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 Projects:
                      Bacula Projects Roadmap 
-                Prioritized by user vote 07 December 2005
-                    Status updated 30 July 2006
+                    Status updated 26 April 2009
 
 Summary:
-Item  1:  Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption)
-Item  2:  Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another.
-Item  3:  Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from
-Item  4:  Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python.
-Item  5:  Implement Base jobs.
-Item  6:  Allow FD to initiate a backup
-Item  7:  Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management.
-Item  8:  Implement creation and maintenance of copy pools
-Item  9:  Implement new {Client}Run{Before|After}Job feature.
-Item 10:  Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation).
-Item 11:  Deletion of Disk-Based Bacula Volumes
-Item 12:  Directive/mode to backup only file changes, not entire file
-Item 13:  Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
-Item 14:  Implement red/black binary tree routines.
-Item 15:  Add support for FileSets in user directories  CACHEDIR.TAG
-Item 16:  Implement extraction of Win32 BackupWrite data.
-Item 17:  Implement a Python interface to the Bacula catalog.
-Item 18:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
-Item 19:  Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
-Item 20:  Implement more Python events in Bacula.
-Item 21:  Quick release of FD-SD connection after backup.
-Item 22:  Permit multiple Media Types in an Autochanger
-Item 23:  Allow different autochanger definitions for one autochanger.
-Item 24:  Automatic disabling of devices
-Item 25:  Implement huge exclude list support using hashing.
-
-
-Below, you will find more information on future projects:
-
-Item  1:  Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption)
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Sponsored by Landon and 13 contributors to EFF.
-  Status: Done: Landon Fuller has implemented this in 1.39.x.
-                  
-  What:   Currently the data that is stored on the Volume is not
-          encrypted. For confidentiality, encryption of data at
-          the File daemon level is essential. 
-          Data encryption encrypts the data in the File daemon and
-          decrypts the data in the File daemon during a restore.
-
-  Why:    Large sites require this.
-
-Item 2:   Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another.
-  Origin: Sponsored by Riege Software International GmbH. Contact:
-          Daniel Holtkamp <holtkamp at riege dot com>
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Status: 90% complete: Working in 1.39, more to do. Assigned to
-          Kern.
-
-  What:   The ability to copy, move, or archive data that is on a
-          device to another device is very important. 
-
-  Why:    An ISP might want to backup to disk, but after 30 days
-          migrate the data to tape backup and delete it from
-          disk.  Bacula should be able to handle this
-          automatically.  It needs to know what was put where,
-          and when, and what to migrate -- it is a bit like
-          retention periods.  Doing so would allow space to be
-          freed up for current backups while maintaining older
-          data on tape drives.
-
-  Notes:   Riege Software have asked for the following migration
-           triggers:
-           Age of Job
-           Highwater mark (stopped by Lowwater mark?)
-                            
-  Notes:  Migration could be additionally triggered by:
-           Number of Jobs
-           Number of Volumes
-
-Item  3:  Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from
-          Incremental/Differential backups
-  Date:   28 November 2005
-  Origin: Martin Simmons (martin at lispworks dot com)
-  Status:
+Item  1: Allow FD to initiate a backup
+Item  2: Ability to restart failed jobs
+Item  3: Port bat to Win32
+Item  4: Convert Bacula existing tray monitor on Windows to a stand alone program
+Item  5: Ability to import/export Bacula database entities
+Item  6: Ability to defer Batch Insert to a later time
+Item  7: List InChanger flag when doing restore.
+Item  8: Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
+Item  9: Implement Base jobs
+Item 10: Scheduling syntax that permits more flexibility and options
+Item 11: Reduction of communications bandwidth for a backup
+Item 12: Bacula Dir, FD and SD to support proxies
+Item 13: Message mailing based on backup types
+Item 14: Ability to reconnect a disconnected comm line
+Item 15: Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
+Item 16: Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types
+Item 17: Automatic promotion of backup levels based on backup size
+Item 18: Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
+Item 19: Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
+Item 20: Include all conf files in specified directory
+Item 21: Implement an interface between Bacula and Amazon's S3.
+Item 22: Enable/disable compression depending on storage device (disk/tape)
+Item 23: Backup and Restore of Windows Encrypted Files using Win raw encryption
+Item 24: Data encryption on storage daemon
+Item 25: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer device
+Item 26: Add MaxVolumeSize/MaxVolumeBytes statement to Storage resource
+Item 27: Start spooling even when waiting on tape
+Item 28: Enable persistent naming/number of SQL queries
+Item 29: Implementation of running Job speed limit.
+Item 30: Restore from volumes on multiple storage daemons
+Item 31: 'restore' menu: enter a JobId, automatically select dependents
+Item 32: Possibilty to schedule Jobs on last Friday of the month
+Item 33: Add Minumum Spool Size directive
+Item 34: Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications
+Item 35: Add ability to Verify any specified Job.
+Item 36: Automatic disabling of devices
+Item 37: An option to operate on all pools with update vol parameters
+Item 38: Implement Storage daemon compression
+Item 39: Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management
+Item 40: Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
+
+
+Item  1: Allow FD to initiate a backup
+Origin:  Frank Volf (frank at deze dot org)
+Date:    17 November 2005
+Status: 
 
-  What:   When restoring a fileset for a specified date (including "most
-          recent"), Bacula should give you exactly the files and directories
-          that existed at the time of the last backup prior to that date.
+What: Provide some means, possibly by a restricted console that
+       allows a FD to initiate a backup, and that uses the connection
+       established by the FD to the Director for the backup so that
+       a Director that is firewalled can do the backup.
+Why:  Makes backup of laptops much easier.
 
-          Currently this only works if the last backup was a Full backup.
-          When the last backup was Incremental/Differential, files and
-          directories that have been renamed or deleted since the last Full
-          backup are not currently restored correctly.  Ditto for files with
-          extra/fewer hard links than at the time of the last Full backup.
+Item  2: Ability to restart failed jobs
+   Date: 26 April 2009
+ Origin: Kern/Eric
+ Status: 
 
-  Why:    Incremental/Differential would be much more useful if this worked.
+  What:  Often jobs fail because of a communications line drop or max run time,
+          cancel, or some other non-critical problem.  Currrently any data
+          saved is lost.  This implementation should modify the Storage daemon
+          so that it saves all the files that it knows are completely backed
+          up to the Volume
 
-  Notes:  Item 14 (Merging of multiple backups into a single one) seems to
-          rely on this working, otherwise the merged backups will not be
-          truly equivalent to a Full backup.  
+          The jobs should then be marked as incomplete and a subsequent
+          Incremental Accurate backup will then take into account all the
+          previously saved job.
 
-          Kern: notes shortened. This can be done without the need for 
-          inodes. It is essentially the same as the current Verify job,
-          but one additional database record must be written, which does 
-          not need any database change.
+  Why:   Avoids backuping data already saved.
 
-          Kern: see if we can correct restoration of directories if
-          replace=ifnewer is set.  Currently, if the directory does not
-          exist, a "dummy" directory is created, then when all the files
-          are updated, the dummy directory is newer so the real values
-          are not updated.
+  Notes: Requires Accurate to restart correctly.  Must completed have a minimum
+          volume of data or files stored on Volume before enabling.
 
-Item 4:   Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python.
-  Origin: Kern
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Status: Lucus is working on this for Python GTK+.
-
-  What:   Implement a Bacula console, and management tools
-          using Python and Qt or GTK.
-
-  Why:    Don't we already have a wxWidgets GUI?  Yes, but
-          it is written in C++ and changes to the user interface
-          must be hand tailored using C++ code. By developing
-          the user interface using Qt designer, the interface
-          can be very easily updated and most of the new Python       
-          code will be automatically created.  The user interface
-          changes become very simple, and only the new features
-          must be implement.  In addition, the code will be in
-          Python, which will give many more users easy (or easier)
-          access to making additions or modifications.
-
- Notes:   This is currently being implemented using Python-GTK by       
-          Lucas Di Pentima <lucas at lunix dot com dot ar>
-
-Item 5:   Implement Base jobs.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
+Item  3: Port bat to Win32
+   Date: 26 April 2009
+ Origin: Kern/Eric
+ Status: 
+
+  What:  Make bat run on Win32/64.
+
+  Why:   To have GUI on Windows
+
+  Notes: 
+
+Item  4: Convert Bacula existing tray monitor on Windows to a stand alone program
+   Date: 26 April 2009
+ Origin: Kern/Eric
+ Status: 
+
+  What:  Separate Win32 tray monitor to be a separate program.
+
+  Why:   Vista does not allow SYSTEM services to interact with the 
+          desktop, so the current tray monitor does not work on Vista
+          machines.  
+
+  Notes: Requires communicating with the FD via the network (simulate
+          a console connection).
+
+
+
+Item  5: Ability to import/export Bacula database entities
+   Date: 26 April 2009
+ Origin: Eric
+ Status: 
+
+  What:  Create a Bacula ASCII SQL database independent format that permits
+          importing and exporting database catalog Job entities.
+
+  Why:   For achival, database clustering, tranfer to other databases
+          of any SQL engine.
+
+  Notes: Job selection should be by Job, time, Volume, Client, Pool and possibly
+          other criteria.
+
+
+Item  6: Ability to defer Batch Insert to a later time
+   Date: 26 April 2009
+ Origin: Eric
+ Status: 
+
+  What:  Instead of doing a Job Batch Insert at the end of the Job
+          which might create resource contention with lots of Job,
+          defer the insert to a later time.
+
+  Why:   Permits to focus on getting the data on the Volume and
+          putting the metadata into the Catalog outside the backup
+          window.
+
+  Notes: Will use the proposed Bacula ASCII database import/export
+          format (i.e. dependent on the import/export entities project).
+
+
+Item  7: List InChanger flag when doing restore.
+ Origin: Jesper Krogh<jesper@krogh.cc>
+   Date: 17 Oct 2008
+ Status:
+
+   What: When doing a restore the restore selection dialog ends by telling stuff 
+      like this:
+  The job will require the following
+   Volume(s)                 Storage(s)                SD Device(s)
+   ===========================================================================
+    000741L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    000866L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    000765L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    000764L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    000756L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    001759L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    001763L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    001762L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+    001767L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
+
+   When having an autochanger, it would be really nice with an inChanger 
+   column so the operator knew if this restore job would stop waiting for 
+   operator intervention. This is done just by selecting the inChanger flag 
+   from the catalog and printing it in a seperate column.
+
+
+   Why:   This would help getting large restores through minimizing the 
+      time spent waiting for operator to drop by and change tapes in the library.
+
+  Notes: [Kern] I think it would also be good to have the Slot as well,
+      or some indication that Bacula thinks the volume is in the autochanger
+      because it depends on both the InChanger flag and the Slot being
+      valid.
+
+
+Item  8: Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
+  Date:  Nov 25, 2005
+  Origin: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org> (edited
+          by Kern)
+  Status:        
+
+   What: Provide a way for Bacula to automatically remove Volumes
+          from the filesystem, or optionally to truncate them.
+          Obviously, the Volume must be pruned prior removal.
+
+  Why:   This would allow users more control over their Volumes and
+          prevent disk based volumes from consuming too much space.
+
+  Notes: The following two directives might do the trick:
+
+          Volume Data Retention = <time period>
+          Remove Volume After = <time period>
+
+          The migration project should also remove a Volume that is
+          migrated. This might also work for tape Volumes.
+
+  Notes: (Kern). The data fields to control this have been added
+          to the new 3.0.0 database table structure.
+
+
+
+Item  9: Implement Base jobs 
+  Date:  28 October 2005
   Origin: Kern
-  Status: 
+  Status:
   
-  What:   A base job is sort of like a Full save except that you 
+  What:  A base job is sort of like a Full save except that you 
           will want the FileSet to contain only files that are
           unlikely to change in the future (i.e.  a snapshot of
           most of your system after installing it).  After the
@@ -146,7 +213,7 @@ Item 5:   Implement Base jobs.
           During a restore, the Base jobs will be automatically
           pulled in where necessary.
 
