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- Status updated 18 August 2007
- After removing items completed in version
- 2.2.0 and renumbering
+ Status updated 19 March 2008
Items Completed:
be well defined.
+Item 1: Backup and Restore of Windows Encrypted Files through raw encryption functions
+
+ Origin: Michael Mohr, SAG Mohr.External@infineon.com
+
+ Date: 22 February 2008
+
+ Status:
+
+ What: Make it possible to backup and restore Encypted Files from and
+ to Windows systems without the need to decrypt it by using the raw encryption
+ functions API
+ (see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx)
+
+ that is provided for that reason by Microsoft.
+ If a file ist encrypted could be examined by evaluating the
+ FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYTED flag of the GetFileAttributes
+ function.
+
+ Why: Without the usage of this interface the fd-daemon running
+ under the system account can't read encypted Files because
+ the key needed for the decrytion is missed by them. As a result
+ actually encrypted files are not backed up
+ by bacula and also no error is shown while missing these files.
+
+ Notes: ./.
+
+ Item 1: Possibilty to schedule Jobs on last Friday of the month
+ Origin: Carsten Menke <bootsy52 at gmx dot net>
+ Date: 02 March 2008
+ Status:
+
+ What: Currently if you want to run your monthly Backups on the last
+ Friday of each month this is only possible with workarounds (e.g
+ scripting) (As some months got 4 Fridays and some got 5 Fridays)
+ The same is true if you plan to run your yearly Backups on the last
+ Friday of the year. It would be nice to have the ability to use the builtin
+ scheduler for this.
+
+ Why: In many companies the last working day of the week is Friday (or
+ Saturday), so to get the most data of the month onto the monthly tape, the
+ employees are advised to insert the tape for the monthly backups on the last
+ friday of the month.
+
+ Notes: To give this a complete functionality it would be nice if the "first"
+ and "last" Keywords could be implemented in the scheduler, so it is also
+ possible to run monthy backups at the first friday of the month and many things
+ more. So if the syntax would expand to this {first|last} {Month|Week|Day|Mo-Fri}
+ of the {Year|Month|Week} you would be able to run really flexible jobs.
+
+ To got a certain Job run on the last Friday of the Month for example one could
+ then write
+
+ Run = pool=Monthly last Fri of the Month at 23:50
+
+ ## Yearly Backup
+
+ Run = pool=Yearly last Fri of the Year at 23:50
+
+ ## Certain Jobs the last Week of a Month
+
+ Run = pool=LastWeek last Week of the Month at 23:50
+
+ ## Monthly Backup on the last day of the month
+
+ Run = pool=Monthly last Day of the Month at 23:50
+
+ Date: 20 March 2008
+
+ Origin: Frank Sweetser <fs@wpi.edu>
+
+ What: Add a new SD directive, "minimum spool size" (or similar). This
+ directive would specify a minimum level of free space available for
+ spooling. If the unused spool space is less than this level, any new
+ spooling requests would be blocked as if the "maximum spool size"
+ threshold had bee reached. Already spooling jobs would be unaffected
+ by this directive.
+
+ Why: I've been bitten by this scenario a couple of times:
+
+ Assume a maximum spool size of 100M. Two concurrent jobs, A and B, are
+ both running. Due to timing quirks and previously running jobs, job A
+ has used 99.9M of space in the spool directory. While A is busy
+ despooling to disk, B is happily using the remaining 0.1M of spool
+ space. This ends up in a spool/despool sequence every 0.1M of data.
+ In addition to fragmenting the data on the volume far more than was
+ necessary, in larger data sets (ie, tens or hundreds of gigabytes) it
+ can easily produce multi-megabyte report emails!
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