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 Projects:
                      Bacula Projects Roadmap 
-                       06 January 2005
+                    Status updated 26 August 2008
 
-The following major projects are scheduled for 1.37:
-#3   Migration (Move, Copy, Archive Jobs)
-#4   Embedded Python Scripting (implemented in Dir)
-#5   Events that call a Python program (Implemented in Dir)
-#6   Select one from among Multiple Storage Devices for Job
-#7   Single Job Writing to Multiple Storage Devices
+Items Completed:
 
+Summary:
+Item  1:  Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
+Item  2:  Allow FD to initiate a backup
+Item  3:  Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
+Item  4:  Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
+Item  5:  Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
+Item  6:  Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
+Item  7:  Implement Base jobs
+Item  8:  Implement Copy pools
+Item  9:  Scheduling syntax that permits more flexibility and options
+Item 10:  Message mailing based on backup types
+Item 11:  Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications
+Item 12:  Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
+Item 13:  Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
+Item 14:  Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types
+Item 15:  Implement more Python events and functions
+Item 16:  Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
+Item 17:  Automatic promotion of backup levels based on backup size
+Item 18:  Better control over Job execution
+Item 19:  Automatic disabling of devices
+Item 20:  An option to operate on all pools with update vol parameters
+Item 21:  Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
+Item 22:  Implement Storage daemon compression
+Item 23:  Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management
+Item 24:  Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
+Item 25:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
 
-Below, you will find more information on those projects as
-well of other projects planned at a future time.
 
-Item 1:   Implement Base jobs.
+Item  1:  Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
+  Date:   28 November 2005
+  Origin: Martin Simmons (martin at lispworks dot com)
+  Status: 
 
+  What:   When restoring a fileset for a specified date (including "most
+          recent"), Bacula should give you exactly the files and directories
+          that existed at the time of the last backup prior to that date.
+
+          Currently this only works if the last backup was a Full backup.
+          When the last backup was Incremental/Differential, files and
+          directories that have been renamed or deleted since the last Full
+          backup are not currently restored correctly.  Ditto for files with
+          extra/fewer hard links than at the time of the last Full backup.
+
+  Why:    Incremental/Differential would be much more useful if this worked.
+
+  Notes:  Merging of multiple backups into a single one seems to
+          rely on this working, otherwise the merged backups will not be
+          truly equivalent to a Full backup.  
+
+  Note:   Kern: notes shortened. This can be done without the need for 
+          inodes. It is essentially the same as the current Verify job,
+          but one additional database record must be written, which does 
+          not need any database change.
+
+  Notes:  Kern: see if we can correct restoration of directories if
+          replace=ifnewer is set.  Currently, if the directory does not
+          exist, a "dummy" directory is created, then when all the files
+          are updated, the dummy directory is newer so the real values
+          are not updated.
+
+Item  2:  Allow FD to initiate a backup
+  Origin: Frank Volf (frank at deze dot org)
+  Date:   17 November 2005
+  Status:
+
+   What:  Provide some means, possibly by a restricted console that
+          allows a FD to initiate a backup, and that uses the connection
+          established by the FD to the Director for the backup so that
+          a Director that is firewalled can do the backup.
+
+   Why:   Makes backup of laptops much easier.
+
+
+Item  3:  Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) 
+  Origin: Marc Cousin and Eric Bollengier 
+  Date:   15 November 2005
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   A merged backup is a backup made without connecting to the Client.
+          It would be a Merge of existing backups into a single backup.
+          In effect, it is like a restore but to the backup medium.
+
+          For instance, say that last Sunday we made a full backup.  Then
+          all week long, we created incremental backups, in order to do
+          them fast.  Now comes Sunday again, and we need another full.
+          The merged backup makes it possible to do instead an incremental
+          backup (during the night for instance), and then create a merged
+          backup during the day, by using the full and incrementals from
+          the week.  The merged backup will be exactly like a full made
+          Sunday night on the tape, but the production interruption on the
+          Client will be minimal, as the Client will only have to send
+          incrementals.
+
+          In fact, if it's done correctly, you could merge all the
+          Incrementals into single Incremental, or all the Incrementals
+          and the last Differential into a new Differential, or the Full,
+          last differential and all the Incrementals into a new Full
+          backup.  And there is no need to involve the Client.
+
+  Why:    The benefit is that :
+          - the Client just does an incremental ;
+          - the merged backup on tape is just as a single full backup,
+            and can be restored very fast.
+
+          This is also a way of reducing the backup data since the old
+          data can then be pruned (or not) from the catalog, possibly
+          allowing older volumes to be recycled
+
+Item  4:  Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
+  Origin: Alan Davis adavis@ruckus.com
+  Date:   6 March 2007
+  Status: Submitted
+ 
+  What:   The current behavior is for the director to create all pools
+          found in the configuration file in all catalogs.  Add a
+          Catalog directive to the Pool resource to specify which
+          catalog to use for each pool definition.
+ 
+  Why:    This allows different catalogs to have different pool
+          attributes and eliminates the side-effect of adding
+          pools to catalogs that don't need/use them.
+ 
+  Notes:  Kern: I think this is relatively easy to do, and it is really
+          a pre-requisite to a number of the Copy pool, ... projects
+          that are listed here.
+
+Item  5:  Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
+  Origin: kshatriyak at gmail dot com
+    Date: 1/1/2006
+  Status:
+
+    What: In the restore option (Select the most recent backup for a
+          client) it would be useful to add an option where you can limit
+          the selection to a certain pool.
+
+     Why: When using cloned jobs, most of the time you have 2 pools - a
+          disk pool and a tape pool.  People who have 2 pools would like to
+          select the most recent backup from disk, not from tape (tape
+          would be only needed in emergency).  However, the most recent
+          backup (which may just differ a second from the disk backup) may
+          be on tape and would be selected.  The problem becomes bigger if
+          you have a full and differential - the most "recent" full backup
+          may be on disk, while the most recent differential may be on tape
+          (though the differential on disk may differ even only a second or
+          so).  Bacula will complain that the backups reside on different
+          media then.  For now the only solution now when restoring things
+          when you have 2 pools is to manually search for the right
+          job-id's and enter them by hand, which is a bit fault tolerant.
+
+  Notes:  Kern: This is a nice idea. It could also be the way to support
+          Jobs that have been Copied (similar to migration, but not yet
+          implemented).
+
+
+
+Item  6:  Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
+  Date:   Nov 25, 2005
+  Origin: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org> (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 = <time period>
+          Remove Volume After = <time period>
+
+          The migration project should also remove a Volume that is
+          migrated. This might also work for tape Volumes.
+
+Item  7:  Implement Base jobs 
+  Date:   28 October 2005
+  Origin: Kern
+  Status: 
+  
   What:   A base job is sort of like a Full save except that you 
           will want the FileSet to contain only files that are
           unlikely to change in the future (i.e.  a snapshot of
@@ -28,7 +198,7 @@ Item 1:   Implement Base jobs.
           pulled in where necessary.
 
   Why:    This is something none of the competition does, as far as
-          we know (except BackupPC, which is a Perl program that
+          we know (except perhaps BackupPC, which is a Perl program that
           saves to disk only).  It is big win for the user, it
           makes Bacula stand out as offering a unique
           optimization that immediately saves time and money.
@@ -45,7 +215,273 @@ Item 1:   Implement Base jobs.
           FD a list of files/attribs, and the FD must search the
           list and compare it for each file to be saved.
 