-  Why:    This is something none of the competition does, as far as
+  Why:   This is something none of the competition does, as far as
           we know (except perhaps BackupPC, which is a Perl program that
           saves to disk only).  It is big win for the user, it
           makes Bacula stand out as offering a unique
@@ -159,419 +226,338 @@ Item 5:   Implement Base jobs.
           have some files updated, no problem, they will be
           automatically restored.
 
-  Notes:  Huge savings in tape usage even for a single machine.
+  Notes: Huge savings in tape usage even for a single machine.
           Will require more resources because the DIR must send
           FD a list of files/attribs, and the FD must search the
           list and compare it for each file to be saved.
 
-Item  6:  Allow FD to initiate a backup
-  Origin: Frank Volf (frank at deze dot org)
-  Date:   17 November 2005
-  Status:
-
-   What:  Provide some means, possibly by a restricted console that
-          allows a FD to initiate a backup, and that uses the connection
-          established by the FD to the Director for the backup so that
-          a Director that is firewalled can do the backup.
 
-   Why:   Makes backup of laptops much easier.
-
-Item  7:  Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management.
-  Date:   8 November 2005, November 11, 2005
-  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton at sinenomine dot net>,
-          Arno Lehmann <al at its-lehmann dot de>
+Item 10: Scheduling syntax that permits more flexibility and options
+   Date: 15 December 2006
+  Origin: Gregory Brauer (greg at wildbrain dot com) and
+          Florian Schnabel <florian.schnabel at docufy dot de>
   Status:
 
-  What:   Make Bacula manage tape life cycle information, tape reuse
-          times and drive cleaning cycles.
+   What: Currently, Bacula only understands how to deal with weeks of the
+          month or weeks of the year in schedules.  This makes it impossible
+          to do a true weekly rotation of tapes.  There will always be a
+          discontinuity that will require disruptive manual intervention at
+          least monthly or yearly because week boundaries never align with
+          month or year boundaries.
+
+          A solution would be to add a new syntax that defines (at least)
+          a start timestamp, and repetition period.
+
+          An easy option to skip a certain job  on a certain date.
+   
+
+     Why: Rotated backups done at weekly intervals are useful, and Bacula
+          cannot currently do them without extensive hacking.
+
+          You could then easily skip tape backups on holidays.  Especially
+          if you got no autochanger and can only fit one backup on a tape
+          that would be really handy, other jobs could proceed normally
+          and you won't get errors that way.
+
+
+   Notes: Here is an example syntax showing a 3-week rotation where full
+          Backups would be performed every week on Saturday, and an
+          incremental would be performed every week on Tuesday.  Each
+          set of tapes could be removed from the loader for the following
+          two cycles before coming back and being reused on the third
+          week.  Since the execution times are determined by intervals
+          from a given point in time, there will never be any issues with
+          having to adjust to any sort of arbitrary time boundary.  In
+          the example provided, I even define the starting schedule
+          as crossing both a year and a month boundary, but the run times
+          would be based on the "Repeat" value and would therefore happen
+          weekly as desired.
+
+
+          Schedule {
+              Name = "Week 1 Rotation"
+              #Saturday.  Would run Dec 30, Jan 20, Feb 10, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Full
+                      Start  = 2006-12-30 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 2, Jan 23, Feb 13, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Incremental
+                      Start  = 2007-01-02 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+          }
 
-  Why:    All three parts of this project are important when operating
-          backups.
-          We need to know which tapes need replacement, and we need to
-          make sure the drives are cleaned when necessary.  While many
-          tape libraries and even autoloaders can handle all this
-          automatically, support by Bacula can be helpful for smaller
-          (older) libraries and single drives.  Limiting the number of
-          times a tape is used might prevent tape errors when using
-          tapes until the drives can't read it any more.  Also, checking
-          drive status during operation can prevent some failures (as I
-          [Arno] had to learn the hard way...)
+          Schedule {
+              Name = "Week 2 Rotation"
+              #Saturday.  Would run Jan 6, Jan 27, Feb 17, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Full
+                      Start  = 2007-01-06 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 9, Jan 30, Feb 20, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Incremental
+                      Start  = 2007-01-09 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+          }
 
-  Notes:  First, Bacula could (and even does, to some limited extent)
-          record tape and drive usage.  For tapes, the number of mounts,
-          the amount of data, and the time the tape has actually been
-          running could be recorded.  Data fields for Read and Write
-          time and Number of mounts already exist in the catalog (I'm
-          not sure if VolBytes is the sum of all bytes ever written to
-          that volume by Bacula).  This information can be important
-          when determining which media to replace.  The ability to mark
-          Volumes as "used up" after a given number of write cycles
-          should also be implemented so that a tape is never actually
-          worn out.  For the tape drives known to Bacula, similar
-          information is interesting to determine the device status and
-          expected life time: Time it's been Reading and Writing, number
-          of tape Loads / Unloads / Errors.  This information is not yet
-          recorded as far as I [Arno] know.  A new volume status would
-          be necessary for the new state, like "Used up" or "Worn out".
-          Volumes with this state could be used for restores, but not
-          for writing. These volumes should be migrated first (assuming
-          migration is implemented) and, once they are no longer needed,
-          could be moved to a Trash pool.
+          Schedule {
+              Name = "Week 3 Rotation"
+              #Saturday.  Would run Jan 13, Feb 3, Feb 24, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Full
+                      Start  = 2007-01-13 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 16, Feb 6, Feb 27, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Incremental
+                      Start  = 2007-01-16 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+          }
 
-          The next step would be to implement a drive cleaning setup.
-          Bacula already has knowledge about cleaning tapes.  Once it
-          has some information about cleaning cycles (measured in drive
-          run time, number of tapes used, or calender days, for example)
-          it can automatically execute tape cleaning (with an
-          autochanger, obviously) or ask for operator assistance loading
-          a cleaning tape.
+   Notes: Kern: I have merged the previously separate project of skipping 
+          jobs (via Schedule syntax) into this.
+
+Item 11: Reduction of communications bandwidth for a backup
+   Date: 14 October 2008
+ Origin: Robin O'Leary (Equiinet)
+ Status: 
+
+  What:  Using rdiff techniques, Bacula could significantly reduce
+          the network data transfer volume to do a backup.
+
+  Why:   Faster backup across the Internet
+
+  Notes: This requires retaining certain data on the client during a Full
+          backup that will speed up subsequent backups.
+          
+
+Item 12: Bacula Dir, FD and SD to support proxies
+Origin: Karl Grindley @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory <kgrindley at ll dot mit dot edu>
+Date:  25 March 2009
+Status: proposed
+
+What:  Support alternate methods for nailing up a TCP session such
+        as SOCKS5, SOCKS4 and HTTP (CONNECT) proxies.  Such a feature
+        would allow tunneling of bacula traffic in and out of proxied
+        networks.
+
+Why:   Currently, bacula is architected to only function on a flat network, with
+        no barriers or limitations.  Due to the large configuration states of
+        any network and the infinite configuration where file daemons and
+        storage daemons may sit in relation to one another, bacula often is
+        not usable on a network where filtered or air-gaped networks exist.
+        While often solutions such as ACL modifications to firewalls or port
+        redirection via SNAT or DNAT will solve the issue, often however,
+        these solutions are not adequate or not allowed by hard policy.
+
+        In an air-gapped network with only a highly locked down proxy services
+        are provided (SOCKS4/5 and/or HTTP and/or SSH outbound) ACLs or
+        iptable rules will not work.
+
+Notes: Director resource tunneling: This configuration option to utilize a
+        proxy to connect to a client should be specified in the client
+        resource Client resource tunneling: should be configured in the client
+        resource in the director config file?  Or configured on the bacula-fd
+        configuration file on the fd host itself?  If the ladder, this would
+        allow only certain clients to use a proxy, where others do not when
+        establishing the TCP connection to the storage server. 
+
+        Also worth noting, there are other 3rd party, light weight apps that
+        could be utilized to bootstrap this.  Instead of sockifing bacula
+        itself, use an external program to broker proxy authentication, and
+        connection to the remote host.  OpenSSH does this by using the
+        "ProxyCommand" syntax in the client configuration and uses stdin and
+        stdout to the command.  Connect.c is a very popular one.
+        (http://bent.latency.net/bent/darcs/goto-san-connect-1.85/src/connect.html).
+        One could also possibly use stunnel, netcat, etc.
+
+
+Item 13: Message mailing based on backup types
+ Origin: Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
+   Date: January 6, 2006
+ Status:
+
+   What: In the "Messages" resource definitions, allowing messages
+          to be mailed based on the type (backup, restore, etc.) and level
+          (full, differential, etc) of job that created the originating
+          message(s).
+
+ Why:    It would, for example, allow someone's boss to be emailed
+          automatically only when a Full Backup job runs, so he can
+          retrieve the tapes for offsite storage, even if the IT dept.
+          doesn't (or can't) explicitly notify him.  At the same time, his
+          mailbox wouldnt be filled by notifications of Verifies, Restores,
+          or Incremental/Differential Backups (which would likely be kept
+          onsite).
+
+ Notes:  One way this could be done is through additional message types, for example:
 
-          The final step would be to implement TAPEALERT checks not only
-          when changing tapes and only sending the information to the
-          administrator, but rather checking after each tape error,
-          checking on a regular basis (for example after each tape
-          file), and also before unloading and after loading a new tape.
-          Then, depending on the drives TAPEALERT state and the known
-          drive cleaning state Bacula could automatically schedule later
-          cleaning, clean immediately, or inform the operator.
+   Messages {
+     # email the boss only on full system backups
+     Mail = boss@mycompany.com = full, !incremental, !differential, !restore, 
+            !verify, !admin
+     # email us only when something breaks
+     MailOnError = itdept@mycompany.com = all
+   }
 
-          Implementing this would perhaps require another catalog change
-          and perhaps major changes in SD code and the DIR-SD protocol,
-          so I'd only consider this worth implementing if it would
-          actually be used or even needed by many people.
+   Notes: Kern: This should be rather trivial to implement.
 
