X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2Fkernstodo;h=358c430f525006824b3ef7ebf03e94c05e77086c;hb=59411f4d82218b5f26b087aa629a6f86f64f2b17;hp=a808d9086b98813fde5649403dbf0acb97ee3f6e;hpb=03e3bc4e92d5f9be3f65f59a9077e9d6e526a938;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/kernstodo b/bacula/kernstodo index a808d9086b..358c430f52 100644 --- a/bacula/kernstodo +++ b/bacula/kernstodo @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Kern's ToDo List - 17 July 2009 + 21 September 2009 Rescue: Add to USB key: @@ -29,72 +29,56 @@ 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; - 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 -- 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. -Professional Needs: -- Nexenta (zfs + hardy + iscsi + nas + smf support) -- NDMP - - For NAS OpenNAS - - ndmfs -- File Server extention in NDMPv4. - - ndmjob -- NDMP backup/restore NDMPv2, NDMPv3, and NDMPv4 -- Base jobs -- Migration from other vendors - - Date change - - Path change -- Filesystem types -- Backup conf/exe (all daemons) -- Backup up system state -- Detect state change of system (verify) -- Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed) -- SD to SD -- Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html -- Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code. -- When glibc crash, get address with - info symbol 0x809780c -- How to sync remote offices. -- David's priorities - Copypools - Extract capability (#25) - Continued enhancement of bweb - Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be - needed ASAP) - Client triggered backups - Complete rework of the scheduling system (not in list) - Performance and usage instrumentation (not in list) - See email of 21Aug2007 for details. -- Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html - and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes - Priority: ================ - +24-Jul 09:56 rufus-fd JobId 1: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "System Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) +24-Jul 09:56 rufus-fd JobId 1: Warning: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "ASR Writer", State: 0x8 (VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT) +24-Jul 09:56 rufus-fd JobId 1: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "WMI Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) +- Add external command to lookup hostname (eg nmblookup timmy-win7) +nmblookup gato +querying gato on 127.255.255.255 +querying gato on 192.168.1.255 + 192.168.1.8 gato<00> + 192.168.1.11 gato<00> + 192.168.1.8 gato<00> + 192.168.1.11 gato<00> +- Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted. +- How to sync remote offices. +- Windows Bare Metal +- Backup up windows system state +- Complete Job restart +- Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping +- Implement rwlock() for SD that takes why and can_steal to replace + existing block/lock mechanism. rlock() would allow multiple readers + wlock would allow only one writer. +- For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/ +- Add "before=" "olderthan=" to FileSet for doing Base of + unchanged files. +- Show files/second in client status output. +- Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes. +- Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes. +- Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the + actual data on the Volume and compare it. +- Remove queue.c code. +- Implement multiple jobid specification for the cancel command, + similar to what is permitted on the update slots command. +- Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles + does not match -- it may have been updated by another job. +- Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation - When reserving a device to read, check to see if the Volume is already in use, if so wait. Probably will need to pass the Volume. See bug #1313. Create a regression test to simulate this problem and see if VolumePollInterval fixes it. Possibly turn it on by default. -- Fix restore of acls and extended attributes to count ERROR - messages and make errors non-fatal. -- Put save/restore various platform acl/xattrs on a pointer to simplify - the code. - +- Page hash tables +- Deduplication - Why no error message if restore has no permission on the where directory? - Possibly allow manual "purge" to purge a Volume that has not @@ -102,7 +86,6 @@ Priority: is_volume_purged(). - Add disk block detection bsr code (make it work). - Remove done bsrs. -- Add blast attributes to DIR to SD. - Detect deadlocks in reservations. - Plugins: - Add list during dump @@ -138,23 +121,14 @@ Priority: for non I/O reasons. - Fix #ifdefing so that smartalloc can be disabled. Check manual -- the default is enabled. -- Change calling sequence to delete_job_id_range() in ua_cmds.c - the preceding strtok() is done inside the subroutine only once. - Dangling softlinks are not restored properly. For example, take a soft link such as src/testprogs/install-sh, which points to /usr/share/autoconf... move the directory to another machine where the file /usr/share/autoconf does not exist, back it up, then try a full restore. It fails. - Softlinks that point to non-existent file are not restored in restore all, but are restored if the file is individually selected. BUG! -- New directive "Delete purged Volumes" - Prune by Job - Prune by Job Level (Full, Differential, Incremental) -- Strict automatic pruning -- Implement unmount of USB volumes. -- Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for - Win32 to avoid patent problems. -- Implement multiple jobid specification for the cancel command, - similar to what is permitted on the update slots command. - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file, if requested. - the cd-command should allow complete paths @@ -173,44 +147,24 @@ Priority: jcr->last_runtime MA = (last_MA * 3 + rate) / 4 rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime) +=== - Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore. -- "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs - of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous - running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish - before doing Interval testing). - Look at simplifying File exclusions. - Scripts -- Auto update of slot: - rufus-dir: ua_run.c:456-10 JobId=10 NewJobId=10 using pool Full priority=10 - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Start Backup JobId 10, Job=kernsave.2007-11-02_12.58.03 - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Using Device "DDS-4" - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Invalid slot=0 defined in catalog for Volume "Vol001" on "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0). Manual load my be required. - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2. - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Vol001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0) - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-sd JobId 10: Alert: TapeAlert[7]: Media Life: The tape has reached the end of its useful life. - 02-Nov 12:58 rufus-dir JobId 10: Bacula