backed up, and the File daemon will use that list to determine if any new files
have been added or or moved and if any files have been deleted. This allows
Bacula to make an accurate backup of your system to that point in time so that
-if you do a restore, it will restore your system exactly. One note of caution
+if you do a restore, it will restore your system exactly.
+
+One note of caution
about using Accurate backup is that it requires more resources (CPU and memory)
on both the Director and the Client machines to create the list of previous
files backed up, to send that list to the File daemon, for the File daemon to
keep the list (possibly very big) in memory, and for the File daemon to do
-comparisons between every file in the FileSet and the list.
+comparisons between every file in the FileSet and the list. In particular,
+if your client has lots of files (more than a few million), you will need
+lots of memory on the client machine.
Accurate must not be enabled when backing up with a plugin that is not
specially designed to work with Accurate. If you enable it, your restores
the libraries if desired (not normally the case).
If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
-way of building static libraries, you can do so by disabling
+way of building static libraries, or you want to build a static
+version of Bacula you may disable
libtool on the configure command line with:
\begin{verbatim}
\end{verbatim}
+\section{Building Static versions of Bacula}
+\index[general]{Static linking}
+In order to build static versions of Bacula, in addition
+to configuration options that were needed you now must
+also add --disable-libtool. Example
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ ./configure --enable-static-client-only --disable-libtool
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
\section{Virtual Backup (Vbackup)}
\index[general]{Virtual Backup}
\index[general]{Vbackup}
Client for the File daemon, and Storage for the Storage daemon).
When {\bf TLS Authenticate} is enabled, after doing the CRAM-MD5
-authentication, Bacula will do the normal TLS authentication, then TLS
-encryption will be turned off.
+authentication, Bacula will also do TLS authentication, then TLS
+encryption will be turned off, and the rest of the communication between
+the two Bacula daemons will be done without encryption.
-If you want to encrypt communications data, do not turn on {\bf TLS
-Authenticate}.
+If you want to encrypt communications data, use the normal TLS directives
+but do not turn on {\bf TLS Authenticate}.
\section{bextract non-portable Win32 data}
\index[general]{bextract handles Win32 non-portable data}
The default value is {\bf no}.
-\section{Exclude Dirs Containing = \lt{}filename-string\gt{}}
+\section{Exclude Dir Containing = \lt{}filename-string\gt{}}
\index[general]{IgnoreDir}
-The {\bf ExcludeDirsContaining = \lt{}filename\gt{}} is a new directive that
+The {\bf ExcludeDirContaining = \lt{}filename\gt{}} is a new directive that
can be added to the Include section of the FileSet resource. If the specified
filename ({\bf filename-string}) is found on the Client in any directory to be
backed up, the whole directory will be ignored (not backed up). For example:
signature = MD5
}
File = /home
- Exclude Dirs Containing = .excludeme
+ Exclude Dir Containing = .excludeme
}
}
\end{verbatim}
\textbf{disk-changer} script, you can now emulate an autochanger with 10 drives
and 700 slots. This feature is most useful in testing. It is enabled
by using {\bf Device Type = vtape} in the Storage daemon's Device
-directive. This feature is only implemented on Linux machines.
+directive. This feature is only implemented on Linux machines and should not be
+used for production.
\subsection{Bat Enhancements}
\index[general]{Bat Enhancements}
The Bweb interface provides a statistics module that can use this feature. You
can also use tools like Talend or extract information by yourself.
-The {\textbf Statistics Retention = \lt{}time\gt{}} director directive defines
+The \textbf{Statistics Retention = \lt{}time\gt{}} director directive defines
the length of time that Bacula will keep statistics job records in the Catalog
database after the Job End time. (In \texttt{JobHistory} table) When this time
period expires, and if user runs \texttt{prune stats} command, Bacula will
Connections that could run concurrently. The default is set to 20, but you may
set it to a larger number.
+\subsection{VerId = \lt{}string\gt{}}
+\index[general]{VerId}
+A new director directive permits to specify a personnal identifier that will be
+displayed in the \texttt{version} command.
+
\subsection{dbcheck enhancements}
\index[general]{dbcheck enhancements}
If you are using Mysql, dbcheck will now ask you if you want to create