X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2FReleaseNotes;h=d3af69cfb6f3c3851e525f5f9de74da46ca896be;hb=2dec36409bfc884220098131095bed9447aab360;hp=3537f44c4e35b3a26e0528fba8f2d8bb1df2def4;hpb=74513fd33316a03633d08c4baf05de1eb7c40922;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/ReleaseNotes b/bacula/ReleaseNotes index 3537f44c4e..d3af69cfb6 100644 --- a/bacula/ReleaseNotes +++ b/bacula/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,394 +1,18 @@ - Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.32 - - Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 153,698 (*.h *.c *.in) - - -Version 1.39.32 contains mainly bug fixes to 1.39.30 Please - see the ChangeLog for more details. - - -==== IMPORTANT Encrypted Volume data may be unreadable ==== -- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please - be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options - with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot - be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption - carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup - with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified - and fixed it as follows: - As of 1.39.27: - No filters = Works fine - Sparse = Works fine - Compression = Works fine - Encryption = Works fine - Sparse + Compression = Works fine - - Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken - Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken - Compression + Encryption = Restore broken - - As of 1.39.28: - Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are - not properly restored. - - As of 1.39.30: - All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption. - - Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring - data to be sure it all works correctly. - -==== IMPORTANT a stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash ===== -- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses - the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25 - kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works. - -==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required ===== -- The database format has been updated from what was used in - Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before - running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. Please backup your previous - version of the database before running the update. The update - script will be automatically installed in your scripts directory, - or can also be found in /src/cats. It is called: - - ./update_bacula_tables - - It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to - a 1.39.x beta or to 1.40.0. Upgrading the Bacula version - thereafter does not require updating the database again. - Depending on the size of your database the script make take a - bit of time, to run, but in general, it should be very fast. - -==== IMPORTANT DVD Volume format changed ==== -- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from - the format written by previous versions. The two formats - are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will - be unreadable by version 1.39.22. - -==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ==== -- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it - should. If you have multiple catalogs, you will need to select - the catalog (this I will fix). More importantly, in restore - mode, the restore tree is no longer shown in the left pane. I - suspect this is due to incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, - and hence have given up on gnome and gtk+, as this has already - happened several times previously. At some point there - will be a new GUI console. -- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been - removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all - occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. -- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man - directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and - mandir/man1 as appropriate. -- The "Accept Any Volume" directive has been removed. It was never - implemented. Bacula will always accept any valid tape that is in - the drive for appending. -- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 1.39.18 Director - and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript, - data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it. -- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded. -- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method - of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last - device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it - will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource - with the correct MediaType. -- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary - format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify - jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5 - difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by - default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using - the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more - more testing is still needed. - -==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure ===== - For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special - needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of - automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\Bacula - directory (mostly out of paranoia, we can change that prior to release if - everyone is comfortable with it). - - Prior to using the current installer, if you used a version of the beta - prior to 1.39.26, you must do one of the following three things: - - 1) Uninstall prior beta version and select the option to delete - the configuration and state files. This will get rid of the bogus - configuration files. Reinstall the new 1.39.26 version. - - 2) Manually copy the *.conf files from C:\Bacula\bin to - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. - - 3) Manually edit the *.conf files in C:\Documents and - Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. The links in the Bacula menu - can be used to avoid having to enter that ugly path. - - After one of these has been done the upgrade should work fine. -====== - -New Features in 1.39.30: -- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software - Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures, - and the LICENSE file has been updated. -- Turn on disk seek code for restores. -- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource - Mail On Success directive. -- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job - report. -- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which - are printed in the Job report. - -Major new Features in 1.40.0: -- The basic features of Migration are now complete, and - are documented in a new Migration chapter in the manual - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html -- There is an Encryption chapter in the doc. - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html -- Additional support for removable devices. See the - Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount - Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter: - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html - Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the - same chapter. -- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32 - cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson, - then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the - cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but - also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added - all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on - drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ... -- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32. - This code is working but should still be considered beta (i.e. - test carefully before putting into production). -- Data encryption done in the Client is now supported due to code - submitted by Landon Fuller. -- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to - any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so, - the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks - to Thorsten Engel for this code. -- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now - eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. -- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes - the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features - plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect - of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation. - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227 -- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher. -- 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" - This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the - next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during - the weekend. -- Apply patch for enhancing wait from Eric Bollengier. One can now: - wait (wait for all jobs to stop) - wait jobid=nn - wait jobuid=unique id - wait job=job-name -- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they - are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted. - Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2) -- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the - job report in the Log database table. - - -New Features in 1.40.0: -- 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. -- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits - can be enabled by