(sometimes called multiplexing).
\item Job sequencing using priorities.
\item \ilink{Console}{UADef} interface to the Director allowing complete
- control. A shell, Qt4 GUI, GNOME GUI and wxWidgets GUI versions of
+ control. A shell, Qt4 GUI, wxWidgets GUI and Web versions of
the Console program are available. Note, the Qt4 GUI program called
the Bacula Administration tool or bat, offers many additional
features over the shell program.
automated for Linux systems and partially automated for Solaris. See
\ilink{Disaster Recovery Using Bacula}{RescueChapter}. This is also
reported to work on Win2K/XP systems.
- \item Listing and Restoration of files using stand-alone {\bf bls} and {\bf
- bextract} tool programs. Among other things, this permits extraction of files
- when Bacula and/or the catalog are not available. Note, the recommended way
- to restore files is using the restore command in the Console. These programs
- are designed for use as a last resort.
+ \item Listing and Restoration of files using stand-alone {\bf bls} and {\bf
+ bextract} tool programs. Among other things, this permits extraction of
+ files when Bacula and/or the catalog are not available. Note, the
+ recommended way to restore files is using the restore command in the
+ Console. These programs are designed for use as a last resort.
\item Ability to restore the catalog database rapidly by using bootstrap
files (previously saved).
\item Ability to recreate the catalog database by scanning backup Volumes
\item Programmed to handle arbitrarily long filenames and messages.
\item GZIP compression on a file by file basis done by the Client program if
requested before network transit.
- \item Saves and restores POSIX ACLs on most OSes if enabled.
+ \item Saves and restores POSIX ACLs and Extended Attributes on most OSes if
+ enabled.
\item Access control lists for Consoles that permit restricting user access
to only their data.
\item Support for save/restore of files larger than 2GB.
\item Support for 64 bit machines, e.g. amd64, Sparc.
\item Support ANSI and IBM tape labels.
- \item Support for Unicode filenames (e.g. Chinese) on Win32 machines on
- version 1.37.28 and greater.
+ \item Support for Unicode filenames (e.g. Chinese) on Win32 machines
\item Consistent backup of open files on Win32 systems (WinXP, Win2003,
and Vista)
but not Win2000, using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS).
two jobs in the same restore if the Jobs' data blocks were
intermixed on the backup medium. The problem is resolved by
simply doing two restores, one for each Job.
+ Normally this can happen only if you manually enter specific
+ JobIds to be restored in a single restore Job.
\item Bacula can generally restore any backup made from one client
to any other client. However, if the architecture is significantly
different (i.e. 32 bit architecture to 64 bit or Win32 to Unix),
this does not apply to filenames, which may be arbitrarily long.
\item Command line input to some of the stand alone tools -- e.g. btape,
bconsole is restricted to several hundred characters maximum.
+ Normally, this is not a restriction, except in the case of listing
+ multiple Volume names for programs such as {\bf bscan}. To avoid
+ this command line length restriction, please use a {\bf .bsr}
+ file to specify the Volume names.
+\item Bacula configuration files for each of the components can be
+ any length. However, the length of an individual line is limited
+ to 500 characters after which it is truncated. If you need lines
+ longer than 500 characters for directives such as ACLs where
+ they permit a list of names are character strings simply
+ specify multiple short lines repeating the directive on
+ each line but with different list values.
+
\end{itemize}
\section{Items to Note}
or by explicitly updating the date/time stamp on all moved files.
\item In older versions of Bacula ($<=$ 3.0.x), if you have over 4 billion file
entries stored in your database, the database FileId is likely to overflow.
+ This limitation does not apply to current Bacula versions.
\item In non \textsl{Accurate} mode, files deleted after a Full save will be
included in a restoration. This is typical for most similar backup programs.
+ To avoid this, use Accurate mode backup.
\end{itemize}
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