-Item 2:   Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
+
+Item  8:  Implement Copy pools
+  Date:   27 November 2005
+  Origin: David Boyes (dboyes at sinenomine dot net)
+  Status:
+
+  What:   I would like Bacula to have the capability to write copies
+          of backed-up data on multiple physical volumes selected
+          from different pools without transferring the data
+          multiple times, and to accept any of the copy volumes
+          as valid for restore.
+
+  Why:    In many cases, businesses are required to keep offsite
+          copies of backup volumes, or just wish for simple
+          protection against a human operator dropping a storage
+          volume and damaging it. The ability to generate multiple
+          volumes in the course of a single backup job allows
+          customers to simple check out one copy and send it
+          offsite, marking it as out of changer or otherwise
+          unavailable. Currently, the library and magazine
+          management capability in Bacula does not make this process
+          simple.
+
+          Restores would use the copy of the data on the first
+          available volume, in order of Copy pool chain definition.
+
+          This is also a major scalability issue -- as the number of
+          clients increases beyond several thousand, and the volume
+          of data increases, transferring the data multiple times to
+          produce additional copies of the backups will become
+          physically impossible due to transfer speed
+          issues. Generating multiple copies at server side will
+          become the only practical option. 
+
+  How:    I suspect that this will require adding a multiplexing
+          SD that appears to be a SD to a specific FD, but 1-n FDs
+          to the specific back end SDs managing the primary and copy
+          pools.  Storage pools will also need to acquire parameters
+          to define the pools to be used for copies. 
+
+  Notes:  I would commit some of my developers' time if we can agree
+          on the design and behavior. 
+
+  Notes:  Additional notes from David:
+          I think there's two areas where new configuration would be needed. 
+
+          1) Identify a "SD mux" SD (specify it in the config just like a
+          normal SD. The SD configuration would need something like a
+          "Daemon Type = Normal/Mux" keyword to identify it as a
+          multiplexor.  (The director code would need modification to add
+          the ability to do the multiple session setup, but the impact of
+          the change would be new code that was invoked only when a SDmux is
+          needed).
+
+          2) Additional keywords in the Pool definition to identify the need
+          to create copies.  Each pool would acquire a Copypool= attribute
+          (may be repeated to generate more than one copy.  3 is about the
+          practical limit, but no point in hardcoding that).
+
+          Example:
+          Pool {
+            Name = Primary
+            Pool Type = Backup
+            Copypool = Copy1
+            Copypool = OffsiteCopy2
+          }
+
+          where Copy1 and OffsiteCopy2 are valid pools.
+
+          In terms of function (shorthand): Backup job X is defined
+          normally, specifying pool Primary as the pool to use.  Job gets
+          scheduled, and Bacula starts scheduling resources.  Scheduler
+          looks at pool definition for Primary, sees that there are a
+          non-zero number of copypool keywords.  The director then connects
+          to an available SDmux, passes it the pool ids for Primary, Copy1,
+          and OffsiteCopy2 and waits.  SDmux then goes out and reserves
+          devices and volumes in the normal SDs that serve Primary, Copy1
+          and OffsiteCopy2.  When all are ready, the SDmux signals ready
+          back to the director, and the FD is given the address of the SDmux
+          as the SD to communicate with.  Backup proceeds normally, with the
+          SDmux duplicating blocks to each connected normal SD, and
+          returning ready when all defined copies have been written.  At
+          EOJ, FD shuts down connection with SDmux, which closes down the
+          normal SD connections and goes back to an idle state.  SDmux does
+          not update database; normal SDs do (noting that file is present on
+          each volume it has been written to).
+
+          On restore, director looks for the volume containing the file in
+          pool Primary first, then Copy1, then OffsiteCopy2.  If the volume
+          holding the file in pool Primary is missing or busy (being written
+          in another job, etc), or one of the volumes from the copypool list
+          that have the file in question is already mounted and ready for
+          some reason, use it to do the restore, else mount one of the
+          copypool volumes and proceed.
+
+
+Item  9:  Scheduling syntax that permits more flexibility and options
+   Date:  15 December 2006
+  Origin: Gregory Brauer (greg at wildbrain dot com) and
+          Florian Schnabel <florian.schnabel at docufy dot de>
+  Status:
+
+   What:  Currently, Bacula only understands how to deal with weeks of the
+          month or weeks of the year in schedules.  This makes it impossible
+          to do a true weekly rotation of tapes.  There will always be a
+          discontinuity that will require disruptive manual intervention at
+          least monthly or yearly because week boundaries never align with
+          month or year boundaries.
+
+          A solution would be to add a new syntax that defines (at least)
+          a start timestamp, and repetition period.
+
+          An easy option to skip a certain job  on a certain date.
+   
+
+     Why: Rotated backups done at weekly intervals are useful, and Bacula
+          cannot currently do them without extensive hacking.
+
+          You could then easily skip tape backups on holidays.  Especially
+          if you got no autochanger and can only fit one backup on a tape
+          that would be really handy, other jobs could proceed normally
+          and you won't get errors that way.
+
+
+   Notes: Here is an example syntax showing a 3-week rotation where full
+          Backups would be performed every week on Saturday, and an
+          incremental would be performed every week on Tuesday.  Each
+          set of tapes could be removed from the loader for the following
+          two cycles before coming back and being reused on the third
+          week.  Since the execution times are determined by intervals
+          from a given point in time, there will never be any issues with
+          having to adjust to any sort of arbitrary time boundary.  In
+          the example provided, I even define the starting schedule
+          as crossing both a year and a month boundary, but the run times
+          would be based on the "Repeat" value and would therefore happen
+          weekly as desired.
+
+
+          Schedule {
+              Name = "Week 1 Rotation"
+              #Saturday.  Would run Dec 30, Jan 20, Feb 10, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Full
+                      Start  = 2006-12-30 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 2, Jan 23, Feb 13, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Incremental
+                      Start  = 2007-01-02 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+          }
+
+          Schedule {
+              Name = "Week 2 Rotation"
+              #Saturday.  Would run Jan 6, Jan 27, Feb 17, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Full
+                      Start  = 2007-01-06 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 9, Jan 30, Feb 20, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Incremental
+                      Start  = 2007-01-09 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+          }
+
+          Schedule {
+              Name = "Week 3 Rotation"
+              #Saturday.  Would run Jan 13, Feb 3, Feb 24, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Full
+                      Start  = 2007-01-13 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 16, Feb 6, Feb 27, etc.
+              Run {
+                  Options {
+                      Type   = Incremental
+                      Start  = 2007-01-16 01:00
+                      Repeat = 3w
+                  }
+              }
+          }
+
+   Notes: Kern: I have merged the previously separate project of skipping 
+          jobs (via Schedule syntax) into this.
+
+
+Item 10:  Message mailing based on backup types
+ Origin:  Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
+   Date:  January 6, 2006
+ Status:
+
+   What:  In the "Messages" resource definitions, allowing messages
+          to be mailed based on the type (backup, restore, etc.) and level
+          (full, differential, etc) of job that created the originating
+          message(s).
+
+ Why:     It would, for example, allow someone's boss to be emailed
+          automatically only when a Full Backup job runs, so he can
+          retrieve the tapes for offsite storage, even if the IT dept.
+          doesn't (or can't) explicitly notify him.  At the same time, his
+          mailbox wouldnt be filled by notifications of Verifies, Restores,
+          or Incremental/Differential Backups (which would likely be kept
+          onsite).
+
+ Notes:   One way this could be done is through additional message types, for example:
+
+   Messages {
+     # email the boss only on full system backups
+     Mail = boss@mycompany.com = full, !incremental, !differential, !restore, 
+            !verify, !admin
+     # email us only when something breaks
+     MailOnError = itdept@mycompany.com = all
+   }
+
+   Notes: Kern: This should be rather trivial to implement.
+
+
+Item 11:  Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications
+ Origin:  Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
+ Date:    18 Dec 2006
+ Status:
+ What:    Cause Bacula daemons (dir, fd, sd) to always use the ip address
+          specified in the [DIR|DF|SD]Addr directive as the source IP
+          for initiating communication.
+ Why:     On complex networks, as well as extremely secure networks, it's
+          not unusual to have multiple possible routes through the network.
+          Often, each of these routes is secured by different policies
+          (effectively, firewalls allow or deny different traffic depending
+          on the source address)
+          Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult or impossible to
+          represent this in a system routing table, as the result is
+          excessive subnetting that quickly exhausts available IP space.
+          The best available workaround is to provide multiple IPs to
+          a single machine that are all on the same subnet.  In order
+          for this to work properly, applications must support the ability
+          to bind outgoing connections to a specified address, otherwise
+          the operating system will always choose the first IP that
+          matches the required route.
+ Notes:   Many other programs support this.  For example, the following
+          can be configured in BIND:
+          query-source address 10.0.0.1;
+          transfer-source 10.0.0.2;
+          Which means queries from this server will always come from
+          10.0.0.1 and zone transfers will always originate from
+          10.0.0.2.
+
+
+Item 12:  Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
+  Date:   28 October 2005
+  Origin: Kern
+  Status: Partially coded in 1.37 -- much more to do.
 