-          Implementation of these projects could happen in three distinct
-          sub-projects: Measuring Tape and Drive usage, retiring
-          volumes, and handling drive cleaning and TAPEALERTs.
+Item 14: Ability to reconnect a disconnected comm line
+  Date:  26 April 2009
+  Origin: Kern/Eric
+  Status: 
 
-Item  8:  Implement creation and maintenance of copy pools
-  Date:   27 November 2005
-  Origin: David Boyes (dboyes at sinenomine dot net)
-  Status:
+  What:  Often jobs fail because of a communications line drop. In that 
+          case, Bacula should be able to reconnect to the other daemon and
+          resume the job.
 
-  What:   I would like Bacula to have the capability to write copies
-          of backed-up data on multiple physical volumes selected
-          from different pools without transferring the data
-          multiple times, and to accept any of the copy volumes
-          as valid for restore.
-
-  Why:    In many cases, businesses are required to keep offsite
-          copies of backup volumes, or just wish for simple
-          protection against a human operator dropping a storage
-          volume and damaging it. The ability to generate multiple
-          volumes in the course of a single backup job allows
-          customers to simple check out one copy and send it
-          offsite, marking it as out of changer or otherwise
-          unavailable. Currently, the library and magazine
-          management capability in Bacula does not make this process
-          simple.
-
-          Restores would use the copy of the data on the first
-          available volume, in order of copy pool chain definition.
-
-          This is also a major scalability issue -- as the number of
-          clients increases beyond several thousand, and the volume
-          of data increases, transferring the data multiple times to
-          produce additional copies of the backups will become
-          physically impossible due to transfer speed
-          issues. Generating multiple copies at server side will
-          become the only practical option. 
-
-  How:    I suspect that this will require adding a multiplexing
-          SD that appears to be a SD to a specific FD, but 1-n FDs
-          to the specific back end SDs managing the primary and copy
-          pools.  Storage pools will also need to acquire parameters
-          to define the pools to be used for copies. 
-
-  Notes:  I would commit some of my developers' time if we can agree
-          on the design and behavior. 
-
-Item  9:  Implement new {Client}Run{Before|After}Job feature.
-  Date:   26 September 2005
-  Origin: Phil Stracchino
-  Status: Done. This has been implemented by Eric Bollengier
-
-  What:   Some time ago, there was a discussion of RunAfterJob and
-          ClientRunAfterJob, and the fact that they do not run after failed
-          jobs.  At the time, there was a suggestion to add a
-          RunAfterFailedJob directive (and, presumably, a matching
-          ClientRunAfterFailedJob directive), but to my knowledge these
-          were never implemented.
-
-          The current implementation doesn't permit to add new feature easily.
-
-          An alternate way of approaching the problem has just occurred to
-          me.  Suppose the RunBeforeJob and RunAfterJob directives were
-          expanded in a manner like this example:
-
-          RunScript {
-              Command = "/opt/bacula/etc/checkhost %c"
-              RunsOnClient = No          # default
-              AbortJobOnError = Yes      # default
-              RunsWhen = Before
-          }
-          RunScript {
-              Command = c:/bacula/systemstate.bat
-              RunsOnClient = yes
-              AbortJobOnError = No
-              RunsWhen = After
-              RunsOnFailure = yes
-          }
+  Why:   Avoids backuping data already saved.
 
-          RunScript {
-              Command = c:/bacula/deletestatefile.bat
-              Target = rico-fd
-              RunsWhen = Always
-          }
+  Notes: *Very* complicated from a design point of view because of authenication.
 
-          It's now possible to specify more than 1 command per Job.
-          (you can stop your database and your webserver without a script)
-
-          ex :
-          Job {
-              Name = "Client1"
-              JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
-              Write Bootstrap = "/tmp/bacula/var/bacula/working/Client1.bsr"
-              FileSet = "Minimal"
-
-              RunBeforeJob = "echo test before ; echo test before2"       
-              RunBeforeJob = "echo test before (2nd time)"
-              RunBeforeJob = "echo test before (3rd time)"
-              RunAfterJob = "echo test after"
-              ClientRunAfterJob = "echo test after client"
-
-              RunScript {
-                Command = "echo test RunScript in error"
-                Runsonclient = yes
-                RunsOnSuccess = no
-                RunsOnFailure = yes
-                RunsWhen = After            # never by default
-              }
-              RunScript {
-                Command = "echo test RunScript on success"
-                Runsonclient = yes
-                RunsOnSuccess = yes # default
-                RunsOnFailure = no  # default
-                RunsWhen = After
-              }
-          }
 
-  Why:    It would be a significant change to the structure of the
-          directives, but allows for a lot more flexibility, including
-          RunAfter commands that will run regardless of whether the job
-          succeeds, or RunBefore tasks that still allow the job to run even
-          if that specific RunBefore fails.
-
-  Notes:  (More notes from Phil, Kern, David and Eric)
-          I would prefer to have a single new Resource called
-          RunScript.
-
-            RunsWhen = After|Before|Always
-            RunsAtJobLevels = All|Full|Diff|Inc # not yet implemented
-
-          The AbortJobOnError, RunsOnSuccess and RunsOnFailure directives
-          could be optional, and possibly RunWhen as well.
-
-          AbortJobOnError would be ignored unless RunsWhen was set to Before
-          and would default to Yes if omitted.
-          If AbortJobOnError was set to No, failure of the script
-          would still generate a warning.
-
-          RunsOnSuccess would be ignored unless RunsWhen was set to After
-          (or RunsBeforeJob set to No), and default to Yes.
-
-          RunsOnFailure would be ignored unless RunsWhen was set to After,
-          and default to No.
-
-          Allow having the before/after status on the script command
-          line so that the same script can be used both before/after.
-
-Item 10:  Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation).
-  Origin: Marc Cousin and Eric Bollengier 
-  Date:   15 November 2005
-  Status: Waiting implementation. Depends on first implementing 
-          project Item 2 (Migration).
-
-  What:   A merged backup is a backup made without connecting to the Client.
-          It would be a Merge of existing backups into a single backup.
-          In effect, it is like a restore but to the backup medium.
-
-          For instance, say that last Sunday we made a full backup.  Then
-          all week long, we created incremental backups, in order to do
-          them fast.  Now comes Sunday again, and we need another full.
-          The merged backup makes it possible to do instead an incremental
-          backup (during the night for instance), and then create a merged
-          backup during the day, by using the full and incrementals from
-          the week.  The merged backup will be exactly like a full made
-          Sunday night on the tape, but the production interruption on the
-          Client will be minimal, as the Client will only have to send
-          incrementals.
-
-          In fact, if it's done correctly, you could merge all the
-          Incrementals into single Incremental, or all the Incrementals
-          and the last Differential into a new Differential, or the Full,
-          last differential and all the Incrementals into a new Full
-          backup.  And there is no need to involve the Client.
-
-  Why:    The benefit is that :
-          - the Client just does an incremental ;
-          - the merged backup on tape is just as a single full backup,
-            and can be restored very fast.
-
-          This is also a way of reducing the backup data since the old
-          data can then be pruned (or not) from the catalog, possibly
-          allowing older volumes to be recycled
-
-Item 11:  Deletion of Disk-Based Bacula Volumes
-  Date:   Nov 25, 2005
-  Origin: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org> (edited
-          by Kern)
-  Status:         
+Item 15: Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
+  Origin: Mark Bergman <mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu>
+  Date:  Tue Aug 22 17:13:39 EDT 2006
+  Status:
 
-   What:  Provide a way for Bacula to automatically remove Volumes
-          from the filesystem, or optionally to truncate them.
-          Obviously, the Volume must be pruned prior removal.
+  What:  The "stat clients" command doesn't include any detail on when
+          the active backup jobs were launched.
 
-  Why:    This would allow users more control over their Volumes and
-          prevent disk based volumes from consuming too much space.
+  Why:   Including the timestamp would make it much easier to decide whether
+          a job is running properly. 
 
-  Notes:  The following two directives might do the trick:
+  Notes: It may be helpful to have the output from "stat clients" formatted 
+          more like that from "stat dir" (and other commands), in a column
+          format. The per-client information that's currently shown (level,
+          client name, JobId, Volume, pool, device, Files, etc.) is good, but
+          somewhat hard to parse (both programmatically and visually), 
+          particularly when there are many active clients.
 
-          Volume Data Retention = <time period>
-          Remove Volume After = <time period>
 
-          The migration project should also remove a Volume that is
-          migrated. This might also work for tape Volumes.
 
-Item 12:  Directive/mode to backup only file changes, not entire file
-  Date:   11 November 2005
-  Origin: Joshua Kugler <joshua dot kugler at uaf dot edu>
-          Marek Bajon <mbajon at bimsplus dot com dot pl>
-  Status: 
 
-  What:   Currently when a file changes, the entire file will be backed up in
-          the next incremental or full backup.  To save space on the tapes
-          it would be nice to have a mode whereby only the changes to the
-          file would be backed up when it is changed.
+Item 16: Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types
+Date:    19 Jan 2005
+Origin:  Chad Slater <chad.slater@clickfox.com>
+Status: 
+                                                
+  What:  Adding a FullStorage=BigTapeLibrary in the Schedule resource
+          would help those of us who use different storage devices for different
+          backup levels cope with the "auto-upgrade" of a backup.
 
-  Why:    This would save lots of space when backing up large files such as 
-          logs, mbox files, Outlook PST files and the like.
+  Why:   Assume I add several new devices to be backed up, i.e. several
+          hosts with 1TB RAID.  To avoid tape switching hassles, incrementals are
+          stored in a disk set on a 2TB RAID.  If you add these devices in the
+          middle of the month, the incrementals are upgraded to "full" backups,
+          but they try to use the same storage device as requested in the
+          incremental job, filling up the RAID holding the differentials.  If we
+          could override the Storage parameter for full and/or differential
+          backups, then the Full job would use the proper Storage device, which
+          has more capacity (i.e. a 8TB tape library.
 
-  Notes:  This would require the usage of disk-based volumes as comparing 
-          files would not be feasible using a tape drive.
+Item 17: Automatic promotion of backup levels based on backup size
+   Date: 19 January 2006
+  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
+  Status: 
 
-Item 13:  Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
-  Date:   27 November 2005
-  Origin: Ove Risberg (Ove.Risberg at octocode dot com)
+    What: Other backup programs have a feature whereby it estimates the space
+          that a differential, incremental, and full backup would take.  If
+          the difference in space required between the scheduled level and the
+          next level up is beneath some user-defined critical threshold, the
+          backup level is bumped to the next type.  Doing this minimizes the
+          number of volumes necessary during a restore, with a fairly minimal
+          cost in backup media space.
+
+    Why: I know at least one (quite sophisticated and smart) user for whom the
+          absence of this feature is a deal-breaker in terms of using Bacula;
+          if we had it it would eliminate the one cool thing other backup
+          programs can do and we can't (at least, the one cool thing I know
+          of).
+
+Item 18: Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
+  Origin: Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
+  Date:  January 11, 2006
   Status:
 
-  What:   I want the file daemon to start multiple threads for a backup
-          job so the fastest possible backup can be made.
+  What:  In the vein of the Wild and Regex directives in a Fileset's
+          Options, it would be helpful to allow a user to include or exclude
+          files and directories by creation or modification times.
 
