X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2Fkernstodo;h=0da65c17df58c13ab8e59dc9d210fcba7914b531;hb=146093ef6187606ee79d4a5a42e93b03e5a518ce;hp=a3b8cab7f369109be036f6b9def9fe19730e2a41;hpb=d86208ceb22ba66943dd3e6aad9ec81a4a79e2d4;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/kernstodo b/bacula/kernstodo index a3b8cab7f3..0da65c17df 100644 --- a/bacula/kernstodo +++ b/bacula/kernstodo @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Kern's ToDo List - 25 August 2006 + 12 November 2006 Major development: Project Developer @@ -21,22 +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. -- Make sure that the restore options don't permit "seeing" other - Client's job data. -- mostly fixed. - 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. @@ -48,8 +73,7 @@ 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. - Some users claim that they must do two prune commands to get a @@ -66,6 +90,8 @@ 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). @@ -433,10 +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 @@ -485,7 +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 @@ -496,7 +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 @@ -523,6 +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: @@ -1684,4 +1724,12 @@ Block Position: 0 > 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