   What:   Allow users to specify wild-card and/or regular
           expressions to be matched in both the Include and
@@ -58,122 +494,953 @@ Item 2:   Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
           plug-in knows how to backup his Oracle database without
           stopping/starting it, for example.
 
-Item 3:   Implement a Migration job type that will move the job
-          data from one device to another.
-Coding begun in 1.35:
 
-  What:   The ability to copy, move, or archive data that is on a
-          device to another device is very important. 
+Item 13:  Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
+  Origin: Eric Bollengier
+  Date:   30/12/2006
+  Status: Implemented by Eric, see project-restore-attributes-only.patch
+
+  What:   The goal of this project is to be able to restore only rights
+          and attributes of files without crushing them.
+
+  Why:    Who have never had to repair a chmod -R 777, or a wild update
+          of recursive right under Windows? At this time, you must have
+          enough space to restore data, dump attributes (easy with acl,
+          more complex with unix/windows rights) and apply them to your 
+          broken tree. With this options, it will be very easy to compare
+          right or ACL over the time.
+
+  Notes:  If the file is here, we skip restore and we change rights.
+          If the file isn't here, we can create an empty one and apply
+          rights or do nothing.
+
+          This will not work with win32 stream, because it seems that we 
+          can't split the WriteBackup stream to get only ACL and ownerchip.
+
+Item 14:  Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types
+Date:     19 Jan 2005
+Origin:   Chad Slater <chad.slater@clickfox.com>
+Status: 
+                                                
+  What:   Adding a FullStorage=BigTapeLibrary in the Schedule resource
+          would help those of us who use different storage devices for different
+          backup levels cope with the "auto-upgrade" of a backup.
+
+  Why:    Assume I add several new devices to be backed up, i.e. several
+          hosts with 1TB RAID.  To avoid tape switching hassles, incrementals are
+          stored in a disk set on a 2TB RAID.  If you add these devices in the
+          middle of the month, the incrementals are upgraded to "full" backups,
+          but they try to use the same storage device as requested in the
+          incremental job, filling up the RAID holding the differentials.  If we
+          could override the Storage parameter for full and/or differential
+          backups, then the Full job would use the proper Storage device, which
+          has more capacity (i.e. a 8TB tape library.
+
+
+Item 15:  Implement more Python events and functions
+  Date:   28 October 2005
+  Origin: Kern
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   Allow Python scripts to be called at more places 
+          within Bacula and provide additional access to Bacula
+          internal variables.
+
+          Implement an interface for Python scripts to access the
+          catalog through Bacula.
+
+  Why:    This will permit users to customize Bacula through
+          Python scripts.
+
+  Notes:  Recycle event
+          Scratch pool event
+          NeedVolume event
+          MediaFull event
+           
+          Also add a way to get a listing of currently running
+          jobs (possibly also scheduled jobs).
+
+
+          to start the appropriate job.
+
+
+Item 16:  Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
+  Origin: Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
+  Date:   January 11, 2006
+  Status:
+
+  What:   In the vein of the Wild and Regex directives in a Fileset's
+          Options, it would be helpful to allow a user to include or exclude
+          files and directories by creation or modification times.
+
+          You could factor the Exclude=yes|no option in much the same way it
+          affects the Wild and Regex directives.  For example, you could exclude
+          all files modified before a certain date:
+
+   Options {
+     Exclude = yes
+     Modified Before = ####
+   }
+
+           Or you could exclude all files created/modified since a certain date:
+
+   Options {
+      Exclude = yes
+     Created Modified Since = ####
+   }
+
+           The format of the time/date could be done several ways, say the number
+           of seconds since the epoch:
+           1137008553 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # result of `date +%s`
+
+           Or a human readable date in a cryptic form:
+           20060111134233 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # YYYYMMDDhhmmss
+
+  Why:    I imagine a feature like this could have many uses. It would
+          allow a user to do a full backup while excluding the base operating
+          system files, so if I installed a Linux snapshot from a CD yesterday,
+          I'll *exclude* all files modified *before* today.  If I need to
+          recover the system, I use the CD I already have, plus the tape backup.
+          Or if, say, a Windows client is hit by a particularly corrosive
+          virus, and I need to *exclude* any files created/modified *since* the
+          time of infection.
+
+  Notes:  Of course, this feature would work in concert with other
+          in/exclude rules, and wouldnt override them (or each other).
+
+  Notes:  The directives I'd imagine would be along the lines of
+          "[Created] [Modified] [Before|Since] = <date>".
+          So one could compare against 'ctime' and/or 'mtime', but ONLY 'before'
+           or 'since'.
+
+        
+Item 17:  Automatic promotion of backup levels based on backup size
+   Date:  19 January 2006
+  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
+  Status: 
+
+    What: Amanda has a feature whereby it estimates the space that a  
+          differential, incremental, and full backup would take.  If the  
+          difference in space required between the scheduled level and the next  
+          level up is beneath some user-defined critical threshold, the backup  
+          level is bumped to the next type.  Doing this minimizes the number of  
+          volumes necessary during a restore, with a fairly minimal cost in  
+          backup media space.
+
+    Why:  I know at least one (quite sophisticated and smart) user  
+          for whom the absence of this feature is a deal-breaker in terms of  
+          using Bacula; if we had it it would eliminate the one cool thing  
+          Amanda can do and we can't (at least, the one cool thing I know of).
+
+
+Item 18:  Better control over Job execution
+   Date:  18 August 2007
+  Origin: Kern
+  Status: 
+
+    What: Bacula needs a few extra features for better Job execution:
+          1. A way to prevent multiple Jobs of the same name from
+             being scheduled at the same time (ususally happens when
+             a job is missed because a client is down).
+          2. Directives that permit easier upgrading of Job types
+             based on a period of time. I.e. "do a Full at least
+             once every 2 weeks", or "do a differential at least
+             once a week". If a lower level job is scheduled when
+             it begins to run it will be upgraded depending on
+             the specified criteria.
+
+    Why:  Obvious.
+   
+
+Item 19:  Automatic disabling of devices
+   Date:  2005-11-11
+  Origin: Peter Eriksson <peter at ifm.liu dot se>
+  Status:
+
+   What:  After a configurable amount of fatal errors with a tape drive
+          Bacula should automatically disable further use of a certain
+          tape drive. There should also be "disable"/"enable" commands in
+          the "bconsole" tool.
+
+   Why:   On a multi-drive jukebox there is a possibility of tape drives
+          going bad during large backups (needing a cleaning tape run,
+          tapes getting stuck). It would be advantageous if Bacula would
+          automatically disable further use of a problematic tape drive
+          after a configurable amount of errors has occurred.
+
+          An example: I have a multi-drive jukebox (6 drives, 380+ slots)
+          where tapes occasionally get stuck inside the drive. Bacula will
+          notice that the "mtx-changer" command will fail and then fail
+          any backup jobs trying to use that drive. However, it will still
+          keep on trying to run new jobs using that drive and fail -
+          forever, and thus failing lots and lots of jobs... Since we have
+          many drives Bacula could have just automatically disabled
+          further use of that drive and used one of the other ones
+          instead.
+
+Item 20:  An option to operate on all pools with update vol parameters
+  Origin: Dmitriy Pinchukov <absh@bossdev.kiev.ua>
+   Date:  16 August 2006
+  Status: Patch made by  Nigel Stepp
+
+   What:  When I do update -> Volume parameters -> All Volumes
+          from Pool, then I have to select pools one by one.  I'd like
+          console to have an option like "0: All Pools" in the list of
+          defined pools.
+
+   Why:   I have many pools and therefore unhappy with manually
+          updating each of them using update -> Volume parameters -> All
