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Major Changes:
-- This version has a new DIR <--> SD protocol. Both must be
- upgraded at the same time. Deamons are not compatible with
- prior versions. All FDs must be upgraded.
- There is a new database format that is not compatible
- with previous databases.
-- SQLite3 support, but it seems to run at 1/2 to 1/4 the speed of
- SQLite2.
+ with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting
+ from 1.36.x.
+- The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are
+ Deamons are not compatible with prior versions.
+ All FDs must be upgraded at the same time.
- Multiple drive autochanger support.
- Support for ANSI/IBM labels.
- New communications protocol between DIR and SD to reserve
records have been removed from the catalog.
- Restore of a directory (non-recursive, i.e. only one level).
- Support for TLS (ssl) between all the daemon connections thanks
- to Landon Fuller.
+ to Landon Fuller. wx-console and gnome-console are not yet
+ TLS enabled.
- Any Volume in the Pool named Scratch may be reassigned to any
other Pool when a new Volume is needed.
+- Seeking on disk Volumes during restore.
- You may clone a Job and thus write (almost) the same data
to multiple Volumes simultaneously (see below). Actually,
any Job may start any other Job with this mechanism, so it
backup exclusively opened files (thanks to Thorsten Engel).
- New manual format with an index (thanks to Karl Cunningham).
- New Web site format (thanks to Michael Scherer).
-- Seeking on disk Volumes during restore.
+- SQLite3 support, but it seems to run at 1/2 to 1/4 the speed of
+ SQLite2.
+- Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances,
+ is now included in the Bacula GUI release (yet to be fully
+ created).
New Directives:
- New Job directive "Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no" causes the