X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2FReleaseNotes;h=f83d2f3946204195930bcd61fcb81bece16b7909;hb=2a01e1677f1f6309935603e82156f074420503ab;hp=7a56dff35d8237ad19bee56dfc7fd3b971b1819c;hpb=c6f6be4cb3af32b7809c8c159387de95eaae9ea3;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/ReleaseNotes b/bacula/ReleaseNotes index 7a56dff35d..f83d2f3946 100644 --- a/bacula/ReleaseNotes +++ b/bacula/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,507 +1,565 @@ - Release Notes for Bacula 1.35.6 + Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.6-beta6 - Bacula code: Total files = 396 Total lines = 116,116 (*.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 +!!!! Important !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + 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. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Changes for 1.35.6 -Major Changes: -- Tray monitor program -- Bacula Rescue CDROM -- Bacula CD Image Manager -- Lots of improvements in the Rescue scripts -- better - network detection, better mounting code, ... -- General bug fixes/stabilization -- French translation of manual by Ludovic Strappazon well - underway. -- UTF-8 is supported in conio (some minor cleanup is needed). -- Improved conf scanning code allowing FileSet components to - be put on a single line (previously everything had to be on - a different line). -- Win32 files restored to an alternate directory will have the - colon following the drive letter turned into a / e.g. c: - becomes c/. Previously the c: was stripped. This applies only - to files written to an alternate directory (i.e. using a where=). -- Certain open files (Word for example) can now be saved on - Win32 systems. -- Default for Wild-cards on Win32 systems is to fold case. +New features: +- 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". + +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. + -New Directives: -- Added "Ignore FileSet Changes = yes" -- Added "Block positioning = yes/no" in Device resource in SD. -- Added "Multiple connections = yes/no" in Catalog record for - allowing multiple simultaneous connections to the database. - This is a major performance improvement for PostgreSQL. +Minor bug fixes: +- See below: -Items to note!!! -- As of 1.35.5 you MUST do a database update. - - cd scripts-dir (or src/cats) - ./update_bacula_tables - -- All daemons should be compatible with 1.34 with the exception - of the new FileSet features such as regular expressions. -- Regular expressions are not supported in the Win32 FD. +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. -Other Items: -- See below +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 1.35.5: -22Sep04 -- Incremented the release number because this version requires - an update to the database. - Use: - cd src/cats - ./update_bacula_tables - to update an existing database. -- Implemented EndFile and EndBlock in the Media record. This will - allow Bacula to know exactly when to stop reading a tape if the - stupid tape driver does not give a logical end of tape indication - and Bacula writes to the end of the tape getting an I/O error. -- Added new routines to update the database, and there are - new database creation routines to add the two new Media columns. -- The Media record is updated each time a JobMedia record is created. - This keeps the Media record up to date. -- Undid the code to use automatic type converions to char * in - POOL_MEM. This is due to the ugly consequences of essentially - destroying the class type nature of the class. -- Removed all the old mp_char() #define code. +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 1.35.4: -22Sep04 -- Add additional doc. -- Implement automatic POOL_MEM type conversion to char *. Thanks - to Martin Simmons for the suggestion. -- Remove some unneeded function overloading -- need removed by - automatic type conversion. -21Sep04 -- Correct segfault in message.c with debug=200 (new code). -- Fix bug 109 verify with no options prints garbage. -- Add ioctl(MTIOCGET) call to clrerror_dev() in dev.c. As reported - by Frank Kardel, this should clear error conditions on NetBSD. -20Sep04 -- Modify the rescue script to create mount_drives with - the order specified by Philip Nash (mkdir, mount). -- Tweak install chapter of French manual to add new paragraph - from English. -- Tweak restore tree message to be a bit clearer. -- Modify watchdog to wakeup after 60 seconds, or wakeup if - there is work to do. -- Modify watchdog stop routine to "ping" watchdog so that it - stops immediately rather than after sleep time. -- Fix btape to use new dcr blocks rather than its own. -- Fix butil.c to correctly handle Volume names for the - utility routines (broke when updating to dcrs). -11-19Sep04 (vacation) -- Implement multiple Storage specifications in the Job resource - (AND) each containing multiple specifications (OR). Not yet functional. - Note, this needs more work as most things now use - job->storage[0]->first() rather than looping through devices. -- Implement "Multiple connections = yes/no" in Catalog record for - allowing multiple simultaneous connections to the database. -- Add new mac.c (Migrate, Archive, Copy) to dird -- not yet implemented. -- Implement a new POOL_MEM class that automatically allocates - and deallocates a pool buffer. -- Overload a number of utility routines to permit using both - POOLMEM and POOL_MEM. -- Start converting to using POOL_MEM. -- There were a number of Bacula console ACL checks missing in - ua_run.c. It allowed users to run jobs they really should not. -- Correct a number of dates on the Copyright. -- Overload pm_strcpy() and pm_strcat() to handle new POOL_MEM - class. -- Overload bash/unbash_spaces to handle new POOL_MEM class. -- Make a *MASSIVE* pass through the Storage daemon eliminating - all use of jcr->VolumeName and jcr->VolCatInfo in favor of - dcr->... -- Eliminate all all redundant arguments from calling sequences - in SD. This poses a number of problems due to the old way blocks - and records were allocated and released all the time. They are - now contained in the dcr. The problem is that old habits die hard - and there are still places where everything is not right. -- Implement "Block positioning = yes/no" in Device resource in SD. -Changes to 1.35.3: -09Sep04 -- Add "Multiple Connections = yes/no" in catalog record. Only - the variable is implemented, no code yet. -- Close *all* FD unless debug on. -08Sep04 -- Add first cut of UTF-8 support to conio. It "seems" to be working - pretty well. Moving by words will definitely not work though. -- Improve detection and setting of gateway in the - network_start script. -07Sep04 -- Modify scan code so that in most places scanning will - continue across the end of a line. -05Sep04 -- Begin major phase of 1.35 documentation. -- All outstanding bugs are fixed. -- Implement changes and improvements to rescue scripts as - proposed by Gaurav. -05Sep04 -- Add correction to Phil's previous patch. -- Send all queued messages in SD and FD prior to closing down - the job. -- Send queued messages in Jobs before terminating the job - so that the messages print before the job report. -- Add a destructor so that the Console ACLs are properly - freed. -04Sep04 -- Implement isolinux boot disk. -- Integrate Phil Stracchino's code (thanks for Matt's help). - It permits lists and ranges of jobids on the delete as in: - delete job jobid=1,3,5,11-16 -03Sep04 -- Apply Mike Acar's suggestion when looking for the next volume - to check purged volumes for recycling before doing a purge. -- Make some improvements to CDROM disk. -- Take another crack at ignoring drive open() errors during - polling. -02Sep04 -- Add eliminate orphaned job records; eliminate admin records, - and eliminate restore records to dbcheck. -- replace sprintf by bsnprintf() in dbcheck. -- Added scan target to makefile in rescue cd to print scsi - devices. -- Added argument to berrno::strerror() to pass errno. -- Cleaned up a few more old strerror() calls and eliminated a - few of the now unnecessary set_errno() calls. -- Fixed a bug in the polling code that prevented more than 100 - label reads (insanity check disabled if polling). -- Ignore bad return from open_device() if polling. -- Short circuit code if fatal error return from read_label() in - mount.c -01Sep04 -- Add index file to JobId field of File records for PostgreSQL. -- Correct several bugs in the job queue scheduler concerning - rescheduled jobs: 1. The SD status was not cleared causing a - wrong status to be displayed by Dir after rescheduling. 2. All - rescheduled jobs became zombies because the jcr use_count was - not decremented properly. -- Make the Catalog resource required in Client records. -- Order the listing of where a file is (item 2 on the restore - menu) by StartTime. -- Clarify when a filename only and a full path + filename must - be entered in items 2 and 8 of the restore menu. -- Fix logic error in resolution of names on IPv4 systems. +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 1.35.2 released 01Sep04: -30Aug04 -- Inhibit printing of FileSet for a restore as it is misleading. -- Cleaned up a number of minor scripting problems with the CDROM - creation. -- Fixed a race condition causing a Director crash on termination, - if a large number of SIGHUPs were sent during a multiple concurrent - set of backups. -28Aug04 -- Completed integration of Rescue CD scripts with Bacula source. -28Aug04 -- Added Ignore FileSet Changes = yes -- Added more error checking to the spooling code. -24Aug04 -- Applied a patch from Peter Eriksson that removes a dynamic stack - allocation (replaced by alloca) and fixes some const