-\chapter{New Features in 3.1.4 (Development Version)}
-\label{NewFeaturesChapter}
+\chapter{New Features in 5.0.1}
-This chapter presents the new features that are currently under development
-in the 3.1.x versions to be released as Bacula version 5.0.0 sometime in
-late 2009 or early 2010.
+This chapter presents the new features that are in the released Bacula version
+5.0.1. This version mainly fixes a number of bugs found in version 5.0.0 during
+the onging development process.
-\section{Truncate volume after purge}
+\section{Truncate Volume after Purge}
\label{sec:actiononpurge}
The Pool directive \textbf{ActionOnPurge=Truncate} instructs Bacula to truncate
-the volume when it is purged. It is useful to prevent disk based volumes from
-consuming too much space.
+the volume when it is purged with the new command \texttt{purge volume
+ action}. It is useful to prevent disk based volumes from consuming too much
+space.
\begin{verbatim}
Pool {
}
\end{verbatim}
+As usual you can also set this property with the \texttt{update volume} command
+\begin{verbatim}
+*update volume=xxx ActionOnPurge=Truncate
+*update volume=xxx actiononpurge=None
+\end{verbatim}
+
+To ask Bacula to truncate your \texttt{Purged} volumes, you need to use the
+following command in interactive mode or in a RunScript as shown after:
+\begin{verbatim}
+*purge volume action=truncate storage=File allpools
+# or by default, action=all
+*purge volume action storage=File pool=Default
+\end{verbatim}
+
+This is possible to specify the volume name, the media type, the pool, the
+storage, etc\dots (see \texttt{help purge}) Be sure that your storage device is
+idle when you decide to run this command.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+Job {
+ Name = CatalogBackup
+ ...
+ RunScript {
+ RunsWhen=After
+ RunsOnClient=No
+ Console = "purge volume action=all allpools storage=File"
+ }
+}
+\end{verbatim}
+
+\textbf{Important note}: This feature doesn't work as
+expected in version 5.0.0. Please do not use it before version 5.0.1.
+
+\section{Allow Higher Duplicates}
+This directive did not work correctly and has been depreciated
+(disabled) in version 5.0.1. Please remove it from your bacula-dir.conf
+file as it will be removed in a future rlease.
+
+\section{Cancel Lower Level Duplicates}
+This directive was added in Bacula version 5.0.1. It compares the
+level of a new backup job to old jobs of the same name, if any,
+and will kill the job which has a lower level than the other one.
+If the levels are the same (i.e. both are Full backups), then
+nothing is done and the other Cancel XXX Duplicate directives
+will be examined.
+
+\chapter{New Features in 5.0.0}
+
\section{Maximum Concurent Jobs for Devices}
\label{sec:maximumconcurentjobdevice}
}
\end{verbatim}
+\textbf{Important note}: The current implementation doesn't permit to scan
+volume with \textbf{bscan}. The result wouldn't permit to restore files easily.
This project was funded by Bacula Systems.
root@localhost:~# bacula-fd -k -u nobody -g nobody
\end{verbatim}
-The code for this feature was contributed by AltLinux.
+The code for this feature was contributed by our friends at AltLinux.
\section{Bvfs API}
\label{sec:bvfs}
To use this feature, you need to use the latest mtx-changer script
version. (With new \texttt{listall} and \texttt{transfer} commands)
-\subsection{Win32 version}
+\section{Bat on Windows}
+We have ported {\bf bat} to Windows and it is now installed
+by default when the installer is run. It works quite well
+on Win32, but has not had a lot of testing there, so your
+feedback would be welcome. Unfortunately, eventhough it is
+installed by default, it does not yet work on 64 bit Windows
+operating systems.
+
+\section{New Win32 Installer}
+The Win32 installer has been modified in several very important
+ways.
+\begin{itemize}
+\item You must deinstall any current version of the
+Win32 File daemon before upgrading to the new one.
+If you forget to do so, the new installation will fail.
+To correct this failure, you must manually shutdown
+and deinstall the old File daemon.
