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diff --git a/bacula/kernstodo b/bacula/kernstodo
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--- a/bacula/kernstodo
+++ b/bacula/kernstodo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
                     Kern's ToDo List
-                     25 August 2006
+                     12 November 2006
 
 Major development:      
 Project                     Developer
@@ -21,24 +21,47 @@ Document:
   \bacula\working).
 - Document techniques for restoring large numbers of files.
 - Document setting my.cnf to big file usage.
-- Add example of proper index output to doc.
-   show index from File;
+- Add example of proper index output to doc. show index from File;
 - Correct the Include syntax in the m4.xxx files in examples/conf
 - Document JobStatus and Termination codes.
 - Fix the error with the "DVI file can't be opened" while
   building the French PDF.
-- Document more DVD stuff -- particularly that recycling doesn't work,
-  and all the other things too.
+- Document more DVD stuff
+- Doc
+   { "JobErrors",  "i"},
+   { "JobFiles",   "i"},
+   { "SDJobFiles", "i"},
+   { "SDErrors",   "i"},
+   { "FDJobStatus","s"},
+   { "SDJobStatus","s"},
+- Document all the little details of setting up certificates for
+  the Bacula data encryption code.
+- Document more precisely how to use master keys -- especially
+  for disaster recovery.
+ 
 
 Priority:
+- Look at moving the Storage directive from the Job to the
+  Pool in the default conf files.
+- Make sure the new level=Full syntax is used in all 
+  example conf files (especially in the manual).
+- Fix prog copyright (SD) all other files.
+- Migration Volume span bug
+- Rescue release
+- Bug reports
+- Test FIFO backup/restore -- make regression
+- Doc items
+- Add encryption regression tests
+- Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
+- Encryption documentation
+- Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo)
+- bacula-1.38.2-ssl.patch
+- Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
+- Document need for UTF-8 format
+
+
 
 For 1.39:
-- When reading through parts on the DVD, the DVD is mounted and
-  unmounted for each part.
-- Restricted consoles start in the Default catalog even if it
-  is not permitted.
-- Make sure that the restore options don't permit "seeing" other
-  Client's job data.
 - Implement Python event for backing up/restoring a file.
 - Change dbcheck to tell users to use native tools for fixing
   broken databases, and to ensure they have the proper indexes.
@@ -50,25 +73,14 @@ For 1.39:
 - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
 - Try turning on disk seek code.
 - Possibly turn on St. Bernard code.
-- Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common
-  routines.
+- Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
 - Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
 - Remove queue.c code.
-- Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
-  a block, and check if block was written by a different job
-  (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
 - Some users claim that they must do two prune commands to get a
   Volume marked as purged.
 - Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
   UTF-8.
 - New dot commands from Arno.
-  .update volume [enabled|disabled|*see below]
-    > However, I could easily imagine an option to "update slots" that says 
-    > "enable=yes|no" that would automatically enable or disable all the Volumes 
-    > found in the autochanger.  This will permit the user to optionally mark all 
-    > the Volumes in the magazine disabled prior to taking them offsite, and mark 
-    > them all enabled when bringing them back on site.   Coupled with the options 
-    > to the slots keyword, you can apply the enable/disable to any or all volumes.
   .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including 
      devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
   .move eject device=xxx mostly the same as 'unmount xxx' but perhaps with 
@@ -78,6 +90,37 @@ For 1.39:
   .move transfer device=xxx fromslot=yyy toslot=zzz
 
