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-Kern;;;9 Jan 2008;;20:30
-Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
-Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
-binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
-Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
-
-Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
-- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
- Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
-Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
-Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
-binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
-
-Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
- since version 2.2.6:
-- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
- 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
-- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
- exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
-- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
- possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
-- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
- bar, thanks to the above patch.
-- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
- Nerijus Baliunas.
-- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
- driver with version 8.3.
-- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
-;;;
-Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
-Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
-Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
-binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
-
-This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
-and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
-
-Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
-- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
- 993, 986, 976.
- - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
- - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
-;;;
-Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
-Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
-Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
-fixes represent quite a lot of work:
-
-Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
-- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
- 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
- 957, 908, 958, and 955.
-- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
- out by Chris Howells.
-;;;
-Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
-A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
-
-This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
-turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
-two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
-running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
-Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
-time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
-introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
-If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
-Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
-the conditions noted above.
-
-The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
-this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
-to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
-uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
-also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
-#903.
-
-Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
-patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
-955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
-
-Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
-However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
-;;;
-Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
-Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
-
-This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
-It contains the following fixes:
-
-- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
-- Possible fix for bug #908.
-- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
- file to always be deleted.
-- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
- This fixes bug #950.
-- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
- trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
- Fixes bug #906.
-- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
- should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
- are released as soon as possible.
-- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
- have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
- in bug #942, but not the main problem.
-- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
- by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
-- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
- TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
-- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
- as expected.
-- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
- and not memory usage.
-
-- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
- program.
-;;;
-Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
-I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
-
-Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
-missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
-have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
-kind of problem many times.
-
-Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
-characteristics:
-
-1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
-whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
-Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
-backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
-to the same volume.
-
-2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
-
-3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
-on tape backups.
-
-4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
-reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
-with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
-
-5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
-(e.g. doing Incremental backups).
-
-6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
-
-7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
-perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
-were version 2.2.2.
-
-8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
-records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
-the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
-previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
-
-9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
-simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
-Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
-Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
-
-10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
-affected by this bug.
-
-11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
-a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
-across tapes.
-
-12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
-a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
-disks Volumes.
-
-13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
-the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
-an updated Storage daemon.
-
-I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
-version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
-2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
-reproduced the problem.
-
-The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
-version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
-
-For the technical details of the bug, please see:
-
- http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
-
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
-
-Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
-
- Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
- 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
-
-This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
-but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
-use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
-not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
-no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
-
-Areas requiring caution or testing:
-- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
- to build with MySQL enabled.
-- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
- your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
-- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
- to what we do with sockets).
-- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
- bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
-- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
- This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
- of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
- The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
-- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
- test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
- points.
-- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
-
-The major new features are:
-- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
- many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
-- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
- bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
- must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
- (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
- must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
-- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
-- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
- thanks to Eric.
-- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
-- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
- swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
- implemented.
-- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
- conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
-- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
-- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
-- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
-- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
-- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
-- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
- during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
-- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
- mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
-
-New ./configure options:
-- --enable-bwx-console
-- --enable-bat
-- --with-qwt=
-- --with-db-name=
-- --with-db-user=
-- --enable-batch-insert
-
-New bconsole commands:
-- exec
-- memory
-- update recyclepool
-- .sql
-- .api
-- .pwd (in restore tree)
-- restoreclient (keyword)
-- backupclient (keyword)
-- regexwhere (keyword)
-- update jobid (new command)
-- recyclepool (keyword)
-
-New directives:
-- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
-- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
-- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
-- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
-- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
-- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
-- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
-- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
-- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
-- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
-- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
-
-Other features or bug fixes:
-- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
- 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
- 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
- 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
- 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
- 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
- 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
-- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
- --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
-- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
- needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
- these packages in the distro.
-- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
- of prepending.
-- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
- Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
- directives are defined.
-- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
-- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
- Use the command line or the Services panne.
-- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
-- More debug output in status storage.
-- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
- critical columns were lost).
-- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
- which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
- should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
- (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
- concurrent jobs should run much faster.
-- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
- the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
-- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
- pool and media type when a job is waiting.
-- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
-- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
-- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
-- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
-- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
-- Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
-- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
- in front of the configuration path/filename.
-- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
- memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
-- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
- filename restrictions.
-- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
-- Additional version information added to Job reports.
-- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
-- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
- is already a < in the target.
-- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
- mounted by another job.
-- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
-- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
-- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
-- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
-- Drop from root done before database is opened.
-- Database user and name can be configured with:
- --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
-- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
-- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
- This appears to have been an unreported bug.
-- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
-- Better restricted console ACL checking.
-- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
- users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
-- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
- job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
-- Sockets are no longer restored.
-- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
-- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
- large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
-- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
-- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
- which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
- the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
- not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
-- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
- catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
- and DVD).
-
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
-
-Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
-This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
-a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
-below.
-
-Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
-patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
-this version.
-
-5Mar07
-kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
- of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
-kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
- crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
-04Mar07
-kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
- tape alert info.
-02Mar07
-kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
- modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
-28Feb07
-kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
-kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
-27Feb07
-kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
-kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
- in bug #791.
-26Feb07
-kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
-24Feb07
-ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
-22Feb07
-kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
- not be zeroed.
-21Feb07
-kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
- than English. Fixes bug #788.
-20Feb07
-ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
- This fixes bug #780
- You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
- If you want to use this, you can apply
- trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
-19Feb07
-kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
- no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
- set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
-16Feb07
-kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
- to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
-kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
-kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
-15Feb07
-kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
- causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
- all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
- despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
- allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
- after a backup.
-13Feb07
-kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
-11Feb07
-kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
- Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
- was opened, it is closed.
-10Feb07
-kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
- and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
- idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
-09Feb07
-kes Update projects list.
-08Feb07
-kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
- console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
- #767.
-kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
- at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
- fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
- to fail.
-kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
- so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
-07Feb07
- Switch to using Subversion
-kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
-06Feb07
-kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
- plus the entrypoints.
-kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
- in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
- part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
-05Feb07
-kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
- loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
- Fixes bug #771.
-kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
- with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
-ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
-04Feb07
-kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
- problem is with read or append.
-02Feb07
-kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
-kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
- memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
-kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
- termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
- (i.e. migration jobs).
-kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
- a memory leak problem.
-kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
- in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
- to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
-kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
- rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
- methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
- (hides some of the ugly casting).
-26Jan07 (back port)
-kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
- the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
-
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
-
-Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
-28Jan08
-kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
-27Jan07
-kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
-26Jan07
-ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
-kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
-kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
- so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
-25Jan07
-kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
- to WARNING.
-kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
- which should restart an indefinite # of times.
-kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
- other DIR specifications.
-23Jan07
-rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
- Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
- Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
-19Jan07
-kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
-18Jan07
-kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
- backup. This should fix bug #755.
-kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
-
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
-
-Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
-This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
-the following fixes:
-
-- Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
- instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
-- Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
- fix bug #741.
-- Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
-- Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
- This *should* fix bug #747.
-- Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
- bug #742.
-- Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
- and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
- this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
-- Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
-- Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
- SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
- Sebastien Guilbaud.
-- Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
- despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
-
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
-
-Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
-
-There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
-
- http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
-
-and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
-
- http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
-
-;;;
-
-Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
-
- Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
-
-==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
-- The database format has been updated from what was used in
- Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
- running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
- RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
- Please backup your previous version of the database before
- running the update. The update script will be automatically
- installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
- <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
-
- ./update_bacula_tables
-
- It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
- a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
- require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
- your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
- in general, it should be very fast.
-
-==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
- For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
- needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
- automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
- directory mostly out of paranoia.
-
-==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
-- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
- should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
- no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
- incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
- on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
- previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
-- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
- removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
- occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
- daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
-- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
- directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
- mandir/man1 as appropriate.
-- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
- and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
- data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
-- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
-- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
- of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
- device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
- will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
- with the correct MediaType.
-- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
- format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
- jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
- difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
- default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
- the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
- more testing is still needed.
-- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
- the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
- kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
- This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
-- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
- be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
- with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
- be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
- carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
- with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
- and fixed it as follows:
- As of 1.39.27:
- No filters = Works fine
- Sparse = Works fine
- Compression = Works fine
- Encryption = Works fine
- Sparse + Compression = Works fine
-
- Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
- Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
- Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
-
- As of 1.39.28:
- Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
- not properly restored.
-
- As of 1.39.30:
- All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
-
- Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
- data to be sure it all works correctly.
-- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
- the format written by previous versions. The two formats
- are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
- be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
-- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
- data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
- seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
- be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
- following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
- daemon conf file:
-
- Block Positioning = no
-
- This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
- this problem.
-- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
-- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
-- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
-
-New Features in 2.0.0:
-- Turn on disk seek code for restores.
-- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
- messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
- Bacula, then as root run:
-
- cd <bacula-source>/po
- make install
-
- If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
- messages.
-- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
- Migration chapter in the manual
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
-- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
- a new chapter of the manual at:
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
-- Additional support for removable devices. See the
- Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
- Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
- Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
- same chapter.
-- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
- cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
- then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
- cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
- also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
- all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
- drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
-- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
- This code is working but should still be tested carefully
- before putting into production.
-- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
- any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
- the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
- to Thorsten Engel for this code.
-- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
- eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
- Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
- in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
- the drive letter.
-- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
- the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
- plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
- of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
- http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
-- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
-- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
- If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
- "list nextvol days=xx"
- or
- "status dir days=xx"
- This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
- next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
- the weekend.
-- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
- wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
- wait jobid=nn
- wait jobuid=unique id
- wait job=job-name
-- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
- are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
- Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
-- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
- job report in the Log database table.
-- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
- of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
-- Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
- the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
- the job can be manually started from the console.
-- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
- can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
- table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
-- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
- the restore cd command.
-- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
- will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
- Bollengier.
-- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
- conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
- are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
-- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
-- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
- spaces in names better, ...
-- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
-- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
- any Catalog ACL.
-- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
- the restore command.
-- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
- patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
-- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
- from Eric Bollengier.
-- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
- in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
-- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
- display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
-- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
-- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
-- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
- the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
- path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
- over where users can restore files. This is untested.
-- Install man pages with 'make install'.
-- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
-- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
-- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
-- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
-- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
- command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
-- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
- triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
-- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
-- Implement mount command for autochanger
-- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
- from File= was not found.
-- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
- do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
- have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
- Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
-- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
- creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
- Andrew J. Millar.
-- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
- Christian Masopust.
-- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
- appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
- listing where they could be "lost".
-- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
- correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
- Bug # 506.
-- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
-- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
- list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
- lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
-- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
- should get Bacula into the correct groups.
-- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
- and mount, unmount directives.
-- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
- to a user submission.
-- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
- in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
- devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
- changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
- device will be blocked.
-- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
-- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
- all other Storage specifications.
-- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
-- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
- from a database table for restore.
-- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
- designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
-- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
- accept time qualifiers.
-- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
- suggested by Eric Bollengier.
-- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
- Job Level, only during JobInit event.
-- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
- to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
- be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
-- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
- one at a time).
-- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
- Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
-- Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
- bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
- bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
- bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
- bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
-- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
- explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
-- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
- wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
-- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
-- Apply patch from Christopher Hull
- - Allow multiple connections to database with different
- parameters.
- - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
- fault, but still 60 second window.
- - Additional info in Reschedule message.
- - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
- cancel, error.
- - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
- - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
- - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
- - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
- - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
- - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
- - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
-- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
- routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
- author of bug #565.
-- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
- Hull.
-- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
-- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
- O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
- updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
- happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
- prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
- only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
- programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
- categories).
- You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
- noatime = yes
- The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
- it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
-- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
-- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
- Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
- Delete MAC table
- Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
- Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
- Add Cost to Location table.
- Enabled to Media table and Location table.
-- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
- and forcing a 6 second wait.
-- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
- -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
-- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
- eliminate the security problems associated with using the
- system libraries print routines.
-- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
- came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
- it is all very complicated.
-- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
- for restore.
-- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
- class.
-- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
- chapter of the manual
-- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
-- Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
-- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
-- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
- Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
- and the LICENSE file has been updated.
-- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
- Mail On Success directive.
-- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
- report.
-- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
- are printed in the Job report.
-
-Additional Features Added for Win32:
-- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
- resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
- is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
- has the concept of drives.
-
-- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
- resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
-
- When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
- Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
-
- Patterns conform to Posix
- \ is not a special character in character classification []
- To match a - it must be the first or last character
- To match a ] it must be the first character
-
- fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
- so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
-
-- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
- against the filename portion. This in combination with the
- FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
- abc*.def work as expected.
-
-- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
-
- Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
-
- # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
- WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"
-
-;;;
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