From 71ef519859c11db62a639cdf0b653dfe58adcd24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kern Sibbald Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:03:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Oops put back zapped news items --- docs/home-page/de/news.txt | 2671 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/home-page/en/news.txt | 2671 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/home-page/es/news.txt | 2671 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/home-page/fr/news.txt | 2671 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 10684 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/home-page/de/news.txt b/docs/home-page/de/news.txt index 8835a9c0..f720e99a 100644 --- a/docs/home-page/de/news.txt +++ b/docs/home-page/de/news.txt @@ -42,3 +42,2674 @@ Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1801 3322 3419 +;;;; +Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- +The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some +additions and performance improvements. + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the +important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly +the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the +SQL shared libraries. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.2.1: +----------------- + - Implement -t option for Bat + - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat + - Get new lib/plugins.h + - Pull new SD plugin files from Master + - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts + - Add Systemd configure options + - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325 + - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL + - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director + - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache. + - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval. + - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side + - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file. + - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs. + - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@ + - Fix bug #1774 + - Move batch insert detection into db.m4 + - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous + - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update + - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages + - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778 + - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter + - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek + - bvfs: add clear_cache function + - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy + +Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1 +----------------------- +1774 1778 3308 3325 + + +;;;; +Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- + +This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3. +It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors, +lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a +number of important new features: + +Version 5.2.0 +------------- +Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found +a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2 +is 5.2.1. + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Main New Features: +------------------ +- LZO Compression +- New Tray Monitor +- Purge Migration Job +- Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem) +- Changes in the Pruning Algorithm +- Ability to Verify any specified Job +- Additions to RunScript variables +- Additions to the Plugin API +- ACL enhancements +- XATTR enhancements +- Class Based Database Backend Drivers +- Hash List Enhancements + +Some of the above are described below; all the above are +described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the +manual. + +Closed Bugs since 5.0.3: +--------------------- +1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501 +1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549 +1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582 +1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624 +1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699 +1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710 + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + + The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to + restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable, + but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately + prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected. + +Building Bat: +------------- +To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other +version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on +your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10. + +Packaging the SQL backend: +-------------------------- +The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend +in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged +by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can +be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends +at the same time. + +- configure can be run with multiple database configure options. + --with-sqlite3 + --with-mysql + --with-postgresql + +Order of testing for database is +- postgresql +- mysql +- sqlite3 + +Each configured backend generates a libbaccats--.so +A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so + +At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default +backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-.so is replaced with +the default backend type. + +If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql +gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can +copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-.so e.g. + +cp libbaccats-postgresql-.so libbaccats-.so + +And update the default backend in the following files: + +create_bacula_database +drop_bacula_database +drop_bacula_tables +grant_bacula_privileges +make_bacula_tables +make_catalog_backup +update_bacula_tables + +New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater +----------------------------------------------- +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version +14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source (i.e. manually): +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + +================================================================ + +Changes: + +Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements: +- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option) +- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster +- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the + memory usage during restore and accurate backups. +- limit command in some list commands +- Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access +- Faster crc32 algorithm + +Security Enhancements: +- Additional security against injection of illegal characters +- Fix possible fnmatch problem + +Features Enhancements: +- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms: + AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 +- Tray monitor for Windows +- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog + backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent + of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the + libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend + to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL). +- Indent lsmark during restore +- Disable batch insert config item +- Director selection option in bconsole +- restorejob command in bconsole +- Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel +- The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not + work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality +- Improved hash table for hard links +- Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles) + and %h (Client Address) + +Other Enhancements: +- Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and + junction points. +- New database format +- Many new plugin API features +- Improved memory handling for restores +- Significant stability enhancements to bat +- xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning +- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed. + + +=========================================================================== +;;;; + +Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2. +It includes new code and some new features. +There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in + the 5.0.1 release section. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes and New Features: +- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously + it printed a warning message and continued. +- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts +- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins) + must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously + for the PLUGIN_LICENSE. +- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column. +- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if + it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes + typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes. + + +Bug fixes +1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610 + +- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3 +- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit +- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0 +- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0 +- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line +- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD. +- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump +- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610 +- Add archlinux to os.m4 +- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall +- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine +- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault +- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons +- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync +- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows +- Up maximum block size to 20M +- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599 +- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599 +- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin +- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg +- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition +- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both + catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir +- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open() + by moving and commenting out the ASSERT() +- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated +- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls +- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate +- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory +- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match +- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault +- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c +- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard + install dir +- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs +- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra +- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups +- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command +- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag +- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test +- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms +- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger +- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side +- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir +- Fix segfault when loading Plugins +- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore +- Added new bacula-libs package. +- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value +- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant + +See ChangeLog for more details. + +;;;; +Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET +Welcome to our new bacula.org server + +This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided +by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was +getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one, +and we are very pleased. + +;;;; +Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET +Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.0.1 +------------------- + +Bug fixes +1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560 + +- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553 +- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp +- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume +- Fix cancel crash bug #1551 +- Check if sql backend is thread-safe +- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541 +- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson +- Rewind on close to fix #1549 +- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536 +- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command +- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job +- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without + calling db_unlock. +- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache. +- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries +- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration +- Another fix for OpenSSLv1 +- Add -lrt to Solaris links +- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1 +- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs +- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James +- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement. +- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem +- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12 +- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet + +;;;; + +Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35 +Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge + +Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been +released to Source Forge (thanks Eric). + +This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been +rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the +release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by +one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior +clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one +machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File +daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine). + +Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have +changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save +your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula +uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be +serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are +not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space. + +If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release +notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this +release there is no database upgrade needed. + +Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over +the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be +releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon. + +Thanks for using Bacula :-) + +Best regards, + +Kern + +============= Performance Note ================== + +Some of you have encountered performance problems with your +database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is +mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore, +accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this +change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous +versions, on a well configured database it should run +extremely well. + +We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes. +In general, these will cause very significant performance +problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check +that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are +suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup +millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory +configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global +memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small +(sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those +parameters is extremely important to run fast. + +If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not +solve your problem, you can also consider switching to +PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big +installations (many millions of files per Job). However for +large installations, you will also need to adjust the default +PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters. + +========================================== + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount) + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly +reworked, and the default value has changed. See below. + +Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new +features section of the manual. + +When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration, +(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx +10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to +resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an +error message could be produced at each poll attempt. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Changes since 5.0.0 +------------------- +- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems + concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the + Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when + canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release. + If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing + a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away. + +Directives: +- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from + no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your + conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented + and was confusing. +- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features + section in the manual. +- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual. + +Bug fixes: +1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497 +1499 1501 1505 1509 1513 + +- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513. +- Fix three-pool regress bug +- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505 +- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out + docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi + constructor. +- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host +- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509 +- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o + #1476 +- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors +- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497 +- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499 +- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494 +- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448 +- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476 +- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c +- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0 +- Fix missing console page in bat +- Add bat help files to Window install +- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown +- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors +- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x +- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line +- Update the bsock error URL +- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl +- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl +- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field +- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS +- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver +- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version +- Remove file_index sequential check +- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message + +For Packagers: +1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty. +The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to +make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can +be found in /examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is +not installed by the Makefiles + +2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install +mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is +required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on +any update, any existing file should not be overwritten. + +3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt. +However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always +compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt +4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with +any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt +4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download +location, read the README file and follow the instructions. + +If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not +have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or +rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be +built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later, +this problem (bug) does not exist. + +depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with +you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you +build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but +rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat +(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will +use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong. + +4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any +special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for +example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure is strongly discouraged. +Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong +shared objects. + +5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a +single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or +PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full +recommendation is: + +#!/bin/sh +# Recommended configure script for Bacula +prefix=/opt/bacula +email=xxx@yyy.zz +CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ + ./configure \ + --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ + --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ + --docdir=${prefix}/html \ + --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ + --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ + --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ + --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ + --enable-smartalloc \ + --enable-tray-monitor \ + --enable-bat \ + --with-mysql \ + --with-dump-email=${email} \ + --with-job-email=${email} \ + --with-smtp-host=localhost \ + --with-baseport=9101 + +Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, +...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names +defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in +the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. + +If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document +describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please +send an email to the bacula-devel list. + +6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared +libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with +Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version. +So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future +versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch +updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on +whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this +new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between +different versions of the shared objects. + +7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console +routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult +to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release. +This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me +that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a +consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline +enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command +completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to +use readline or not as you please. + + +;;;; +Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00 +Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge + +Release Numbering: +----------------------------------------------------------- +You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to +5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for +several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing +the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version +and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided +that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always +be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always +be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x. +In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger +than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project +version is more advanced or has more features than the +Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version +is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010) +will be version 4.0.0. + +Warning: +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or +upgrade. + + +Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Bug fixes: +1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373 +1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450 +1454 1455 1458 1456 + +Fixed: + - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't + responding to the bsmtp program + - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes + - Fix various problems with the reload command + - Fix problems with conio + - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD + +Enhancements: + - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge + - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs + - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons + - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device + - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load + between drives + - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use + checksum verification for example. + - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP) + - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup + - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline + - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree + - Add new speed test to btape program + - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...) + - Windows version of Bat + - Added Spanish Bacula translation + - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands + - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write + to the same Pool + - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs + - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client) + - Many ACL improvements + - Level added to FD status Job entry + - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device + - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll + - Implement lock manager with bad order protection + +Compatibility: +As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version +of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines, +you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0 +Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon +as is reasonable for your situation. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version +12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. +================================================================ + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must +first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting +the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably +fail and you will need to manually find and run the +Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version. +This is because the file locations are different. If you want +to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before +uninstalling it. +================================================================ + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems, +we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to +access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish +to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features +section of the manual for how to set access control lists. +================================================================ + +Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers +(Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of +the manual for more details. + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems: + +1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many + of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there + are still some that need fixing. + +2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has + not yet been done. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== + + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;;; + + +Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00 +Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes + below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2. + +Changes since 3.0.2: +Bug fixes: + 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368, + 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382 + +Fixes: + Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes + Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori + Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem + Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows + Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing + when doing fixup_write_error ... + Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by + Nicolae Mihalache + Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288 + Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346 + Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning + Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359 + Use old code for selecting file during restore. + Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits + tweak space on projects file + Fix seg fault in ignoredir code + Apply Frank's slash patch + Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371 + 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch + Add more info when SD connection refused + 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch + Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query + 3.0.2-accurate.patch + Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS. + 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch + Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error. + 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch + Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks. + 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch + Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch + +Compatibility: + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +;;;; + +Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes +below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with +some enhancements (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.1: + +Bug fixes: + 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315 + 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335 + +Fixed: + - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays values + - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director + - Fix bugs in xattr code + - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql + - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job + +Enhancements: + - Security enhancement for the File Daemon + - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions + - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore. + This is project 31 in the projects file. + - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command + - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure + - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId. + This is project 2 in the projects file. + - Add new Nagios plugin + +Compatibility: +Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2 +Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemon. +;;;; + +Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with +one enhancement (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.0: +Bug fixes: + 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282. + +Fixed: +- Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code. +- Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format +- Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf +- Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring +- Updated projects file +- Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end + and keep fields order. + - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by: + Chandranshu + +Enhancement: +- Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the + drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not + be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating + tape deadlock situations. + +Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the +same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file +daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director +and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons. +In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older +Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula +releases). + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the +following areas: + +1. Missing documentation. +2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail. +3. Integration of the new features into the main documents. +4. Much more. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== +;;; + +Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30 +Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source +tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge +download location. + +There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it +requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully +(included below) and the documentation for the new features at: + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly +reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are +released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend). + +If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that +version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of +upgrading. + +This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released, +and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well +tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience +problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so +your help will be appreciated. + +The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them: + +1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that +we missed documenting some). + +2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it +has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters. + +3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job +while it is running. He is working on this. + +4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in +particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration, +copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for +writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool +for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found +a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during +certain pre-allocations of the write tape. + +5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a +bit of a rare case). + +As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code +stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix +updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4 +only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the +most current release ... + +This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many +contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or +contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big +release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions: + +Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on + same machine +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation +Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key +Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin + +Personal contributions: +Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file +Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul +Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support +Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects +Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements +Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver +Scott Barninger - rpm packaging +Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ... +Many people -- see the AUTHORS file. + +Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today. + +=== List of new features === +- Accurate Backup +- Copy Jobs +- ACL code overhaul +- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +- Extended Attribute support + --disable-xattr (default=auto) +- Shared Objects + --enable-libtool (default) + --disable-libtool +- Virtual Backup +- Catalog Format Enhancements + - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries + - New stats tables +- Duplicate Job Control +- TLS Authentication +- bextract non-portable Win32 data +- State File updated at Job Termination +- Bacula Plugins + - FD bpipe plugin + - FD Exchange plugin +- libdbi DB driver +- Console Enhancements + - status slots + - list joblog + - command separator +- Bootstrap regex +- Restore seek optimization +- Virtual Tape Emulation +- Bat Enhancements +- RunScript Enhancements +- Status enhancements +- FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes +- ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes +- FD Version compatibily flag +- Statistics Enhancements +- Faster Attribute despooling +- Document split into 6 manuals +- GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL +- Win64 File daemon +- Postmortum dump improvements in SD +- Deadlock mutex detection in SD +- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks. +- New configure install options + --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION) + --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files) + --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed) +- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb + New Directives: +- Max Full Interval +- Max Diff Interval +- Honor No Dump Flag +- Exclude Dirs Containing +- Recycle Pool +- Max Run Sched Time +- Max Wait Time +- Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time +- Scratch Pool +- Max Console Connections +- Spool Size (in Job resource) +- Allow Mixed Priorities +- Allow Duplicate Jobs +- Allow Higher Duplicates +- Cancel Queued Duplicates +- Cancel Running Duplicates +- TLS Authenticate +- Console (in RunScript) + +New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0 + also listed above: +Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files +Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) +Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director +Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool +Item 8: Implement Copy pools +Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements. +Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...) +Item 18: Better control over Job execution +Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file +contexts +Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for +Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes +Item n: Split documentation into several books +================================ + + + Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in) + +The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release +represents an enormous effort. + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any +release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version +11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table +from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily* +DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update, +so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million +files +catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to +backup it before executing the script. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40 +(e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + + +Important New configure options : +---------------------- + +This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default +to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than +being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that +the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object +directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory +where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible +to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure +line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary. + + ./configure --libdir= + +If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old +way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you +can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with: + + ./configure --disable-libtool + +During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install +bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files +are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --htmldir= + +During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the +ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar +files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --docdir= + +During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be +installed in the plugindir, which is by default the +same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate +location with: + + ./configure --with-plugindir= + +============================================================== + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;; +Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35 +Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released +We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be +orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on +what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs +from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could +be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes +available for normal operations. + +In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch, +which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download +area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN. +;;; + +Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am +Creation of Bacula Systems SA +Dear Members of the Bacula Community, + +I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to +provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be +pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest +open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide +range of Bacula users. + +As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first +public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally +written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the +many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and +contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today. +It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found +Bacula useful. + +Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering, +ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source +project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as +free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the +protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open +source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary +version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the +home for Bacula project development. + +So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests +from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service +and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge +transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief +Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A.. + +Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company. +The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping +Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to +those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula. +Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the +founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we +have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain +dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company +with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany +initially. We will open additional branches as business requires. + +I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula +community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which +will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to +customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula. +Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will +be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will +provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting, +training, documentation and certified binaries. + +Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community, +and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community +through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or +consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the +additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers +more effectively. + +Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high +value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing +Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed +service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners. + +The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged +in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists +and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and +Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and +new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website, +www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions +for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation +and certified binaries. + +All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at +www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about +our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new +company, Bacula Systems. + +Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community. + +Sincerely, + +Kern Sibbald +;;; + +Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am +Bacula version 2.4.3 Released +This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for +Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download +area. + +Release 2.4.3 + This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible + with other 2.4.x versions. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129 + +Change Summary: +- Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel + a non created job faster. +- This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly + respect the Migration Low Bytes directive. +- Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option +- 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. +- Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and + replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley. +- Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog + in bug #1149. +- Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell + this never caused a bug. +- Remove catalog dependency for bcopy +- Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration, + using default variables. + Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type() +- Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration + job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another. +- Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages. +- Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must + be switched. +- Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases + a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This + fixes bug #1143. +- Add space after version before date in bat about dialog. +- Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value + given. This fixes bug #1140. +- Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated. + This closes bug #1129. + +Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release +until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the +end of the year. +;;; + +Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.2 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + + This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126 + +Change Summary: +26Jul08 +- 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. +- Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and + do_load. It is much more logical that way. +- 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 +- Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification. + This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records. +- Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124. + This fixes bug #1124. +- Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118. +- Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape + during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be + in a release. +- Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections +- Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric. +- Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger + at least once before asking for operator intervention. +- Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only + version 2.5.x and above. +;;; + +Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.1 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112 + 1117, 1116, 1097. + +Change summary: +- Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping. +- Remove sleep at end of ./bacula +- Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects + a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually + would occasionally not be restored. +- Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return + a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so. +- Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes + bug #1117. +- Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This + fixes the failure of maxvol2-test. +- Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback. +- Release main control rwlock if ABORTing. +- Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending + directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread. +- Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has + older 'incorrect' headers. +- Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings. +- Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian) + mt. This fixes bug #1116. +- Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label; + clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read(). +- Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main + conceptial 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. +- Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug + #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as + reported in #1103. +- Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100. +- Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105. +- Copy more data when restarting a job so that run + overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094. +- Backport updates to jobq.c where possible. +- Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not + be opened. Reported by Eric. +- Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user). +- Add --with-db-password to ./configure +- Fix regress to handle db_password. +- Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings. +- Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't + have the requested MediaType. +- More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from + the configuration routines. +- 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. +- Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines + such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD. +- Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository. +;;; + + +Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.0 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the +Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only +contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients +(File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is +no database upgrade needed. + +===================================================== + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in) + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version +2.2.x to version 2.4.0 + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into +any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the +specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of +FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will +be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want +reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them +in your FileSet. +====================================================== + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +Bugs fixed: + 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038 + 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031 + +New features: +- You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use + --without-qwt as a ./configure option. + +Release Version 2.4.0 +- Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes. +- Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume. + This fixes bug #1095. +- Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should + fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro. +- Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug + #1086. +- Fix possible seg fault if SQL error. +- Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name. +- If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and + try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went + wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously + this error was fatal, now it produces an error message. +- Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore +- Fix a few more Coverity reported problems. +- Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command. +- Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race + conditions. +- Make sure device not busy before doing label command. +- Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too + many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070. +- Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any + reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the + directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as + with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be + backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files. + This fixes bug #1041. +- Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes). +- Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity. +- Implement --without-qwt +- Fix layout of restore tree dialog +- Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built + with or without the QWT libaries. +- Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume + from one drive to another. +- Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions. +- Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives. + This fixes bug #1083. +- Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from + the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially, + bug #1083. +- Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD. + This fixes bug #1078. +- Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a + warning rather than an error. +- Fix SQL query in migration code +- Fix bat seg fault at termination. +- Add Bacula generated version to bat about box. +- Backport development stream SD reservation system changes. +- When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger. +- Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the + same volume name twice in a row. +- Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make + the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically + handling the responsibilities. +- Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just + causes a seg fault in many cases. +- Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and + swapping volumes. +- Prevent volume from being released while being swapped. +- Refactor parts of stored/mount.c +- Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime +- Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime + and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066 +- Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c +- Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to + autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code. +- Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job. +- Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking + the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by + another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it. +- Correct some SD catalog request error messages. +- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD + when reading past an EOS_LABEL. +- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just + causes problems. +- Lock volumes when unreserving a device. +- Do not mark volume unused when recycling. +- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger. +- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when + running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo + for excellent analysis and testing. +- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9 + Mostly SD reservations enhancements. +- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination + of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038. +- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration. +- Implements autostart scripts for Debian +- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program. +- Apply doc fix from bug #1062. +- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore + GUI. Fixes bug #1065. +- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version. +- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should + fix bug #1046. +- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups() +- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem. +- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include + proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs. +- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links. +- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on + the ./configure line. +- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information + in job report. +;;;; + +Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas +of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release + +Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few + additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously + released: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030, + 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers, + and are difficult to reproduce. + See the ChangeLog for more details. + Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably + want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ... +;;; + + +Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30 +Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula-beta and +Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge + +Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers. +;;; + +Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30 +Bacula version 2.2.7 Released +Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge + +Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes + since version 2.2.6: +- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020 + 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file. +- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on + exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c +- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now + possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg. +- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical + bar, thanks to the above patch. +- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from + Nerijus Baliunas. +- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL + driver with version 8.3. +- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir +;;; +Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.6 Released +Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge. + +This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5, +and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can. + +Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5 +- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991, + 993, 986, 976. + - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director. + - Fix joblist failure bug in bat. +;;; +Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.5 Released +Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug +fixes represent quite a lot of work: + +Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4 +- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960, + 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954, + 957, 908, 958, and 955. +- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed + out by Chris Howells. +;;; +Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30 +A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed + +This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It +turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or +two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when +running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one +Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same +time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was +introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x. +If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the +Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under +the conditions noted above. + +The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just +this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch +to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also +uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may +also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly +#903. + +Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other +patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and +955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details. + +Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare. +However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30 +Bacula version 2.2.4 Released + +This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3. +It contains the following fixes: + +- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953. +- Possible fix for bug #908. +- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid + file to always be deleted. +- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property. + This fixes bug #950. +- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully + trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking. + Fixes bug #906. +- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This + should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices + are released as soon as possible. +- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not + have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point + in bug #942, but not the main problem. +- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes + by skipping |. Fixes bug #936. +- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using + TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU. +- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works + as expected. +- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions + and not memory usage. + +- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor + program. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30 +I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. + +Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are +missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we +have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this +kind of problem many times. + +Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following +characteristics: + +1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of +whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the +Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the +backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing +to the same volume. + +2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape. + +3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen +on tape backups. + +4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to +reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible +with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups. + +5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow +(e.g. doing Incremental backups). + +6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x. + +7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing, +perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons +were version 2.2.2. + +8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia) +records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during +the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the +previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below. + +9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple +simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous +Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark +Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large. + +10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be +affected by this bug. + +11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is +a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split +across tapes. + +12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is +a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across +disks Volumes. + +13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update +the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing +an updated Storage daemon. + +I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct +version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version +2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that +reproduced the problem. + +The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula +version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge. + +For the technical details of the bug, please see: + + http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge. + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in) + 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3 + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0. + +Areas requiring caution or testing: +- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded + to build with MySQL enabled. +- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause + your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions. +- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent + to what we do with sockets). +- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with + bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris. +- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'. + This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity + of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly. + The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h +- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please + test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse + points. +- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work. + +The major new features are: +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times), + many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin. +- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build + bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you + must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt + (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools + must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley. +- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files + thanks to Eric. +- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested). +- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces + swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent + implemented. +- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most + conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. +- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric. +- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. +- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' +- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, + during pruning, it is immediately discovered. +- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright + mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice. + +New ./configure options: +- --enable-bwx-console +- --enable-bat +- --with-qwt= +- --with-db-name= +- --with-db-user= +- --enable-batch-insert + +New bconsole commands: +- exec +- memory +- update recyclepool +- .sql +- .api +- .pwd (in restore tree) +- restoreclient (keyword) +- backupclient (keyword) +- regexwhere (keyword) +- update jobid (new command) +- recyclepool (keyword) + +New directives: +- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf) +- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage) +- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client) +- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool) +- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript) +- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) +- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) + +Other features or bug fixes: +- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907, + 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872 + 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859, + 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772, + 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791, + 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764, + 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743. +- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with + --with-qwt=. See Installation chapter of manual for details. +- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are + needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both + these packages in the distro. +- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead + of prepending. +- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the + Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount + directives are defined. +- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries. +- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor. + Use the command line or the Services panne. +- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool. +- More debug output in status storage. +- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some + critical columns were lost). +- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems, + which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which + should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly + (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but + concurrent jobs should run much faster. +- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of + the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers. +- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume, + pool and media type when a job is waiting. +- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers. +- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c +- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request) +- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request) +- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId +- Spooling implemented for migration jobs. +- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading | + in front of the configuration path/filename. +- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's + memory usage, and an in use buffer dump. +- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32 + filename restrictions. +- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug. +- Additional version information added to Job reports. +- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type. +- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there + is already a < in the target. +- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being + mounted by another job. +- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11 +- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted. +- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command. +- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape. +- Drop from root done before database is opened. +- Database user and name can be configured with: + --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user +- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script. +- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script. + This appears to have been an unreported bug. +- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust +- Better restricted console ACL checking. +- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that + users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection. +- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running + job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned). +- Sockets are no longer restored. +- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster. +- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite + large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries. +- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed. +- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to + which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies + the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is + not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client. +- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the + catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape + and DVD). + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge. +This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from +a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes +below. + +Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the +patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to +this version. + +5Mar07 +kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead + of jobids. Fixes bug #795. +kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to + crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789. +04Mar07 +kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting + tape alert info. +02Mar07 +kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to + modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection. +28Feb07 +kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command. +kes Correct typeo in var.c patch. +27Feb07 +kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job. +kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch) + in bug #791. +26Feb07 +kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra. +24Feb07 +ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas +22Feb07 +kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may + not be zeroed. +21Feb07 +kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other + than English. Fixes bug #788. +20Feb07 +ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x + This fixes bug #780 + You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more. + If you want to use this, you can apply + trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch +19Feb07 +kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula + no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to + set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user. +16Feb07 +kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files + to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix. +kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts. +kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782. +15Feb07 +kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code + causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent + all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final + despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This + allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network + after a backup. +13Feb07 +kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1. +11Feb07 +kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command. + Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database + was opened, it is closed. +10Feb07 +kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename, + and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This + idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right). +09Feb07 +kes Update projects list. +08Feb07 +kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the + console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug + #767. +kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated + at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This + fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs + to fail. +kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information + so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread. +07Feb07 + Switch to using Subversion +kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure +06Feb07 +kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c + plus the entrypoints. +kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print + in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as + part of bug #621, which was previously fixed. +05Feb07 +kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside + loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition. + Fixes bug #771. +kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted + with the header definition. Fixes bug #765. +ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive) +04Feb07 +kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the + problem is with read or append. +02Feb07 +kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c +kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released + memory -- reported by Jason Austin. +kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon + termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs + (i.e. migration jobs). +kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes + a memory leak problem. +kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist + in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures + to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists). +kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them + rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new + methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable + (hides some of the ugly casting). +26Jan07 (back port) +kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by + the SD. This is noted in more detail above. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.2 released: +28Jan08 +kes Fix maxruntime bug #621. +27Jan07 +kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake. +26Jan07 +ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project. +kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote. +kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission + so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761. +25Jan07 +kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO + to WARNING. +kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0 + which should restart an indefinite # of times. +kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for + other DIR specifications. +23Jan07 +rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build. + Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts. + Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath. +19Jan07 +kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755. +18Jan07 +kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full + backup. This should fix bug #755. +kes Add qt-console and first cut of code. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. +This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains +the following fixes: + +- Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html + instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750. +- Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should + fix bug #741. +- Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job. +- Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code. + This *should* fix bug #747. +- Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix + bug #742. +- Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string, + and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully + this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744. +- Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743. +- Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle + SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by + Sebastien Guilbaud. +- Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and + despooling as requested by Alan Brown. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en + +and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31 + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) + +==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required ===== +- The database format has been updated from what was used in + Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before + running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied + RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically. + Please backup your previous version of the database before + running the update. The update script will be automatically + installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in + /src/cats. It is called: + + ./update_bacula_tables + + It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to + a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not + require updating the database again. Depending on the size of + your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but + in general, it should be very fast. + +==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure ===== + For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special + needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of + automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula + directory mostly out of paranoia. + +==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ==== +- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it + should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is + no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to + incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up + on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times + previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console. +- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been + removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all + occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage + daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount. +- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man + directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and + mandir/man1 as appropriate. +- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director + and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript, + data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it. +- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded. +- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method + of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last + device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it + will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource + with the correct MediaType. +- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary + format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify + jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5 + difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by + default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using + the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more + more testing is still needed. +- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses + the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25 + kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works. + This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels. +- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please + be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options + with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot + be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption + carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup + with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified + and fixed it as follows: + As of 1.39.27: + No filters = Works fine + Sparse = Works fine + Compression = Works fine + Encryption = Works fine + Sparse + Compression = Works fine + + Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken + Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + + As of 1.39.28: + Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are + not properly restored. + + As of 1.39.30: + All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption. + + Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring + data to be sure it all works correctly. +- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from + the format written by previous versions. The two formats + are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will + be unreadable by version 1.39.22. +- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia + data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect + seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to + be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the + following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage + daemon conf file: + + Block Positioning = no + + This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid + this problem. +- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default. +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual. + +New Features in 2.0.0: +- Turn on disk seek code for restores. +- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula + messages for French. To install it, first configure and build + Bacula, then as root run: + + cd /po + make install + + If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated + messages. +- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new + Migration chapter in the manual + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html +- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in + a new chapter of the manual at: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html +- Additional support for removable devices. See the + Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount + Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html + Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the + same chapter. +- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32 + cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson, + then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the + cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but + also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added + all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on + drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ... +- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32. + This code is working but should still be tested carefully + before putting into production. +- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to + any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so, + the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks + to Thorsten Engel for this code. +- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now + eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using + Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths + in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including + the drive letter. +- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes + the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features + plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect + of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation. + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227 +- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher. +- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at + If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with + "list nextvol days=xx" + or + "status dir days=xx" + This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the + next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during + the weekend. +- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do: + wait (wait for all jobs to stop) + wait jobid=nn + wait jobuid=unique id + wait job=job-name +- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they + are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted. + Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2) +- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the + job report in the Log database table. +- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point + of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer. +- Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents + the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, + the job can be manually started from the console. +- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits + can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate + table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId. +- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in + the restore cd command. +- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling + will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric + Bollengier. +- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as + conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters + are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson. +- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable. +- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles + spaces in names better, ... +- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work. +- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect + any Catalog ACL. +- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in + the restore command. +- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf. + patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de +- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap. + from Eric Bollengier. +- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field + in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console. +- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric. + display data_len instead of data content (may be binary). +- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command. +- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/ +- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only + the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any + path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control + over where users can restore files. This is untested. +- Install man pages with 'make install'. +- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c +- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work +- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work. +- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb. +- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status + command now reports in KB, MB, ... units. +- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that + triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger +- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called + from File= was not found. +- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to + do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not + have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code. + Note, this may apply to other OSes as well. +- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that + creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by + Andrew J. Millar. +- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by + Christian Masopust. +- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they + appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore + listing where they could be "lost". +- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix + correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. + Bug # 506. +- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund. +- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One + list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other + lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). +- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This + should get Bacula into the correct groups. +- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive + and mount, unmount directives. +- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks + to a user submission. +- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed + in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount + devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to + changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the + device will be blocked. +- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places. +- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override + all other Storage specifications. +- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no. +- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes + from a database table for restore. +- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are + designed for user use in doing Volume Management software. +- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to + accept time qualifiers. +- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as + suggested by Eric Bollengier. +- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and + Job Level, only during JobInit event. +- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname + to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to + be the numeric (non-unique) job id. +- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only + one at a time). +- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from + Sebastian Stark +- Split the bacula start/start script into four files: + bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts + bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director + bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon + bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon +- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must + explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. +- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing + wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program. +- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. +- Apply patch from Christopher Hull + - Allow multiple connections to database with different + parameters. + - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg + fault, but still 60 second window. + - Additional info in Reschedule message. + - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of + cancel, error. + - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR. + - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN. + - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _. + - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32. + - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance). + - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32. + - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points. +- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard + routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by + author of bug #565. +- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher + Hull. +- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. +- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support. + O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without + updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which + happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also + prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but + only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup + programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both + categories). + You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting: + noatime = yes + The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except + it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime. +- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon. +- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs: + Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table + Delete MAC table + Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space) + Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record + Add Cost to Location table. + Enabled to Media table and Location table. +- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors + and forcing a 6 second wait. +- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags + -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti +- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to + eliminate the security problems associated with using the + system libraries print routines. +- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool + came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool, + it is all very complicated. +- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed + for restore. +- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this + class. +- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery + chapter of the manual +- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD. +- Add Comment field to llist of a volume. +- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives. +- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures, + and the LICENSE file has been updated. +- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource + Mail On Success directive. +- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job + report. +- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which + are printed in the Job report. + +Additional Features Added for Win32: +- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There + is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that + has the concept of drives. + +- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: yes and no. + + When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the + Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways. + + Patterns conform to Posix + \ is not a special character in character classification [] + To match a - it must be the first or last character + To match a ] it must be the first character + + fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a / + so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path + +- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match + against the filename portion. This in combination with the + FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile = + abc*.def work as expected. + +- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion. + + Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5. + + # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files" + +;;; diff --git a/docs/home-page/en/news.txt b/docs/home-page/en/news.txt index 8835a9c0..f720e99a 100644 --- a/docs/home-page/en/news.txt +++ b/docs/home-page/en/news.txt @@ -42,3 +42,2674 @@ Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1801 3322 3419 +;;;; +Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- +The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some +additions and performance improvements. + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the +important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly +the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the +SQL shared libraries. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.2.1: +----------------- + - Implement -t option for Bat + - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat + - Get new lib/plugins.h + - Pull new SD plugin files from Master + - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts + - Add Systemd configure options + - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325 + - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL + - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director + - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache. + - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval. + - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side + - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file. + - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs. + - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@ + - Fix bug #1774 + - Move batch insert detection into db.m4 + - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous + - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update + - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages + - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778 + - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter + - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek + - bvfs: add clear_cache function + - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy + +Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1 +----------------------- +1774 1778 3308 3325 + + +;;;; +Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- + +This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3. +It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors, +lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a +number of important new features: + +Version 5.2.0 +------------- +Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found +a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2 +is 5.2.1. + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Main New Features: +------------------ +- LZO Compression +- New Tray Monitor +- Purge Migration Job +- Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem) +- Changes in the Pruning Algorithm +- Ability to Verify any specified Job +- Additions to RunScript variables +- Additions to the Plugin API +- ACL enhancements +- XATTR enhancements +- Class Based Database Backend Drivers +- Hash List Enhancements + +Some of the above are described below; all the above are +described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the +manual. + +Closed Bugs since 5.0.3: +--------------------- +1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501 +1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549 +1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582 +1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624 +1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699 +1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710 + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + + The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to + restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable, + but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately + prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected. + +Building Bat: +------------- +To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other +version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on +your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10. + +Packaging the SQL backend: +-------------------------- +The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend +in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged +by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can +be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends +at the same time. + +- configure can be run with multiple database configure options. + --with-sqlite3 + --with-mysql + --with-postgresql + +Order of testing for database is +- postgresql +- mysql +- sqlite3 + +Each configured backend generates a libbaccats--.so +A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so + +At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default +backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-.so is replaced with +the default backend type. + +If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql +gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can +copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-.so e.g. + +cp libbaccats-postgresql-.so libbaccats-.so + +And update the default backend in the following files: + +create_bacula_database +drop_bacula_database +drop_bacula_tables +grant_bacula_privileges +make_bacula_tables +make_catalog_backup +update_bacula_tables + +New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater +----------------------------------------------- +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version +14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source (i.e. manually): +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + +================================================================ + +Changes: + +Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements: +- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option) +- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster +- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the + memory usage during restore and accurate backups. +- limit command in some list commands +- Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access +- Faster crc32 algorithm + +Security Enhancements: +- Additional security against injection of illegal characters +- Fix possible fnmatch problem + +Features Enhancements: +- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms: + AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 +- Tray monitor for Windows +- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog + backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent + of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the + libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend + to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL). +- Indent lsmark during restore +- Disable batch insert config item +- Director selection option in bconsole +- restorejob command in bconsole +- Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel +- The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not + work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality +- Improved hash table for hard links +- Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles) + and %h (Client Address) + +Other Enhancements: +- Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and + junction points. +- New database format +- Many new plugin API features +- Improved memory handling for restores +- Significant stability enhancements to bat +- xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning +- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed. + + +=========================================================================== +;;;; + +Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2. +It includes new code and some new features. +There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in + the 5.0.1 release section. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes and New Features: +- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously + it printed a warning message and continued. +- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts +- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins) + must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously + for the PLUGIN_LICENSE. +- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column. +- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if + it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes + typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes. + + +Bug fixes +1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610 + +- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3 +- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit +- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0 +- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0 +- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line +- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD. +- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump +- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610 +- Add archlinux to os.m4 +- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall +- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine +- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault +- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons +- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync +- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows +- Up maximum block size to 20M +- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599 +- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599 +- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin +- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg +- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition +- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both + catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir +- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open() + by moving and commenting out the ASSERT() +- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated +- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls +- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate +- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory +- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match +- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault +- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c +- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard + install dir +- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs +- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra +- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups +- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command +- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag +- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test +- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms +- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger +- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side +- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir +- Fix segfault when loading Plugins +- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore +- Added new bacula-libs package. +- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value +- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant + +See ChangeLog for more details. + +;;;; +Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET +Welcome to our new bacula.org server + +This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided +by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was +getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one, +and we are very pleased. + +;;;; +Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET +Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.0.1 +------------------- + +Bug fixes +1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560 + +- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553 +- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp +- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume +- Fix cancel crash bug #1551 +- Check if sql backend is thread-safe +- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541 +- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson +- Rewind on close to fix #1549 +- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536 +- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command +- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job +- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without + calling db_unlock. +- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache. +- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries +- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration +- Another fix for OpenSSLv1 +- Add -lrt to Solaris links +- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1 +- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs +- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James +- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement. +- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem +- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12 +- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet + +;;;; + +Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35 +Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge + +Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been +released to Source Forge (thanks Eric). + +This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been +rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the +release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by +one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior +clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one +machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File +daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine). + +Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have +changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save +your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula +uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be +serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are +not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space. + +If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release +notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this +release there is no database upgrade needed. + +Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over +the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be +releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon. + +Thanks for using Bacula :-) + +Best regards, + +Kern + +============= Performance Note ================== + +Some of you have encountered performance problems with your +database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is +mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore, +accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this +change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous +versions, on a well configured database it should run +extremely well. + +We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes. +In general, these will cause very significant performance +problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check +that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are +suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup +millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory +configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global +memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small +(sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those +parameters is extremely important to run fast. + +If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not +solve your problem, you can also consider switching to +PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big +installations (many millions of files per Job). However for +large installations, you will also need to adjust the default +PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters. + +========================================== + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount) + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly +reworked, and the default value has changed. See below. + +Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new +features section of the manual. + +When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration, +(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx +10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to +resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an +error message could be produced at each poll attempt. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Changes since 5.0.0 +------------------- +- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems + concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the + Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when + canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release. + If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing + a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away. + +Directives: +- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from + no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your + conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented + and was confusing. +- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features + section in the manual. +- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual. + +Bug fixes: +1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497 +1499 1501 1505 1509 1513 + +- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513. +- Fix three-pool regress bug +- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505 +- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out + docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi + constructor. +- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host +- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509 +- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o + #1476 +- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors +- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497 +- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499 +- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494 +- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448 +- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476 +- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c +- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0 +- Fix missing console page in bat +- Add bat help files to Window install +- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown +- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors +- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x +- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line +- Update the bsock error URL +- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl +- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl +- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field +- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS +- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver +- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version +- Remove file_index sequential check +- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message + +For Packagers: +1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty. +The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to +make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can +be found in /examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is +not installed by the Makefiles + +2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install +mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is +required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on +any update, any existing file should not be overwritten. + +3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt. +However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always +compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt +4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with +any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt +4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download +location, read the README file and follow the instructions. + +If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not +have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or +rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be +built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later, +this problem (bug) does not exist. + +depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with +you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you +build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but +rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat +(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will +use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong. + +4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any +special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for +example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure is strongly discouraged. +Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong +shared objects. + +5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a +single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or +PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full +recommendation is: + +#!/bin/sh +# Recommended configure script for Bacula +prefix=/opt/bacula +email=xxx@yyy.zz +CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ + ./configure \ + --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ + --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ + --docdir=${prefix}/html \ + --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ + --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ + --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ + --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ + --enable-smartalloc \ + --enable-tray-monitor \ + --enable-bat \ + --with-mysql \ + --with-dump-email=${email} \ + --with-job-email=${email} \ + --with-smtp-host=localhost \ + --with-baseport=9101 + +Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, +...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names +defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in +the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. + +If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document +describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please +send an email to the bacula-devel list. + +6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared +libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with +Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version. +So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future +versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch +updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on +whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this +new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between +different versions of the shared objects. + +7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console +routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult +to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release. +This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me +that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a +consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline +enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command +completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to +use readline or not as you please. + + +;;;; +Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00 +Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge + +Release Numbering: +----------------------------------------------------------- +You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to +5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for +several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing +the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version +and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided +that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always +be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always +be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x. +In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger +than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project +version is more advanced or has more features than the +Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version +is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010) +will be version 4.0.0. + +Warning: +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or +upgrade. + + +Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Bug fixes: +1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373 +1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450 +1454 1455 1458 1456 + +Fixed: + - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't + responding to the bsmtp program + - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes + - Fix various problems with the reload command + - Fix problems with conio + - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD + +Enhancements: + - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge + - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs + - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons + - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device + - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load + between drives + - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use + checksum verification for example. + - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP) + - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup + - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline + - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree + - Add new speed test to btape program + - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...) + - Windows version of Bat + - Added Spanish Bacula translation + - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands + - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write + to the same Pool + - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs + - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client) + - Many ACL improvements + - Level added to FD status Job entry + - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device + - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll + - Implement lock manager with bad order protection + +Compatibility: +As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version +of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines, +you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0 +Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon +as is reasonable for your situation. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version +12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. +================================================================ + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must +first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting +the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably +fail and you will need to manually find and run the +Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version. +This is because the file locations are different. If you want +to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before +uninstalling it. +================================================================ + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems, +we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to +access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish +to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features +section of the manual for how to set access control lists. +================================================================ + +Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers +(Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of +the manual for more details. + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems: + +1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many + of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there + are still some that need fixing. + +2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has + not yet been done. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== + + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;;; + + +Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00 +Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes + below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2. + +Changes since 3.0.2: +Bug fixes: + 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368, + 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382 + +Fixes: + Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes + Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori + Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem + Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows + Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing + when doing fixup_write_error ... + Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by + Nicolae Mihalache + Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288 + Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346 + Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning + Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359 + Use old code for selecting file during restore. + Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits + tweak space on projects file + Fix seg fault in ignoredir code + Apply Frank's slash patch + Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371 + 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch + Add more info when SD connection refused + 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch + Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query + 3.0.2-accurate.patch + Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS. + 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch + Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error. + 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch + Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks. + 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch + Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch + +Compatibility: + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +;;;; + +Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes +below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with +some enhancements (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.1: + +Bug fixes: + 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315 + 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335 + +Fixed: + - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays values + - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director + - Fix bugs in xattr code + - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql + - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job + +Enhancements: + - Security enhancement for the File Daemon + - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions + - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore. + This is project 31 in the projects file. + - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command + - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure + - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId. + This is project 2 in the projects file. + - Add new Nagios plugin + +Compatibility: +Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2 +Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemon. +;;;; + +Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with +one enhancement (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.0: +Bug fixes: + 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282. + +Fixed: +- Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code. +- Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format +- Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf +- Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring +- Updated projects file +- Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end + and keep fields order. + - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by: + Chandranshu + +Enhancement: +- Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the + drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not + be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating + tape deadlock situations. + +Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the +same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file +daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director +and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons. +In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older +Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula +releases). + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the +following areas: + +1. Missing documentation. +2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail. +3. Integration of the new features into the main documents. +4. Much more. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== +;;; + +Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30 +Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source +tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge +download location. + +There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it +requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully +(included below) and the documentation for the new features at: + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly +reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are +released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend). + +If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that +version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of +upgrading. + +This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released, +and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well +tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience +problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so +your help will be appreciated. + +The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them: + +1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that +we missed documenting some). + +2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it +has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters. + +3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job +while it is running. He is working on this. + +4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in +particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration, +copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for +writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool +for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found +a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during +certain pre-allocations of the write tape. + +5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a +bit of a rare case). + +As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code +stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix +updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4 +only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the +most current release ... + +This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many +contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or +contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big +release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions: + +Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on + same machine +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation +Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key +Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin + +Personal contributions: +Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file +Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul +Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support +Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects +Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements +Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver +Scott Barninger - rpm packaging +Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ... +Many people -- see the AUTHORS file. + +Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today. + +=== List of new features === +- Accurate Backup +- Copy Jobs +- ACL code overhaul +- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +- Extended Attribute support + --disable-xattr (default=auto) +- Shared Objects + --enable-libtool (default) + --disable-libtool +- Virtual Backup +- Catalog Format Enhancements + - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries + - New stats tables +- Duplicate Job Control +- TLS Authentication +- bextract non-portable Win32 data +- State File updated at Job Termination +- Bacula Plugins + - FD bpipe plugin + - FD Exchange plugin +- libdbi DB driver +- Console Enhancements + - status slots + - list joblog + - command separator +- Bootstrap regex +- Restore seek optimization +- Virtual Tape Emulation +- Bat Enhancements +- RunScript Enhancements +- Status enhancements +- FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes +- ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes +- FD Version compatibily flag +- Statistics Enhancements +- Faster Attribute despooling +- Document split into 6 manuals +- GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL +- Win64 File daemon +- Postmortum dump improvements in SD +- Deadlock mutex detection in SD +- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks. +- New configure install options + --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION) + --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files) + --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed) +- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb + New Directives: +- Max Full Interval +- Max Diff Interval +- Honor No Dump Flag +- Exclude Dirs Containing +- Recycle Pool +- Max Run Sched Time +- Max Wait Time +- Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time +- Scratch Pool +- Max Console Connections +- Spool Size (in Job resource) +- Allow Mixed Priorities +- Allow Duplicate Jobs +- Allow Higher Duplicates +- Cancel Queued Duplicates +- Cancel Running Duplicates +- TLS Authenticate +- Console (in RunScript) + +New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0 + also listed above: +Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files +Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) +Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director +Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool +Item 8: Implement Copy pools +Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements. +Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...) +Item 18: Better control over Job execution +Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file +contexts +Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for +Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes +Item n: Split documentation into several books +================================ + + + Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in) + +The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release +represents an enormous effort. + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any +release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version +11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table +from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily* +DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update, +so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million +files +catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to +backup it before executing the script. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40 +(e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + + +Important New configure options : +---------------------- + +This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default +to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than +being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that +the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object +directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory +where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible +to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure +line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary. + + ./configure --libdir= + +If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old +way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you +can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with: + + ./configure --disable-libtool + +During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install +bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files +are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --htmldir= + +During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the +ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar +files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --docdir= + +During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be +installed in the plugindir, which is by default the +same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate +location with: + + ./configure --with-plugindir= + +============================================================== + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;; +Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35 +Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released +We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be +orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on +what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs +from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could +be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes +available for normal operations. + +In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch, +which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download +area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN. +;;; + +Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am +Creation of Bacula Systems SA +Dear Members of the Bacula Community, + +I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to +provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be +pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest +open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide +range of Bacula users. + +As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first +public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally +written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the +many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and +contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today. +It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found +Bacula useful. + +Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering, +ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source +project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as +free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the +protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open +source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary +version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the +home for Bacula project development. + +So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests +from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service +and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge +transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief +Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A.. + +Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company. +The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping +Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to +those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula. +Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the +founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we +have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain +dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company +with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany +initially. We will open additional branches as business requires. + +I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula +community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which +will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to +customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula. +Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will +be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will +provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting, +training, documentation and certified binaries. + +Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community, +and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community +through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or +consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the +additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers +more effectively. + +Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high +value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing +Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed +service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners. + +The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged +in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists +and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and +Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and +new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website, +www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions +for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation +and certified binaries. + +All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at +www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about +our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new +company, Bacula Systems. + +Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community. + +Sincerely, + +Kern Sibbald +;;; + +Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am +Bacula version 2.4.3 Released +This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for +Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download +area. + +Release 2.4.3 + This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible + with other 2.4.x versions. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129 + +Change Summary: +- Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel + a non created job faster. +- This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly + respect the Migration Low Bytes directive. +- Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option +- 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. +- Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and + replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley. +- Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog + in bug #1149. +- Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell + this never caused a bug. +- Remove catalog dependency for bcopy +- Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration, + using default variables. + Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type() +- Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration + job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another. +- Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages. +- Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must + be switched. +- Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases + a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This + fixes bug #1143. +- Add space after version before date in bat about dialog. +- Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value + given. This fixes bug #1140. +- Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated. + This closes bug #1129. + +Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release +until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the +end of the year. +;;; + +Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.2 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + + This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126 + +Change Summary: +26Jul08 +- 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. +- Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and + do_load. It is much more logical that way. +- 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 +- Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification. + This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records. +- Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124. + This fixes bug #1124. +- Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118. +- Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape + during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be + in a release. +- Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections +- Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric. +- Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger + at least once before asking for operator intervention. +- Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only + version 2.5.x and above. +;;; + +Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.1 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112 + 1117, 1116, 1097. + +Change summary: +- Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping. +- Remove sleep at end of ./bacula +- Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects + a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually + would occasionally not be restored. +- Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return + a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so. +- Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes + bug #1117. +- Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This + fixes the failure of maxvol2-test. +- Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback. +- Release main control rwlock if ABORTing. +- Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending + directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread. +- Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has + older 'incorrect' headers. +- Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings. +- Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian) + mt. This fixes bug #1116. +- Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label; + clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read(). +- Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main + conceptial 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. +- Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug + #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as + reported in #1103. +- Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100. +- Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105. +- Copy more data when restarting a job so that run + overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094. +- Backport updates to jobq.c where possible. +- Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not + be opened. Reported by Eric. +- Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user). +- Add --with-db-password to ./configure +- Fix regress to handle db_password. +- Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings. +- Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't + have the requested MediaType. +- More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from + the configuration routines. +- 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. +- Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines + such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD. +- Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository. +;;; + + +Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.0 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the +Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only +contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients +(File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is +no database upgrade needed. + +===================================================== + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in) + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version +2.2.x to version 2.4.0 + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into +any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the +specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of +FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will +be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want +reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them +in your FileSet. +====================================================== + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +Bugs fixed: + 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038 + 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031 + +New features: +- You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use + --without-qwt as a ./configure option. + +Release Version 2.4.0 +- Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes. +- Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume. + This fixes bug #1095. +- Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should + fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro. +- Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug + #1086. +- Fix possible seg fault if SQL error. +- Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name. +- If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and + try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went + wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously + this error was fatal, now it produces an error message. +- Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore +- Fix a few more Coverity reported problems. +- Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command. +- Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race + conditions. +- Make sure device not busy before doing label command. +- Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too + many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070. +- Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any + reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the + directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as + with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be + backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files. + This fixes bug #1041. +- Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes). +- Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity. +- Implement --without-qwt +- Fix layout of restore tree dialog +- Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built + with or without the QWT libaries. +- Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume + from one drive to another. +- Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions. +- Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives. + This fixes bug #1083. +- Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from + the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially, + bug #1083. +- Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD. + This fixes bug #1078. +- Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a + warning rather than an error. +- Fix SQL query in migration code +- Fix bat seg fault at termination. +- Add Bacula generated version to bat about box. +- Backport development stream SD reservation system changes. +- When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger. +- Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the + same volume name twice in a row. +- Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make + the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically + handling the responsibilities. +- Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just + causes a seg fault in many cases. +- Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and + swapping volumes. +- Prevent volume from being released while being swapped. +- Refactor parts of stored/mount.c +- Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime +- Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime + and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066 +- Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c +- Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to + autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code. +- Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job. +- Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking + the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by + another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it. +- Correct some SD catalog request error messages. +- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD + when reading past an EOS_LABEL. +- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just + causes problems. +- Lock volumes when unreserving a device. +- Do not mark volume unused when recycling. +- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger. +- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when + running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo + for excellent analysis and testing. +- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9 + Mostly SD reservations enhancements. +- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination + of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038. +- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration. +- Implements autostart scripts for Debian +- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program. +- Apply doc fix from bug #1062. +- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore + GUI. Fixes bug #1065. +- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version. +- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should + fix bug #1046. +- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups() +- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem. +- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include + proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs. +- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links. +- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on + the ./configure line. +- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information + in job report. +;;;; + +Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas +of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release + +Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few + additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously + released: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030, + 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers, + and are difficult to reproduce. + See the ChangeLog for more details. + Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably + want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ... +;;; + + +Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30 +Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula-beta and +Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge + +Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers. +;;; + +Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30 +Bacula version 2.2.7 Released +Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge + +Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes + since version 2.2.6: +- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020 + 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file. +- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on + exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c +- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now + possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg. +- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical + bar, thanks to the above patch. +- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from + Nerijus Baliunas. +- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL + driver with version 8.3. +- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir +;;; +Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.6 Released +Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge. + +This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5, +and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can. + +Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5 +- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991, + 993, 986, 976. + - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director. + - Fix joblist failure bug in bat. +;;; +Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.5 Released +Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug +fixes represent quite a lot of work: + +Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4 +- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960, + 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954, + 957, 908, 958, and 955. +- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed + out by Chris Howells. +;;; +Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30 +A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed + +This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It +turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or +two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when +running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one +Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same +time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was +introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x. +If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the +Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under +the conditions noted above. + +The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just +this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch +to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also +uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may +also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly +#903. + +Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other +patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and +955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details. + +Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare. +However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30 +Bacula version 2.2.4 Released + +This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3. +It contains the following fixes: + +- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953. +- Possible fix for bug #908. +- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid + file to always be deleted. +- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property. + This fixes bug #950. +- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully + trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking. + Fixes bug #906. +- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This + should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices + are released as soon as possible. +- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not + have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point + in bug #942, but not the main problem. +- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes + by skipping |. Fixes bug #936. +- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using + TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU. +- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works + as expected. +- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions + and not memory usage. + +- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor + program. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30 +I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. + +Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are +missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we +have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this +kind of problem many times. + +Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following +characteristics: + +1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of +whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the +Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the +backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing +to the same volume. + +2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape. + +3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen +on tape backups. + +4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to +reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible +with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups. + +5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow +(e.g. doing Incremental backups). + +6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x. + +7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing, +perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons +were version 2.2.2. + +8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia) +records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during +the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the +previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below. + +9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple +simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous +Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark +Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large. + +10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be +affected by this bug. + +11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is +a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split +across tapes. + +12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is +a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across +disks Volumes. + +13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update +the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing +an updated Storage daemon. + +I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct +version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version +2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that +reproduced the problem. + +The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula +version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge. + +For the technical details of the bug, please see: + + http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge. + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in) + 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3 + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0. + +Areas requiring caution or testing: +- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded + to build with MySQL enabled. +- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause + your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions. +- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent + to what we do with sockets). +- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with + bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris. +- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'. + This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity + of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly. + The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h +- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please + test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse + points. +- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work. + +The major new features are: +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times), + many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin. +- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build + bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you + must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt + (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools + must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley. +- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files + thanks to Eric. +- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested). +- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces + swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent + implemented. +- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most + conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. +- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric. +- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. +- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' +- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, + during pruning, it is immediately discovered. +- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright + mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice. + +New ./configure options: +- --enable-bwx-console +- --enable-bat +- --with-qwt= +- --with-db-name= +- --with-db-user= +- --enable-batch-insert + +New bconsole commands: +- exec +- memory +- update recyclepool +- .sql +- .api +- .pwd (in restore tree) +- restoreclient (keyword) +- backupclient (keyword) +- regexwhere (keyword) +- update jobid (new command) +- recyclepool (keyword) + +New directives: +- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf) +- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage) +- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client) +- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool) +- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript) +- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) +- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) + +Other features or bug fixes: +- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907, + 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872 + 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859, + 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772, + 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791, + 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764, + 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743. +- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with + --with-qwt=. See Installation chapter of manual for details. +- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are + needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both + these packages in the distro. +- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead + of prepending. +- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the + Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount + directives are defined. +- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries. +- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor. + Use the command line or the Services panne. +- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool. +- More debug output in status storage. +- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some + critical columns were lost). +- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems, + which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which + should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly + (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but + concurrent jobs should run much faster. +- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of + the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers. +- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume, + pool and media type when a job is waiting. +- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers. +- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c +- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request) +- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request) +- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId +- Spooling implemented for migration jobs. +- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading | + in front of the configuration path/filename. +- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's + memory usage, and an in use buffer dump. +- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32 + filename restrictions. +- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug. +- Additional version information added to Job reports. +- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type. +- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there + is already a < in the target. +- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being + mounted by another job. +- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11 +- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted. +- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command. +- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape. +- Drop from root done before database is opened. +- Database user and name can be configured with: + --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user +- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script. +- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script. + This appears to have been an unreported bug. +- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust +- Better restricted console ACL checking. +- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that + users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection. +- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running + job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned). +- Sockets are no longer restored. +- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster. +- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite + large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries. +- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed. +- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to + which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies + the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is + not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client. +- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the + catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape + and DVD). + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge. +This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from +a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes +below. + +Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the +patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to +this version. + +5Mar07 +kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead + of jobids. Fixes bug #795. +kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to + crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789. +04Mar07 +kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting + tape alert info. +02Mar07 +kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to + modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection. +28Feb07 +kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command. +kes Correct typeo in var.c patch. +27Feb07 +kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job. +kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch) + in bug #791. +26Feb07 +kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra. +24Feb07 +ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas +22Feb07 +kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may + not be zeroed. +21Feb07 +kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other + than English. Fixes bug #788. +20Feb07 +ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x + This fixes bug #780 + You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more. + If you want to use this, you can apply + trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch +19Feb07 +kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula + no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to + set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user. +16Feb07 +kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files + to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix. +kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts. +kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782. +15Feb07 +kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code + causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent + all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final + despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This + allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network + after a backup. +13Feb07 +kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1. +11Feb07 +kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command. + Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database + was opened, it is closed. +10Feb07 +kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename, + and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This + idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right). +09Feb07 +kes Update projects list. +08Feb07 +kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the + console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug + #767. +kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated + at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This + fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs + to fail. +kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information + so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread. +07Feb07 + Switch to using Subversion +kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure +06Feb07 +kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c + plus the entrypoints. +kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print + in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as + part of bug #621, which was previously fixed. +05Feb07 +kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside + loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition. + Fixes bug #771. +kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted + with the header definition. Fixes bug #765. +ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive) +04Feb07 +kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the + problem is with read or append. +02Feb07 +kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c +kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released + memory -- reported by Jason Austin. +kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon + termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs + (i.e. migration jobs). +kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes + a memory leak problem. +kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist + in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures + to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists). +kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them + rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new + methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable + (hides some of the ugly casting). +26Jan07 (back port) +kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by + the SD. This is noted in more detail above. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.2 released: +28Jan08 +kes Fix maxruntime bug #621. +27Jan07 +kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake. +26Jan07 +ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project. +kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote. +kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission + so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761. +25Jan07 +kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO + to WARNING. +kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0 + which should restart an indefinite # of times. +kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for + other DIR specifications. +23Jan07 +rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build. + Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts. + Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath. +19Jan07 +kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755. +18Jan07 +kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full + backup. This should fix bug #755. +kes Add qt-console and first cut of code. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. +This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains +the following fixes: + +- Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html + instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750. +- Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should + fix bug #741. +- Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job. +- Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code. + This *should* fix bug #747. +- Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix + bug #742. +- Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string, + and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully + this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744. +- Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743. +- Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle + SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by + Sebastien Guilbaud. +- Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and + despooling as requested by Alan Brown. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en + +and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31 + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) + +==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required ===== +- The database format has been updated from what was used in + Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before + running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied + RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically. + Please backup your previous version of the database before + running the update. The update script will be automatically + installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in + /src/cats. It is called: + + ./update_bacula_tables + + It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to + a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not + require updating the database again. Depending on the size of + your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but + in general, it should be very fast. + +==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure ===== + For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special + needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of + automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula + directory mostly out of paranoia. + +==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ==== +- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it + should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is + no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to + incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up + on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times + previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console. +- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been + removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all + occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage + daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount. +- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man + directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and + mandir/man1 as appropriate. +- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director + and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript, + data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it. +- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded. +- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method + of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last + device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it + will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource + with the correct MediaType. +- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary + format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify + jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5 + difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by + default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using + the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more + more testing is still needed. +- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses + the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25 + kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works. + This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels. +- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please + be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options + with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot + be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption + carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup + with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified + and fixed it as follows: + As of 1.39.27: + No filters = Works fine + Sparse = Works fine + Compression = Works fine + Encryption = Works fine + Sparse + Compression = Works fine + + Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken + Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + + As of 1.39.28: + Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are + not properly restored. + + As of 1.39.30: + All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption. + + Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring + data to be sure it all works correctly. +- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from + the format written by previous versions. The two formats + are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will + be unreadable by version 1.39.22. +- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia + data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect + seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to + be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the + following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage + daemon conf file: + + Block Positioning = no + + This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid + this problem. +- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default. +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual. + +New Features in 2.0.0: +- Turn on disk seek code for restores. +- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula + messages for French. To install it, first configure and build + Bacula, then as root run: + + cd /po + make install + + If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated + messages. +- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new + Migration chapter in the manual + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html +- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in + a new chapter of the manual at: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html +- Additional support for removable