rufus-dir 2.3.6 (26Oct07): 02-Nov-2007 12:58:51 - Separate Files and Directories in catalog - Create FileVersions table -- Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping -- Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation - finish implementation of fdcalled -- see ua_run.c:105 - Fix problem in postgresql.c in my_postgresql_query, where the generation of the error message doesn't differentiate result==NULL and a bad status from that result. Not only that, the result is cleared on a bail_out without having generated the error message. -- KIWI - Implement SDErrors (must return from SD) -- Implement USB keyboard support in rescue CD. - Implement continue spooling while despooling. - Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR. -- Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit. - No where in restore causes kaboom. - Performance: multiple spool files for a single job. - Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem multiplexing Dir connection). -- Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm. -- When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work. - Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which now prints warnings too often. - Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different @@ -237,21 +191,36 @@ Priority: > configuration string value to a CRYPTO_CIPHER_* value, if anyone is > interested in implementing this functionality. -- Figure out some way to "automatically" backup conf changes. - Add the OS version back to the Win32 client info. - Restarted jobs have a NULL in the from field. - Modify SD status command to indicate when the SD is writing to a DVD (the device is not open -- see bug #732). - Look at the possibility of adding "SET NAMES UTF8" for MySQL, and possibly changing the blobs into varchar. -- Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles - does not match -- it may have been updated by another job. -- Doc items - Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures - Encryption documentation -- Wrong jobbytes with query 12 (todo) -- Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo) - + +Professional Needs: +- Migration from other vendors + - Date change + - Path change +- Filesystem types +- Backup conf/exe (all daemons) +- Detect state change of system (verify) +- SD to SD +- Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html +- Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code. +- David's priorities + Copypools + Extract capability (#25) + Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be + needed ASAP) + Client triggered backups + Complete rework of the scheduling system (not in list) + Performance and usage instrumentation (not in list) + See email of 21Aug2007 for details. +- Look at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html + and http://www.openeyet.nl/scc/ for managing customer changes Projects: - Pool enhancements @@ -281,12 +250,6 @@ Projects: GROUP BY Media.MediaType ) AS media_avg_size ON (Media.MediaType = media_avg_size.MediaType) GROUP BY Media.MediaType, Media.PoolId, media_avg_size.volavg -- GUI - - Admin - - Management reports - - Add doc for bweb -- especially Installation - - Look at Webmin - http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=501 - Performance - Despool attributes in separate thread - Database speedups @@ -296,12 +259,8 @@ Projects: - Features - Better scheduling - More intelligent re-run - - FD plugins - Incremental backup -- rsync, Stow -For next release: -- Try to fix bscan not working with multiple DVD volumes bug #912. -- Look at mondo/mindi - Make Bacula by default not backup tmpfs, procfs, sysfs, ... - Fix hardlinked immutable files when linking a second file, the immutable flag must be removed prior to trying to link it. @@ -313,12 +272,7 @@ For next release: - Look at why SIGPIPE during connection can cause seg fault in writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula - Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems. -- Possibly turn on St. Bernard code. - Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines. -- Do we migrate appendable Volumes? -- Remove queue.c code. -- Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify - UTF-8. - New dot commands from Arno. .show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...) @@ -356,7 +310,6 @@ Low priority: http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German) -- Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted. - Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4: == changequote.m4 === changequote(`[',`]')dnl @@ -392,12 +345,6 @@ select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and File.FilenameId=(FilenameId-from-above) and File.PathId=Path.PathId order by Path.Path ASC; -- Look into using Dart for testing - http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml - -- Look into replacing autotools with cmake - http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html - - Mount on an Autochanger with no tape in the drive causes: Automatically selected Storage: LTO-changer Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0 @@ -521,16 +468,13 @@ select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and - Directive: at "command" - Command: pycmd "command" generates "command" event. How to attach to a specific job? -- Integrate Christopher's St. Bernard code. - run_cmd() returns int should return JobId_t - get_next_jobid_from_list() returns int should return JobId_t - Document export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64 -- Don't attempt to restore from "Disabled" Volumes. - Network error on Win32 should set Win32 error code. - What happens when you rename a Disk Volume? - Job retention period in a Pool (and hence Volume). The job would then be migrated. -- Look at -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 - Add Win32 FileSet definition somewhere - Look at fixing restore status stats in SD. - Look at using ioctl(FIMAP) and FIGETBSZ for sparse files. @@ -545,7 +489,6 @@ select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and ("F","Full"), ("D","Diff"), ("I","Inc"); -- Show files/second in client status output. - new pool XXX with ScratchPoolId = MyScratchPool's PoolId and let it fill itself, and RecyclePoolId = XXX's PoolId so I can see if it become stable and I just have to supervise @@ -583,7 +526,6 @@ select Path.Path from Path,File where File.JobId=nnn and backups of the same client and if we again try to start a full backup of client backup abc bacula won't complain. That should be fixed. -- For Windows disaster recovery see http://unattended.sf.net/ - regardless of the retention period, Bacula will not prune the last Full, Diff, or Inc File data until a month after the retention period for the last Full backup that was done. @@ -791,16 +733,6 @@ Notes: in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO). -6. Localization of Bacula Messages - - Why: - Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well. - So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they - would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc. - - I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also - french and Morre (western african language). - 7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible due to the design of bacula. @@ -825,7 +757,6 @@ Why: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the "Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit about this potential problem, and recommend a solution. -- For Solaris must use POSIX awk. - Want speed of writing to tape while despooling. - Supported autochanger: OS: Linux @@ -841,22 +772,15 @@ Cap: 200GB - Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package. - Include within include does it work? - Implement a Pool of type Cleaning? -- Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD -- Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file. - Think about making certain database errors fatal. - Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight savings time changes. -- Add a "real" timer to network connections. -- Promote to Full = Time period - Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges) - Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file. - Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore. See Gregory Wright. - Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets. - How to handle backing up portables ... -- Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs. -- Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32 - the system crashes and the state file is not updated. - Limit bandwidth Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) @@ -903,8 +827,6 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula. - Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other units, perhaps via a directive. -- Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even - with multiple priorities. - If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for non-existent directories will not be restored properly. @@ -1016,8 +938,6 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs. - Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk addressing. -- Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk, - and form it from VolFile and VolBlock. - Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null pointer (rec) to try_repositioning(). - Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job, @@ -1071,7 +991,6 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability big things: Macintosh file client - macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole working bare iron recovery for windows the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision a) use both change and inode update time against base time @@ -1081,15 +1000,10 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) an integration guide or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar) - linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary) - win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked) support for Oracle database ?? === - Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows. -- Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This - is needed to properly specify ranges. - Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD. -- Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion - do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console - Client does not show busy during Estimate command. - Implement Console mtx commands. @@ -1149,7 +1063,6 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) - Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for Windows. - Implement a Recycle command -- Start working on Base jobs. - From Phil Stracchino: It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it @@ -1185,9 +1098,6 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) - Figure out some way to estimate output size and to avoid splitting a backup across two Volumes -- this could be useful for writing CDROMs where you really prefer not to have it split -- not serious. -- Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes. -- Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the - actual data on the Volume and compare it. - Make bcopy read through bad tape records. - Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files). Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time. @@ -1284,7 +1194,6 @@ Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time) See afbackup. - Need something that monitors the JCR queue and times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are. -- Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk. - Verify from Volume - Need report class for messages. Perhaps report resource where report=group of messages @@ -1374,19 +1283,12 @@ Also, the benefits of this are huge for very large shops, especially with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media mounting. -> -> Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them. - -Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die -without it. - Regards, Jerry Schieffer ============================== Longer term to do: -- Implement FSM (File System Modules). - Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent. - Add variable break characters to lex analyzer. Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that @@ -1400,6 +1302,34 @@ Longer term to do: the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite. ====================================================== + +==== + Handling removable disks + + From: Karl Cunningham + + My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my + idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these + things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others + have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it. + + 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified + by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory. + 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay. + 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed + up. + 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one + for each backup. + 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is + important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be + better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be + scattered in many subdirectories. +==== + + +=== Done + +=== Base Jobs design It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files. @@ -1449,137 +1379,13 @@ Need: This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the VolSessionId and VolSessionTime. -========================================================= - -========================================================= - Preliminary design of Deletion of disk volumes - -tem 5: Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned - Date: Nov 25, 2005 - Origin: Ross Boylan (edited - by Kern) - Status: - - What: Provide a way for Bacula to automatically remove Volumes - from the filesystem, or optionally to truncate them. - Obviously, the Volume must be pruned prior removal. - - Why: This would allow users more control over their Volumes and - prevent disk based volumes from consuming too much space. - - Notes: The following two directives might do the trick: - - Volume Data Retention =