+          Volumes from Pool -> pool #.
+
+
+Item 21:  Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
+  Origin: Mark Bergman <mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu>
+  Date:   Tue Aug 22 17:13:39 EDT 2006
+  Status:
+
+  What:   The "stat clients" command doesn't include any detail on when
+          the active backup jobs were launched.
+
+  Why:    Including the timestamp would make it much easier to decide whether
+          a job is running properly. 
+
+  Notes:  It may be helpful to have the output from "stat clients" formatted 
+          more like that from "stat dir" (and other commands), in a column
+          format. The per-client information that's currently shown (level,
+          client name, JobId, Volume, pool, device, Files, etc.) is good, but
+          somewhat hard to parse (both programmatically and visually), 
+          particularly when there are many active clients.
+
+
+
+Item 22:  Implement Storage daemon compression
+  Date:   18 December 2006
+  Origin: Vadim A. Umanski , e-mail umanski@ext.ru
+  Status:
+  What:   The ability to compress backup data on the SD receiving data
+          instead of doing that on client sending data.
+  Why:    The need is practical. I've got some machines that can send
+          data to the network 4 or 5 times faster than compressing
+          them (I've measured that). They're using fast enough SCSI/FC
+          disk subsystems but rather slow CPUs (ex. UltraSPARC II).
+          And the backup server has got a quite fast CPUs (ex. Dual P4
+          Xeons) and quite a low load. When you have 20, 50 or 100 GB
+          of raw data - running a job 4 to 5 times faster - that
+          really matters. On the other hand, the data can be
+          compressed 50% or better - so losing twice more space for
+          disk backup is not good at all. And the network is all mine
+          (I have a dedicated management/provisioning network) and I
+          can get as high bandwidth as I need - 100Mbps, 1000Mbps...
+          That's why the server-side compression feature is needed!
+  Notes:
+
+Item 23:  Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management 
+  Date:   8 November 2005, November 11, 2005
+  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton at sinenomine dot net>,
+          Arno Lehmann <al at its-lehmann dot de>
+  Status:
+
+  What:   Make Bacula manage tape life cycle information, tape reuse
+          times and drive cleaning cycles.
+
+  Why:    All three parts of this project are important when operating
+          backups.
+          We need to know which tapes need replacement, and we need to
+          make sure the drives are cleaned when necessary.  While many
+          tape libraries and even autoloaders can handle all this
+          automatically, support by Bacula can be helpful for smaller
+          (older) libraries and single drives.  Limiting the number of
+          times a tape is used might prevent tape errors when using
+          tapes until the drives can't read it any more.  Also, checking
+          drive status during operation can prevent some failures (as I
+          [Arno] had to learn the hard way...)
+
+  Notes:  First, Bacula could (and even does, to some limited extent)
+          record tape and drive usage.  For tapes, the number of mounts,
+          the amount of data, and the time the tape has actually been
+          running could be recorded.  Data fields for Read and Write
+          time and Number of mounts already exist in the catalog (I'm
+          not sure if VolBytes is the sum of all bytes ever written to
+          that volume by Bacula).  This information can be important
+          when determining which media to replace.  The ability to mark
+          Volumes as "used up" after a given number of write cycles
+          should also be implemented so that a tape is never actually
+          worn out.  For the tape drives known to Bacula, similar
+          information is interesting to determine the device status and
+          expected life time: Time it's been Reading and Writing, number
+          of tape Loads / Unloads / Errors.  This information is not yet
+          recorded as far as I [Arno] know.  A new volume status would
+          be necessary for the new state, like "Used up" or "Worn out".
+          Volumes with this state could be used for restores, but not
+          for writing. These volumes should be migrated first (assuming
+          migration is implemented) and, once they are no longer needed,
+          could be moved to a Trash pool.
+
+          The next step would be to implement a drive cleaning setup.
+          Bacula already has knowledge about cleaning tapes.  Once it
+          has some information about cleaning cycles (measured in drive
+          run time, number of tapes used, or calender days, for example)
+          it can automatically execute tape cleaning (with an
+          autochanger, obviously) or ask for operator assistance loading
+          a cleaning tape.
+
+          The final step would be to implement TAPEALERT checks not only
+          when changing tapes and only sending the information to the
+          administrator, but rather checking after each tape error,
+          checking on a regular basis (for example after each tape
+          file), and also before unloading and after loading a new tape.
+          Then, depending on the drives TAPEALERT state and the known
+          drive cleaning state Bacula could automatically schedule later
+          cleaning, clean immediately, or inform the operator.
+
+          Implementing this would perhaps require another catalog change
+          and perhaps major changes in SD code and the DIR-SD protocol,
+          so I'd only consider this worth implementing if it would
+          actually be used or even needed by many people.
+
+          Implementation of these projects could happen in three distinct
+          sub-projects: Measuring Tape and Drive usage, retiring
+          volumes, and handling drive cleaning and TAPEALERTs.
+
+Item 24:  Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
+  Date:   27 November 2005
+  Origin: Ove Risberg (Ove.Risberg at octocode dot com)
+  Status:
+
+  What:   I want the file daemon to start multiple threads for a backup
+          job so the fastest possible backup can be made.
+
+          The file daemon could parse the FileSet information and start
+          one thread for each File entry located on a separate
+          filesystem.
+
+          A confiuration option in the job section should be used to
+          enable or disable this feature. The confgutration option could
+          specify the maximum number of threads in the file daemon.
+
+          If the theads could spool the data to separate spool files
+          the restore process will not be much slower.
+
+  Why:    Multiple concurrent backups of a large fileserver with many
+          disks and controllers will be much faster.
+
+Item 25:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
+  Date:   Nov. 24/2005 
+  Origin: Ray Pengelly [ray at biomed dot queensu dot ca
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   The ability to archive data to storage based on certain parameters
+          such as age, size, or location.  Once the data has been written to
+          storage and logged it is then pruned from the originating
+          filesystem. Note! We are talking about user's files and not
+          Bacula Volumes.
+
+  Why:    This would allow fully automatic storage management which becomes
+          useful for large datastores.  It would also allow for auto-staging
+          from one media type to another.
+
+          Example 1) Medical imaging needs to store large amounts of data.
+          They decide to keep data on their servers for 6 months and then put
+          it away for long term storage.  The server then finds all files
+          older than 6 months writes them to tape.  The files are then removed
+          from the server.
+
+          Example 2) All data that hasn't been accessed in 2 months could be
+          moved from high-cost, fibre-channel disk storage to a low-cost
+          large-capacity SATA disk storage pool which doesn't have as quick of
+          access time.  Then after another 6 months (or possibly as one
+          storage pool gets full) data is migrated to Tape.
+
+
+
+
+
+========= Added since the last vote =================
+
+Item 1:   Implement an interface between Bacula and Amazon's S3.
+  Date:   25 August 2008
+  Origin: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
+  Status: Not started.
+  What:   Enable the storage daemon to store backup data on Amazon's
+          S3 service.
+
+  Why:    Amazon's S3 is a cheap way to store data off-site. Current
+          ways to integrate Bacula and S3 involve storing all the data
+          locally and syncing them to S3, and manually fetching them
+          again when they're needed. This is very cumbersome.
+
+Item: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file contexts
+   Date: 28 December 2007
+   Origin: Frank Sweetser <fs@wpi.edu>
+   What: The ability to store and restore extended attributes on
+         filesystems that support them, such as ext3.
