X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2FReleaseNotes;h=5d6c079313dba97b9959ddfbcb15f01df00bd6e7;hb=0e17f32019eb391f04b1dd7cbad8206863caf053;hp=9fce188d2d4b402f8efaee4912f748bf194974cf;hpb=71309f54f4b12a0c610d279b65912c0b65bcbd30;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/ReleaseNotes b/bacula/ReleaseNotes index 9fce188d2d..5d6c079313 100644 --- a/bacula/ReleaseNotes +++ b/bacula/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,285 +1,677 @@ - Release Notes for Bacula 1.34.2 + Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.8 - Bacula code: Total files = 345 Total lines = 99,835 (*.h *.c *.in) + Bacula code: Total files = 419 Total lines = 137,078 (*.h *.c *.in) + 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3 -Changes for 1.34.2: -Major Features: -- wx-console can now be built both under GTK and Win32. It is - now part of the Win32 binary release. It has a very nice tree - oriented restore. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat for this program. -- bconsole is now included in the Win32 binary release. - -Items to note!!! -- bscan restored StartBlocks one block off resulting in loss of - data if any bscanned volumes were restored. Thanks to Gregory - for reporting this. It is fixed in this release. -- Due to an oversight, "Maximum Job Spool Size" was is not implemented. - It will be in the next release. -- To build wx-console on Linux. Download wxWidgets 2.4.2 from wxwidgets.org, - build and install it on your system, then add --enable-wx-console on - your Bacula ./configure and it will be built and installed. -- For both the Win32 and Linux GTK versions of wx-console, you must - create a wx-console.conf in the current directory. The contents are - identical to a bconsole.conf file. - -Other items: -- Make SD utility programs accept device name as well as archive device - on command line. -- Update docs -- Remove old debug code from Win32 FD. -- A new version of depkgs-win32 was released containing the Win32 - wxWidgets source code. -- Disable SIGHUP code in Director which is not yet complete. - - -Release 1.34.1: -- Autochanger users, please note you must add %d to the end of the - changer command line in your Device resource in your bacula-sd.conf - file. -- There is a new wx-console program that does restores with a - tree allowing you to visually select what files are to be restored. - It is in a preliminary stage of development, but can be easily - be built under Linux with GTK, and with just a bit more difficulty - under Win32 with MinGW. -- Fixed a major race condition in the job scheduler when multiple - simultaneous jobs is enabled. This occurred only when on job had - blocked another because of resource usage. -- Fixed crash in SD during restore. -- Changed the backup report to indicate "Backup OK -- with warnings - if any warning messages were generated. -- Change output of restore report to indicate: - "Restore OK -- warning file count mismatch" -- Make backup report say "Backup OK with warnings" if either FD or SD - report any non-fatal errors. -- Modify bscan to print some elementary statistics (#Jobs, #Files, ...) - added to catalog. -- Added --enable-wx-console and updated Makefile.in -- Fix mtx-changer so that the calling sequence is compatible - with the previous version (the new one required arguments that - were not necessarily used). -- Document how to use stunnel with Bacula. -- Fix crash in query command. -- Remove schedule from the default restore job. -- Fix data spooler to use min/max tape blocking factors. -- Automatically turn of conio if library not found instead of bombing. -- Cleaned up a lot of copyright dates. -- Try to keep spool statistics from going negative. -- Added new Pools chapter. Doc about using two disks. -- Attempt to keep the spool file statistics size from going - negative. -- Fix the Director's Scheduled Jobs: list to have a === - termination. -- Fixed ./configure to disable readline rather than stop if - readline.h is not found -- Fixed a typo in the SQLite database update script as reported - by Robert J. Clark - thanks. -- Removed src/win32/pthreads and src/win32/zlib from the source - tree. -- Created a new depkgs-win32 that has the pthreads and zlib source - code. -- Removed the JobDefs from the default Restore job as it has a - schedule. Thanks to Matt Howard for this. - - - -Release 1.34.0 -Major Features: -- Data spooling which reduces tape shoe-shine during Inc backups, - and permits multiple simultaneous backups without interleaved blocks. -- Native Win32 client -- much faster and restores permissions correctly - (thanks to Christopher Hull) -- New Windows style installer for the Win32 Client. -- PostgreSQL database driver (thanks to Dan Langille). -- Polling of devices eliminating need to unmount and mount from - console. -- Improved Autochange support of Slots (update slots scan). -- Autochanger support for multiple drives (I think). -- New conio code to implement Console command line editing and history. -- JobDefs resource permits smaller .conf files for Director -- Access console lists for the Console -- Pool level overrides. -- Daemon "status" is recovered across daemon executions. -- Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands. - - -Items to note: !!!!! -- If you have a RedHat system, be sure to delete the /lib/tls - directory from your system. It contains defective pthreads code. -- The restore default is changed to have nothing selected by default. - You must either enter: "restore all" or after getting into the tree - selection prompt enter "mark *" to have everything selected. -- In previous versions the "all" keyword on the restore command caused - it to return without user interaction after selecting everything. - This function is now replaced by the "done" keyword (more logical). - The "all" keyword now causes everything to be selected by default. -- The default tape driver behavior is now to write only a single EOF - at the end of the tape. For most tape drives, this is totally - transparent and nothing needs to be done. For FreeBSD see below. -- FreeBSD users NOTE!!!!! - You may need the following two records to your SD Device resource for - tape drives. - - TWOEOF = yes - Fast Forward Space File = no - - The "Fast Forward Space File" is surely needed, and the TWOEOF - is needed on some systems and not others. Running the btape - "test" command will tell you. If you get an error with TWOEOF set - to yes, set it to no. - -- If you want either bsmtp or bconsole on Win32, you will need - to load the 1.32 version along with cygwin1.dll. Some solution - for this will be forthcoming in a future update. -- The daemon protocol has changed from version 1.32, you must update - everything at once. -- The database level has been updated. You must either re-initialize - your databases with: +!!!! Important !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + In Bacula version 1.38.5 and prior, there was apparently a + compiler bug that caused the Storage daemon to seg fault. + I have applied a workaround in version 1.38.6 and greater that + seems to work. If you experience problems, follow the instructions + below. + + If you are compiling for a 64 bit machine, you need to ensure + that the code is compiled with the -O0 (- oh zero) option otherwise + the SD will crash on most all operations -- apparently due to + a compiler bug in gcc's 64 bit code generation. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Warning: +- The Windows FD no longer automatically folds the case + in wild-card comparions. To get the same behavior as before, + you must explicitly use "Ignore Case = yes" in your FileSet. +- Backslashes are no longer permitted in File directives + (typical error for Windows users), unless the string is + enclosed in double quotes, in which case, the backslashes + must be doubled. +- The new algorithm for selecting Volumes from the Scratch + pool that was implemented in 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 is abandoned + in favor of a corrected version of the 1.38.5 algorithm. + +New features for 1.38.8: +- Regex, RegexFile, and RegexDir are now implemented in the + Win32 FD. However, this is new experimental code that is + largely untested. It may not work, it may cause memory + leaks, or it may even crash the FD. Please test carefully + before using. +- On Linux/Unix systems there are two new programs, bregex + and bwild that allow you to test regular expressions and + wild-cards. These programs are installed with the other + binaries. They are not available on Win32 systems. + +Fixes: +- See below. + +New Features from pre-1.38.8 releases: +- For autochanger get Scratch tape if in autochanger if + no appendable Volumes are available. +- New virtual disk autochanger. See scripts/disk-changer for + documentation. +- New optional Device resource directive in SD. 'Device Type =', + which may have types: File, DVD, Tape, or FIFO. This can + be useful for writing DVDs on FreeBSD where Bacula cannot + correctly detect the DVD. +- Faster restore tree building and uses less memory. +- The command line keyword job (or jobname) now refers to the + name of the job specified in the Job resource; jobid refers + as before to the non-unique numeric jobid; and ujobid refers + to the unique job identification that Bacula creates for each + job. +- The job report for Backups has a few more user friendly ways + of displaying the information. +- The wait command can now be made to wait for jobids. +- New command line keywords are permitted in update volume. They + are Inchanger=yes/no, slot=nn. +- Add two new console commands: enable job= and + disable job=. When a job is disabled, it will not + be started by the scheduler. If you disable a job and restart + Bacula or reload the .conf file, the job will be re-enabled. +- Add a new Job resource directive "enable = yes|no". +- There is a new program named regex in the tools directory that + allows you to try regular expressions on your system. + +Major bug fixes: +- Fix race condition in multiple-drive autochangers where + both drives want the same Volume. +- Do not allow opening default catalog for restricted console + if it is not in ACL. +- Writable FIFOs now work for restore. +- ACLs are now checked in all dot commands. +- Multiple drive autochangers and multiple different autochangers + should now work correctly (no race conditions for Volume names, + update slots use correct StorageId). +- Fix bug where drive was always reserved if a restore job failed + while in the reservation process. - ./drop_bacula_tables - ./make_bacula_tables - - which will delete ALL prior catalog information, or you can - update your 1.32 database with: - - ./update_bacula_tables - - Please save your old database before dropping the tables or doing - an upgrade or you may regret it later. -- If you are updating versions older than 1.32, you can look in - the updatedb directory for scripts that you can use. You will need - to manually set the paths for your system. - -- smtp has now become bsmtp -- you *must* modify your .conf files. -- console has now become bconsole. -- console.conf is now bconsole.conf -- Please don't underestimate the repercussions of the bsmtp and bconsole - name changes! - - -New directives: -- "Close on Poll = yes/no" in SD Device resource. -- "Volume Poll Interval = time-interval" in SD Device resource. -- "Two EOF = yes/no" in SD Device resource. -- "Maximum Network Buffer Size = size" in SD Device resource. -- "Maximum Network Buffer Size = size" in FD FileDaemon (or Client) resource. -- "Console" new resource in