-          The file daemon could parse the FileSet information and start
-          one thread for each File entry located on a separate
-          filesystem.
+          You could factor the Exclude=yes|no option in much the same way it
+          affects the Wild and Regex directives.  For example, you could exclude
+          all files modified before a certain date:
 
-          A configuration option in the job section should be used to
-          enable or disable this feature. The configuration option could
-          specify the maximum number of threads in the file daemon.
+   Options {
+     Exclude = yes
+     Modified Before = ####
+   }
 
-          If the threads could spool the data to separate spool files
-          the restore process will not be much slower.
+           Or you could exclude all files created/modified since a certain date:
 
-  Why:    Multiple concurrent backups of a large fileserver with many
-          disks and controllers will be much faster.
+   Options {
+      Exclude = yes
+     Created Modified Since = ####
+   }
 
-  Notes:  I am willing to try to implement this but I will probably
-          need some help and advice.  (No problem -- Kern)
+           The format of the time/date could be done several ways, say the number
+           of seconds since the epoch:
+           1137008553 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # result of `date +%s`
 
-Item 14:  Implement red/black binary tree routines.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: Class code is complete. Code needs to be integrated into
-          restore tree code.
-
-  What:   Implement a red/black binary tree class. This could 
-          then replace the current binary insert/search routines
-          used in the restore in memory tree.  This could significantly
-          speed up the creation of the in memory restore tree.
-
-  Why:    Performance enhancement.
-
-Item 15:  Add support for FileSets in user directories  CACHEDIR.TAG
-  Origin: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel at tbdnetworks dot com>
-  Date:   21 November 2005
-  Status: (I think this is better done using a Python event that I
-           will implement in version 1.39.x).
-
-  What:   CACHDIR.TAG is a proposal for identifying directories which
-          should be ignored for archiving/backup.  It works by ignoring
-          directory trees which have a file named CACHEDIR.TAG with a
-          specific content.  See
-          http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
-          for details.
-
-          From Peter Eriksson:
-          I suggest that if this is implemented (I've also asked for this
-          feature some year ago) that it is made compatible with Legato
-          Networkers ".nsr" files where you can specify a lot of options on
-          how to handle files/directories (including denying further
-          parsing of .nsr files lower down into the directory trees).  A
-          PDF version of the .nsr man page can be viewed at:
-
-          http://www.ifm.liu.se/~peter/nsr.pdf
-
-  Why:    It's a nice alternative to "exclude" patterns for directories
-          which don't have regular pathnames.  Also, it allows users to
-          control backup for themselves.  Implementation should be pretty
-          simple.  GNU tar >= 1.14 or so supports it, too.
-
-  Notes:  I envision this as an optional feature to a fileset
-          specification.
-
-
-Item 16:  Implement extraction of Win32 BackupWrite data.
-  Origin: Thorsten Engel <thorsten.engel at matrix-computer dot com>
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Status: Done. Assigned to Thorsten. Implemented in current CVS
-
-  What:   This provides the Bacula File daemon with code that
-          can pick apart the stream output that Microsoft writes
-          for BackupWrite data, and thus the data can be read
-          and restored on non-Win32 machines.
-
-  Why:    BackupWrite data is the portable=no option in Win32
-          FileSets, and in previous Baculas, this data could
-          only be extracted using a Win32 FD. With this new code,
-          the Windows data can be extracted and restored on
-          any OS.
-
-
-Item 18:  Implement a Python interface to the Bacula catalog.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: 
+           Or a human readable date in a cryptic form:
+           20060111134233 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # YYYYMMDDhhmmss
 
-  What:   Implement an interface for Python scripts to access
-          the catalog through Bacula.
+  Why:   I imagine a feature like this could have many uses. It would
+          allow a user to do a full backup while excluding the base operating
+          system files, so if I installed a Linux snapshot from a CD yesterday,
+          I'll *exclude* all files modified *before* today.  If I need to
+          recover the system, I use the CD I already have, plus the tape backup.
+          Or if, say, a Windows client is hit by a particularly corrosive
+          virus, and I need to *exclude* any files created/modified *since* the
+          time of infection.
 
-  Why:    This will permit users to customize Bacula through
-          Python scripts.
+  Notes: Of course, this feature would work in concert with other
+          in/exclude rules, and wouldnt override them (or each other).
 
-Item 18:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
+  Notes: The directives I'd imagine would be along the lines of
+          "[Created] [Modified] [Before|Since] = <date>".
+          So one could compare against 'ctime' and/or 'mtime', but ONLY 'before'
+           or 'since'.
 
-  Date:   Nov. 24/2005 
 
+
+Item 19: Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
+  Date:  Nov. 24/2005 
   Origin: Ray Pengelly [ray at biomed dot queensu dot ca
   Status: 
 
-  What:   The ability to archive data to storage based on certain parameters
+  What:  The ability to archive data to storage based on certain parameters
           such as age, size, or location.  Once the data has been written to
           storage and logged it is then pruned from the originating
           filesystem. Note! We are talking about user's files and not
           Bacula Volumes.
 
-  Why:    This would allow fully automatic storage management which becomes
+  Why:   This would allow fully automatic storage management which becomes
           useful for large datastores.  It would also allow for auto-staging
           from one media type to another.
 
@@ -587,127 +573,553 @@ Item 18:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
           access time.  Then after another 6 months (or possibly as one
           storage pool gets full) data is migrated to Tape.
 
-Item 19:  Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin:
-  Status: Partially coded in 1.37 -- much more to do.
-
-  What:   Allow users to specify wild-card and/or regular
-          expressions to be matched in both the Include and
-          Exclude directives in a FileSet.  At the same time,
-          allow users to define plug-ins to be called (based on
-          regular expression/wild-card matching).
-
-  Why:    This would give the users the ultimate ability to control
-          how files are backed up/restored.  A user could write a
-          plug-in knows how to backup his Oracle database without
-          stopping/starting it, for example.
-
-Item 20:  Implement more Python events in Bacula.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: 
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   Allow Python scripts to be called at more places 
-          within Bacula and provide additional access to Bacula
-          internal variables.
 
-  Why:    This will permit users to customize Bacula through
-          Python scripts.
-
-  Notes:  Recycle event
-          Scratch pool event
-          NeedVolume event
-          MediaFull event
-           
-          Also add a way to get a listing of currently running
-          jobs (possibly also scheduled jobs).
+Item 20: Include all conf files in specified directory
+Date:  18 October 2008
+Origin: Database, Lda. Maputo, Mozambique
+Contact:Cameron Smith / cameron.ord@database.co.mz 
+Status: New request
+
+What: A directive something like "IncludeConf = /etc/bacula/subconfs" Every
+      time Bacula Director restarts or reloads, it will walk the given
+      directory (non-recursively) and include the contents of any files
+      therein, as though they were appended to bacula-dir.conf
+
+Why: Permits simplified and safer configuration for larger installations with
+      many client PCs.  Currently, through judicious use of JobDefs and
+      similar directives, it is possible to reduce the client-specific part of
+      a configuration to a minimum.  The client-specific directives can be
+      prepared according to a standard template and dropped into a known
+      directory.  However it is still necessary to add a line to the "master"
+      (bacula-dir.conf) referencing each new file.  This exposes the master to
+      unnecessary risk of accidental mistakes and makes automation of adding
+      new client-confs, more difficult (it is easier to automate dropping a
+      file into a dir, than rewriting an existing file).  Ken has previously
+      made a convincing argument for NOT including Bacula's core configuration
+      in an RDBMS, but I believe that the present request is a reasonable
+      extension to the current "flat-file-based" configuration philosophy.
+ 
+Notes: There is NO need for any special syntax to these files.  They should
+       contain standard directives which are simply "inlined" to the parent
+       file as already happens when you explicitly reference an external file.
+
+Notes: (kes) this can already be done with scripting
+     From: John Jorgensen <jorgnsn@lcd.uregina.ca>
+     The bacula-dir.conf at our site contains these lines:
+
+   #
+   # Include subfiles associated with configuration of clients.
+   # They define the bulk of the Clients, Jobs, and FileSets.
+   #
+   @|"sh -c 'for f in /etc/bacula/clientdefs/*.conf ; do echo @${f} ; done'"
+
+    and when we get a new client, we just put its configuration into
+    a new file called something like:
+
+    /etc/bacula/clientdefs/clientname.conf
+
+
+
+
+Item 21: Implement an interface between Bacula and Amazon's S3.
+  Date:  25 August 2008
+  Origin: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
+  Status: Not started.
+  What:  Enable the storage daemon to store backup data on Amazon's
+          S3 service.
+
+  Why:   Amazon's S3 is a cheap way to store data off-site. Current
+          ways to integrate Bacula and S3 involve storing all the data
+          locally and syncing them to S3, and manually fetching them
+          again when they're needed. This is very cumbersome.
+
+
+Item 22: Enable/disable compression depending on storage device (disk/tape)
+  Origin: Ralf Gross ralf-lists@ralfgross.de
+  Date:  2008-01-11
+  Status: Initial Request
+
+  What: Add a new option to the storage resource of the director.  Depending
+          on this option, compression will be enabled/disabled for a device.
+
+  Why: If different devices (disks/tapes) are used for full/diff/incr
+          backups, software compression will be enabled for all backups
+          because of the FileSet compression option.  For backup to tapes
+          wich are able to do hardware compression this is not desired.
+          
 
+  Notes:
+         http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/cutoff=11124
+         It must be clear to the user, that the FileSet compression option
+         must still be enabled use compression for a backup job at all.
+         Thus a name for the new option in the director must be
+         well-defined.
+
+  Notes: KES I think the Storage definition should probably override what
+         is in the Job definition or vice-versa, but in any case, it must
+         be well defined.
+
+
+Item 31: Backup and Restore of Windows Encrypted Files using Win raw encryption
+  Origin: Michael Mohr, SAG  Mohr.External@infineon.com
+  Date:  22 February 2008
+  Origin: Alex Ehrlich (Alex.Ehrlich-at-mail.ee)
+  Date:  05 August 2008
+  Status:
 