+
+   Why: Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) enabled systems make extensive
+        use of extended attributes.  In addition to the standard user,
+        group, and permission, each file has an associated SELinux context
+        stored as an extended attribute.  This context is used to define
+        which operations a given program is permitted to perform on that
+        file.  Storing contexts on an SELinux system is as critical as
+        storing ownership and permissions.  In the case of a full system
+        restore, the system will not even be able to boot until all
+        critical system files have been properly relabeled.
+
+ Notes: Fedora ships with a version of tar that has been patched to handle
+        extended attributes.  The patch has not been integrated upstream
+        yet, so could serve as a good starting point.
+
+        http://linux.die.net/man/2/getxattr
+        http://linux.die.net/man/2/setxattr
+        http://linux.die.net/man/2/listxattr
+        ===
+        http://linux.die.net/man/3/getfilecon
+        http://linux.die.net/man/3/setfilecon
+
+Item 1:   enable/disable compression depending on storage device (disk/tape)
+  Origin: Ralf Gross ralf-lists@ralfgross.de
+  Date:   2008-01-11
+  Status: Initial Request
+
+  What: Add a new option to the storage resource of the director.  Depending
+          on this option, compression will be enabled/disabled for a device.
+
+  Why: If different devices (disks/tapes) are used for full/diff/incr
+          backups, software compression will be enabled for all backups
+          because of the FileSet compression option.  For backup to tapes
+          wich are able to do hardware compression this is not desired.
+          
+
+  Notes:
+         http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/cutoff=11124
+         It must be clear to the user, that the FileSet compression option
+         must still be enabled use compression for a backup job at all.
+         Thus a name for the new option in the director must be
+         well-defined.
+
+  Notes: KES I think the Storage definition should probably override what
+         is in the Job definition or vice-versa, but in any case, it must
+         be well defined.
+
+
+Item 1: Backup and Restore of Windows Encrypted Files through raw encryption
+        functions
+
+  Origin: Michael Mohr, SAG  Mohr.External@infineon.com
+  
+  Date:   22 February 2008
+  
+  Status:
+
+  What: Make it possible to backup and restore Encypted Files from and to
+          Windows systems without the need to decrypt it by using the raw
+          encryption functions API (see:
+          http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx)
+
+          that is provided for that reason by Microsoft.
+          If a file ist encrypted could be examined by evaluating the 
+          FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYTED flag of the GetFileAttributes
+          function.
+
+  Why:    Without the usage of this interface the fd-daemon running
+          under the system account can't read encypted Files because
+          the key needed for the decrytion is missed by them. As a result 
+          actually encrypted files are not backed up
+          by bacula and also no error is shown while missing these files.
+
+  Notes:  ./.
+
+   Item 1: Possibilty to schedule Jobs on last Friday of the month
+   Origin: Carsten Menke <bootsy52 at gmx dot net>
+   Date:   02 March 2008
+   Status:
+
+   What: Currently if you want to run your monthly Backups on the last
+           Friday of each month this is only possible with workarounds (e.g
+           scripting) (As some months got 4 Fridays and some got 5 Fridays)
+           The same is true if you plan to run your yearly Backups on the
+           last Friday of the year.  It would be nice to have the ability to
+           use the builtin scheduler for this.
+
+   Why:    In many companies the last working day of the week is Friday (or 
+           Saturday), so to get the most data of the month onto the monthly
+           tape, the employees are advised to insert the tape for the
+           monthly backups on the last friday of the month.
+
+   Notes: To give this a complete functionality it would be nice if the
+           "first" and "last" Keywords could be implemented in the
+           scheduler, so it is also possible to run monthy backups at the
+           first friday of the month and many things more.  So if the syntax
+           would expand to this {first|last} {Month|Week|Day|Mo-Fri} of the
+           {Year|Month|Week} you would be able to run really flexible jobs.
+
+           To got a certain Job run on the last Friday of the Month for example one could 
+           then write
+
+              Run = pool=Monthly last Fri of the Month at 23:50
+
+              ## Yearly Backup
+
+              Run = pool=Yearly last Fri of the Year at 23:50
+
+              ## Certain Jobs the last Week of a Month
+
+              Run = pool=LastWeek last Week of the Month at 23:50
+
+              ## Monthly Backup on the last day of the month
+
+              Run = pool=Monthly last Day of the Month at 23:50
+
+   Date: 20 March 2008
+
+   Origin: Frank Sweetser <fs@wpi.edu>
+
+   What: Add a new SD directive, "minimum spool size" (or similar).  This
+         directive would specify a minimum level of free space available for
+         spooling.  If the unused spool space is less than this level, any
+         new spooling requests would be blocked as if the "maximum spool
+         size" threshold had bee reached.  Already spooling jobs would be
+         unaffected by this directive.
+
+   Why: I've been bitten by this scenario a couple of times:
+
+        Assume a maximum spool size of 100M. Two concurrent jobs, A and B,
+        are both running.  Due to timing quirks and previously running jobs,
+        job A has used 99.9M of space in the spool directory.  While A is
+        busy despooling to disk, B is happily using the remaining 0.1M of
+        spool space.  This ends up in a spool/despool sequence every 0.1M of
+        data.  In addition to fragmenting the data on the volume far more
+        than was necessary, in larger data sets (ie, tens or hundreds of
+        gigabytes) it can easily produce multi-megabyte report emails!
+
+   Item n?: Expand the Verify Job capability to verify Jobs older than the 
+   last one. For VolumeToCatalog Jobs
+   Date: 17 Januar 2008
+   Origin: portrix.net Hamburg, Germany.
+   Contact: Christian Sabelmann
+   Status: 70% of the required Code is part of the Verify function since v. 2.x
+
+   What:
+   The ability to tell Bacula which Job should verify instead of 
+   automatically verify just the last one.
+
+   Why: 
+   It is sad that such a powerfull feature like Verify Jobs
+   (VolumeToCatalog) is restricted to be used only with the last backup Job
+   of a client.  Actual users who have to do daily Backups are forced to
+   also do daily Verify Jobs in order to take advantage of this useful
+   feature.  This Daily Verify after Backup conduct is not always desired
+   and Verify Jobs have to be sometimes scheduled.  (Not necessarily
+   scheduled in Bacula).  With this feature Admins can verify Jobs once a
+   Week or less per month, selecting the Jobs they want to verify.  This
+   feature is also not to difficult to implement taking in account older bug
+   reports about this feature and the selection of the Job to be verified.
+          
+   Notes: For the verify Job, the user could select the Job to be verified 
+   from a List of the latest Jobs of a client. It would also be possible to 
+   verify a certain volume.  All of these would naturaly apply only for 
+   Jobs whose file information are still in the catalog.
+
+Item X:   Add EFS support on Windows
+   Origin: Alex Ehrlich (Alex.Ehrlich-at-mail.ee)
+   Date:   05 August 2008
+   Status:
+
+   What:   For each file backed up or restored by FD on Windows, check if
+           the file is encrypted; if so then use OpenEncryptedFileRaw,
+           ReadEncryptedFileRaw, WriteEncryptedFileRaw,
+           CloseEncryptedFileRaw instead of BackupRead and BackupWrite
+           API calls.
+
+   Why:    Many laptop users utilize the EFS functionality today; so do.
+           some non-laptop ones, too.
+           Currently files encrypted by means of EFS cannot be backed up.
+           It means a Windows boutique cannot rely on Bacula as its
+           backup solution, at least when using Windows 2K, XPP,
+           "better" Vista etc on workstations, unless EFS is
+           forbidden by policies.
+           The current situation might result into "false sense of
+           security" among the end-users.
+
+   Notes:  Using xxxEncryptedFileRaw API would allow to backup and
+           restore EFS-encrypted files without decrypting their data.
+           Note that such files cannot be restored "portably" (at least,
+           easily) but they would be restoreable to a different (or
+           reinstalled) Win32 machine; the restore would require setup
+           of a EFS recovery agent in advance, of course, and this shall
+           be clearly reflected in the documentation, but this is the
+           normal Windows SysAdmin's business.
