X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fmanuals%2Fen%2Fmain%2Fnewfeatures.tex;h=47303e0e502b9b06583a26534664a06bcb96528f;hb=8a859fbc0b2984108dfe56b6bdad1fe72bf10b02;hp=09aa4be5e27db066db2c71b71f6d5f5cc091d1ea;hpb=e18716ae53313ad9dd85ee7908833ece316f92ef;p=bacula%2Fdocs diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex b/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex index 09aa4be5..47303e0e 100644 --- a/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex +++ b/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex @@ -1,12 +1,46 @@ \chapter{New Features in 5.1.x} This chapter presents the new features that have been added to the current version of Bacula that is under development. This version will be -released at some later date, probably near the end of 2010. +released at some later date, probably near the end of April 2011. -\section{Purge Migration Job when Completed} +\section{Restart Incomplete Job} -A new directive may be added to the Migration Job definition in the Director -configuration file to purge the job migrated at the end of a migration. + +\medskip +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula +Enterprise Edition and Community Edition. + +\section{New Tray Monitor} + +Since the old integrated Windows tray monitor doesn't work anymore with +recent Windows versions, we have written a new Qt Tray Monitor that is available +for both Linux and Windows. This new version allows you to run Backup from +the tray monitor menu. + +\begin{figure}[htbp] + \centering + \includegraphics[width=10cm]{\idir tray-monitor} + \label{fig:traymonitor} + \caption{New tray monitor} +\end{figure} + +\begin{figure}[htbp] + \centering + \includegraphics[width=10cm]{\idir tray-monitor1} + \label{fig:traymonitor1} + \caption{Run a Job through the new tray monitor} +\end{figure} + +\medskip +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula +the Enterprise Edition and the Community Edition. + +\section{Purge Migration Job} + +The new {\bf Purge Migration Job} directive may be added to the Migration +Job definition in the Director's configuration file. When it is enabled +the Job that was migrated during a migration will be purged at +the end of the migration job. For example: \begin{verbatim} @@ -33,10 +67,11 @@ by Bacula Systems. \section{Job Bandwidth Limitation} -A new directive may be added to FileDaemon or Director to allow users to limit -the bandwidth used by a Job on a Client. It can be set for all Jobs globally, -per Directors in the File Daemon configuration, or per Job in the Director -configuration file. +The new {\bf Job Bandwidth Limitation} directive may be added to the File +daemon's and/or Director's configuration to limit the bandwidth used by a Job on a +Client. It can be set in the File daemon's conf file for all Jobs run +in that File daemon, or it can be set for each Job in the +Director's conf file. For example: \begin{verbatim} @@ -52,7 +87,7 @@ FileDaemon { The above example would cause any jobs running with the FileDaemon to not exceed 5MB/s of throughput when sending data to the Storage Daemon. -You can specify the speed parameter in k/s, kb/s, m/s, mb/s. +You can specify the speed parameter in k/s, KB/s, m/s, MB/s. For example: \begin{verbatim} @@ -66,25 +101,25 @@ Job { } \end{verbatim} -The above example would cause job \texttt{localhost-data} to not exceed 5MB/s -of throughput when sending data to the Storage Daemon. +The above example would cause Job \texttt{localhost-data} to not exceed 5MB/s +of throughput when sending data from the File daemon to the Storage daemon. -A new console commande \texttt{setbandwidth} permits to set dynamically the +A new console command \texttt{setbandwidth} permits to set dynamically the maximum throughput of a running Job or for future jobs of a Client. \begin{verbatim} * setbandwidth limit=1000000 jobid=10 \end{verbatim} -The \texttt{limit} parameter is in kb/s. +The \texttt{limit} parameter is in KB/s. \medskip -This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula -Enterprise Edition and Community Edition. +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available in +the Enterprise Edition and the Community Edition. \section{Support for MSSQL Block Level Backup} -This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with the Bacula Enterprise Edition. \section{Support for NDMP protocol} @@ -110,14 +145,14 @@ FileSet { } \end{verbatim} -This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula Enterprise -Edition. +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with the Bacula +Enterprise Edition. \section{Incremental/Differential Block Level Difference Backup} The new \texttt{delta} Plugin is able to compute and apply signature-based file -differences. It can be used to backup only changes in a big binary file like Outlook -PST, VirtualBox/VmWare images or database files. +differences. It can be used to backup only changes in a big binary file like +Outlook PST, VirtualBox/VmWare images or database files. It supports both Incremental and Differential backups and stores signatures database in the File Daemon working directory. This plugin is available on all @@ -140,8 +175,8 @@ FileSet { } \end{verbatim} -This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula Enterprise -Edition. +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with the Bacula +Enterprise Edition. \section{Include All Windows Drives in FileSet} @@ -171,14 +206,30 @@ FileSet { \end{verbatim} -This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula +This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with the Bacula Enterprise Edition. +\section{SQL Catalog Enhancements} + +% TODO: Marco can explain more things +Bacula uses a new catalog backend structure, it allows to build all SQL drivers +with the same \texttt{./configure ; make} session. + +We also added cursor support for PostgreSQL backend, this improves memory usage +for large installation. + \section{Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)} Bat has now a bRestore panel that uses Bvfs to display files and directories. It's still experimental. +\begin{figure}[htbp] + \centering + \includegraphics[width=12cm]{\idir bat-brestore} + \label{fig:batbrestore} + \caption{Bat Brestore Panel} +\end{figure} + \texttt{Important}, the Bvfs module is not currently compatible with BaseJobs, Copy and Migration jobs. @@ -246,8 +297,9 @@ You can run the cache update process in a RunScript after the catalog backup. \subsection*{Get all versions of a specific file} Bvfs allows you to find all versions of a specific file for a given Client with -the \texttt{.bvfs\_version} command. To avoid problems with encoding, this function -uses only PathId and FilenameId. The jobid argument is mandatory but unused. +the \texttt{.bvfs\_version} command. To avoid problems with encoding, this +function uses only PathId and FilenameId. The jobid argument is mandatory but +unused. \begin{verbatim} .bvfs_versions client=filedaemon pathid=num filenameid=num jobid=1 @@ -416,11 +468,11 @@ This project was funded by Bacula Systems and is available with Bacula Enterprise Edition and Community Edition. \section{Additions to RunScript variables} -You can have access to JobBytes and JobFiles using %b and %f in your runscript -command. +You can have access to JobBytes and JobFiles using \%b and \%f in your runscript +command. The Client address is now available through \%h. \begin{verbatim} -RunAfterJob = "/bin/echo Job=%j JobBytes=%b JobFiles=%f" +RunAfterJob = "/bin/echo Job=%j JobBytes=%b JobFiles=%f ClientAddress=%h" \end{verbatim} %\section{Changes in drivetype.exe} @@ -433,6 +485,12 @@ RunAfterJob = "/bin/echo Job=%j JobBytes=%b JobFiles=%f" %\end{verbatim} % +\section{ACL/Extended Attributes} + +We added support for NFSv4 ACLs on FreeBSD 8.1 and IRIX extended attributes. + +This project was funded by Marco van Wieringen. + \section{Additions to the Plugin API} The bfuncs structure has been extended to include a number of new entrypoints.