X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2Ftechnotes;h=2e29d30c6e11257aff55057f47053935c7bc5986;hb=282f42a77cc3852d67657e588a071a27d985b84b;hp=047d39520b850a4e49814c0c140dc3f299b22415;hpb=1c663e33cdead4bc8cb88eb404df459ad26e51de;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/technotes b/bacula/technotes index 047d39520b..2e29d30c6e 100644 --- a/bacula/technotes +++ b/bacula/technotes @@ -1,8 +1,268 @@ - Technical notes for current SVN + Technical notes for current GIT General: +20Jan10 +kes Make missing plugin during backup fatal. +18Jan10 +kes Fix unserial to limit size. Fixes bug submitted by Graham. +11Jan10 +ebl Upgrade DB version from 11 to 12. +08Jan180 +kes Remove requirement for different storages for migrate, something + forgotten, but reminded by Jim Barber. +06Jan10 +ebl Add make_catalog_backup.pl script that uses env variables and + disk file to pass database password for backup +ebl Modify the sql query to get alphabetical order of clients when + selecting the most recent backup for a client. Thanks to + Holger Mueller for this suggestion. +03Jan10 +ebl Fix initgroups definition on aix >= 5 +27Dec09 +mvw Plugins are only build when libtool is used +22Dec09 +ebl Add bacula_config script for support issues +ebl Display a warning message if postgresql client libs <= 8.1 and + batch insert is enabled. +21Dec09 +ebl if batch insert is turned on when we try to open a connection and + thread safe is not enabled, we M_ABORT Bacula +ebl Add dbcheck -t option that test if the current backend is thread-safe +20Dec09 +kes Fix old way of detecting thread safe SQL in ./configure + We should really phase this out. +17Dec09 +ebl LSBize Debian init scripts +10Dec09 +ebl Update the lock manager to detect possible race condition + on the fly. You can activate it with USE_LOCKMGR_PRIORITY in + version.h +08Dec09 +ebl Fix bug #1431 about bad reload command. + Still an object to free in this case. +06Dec09 +kes Fix seg fault in new AllowCompression code +kes Add AllowCompression feature that turns off compression in Storage + resource. Submitted by: Steve Polyack +05Dec09 +ebl Fix #1403 about windows directory attributes not well restored +03Dec09 +ebl Remove SQLite2 scripts +ebl Apply Arno's patch for check_bacula nagios plugin +02Dec09 +ebl Rename bvfs brestore_ table +01Dec09 +kes Remove support for SQLite 2 +kes Fix rpm spec files bug #1420 +kes Fix include of MySQL libs to use shared object. Fixes bug #1427 +kes Fix search for libdbd in DBI option. Fixes bug #1422 +kes Fix RH spec files to use /etc/logwatch instead of /etc/log.d + Fixes bug #1428 +23Nov09 +ebl Apply Lorenzo's MacOSX patches +16Nov09 +ebl Add basic completion for restore mode +14Nov09 +kes Fix bug #1367 buy creating an empty query.sql file. The old query.sql + file is now in exmaples/sample-query.sql, but is unsupported. +13Nov09 +ebl Add .jobs type=B/C/R command to filter jobs listing +11Nov09 +ebl Fix basejob code for Mysql +ebl Fix segfault in basejob code +05Nov09 +ebl Display a message if catalog max_connections setting is too low +04Nov09 +kes Apply Victor Hugo dos Santos' Spanish translation patch +kes Fix double send of attributes introduced in 84aab... +kes Cleanup error handling in SD append to reduce spurious error messages +ebl Check pthread_mutex_lock return code in lockmgr +03Nov09 +kes Fix bug #1409: increase ls field width for file size from 10 to 12. + At some point we will need to make this totally variable. +02Nov09 +ebl Avoid orphan buffers in testls +01Nov09 +kes Fix DCR race condition in SD that could lead to seg faults. +kes Make many regress tests timeout after 30 mins. +30Nov09 +kes Fix Win32 bat so that it runs better. +kes Fix seg fault in bat. +29Nov09 +kes Make builds stop if any errors. +kes Revert James' Win32 make_defs fix -- it builds incorrect def files +27Oct09 +ebl Add readline completion support for bconsole. It gives help + on all commands, and complete job=, pool=, client=, fileset=, ... + It works with --disable-conio and --with-readline=/usr/include/readline +25Oct09 +mvw Add support for running tape mount and unmount commands +23Oct09 +kes When dequeuing messages, don't allow queuing more, but send them + to syslog. Fixes Eric's messages-test regression script. +kes Make queuing messages work on jcr local mutex. Improves concurrent + throughput. +20Oct09 +ebl Add dot functions for bat to list location, mediatype and volstatus +ebl Add bat screen to list Media in a table view (permits to search, filter + and sort media) +ebl Permits update slot(s) and label barcodes slot(s) commands. +19Oct09 +ebl Fix typo in disk-changer listall command +ebl Fix status slots command when slots are mixed +18Oct09 +kes Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes +17Oct09 +ebl Add ActionOnPurge pool parameter starting from Michael Stapelberg work. +mvw Fix bug #1361 where device was not unmounted. + One big warning however when you now set Requires Mount to yes for a file device + you NEED to define a mount and unmount command or the stored will scream. +16Oct09 +kes Fix switching read device reported by Nicolae Mihalache +mvw Merged xattr overhaul which implements the extattr interface for *BSD +15Oct09 +kes Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem +13Oct09 +ebl Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows +11Oct09 +kes Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing + when doing fixup_write_error ... +kes Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by + Nicolae Mihalache +08Oct09 +ebl Add listall command to autochanger interface +ebl Tweak autochanger screen in bat with new commands +ebl Add listall and transfer command to disk-changer and mtx-changer +05Oct09 +kes Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288 +mvw Fix logic error in xattr code +ebl Apply Andreas's patch to remove ScratchPool ref from bat Media list screen. +03Oct09 +kes Add a MaxVolBytes test that create over 100 Vols +kes Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning +02Oct09 +ebl Cleanup the console timeout code. +29Sep09 +kes Apply console timeout patch from Vitaly Kuznetsov +ebl Remove the inx4 index for SQLite2/3 (FilenameId, PathId) on + File table. + It is useless for common usage, and causes performance issues. + This index fragments over the time and the update cost grows + very quickly. (This index is not present on Mysql schema) +26Sep09 +kes Remove gnome-console +kes Implement store_size32 and store_size64 +25Sep09 +kes Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359 +kes Add more smtp document -- resolves bug #1376 +22Sep09 +ebl Remove the file_fp_idx index for Postgresql (FilenameId, PathId) on + File table. + It is useless for common usage, and causes performance issues. + This index fragments over the time and the update cost grows + very quickly. (This index is not present on Mysql schema) +17Sep09 +kes Fix seg fault in ignoredir code +15Sep09 +ebl Update restore menu 12 explanation +14Sep09 +ebl Rename .lsdirs/.lsfiles/.update to .bvfs_xxx + to avoid confusion with future commands +11Sep09 +kes Set Volume Poll Interval to 5 mins by default. +kes Create an inline definition of bigendian(). +kes Apply Frank's patch to change / to - in cdash tests. + Hopefully it will fix some submit problems. +10Sep09 +kes Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371 +09Sep09 +ebl Fix problem when the top_level contains a Exclude Dir flag. +ebl Fix #1370 about the implementation of the "Exclude Dir Containing" + option on FD. +ebl Fix #1369 about a segfault when using ExcludeDirContaining option + before the Options{} block in fileset. +08Sep09 +ebl Apply Lorenz fix for minor issues in the osx installer package builder. +ebl Fix #1373 about typo in bscan manpages. Thanks to John Goerzen. +07Sep09 +ebl Make output of new commands .lsdir/.lsfile more usable. +kes Apply Marco's git format-patch patches for bugs #1365 and #1366 +06Sep09 +kes Increment minor version to avoid future conflict. +kes Increase default path/file length to 2048. This should fix + bug #1368. Too bad Mac OS programmers don't respect POSIX + standards. +04Sep09 +kes Implement BlockChecksum in Device to be able to turn off checksum + for performance reasons +ebl btape: Add speed command and test drive speed with Bacula blocks +03Sep09 +ebl Use MaxFileSize device configuration in btape +ebl Make less tweaks in random buffer in btape +ebl Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error. +01Sep09 +kes Many debug code fixes in regression scripts +kes Update tape tests for hardware certification + Add script for doing btape test command + Make btape return error status if test command fails +kes Eliminate xattr.c compiler warning +31Aug09 +ebl Prohibit copy and assignment in db_list_ctx. +mvw Exclude OSX resource forks from saving using the xattr code + Exclude OSX acl data from saving using the xattr code when + normal acl mode is also enabled. + Make excluding certain xattr in the generic functions somewhat + easier for certain OS specific attributes. +30Aug09 +kes Fix Win32/64 build +kes Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query +ebl Prohibit copy and assignment in Bvfs. +28Aug09 +kes Fix bug #1357 Verify jobs fail when job has zero files +26Aug09 +kes Fix possible seg fault in db_get_int_handler in accurate code +kes Release orphanned buffers in accurate code. +25Aug09 +kes Suppress some error messages generated after cancelling a job. + This should reduce some of the unwanted error messages after + a job has been canceled as described in bug #1354. However, + there are many other places. +24Aug09 +kes Apply and commit Lorenz Schori patch for OSX + * Add platforms/osx/{build,dl,products,tools} to .gitignore + * Put configuration files into /Library/Preferences/bacula in order to + simplify access to the for Mac Users without Shell experience and to + prevent loss of configuration after upgrades. + * Complete Info.plist in order to prevent Installer.app on 10.4 from + displaying "My Great App" instead of "Bacula File Daemon x.y.z" in the + welcome screen. + * Add the README file to platforms/osx +kes Confirmation of procedure suggested for upgrading from SQLite2 + to SQLite3. This fixes bug #1351. Procedure is: + echo ".dump" | sqlite bacula.db >bacula.sql + mv bacula.db bacula.db.old + sed -i -e 's%INTEGER UNSIGNED AUTOINCREMENT,%INTEGER,%g' bacula.sql + (note: the above only works on Linux systems. On some systems + the -i option is not available. Adapt as necessary) + sqlite3 bacula.db + .quit + sqlite3 bacula.db kes Add commas in num files for estimate command 19Aug09