+           When "portable" backup is requested the EFS-encrypted files
+           shall be clearly reported as errors.
+           See MSDN on the "Backup and Restore of Encrypted Files" topic:
+           http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx
+           Maybe the EFS support requires a new flag in the database for
+           each file, too?
+           Unfortunately, the implementation is not as straightforward as
+           1-to-1 replacement of BackupRead with ReadEncryptedFileRaw,
+           requiring some FD code rewrite to work with
+           encrypted-file-related callback functions.
+
+                                                                                                                                                                                              encrypted-file-related callback functions.
+========== Already implemented ================================
+
+Item  n:  make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
+          manual/interactive jobs
+  Origin: Marc Schiffbauer <marc@schiffbauer.net>
+  Date:   12 April 2007)
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   Make it possible to modify the spooldata option
+          for a job when being run from within the console.
+          Currently it is possible to modify the backup level
+          and the spooldata setting in a Schedule resource.
+          It is also possible to modify the backup level when using
+          the "run" command in the console. 
+          But it is currently not possible to to the same 
+          with "spooldata=yes|no" like:
+
+          run job=MyJob level=incremental spooldata=yes
+
+  Why:    In some situations it would be handy to be able to switch
+          spooldata on or off for interactive/manual jobs based on
+          which data the admin expects or how fast the LAN/WAN
+          connection currently is.
+
+  Notes:  ./.
+
+Item 1:   Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
+Date:     16 September 2008
+Origin:   Franck (xeoslaenor at gmail dot com)
+Status:   Proposing
+What:     The ability to modify the last written date for a volume
+Why:      It's sometime necessary to jump a volume when you have a pool of volume
+          which recycles the oldest volume at each backup.
+          Sometime, it needs to cancel a set of backup (one day
+          backup, completely) and we want to avoid that bacula
+          choose the volume (which is not written at all) from
+          the cancelled backup (It has to jump to next volume).
+          in this case, we just need to update the written date
+          manually to avoir the "oldest volume" purge.
+Notes:    An option can be add to "update volume" command (like 'written date'
+          choice for example)
+
+============= Empty Feature Request form ===========
+Item  n:  One line summary ...
+  Date:   Date submitted 
+  Origin: Name and email of originator.
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   More detailed explanation ...
+
+  Why:    Why it is important ...
+
+  Notes:  Additional notes or features (omit if not used)
+============== End Feature Request form ==============
+
+========== Items on put hold by Kern ============================
+
+Item h1:  Split documentation
+  Origin: Maxx <maxxatworkat gmail dot com>
+  Date:   27th July 2006
+  Status: Approved, awaiting implementation
+
+  What:   Split documentation in several books
+
+  Why:    Bacula manual has now more than 600 pages, and looking for
+          implementation details is getting complicated.  I think
+          it would be good to split the single volume in two or
+          maybe three parts:
+
+          1) Introduction, requirements and tutorial, typically
+             are useful only until first installation time
+
+          2) Basic installation and configuration, with all the
+             gory details about the directives supported 3)
+             Advanced Bacula: testing, troubleshooting, GUI and
+             ancillary programs, security managements, scripting,
+             etc.
+
+  Notes:  This is a project that needs to be done, and will be implemented,
+          but it is really a developer issue of timing, and does not 
+          needed to be included in the voting.
+
+
+Item h2:  Implement support for stacking arbitrary stream filters, sinks.
+Date:     23 November 2006
+Origin:   Landon Fuller <landonf@threerings.net>
+Status:   Planning. Assigned to landonf.
+
+  What:   Implement support for the following:
+          - Stacking arbitrary stream filters (eg, encryption, compression,  
+            sparse data handling))
+          - Attaching file sinks to terminate stream filters (ie, write out  
+            the resultant data to a file)
+          - Refactor the restoration state machine accordingly
+
+   Why: The existing stream implementation suffers from the following: - All
+           state (compression, encryption, stream restoration), is
+             global across the entire restore process, for all streams. There are  
+             multiple entry and exit points in the restoration state machine, and  
+             thus multiple places where state must be allocated, deallocated,  
+             initialized, or reinitialized. This results in exceptional complexity  
+             for the author of a stream filter.
+           - The developer must enumerate all possible combinations of filters  
+             and stream types (ie, win32 data with encryption, without encryption,  
+             with encryption AND compression, etc).
+
+  Notes: This feature request only covers implementing the stream filters/
+          sinks, and refactoring the file daemon's restoration
+          implementation accordingly.  If I have extra time, I will also
+          rewrite the backup implementation.  My intent in implementing the
+          restoration first is to solve pressing bugs in the restoration
+          handling, and to ensure that the new restore implementation
+          handles existing backups correctly.
+
+          I do not plan on changing the network or tape data structures to  
+          support defining arbitrary stream filters, but supporting that  
+          functionality is the ultimate goal.
+
+          Assistance with either code or testing would be fantastic.
+
+  Notes:  Kern: this project has a lot of merit, and we need to do it, but
+          it is really an issue for developers rather than a new feature
+          for users, so I have removed it from the voting list, but kept it
+          here, but at some point, it will be implemented.
+
+Item h3:  Filesystem watch triggered backup.
+  Date:   31 August 2006
+  Origin: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   With inotify and similar filesystem triggeret notification
+          systems is it possible to have the file-daemon to monitor
+          filesystem changes and initiate backup.
+
+  Why:    There are 2 situations where this is nice to have.
+          1) It is possible to get a much finer-grained backup than
+             the fixed schedules used now.. A file created and deleted
+             a few hours later, can automatically be caught.
+
+          2) The introduced load on the system will probably be
+             distributed more even on the system.
+
+  Notes:  This can be combined with configration that specifies
+          something like: "at most every 15 minutes or when changes
+          consumed XX MB".
+
+Kern Notes: I would rather see this implemented by an external program
+          that monitors the Filesystem changes, then uses the console
+
+
+Item h4:  Directive/mode to backup only file changes, not entire file
+  Date:   11 November 2005
+  Origin: Joshua Kugler <joshua dot kugler at uaf dot edu>
+          Marek Bajon <mbajon at bimsplus dot com dot pl>
+  Status: 
+
+  What:   Currently when a file changes, the entire file will be backed up in
+          the next incremental or full backup.  To save space on the tapes
+          it would be nice to have a mode whereby only the changes to the
+          file would be backed up when it is changed.
+
+  Why:    This would save lots of space when backing up large files such as 
+          logs, mbox files, Outlook PST files and the like.
+
+  Notes:  This would require the usage of disk-based volumes as comparing 
+          files would not be feasible using a tape drive.
+
+  Notes:  Kern: I don't know how to implement this. Put on hold until someone
+          provides a detailed implementation plan.
+
+
+Item h5:  Implement multiple numeric backup levels as supported by dump
+Date:     3 April 2006
+Origin:   Daniel Rich <drich@employees.org>
+Status:
+What: Dump allows specification of backup levels numerically instead of just
+          "full", "incr", and "diff".  In this system, at any given level,
+          all files are backed up that were were modified since the last
+          backup of a higher level (with 0 being the highest and 9 being the
+          lowest).  A level 0 is therefore equivalent to a full, level 9 an
+          incremental, and the levels 1 through 8 are varying levels of
+          differentials.  For bacula's sake, these could be represented as
+          "full", "incr", and "diff1", "diff2", etc.
 
