X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bacula%2Ftechnotes-2.5;h=93cd89bd92a6f0fde818645c1cbaad3f515f9cdb;hb=3c6ac292c48824b3aff97e60e80f735afc3801ec;hp=4accf9d0d31581aad6ad1279c42da21d5ffce6e2;hpb=ef71d5aceb8c424e6fdf1b67fd3f4d881a5a261e;p=bacula%2Fbacula diff --git a/bacula/technotes-2.5 b/bacula/technotes-2.5 index 4accf9d0d3..93cd89bd92 100644 --- a/bacula/technotes-2.5 +++ b/bacula/technotes-2.5 @@ -2,38 +2,259 @@ New features: -*Accurate files -*TLS authentication -*bextract Win32 data -*Run afterVSS -*Multiple command/console per runscript -*console command in runscript -*Bat API -Plugin API -*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 -*Improved status commands for Bat -*Spooling/despooling status -Implement ftruncate for NFS devices -Add long term statistics job table - (Use Statistics) -*vtape driver -*Ignore Dir -separator in console (!$%&'()*+,-/:;<>?[]^`{|}~) -Copy jobs - +command separator in console (!$%&'()*+,-/:;<>?[]^`{|}~) +examples/database/dbcheck.sql +enhancement to wait command: wait mount ... +dbport in dbcheck +filepattern (restore with regex in bsr) +mixed priorities General: +28Oct08 +kes Apply Joao's patch to SQLite tables to make chars work. +27Oct08 +ebl Fix #1175 About update slots that don't reset InChanger flag when + slot is empty. +ebl Fix #1173 where prune_volume() returns a volume from the scratch. +25Oct08 +kes Remove jobq.c constraint that read and write SD must be + different. This may lead to more deadlocks in the SD, + but they should be resolved there. +kes Ensure that job report is always printed even if job is failed + in the director. +kes Don't print job report twice for failed VBackup jobs. +24Oct08 +kes Fix editing of retention time difference to use 64 bit + int instead of 64 bit unsigned. This should permit very + long retention periods. +kes Implement code to prohibit a write job from appending to a + Volume that will be used for a read operation. This is + new code and could possibly cause some conflicts. +23Oct08 +kes Integrate James Harper's Exchange Win32 plugin patch. +kes Apply patch from Marco van Wieringen that implements the new + Solaris libsec interface for ACLs so that Bacula can save and + restore both the new ACLs and old ACLs. +kes Marco's patch also corrects the file dependency generation code + so that it works properly both with shared libraries and static + libraries. +kes Marco's patch also includes a small cleanup of the cats Makefile + to remove some references to non-existent files. +22Oct08 +kes Modify win32 Makefiles to use full paths in most cases. + In particular add MAINDIR environment variable that points + to the main Bacula source directory. +21Oct08 +kes Add read volume list code to SD -- not yet used. +kes Add James' binutils patch +kes Split volume management code out of src/stored/reserve.c into + a new file vol_mgr.c +kes Modify configure to do an automatic make clean. This ensures + that any changes to ./configure options are handled correctly. + +Beta version 2.5.16 release: +20Oct08 +ebl Rename JobStat table to JobHistory +kes Ensure that only normally terminated jobs are migrated. +19Oct08 +kes Add Makefile dependency when using LIBTOOL_LINK so that any + change in ./configure options will be accounted for. +18Oct08 +kes Fix typo in the ACL patch that I overlooked. +kes Apply Marco's libtool include patch. +17Oct08 +kes Apply Bastian Friedrich's ACL patch to eliminate ACL + errors during restore. +kes Minor cleanup of create_restore_volume_list() code. +kes Fix typo in console Makefile.in +16Oct08 +ebl Fix #1110 about RunScript that can't execute a script with + Unicode caracters in the path. +15Oct08 +kes Apply tray-monitor patch from Bastian Friedrich to make it + work with the new FD. +14Oct08 +kes Apply cleanup patch from Marco +kes Apply patch from Marco van Wieringen + that implements libtool to create shared objects out of + the Bacula libraries. +kes Fix tray-monitor so it will speak to new FD. +ebl Fix bug with ansi label when volume name length < 6 +ebl Fix segfault in debug level > 50 with btape. +ebl Remove warning message in btape when command is empty. +kes Fix Win32 build to pull in new BACULA define. +13Oct08 +kes Change IncludeDir to Exclude Dir Containing. +kes Implement code to prohibit ExcludeDirContaining in an + Exclude section (same for Plugin and Options). A bit + of a kludge with RES_ITEM2 ... +ebl Add field to command list to restrict Runscript console + command. +ebl Use a separate JCR when running Console command with Runscript. +ebl Permit to mark version as Beta in some ouputs +11Oct08 +kes Add plugin types in jcr.h to reduce need to cast. +kes Do better checking of plugin return values. +kes Free plugin context after calling pluginFree() as + requested by James. +kes Allow plugin to call JobMessage with NULL context. +kes Do not add plugin to global list if loadPlugin returns error. +kes Rework plugin.h a bit to reduce dependence on Bacula. +10Oct08 +kes Move generation of bsr file for Virtual Backup to run section + so that it is generated just before actually running. + Suggested by Graham Keeling. +09Oct08 +kes Add malloc and free Bacula entry points for plugins. Increment + FD plugin interface version. Create a bacula plugin context + structure to keep track of whether or not the plugin is disabled. +kes Apply FileIndex fix for plugin name stream suggested by James. +kes List plugins in FD status report when debug > 0. +08Oct08 +ebl Add a new VerId variable that is printed in version command. +kes Fix migration SQL not to migrate a job that has not terminated. + This is a partial fix to bug #1164. +kes Sort JobIds returned from db_accurate_get_jobids() to fix Virtual + backup start time bug reported by Graham Keeling. +08Oct08 +ebl Fix possible bug in cancel_job() with job that are not + yet created. +07Oct08 +kes Fix bat build for Win32. +06Oct08 +kes Copy plugin link field into ffpkt. +05Oct08 +kes Integrate patch from Kjetil Torgrim Homme + It provides FileRegex in bsr files and code to collect regex + from the user during restore, an Allow Mixed Priorities feature, + and documentation for the above. +ebl Remove db berkeley from configure process +kes Do dirty check on hostname (Linux only) and if not resolvable + use localhost as default. +kes Increase vtape max block to 20GB. +04Oct08 +kes Refactor restore code to create a close_previous_stream(). This + This may destabilize the source. +kes Implement planned startRestoreFile() plugin call. +ebl Remove missing Loaded information from status slots storage command. +ebl Fix Console command problem that cancels the job +kes Add more plugin restore debug code. +03Oct08 +kes Fix plugin_bwrite - plugin-blseek mixup pointed out by James. +kes Rewrite plugin restore interface a bit to correspond to how Bacula + creates and writes to the restored file. +kes Add some DebugMessage() calls to the bpipe-fd.c program. +30Sep08 +kes Apply Marco van Wieringen's set of patches, cleans up Migration/Copy + Implement 'Pool Uncopied Jobs', allow Solaris Compiler to build + Bat; allow add and delete in place of mark and unmark. +kes Another attempt to fix the endRestoreFile plugin bug noted below. +29Sep08 +kes Apply dbi driver patch from Joao. +kes Correct a bug in passing the context to the endRestoreFile() plugin command. + Bastien Friedrich reported the bug. +kes Create plugin instance only when FD job starts. +kes Add new FD plugin event: bEventCancelCommand when + a cancel command is issued to the FD. +28Sep08 +kes Add cmd_plugin flag to jcr so we can globally know if a + command plugin is running. +kes If command plugin running, do not attempt (for the moment) + to get Win32 extended attributes. +kes Ensure that proper Win32 flags are set in bfile packet + if plugin_bopen() works on Win32. +kes Remove generated src/plugins/fd/Makefile +27Sep08 +kes Implement build and install of bpipe-fd.so plugin. +kes Rework the interface that passes packets to the plugin + so that the packet is started and ended by the packet size. + This allows the driver to do a sanity check. +26Sep08 +kes Rework the pluginIO Bacula internal code to enable + proper handling of Win32 error codes from GetLastError. +kes Apply Joao's patch to regress startover_libdbi. +25Sep08 +ebl Add -B option to dbcheck to get catalog information +kes Fix Win32 build to include new library function. +kes Remove some old reader/writer code. +kes Implement ./configure --with-plugindir=xxx +ebl Fix the mysql bug in the new accurate code +kes Improve plugin debug. Create plugin test. +kes Set main thread specific data to INVALID because it + has no jcr. This allows debug output to work correctly. +kes Add src/plugins/fd/Makefile to ./configure process. +kes Make first cut attempt to correct SQL that computes the current + Pool usage. This is to fix bug #1159. +kes Do a bunch of plugin cleanups for Win32 and more careful checking + of PluginDirectory and whether or not a plugin was found. +24Sep08 +kes This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director + crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported + in bug #1162. +kes Add more plugin documentation and fix include of config.h for + Win32 build (I hope). +22Sep08 +ebl Revert to htable instead of rblist +ebl Cleanup accurate code (remove tcdbm parts) and use red/black + tree instead of htable. +ebl Use a dedicate DB link to compute and send the accurate list + file to the client. +21Sep08 +kes Fix compile errors in filed/fd_plugin.c. +20Sep08 +kes Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and + replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley. +18Sep08 +kes Apply dbcheck patch from Yuri Timofeev . + It significantly improves the performance of dbcheck for + MySQL. +kes Fix bad debug code call in src/filed/accurate.c +17Sep08 +kes Change two Jmsgs in accurate to Dmsg to reduce unnecessary + output. Perhaps we really need to implement M_SAVED. +16Sep08 +kes Fix bug #1156 FD crash during processing of Accurate data. +kes Tweaks to htable code to improved debugging and make names + a bit more meaningful. +15Sep08 +ebl Remove time_t from update_stats() +14Sep08 +kes Modify the license of the example plugin program to allow + it to be used by anyone for making a Bacula plugin. +kes Make apply_rp_codes() in bpipe-fd.c be static. +13Sep08 +kes Remove Encryption and Accurate lines in vbackup output -- not used. +kes Fix subtle bug in vbackup by not changing DEV_RECORD packet. +kes Add host name to items printed during dump. +kes Make Check File Changes default on. +11Sep08 +kes Set the default FD timeout to 3 minutes (previously 30). +kes Apply Bastian Friedrich's weird spelling correction patch. +10Sep08 +kes Always print Verify hash differences. Rename variable to make the + code slightly more readable. +09Sep08 +kes Correct tests for MaxFullInterval as reported by + Ulrich Leodolter .. +kes Fix MaxDiffInterval code as well. +kes Enable Win32 plugin load code in lib. +kes Make Verify code that computes disk checksums use the same + algorithm as backup when dealing with sparse files. +kes Attempt to run VSS on any systems newer than Vista -- should + make it work on Windows Server 2008. +ebl Change the new statistic implementation. Remove the UseStatistic + directive and add a 'update stats [days=...]' command. You can + now decide when copy job records from Job table to JobStat. + Statistics are much more accurate with this. +08Sep08 +kes Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog + in bug #1149. +kes First cut adding SD plugins. +03Sep08 +kes Add Slot if it is non-zero to writing bsr file after a + backup. +kes Change a number of bnet_fsend() into class method calls. +kes Begin audit of diff of 2.4 branch to trunk code. 01Sep08 ebl Fix the mysql creation script that double-created an index of the same field on the Media table. @@ -241,7 +462,7 @@ kes Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not 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 +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. @@ -430,7 +651,8 @@ kes Replace released flag in VOLRES with reserved and add access methods for the VOLRES class. kes Prevent volume from being released while being swapped. kes Apply Bastian Friedrich's edit codes patch for the bpipe-fd - plugin. + plugin that add %w (where) and %r (replace flag) editing to + the plugin line. kes Apply Bastial Friedrich's edit pool=%p patch for run clone jobs. kes Refactor parts of stored/mount.c