-Item 21:  Quick release of FD-SD connection after backup.
-  Origin: Frank Volf (frank at deze dot org)
-  Date:   17 November 2005
+  What: Make it possible to backup and restore Encypted Files from and to
+          Windows systems without the need to decrypt it by using the raw
+          encryption functions API (see:
+          http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx)
+          that is provided for that reason by Microsoft.
+          If a file ist encrypted could be examined by evaluating the 
+          FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYTED flag of the GetFileAttributes
+          function.
+          For each file backed up or restored by FD on Windows, check if
+          the file is encrypted; if so then use OpenEncryptedFileRaw,
+          ReadEncryptedFileRaw, WriteEncryptedFileRaw,
+          CloseEncryptedFileRaw instead of BackupRead and BackupWrite
+          API calls.
+
+  Why:   Without the usage of this interface the fd-daemon running
+          under the system account can't read encypted Files because
+          the key needed for the decrytion is missed by them. As a result 
+          actually encrypted files are not backed up
+          by bacula and also no error is shown while missing these files.
+
+   Notes: Using xxxEncryptedFileRaw API would allow to backup and
+           restore EFS-encrypted files without decrypting their data.
+           Note that such files cannot be restored "portably" (at least,
+           easily) but they would be restoreable to a different (or
+           reinstalled) Win32 machine; the restore would require setup
+           of a EFS recovery agent in advance, of course, and this shall
+           be clearly reflected in the documentation, but this is the
+           normal Windows SysAdmin's business.
+           When "portable" backup is requested the EFS-encrypted files
+           shall be clearly reported as errors.
+           See MSDN on the "Backup and Restore of Encrypted Files" topic:
+           http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx
+           Maybe the EFS support requires a new flag in the database for
+           each file, too?
+           Unfortunately, the implementation is not as straightforward as
+           1-to-1 replacement of BackupRead with ReadEncryptedFileRaw,
+           requiring some FD code rewrite to work with
+           encrypted-file-related callback functions.
+
+Item 24: Data encryption on storage daemon
+  Origin: Tobias Barth <tobias.barth at web-arts.com>
+  Date:  04 February 2009
+  Status: new
+
+  What:  The storage demon should be able to do the data encryption that can currently be done by the file daemon.
+
+  Why:   This would have 2 advantages: 1) one could encrypt the data of unencrypted tapes by doing a migration job, and 2) the storage daemon would be the only machine that would have to keep the encryption keys.
+
+  Notes from Landon:
+          As an addendum to the feature request, here are some crypto  
+          implementation details I wrote up regarding SD-encryption back in Jan  
+          2008:
+          http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg28860.html
+
+
+
+Item 25: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer device
+  Origin: Ralf Gross ralf-lists <at> ralfgross.de
+  Date:  2008-12-12
+  Status: Initial Request
+
+  What:  respect the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" directive in the _drives_
+          Storage section in addition to the changer section
+
+  Why:   I have a 3 drive changer where I want to be able to let 3 concurrent
+          jobs run in parallel. But only one job per drive at the same time.
+          Right now I don't see how I could limit the number of concurrent jobs
+          per drive in this situation.
+
+  Notes: Using different priorities for these jobs lead to problems that other
+          jobs are blocked. On the user list I got the advice to use the "Prefer Mounted
+          Volumes" directive, but Kern advised against using "Prefer Mounted
+          Volumes" in an other thread:
+          http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/11876/
+
+          In addition I'm not sure if this would be the same as respecting the
+          drive's "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" setting.
+
+          Example:
+
+          Storage {
+            Name = Neo4100
+            Address = ....
+            SDPort = 9103
+            Password = "wiped"
+            Device = Neo4100
+            Media Type = LTO4
+            Autochanger = yes
+            Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
+          }
+          
+          Storage {
+            Name = Neo4100-LTO4-D1
+            Address = ....
+            SDPort = 9103
+            Password = "wiped"
+            Device = ULTRIUM-TD4-D1
+            Media Type = LTO4
+            Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
+          }
+          
+          [2 more drives] 
+
+          The "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" directive in the drive's section is ignored.
+
+Item 26: Add MaxVolumeSize/MaxVolumeBytes statement to Storage resource
+   Origin: Bastian Friedrich <bastian.friedrich@collax.com>
+   Date:  2008-07-09
+   Status: -
+
+   What:  SD has a "Maximum Volume Size" statement, which is deprecated and
+           superseded by the Pool resource statement "Maximum Volume Bytes".
+           It would be good if either statement could be used in Storage
+           resources.
+
+   Why:   Pools do not have to be restricted to a single storage type/device;
+           thus, it may be impossible to define Maximum Volume Bytes in the
+           Pool resource.  The old MaxVolSize statement is deprecated, as it
+           is SD side only.  I am using the same pool for different devices.
+
+   Notes: State of idea currently unknown.  Storage resources in the dir
+           config currently translate to very slim catalog entries; these
+           entries would require extensions to implement what is described
+           here.  Quite possibly, numerous other statements that are currently
+           available in Pool resources could be used in Storage resources too
+           quite well.
+
+Item 27: Start spooling even when waiting on tape
+  Origin: Tobias Barth <tobias.barth@web-arts.com>
+  Date:  25 April 2008
   Status:
 
-   What:  In the Bacula implementation a backup is finished after all data
-          and attributes are successfully written to storage.  When using a
-          tape backup it is very annoying that a backup can take a day,
-          simply because the current tape (or whatever) is full and the
-          administrator has not put a new one in.  During that time the
-          system cannot be taken off-line, because there is still an open
-          session between the storage daemon and the file daemon on the
-          client.
-
-          Although this is a very good strategy for making "safe backups"
-          This can be annoying for e.g.  laptops, that must remain
-          connected until the backup is completed.
-
-          Using a new feature called "migration" it will be possible to
-          spool first to harddisk (using a special 'spool' migration
-          scheme) and then migrate the backup to tape.
-
-          There is still the problem of getting the attributes committed.
-          If it takes a very long time to do, with the current code, the
-          job has not terminated, and the File daemon is not freed up.  The
-          Storage daemon should release the File daemon as soon as all the
-          file data and all the attributes have been sent to it (the SD).
-          Currently the SD waits until everything is on tape and all the
-          attributes are transmitted to the Director before signaling
-          completion to the FD. I don't think I would have any problem
-          changing this.  The reason is that even if the FD reports back to
-          the Dir that all is OK, the job will not terminate until the SD
-          has done the same thing -- so in a way keeping the SD-FD link
-          open to the very end is not really very productive ...
-
-   Why:   Makes backup of laptops much easier.
-
-Item 22:  Permit multiple Media Types in an Autochanger
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: Done. Implemented in 1.38.9 (I think).  
+  What: If a job can be spooled to disk before writing it to tape, it should
+          be spooled immediately.  Currently, bacula waits until the correct
+          tape is inserted into the drive.
+
+  Why:   It could save hours.  When bacula waits on the operator who must insert
+          the correct tape (e.g.  a new tape or a tape from another media
+          pool), bacula could already prepare the spooled data in the spooling
+          directory and immediately start despooling when the tape was
+          inserted by the operator.
+         
+          2nd step: Use 2 or more spooling directories.  When one directory is
+          currently despooling, the next (on different disk drives) could
+          already be spooling the next data.
+
+  Notes: I am using bacula 2.2.8, which has none of those features
+         implemented.
+
+Item 28: Enable persistent naming/number of SQL queries
+  Date:  24 Jan, 2007 
+  Origin: Mark Bergman 
+  Status: 
 
-  What:   Modify the Storage daemon so that multiple Media Types
-          can be specified in an autochanger. This would be somewhat
-          of a simplistic implementation in that each drive would
-          still be allowed to have only one Media Type.  However,
-          the Storage daemon will ensure that only a drive with
-          the Media Type that matches what the Director specifies
-          is chosen.
+  What: 
+        Change the parsing of the query.sql file and the query command so that
+        queries are named/numbered by a fixed value, not their order in the
+        file.
+
+
+  Why:  
+        One of the real strengths of bacula is the ability to query the
+        database, and the fact that complex queries can be saved and
+        referenced from a file is very powerful. However, the choice
+        of query (both for interactive use, and by scripting input
+        to the bconsole command) is completely dependent on the order
+        within the query.sql file. The descriptve labels are helpful for
+        interactive use, but users become used to calling a particular
+        query "by number", or may use scripts to execute queries. This
+        presents a problem if the number or order of queries in the file
+        changes.
+
+        If the query.sql file used the numeric tags as a real value (rather
+        than a comment), then users could have a higher confidence that they
+        are executing the intended query, that their local changes wouldn't
+        conflict with future bacula upgrades.
+
+        For scripting, it's very important that the intended query is
+        what's actually executed. The current method of parsing the
+        query.sql file discourages scripting because the addition or
+        deletion of queries within the file will require corresponding
+        changes to scripts. It may not be obvious to users that deleting
+        query "17" in the query.sql file will require changing all
+        references to higher numbered queries. Similarly, when new
+        bacula distributions change the number of "official" queries,
+        user-developed queries cannot simply be appended to the file
+        without also changing any references to those queries in scripts
+        or procedural documentation, etc.
+
+        In addition, using fixed numbers for queries would encourage more
+        user-initiated development of queries, by supporting conventions
+        such as:
+
+                queries numbered 1-50 are supported/developed/distributed by
+                        with official bacula releases
+                        
+                queries numbered 100-200 are community contributed, and are
+                related to media management
+
+                queries numbered 201-300 are community contributed, and are
+                related to checksums, finding duplicated files across
+                different backups, etc.
+
+                queries numbered 301-400 are community contributed, and are
+                related to backup statistics (average file size, size per
+                client per backup level, time for all clients by backup level,
+                storage capacity by media type, etc.)
+
+                queries numbered 500-999 are locally created
 
-  Why:    This will permit user with several different drive types
-          to make full use of their autochangers.
+  Notes:
+        Alternatively, queries could be called by keyword (tag), rather
+        than by number.
+
+Item 29: Implementation of running Job speed limit.
+Origin: Alex F, alexxzell at yahoo dot com
+Date: 29 January 2009
+
+What: I noticed the need for an integrated bandwidth limiter for
+      running jobs.  It would be very useful just to specify another
+      field in bacula-dir.conf, like speed = how much speed you wish
+      for that specific job to run at
+
+Why: Because of a couple of reasons.  First, it's very hard to implement a
+     traffic shaping utility and also make it reliable.  Second, it is very
+     uncomfortable to have to implement these apps to, let's say 50 clients
+     (including desktops, servers).  This would also be unreliable because you
+     have to make sure that the apps are properly working when needed; users
+     could also disable them (accidentally or not).  It would be very useful
+     to provide Bacula this ability.  All information would be centralized,
+     you would not have to go to 50 different clients in 10 different
+     locations for configuration; eliminating 3rd party additions help in
+     establishing efficiency.  Would also avoid bandwidth congestion,
+     especially where there is little available.
+
+Item 30: Restore from volumes on multiple storage daemons
+Origin: Graham Keeling (graham@equiinet.com)
+Date:  12 March 2009
+Status: Proposing
+
+What:  The ability to restore from volumes held by multiple storage daemons
+        would be very useful.
+
+Why:   It is useful to be able to backup to any number of different storage
+        daemons. For example, your first storage daemon may run out of space, so you
+        switch to your second and carry on. Bacula will currently let you do this.
+        However, once you come to restore, bacula cannot cope when volumes on different
+        storage daemons are required.
+
+        Notes: The director knows that more than one storage daemon is needed, as
+        bconsole outputs something like the following table.
+
+        The job will require the following
+           Volume(s)                 Storage(s)                SD Device(s)
+        ===========================================================================
+           
+           backup-0001               Disk 1                    Disk 1.0                 
+           backup-0002               Disk 2                    Disk 2.0             
+
+        However, the bootstrap file that it creates gets sent to the first storage
+        daemon only, which then stalls for a long time, 'waiting for a mount request'
+        for the volume that it doesn't have.
+        The bootstrap file contains no knowledge of the storage daemon.
+        Under the current design:
+
+                The director connects to the storage daemon, and gets an sd_auth_key.
+                The director then connects to the file daemon, and gives it the
+                        sd_auth_key with the 'jobcmd'.
+                (restoring of files happens)
+                The director does a 'wait_for_storage_daemon_termination()'.
+                The director waits for the file daemon to indicate the end of the job.
+
+        With my idea:
+
+        The director connects to the file daemon.
+        Then, for each storage daemon in the .bsr file...  {
+                The director connects to the storage daemon, and gets an sd_auth_key.
+                The director then connects to the file daemon, and gives it the
+                        sd_auth_key with the 'storaddr' command.
+                (restoring of files happens)
+                The director does a 'wait_for_storage_daemon_termination()'.
+                The director waits for the file daemon to indicate the end of the
+                        work on this storage.
+        }
+        The director tells the file daemon that there are no more storages to contact.
+        The director waits for the file daemon to indicate the end of the job.
+
+        As you can see, each restore between the file daemon and storage daemon is
+        handled in the same way that it is currently handled, using the same method
+        for authentication, except that the sd_auth_key is moved from the 'jobcmd' to
+        the 'storaddr' command - where it logically belongs.
+
+
+Item 31: 'restore' menu: enter a JobId, automatically select dependents 
+Origin: Graham Keeling (graham@equiinet.com)
+Date:  13 March 2009
+
+Status: Proposing
+
+What:  Add to the bconsole 'restore' menu the ability to select a job 
+        by JobId, and have bacula automatically select all the dependent jobs.
+
+        Why: Currently, you either have to...
+        a) laboriously type in a date that is greater than the date of the backup that
+        you want and is less than the subsequent backup (bacula then figures out the
+        dependent jobs), or
+        b) manually figure out all the JobIds that you want and laboriously type them
+        all in.
+        It would be extremely useful (in a programmatical sense, as well as for humans)
+        to be able to just give it a single JobId and let bacula do the hard work (work
+        that it already knows how to do).
+
+        Notes (Kern): I think this should either be modified to have Bacula print
+        a list of dates that the user can choose from as is done in bwx-console and
+        bat or the name of this command must be carefully chosen so that the user
+        clearly understands that the JobId is being used to specify what Job and the
+        date to which he wishes the restore to happen.
+
+
+
+Item 32: Possibilty to schedule Jobs on last Friday of the month
+Origin: Carsten Menke <bootsy52 at gmx dot net>
+Date:   02 March 2008
+Status:
 