-  Why:    An ISP might want to backup to disk, but after 30 days
-          migrate the data to tape backup and delete it from
-          disk.  Bacula should be able to handle this
-          automatically.  It needs to know what was put where,
-          and when, and what to migrate -- it is a bit like
-          retention periods.  Doing so would allow space to be
-          freed up for current backups while maintaining older
-          data on tape drives.
+Why: Support of multiple backup levels would provide for more advanced
+          backup rotation schemes such as "Towers of Hanoi".  This would
+          allow better flexibility in performing backups, and can lead to
+          shorter recover times.
 
-  Notes:  Migration could be triggered by:
-           Number of Jobs
-           Number of Volumes
-           Age of Jobs
-           Highwater size (keep total size)
-           Lowwater mark
+Notes:    Legato Networker supports a similar system with full, incr, and 1-9 as
+          levels.
 
+Notes:    Kern: I don't see the utility of this, and it would be a *huge* 
+          modification to existing code.
 
-Item 4:   Embedded Python Scripting (precursor to 5).
-Some testing done:
+Item h6:  Implement NDMP protocol support
+  Origin: Alan Davis
+  Date:   06 March 2007
+  Status: 
 
-  What:   On a configuration parameter, embed the Python language in
-          Bacula.
+  What:   Network Data Management Protocol is implemented by a number of
+          NAS filer vendors to enable backups using third-party
+          software.
 
-  Why:    The embedded Python scripting can be called to implement
-          Events such as "Volume Name needed", "End of Tape",
-          "Tape at x% of rated capacity", "Job started", 
-          "Job Ended", "Job error", ...
+  Why:    This would allow NAS filer backups in Bacula without incurring
+          the overhead of NFS or SBM/CIFS.
 
-  Notes:  This needs Events.
+  Notes:  Further information is available:
+          http://www.ndmp.org
+          http://www.ndmp.org/wp/wp.shtml
+          http://www.traakan.com/ndmjob/index.html
 
+          There are currently no viable open-source NDMP
+          implementations.  There is a reference SDK and example
+          app available from ndmp.org but it has problems
+          compiling on recent Linux and Solaris OS'.  The ndmjob
+          reference implementation from Traakan is known to
+          compile on Solaris 10.
 
-Item 5:   Implement Events that call the scripting language.
+  Notes:  Kern: I am not at all in favor of this until NDMP becomes
+          an Open Standard or until there are Open Source libraries
+          that interface to it.
 
-  What:   When a particular user defined Event occurs, call the
-          embedded Python interpreter.
+Item h7:  Commercial database support
+  Origin: Russell Howe <russell_howe dot wreckage dot org>
+  Date:   26 July 2006
+  Status:
 
-  Why:    This will provide the ultimate in user customization for
-          Bacula. Almost anything imaginable can be done if Events
-          are called at the appropriate place.
+  What: It would be nice for the database backend to support more databases.
+          I'm thinking of SQL Server at the moment, but I guess Oracle, DB2,
+          MaxDB, etc are all candidates.  SQL Server would presumably be
+          implemented using FreeTDS or maybe an ODBC library?
 
-  Notes:  There is a certain amount of work to be done on how
-          the user defines or "registers" events.
+  Why: We only really have one database server, which is MS SQL Server 2000.
+          Maintaining a second one for the backup software (we grew out of
+          SQLite, which I liked, but which didn't work so well with our
+          database size).  We don't really have a machine with the resources
+          to run postgres, and would rather only maintain a single DBMS.
+          We're stuck with SQL Server because pretty much all the company's
+          custom applications (written by consultants) are locked into SQL
+          Server 2000.  I can imagine this scenario is fairly common, and it
+          would be nice to use the existing properly specced database server
+          for storing Bacula's catalog, rather than having to run a second
+          DBMS.
 
+  Notes: This might be nice, but someone other than me will probably need to
+          implement it, and at the moment, proprietary code cannot legally
+          be mixed with Bacula GPLed code.  This would be possible only
+          providing the vendors provide GPLed (or OpenSource) interface
+          code.
 