problems. -- Fixed a free() of a static variable in the new IP code bnet.c -- Got the new Bacula Rescue CDROM booting. -- Replaced a dynamic template by a simple store when using the - native C compiler. -- Reworked some of the block.c error handling. -- Changed a Dmsgx(000, to Dmsgx(100 in dev.c that was dumping - debug output on a user. -- Integrated patch from 1.34.6 block.c to 1.35 -17Aug04 -- Fix conio.c problem on Solaris. -- Add debug code to lock_jcr_chain(). -- Lock jcr chain around less code. -- Implement call by reference for Mmsg() and pm_strxxx() to - simplify calls. -- New IP address specification is used as follows: - [sdaddresses|diraddresses|fdaddresses] = { [[ip|ipv4|ipv6] = { - [[addr|port] = [^ ]+[\n;]+] }] } +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: +- '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: - so it could look for example like this: - SDaddresses = { ip = { - addr = 1.2.3.4; port = 1205; } - ipv4 = { - addr = 1.2.3.4; port = http; } - ipv6 = { - addr = 1.2.3.4; - port = 1205; - } - ip = { - addr = 1.2.3.4 - port = 1205 - } - ip = { - addr = 1.2.3.4 - } - ip = { - addr = 2001:220:222::2 - } - ip = { - addr = bluedot.thun.net - } - } - as a consequence, you can now specify multiple IP addresses and - ports to be used. In the case of a server, it will listen on - all those that you specify. In the case of connecting to the server, - Bacula will attempt connecting to one at a time until it succeeds. - And, in a few other special cases, Bacula will use only the first - address specified. + ./upgrade_bacula_tables - The default port numbers are still the same and the services and hosts - are also resolved by name. So now you could use the real names for the - port numbers. + 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. -Release 1.35.1 16 August 2004: -- Added Tape Alert feature (see Alert Command). -- New IPv6 code (untested) -- New way of specifying Addresses and Ports -- permits having - server listen on multiple ports. -- Regular expressions in Options directive. -- Reader/writer programs in Options (not yet fully implemented, - please do not use). -- Fixed specification of bind address on Win32 (thanks to - Martin Simmons). -- Update all Volumes from Pool record. -- Update License to terminate rights of anyone suing a GPL licensor. -- Improved error messages for Win32 and when running external - programs (e.g. RunBeforeJob). -- Implement reload of conf file in Directory on SIGHUP. -- Building restore tree is much faster on large filesets - due to binary insert. -- Alert Command in Device resource of Storage Daemon. -- New IP address and port directives. -- reader = xxx, writer = yyy in Options within FileSet of - Director's conf file. -- regex = xxx in Options within FileSet of Director's - conf file. -- New command options: update AllFromPool updates all - Volumes with Pool defaults. -- .backups client=xxx (for GUI programs). -- A duration specification may have any number of integer/modificator - specifications. E.g.: - 1 week 2 days 3 hours 10 mins - 1 month 2 days 30 sec -- Print error message if Alert Command fails in bpipe_open(). -- Doc Alert command. -- Eliminate unnecessary class in findlib/attribs.c -- Add necessary empty files to new tray-monitor directory. -- Implement Class with template in findlib/attribs.c to do casting - of uint64_t into stat packet types to avoid compiler warnings. - Thanks to Meno for this idea. -- Make some modifications to satisfy VC++. -- Apply Martin Simmons' second patch to compat.cpp to fix the line - I previously missed. -- Apply Meno's fix to bnet that corrects use of ipaddr after free_addresses, - back out my kludges, and it works. -- Modified configure.in to by default add -Wall. -- Found some problems with printing IP addresses -- will notify Meno. -- Added printing Pool to Job report. -- Fixed several places where dlists were not being released - (term_job_server, ...) -- Started implementing New() for dlists. Spent a lot of time, - but could not get it to work. -- Fixed a mutex deadlock between the job queue scheduler and the - watchdog. -- Made add_address() static. -- Added bsnprintf to address_conf.c -- Apply Marin Simmons patch to inet_aton() in compat. -- Build on Win32 -- required a few changes because of new IP code. -- Implement program reader code in Dir and FD -- not tested, and - a few corrections for writer code are needed in FD. -- Rework SQL for pruning. Add Admin pruning. Prune failed - jobs in Verify and Restore. -- Don't put commas in listing produced in restore so that users - can cut and past JobIds without having commas in the way. -- Change size_t to socklen_t in filed.c -- reindent a bit. -- Remove addr_list->size from buf size definition in bnet.c -- Create a Developer's document. -- Add prompt for Update volume from pool and update all - Volumes from