- ACL code overhaul
- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
- Extended Attribute support
+ --disable-xattr (default=auto)
- Shared Objects
+ --enable-libtool (default)
+ --disable-libtool
- Virtual Backup
- Catalog Format Enhancements
- Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
- Win64 File daemon
- Postmortum dump improvements in SD
- Deadlock mutex detection in SD
+- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
+- New configure install options
+ --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
+ --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
+ --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
+- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
New Directives:
- Max Full Interval
- Max Diff Interval
Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
Item n: Split documentation into several books
-New features needing documentation:
-- command separator in console (!$%&'()*+,-/:;<>?[]^`{|}~)
-- examples/database/dbcheck.sql
-- dbport in dbcheck
-- Eliminated license problems with OpenSSL.
-- The exchange plugin truncates the exchange logs as soon as it has
- sent the data to the sd. If the sd is spooling and something
- goes wrong and the data doesn't make it to the backup medium then
- the logs are lost, which could be a problem under some
- restore scenarios.
-- Regex filtered bsrs Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> 15Aug08
-- Allow Mixed Priorities Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> 30Jun08
-
-Code to be completed before 3.0.0 is released:
-1. Fix Exchange plugin bugs 1234,1235,1236,1237
- *1234 fixed.
-2. Finish documentation (some noted above)
-3. Make plugins work with Accurate -- needs two new API calls
- - mark file not deleted
- - is file deleted (at end of job)
- - Pass accurate flag to Plugin (* this works)
- * code implemented not yet intgrated into Exchange plugin
-4. Plugin checks
- - check plugin version
- - check plugin entry point definitions
- - check plugin license, author, ...
-5. Install similar files to below ...
- /usr/share/doc/bat/help (default)
- Typical /usr/share/doc/xxx
- changelog.Debian.gz
- changelog.gz
- CHANGES.txt.gz
- copyright
- CREDITS.txt
- examples
- FAQ.txt
- help
- README.Debian
- README.txt
-
-Features that will not be completed:
+Features that will not be completed in 3.0:
- Plugin Options
- Dir plugin implementation somewhat minimal
- No example Dir plugin