+\item All files (other than menu links) are installed
+in {\bf c:/Program Files/Bacula}.
+\item The installer no longer sets this
+file to require administrator privileges by default. If you want
+to do so, please do it manually using the {\bf cacls} program.
+For example:
+\begin{verbatim}
+cacls "C:\Program Files\Bacula" /T /G SYSTEM:F Administrators:F
+\end{verbatim}
+\item The server daemons (Director and Storage daemon) are
+no longer included in the Windows installer. If you want the
+Windows servers, you will either need to build them yourself (note
+they have not been ported to 64 bits), or you can contact
+Bacula Systems about this.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\section{Win64 Installer}
+We have corrected a number of problems that required manual
+editing of the conf files. In most cases, it should now
+install and work. {\bf bat} is by default installed in
+{\bf c:/Program Files/Bacula/bin32} rather than
+{\bf c:/Program Files/Bacula} as is the case with the 32
+bit Windows installer.
-Compilation instructions are available in \texttt{src/qt-console/README.mingw32}
+\section{Linux Bare Metal Recovery USB Key}
+We have made a number of significant improvements in the
+Bare Metal Recovery USB key. Please see the README files
+it the {\bf rescue} release for more details.
-\section{Console Timeout Option}
-You can now use the -u option of bconsole to set a timeout for each command.
+We are working on an equivalent USB key for Windows bare
+metal recovery, but it will take some time to develop it (best
+estimate 3Q2010 or 4Q2010)
-\section{Important behavior changes}
+
+\section{bconsole Timeout Option}
+You can now use the -u option of {\bf bconsole} to set a timeout in seconds
+for commands. This is useful with GUI programs that use {\bf bconsole}
+to interface to the Director.
+
+\section{Important Changes}
\label{sec:importantchanges}
\begin{itemize}
\item You are now allowed to Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
- to the same Pool
+ to the same Pool. The Storage daemon ensures that you do not read and
+ write to the same Volume.
\item The \texttt{Device Poll Interval} is now 5 minutes. (previously did not
- poll)
+ poll by default).
+\item Virtually all the features of {\bf mtx-changer} have
+ now been parameterized, which allows you to configure
+ mtx-changer without changing it. There is a new configuration file {\bf mtx-changer.conf}
+ that contains variables that you can set to configure mtx-changer.
+ This configuration file will not be overwritten during upgrades.
+ We encourage you to submit any changes
+ that are made to mtx-changer and to parameterize it all in
+ mtx-changer.conf so that all configuration will be done by
+ changing only mtx-changer.conf.
\item The new \texttt{mtx-changer} script has two new options, \texttt{listall}
- and \texttt{transfer}. Be sure to report your custom changes on it to be able
- to use new functions.
-\item To enhance security in the \texttt{BackupCatalog} job, we provide a new
- script (\texttt{make\_catalog\_backup.pl}) that no longer expose your catalog
- password. If you want to use the new version after an upgrade, you need to
- manually change the \texttt{BackupCatalog} job definition.
-\item The new \texttt{bconsole} \texttt{help} command can take now
- the command that you want to explain as argument. (ex: \texttt{help run})
+ and \texttt{transfer}. Please configure them as appropriate
+ in mtx-changer.conf.
+\item To enhance security of the \texttt{BackupCatalog} job, we provide a new
+ script (\texttt{make\_catalog\_backup.pl}) that does not expose your catalog
+ password. If you want to use the new script, you will need to
+ manually change the \texttt{BackupCatalog} Job definition.
+\item The \texttt{bconsole} \texttt{help} command now accepts
+ an argument, which if provided produces information on that
+ command (ex: \texttt{help run}).
\end{itemize}
+
+\subsubsection*{Truncate volume after purge}
+
+Note that the Truncate Volume after purge feature doesn't work as expected
+in 5.0.0 version. Please, don't use it before version 5.0.1.
+
\subsection{Custom Catalog queries}
If you wish to add specialized commands that list the contents of the catalog,
you can do so by adding them to the \texttt{query.sql} file. This
-\texttt{query.sql} file is now empty by default, and you can copy and past
-examples from \texttt{examples/sample-query.sql} file.