changing one define, but this has never been tested. -- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in - the restore cd command. -- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling - will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric - Bollengier. -- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as - conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters - are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson. -- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable. -- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles - spaces in names better, ... -- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work. -- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect - any Catalog ACL. -- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf. - patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de -- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap. - from Eric Bollengier. -- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field - in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console. -- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric. - display data_len instead of data content (may be binary). -- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command. -- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/ -- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only - the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any - path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control - over where users can restore files. This is untested. -- Install man pages with 'make install'. -- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c -- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work -- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work. -- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio. -- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status - command now reports in KB, MB, ... units. -- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that - triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer -- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" -- Implement mount command for autochanger -- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called - from File= was not found. -- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to - do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not - have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code. - Note, this may apply to other OSes as well. -- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that - creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by - Andrew J. Millar. -- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by - Christian Masopust. -- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they - appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore - listing where they could be "lost". -- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix - correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. - Bug # 506. -- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund. -- 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, ...). -- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This - should get Bacula into the correct groups. -- Implement support for removable filesystems. -- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks - to a user submission. -- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed - in the Status report. -- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places. -- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override - all other Storage specifications. -- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no. -- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes - from a database table for restore. -- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are - designed for user use in doing Volume Management software. -- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to - accept time qualifiers. -- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as - suggested by Eric Bollengier. -- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and - Job Level, only during JobInit event. -- 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 the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only - one at a time). This is not well tested. -- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from - Sebastian Stark -- 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 -- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must - explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. -- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing - wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program. -- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. -- Apply patch from Christopher Hull - - Allow multiple connections to database with different - parameters. - - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg - fault, but still 60 second window. - - Additional info in Reschedule message. - - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of - cancel, error. - - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR. - - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN. - - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _. - - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32. - - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance). - - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32. - - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points. -- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard - routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by - author of bug #565. -- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher - Hull. -- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. -- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support. - O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without - updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which - happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also - prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but - only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup - programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both - categories). - You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting: - noatime = yes - The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except - it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime. -- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon. -- Implement a number of user supplied patches for DVD writing. -- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs: - Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table - Delete MAC table - Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space) - Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record - Add Cost to Location table. - Enabled to Media table and Location table. -- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors - and forcing a 6 second wait. -- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags - -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. - The reason for this code is to eliminate the - security problems associated with using the system libraries - print routines. -- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool - came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool, - it is all very complicated. -- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed - for restore. -- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this - class. -- Spend a lot of time integrating mkcdrec with the rescue disk. -- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD. -- Add Comment field to llist of a volume. -- Allow true/false in some yes/no questions. - -Additional Features Added for Win32: -- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet - resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There - is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that - has the concept of drives. - -- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet - resource. Allowed values are: yes and no. - - When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the - Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways. - - Patterns conform to Posix - \ is not a special character in character classification [] - To match a - it must be the first or last character - To match a ] it must be the first character - - fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a / - so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path - -- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match - against the filename portion. This in combination with the - FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile = - abc*.def work as expected. - -- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion. - - Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5. - - # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp" - WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files" + Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) + +The major features are: +- First cut of bat (Bacula Administration Tool) +- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times). +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files. +- Socket level heartbeat (untested). +- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance. +- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most + conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. +- New Recycle Pool feature. +- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.