-Item 6:   Multiple Storage Devices for a Single Job
-Modifications to SD in progress: 1.35
+Item h8:  Incorporation of XACML2/SAML2 parsing
+   Date:   19 January 2006
+   Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
+   Status: Blue sky
 
-  What:   Allow any Job to use more than one Storage device.
+   What: XACML is "eXtensible Access Control Markup Language" and "SAML is
+          the "Security Assertion Markup Language"--an XML standard for
+          making statements about identity and authorization.  Having these
+          would give us a framework to approach ACLs in a generic manner,
+          and in a way flexible enough to support the four major sorts of
+          ACLs I see as a concern to Bacula at this point, as well as
+          (probably) to deal with new sorts of ACLs that may appear in the
+          future.
 
-  Why:    With two devices, for example, the second device could
-          have the next backup tape pre-mounted reducing operator
-          intervention in the middle of the night.
+   Why: Bacula is beginning to need to back up systems with ACLs that do not
+          map cleanly onto traditional Unix permissions.  I see four sets of
+          ACLs--in general, mutually incompatible with one another--that
+          we're going to need to deal with.  These are: NTFS ACLs, POSIX
+          ACLs, NFSv4 ACLS, and AFS ACLS. (Some may question the relevance
+          of AFS; AFS is one of Sine Nomine's core consulting businesses,
+          and having a reputable file-level backup and restore technology
+          for it (as Tivoli is probably going to drop AFS support soon since
+          IBM no longer supports AFS) would be of huge benefit to our
+          customers; we'd most likely create the AFS support at Sine Nomine
+          for inclusion into the Bacula (and perhaps some changes to the
+          OpenAFS volserver) core code.)
 
+          Now, obviously, Bacula already handles NTFS just fine.  However, I
+          think there's a lot of value in implementing a generic ACL model,
+          so that it's easy to support whatever particular instances of ACLs
+          come down the pike: POSIX ACLS (think SELinux) and NFSv4 are the
+          obvious things arriving in the Linux world in a big way in the
+          near future.  XACML, although overcomplicated for our needs,
+          provides this framework, and we should be able to leverage other
+          people's implementations to minimize the amount of work *we* have
+          to do to get a generic ACL framework.  Basically, the costs of
+          implementation are high, but they're largely both external to
+          Bacula and already sunk.
 
-Item 7:   Backup a Single Job Simultaneously to Multiple Storage Devices
-Modifications to SD in progress: 1.35
+   Notes: As you indicate this is a bit of "blue sky" or in other words,
+          at the moment, it is a bit esoteric to consider for Bacula.
 
-  What:   Make two copies of the backup data at the same time.
+Item h9:  Archive data
+  Date:   15/5/2006
+  Origin: calvin streeting calvin at absentdream dot com
+  Status:
 
-  Why:    Large shops typically do this and then take one set of
-          backups off-site.  Some design work it needed in how to
-          specify the type of backup (backup, archive, ...) for
-          each Device.
+  What:   The abilty to archive to media (dvd/cd) in a uncompressed format
+          for dead filing (archiving not backing up)
 
+    Why: At work when jobs are finished and moved off of the main
+          file servers (raid based systems) onto a simple Linux
+          file server (ide based system) so users can find old
+          information without contacting the IT dept.
 
+          So this data dosn't realy change it only gets added to,
+          But it also needs backing up.  At the moment it takes
+          about 8 hours to back up our servers (working data) so
+          rather than add more time to existing backups i am trying
+          to implement a system where we backup the acrhive data to
+          cd/dvd these disks would only need to be appended to
+          (burn only new/changed files to new disks for off site
+          storage).  basialy understand the differnce between
+          achive data and live data.
 
-Item  8:  Break the one-to-one Relationship between a Job and a
-          Specific Storage Device (or Devices if #10 is implemented).
+  Notes:  Scan the data and email me when it needs burning divide
+          into predefined chunks keep a recored of what is on what
+          disk make me a label (simple php->mysql=>pdf stuff) i
+          could do this bit ability to save data uncompresed so
+          it can be read in any other system (future proof data)
+          save the catalog with the disk as some kind of menu
+          system 
 
-  What:   Allow a Job to simply specify one or more MediaType, and
-          the Storage daemon will select a device for it.  In
-          fact, the user should be able to specify one or more
-          MediaType, Storage daemon, and/or device to be used.
+   Notes: Kern: I don't understand this item, and in any case, if it
+          is specific to DVD/CDs, which we do not recommend using, 
+          it is unlikely to be implemented except as a user 
+          submitted patch.
 
-  Why:    To allow more flexibility in large shops that have multiple 
-          drives and/or multiple drives of different types.
 
+Item h10: Clustered file-daemons
+  Origin: Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl dot ucl dot ac dot uk
+  Date:   24 July 2006
+  Status:
+  What:   A "virtual" filedaemon, which is actually a cluster of real ones.
 
-Item  9:  Implement data encryption (as opposed to communications
-          encryption)
-Assigned: to Meno Abels (both data and communications encryption).
+  Why:    In the case of clustered filesystems (SAN setups, GFS, or OCFS2, etc)
+          multiple machines may have access to the same set of filesystems
 
-  What:   Currently the data that is stored on the Volume is not
-          encrypted. For confidentiality, encryption of data at
-          the File daemon level is essential. Note, communications
-          encryption encrypts the data when leaving the File daemon,
-          then decrypts the data on entry to the Storage daemon.
-          Data encryption encrypts the data in the File daemon and
-          decrypts the data in the File daemon during a restore.
+          For performance reasons, one may wish to initate backups from
+          several of these machines simultaneously, instead of just using
+          one backup source for the common clustered filesystem.
 
-  Why:    Large sites require this.
+          For obvious reasons, normally backups of $A-FD/$PATH and
+          B-FD/$PATH are treated as different backup sets. In this case
+          they are the same communal set.
 
-  Notes:  The only algorithm that is needed is AES.
-          http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/
+          Likewise when restoring, it would be easier to just specify
+          one of the cluster machines and let bacula decide which to use.
 
+          This can be faked to some extent using DNS round robin entries
+          and a virtual IP address, however it means "status client" will
+          always give bogus answers. Additionally there is no way of
+          spreading the load evenly among the servers.
 
+          What is required is something similar to the storage daemon
+          autochanger directives, so that Bacula can keep track of
+          operating backups/restores and direct new jobs to a "free"
+          client.
 
-Completed items from last year's list:
-Item 1:   Multiple simultaneous Jobs. (done)
-Item 3:   Write the bscan program -- also write a bcopy program (done).
-Item 5:   Implement Label templates (done).
-Item 6:   Write a regression script (done)
-Item 9:   Add SSL to daemon communications (For now, implement with
-          stunnel)
-Item 10:  Define definitive tape format (done)
-Item 3:   GUI for interactive restore. Partially Implemented in 1.34
-          Note, there is now a complete Webmin plugin, a partial
-          GNOME console, and an excellent wx-console GUI.
-Item 4:   GUI for interactive backup
-Item 2:   Job Data Spooling.
-    Done: Regular expression matching.
-Item 10:  New daemon communication protocol (this has been dropped).
+   Notes: Kern: I don't understand the request enough to be able to
+          implement it. A lot more design detail should be presented
+          before voting on this project.