X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2Fkernstodo;h=cc87535549da1146cfe7829dc01942714cf009f2;hb=f51b602287b3dc2ed459c4e59376d973ec62c964;hp=a9e713efcb675c9baf30155f897ceede929014de;hpb=c5e019747db7f8584ab1e1224caf5fcac45d9a64;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/kernstodo b/bacula/kernstodo index a9e713efcb..cc87535549 100644 --- a/bacula/kernstodo +++ b/bacula/kernstodo @@ -1,8 +1,17 @@ Kern's ToDo List - 02 May 2008 + 17 July 2009 + +Rescue: +Add to USB key: + gftp sshfs kile kate lsssci m4 mtx nfs-common nfs-server + patch squashfs-tools strace sg3-utils screen scsiadd + system-tools-backend telnet dpkg traceroute urar usbutils + whois apt-file autofs busybox chkrootkit clamav dmidecode + manpages-dev manpages-posix manpages-posix-dev Document: +- package sg3-utils, program sg_map - !!! Cannot restore two jobs a the same time that were written simultaneously unless they were totally spooled. - Document cleaning up the spool files: @@ -20,57 +29,47 @@ 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; - 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: -- 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 -- Modules for Databases, Exchange, ... -- 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. -- Exchange backup: - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/exchbkup.mspx -- 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: ================ +- 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. +- Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping +- 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. + +- 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 + yet been written (even if FirstWritten time is zero) see ua_purge.c + is_volume_purged(). +- Add disk block detection bsr code (make it work). +- Remove done bsrs. - Detect deadlocks in reservations. - Plugins: - Add list during dump @@ -78,11 +77,10 @@ Priority: - Add bRC_EndJob -- stops more calls to plugin this job - Add bRC_Term (unload plugin) - remove time_t from Jmsg and use utime_t? -- Extended ACLs - Deadlock detection, watchdog sees if counter advances when jobs are running. With debug on, can do a "status" command. - User options for plugins. -- Pool Storage override precidence over command line. +- Pool Storage override precedence over command line. - Autolabel only if Volume catalog information indicates tape not written. This will avoid overwriting a tape that gets an I/O error on reading the volume label. @@ -119,12 +117,8 @@ Priority: - 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. -- Implement Bacula plugins -- design API - modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file, if requested. - the cd-command should allow complete paths @@ -133,11 +127,17 @@ Priority: its faster to enter the specified directory - Make tree walk routines like cd, ls, ... more user friendly by handling spaces better. +- When doing a restore, if the user does an "update slots" + after the job started in order to add a restore volume, the + values prior to the update slots will be put into the catalog. + Must retrieve catalog record merge it then write it back at the + end of the restore job, if we want to do this right. === rate design jcr->last_rate 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 @@ -145,28 +145,14 @@ Priority: 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. @@ -202,21 +188,43 @@ 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) +- 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 Projects: - Pool enhancements @@ -246,12 +254,6 @@ 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 @@ -261,12 +263,8 @@ 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. @@ -278,10 +276,8 @@ 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. @@ -357,12 +353,6 @@ 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 @@ -486,16 +476,13 @@ 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. @@ -510,7 +497,6 @@ 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 @@ -548,7 +534,6 @@ 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. @@ -1150,9 +1135,6 @@ 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. @@ -1445,3 +1427,11 @@ Need: === - Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer. ***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed. +- 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. +- Add blast attributes to DIR to SD. +- Implement unmount of USB volumes. +- Look into using Dart for testing + http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml