X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2Ftechnotes-2.5;h=3cd1b27dd5dbf829ecd288846920ec55193a3d57;hb=10778e6d36c49f8283c519da1ec044b4b3fecc5d;hp=ef6b90bde795950a84e8eb571b50346b0ac6d6ad;hpb=3bd9f4cf990ad72ba99c6a954ed85b30ba183743;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/technotes-2.5 b/bacula/technotes-2.5 index ef6b90bde7..3cd1b27dd5 100644 --- a/bacula/technotes-2.5 +++ b/bacula/technotes-2.5 @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ State file updated on job term PluginOptions FD Version Duplicate Job directives + - Allow Duplicate Jobs + - Allow Higher Duplicates + - Cancel Queued Duplicates + - Cancel Running Duplicates + Ensure they work with RerunFailedLevels MaxFullInterval MaxDiffInterval Honor nodump flag @@ -21,11 +26,230 @@ Improved status commands for Bat Spooling/despooling status Implement ftruncate for NFS devices Add long term statistics job table +vtape driver +Ignore Dir +separator in console (!$%&'()*+,-/:;<>?[]^`{|}~) General: +28Aug08 +kes Correct a problem with Level and Virtual backup, rework how + bsrs are printed in debug to use standard routine. +kes Apply patch from Chris in bug #1133 that provides alternate db port + support for dbcheck. +ebl Remove catalog dependency from bcopy tool. +ebl Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration, + using default variables. + Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type() +27Aug08 +kes Apply most of changes in a patch from: + Michael Stapelberg + that allow the Bacula FD to compile on IRIX 6.5. +26Aug08 +kes Apply patch from Bastian Friedrich that accepts a yes on a + delete volume command line. +kes Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration + job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another. +kes Minor tweaks (copyright dates convert to use method instead of bnet). +21Aug08 +kes Fix NULL Volume error when reading (or Migration or VBackup) must switch + drives when no tape is mounted. +18Aug08 +kes Add additional info to some SD messages. +kes Add fix supplied by Martin Simmons for turning off EOL character + in new console multi-command code. +14Aug08 +kes Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases + a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This + fixes bug #1143. +13Aug08 +kes Add VSS 64 bit dll entry point in src/win32/filed/vss_generic.cpp + sent in by Riyas Yoosuf. +12Aug08 +kes Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value + given. This fixes bug #1140. +08Aug08 +kes Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated. + This closes bug #1129. +30Jul08 +kes Fix Win32 build. +kes Raise some restore debug levels. +kes Replace off_t by boffset_t where ever I found it. +28Jul08 +kes Define a machine dependent ioctl request type for use with + vtape_ioctl(). +26Jul08 +kes When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record + and skip if the job is already migrated. This should + significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129. +24Jul08 +kes Set MALLOC_CHECK_=0 in environment before starting Bacula to + turn off glibc checks that prevent getting good dumps. +kes Implement console 'wait mount' command. Doesn't yet work. +kes Implement timeout=nn on console 'wait mount timeout=nn' command. +kes Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and + do_load. It is much more logical that way. +kes Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for + reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being + zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. + This should fix bug #1126 -- During multiple tape restore, bacula + does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape +23Jul08 +kes Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification. + This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records. +kes Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124. + This fixes bug #1124. +kes Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118. +22Jul08 +kes Remove debug statement that crashes the SD at the end of + a tape during restore. Fixes bug #1125. +21Jul08 +kes Implement Win32 bat changes made to Branch-2.4 +20Jul08 +kes Tweak separator command in console to start disabled and + allow defining no separator character. Also make code a + bit more fault tolerant. +kes Make btraceback write the traceback to the working directory + before attempting to mail it. +kes Add a RFC to Projects. +18Jul08 +kes Attempt to implement a kludge to make Qt work with bat + on Win32. +kes Setup rstorage correctly. Virtual backups are working. +17Jul08 +kes Move setting JobLevel and JobType into a method, which should + allow completing Virtual Backups. +kes Fix verify jobs to work again. +16Jul08 +kes Virtual Backup tweaks -- it is close to working. +15Jul08 +kes Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger + at least once before asking for operator intervention. +kes Make SD aware of Virtual Backup jobs. +kes Add VirtualFull for bat. +kes Changes to get read storage correct for Virtual Backup. +14Jul08 +kes Remove old code from label.c +kes Split display_display_info() out of write_bsr_file() +kes do_vbackup_init() working -- i.e. bootstrap file built. +kes Change Bacula trademark owner from John Walker to Kern Sibbald +kes First non-working cut of vbackup +kes Correct FD heartbeat code to use volatile variable accessed by + two threads. +kes Zero thread id with memset if on Win32 in case it is a struct. +kes If cannot create JobMedia record, continue to try to write eof + and clean up in block.c +12Jul08 +kes Add code to interface OpenSSL to new Win32 pthreads code which + used a structure for thread_t. +09Jul08 +ebl tweak bat for win32 compilation +08Jul08 +ebl Remove tokyo cabinet from the source +ebl Update configure/autoconf to support berkeley DB +ebl Add a sort to db_get_file_list() to improve bsr construction time. +07Jul08 +kes Add a mtx-changer.conf file that is not overwritten during + an upgrade. It fully configures the mtx-changer script. +kes Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping. +06Jul08 +kes Remove sleep at end of ./bacula +kes Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects + a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually + would occasionally not be restored. +05Jul08 +kes Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return + a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so. +kes Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes + bug #1117. +kes Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This + fixes the failure of maxvol2-test. +04Jul08 +kes Add some SD debug code. +kes Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. +kes Apply Joao's DBI patch that adds easier configuration of DBI drivers, + and adds --with-db-port to ./configure. +kes Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback. +03Jul08 +kes Release main control rwlock if ABORTing. +kes Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending + directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread. +kes Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings. +kes Fix python compiler string warning. Note, IMO the GNU C++ + compiler guys have made a *very* bad change to their compiler. + They now force all strings to be 'const' unless you explicitly + cast them, which is extremely ugly and ruins nice code as well + as creates a lot of useless work. +02Jul08 +kes Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian) + mt. This fixes bug #1116. +kes Add const in python files to reduce compiler warnings. + This may have to be backed out because of later compiler + strict checking. +kes Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label; + clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read(). +27Jun08 +kes Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main + conceptual change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded, + its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded + when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape + is read on that drive. +25Jun08 +kes Add debug code and refactor subroutine in stored/mount.c +kes Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105. +ebl Fix get_next_volume_for_append logic with autochanger + - use pruned volumes if found + - don't reset the inchanger flag after getting a recycled volume + or a scratch one + Fix recycle_oldest_purged_volume to take InChanger flag in account +23Jun08 +ebl Add mmap/unmmap implementation for tokyodbm under win32 +22Jun08 +kes Make first step toward eliminating globals from config + scanning. Also should be a workaround for FORTIFY_SOURCE + GNU C bug -- fixes bug #1042. +21Jun08 +kes Apply duplicate job tests to restarted jobs. +kes Copy more data when restarting a job so that run + overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094. +20Jun08 +kes More word alignment cleanup. +kes Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not + be opened. Reported by Eric. +19Jun08 +kes Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user). +kes Add --with-db-password to ./configure +kes Fix regress to handle db_password. +ebl Add new "status storage slots" that list autochanger + content. +ebl Update vtape driver to compile only under Linux. +ebl Fix a bug when restoring with a wrong mediatype. +18Jun08 +kes Eliminate ints from conf files and structures to avoid + word alignment problems +17Jun08 +kes Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script + refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the + requirements of recent FHS location changes. +ebl Disable vtape for FreeBSD. +15Jun08 +ebl Modify disk-changer to check if slot contains something before + loading it. +14Jun08 +ebl Fix vtape on win32 and debian. +ebl Fix autoselect patch (cause segfault). +13Jun08 +ebl Fix autoselect option broken for a while. Fix #1089. Need some + work with StorageId to be able to use a particular drive in a + autochanger. +09Jun08 +ebl Rename vtape to vtape. +ebl Update vtape driver. 08Jun08 -ebl Modify faketape driver to avoid sparse file. +ebl Modify vtape driver to avoid sparse file. +kes Add make clean of qt-source directory during ./configure +kes Store last block number written to tape in DEVICE and + use it for testing for correct last block on EOT. Release Version 2.4.0: 04Jun08 @@ -103,7 +327,7 @@ kes Make sure we unload the right slot when swapping. 10May08 kes Add debug times, reduce size of two-pool-changer test 08May08 -ebl Tweak autoconf scripts for faketape +ebl Tweak autoconf scripts for vtape 07May08 kes Improve SD reserve debug code. kes Testing an improvement to free up volumes no longer in use. @@ -291,7 +515,7 @@ kes Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination 16Mar08 ebl Reduce memory usage for accurate backup, working only with ctime and mtime. (not all Lstat field) - About 40MB for my linux system (400.000 files) + About 40MB for my Linux system (400.000 files) 14Mar08 kes Add dcr->reserved_volume flag that allows us to release a volume even if it is not vol->released. This allows maxvol2 to work when