-Item 23:  Allow different autochanger definitions for one autochanger.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: 
+   What: Currently if you want to run your monthly Backups on the last
+           Friday of each month this is only possible with workarounds (e.g
+           scripting) (As some months got 4 Fridays and some got 5 Fridays)
+           The same is true if you plan to run your yearly Backups on the
+           last Friday of the year.  It would be nice to have the ability to
+           use the builtin scheduler for this.
+
+   Why:   In many companies the last working day of the week is Friday (or 
+           Saturday), so to get the most data of the month onto the monthly
+           tape, the employees are advised to insert the tape for the
+           monthly backups on the last friday of the month.
+
+   Notes: To give this a complete functionality it would be nice if the
+           "first" and "last" Keywords could be implemented in the
+           scheduler, so it is also possible to run monthy backups at the
+           first friday of the month and many things more.  So if the syntax
+           would expand to this {first|last} {Month|Week|Day|Mo-Fri} of the
+           {Year|Month|Week} you would be able to run really flexible jobs.
+
+           To got a certain Job run on the last Friday of the Month for example one could 
+           then write
+
+              Run = pool=Monthly last Fri of the Month at 23:50
+
+              ## Yearly Backup
+
+              Run = pool=Yearly last Fri of the Year at 23:50
+
+              ## Certain Jobs the last Week of a Month
+
+              Run = pool=LastWeek last Week of the Month at 23:50
+
+              ## Monthly Backup on the last day of the month
+
+              Run = pool=Monthly last Day of the Month at 23:50
+
+Item 33: Add Minumum Spool Size directive
+Date: 20 March 2008
+Origin: Frank Sweetser <fs@wpi.edu>
+
+   What: Add a new SD directive, "minimum spool size" (or similar).  This
+         directive would specify a minimum level of free space available for
+         spooling.  If the unused spool space is less than this level, any
+         new spooling requests would be blocked as if the "maximum spool
+         size" threshold had bee reached.  Already spooling jobs would be
+         unaffected by this directive.
+
+   Why: I've been bitten by this scenario a couple of times:
+
+        Assume a maximum spool size of 100M. Two concurrent jobs, A and B,
+        are both running.  Due to timing quirks and previously running jobs,
+        job A has used 99.9M of space in the spool directory.  While A is
+        busy despooling to disk, B is happily using the remaining 0.1M of
+        spool space.  This ends up in a spool/despool sequence every 0.1M of
+        data.  In addition to fragmenting the data on the volume far more
+        than was necessary, in larger data sets (ie, tens or hundreds of
+        gigabytes) it can easily produce multi-megabyte report emails!
+
+
+Item 34: Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications
+ Origin: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
+ Date:   18 Dec 2006
+ Status:
+ What:   Cause Bacula daemons (dir, fd, sd) to always use the ip address
+          specified in the [DIR|DF|SD]Addr directive as the source IP
+          for initiating communication.
+ Why:    On complex networks, as well as extremely secure networks, it's
+          not unusual to have multiple possible routes through the network.
+          Often, each of these routes is secured by different policies
+          (effectively, firewalls allow or deny different traffic depending
+          on the source address)
+          Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult or impossible to
+          represent this in a system routing table, as the result is
+          excessive subnetting that quickly exhausts available IP space.
+          The best available workaround is to provide multiple IPs to
+          a single machine that are all on the same subnet.  In order
+          for this to work properly, applications must support the ability
+          to bind outgoing connections to a specified address, otherwise
+          the operating system will always choose the first IP that
+          matches the required route.
+ Notes:  Many other programs support this.  For example, the following
+          can be configured in BIND:
+          query-source address 10.0.0.1;
+          transfer-source 10.0.0.2;
+          Which means queries from this server will always come from
+          10.0.0.1 and zone transfers will always originate from
+          10.0.0.2.
+
+
+
+Item 35: Add ability to Verify any specified Job.
+Date: 17 January 2008
+Origin: portrix.net Hamburg, Germany.
+Contact: Christian Sabelmann
+Status: 70% of the required Code is part of the Verify function since v. 2.x
+
+   What:
+   The ability to tell Bacula which Job should verify instead of 
+   automatically verify just the last one.
+
+   Why: 
+   It is sad that such a powerfull feature like Verify Jobs
+   (VolumeToCatalog) is restricted to be used only with the last backup Job
+   of a client.  Actual users who have to do daily Backups are forced to
+   also do daily Verify Jobs in order to take advantage of this useful
+   feature.  This Daily Verify after Backup conduct is not always desired
+   and Verify Jobs have to be sometimes scheduled.  (Not necessarily
+   scheduled in Bacula).  With this feature Admins can verify Jobs once a
+   Week or less per month, selecting the Jobs they want to verify.  This
+   feature is also not to difficult to implement taking in account older bug
+   reports about this feature and the selection of the Job to be verified.
+          
+   Notes: For the verify Job, the user could select the Job to be verified 
+   from a List of the latest Jobs of a client. It would also be possible to 
+   verify a certain volume.  All of these would naturaly apply only for 
+   Jobs whose file information are still in the catalog.
+
+Item 36: Automatic disabling of devices
+   Date: 2005-11-11
+  Origin: Peter Eriksson <peter at ifm.liu dot se>
+  Status:
 
-  What:   Currently, the autochanger script is locked based on
-          the autochanger. That is, if multiple drives are being
-          simultaneously used, the Storage daemon ensures that only
-          one drive at a time can access the mtx-changer script.
-          This change would base the locking on the control device,
-          rather than the autochanger. It would then permit two autochanger
-          definitions for the same autochanger, but with different 
-          drives. Logically, the autochanger could then be "partitioned"
-          for different jobs, clients, or class of jobs, and if the locking
-          is based on the control device (e.g. /dev/sg0) the mtx-changer
-          script will be locked appropriately.
-
-  Why:    This will permit users to partition autochangers for specific
-          use. It would also permit implementation of multiple Media
-          Types with no changes to the Storage daemon.
-
-Item 24:  Automatic disabling of devices
-   Date:   2005-11-11
-   Origin: Peter Eriksson <peter at ifm.liu dot se>
-   Status:
-
-   What:  After a configurable amount of fatal errors with a tape drive
+   What: After a configurable amount of fatal errors with a tape drive
           Bacula should automatically disable further use of a certain
           tape drive. There should also be "disable"/"enable" commands in
           the "bconsole" tool.
 
-   Why:   On a multi-drive jukebox there is a possibility of tape drives
+   Why:  On a multi-drive jukebox there is a possibility of tape drives
           going bad during large backups (needing a cleaning tape run,
           tapes getting stuck). It would be advantageous if Bacula would
           automatically disable further use of a problematic tape drive
@@ -723,473 +1135,171 @@ Item 24:  Automatic disabling of devices
           further use of that drive and used one of the other ones
           instead.
 
-Item 25:  Implement huge exclude list support using hashing.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   Allow users to specify very large exclude list (currently
-          more than about 1000 files is too many).
-
-  Why:    This would give the users the ability to exclude all
-          files that are loaded with the OS (e.g. using rpms
-          or debs). If the user can restore the base OS from
-          CDs, there is no need to backup all those files. A
-          complete restore would be to restore the base OS, then
-          do a Bacula restore. By excluding the base OS files, the
-          backup set will be *much* smaller.
-
-
-============= Empty Feature Request form ===========
-Item n:   One line summary ...
-  Date:   Date submitted 
-  Origin: Name and email of originator.
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   More detailed explanation ...
-
-  Why:    Why it is important ...
-
-  Notes:  Additional notes or features (omit if not used)
-============== End Feature Request form ==============
-
-
-===============================================
-Feature requests submitted after cutoff for December 2005 vote
-  and not yet discussed.
-===============================================
-Item n:   Allow skipping execution of Jobs
-  Date:   29 November 2005
-  Origin: Florian Schnabel <florian.schnabel at docufy dot de>
-  Status:
-
-     What: An easy option to skip a certain job  on a certain date.
-     Why:  You could then easily skip tape backups on holidays.  Especially
-           if you got no autochanger and can only fit one backup on a tape
-           that would be really handy, other jobs could proceed normally
-           and you won't get errors that way.
-
-===================================================
-
-Item n: archive data
-
-  Origin: calvin streeting calvin at absentdream dot com
-  Date:   15/5/2006
-
-  What:   The abilty to archive to media (dvd/cd) in a uncompressd format
-          for dead filing (archiving not backing up)
-
-  Why:  At my works when jobs are finished and moved off of the main file
-        servers (raid based systems) onto a simple linux file server (ide based
-        system) so users can find old information without contacting the IT
-        dept.
-
-        So this data dosn't realy change it only gets added to,
-        But it also needs backing up.  At the moment it takes
-        about 8 hours to back up our servers (working data) so
-        rather than add more time to existing backups i am trying
-        to implement a system where we backup the acrhive data to
-        cd/dvd these disks would only need to be appended to
-        (burn only new/changed files to new disks for off site
-        storage).  basialy understand the differnce between
-        achive data and live data.
-
-  Notes: scan the data and email me when it needs burning divide
-          into predifind chunks keep a recored of what is on what
-          disk make me a label (simple php->mysql=>pdf stuff) i
-          could do this bit ability to save data uncompresed so
-          it can be read in any other system (future proof data)
-          save the catalog with the disk as some kind of menu
-          system 
-
-Item :  Tray monitor window cleanups
-  Origin: Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl dot ucl dot ac dot uk
-  Date:   24 July 2006
-  Status:
-  What:   Resizeable and scrollable windows in the tray monitor.
-
-  Why:    With multiple clients, or with many jobs running, the displayed
-          window often ends up larger than the available screen, making
-          the trailing items difficult to read.
-
-   Notes:
-
-  Item :  Clustered file-daemons
-  Origin: Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl dot ucl dot ac dot uk
-  Date:   24 July 2006
-  Status:
-  What:   A "virtual" filedaemon, which is actually a cluster of real ones.
-
-  Why:    In the case of clustered filesystems (SAN setups, GFS, or OCFS2, etc)
-          multiple machines may have access to the same set of filesystems
-
-          For performance reasons, one may wish to initate backups from
-          several of these machines simultaneously, instead of just using
-          one backup source for the common clustered filesystem.
-
-          For obvious reasons, normally backups of $A-FD/$PATH and
-          B-FD/$PATH are treated as different backup sets. In this case
-          they are the same communal set.
+Item 37: An option to operate on all pools with update vol parameters
+  Origin: Dmitriy Pinchukov <absh@bossdev.kiev.ua>
+   Date: 16 August 2006
+  Status: Patch made by  Nigel Stepp
 