pool. -- Implement user friendly time duration input editing. -- Add buf len argument to edit_utime(). -- Added eliminate orphaned Client records to dbcheck. -- Implement Alert Command in SD Device conf. -- Fix updating a Volume from the pool record -- it never changed - anything. -- Implement updating all Volumes from pool record. -- Add patch by Denis Shaposhnikov that fixes excludes of directories - in new style FileSets. -- Merge Meno's IPv6-1 code. -- Update License to terminate rights of anyone suing a GPL licensor. -- Add Pruning doc sent by Bryce Denney -- Correct inconsistencies in restore command doc pointed out by user. -- Don't edit commas in SQL intergers if they are not stricly integer. -- Update all pools in all DBs when starting the Director. -- Implement final cut of berrno and update Win32 code. -- Update copyright to include a termination clause. Add copyright to - binaries. -- Implement .backups client=xxx for Nicolas. -- Make first cut at implementing berrno class to handle Unix, Win32 - and bpipe errors. Bpipe still needs to be implemented. - This fixes (not yet tested) the Win32 errno problems in the compat lib. -- Fix btape compile problem reported by Martin Simmons -- thanks. -- Add ./configure detection of sys/tape.h -- Apply two fixes to recent changes to dev.c submitted by - Martin Simmons. -- Add checks in btape for correct size of off_t, and correct editing - of 32 and 64 bit values. -- Move supported OS/hardware into a chapter by itself. -- Fix bscan, which did not handle walking dcr list. -- Remove old attach_jcr_to_device() code. -- Fix config from Andy Wettstein's patch to use bitypes.h and detect - uint32_t, ... definitions. -- Fix a few compiler warnings because of casting pointers to int and - vise versa. -- Do some minor cosmetics to query.sql. nothing changed. -- Don't call stop_thread_timer() in backup.c if timer not started. -- Fix bug with out of order JobIds on restore. -- Make watchdog examine queues once every 10 seconds instead of once - a second. -- Add more bools to dev.c -- Fix walking attached DCRs in bscan.c -- Doc updates -- Start work on rescue files. Integrated RAID changes. -- Print a message when query.sql moved to query.sql.old during install. -- Move setting of FreeBSD chflags() to after utime() to avoid error - messages is immutable bit is set. -- Turn off heartbeat in FD when -s is given so that we can - debug without a flood of signals. -- Close and reopen the device during an append test in - btape. This better tests appending as if Bacula stops/restarts. -- Remove old attach/detach_jcr_to_device() code -- Add new attached_dcrs code. -- Remove unnecessary subroutine for bsnprintf. -- Replace sprintf() by home-grown code in edit_uint64 ... -- Begin implementation of dev->attached_dcrs. -- Remove scripts/fd.in from configure.in -- Add printing of JobId when a Job is started from the console. -- Remove fd/fd.in from scripts directory. -- Fix a number of bugs in dbcheck concerning the -c option - (i.e. with a config file). -- Made RH start scripts use -u and -g options. -- Many more DCR changes. -- Add job message indicating that the job has been rescheduled - and when. -- Fix job end time so that it is always updated. Previously it - was not updated when a job was rescheduled. -- Correct SQL for restoring job by path/name. It could sometimes - pickup the wrong JobId -- submitted by a user. -- Add a number of "%s" in editing database errors -- security issue. -- Ensure that the NumVols is incremented and decremented in the - pool record when Volumes are created or deleted. -- Cleanup error handling when labeling a tape. If vol was read-only, - the device would still be marked as having found a label. -- Put ftCreationTime into st_ctime of stat packet. Hopefully - this will fix the problem of noticing files have been moved - into the save path after a Full save. -- Fix bug in "status dir" where not all entries are listed. -- Cleanup some improper result printing in configure. -- Optimize a couple of insertions in binary_insert of dlists. -Release 1.35.0 08 July 2004: -- Apply Christopher Hull's const patch for PostgreSQL -- Add code to block.c to detect if block header is destroyed. -- Add debug code for memset checking for zeroing 1900-3000 bytes - which is what happened to the block headers. -- If block header is destroyed, read the next block. Probably - should return with new status similar to the SHORT block - return. -- Add more debug info to bls for bad blocks. -- More implementation of DCRs. -- Eliminate argument passing in SD by using dcr. -- More int->bool conversions. -- Add file:block to a number of read/write error messages. -- More int -> bool conversions. -- Modify the SD piece by piece to use DCRs everywhere. -- Cleanup some printout for query command. -- Fix typo in cats/mysql.c -- Work on cleaning up tape