Priority:
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+- Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
+- How to sync remote offices.
+- Windows Bare Metal
+- Backup up windows system state
+- Complete Job restart
+- Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
- Implement rwlock() for SD that takes why and can_steal to replace
existing block/lock mechanism. rlock() would allow multiple readers
wlock would allow only one writer.
similar to what is permitted on the update slots command.
- Ensure that the SD re-reads the Media record if the JobFiles
does not match -- it may have been updated by another job.
-- Look at rsysnc for incremental updates and dedupping
- Add MD5 or SHA1 check in SD for data validation
- When reserving a device to read, check to see if the Volume
is already in use, if so wait. Probably will need to pass the
for non I/O reasons.
- Fix #ifdefing so that smartalloc can be disabled. Check manual
-- the default is enabled.
-- Change calling sequence to delete_job_id_range() in ua_cmds.c
- the preceding strtok() is done inside the subroutine only once.
- Dangling softlinks are not restored properly. For example, take a
soft link such as src/testprogs/install-sh, which points to /usr/share/autoconf...
move the directory to another machine where the file /usr/share/autoconf does
not exist, back it up, then try a full restore. It fails.
- Softlinks that point to non-existent file are not restored in restore all,
but are restored if the file is individually selected. BUG!
-- New directive "Delete purged Volumes"
- Prune by Job
- Prune by Job Level (Full, Differential, Incremental)
-- Strict automatic pruning
-- Use "./config no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5" on building OpenSSL for
- Win32 to avoid patent problems.
- modify pruning to keep a fixed number of versions of a file,
if requested.
- the cd-command should allow complete paths
rate = (bytes - last_bytes) / (runtime - last_runtime)
===
- Add a recursive mark command (rmark) to restore.
-- "Minimum Job Interval = nnn" sets minimum interval between Jobs
- of the same level and does not permit multiple simultaneous
- running of that Job (i.e. lets any previous invocation finish
- before doing Interval testing).
- Look at simplifying File exclusions.
- Scripts
- Separate Files and Directories in catalog
- Implement SDErrors (must return from SD)
- Implement continue spooling while despooling.
- Remove all install temp files in Win32 PLUGINSDIR.
-- Audit retention periods to make sure everything is 64 bit.
- No where in restore causes kaboom.
- Performance: multiple spool files for a single job.
- Performance: despool attributes when despooling data (problem
multiplexing Dir connection).
-- Make restore use the in-use volume reservation algorithm.
-- When Pool specifies Storage command override does not work.
- Implement wait_for_sysop() message display in wait_for_device(), which
now prints warnings too often.
- Ensure that each device in an Autochanger has a different
and possibly changing the blobs into varchar.
- Test Volume compatibility between machine architectures
- Encryption documentation
-- Bare-metal recovery Windows (todo)
Professional Needs:
- Migration from other vendors
- Path change
- Filesystem types
- Backup conf/exe (all daemons)
-- Backup up system state
- Detect state change of system (verify)
-- Synthetic Full, Diff, Inc (Virtual, Reconstructed)
- SD to SD
- Novell NSS backup http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html
- Compliance norms that compare restored code hash code.
-- When glibc crash, get address with
- info symbol 0x809780c
-- How to sync remote offices.
- David's priorities
Copypools
Extract capability (#25)
- Continued enhancement of bweb
Threshold triggered migration jobs (not currently in list, but will be
needed ASAP)
Client triggered backups
writing the daemon message, when Dir dropped to bacula:bacula
- Look at zlib 32 => 64 problems.
- Fix bextract to restore ACLs, or better yet, use common routines.
-- Do we migrate appendable Volumes?
-- Print warning message if LANG environment variable does not specify
- UTF-8.
- New dot commands from Arno.
.show device=xxx lists information from one storage device, including
devices (I'm not even sure that information exists in the DIR...)
http://www.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modules_-_LAN_Backup/Recovery
http://linuxwiki.de/Bacula (in German)
-- Possibly allow SD to spool even if a tape is not mounted.
- Figure out how to configure query.sql. Suggestion to use m4:
== changequote.m4 ===
changequote(`[',`]')dnl
in a Job Resource that after this certain job is run, the Volume State
should be set to "Volume State = Used", this give more flexibility (IMHO).
-6. Localization of Bacula Messages
-
- Why:
- Unfortunatley many,many people I work with don't speak english very well.
- So if at least the Reporting messages would be localized then they
- would understand that they have to change the tape,etc. etc.
-
- I volunteer to do the german translations, and if I can convince my wife also
- french and Morre (western african language).
-
7. OK, this is evil, probably bound to security risks and maybe not possible
due to the design of bacula.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Full_table.html ; I think the
"Installing and Configuring MySQL" chapter should talk a bit
about this potential problem, and recommend a solution.
-- For Solaris must use POSIX awk.
- Want speed of writing to tape while despooling.
- Supported autochanger:
OS: Linux
- Use only shell tools no make in CDROM package.
- Include within include does it work?
- Implement a Pool of type Cleaning?
-- Implement VolReadTime and VolWriteTime in SD
-- Modify Backing up Your Database to include a bootstrap file.
- Think about making certain database errors fatal.
- Look at correcting the time jump in the scheduler for daylight
savings time changes.
-- Add a "real" timer to network connections.
-- Promote to Full = Time period
- Check dates entered by user for correctness (month/day/... ranges)
- Compress restore Volume listing by date and first file.
- Look at patches/bacula_db.b2z postgresql that loops during restore.
See Gregory Wright.
- Perhaps add read/write programs and/or plugins to FileSets.
- How to handle backing up portables ...
-- Add some sort of guaranteed Interval for upgrading jobs.
-- Can we write the state file after every job terminates? On Win32
- the system crashes and the state file is not updated.
- Limit bandwidth
Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
block numbers in btape "test". Possibly adjust in Bacula.
- Fix list volumes to output volume retention in some other
units, perhaps via a directive.
-- Allow Simultaneous Priorities = yes => run up to Max concurrent jobs even
- with multiple priorities.
- If you use restore replace=never, the directory attributes for
non-existent directories will not be restored properly.
correctly for multiple simultaneous jobs.
- Implement the Media record flag that indicates that the Volume does disk
addressing.
-- Implement VolAddr, which is used when Volume is addressed like a disk,
- and form it from VolFile and VolBlock.
- Fix fast block rejection (stored/read_record.c:118). It passes a null
pointer (rec) to try_repositioning().
- Implement RestoreJobRetention? Maybe better "JobRetention" in a Job,
it's pushing toward heterogeneous systems capability
big things:
Macintosh file client
- macs are an interesting niche, but I fear a server is a rathole
working bare iron recovery for windows
the option for inc/diff backups not reset on fileset revision
a) use both change and inode update time against base time
an integration guide
or how to get at fancy things that one could do with bacula
logwatch code for bacula logs (or similar)
- linux distro inclusion of bacula (brings good and bad, but necessary)
- win2k/XP server capability (icky but you asked)
support for Oracle database ??
===
- Look at adding SQL server and Exchange support for Windows.
-- Create VolAddr for disk files in place of VolFile and VolBlock. This
- is needed to properly specify ranges.
- Add progress of files/bytes to SD and FD.
-- Print warning message if FileId > 4 billion
- do a "messages" before the first prompt in Console
- Client does not show busy during Estimate command.
- Implement Console mtx commands.
- Make things like list where a file is saved case independent for
Windows.
- Implement a Recycle command
-- Start working on Base jobs.
- From Phil Stracchino:
It would probably be a per-client option, and would be called
something like, say, "Automatically purge obsoleted jobs". What it
See afbackup.
- Need something that monitors the JCR queue and
times out jobs by asking the deamons where they are.
-- Enhance Jmsg code to permit buffering and saving to disk.
- Verify from Volume
- Need report class for messages. Perhaps
report resource where report=group of messages
with media robots, but are a pain for shops with manual media
mounting.
->
-> Base jobs sound pretty useful, but I'm not dying for them.
-
-Nobody is dying for them, but when you see what it does, you will die
-without it.
-
Regards,
Jerry Schieffer
==============================
Longer term to do:
-- Implement FSM (File System Modules).
- Audit M_ error codes to ensure they are correct and consistent.
- Add variable break characters to lex analyzer.
Either a bit mask or a string of chars so that
the same time -- e.g. onsite, offsite.
======================================================
+
+====
+ Handling removable disks
+
+ From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
+
+ My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
+ idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
+ things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
+ have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
+
+ 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
+ by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
+ 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
+ 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
+ up.
+ 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
+ for each backup.
+ 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
+ important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
+ better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
+ scattered in many subdirectories.
+====
+
+
+=== Done
+
+===
Base Jobs design
It is somewhat like a Full save becomes an incremental since
the Base job (or jobs) plus other non-base files.
This would avoid the need to explicitly fetch each File record for
the Base job. The Base Job record will be fetched to get the
VolSessionId and VolSessionTime.
-=========================================================
-
-====
- Handling removable disks
-
- From: Karl Cunningham <karlc@keckec.com>
-
- My backups are only to hard disk these days, in removable bays. This is my
- idea of how a backup to hard disk would work more smoothly. Some of these
- things Bacula does already, but I mention them for completeness. If others
- have better ways to do this, I'd like to hear about it.
-
- 1. Accommodate several disks, rotated similar to how tapes are. Identified
- by partition volume ID or perhaps by the name of a subdirectory.
- 2. Abort & notify the admin if the wrong disk is in the bay.
- 3. Write backups to different subdirectories for each machine to be backed
- up.
- 4. Volumes (files) get created as needed in the proper subdirectory, one
- for each backup.
- 5. When a disk is recycled, remove or zero all old backup files. This is
- important as the disk being recycled may be close to full. This may be
- better done manually since the backup files for many machines may be
- scattered in many subdirectories.
-====
-
-
-=== Done
-
-===
- Fix bpipe.c so that it does not modify results pointer.
***FIXME*** calling sequence should be changed.
- Fix restore of acls and extended attributes to count ERROR
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