-          Likewise when restoring, it would be easier to just specify
-          one of the cluster machines and let bacula decide which to use.
-
-          This can be faked to some extent using DNS round robin entries
-          and a virtual IP address, however it means "status client" will
-          always give bogus answers. Additionally there is no way of
-          spreading the load evenly among the servers.
-
-          What is required is something similar to the storage daemon
-          autochanger directives, so that Bacula can keep track of
-          operating backups/restores and direct new jobs to a "free"
-          client.
+   What: When I do update -> Volume parameters -> All Volumes
+          from Pool, then I have to select pools one by one.  I'd like
+          console to have an option like "0: All Pools" in the list of
+          defined pools.
 
-   Notes:
+   Why:  I have many pools and therefore unhappy with manually
+          updating each of them using update -> Volume parameters -> All
+          Volumes from Pool -> pool #.
 
-Item :  Tray monitor window cleanups
-  Origin: Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl dot ucl dot ac dot uk
-  Date:   24 July 2006
+Item 38: Implement Storage daemon compression
+  Date:  18 December 2006
+  Origin: Vadim A. Umanski , e-mail umanski@ext.ru
   Status:
-  What:   Resizeable and scrollable windows in the tray monitor.
-
-  Why:    With multiple clients, or with many jobs running, the displayed
-          window often ends up larger than the available screen, making
-          the trailing items difficult to read.
-
+  What:  The ability to compress backup data on the SD receiving data
+          instead of doing that on client sending data.
+  Why:   The need is practical. I've got some machines that can send
+          data to the network 4 or 5 times faster than compressing
+          them (I've measured that). They're using fast enough SCSI/FC
+          disk subsystems but rather slow CPUs (ex. UltraSPARC II).
+          And the backup server has got a quite fast CPUs (ex. Dual P4
+          Xeons) and quite a low load. When you have 20, 50 or 100 GB
+          of raw data - running a job 4 to 5 times faster - that
+          really matters. On the other hand, the data can be
+          compressed 50% or better - so losing twice more space for
+          disk backup is not good at all. And the network is all mine
+          (I have a dedicated management/provisioning network) and I
+          can get as high bandwidth as I need - 100Mbps, 1000Mbps...
+          That's why the server-side compression feature is needed!
   Notes:
 
-Item:    Commercial database support
-  Origin: Russell Howe <russell_howe dot wreckage dot org>
-  Date:   26 July 2006
-  Status:
-
-  What:   It would be nice for the database backend to support more 
-          databases. I'm thinking of SQL Server at the moment, but I guess Oracle, 
-          DB2, MaxDB, etc are all candidates. SQL Server would presumably be 
-          implemented using FreeTDS or maybe an ODBC library?
-
-  Why:    We only really have one database server, which is MS SQL Server 
-          2000. Maintaining a second one for the backup software (we grew out of 
-          SQLite, which I liked, but which didn't work so well with our database 
-          size). We don't really have a machine with the resources to run 
-          postgres, and would rather only maintain a single DBMS. We're stuck with 
-          SQL Server because pretty much all the company's custom applications 
-          (written by consultants) are locked into SQL Server 2000. I can imagine 
-          this scenario is fairly common, and it would be nice to use the existing 
-          properly specced database server for storing Bacula's catalog, rather 
-          than having to run a second DBMS.
-
-
-Item n:   Split documentation
-  Origin: Maxx <maxxatworkat gmail dot com>
-  Date:   27th July 2006
+Item 39: Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management 
+  Date:  8 November 2005, November 11, 2005
+  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton at sinenomine dot net>,
+          Arno Lehmann <al at its-lehmann dot de>
   Status:
 
-  What:   Split documentation in several books
-
-  Why:    Bacula manual has now more than 600 pages, and looking for
-          implementation details is getting complicated.  I think
-          it would be good to split the single volume in two or
-          maybe three parts:
-
-          1) Introduction, requirements and tutorial, typically
-             are useful only until first installation time
-
-          2) Basic installation and configuration, with all the
-             gory details about the directives supported 3)
-             Advanced Bacula: testing, troubleshooting, GUI and
-             ancillary programs, security managements, scripting,
-             etc.
-
-  Notes:
-
-Item n: Include an option to operate on all pools when doing
-        update vol parameters
-
-   Origin: Dmitriy Pinchukov <absh@bossdev.kiev.ua>
-   Date:   16 August 2006
-   Status:
-
-   What: When I do update -> Volume parameters -> All Volumes
-         from Pool, then I have to select pools one by one.  I'd like
-         console to have an option like "0: All Pools" in the list of
-         defined pools.
-
-   Why: I have many pools and therefore unhappy with manually
-        updating each of them using update -> Volume parameters -> All
-        Volumes from Pool -> pool #.
-
-Item n:   Automatic promotion of backup levels
-   Date:   19 January 2006
-   Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
-   Status: Blue sky
-
-   What: Amanda has a feature whereby it estimates the space that a  
-         differential, incremental, and full backup would take.  If the  
-         difference in space required between the scheduled level and the next  
-         level up is beneath some user-defined critical threshold, the backup  
-         level is bumped to the next type.  Doing this minimizes the number of  
-         volumes necessary during a restore, with a fairly minimal cost in  
-         backup media space.
-
-   Why:   I know at least one (quite sophisticated and smart) user  
-          for whom the absence of this feature is a deal-breaker in terms of  
-          using Bacula; if we had it it would eliminate the one cool thing  
-          Amanda can do and we can't (at least, the one cool thing I know of).
-
-
-
-
-Item n+1:   Incorporation of XACML2/SAML2 parsing
-   Date:   19 January 2006
-   Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
-   Status: Blue sky
-
-   What:   XACML is "eXtensible Access Control Markup Language" and  
-          "SAML is the "Security Assertion Markup Language"--an XML standard  
-          for making statements about identity and authorization.  Having these  
-          would give us a framework to approach ACLs in a generic manner, and  
-          in a way flexible enough to support the four major sorts of ACLs I  
-          see as a concern to Bacula at this point, as well as (probably) to  
-          deal with new sorts of ACLs that may appear in the future.
-
-   Why:    Bacula is beginning to need to back up systems with ACLs  
-          that do not map cleanly onto traditional Unix permissions.  I see  
-          four sets of ACLs--in general, mutually incompatible with one  
-          another--that we're going to need to deal with.  These are: NTFS  
-          ACLs, POSIX ACLs, NFSv4 ACLS, and AFS ACLS.  (Some may question the  
-          relevance of AFS; AFS is one of Sine Nomine's core consulting  
-          businesses, and having a reputable file-level backup and restore  
-          technology for it (as Tivoli is probably going to drop AFS support  
-          soon since IBM no longer supports AFS) would be of huge benefit to  
-          our customers; we'd most likely create the AFS support at Sine Nomine  
-          for inclusion into the Bacula (and perhaps some changes to the  
-          OpenAFS volserver) core code.)
-
-          Now, obviously, Bacula already handles NTFS just fine.  However, I  
-          think there's a lot of value in implementing a generic ACL model, so  
-          that it's easy to support whatever particular instances of ACLs come  
-          down the pike: POSIX ACLS (think SELinux) and NFSv4 are the obvious  
-          things arriving in the Linux world in a big way in the near future.   
-          XACML, although overcomplicated for our needs, provides this  
-          framework, and we should be able to leverage other people's  
-          implementations to minimize the amount of work *we* have to do to get  
-          a generic ACL framework.  Basically, the costs of implementation are  
-          high, but they're largely both external to Bacula and already sunk.
-
-Item 1:   Add an over-ride in the Schedule configuration to use a
-          different pool for different backup types.
-
-Date:   19 Jan 2005
-Origin: Chad Slater <chad.slater@clickfox.com>
-Status: 
-                                                
-  What:   Adding a FullStorage=BigTapeLibrary in the Schedule resource
-          would help those of us who use different storage devices for different
-          backup levels cope with the "auto-upgrade" of a backup.
-
-  Why:    Assume I add several new device to be backed up, i.e. several
-          hosts with 1TB RAID.  To avoid tape switching hassles, incrementals are
-          stored in a disk set on a 2TB RAID.  If you add these devices in the
-          middle of the month, the incrementals are upgraded to "full" backups,
-          but they try to use the same storage device as requested in the
-          incremental job, filling up the RAID holding the differentials.  If we
-          could override the Storage parameter for full and/or differential
-          backups, then the Full job would use the proper Storage device, which
-          has more capacity (i.e. a 8TB tape library.
+  What:  Make Bacula manage tape life cycle information, tape reuse
+          times and drive cleaning cycles.
 
+  Why:   All three parts of this project are important when operating
+          backups.
+          We need to know which tapes need replacement, and we need to
+          make sure the drives are cleaned when necessary.  While many
+          tape libraries and even autoloaders can handle all this
+          automatically, support by Bacula can be helpful for smaller
+          (older) libraries and single drives.  Limiting the number of
+          times a tape is used might prevent tape errors when using
+          tapes until the drives can't read it any more.  Also, checking
+          drive status during operation can prevent some failures (as I
+          [Arno] had to learn the hard way...)
 