driver a bit (use bools, better calling - sequences). -- Attempt to fix multi-Volume disk backup. Needs to be tested. -- Add Regular expressions to FileSet options. -- Correct configure.in to use ${MAKE} for doing the dependencies. -- Make MySQL and PostgreSQL try for 30 seconds to connect before - giving up. -- Correct Gnome 1.4 Makefile to build without cats library. -- Correct a crash reported (with patch) by Jonathan Soong - when attempting to backup an ACL on a symlinked file. -- Fixed an off by one bug in the new resources pointer code. - res_head array was one too small. -- Added Errors to last_job list. This allows detecting jobs - that terminated in a warning. -- Implement setting the Win32 icon to yellow instead of red - when the job terminated OK but with warnings. -- Fix the Win32 makefile and VC project file. The links were - not including the Win32 dlls. -- Delete some old Win32 code that was turned off. -- Eliminate a few more Win32 compiler warnings. -- Reduce the output produced by NIS (Win32 install builder). -- Simplify some of the #ifdefing in compat.h -- Rewrite spooling error handling when I/O error occurs. It is - a bit tricky, requiring to truncate the file so that a despooling - will work correctly. Needs to be tested. -- Make better subroutines for setting up for a new job. -- Start putting all DB ids on #defines (going to 64 bits). -- Fix gnome-console Makefile.in to work again. -- All "level=Incremental/Decremental" to the estimate command. This - required some re-arrangement of subroutines at a fairly low level. -- Apply Piotr Jaworski's patch (patch-r-status.diff) to update the - catalog status when a backup job starts running. -- Add (char*) cast to readline call in console.c for old readlines. -- Copy Makefile.in from gnome2-console to gnome-console (to eliminate - need for cats library). -- Modify spooling code to handle write error (e.g. spooling disk full) - more gracefully. Previously despooling would fail. -- Reduce casting in smartall.c a bit and add counters for - bytes, max_bytes, buffers and max_buffers. -- Fixed reload algorithm to stack both job end callback and the - table id. -- Fixed the orphaned buffer after reload (job_end_push had to be - destroyed. -- Destroy cond var (jcr->term_wait) only if initialized. -- Sort the Scheduled Jobs list by start-time, priority. -- Implement resources on a pointer. -- Fix Gnome console crash on up/down arrow with no history. -- Finish first cut of SIGHUP code. To make really work need res - on a single pointer rather than in fixed memory. -- Fix a number of places in query.sql where multiple JobIds are - printed (due to JobMedia records). -- Add new query: List jobs on Volume given Volume name. -- Correct socket close on Win32 in bnet.c (in addition to compat.cpp). - Caused fd leak in Win32 for each connection. -- Remove vol labeled test in askdir update_volume_info so that non-labeled - Volume in catalog can be marked in error. -- Close socket in SD when connection rejected. Caused fd leaks. -- Initialize job_start_wait cond variable after every new_jcr() otherwise - NetBSD gets error in library when trying to delete it without being inited. -- Fix typo (9 instead of 0) return status in write_new_volume_label. -- Fix mount.c to call routine that correctly marks a volume in error. -- Move code to rewrite volume label to subroutine -- a bit cleaner. -- Finish implementation and testing of new restore tree code. -- Implement feedback while tree is loading. -- Eliminate printing INFO message in UpdateDB (cats) -- it generates - "false" error messages. -- Eliminate some GTK error messages when running the Gnome2 console. -- Begin restructuring tree.c for inclusion of the binary_insert() - routine. -- Apply Peter Eriksson's lib file order changes in linking for IRIX. -- Abort configure if Internal is selected as the database. -- Add testimonials to the Web page -- Add the bugs list to the Web page "lists". -- Clarify the English in SuSE and Slackware when SD not running. -- Applied another extern "C" patch from Peter Eriksson. -- Fixed a bunch of VC warning messages. -- Applied the patches sent by Andreas Jellinghaus: build Gnome and - wx-console in client-only build if configured; add ./configure option - to permit setting of sbin modes -- default is 0745 as before; remove - cats library from Gnome console build; remove old version from Gnome - About box. Thanks Andreas. -- Applied Peter Eriksson's const changes to the source code. Thanks Peter. -- Implemented a binary_insert() method for dlists -- intended to be used - in the restore tree routines. -- Turned on my bsscanf() code, which replaces sscanf() by my routines, which - are a subset of sscanf() used by Bacula, but which have known 32/64 bit - behavior rather than vendor dependent !@#$%*. +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.