Director conf file. - New directives: Name, Description, Password, JobACL, ClientACL, - StorageACL, ScheduleACL, RunACL, PoolACL, CommandACL, - FileSetACL, CatalogACL. -- "Max Run Time = duration" in Director Job resource. -- "Max Wait Time = duration" in Director Job resource (not fully implemented). -- "JobDefs = name-of-resource" in Director Job resource. -- "Jobdefs" new resource in Director. Same directives as for a Job. -- "Full Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director. -- "Incremental Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director. -- "Differential Backup Pool = xxx" in Job resource in the Director. -- Three new options on the Run override statement in a Schedule resource: - FullPool=xxx - IncrementalPool=xxx - DifferentialPool=xxx -- SpoolData=yes/no in DIR Job resource -- SpoolData=yes/no in Run override directive. -- MaximumSpoolSize in SD Device resource -- MaximumJobSpoolSize in SD Device resource -- SpoolDirectory in SD Device resource. -- Drive Index in SD Device resource for using two autochanger - drives. -- mtimeonly=yes/no on Include directive. -- keepatime=yes/no on Include directive. + +Minor bug fixes: +- See below: + +Release 1.38.8 (14Apr06) +14Apr06 +- Correct Makefile for Solaris /bin/sh +- Correct mtx-changer.in for Solaris /bin/sh +- Abort if a conf resource does not have a Name = +12Apr06 +- Change the name of the regex program to bregex. +- Add the bwild program to the tools directory. It is similar + to the bregex program. +- Implement create bregex.h and bregex.c in src/lib from the + Python regexp program. +- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. +11Apr06 +- Modify Makefile to change the permissions on Working Directory + to 770 if the directory is created. +- Do not fail the Makefile if changing the permissions or + owner/group on WorkingDir fails. +- Correct the old recycling algorithm so that Scratch Volumes + are selected when looking for a Volume in the changer. +- Correct a typo in the Verify SQL reported by Joe Park. +10Apr06 +- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must + explictly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. +- Remove the code added to 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 that pulls a + scratch volume in an Autochanger early in the 'recycling' + algorithm. +08Apr06 +- Tweak license to include Microsoft restrictions. +- Move mysql.reconnect to after real_connect(). Thanks to + Frank Sweetser for the patch. +- Disallow a backslash in a File = directive (Windows junk) + unless the string is quoted. +- Apply Eric's patch to ua_label.c so that daemon protocol + is not translated. + +Release 1.38.7 (06Apr06) released 07Apr06 +06Apr06 +- Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet + implemented. +- Correct bacula.in script to reference bacula-ctl-xx in the + sysconfig directory rather than the bin directory. + +Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06 +28Mar06 +- Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr() + and new jcr chain locking. +26Mar06 +- Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts. +- Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm. +- Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid + as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible. +25Mar06 +- Split the bacula start/start script into four files: + bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts + bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director + bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon + bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon +- Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574. +- Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c +- Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple + threads by bashing in a local. +- Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error + message rather than nothing. +- Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs + are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape. +- Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid + possible non-release of reservation_lock(). +- Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between + reservation lock and device mutex. +- Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch. +- Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for + tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build. +- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from + Sebastian Stark +- Implement regex test program in tools directory. +- Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs. +- Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user. + +Release 1.38.6 beta6 16Mar06 +- Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for + restore, if polling is turned on. +- Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's + problem. +- Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid. +- If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to + the working-dir. Fixes bug #533. +- If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD. + Fixes bugs #566 and 557. +- Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict. + +Release 1.38.6 beta5 14Mar06 +- Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private. +- Create lock/unlock methods for jcr. +- Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading + records to get to seek position. +- Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions. +- Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread + terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy + SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local + mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor + use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs. +- Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in + lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing. +- Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with + multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list. +- Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique. +- Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations + system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c. + This could possibly fix bug #543. +- Stop SD command loop if job is canceled. + +Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06 +04Mar06 +- The po files should now be current. +- Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the + buffers in all cases. +- Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object). +- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname + to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to + be the numeric (non-unique) job id. +- Allow listing by any of the above. +- Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time + and rates with suffexes. +- Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items. +- Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by + Bacula. +- Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid. +- Add ACL checking for the dot commands. +- Fix restore of writable FIFOs. +- Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early. + +26Feb06 +- Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls +- Update the po files at Eric's request. + +Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06 +25Feb06 +- Add sql_use_result() define. + +Changes to 1.38.6-beta1 +- Don't open default catalog if not in ACL. +- Add virtual disk autochanger code. +- Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work + correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks. +- Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage(). +- Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably + trashed the stack. +- When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode + exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search + for a Scratch Volume. +- Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix. +- Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning. +- Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected. +- Check that user supplied a value before referencing + it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian. +- Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code. +- Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when + updating all volumes in a Pool. +- Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr. +- Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that + two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time. +- Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape, + dvd, and fifo. +- Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across + a re-open to change read/write permission on a device. +- Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger + scripts. +- Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable. +- Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds + up restore tree building and reduces the memory load. +- Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from + the Scratch Pool. +- Implement additional command line options for update Volume. +- Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating + all Volumes in a pool. + +Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06: +- Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka. +- Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk + so that SD will by default have access to tape drives. +- Allow users to specify user/group and start options + for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file. + +Changes to 1.38.4 released 17Jan06: +- The main changes are to the Director and the Storage daemon, + thus there is no need to update your File daemons. Just the + same, I do recommend running with the release 1.38.3 Win32 + FD or later. +- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One + list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other + lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). +- Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory + pool by releasing free buffers. +- Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c +- Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5. +- Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the + number of items goes to zero. +- Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level + so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before + waiting. +- Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built + and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system. + These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve + a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple + messages will generally print for each JobId because they + represent the different problems with either the same drive + or different drives. If this output proves too confusing + of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1 + or greater is enabled in the SD. +- Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents + the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, + the job can be manually started from the console. +- During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the + StorageId is zero (old Media records). +- Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned + slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer. +- Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs. +- Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the + drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes + Arno's changer bug. +- Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time. +- Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file + differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h + hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c + util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto + upgrades. +- Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The + incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking + routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed + from under the walk routines. + + +Changes to 1.38.3 released 05Jan06: +- This is mainly a bug release fix. In addition, the multiple drive + reservation algorithm has been rewritten. +- In addition, the method of handling waiting for tapes to be + mounted and the mount messages has been modified. + (the above two items are a potential source of problems). +- Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable + volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait code. +- Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns. +- Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and + it is not an autochanger. +- Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument. + This permits closing and reopening the drive if the + rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the + file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor. +- Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing + if the device is open or not. This should eliminate + Arnos problem. +- Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device. +- Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information. +- Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat + code. This should fix bug #500. +- Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch. +- Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless + of the mode. +- If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of + You have messages. +- Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use + only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug + #514. +- Implement load balancing code with multiple drive autochangers. +- Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be + more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of + jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive. +- Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513 +- Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things. +- Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file. +- Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506 +- Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505. +- Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try + for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere. +- Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler. +- Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund. +- Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives, + and always open nonblocking. +- Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen). +- Eliminate 3 argument to tape open(). +- Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload + message. +- With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero. +- Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast(). +- When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal. +- Remove unused code in wait_for_device. +- Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait. +- Use localhost if no network configured +- Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509. +- Update specs to include mysql4 define. +- Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal + and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan + to get FileIndex at EOT correct. +- Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls. +- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix + correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. + Bug # 506. +- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) + to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client + IP. Fixes bug # 508. +- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by + Christian Masopust. +- Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files + from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages. +- Reset timeout values before select() per patch from + Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets. +- Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets + errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems. +- Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume. +- Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool. +- Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it + caused an error. +- Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied. +- Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used + at the same time. +- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at + If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with + 'list nextvol days=xx' + or + 'status dir days=xx' + My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the + next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during + the weekend. +- Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501. +- Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault + fixes bug 502 +- Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32. +- Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible. +- Remove old code from winservice.cpp +- Break on error in scan. +- Fix typo in signal.c +- Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr. +- Cleanup how find_device() works. +- Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris. Bug #491. + +Changes to 1.38.2: +- Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479. +- Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486 +- Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481 +- Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487 +- Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488 +- Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c +- Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource + fork filename. Bug #489 +- Add Pool name to SD status output. +- Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492 + +Changes to 1.38.1: +- Corrected ACL for Solaris (David Duchscher and Attila Fulop). +- Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes + a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted + by Adrew J. Millar. +- Unmount command now unloads autochanger. +- Fix hang in FD (Martin Simmons) +- Fix Win98 stat() problem in FD (Thorsten Engel) +- Fix update slots which did not clear missing tapes. +- Fix autostart install for FreeBSD (user reported) +- Fix several problems with PostgreSQL scripts (Eric Bollinger) +- Critical: allow restore of the first file of non-portable Win32 backup. +- Important: with muliple concurrent jobs the autochanger could get + confused because of a missing mutex. +- Fix accessing last slot in label and update slots. +- Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog + scripts. +- Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb +- Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in + autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457. +- Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested + by user. Fixes bug #456. +- AMD64 users see compiler bug warning below!!!!!!!!! + +Major Changes in 1.38: +- Fixed out of order Volumes in restore. +- Improved algorithm for reserving drives in multiple drive + autochangers. Autochange users MUST use the new Autochanger + resource in the Storage daemon. +- There is a new database format that is not compatible + with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting + from 1.36.x. No changes from version 1.37.30. +- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are + Deamons are not compatible with prior versions. + All FDs must be upgraded at the same time. +- Support for ANSI/IBM labels. +- Faster database inserts due to combining the MD5/SHA1 into + the attributes record, eliminating one INSERT/file backed up. +- Python Event support has been added. See below for + configuration and details. The implementation is somewhat minimal, + so the functionality is not complete. The Python interface + has not been extensively tested, so please consider it BETA. +- DVD writing support, using parts, and some new directives in + the Device resource of the Storage configuration file thanks + to Nicolas Boichat. Please note that this code is still + BETA and should be carefully tested before using in + production. +- Seven new options keywords in a FileSet resource: + ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir, + and regexfile thanks to Pruben Guldberg). See below for details. +- Restore of all files for a Job or set of jobs even if the file + records have been removed from the catalog. +- Restore of a directory (non-recursive, i.e. only one level). +- Support for TLS (ssl) between all the daemon connections thanks + to Landon Fuller. +- Any Volume in the Pool named Scratch may be reassigned to any + other Pool when a new Volume is needed. +- You may clone a Job and thus write (almost) the same data + to multiple Volumes simultaneously (see below). Actually, + any Job may start any other Job with this mechanism, so it + also be used to group jobs. +- Unicode filename support for Win32 (thanks to Thorsten Engel) +- Volume Shadow Copy support for Win32 thus the capability to + backup exclusively opened files (thanks to Thorsten Engel). + A VSS enabled Win32 FD is available. You must explicitly + turn on VSS with 'Enable VSS = yes' in your FileSet resource. +- New manual format with an index (thanks to Karl Cunningham). +- New Web site format (thanks to Michael Scherer). +- SQLite3 support. +- Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances, + is now included in the Bacula GUI release. This is a management + level tool for reporting the state of Bacula jobs. +- The code is now Internationalized so that it can be localized + in native languages. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat. + +New Directives: +- New Job directive 'Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no' causes the + SD to select either an Autochanger or a drive with a valid + Volume already mounted in preference. If none is available, + it will select the first available drive. +- New Run directive in Job resource of DIR. It permits + cloning of jobs. To clone a copy of the current job, use + Run = 'job-name level=%l since=\'%s\'' + Note, job-name is normally the same name as the job that + is running but there is no restriction on what you put. If you + want to start the job by hand and use job overrides such as + storage=xxx, realize that the job will be started with the + default storage values not the overrides. The level=%l guarantees + that the chosen level of the job is the same, and the since=... + ensures that the job uses *exactly* the same time/date for incremental + and differential jobs. The since=... is ignored when level=Full. + A cloned job will not start additional clones, so it is not possible + to recurse. +- New Options keywords in a FileSet directive (backported to 1.36.3): + - WildDir xxx + Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not + be matched). + - WildFile xxx + Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not + be matched). + - RegexDir xxx + Will do a regular expression match against directories (files + will not be matched). + - RegexFile xxx + Will do a regular expression match against files( directories + will not be matched). + - IgnoreCase = yes | no + Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches. + This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant. + - FsType = string + where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc, + reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3 + systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives + and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type + specified on the fstype directive does not match the + filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will + not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent + backing up non-local filesystems. + - HFS Plus Support = yes | no + If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored. +- Label Type = ANSI | IBM | Bacula + Implemented in Director Pool resource and in SD Device resource. + If it is specified in the SD Device resource, it will take + precedence over the value passed from the Director to the SD. +- Check Labels = yes | no + Implemented in the SD Device resource. If you intend to read + ANSI or IBM labels, this *must* be set. Even if the volume + is not ANSI labeled, you can set this to yes, and Bacula will + check the label type. +- Scripts Directory = name. Defines the directory from + which Bacula scripts will be called for events. In fact, Bacula + appends this name to the standard Python list of search directories, + so the script could also be in any of the Python system directories. +- In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have + a lot, it can be very expensive), by using: + HardLinks = no + in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks. +- MaximumPartSize = bytes (SD, Device resource) + Defines the maximum part size. +- Requires Mount = Yes/No (SD, Device resource) + Defines if the device require to be mounted to be read, and if it + must be written in a special way. If it set, the following directives + must be defined in the same Device resource: + + Mount Point = directory + Directory where the device must be mounted. + + Mount Command = name-string + Command that must be executed to mount the device. Before the command + is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the + Mount Point. + + Unmount Command = name-string + Command that must be executed to unmount the device. Before the + command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and + %m with the Mount Point. + + Write Part Command = name-string + Command that must be executed to write a part to the device. Before + the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m + with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based), + and %v with the current part filename. + + Free Space Command = name-string + Command that must be executed to check how much free space is left + on the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with + the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part + number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename. +- Write Part After Job = Yes/No (DIR, Job Resource, and Schedule Resource) + If this directive is set to yes (default no), a new part file will be + created after the job is finished. +- A pile of new Directives to support TLS. Please see the TLS chapter + of the manual. New Commands: -- "SetIP" -- Added "pool=xxx" to restore command line. -- Added "fileset=xxx" to restore command line. -- Fixed "storage=xxx" on restore command line. -- "markdir" command in restore tree. -- "unmarkdir" command in restore tree. -- "quit" command in restore tree. -- Trace option on "setdebug trace=1/0 ..." -- Update slots scan -- The "all" keyword on the restore command marks all files by default. -- The "done" keyword prevents user interaction with the tree -- used - mostly for batch scripting. - - -Additional changes: -- Slackware support -- On multiple ctl-c, exit from console quickly. -- Implement "delete job jobid=xxx jobid=yyy ..." -- Implement "purge volume=xxx volume=yyy ..." -- Add -p option to all SD programs including bacula-sd. It causes - Bacula to proceed or forge on in case of I/O errors. It is unlikely - this will help, and it is strongly recommended against running - the daemon with this option in production. -- Add a missing unlock in the jobq handler. -- Fix bug where a soft linked file and a directory had the same name - by treating the soft link as a directory and putting the entries under - it. This fixes the bug reported by Alexander Mueller. -- Apply Jess Guardiani's second fix to list autochanger volumes without - opening the drive (necessary on FreeBSD if no tape is in the drive). -- Reworked the command line handler in restore to walk through the - arguments one at a time. This makes the file= entries work correctly. - Also reworked the code that takes the MediaType and finds a - storage device. -- Add quit command to restore tree handler. -- Make restore tree handler remember if a hard link is present, and - in doing a mark, only get database entry if there is a hard link. - mark commands thus run at least 2 orders of magnitude faster. -- Add files=xxx field to run command submitted for restore. -- Add yes to restore run command if either yes or run is command line - argument. -- Make "yes" on command line argument skip prompt for modification of - run job. -- Add markdir and unmarkdir -- both affect only the directory in - question and do not do a recursive descent. -- Make tree command automatically mark all higher level directories to - be restored when a directory or a file is selected. Such directories - are indicated by preceding the name with a + to indicate that only - the directory entry is selected and not the whole directory tree. -- Modify a few tree commands to walk through all arguments rather than - just taking the first one. -- Improved btape "test" and "fill" commands. -- The ability to ask the Storage daemon on a device by device basis - to "poll" the tape drive at a given interval (minimum 1 minute). If - a tape is found, its label is read and if appropriate it is used. - This eliminates the need to do "mount" commands. -- The ability to close and re-open the device when a poll occurs. - This permits dealing with certain recalcitrant autochangers that - invalidate devices (typically on FreeBSD). -- Dan Langille has written a PostgreSQL driver for Bacula. -- Implement "update slots scan" that reads the volume label(s). -- The full form of the scan is "scan=1,2,4-5,7". With no specification, - all occupied slots are scanned. -- Turn off changer Volumes that are not current in the changer when - an "update slots" is done, or if any tape operation discovers that - the right volume is not in the slot. -- The console program will run all commands it finds in ~/.bconsolerc - at startup. -- Add Dan Langille's changes to the bacula start/stop script that - permit dropping root permissions just after startup. -- New version 1.5.5-1 Cygwin. -- Modify SD to update the catalog database when it is shutdown, - even if the job is canceled. -- Fixed seg fault in restore of multiple simultaneous jobs to - a single Volume. -- Fixed thread race problem in multiple simultaneous jobs to - a single Volume where the volume label is not in the first - tape block, so the tape is not recognized. -- Restore directory tree automatically selects all higher level - directories to be restored. -- Implement conio.c to use in console program -- mini-readline. -- Enhance "fill" command of btape -- simpler output. Use -v to - cause last block to be dumped after write and after re-read. -- Added an autochanger test to the btape "test" command. It is - automatically invoked if the autochanger is properly configured. It - is still a bit primitive but covers the essential of testing - the mtx-changer script with your autochanger. -- Select the oldest LastWritten volume during recycling. -- Added forward space file test to btape "test" command. -- All 1.32d patches applied. -- Fixed seg fault in restore of multiple simultaneous jobs to - a single Volume. -- Fixed thread race problem in multiple simultaneous jobs to - a single Volume where the volume lable is not in the first - tape block, so the tape is not recognized. +- 'python restart' restarts the Python interpreter. Rather brutal, make + sure no Python scripts are running. This permits you to change + a Python script and get Bacula to use the new script. + +New configure options: +- --with-libintl-prefix for defining alternate locations for + the NLS internationalization libraries. Not normally required. +- --datadir for defining where the language files will be installed + required only if you do not want the default /usr/share. + +Items to note!!! +- The Storage daemon now keeps track of what tapes it is using + (was not the case in 1.36.x). This means that you must be much + more careful when removing tapes and putting up a new one. In + general, you should always do a 'unmount' prior to removing a + tape, and a 'mount' after putting a new one into the drive. +- If you use an Autochanger, you MUST update your SD conf file + to use the new Autochanger resource. Otherwise, certain commands + such as 'update slots' may not work. +- You must add --with-python=[DIR] to the configure command line + if you want Python support. Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 should be + automatically detected if in the standard place. +- When linking with --with-python, there are a few warnings that + can be ignored. +- You must either create a new catalog database or upgrade your + old database. After installation, run from your scripts + directory: + + ./upgrade_bacula_tables + + You can also find this script in the /src/cats + directory. +- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are + Deamons are not compatible with prior versions. + All FDs must be upgraded at the same time. +- You must add --with-openssl to the configure command line if + you want TLS communications encryption support. +- Disk seeking during restores does not yet work correctly in + all cases, so it is turned off. +- Note, with gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) on an + AMD64 CPU running 64 bit CentOS4, there is a compiler bug that + generates bad code that causes Bacula to segment fault. + Typically you will see this in the Storage daemon first. The + solution is to compile Bacula ensuring that no optimization is + turned on (normally it is -O2). + This same compiler bug has been reported and confirmed with + gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) running on + an AMD64 CPU. This for the moment, I would recommend that all + users of GCC 4.0.1 or greater turn off all optimization when + compiling. + + +Other Items Fixed: +- Security fixes for temp files created in mtx-changer, during + ./configure, and during making of Rescue disk. +- A new script, dvd-handler, in the scripts directory, + which is designed to be used as parameters to Write Part Command and + Free Space Command. They need the dvd+rw-tools to be installed + (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/) AND, the growisofs + program must be patched using the + /patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch + You must have Python installed to run the scripts. +- Part files support: File volumes can now be split into multiple + files, called 'parts'. +- For the details of the Python scripting support, please see the new + Python Scripting chapter in the manual. +- The default user/group for the Director and Storage daemon installed + by rpms is bacula/bacula, thus you may need to add additional permissions + to your database, or modify the permissions of the tape drive. If + all else fails, change to using user=root. However, it is more secure + to use user=bacula.