+\texttt{query.sql} file is now empty by default. The file
+\texttt{examples/sample-query.sql} has an a number of sample commands
+you might find useful.
\subsection{Deprecated parts}
-The following items are \textbf{deprecated} for a long time, and are now
+The following items have been \textbf{deprecated} for a long time, and are now
removed from the code.
\begin{itemize}
\item Gnome console
\item Support for SQLite 2
\end{itemize}
-\section{Misc changes}
+\section{Misc Changes}
\label{sec:miscchanges}
\begin{itemize}
\item Updated Nagios check\_bacula
\item Updated man files
-\item Added OSX package generation scripts
-\item Added Spanish and Ukrainian Bacula translation
+\item Added OSX package generation script in platforms/darwin
+\item Added Spanish and Ukrainian Bacula translations
\item Enable/disable command shows only Jobs that can change
\item Added \texttt{show disabled} command to show disabled Jobs
\item Many ACL improvements
-\item Added Level to FD status Job entry
+\item Added Level to FD status Job output
\item Begin Ingres DB driver (not yet working)
-\item Splited RedHat spec files into bacula, bat, mtx, and docs
+\item Split RedHat spec files into bacula, bat, mtx, and docs
\item Reorganized the manuals (fewer separate manuals)
\item Added lock/unlock order protection in lock manager
\item Allow 64 bit sizes for a number of variables
-\item Fixed several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
+\item Fixed several deadlocks or potential race conditions in the SD
\end{itemize}
\chapter{Released Version 3.0.3 and 3.0.3a}
-There are no new features. This version simply fixes a number of bugs found in
-version 3.0.2 during the onging development process.
+There are no new features in version 3.0.3. This version simply fixes a
+number of bugs found in version 3.0.2 during the onging development
+process.
\chapter{New Features in Released Version 3.0.2}
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
SpoolData = No
Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes
- Allow Higher Duplicates = No
Cancel Queued Duplicates = No
Cancel Running Duplicates = No
Priority = 13
\subsection{Allow Duplicate Jobs = \lt{}yes\vb{}no\gt{}}
\index[general]{Allow Duplicate Jobs}
- If this directive is enabled duplicate jobs will be run. If
+ If this directive is set to {\bf yes}, duplicate jobs will be run. If
the directive is set to {\bf no} (default) then only one job of a given name
may run at one time, and the action that Bacula takes to ensure only
one job runs is determined by the other directives (see below).
cancelling a job, then the current job (the second one started)
will be cancelled.
-
\subsection{Allow Higher Duplicates = \lt{}yes\vb{}no\gt{}}
\index[general]{Allow Higher Duplicates}
- If this directive is set to {\bf yes} (default) the job with a higher
- priority (lower priority number) will be permitted to run, and
- the current job will be cancelled. If the
- priorities of the two jobs are the same, the outcome is determined by
- other directives (see below).
+ This directive was in version 5.0.0, but does not work as
+ expected. If used, it should always be set to no. In later versions
+ of Bacula the directive is disabled (disregarded).
+
+\subsection{Cancel Running Duplicates = \lt{}yes\vb{}no\gt{}}
+\index[general]{Cancel Running Duplicates}
+ If {\bf Allow Duplicate Jobs} is set to {\bf no} and
+ if this directive is set to {\bf yes} any job that is already running
+ will be canceled. The default is {\bf no}.
\subsection{Cancel Queued Duplicates = \lt{}yes\vb{}no\gt{}}
\index[general]{Cancel Queued Duplicates}
already queued to run but not yet running will be canceled.
The default is {\bf no}.
-\subsection{Cancel Running Duplicates = \lt{}yes\vb{}no\gt{}}
-\index[general]{Cancel Running Duplicates}
- If {\bf Allow Duplicate Jobs} is set to {\bf no} and
- if this directive is set to {\bf yes} any job that is already running
- will be canceled. The default is {\bf no}.
-
\section{TLS Authentication}
\index[general]{TLS Authentication}
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