 Low priority:
+- Check to see if jcr->stime is lost during rescheduling of
+  jobs in jobq.c
+- Fix re-read of last block to check if job has actually written
+  a block, and check if block was written by a different job
+  (i.e. multiple simultaneous jobs writing).
+- Figure out how to configure query.sql.  Suggestion to use m4:
+    == changequote.m4 ===
+    changequote(`[',`]')dnl
+    ==== query.sql.in ===
+    :List next 20 volumes to expire
+    SELECT
+        Pool.Name AS PoolName,
+        Media.VolumeName,
+        Media.VolStatus,
+        Media.MediaType,
+    ifdef([MySQL],
+    [ FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) Media.VolRetention) AS Expire, ])dnl
+    ifdef([PostgreSQL],
+    [ media.lastwritten + interval '1 second' * media.volretention as expire, ])dnl
+      Media.LastWritten
+      FROM Pool
+      LEFT JOIN Media
+      ON Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
+      WHERE Media.LastWritten>0
+      ORDER BY Expire
+      LIMIT 20;
+    ====
+    Command: m4 -DmySQL changequote.m4 query.sql.in >query.sql
+
+  The problem is that it requires m4, which is not present on all machines
+  at ./configure time.
 - Get Perl replacement for bregex.c
 - Given all the problems with FIFOs, I think the solution is to do something a
   little different, though I will look at the code and see if there is not some
@@ -416,10 +459,6 @@ minutes).
 
 - In restore don't compare byte count on a raw device -- directory
   entry does not contain bytes.
-- To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
-  when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
-  a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
-  by the FD at the same time as the backup.
 === rate design
   jcr->last_rate
   jcr->last_runtime
@@ -468,7 +507,12 @@ minutes).
 - Bug: if a job is manually scheduled to run later, it does not appear
   in any status report and cannot be cancelled.
 
-==== Keeping track of deleted files ====
+==== Keeping track of deleted/new files ====
+- To mark files as deleted, run essentially a Verify to disk, and
+  when a file is found missing (MarkId != JobId), then create
+  a new File record with FileIndex == -1. This could be done
+  by the FD at the same time as the backup.
+
      My "trick" for keeping track of deletions is the following.
      Assuming the user turns on this option, after all the files
      have been backed up, but before the job has terminated, the
@@ -479,7 +523,14 @@ minutes).
      pass.  The DIR will then compare that to what is stored in
      the catalog.  Any files in the catalog but not in what the
      FD sent will receive a catalog File entry that indicates
-     that at that point in time the file was deleted.
+     that at that point in time the file was deleted. This
+     either transmitted to the FD or simultaneously computed in
+     the FD, so that the FD can put a record on the tape that
+     indicates that the file has been deleted at this point.
+     A delete file entry could potentially be one with a FileIndex
+     of 0 or perhaps -1 (need to check if FileIndex is used for
+     some other thing as many of the Bacula fields are "overloaded"
+     in the SD).
 
      During a restore, any file initially picked up by some
      backup (Full, ...) then subsequently having a File entry
@@ -506,6 +557,12 @@ minutes).
      Make sure this information is stored on the tape too so
      that it can be restored directly from the tape.
 
+     All the code (with the exception of formally generating and
+     saving the delete file entries) already exists in the Verify
+     Catalog command.  It explicitly recognizes added/deleted files since
+     the last InitCatalog.  It is more or less a "simple" matter of
+     taking that code and adapting it slightly to work for backups.
+
   Comments from Martin Simmons (I think they are all covered):
   Ok, that should cover the basics.  There are few issues though:
 
@@ -1658,4 +1715,21 @@ Block Position: 0
   daemon it was trying to connect to.
 - Freespace on DVD requested over and over even with no intervening
   writes.
-
+- .update volume [enabled|disabled|*see below]
+    > However, I could easily imagine an option to "update slots" that says 
+    > "enable=yes|no" that would automatically enable or disable all the Volumes 
+    > found in the autochanger.  This will permit the user to optionally mark all 
+    > the Volumes in the magazine disabled prior to taking them offsite, and mark 
+    > them all enabled when bringing them back on site.   Coupled with the options 
+    > to the slots keyword, you can apply the enable/disable to any or all volumes.
+- Restricted consoles start in the Default catalog even if it
+  is not permitted.
+- When reading through parts on the DVD, the DVD is mounted and
+  unmounted for each part.
+- Make sure that the restore options don't permit "seeing" other
+  Client's job data.
+- Restore of a raw drive should not try to check the volume size.
+- Lock tape drive door when open()
+- Make release unload any autochanger.
+- Arno's reservation deadlock.
+- Eric's SD patch