-Item:     Implement multiple numeric backup levels as supported by dump
-Date:     3 April 2006
-Origin:   Daniel Rich <drich@employees.org>
-Status:
-What:     Dump allows specification of backup levels numerically instead of just
-          "full", "incr", and "diff".  In this system, at any given level, all
-          files are backed up that were were modified since the last backup of a
-          higher level (with 0 being the highest and 9 being the lowest).  A
-          level 0 is therefore equivalent to a full, level 9 an incremental, and
-          the levels 1 through 8 are varying levels of differentials.  For
-          bacula's sake, these could be represented as "full", "incr", and
-          "diff1", "diff2", etc.
-
-Why:      Support of multiple backup levels would provide for more advanced backup
-          rotation schemes such as "Towers of Hanoi".  This would allow better
-          flexibility in performing backups, and can lead to shorter recover
-          times.
-
-Notes:    Legato Networker supports a similar system with full, incr, and 1-9 as
-          levels.
-
-Kern notes: I think this would add very little functionality, but a *lot* of
-          additional overhead to Bacula.
-
-Item 1:   include JobID in spool file name
-  Origin: Mark Bergman <mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu>
-  Date:  Tue Aug 22 17:13:39 EDT 2006
-  Status:
+  Notes: First, Bacula could (and even does, to some limited extent)
+          record tape and drive usage.  For tapes, the number of mounts,
+          the amount of data, and the time the tape has actually been
+          running could be recorded.  Data fields for Read and Write
+          time and Number of mounts already exist in the catalog (I'm
+          not sure if VolBytes is the sum of all bytes ever written to
+          that volume by Bacula).  This information can be important
+          when determining which media to replace.  The ability to mark
+          Volumes as "used up" after a given number of write cycles
+          should also be implemented so that a tape is never actually
+          worn out.  For the tape drives known to Bacula, similar
+          information is interesting to determine the device status and
+          expected life time: Time it's been Reading and Writing, number
+          of tape Loads / Unloads / Errors.  This information is not yet
+          recorded as far as I [Arno] know.  A new volume status would
+          be necessary for the new state, like "Used up" or "Worn out".
+          Volumes with this state could be used for restores, but not
+          for writing. These volumes should be migrated first (assuming
+          migration is implemented) and, once they are no longer needed,
+          could be moved to a Trash pool.
 
-  What:   Change the name of the spool file to include the JobID
+          The next step would be to implement a drive cleaning setup.
+          Bacula already has knowledge about cleaning tapes.  Once it
+          has some information about cleaning cycles (measured in drive
+          run time, number of tapes used, or calender days, for example)
+          it can automatically execute tape cleaning (with an
+          autochanger, obviously) or ask for operator assistance loading
+          a cleaning tape.
 
-  Why:    JobIDs are the common key used to refer to jobs, yet the 
-        spoolfile name doesn't include that information. The date/time
-        stamp is useful (and should be retained).
+          The final step would be to implement TAPEALERT checks not only
+          when changing tapes and only sending the information to the
+          administrator, but rather checking after each tape error,
+          checking on a regular basis (for example after each tape
+          file), and also before unloading and after loading a new tape.
+          Then, depending on the drives TAPEALERT state and the known
+          drive cleaning state Bacula could automatically schedule later
+          cleaning, clean immediately, or inform the operator.
 
+          Implementing this would perhaps require another catalog change
+          and perhaps major changes in SD code and the DIR-SD protocol,
+          so I'd only consider this worth implementing if it would
+          actually be used or even needed by many people.
 
+          Implementation of these projects could happen in three distinct
+          sub-projects: Measuring Tape and Drive usage, retiring
+          volumes, and handling drive cleaning and TAPEALERTs.
 
-Item 2:   include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
-  Origin: Mark Bergman <mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu>
-  Date:  Tue Aug 22 17:13:39 EDT 2006
+Item 40: Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
+  Date:  27 November 2005
+  Origin: Ove Risberg (Ove.Risberg at octocode dot com)
   Status:
 
-  What:   The "stat clients" command doesn't include any detail on when
-        the active backup jobs were launched.
-
-  Why:   Including the timestamp would make it much easier to decide whether
-        a job is running properly. 
+  What:  I want the file daemon to start multiple threads for a backup
+          job so the fastest possible backup can be made.
 
-  Notes: It may be helpful to have the output from "stat clients" formatted 
-        more like that from "stat dir" (and other commands), in a column
-        format. The per-client information that's currently shown (level,
-        client name, JobId, Volume, pool, device, Files, etc.) is good, but
-        somewhat hard to parse (both programmatically and visually), 
-        particularly when there are many active clients.
-
-Item 1:   Filesystemwatch triggered backup.
-  Date:   31 August 2006
-  Origin: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
-  Status: Unimplemented, depends probably on "client initiated backups"
-
-  What:   With inotify and similar filesystem triggeret notification
-          systems is it possible to have the file-daemon to monitor
-          filesystem changes and initiate backup.
-
-  Why:    There are 2 situations where this is nice to have.
-          1) It is possible to get a much finer-grained backup than
-             the fixed schedules used now.. A file created and deleted
-             a few hours later, can automatically be caught.
-
-          2) The introduced load on the system will probably be
-             distributed more even on the system.
-
-  Notes:  This can be combined with configration that specifies
-          something like: "at most every 15 minutes or when changes
-          consumed XX MB".
-
-Item n:  Message mailing based on backup types
-Origin:  Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
-  Date:  January 6, 2006
-Status:
+          The file daemon could parse the FileSet information and start
+          one thread for each File entry located on a separate
+          filesystem.
 
-  What:  In the "Messages" resource definitions, allowing messages
-         to be mailed based on the type (backup, restore, etc.) and level
-         (full, differential, etc) of job that created the originating
-         message(s).
+          A confiuration option in the job section should be used to
+          enable or disable this feature. The confgutration option could
+          specify the maximum number of threads in the file daemon.
 
-Why:     It would, for example, allow someone's boss to be emailed
-         automatically only when a Full Backup job runs, so he can
-         retrieve the tapes for offsite storage, even if the IT dept.
-         doesn't (or can't) explicitly notify him.  At the same time, his
-         mailbox wouldnt be filled by notifications of Verifies, Restores,
-         or Incremental/Differential Backups (which would likely be kept
-         onsite).
+          If the theads could spool the data to separate spool files
+          the restore process will not be much slower.
 
-Notes:
-        One way this could be done is through additional message types, for example:
+  Why:   Multiple concurrent backups of a large fileserver with many
+          disks and controllers will be much faster.
 
-   Messages {
-     # email the boss only on full system backups
-     Mail = boss@mycompany.com = full, !incremental, !differential, !restore, 
-            !verify, !admin
-     # email us only when something breaks
-     MailOnError = itdept@mycompany.com = all
-   }
+========= End items voted on May 2009 ==================
 
+========= New items after last vote ====================
 
-Item n:   Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
-  Origin: Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
-  Date:   January 11, 2006
-  Status:
+Item 1:   Relabel disk volume after recycling
+  Origin: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>
+  Date:   07 May 2009.
+  Status: Not implemented yet, no code written.
 
-  What:   In the vein of the Wild and Regex directives in a Fileset's
-          Options, it would be helpful to allow a user to include or exclude
-          files and directories by creation or modification times.
+  What:   The ability to relabel the disk volume (and thus rename the file on the disk) 
+          after it has been recycled. Useful when you have a single job per disk volume, 
+          and you use a custom Label format, for example: 
+          Label Format = "${Client}-${Level}-${NumVols:p/4/0/r}-${Year}_${Month}_${Day}-${Hour}_${Minute}"
 
-          You could factor the Exclude=yes|no option in much the same way it
-          affects the Wild and Regex directives.  For example, you could exclude
-          all files modified before a certain date:
+  Why:    Disk volumes in Bacula get the label/filename when they are used for the first time.
+          If you use recycling and custom label format like above, the disk
+          volume name doesn't match the contents after it has been recycled.
+          This feature makes it possible to keep the label/filename in sync
+          with the content and thus makes it easy to check/monitor the backups
+          from the shell and/or normal file management tools, because the filenames 
+          of the disk volumes match the content.
 
-   Options {
-     Exclude = yes
-     Modified Before = ####
-   }
+  Notes:  The configuration option could be "Relabel after Recycling = Yes".
 
-           Or you could exclude all files created/modified since a certain date:
 
-   Options {
-      Exclude = yes
-     Created Modified Since = ####
-   }
+========= Add new items above this line =================
 
-           The format of the time/date could be done several ways, say the number
-           of seconds since the epoch:
-           1137008553 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # result of `date +%s`
 
-           Or a human readable date in a cryptic form:
-           20060111134233 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # YYYYMMDDhhmmss
+============= Empty Feature Request form ===========
+Item  n: One line summary ...
+  Date:  Date submitted 
+  Origin: Name and email of originator.
+  Status: 
 
-  Why:    I imagine a feature like this could have many uses. It would
-          allow a user to do a full backup while excluding the base operating
-          system files, so if I installed a Linux snapshot from a CD yesterday,
-          I'll *exclude* all files modified *before* today.  If I need to
-          recover the system, I use the CD I already have, plus the tape backup.
-          Or if, say, a Windows client is hit by a particularly corrosive
-          virus, and I need to *exclude* any files created/modified *since* the
-          time of infection.
+  What:  More detailed explanation ...
 
-  Notes:  Of course, this feature would work in concert with other
-          in/exclude rules, and wouldnt override them (or each other).
+  Why:   Why it is important ...
 
-  Notes:  The directives I'd imagine would be along the lines of
-          "[Created] [Modified] [Before|Since] = <date>".
-          So one could compare against 'ctime' and/or 'mtime', but ONLY 'before'
-           or 'since'.
+  Notes: Additional notes or features (omit if not used)
+============== End Feature Request form ==============
 
 
-Item:   Implement support for stacking arbitrary stream filters, sinks.
-Date:   23 November 2006
-Origin: Landon Fuller <landonf@threerings.net>
-Status: Planning. Assigned to landonf.
-
-What:
-        Implement support for the following:
-        - Stacking arbitrary stream filters (eg, encryption, compression,  
-          sparse data handling))
-        - Attaching file sinks to terminate stream filters (ie, write out  
-          the resultant data to a file)
-        - Refactor the restoration state machine accordingly
-
-Why:
-        The existing stream implementation suffers from the following:
-         - All state (compression, encryption, stream restoration), is  
-           global across the entire restore process, for all streams. There are  
-           multiple entry and exit points in the restoration state machine, and  
-           thus multiple places where state must be allocated, deallocated,  
-           initialized, or reinitialized. This results in exceptional complexity  
-           for the author of a stream filter.
-         - The developer must enumerate all possible combinations of filters  
-           and stream types (ie, win32 data with encryption, without encryption,  
-           with encryption AND compression, etc).
-
-Notes:
-        This feature request only covers implementing the stream filters/ 
-        sinks, and refactoring the file daemon's restoration implementation  
-        accordingly. If I have extra time, I will also rewrite the backup  
-        implementation. My intent in implementing the restoration first is to  
-        solve pressing bugs in the restoration handling, and to ensure that  
-        the new restore implementation handles existing backups correctly.
-
-        I do not plan on changing the network or tape data structures to  
-        support defining arbitrary stream filters, but supporting that  
-        functionality is the ultimate goal.
-
-        Assistance with either code or testing would be fantastic.
+========== Items put on hold by Kern ============================