a reference SDK and example
+ app available from ndmp.org but it has problems
+ compiling on recent Linux and Solaris OS'. The ndmjob
+ reference implementation from Traakan is known to
+ compile on Solaris 10.
+
+ Notes (Kern): I am not at all in favor of this until NDMP becomes
+ an Open Standard or until there are Open Source libraries
+ that interface to it.
+
+Item n: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
+ manual/interactive jobs
+
+Origin: Marc Schiffbauer <marc@schiffbauer.net>
+
+Date: 12 April 2007)
+
+Status: NEW
+
+What: Make it possible to modify the spooldata option
+ for a job when being run from within the console.
+ Currently it is possible to modify the backup level
+ and the spooldata setting in a Schedule resource.
+ It is also possible to modify the backup level when using
+ the "run" command in the console.
+ But it is currently not possible to to the same
+ with "spooldata=yes|no" like:
+
+ run job=MyJob level=incremental spooldata=yes
+
+Why: In some situations it would be handy to be able to switch
+ spooldata on or off for interactive/manual jobs based on
+ which data the admin expects or how fast the LAN/WAN
+ connection currently is.
+
+Notes: ./.
+
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