devices. See the + Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount + Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html + Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the + same chapter. +- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32 + cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson, + then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the + cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but + also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added + all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on + drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ... +- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32. + This code is working but should still be tested carefully + before putting into production. +- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to + any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so, + the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks + to Thorsten Engel for this code. +- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now + eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using + Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths + in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including + the drive letter. +- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes + the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features + plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect + of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation. + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227 +- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher. +- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at + If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with + "list nextvol days=xx" + or + "status dir days=xx" + This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the + next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during + the weekend. +- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do: + wait (wait for all jobs to stop) + wait jobid=nn + wait jobuid=unique id + wait job=job-name +- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they + are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted. + Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2) +- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the + job report in the Log database table. +- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point + of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer. +- Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents + the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, + the job can be manually started from the console. +- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits + can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate + table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId. +- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in + the restore cd command. +- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling + will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric + Bollengier. +- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as + conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters + are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson. +- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable. +- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles + spaces in names better, ... +- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work. +- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect + any Catalog ACL. +- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in + the restore command. +- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf. + patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de +- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap. + from Eric Bollengier. +- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field + in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console. +- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric. + display data_len instead of data content (may be binary). +- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command. +- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/ +- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only + the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any + path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control + over where users can restore files. This is untested. +- Install man pages with 'make install'. +- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c +- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work +- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work. +- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb. +- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status + command now reports in KB, MB, ... units. +- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that + triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger +- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called + from File= was not found. +- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to + do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not + have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code. + Note, this may apply to other OSes as well. +- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that + creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by + Andrew J. Millar. +- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by + Christian Masopust. +- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they + appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore + listing where they could be "lost". +- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix + correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. + Bug # 506. +- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund. +- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One + list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other + lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). +- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This + should get Bacula into the correct groups. +- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive + and mount, unmount directives. +- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks + to a user submission. +- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed + in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount + devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to + changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the + device will be blocked. +- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places. +- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override + all other Storage specifications. +- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no. +- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes + from a database table for restore. +- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are + designed for user use in doing Volume Management software. +- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to + accept time qualifiers. +- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as + suggested by Eric Bollengier. +- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and + Job Level, only during JobInit event. +- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname + to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to + be the numeric (non-unique) job id. +- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only + one at a time). +- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from + Sebastian Stark +- Split the bacula start/start script into four files: + bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts + bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director + bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon + bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon +- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must + explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. +- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing + wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program. +- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. +- Apply patch from Christopher Hull + - Allow multiple connections to database with different + parameters. + - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg + fault, but still 60 second window. + - Additional info in Reschedule message. + - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of + cancel, error. + - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR. + - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN. + - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _. + - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32. + - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance). + - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32. + - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points. +- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard + routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by + author of bug #565. +- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher + Hull. +- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. +- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support. + O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without + updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which + happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also + prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but + only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup + programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both + categories). + You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting: + noatime = yes + The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except + it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime. +- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon. +- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs: + Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table + Delete MAC table + Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space) + Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record + Add Cost to Location table. + Enabled to Media table and Location table. +- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors + and forcing a 6 second wait. +- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags + -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti +- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to + eliminate the security problems associated with using the + system libraries print routines. +- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool + came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool, + it is all very complicated. +- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed + for restore. +- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this + class. +- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery + chapter of the manual +- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD. +- Add Comment field to llist of a volume. +- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives. +- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures, + and the LICENSE file has been updated. +- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource + Mail On Success directive. +- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job + report. +- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which + are printed in the Job report. + +Additional Features Added for Win32: +- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There + is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that + has the concept of drives. + +- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: yes and no. + + When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the + Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways. + + Patterns conform to Posix + \ is not a special character in character classification [] + To match a - it must be the first or last character + To match a ] it must be the first character + + fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a / + so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path + +- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match + against the filename portion. This in combination with the + FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile = + abc*.def work as expected. + +- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion. + + Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5. + + # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files" + +;;; diff --git a/docs/home-page/es/news.txt b/docs/home-page/es/news.txt index 8835a9c0..f720e99a 100644 --- a/docs/home-page/es/news.txt +++ b/docs/home-page/es/news.txt @@ -42,3 +42,2674 @@ Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1801 3322 3419 +;;;; +Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- +The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some +additions and performance improvements. + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the +important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly +the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the +SQL shared libraries. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.2.1: +----------------- + - Implement -t option for Bat + - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat + - Get new lib/plugins.h + - Pull new SD plugin files from Master + - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts + - Add Systemd configure options + - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325 + - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL + - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director + - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache. + - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval. + - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side + - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file. + - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs. + - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@ + - Fix bug #1774 + - Move batch insert detection into db.m4 + - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous + - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update + - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages + - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778 + - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter + - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek + - bvfs: add clear_cache function + - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy + +Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1 +----------------------- +1774 1778 3308 3325 + + +;;;; +Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- + +This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3. +It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors, +lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a +number of important new features: + +Version 5.2.0 +------------- +Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found +a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2 +is 5.2.1. + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Main New Features: +------------------ +- LZO Compression +- New Tray Monitor +- Purge Migration Job +- Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem) +- Changes in the Pruning Algorithm +- Ability to Verify any specified Job +- Additions to RunScript variables +- Additions to the Plugin API +- ACL enhancements +- XATTR enhancements +- Class Based Database Backend Drivers +- Hash List Enhancements + +Some of the above are described below; all the above are +described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the +manual. + +Closed Bugs since 5.0.3: +--------------------- +1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501 +1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549 +1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582 +1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624 +1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699 +1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710 + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + + The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to + restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable, + but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately + prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected. + +Building Bat: +------------- +To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other +version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on +your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10. + +Packaging the SQL backend: +-------------------------- +The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend +in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged +by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can +be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends +at the same time. + +- configure can be run with multiple database configure options. + --with-sqlite3 + --with-mysql + --with-postgresql + +Order of testing for database is +- postgresql +- mysql +- sqlite3 + +Each configured backend generates a libbaccats--.so +A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so + +At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default +backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-.so is replaced with +the default backend type. + +If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql +gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can +copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-.so e.g. + +cp libbaccats-postgresql-.so libbaccats-.so + +And update the default backend in the following files: + +create_bacula_database +drop_bacula_database +drop_bacula_tables +grant_bacula_privileges +make_bacula_tables +make_catalog_backup +update_bacula_tables + +New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater +----------------------------------------------- +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version +14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source (i.e. manually): +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + +================================================================ + +Changes: + +Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements: +- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option) +- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster +- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the + memory usage during restore and accurate backups. +- limit command in some list commands +- Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access +- Faster crc32 algorithm + +Security Enhancements: +- Additional security against injection of illegal characters +- Fix possible fnmatch problem + +Features Enhancements: +- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms: + AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 +- Tray monitor for Windows +- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog + backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent + of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the + libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend + to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL). +- Indent lsmark during restore +- Disable batch insert config item +- Director selection option in bconsole +- restorejob command in bconsole +- Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel +- The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not + work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality +- Improved hash table for hard links +- Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles) + and %h (Client Address) + +Other Enhancements: +- Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and + junction points. +- New database format +- Many new plugin API features +- Improved memory handling for restores +- Significant stability enhancements to bat +- xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning +- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed. + + +=========================================================================== +;;;; + +Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2. +It includes new code and some new features. +There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in + the 5.0.1 release section. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes and New Features: +- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously + it printed a warning message and continued. +- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts +- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins) + must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously + for the PLUGIN_LICENSE. +- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column. +- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if + it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes + typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes. + + +Bug fixes +1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610 + +- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3 +- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit +- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0 +- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0 +- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line +- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD. +- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump +- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610 +- Add archlinux to os.m4 +- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall +- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine +- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault +- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons +- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync +- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows +- Up maximum block size to 20M +- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599 +- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599 +- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin +- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg +- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition +- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both + catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir +- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open() + by moving and commenting out the ASSERT() +- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated +- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls +- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate +- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory +- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match +- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault +- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c +- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard + install dir +- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs +- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra +- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups +- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command +- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag +- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test +- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms +- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger +- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side +- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir +- Fix segfault when loading Plugins +- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore +- Added new bacula-libs package. +- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value +- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant + +See ChangeLog for more details. + +;;;; +Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET +Welcome to our new bacula.org server + +This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided +by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was +getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one, +and we are very pleased. + +;;;; +Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET +Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.0.1 +------------------- + +Bug fixes +1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560 + +- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553 +- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp +- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume +- Fix cancel crash bug #1551 +- Check if sql backend is thread-safe +- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541 +- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson +- Rewind on close to fix #1549 +- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536 +- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command +- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job +- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without + calling db_unlock. +- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache. +- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries +- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration +- Another fix for OpenSSLv1 +- Add -lrt to Solaris links +- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1 +- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs +- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James +- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement. +- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem +- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12 +- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet + +;;;; + +Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35 +Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge + +Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been +released to Source Forge (thanks Eric). + +This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been +rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the +release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by +one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior +clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one +machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File +daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine). + +Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have +changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save +your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula +uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be +serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are +not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space. + +If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release +notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this +release there is no database upgrade needed. + +Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over +the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be +releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon. + +Thanks for using Bacula :-) + +Best regards, + +Kern + +============= Performance Note ================== + +Some of you have encountered performance problems with your +database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is +mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore, +accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this +change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous +versions, on a well configured database it should run +extremely well. + +We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes. +In general, these will cause very significant performance +problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check +that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are +suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup +millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory +configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global +memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small +(sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those +parameters is extremely important to run fast. + +If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not +solve your problem, you can also consider switching to +PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big +installations (many millions of files per Job). However for +large installations, you will also need to adjust the default +PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters. + +========================================== + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount) + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly +reworked, and the default value has changed. See below. + +Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new +features section of the manual. + +When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration, +(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx +10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to +resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an +error message could be produced at each poll attempt. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Changes since 5.0.0 +------------------- +- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems + concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the + Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when + canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release. + If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing + a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away. + +Directives: +- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from + no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your + conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented + and was confusing. +- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features + section in the manual. +- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual. + +Bug fixes: +1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497 +1499 1501 1505 1509 1513 + +- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513. +- Fix three-pool regress bug +- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505 +- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out + docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi + constructor. +- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host +- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509 +- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o + #1476 +- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors +- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497 +- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499 +- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494 +- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448 +- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476 +- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c +- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0 +- Fix missing console page in bat +- Add bat help files to Window install +- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown +- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors +- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x +- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line +- Update the bsock error URL +- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl +- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl +- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field +- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS +- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver +- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version +- Remove file_index sequential check +- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message + +For Packagers: +1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty. +The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to +make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can +be found in /examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is +not installed by the Makefiles + +2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install +mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is +required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on +any update, any existing file should not be overwritten. + +3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt. +However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always +compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt +4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with +any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt +4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download +location, read the README file and follow the instructions. + +If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not +have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or +rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be +built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later, +this problem (bug) does not exist. + +depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with +you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you +build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but +rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat +(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will +use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong. + +4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any +special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for +example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure is strongly discouraged. +Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong +shared objects. + +5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a +single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or +PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full +recommendation is: + +#!/bin/sh +# Recommended configure script for Bacula +prefix=/opt/bacula +email=xxx@yyy.zz +CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ + ./configure \ + --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ + --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ + --docdir=${prefix}/html \ + --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ + --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ + --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ + --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ + --enable-smartalloc \ + --enable-tray-monitor \ + --enable-bat \ + --with-mysql \ + --with-dump-email=${email} \ + --with-job-email=${email} \ + --with-smtp-host=localhost \ + --with-baseport=9101 + +Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, +...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names +defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in +the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. + +If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document +describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please +send an email to the bacula-devel list. + +6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared +libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with +Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version. +So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future +versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch +updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on +whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this +new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between +different versions of the shared objects. + +7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console +routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult +to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release. +This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me +that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a +consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline +enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command +completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to +use readline or not as you please. + + +;;;; +Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00 +Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge + +Release Numbering: +----------------------------------------------------------- +You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to +5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for +several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing +the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version +and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided +that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always +be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always +be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x. +In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger +than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project +version is more advanced or has more features than the +Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version +is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010) +will be version 4.0.0. + +Warning: +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or +upgrade. + + +Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Bug fixes: +1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373 +1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450 +1454 1455 1458 1456 + +Fixed: + - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't + responding to the bsmtp program + - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes + - Fix various problems with the reload command + - Fix problems with conio + - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD + +Enhancements: + - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge + - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs + - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons + - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device + - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load + between drives + - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use + checksum verification for example. + - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP) + - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup + - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline + - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree + - Add new speed test to btape program + - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...) + - Windows version of Bat + - Added Spanish Bacula translation + - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands + - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write + to the same Pool + - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs + - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client) + - Many ACL improvements + - Level added to FD status Job entry + - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device + - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll + - Implement lock manager with bad order protection + +Compatibility: +As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version +of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines, +you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0 +Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon +as is reasonable for your situation. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version +12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. +================================================================ + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must +first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting +the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably +fail and you will need to manually find and run the +Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version. +This is because the file locations are different. If you want +to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before +uninstalling it. +================================================================ + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems, +we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to +access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish +to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features +section of the manual for how to set access control lists. +================================================================ + +Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers +(Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of +the manual for more details. + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems: + +1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many + of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there + are still some that need fixing. + +2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has + not yet been done. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== + + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;;; + + +Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00 +Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes + below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2. + +Changes since 3.0.2: +Bug fixes: + 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368, + 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382 + +Fixes: + Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes + Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori + Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem + Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows + Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing + when doing fixup_write_error ... + Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by + Nicolae Mihalache + Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288 + Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346 + Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning + Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359 + Use old code for selecting file during restore. + Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits + tweak space on projects file + Fix seg fault in ignoredir code + Apply Frank's slash patch + Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371 + 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch + Add more info when SD connection refused + 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch + Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query + 3.0.2-accurate.patch + Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS. + 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch + Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error. + 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch + Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks. + 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch + Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch + +Compatibility: + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +;;;; + +Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes +below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with +some enhancements (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.1: + +Bug fixes: + 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315 + 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335 + +Fixed: + - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays values + - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director + - Fix bugs in xattr code + - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql + - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job + +Enhancements: + - Security enhancement for the File Daemon + - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions + - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore. + This is project 31 in the projects file. + - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command + - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure + - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId. + This is project 2 in the projects file. + - Add new Nagios plugin + +Compatibility: +Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2 +Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemon. +;;;; + +Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with +one enhancement (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.0: +Bug fixes: + 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282. + +Fixed: +- Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code. +- Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format +- Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf +- Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring +- Updated projects file +- Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end + and keep fields order. + - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by: + Chandranshu + +Enhancement: +- Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the + drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not + be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating + tape deadlock situations. + +Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the +same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file +daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director +and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons. +In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older +Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula +releases). + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the +following areas: + +1. Missing documentation. +2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail. +3. Integration of the new features into the main documents. +4. Much more. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== +;;; + +Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30 +Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source +tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge +download location. + +There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it +requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully +(included below) and the documentation for the new features at: + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly +reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are +released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend). + +If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that +version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of +upgrading. + +This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released, +and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well +tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience +problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so +your help will be appreciated. + +The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them: + +1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that +we missed documenting some). + +2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it +has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters. + +3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job +while it is running. He is working on this. + +4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in +particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration, +copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for +writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool +for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found +a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during +certain pre-allocations of the write tape. + +5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a +bit of a rare case). + +As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code +stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix +updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4 +only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the +most current release ... + +This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many +contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or +contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big +release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions: + +Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on + same machine +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation +Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key +Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin + +Personal contributions: +Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file +Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul +Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support +Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects +Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements +Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver +Scott Barninger - rpm packaging +Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ... +Many people -- see the AUTHORS file. + +Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today. + +=== List of new features === +- Accurate Backup +- Copy Jobs +- ACL code overhaul +- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +- Extended Attribute support + --disable-xattr (default=auto) +- Shared Objects + --enable-libtool (default) + --disable-libtool +- Virtual Backup +- Catalog Format Enhancements + - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries + - New stats tables +- Duplicate Job Control +- TLS Authentication +- bextract non-portable Win32 data +- State File updated at Job Termination +- Bacula Plugins + - FD bpipe plugin + - FD Exchange plugin +- libdbi DB driver +- Console Enhancements + - status slots + - list joblog + - command separator +- Bootstrap regex +- Restore seek optimization +- Virtual Tape Emulation +- Bat Enhancements +- RunScript Enhancements +- Status enhancements +- FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes +- ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes +- FD Version compatibily flag +- Statistics Enhancements +- Faster Attribute despooling +- Document split into 6 manuals +- GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL +- Win64 File daemon +- Postmortum dump improvements in SD +- Deadlock mutex detection in SD +- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks. +- New configure install options + --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION) + --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files) + --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed) +- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb + New Directives: +- Max Full Interval +- Max Diff Interval +- Honor No Dump Flag +- Exclude Dirs Containing +- Recycle Pool +- Max Run Sched Time +- Max Wait Time +- Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time +- Scratch Pool +- Max Console Connections +- Spool Size (in Job resource) +- Allow Mixed Priorities +- Allow Duplicate Jobs +- Allow Higher Duplicates +- Cancel Queued Duplicates +- Cancel Running Duplicates +- TLS Authenticate +- Console (in RunScript) + +New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0 + also listed above: +Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files +Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) +Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director +Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool +Item 8: Implement Copy pools +Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements. +Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...) +Item 18: Better control over Job execution +Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file +contexts +Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for +Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes +Item n: Split documentation into several books +================================ + + + Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in) + +The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release +represents an enormous effort. + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any +release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version +11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table +from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily* +DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update, +so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million +files +catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to +backup it before executing the script. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40 +(e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + + +Important New configure options : +---------------------- + +This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default +to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than +being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that +the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object +directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory +where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible +to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure +line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary. + + ./configure --libdir= + +If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old +way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you +can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with: + + ./configure --disable-libtool + +During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install +bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files +are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --htmldir= + +During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the +ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar +files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --docdir= + +During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be +installed in the plugindir, which is by default the +same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate +location with: + + ./configure --with-plugindir= + +============================================================== + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;; +Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35 +Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released +We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be +orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on +what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs +from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could +be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes +available for normal operations. + +In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch, +which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download +area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN. +;;; + +Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am +Creation of Bacula Systems SA +Dear Members of the Bacula Community, + +I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to +provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be +pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest +open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide +range of Bacula users. + +As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first +public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally +written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the +many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and +contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today. +It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found +Bacula useful. + +Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering, +ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source +project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as +free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the +protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open +source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary +version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the +home for Bacula project development. + +So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests +from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service +and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge +transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief +Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A.. + +Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company. +The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping +Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to +those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula. +Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the +founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we +have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain +dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company +with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany +initially. We will open additional branches as business requires. + +I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula +community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which +will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to +customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula. +Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will +be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will +provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting, +training, documentation and certified binaries. + +Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community, +and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community +through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or +consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the +additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers +more effectively. + +Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high +value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing +Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed +service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners. + +The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged +in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists +and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and +Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and +new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website, +www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions +for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation +and certified binaries. + +All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at +www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about +our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new +company, Bacula Systems. + +Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community. + +Sincerely, + +Kern Sibbald +;;; + +Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am +Bacula version 2.4.3 Released +This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for +Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download +area. + +Release 2.4.3 + This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible + with other 2.4.x versions. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129 + +Change Summary: +- Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel + a non created job faster. +- This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly + respect the Migration Low Bytes directive. +- Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option +- 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. +- Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and + replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley. +- Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog + in bug #1149. +- Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell + this never caused a bug. +- Remove catalog dependency for bcopy +- Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration, + using default variables. + Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type() +- Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration + job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another. +- Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages. +- Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must + be switched. +- Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases + a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This + fixes bug #1143. +- Add space after version before date in bat about dialog. +- Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value + given. This fixes bug #1140. +- Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated. + This closes bug #1129. + +Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release +until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the +end of the year. +;;; + +Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.2 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + + This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126 + +Change Summary: +26Jul08 +- 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. +- Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and + do_load. It is much more logical that way. +- 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 +- Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification. + This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records. +- Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124. + This fixes bug #1124. +- Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118. +- Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape + during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be + in a release. +- Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections +- Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric. +- Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger + at least once before asking for operator intervention. +- Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only + version 2.5.x and above. +;;; + +Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.1 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112 + 1117, 1116, 1097. + +Change summary: +- Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping. +- Remove sleep at end of ./bacula +- Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects + a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually + would occasionally not be restored. +- Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return + a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so. +- Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes + bug #1117. +- Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This + fixes the failure of maxvol2-test. +- Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback. +- Release main control rwlock if ABORTing. +- Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending + directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread. +- Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has + older 'incorrect' headers. +- Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings. +- Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian) + mt. This fixes bug #1116. +- Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label; + clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read(). +- Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main + conceptial 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. +- Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug + #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as + reported in #1103. +- Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100. +- Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105. +- Copy more data when restarting a job so that run + overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094. +- Backport updates to jobq.c where possible. +- Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not + be opened. Reported by Eric. +- Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user). +- Add --with-db-password to ./configure +- Fix regress to handle db_password. +- Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings. +- Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't + have the requested MediaType. +- More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from + the configuration routines. +- 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. +- Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines + such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD. +- Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository. +;;; + + +Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.0 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the +Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only +contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients +(File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is +no database upgrade needed. + +===================================================== + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in) + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version +2.2.x to version 2.4.0 + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into +any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the +specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of +FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will +be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want +reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them +in your FileSet. +====================================================== + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +Bugs fixed: + 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038 + 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031 + +New features: +- You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use + --without-qwt as a ./configure option. + +Release Version 2.4.0 +- Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes. +- Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume. + This fixes bug #1095. +- Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should + fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro. +- Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug + #1086. +- Fix possible seg fault if SQL error. +- Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name. +- If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and + try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went + wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously + this error was fatal, now it produces an error message. +- Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore +- Fix a few more Coverity reported problems. +- Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command. +- Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race + conditions. +- Make sure device not busy before doing label command. +- Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too + many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070. +- Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any + reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the + directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as + with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be + backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files. + This fixes bug #1041. +- Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes). +- Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity. +- Implement --without-qwt +- Fix layout of restore tree dialog +- Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built + with or without the QWT libaries. +- Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume + from one drive to another. +- Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions. +- Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives. + This fixes bug #1083. +- Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from + the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially, + bug #1083. +- Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD. + This fixes bug #1078. +- Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a + warning rather than an error. +- Fix SQL query in migration code +- Fix bat seg fault at termination. +- Add Bacula generated version to bat about box. +- Backport development stream SD reservation system changes. +- When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger. +- Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the + same volume name twice in a row. +- Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make + the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically + handling the responsibilities. +- Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just + causes a seg fault in many cases. +- Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and + swapping volumes. +- Prevent volume from being released while being swapped. +- Refactor parts of stored/mount.c +- Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime +- Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime + and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066 +- Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c +- Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to + autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code. +- Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job. +- Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking + the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by + another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it. +- Correct some SD catalog request error messages. +- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD + when reading past an EOS_LABEL. +- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just + causes problems. +- Lock volumes when unreserving a device. +- Do not mark volume unused when recycling. +- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger. +- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when + running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo + for excellent analysis and testing. +- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9 + Mostly SD reservations enhancements. +- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination + of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038. +- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration. +- Implements autostart scripts for Debian +- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program. +- Apply doc fix from bug #1062. +- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore + GUI. Fixes bug #1065. +- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version. +- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should + fix bug #1046. +- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups() +- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem. +- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include + proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs. +- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links. +- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on + the ./configure line. +- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information + in job report. +;;;; + +Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas +of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release + +Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few + additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously + released: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030, + 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers, + and are difficult to reproduce. + See the ChangeLog for more details. + Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably + want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ... +;;; + + +Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30 +Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula-beta and +Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge + +Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers. +;;; + +Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30 +Bacula version 2.2.7 Released +Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge + +Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes + since version 2.2.6: +- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020 + 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file. +- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on + exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c +- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now + possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg. +- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical + bar, thanks to the above patch. +- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from + Nerijus Baliunas. +- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL + driver with version 8.3. +- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir +;;; +Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.6 Released +Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge. + +This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5, +and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can. + +Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5 +- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991, + 993, 986, 976. + - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director. + - Fix joblist failure bug in bat. +;;; +Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.5 Released +Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug +fixes represent quite a lot of work: + +Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4 +- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960, + 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954, + 957, 908, 958, and 955. +- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed + out by Chris Howells. +;;; +Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30 +A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed + +This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It +turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or +two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when +running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one +Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same +time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was +introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x. +If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the +Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under +the conditions noted above. + +The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just +this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch +to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also +uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may +also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly +#903. + +Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other +patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and +955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details. + +Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare. +However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30 +Bacula version 2.2.4 Released + +This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3. +It contains the following fixes: + +- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953. +- Possible fix for bug #908. +- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid + file to always be deleted. +- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property. + This fixes bug #950. +- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully + trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking. + Fixes bug #906. +- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This + should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices + are released as soon as possible. +- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not + have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point + in bug #942, but not the main problem. +- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes + by skipping |. Fixes bug #936. +- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using + TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU. +- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works + as expected. +- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions + and not memory usage. + +- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor + program. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30 +I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. + +Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are +missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we +have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this +kind of problem many times. + +Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following +characteristics: + +1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of +whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the +Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the +backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing +to the same volume. + +2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape. + +3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen +on tape backups. + +4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to +reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible +with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups. + +5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow +(e.g. doing Incremental backups). + +6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x. + +7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing, +perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons +were version 2.2.2. + +8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia) +records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during +the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the +previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below. + +9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple +simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous +Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark +Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large. + +10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be +affected by this bug. + +11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is +a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split +across tapes. + +12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is +a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across +disks Volumes. + +13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update +the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing +an updated Storage daemon. + +I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct +version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version +2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that +reproduced the problem. + +The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula +version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge. + +For the technical details of the bug, please see: + + http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge. + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in) + 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3 + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0. + +Areas requiring caution or testing: +- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded + to build with MySQL enabled. +- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause + your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions. +- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent + to what we do with sockets). +- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with + bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris. +- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'. + This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity + of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly. + The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h +- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please + test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse + points. +- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work. + +The major new features are: +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times), + many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin. +- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build + bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you + must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt + (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools + must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley. +- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files + thanks to Eric. +- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested). +- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces + swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent + implemented. +- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most + conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. +- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric. +- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. +- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' +- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, + during pruning, it is immediately discovered. +- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright + mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice. + +New ./configure options: +- --enable-bwx-console +- --enable-bat +- --with-qwt= +- --with-db-name= +- --with-db-user= +- --enable-batch-insert + +New bconsole commands: +- exec +- memory +- update recyclepool +- .sql +- .api +- .pwd (in restore tree) +- restoreclient (keyword) +- backupclient (keyword) +- regexwhere (keyword) +- update jobid (new command) +- recyclepool (keyword) + +New directives: +- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf) +- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage) +- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client) +- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool) +- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript) +- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) +- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) + +Other features or bug fixes: +- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907, + 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872 + 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859, + 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772, + 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791, + 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764, + 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743. +- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with + --with-qwt=. See Installation chapter of manual for details. +- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are + needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both + these packages in the distro. +- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead + of prepending. +- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the + Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount + directives are defined. +- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries. +- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor. + Use the command line or the Services panne. +- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool. +- More debug output in status storage. +- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some + critical columns were lost). +- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems, + which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which + should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly + (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but + concurrent jobs should run much faster. +- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of + the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers. +- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume, + pool and media type when a job is waiting. +- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers. +- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c +- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request) +- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request) +- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId +- Spooling implemented for migration jobs. +- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading | + in front of the configuration path/filename. +- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's + memory usage, and an in use buffer dump. +- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32 + filename restrictions. +- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug. +- Additional version information added to Job reports. +- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type. +- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there + is already a < in the target. +- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being + mounted by another job. +- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11 +- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted. +- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command. +- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape. +- Drop from root done before database is opened. +- Database user and name can be configured with: + --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user +- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script. +- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script. + This appears to have been an unreported bug. +- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust +- Better restricted console ACL checking. +- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that + users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection. +- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running + job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned). +- Sockets are no longer restored. +- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster. +- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite + large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries. +- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed. +- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to + which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies + the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is + not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client. +- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the + catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape + and DVD). + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge. +This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from +a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes +below. + +Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the +patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to +this version. + +5Mar07 +kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead + of jobids. Fixes bug #795. +kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to + crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789. +04Mar07 +kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting + tape alert info. +02Mar07 +kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to + modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection. +28Feb07 +kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command. +kes Correct typeo in var.c patch. +27Feb07 +kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job. +kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch) + in bug #791. +26Feb07 +kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra. +24Feb07 +ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas +22Feb07 +kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may + not be zeroed. +21Feb07 +kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other + than English. Fixes bug #788. +20Feb07 +ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x + This fixes bug #780 + You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more. + If you want to use this, you can apply + trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch +19Feb07 +kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula + no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to + set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user. +16Feb07 +kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files + to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix. +kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts. +kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782. +15Feb07 +kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code + causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent + all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final + despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This + allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network + after a backup. +13Feb07 +kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1. +11Feb07 +kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command. + Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database + was opened, it is closed. +10Feb07 +kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename, + and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This + idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right). +09Feb07 +kes Update projects list. +08Feb07 +kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the + console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug + #767. +kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated + at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This + fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs + to fail. +kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information + so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread. +07Feb07 + Switch to using Subversion +kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure +06Feb07 +kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c + plus the entrypoints. +kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print + in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as + part of bug #621, which was previously fixed. +05Feb07 +kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside + loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition. + Fixes bug #771. +kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted + with the header definition. Fixes bug #765. +ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive) +04Feb07 +kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the + problem is with read or append. +02Feb07 +kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c +kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released + memory -- reported by Jason Austin. +kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon + termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs + (i.e. migration jobs). +kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes + a memory leak problem. +kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist + in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures + to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists). +kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them + rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new + methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable + (hides some of the ugly casting). +26Jan07 (back port) +kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by + the SD. This is noted in more detail above. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.2 released: +28Jan08 +kes Fix maxruntime bug #621. +27Jan07 +kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake. +26Jan07 +ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project. +kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote. +kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission + so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761. +25Jan07 +kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO + to WARNING. +kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0 + which should restart an indefinite # of times. +kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for + other DIR specifications. +23Jan07 +rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build. + Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts. + Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath. +19Jan07 +kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755. +18Jan07 +kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full + backup. This should fix bug #755. +kes Add qt-console and first cut of code. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. +This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains +the following fixes: + +- Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html + instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750. +- Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should + fix bug #741. +- Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job. +- Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code. + This *should* fix bug #747. +- Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix + bug #742. +- Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string, + and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully + this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744. +- Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743. +- Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle + SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by + Sebastien Guilbaud. +- Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and + despooling as requested by Alan Brown. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en + +and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31 + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) + +==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required ===== +- The database format has been updated from what was used in + Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before + running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied + RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically. + Please backup your previous version of the database before + running the update. The update script will be automatically + installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in + /src/cats. It is called: + + ./update_bacula_tables + + It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to + a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not + require updating the database again. Depending on the size of + your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but + in general, it should be very fast. + +==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure ===== + For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special + needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of + automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula + directory mostly out of paranoia. + +==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ==== +- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it + should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is + no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to + incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up + on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times + previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console. +- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been + removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all + occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage + daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount. +- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man + directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and + mandir/man1 as appropriate. +- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director + and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript, + data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it. +- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded. +- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method + of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last + device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it + will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource + with the correct MediaType. +- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary + format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify + jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5 + difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by + default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using + the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more + more testing is still needed. +- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses + the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25 + kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works. + This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels. +- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please + be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options + with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot + be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption + carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup + with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified + and fixed it as follows: + As of 1.39.27: + No filters = Works fine + Sparse = Works fine + Compression = Works fine + Encryption = Works fine + Sparse + Compression = Works fine + + Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken + Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + + As of 1.39.28: + Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are + not properly restored. + + As of 1.39.30: + All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption. + + Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring + data to be sure it all works correctly. +- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from + the format written by previous versions. The two formats + are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will + be unreadable by version 1.39.22. +- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia + data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect + seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to + be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the + following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage + daemon conf file: + + Block Positioning = no + + This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid + this problem. +- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default. +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual. + +New Features in 2.0.0: +- Turn on disk seek code for restores. +- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula + messages for French. To install it, first configure and build + Bacula, then as root run: + + cd /po + make install + + If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated + messages. +- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new + Migration chapter in the manual + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html +- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in + a new chapter of the manual at: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html +- Additional support for removable devices. See the + Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount + Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html + Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the + same chapter. +- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32 + cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson, + then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the + cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but + also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added + all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on + drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ... +- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32. + This code is working but should still be tested carefully + before putting into production. +- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to + any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so, + the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks + to Thorsten Engel for this code. +- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now + eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using + Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths + in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including + the drive letter. +- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes + the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features + plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect + of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation. + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227 +- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher. +- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at + If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with + "list nextvol days=xx" + or + "status dir days=xx" + This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the + next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during + the weekend. +- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do: + wait (wait for all jobs to stop) + wait jobid=nn + wait jobuid=unique id + wait job=job-name +- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they + are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted. + Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2) +- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the + job report in the Log database table. +- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point + of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer. +- Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents + the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, + the job can be manually started from the console. +- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits + can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate + table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId. +- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in + the restore cd command. +- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling + will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric + Bollengier. +- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as + conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters + are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson. +- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable. +- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles + spaces in names better, ... +- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work. +- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect + any Catalog ACL. +- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in + the restore command. +- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf. + patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de +- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap. + from Eric Bollengier. +- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field + in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console. +- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric. + display data_len instead of data content (may be binary). +- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command. +- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/ +- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only + the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any + path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control + over where users can restore files. This is untested. +- Install man pages with 'make install'. +- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c +- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work +- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work. +- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb. +- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status + command now reports in KB, MB, ... units. +- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that + triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger +- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called + from File= was not found. +- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to + do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not + have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code. + Note, this may apply to other OSes as well. +- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that + creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by + Andrew J. Millar. +- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by + Christian Masopust. +- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they + appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore + listing where they could be "lost". +- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix + correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. + Bug # 506. +- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund. +- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One + list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other + lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). +- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This + should get Bacula into the correct groups. +- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive + and mount, unmount directives. +- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks + to a user submission. +- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed + in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount + devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to + changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the + device will be blocked. +- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places. +- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override + all other Storage specifications. +- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no. +- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes + from a database table for restore. +- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are + designed for user use in doing Volume Management software. +- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to + accept time qualifiers. +- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as + suggested by Eric Bollengier. +- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and + Job Level, only during JobInit event. +- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname + to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to + be the numeric (non-unique) job id. +- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only + one at a time). +- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from + Sebastian Stark +- Split the bacula start/start script into four files: + bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts + bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director + bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon + bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon +- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must + explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. +- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing + wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program. +- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. +- Apply patch from Christopher Hull + - Allow multiple connections to database with different + parameters. + - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg + fault, but still 60 second window. + - Additional info in Reschedule message. + - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of + cancel, error. + - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR. + - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN. + - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _. + - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32. + - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance). + - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32. + - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points. +- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard + routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by + author of bug #565. +- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher + Hull. +- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. +- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support. + O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without + updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which + happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also + prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but + only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup + programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both + categories). + You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting: + noatime = yes + The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except + it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime. +- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon. +- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs: + Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table + Delete MAC table + Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space) + Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record + Add Cost to Location table. + Enabled to Media table and Location table. +- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors + and forcing a 6 second wait. +- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags + -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti +- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to + eliminate the security problems associated with using the + system libraries print routines. +- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool + came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool, + it is all very complicated. +- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed + for restore. +- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this + class. +- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery + chapter of the manual +- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD. +- Add Comment field to llist of a volume. +- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives. +- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures, + and the LICENSE file has been updated. +- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource + Mail On Success directive. +- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job + report. +- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which + are printed in the Job report. + +Additional Features Added for Win32: +- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There + is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that + has the concept of drives. + +- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: yes and no. + + When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the + Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways. + + Patterns conform to Posix + \ is not a special character in character classification [] + To match a - it must be the first or last character + To match a ] it must be the first character + + fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a / + so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path + +- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match + against the filename portion. This in combination with the + FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile = + abc*.def work as expected. + +- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion. + + Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5. + + # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files" + +;;; diff --git a/docs/home-page/fr/news.txt b/docs/home-page/fr/news.txt index 8835a9c0..f720e99a 100644 --- a/docs/home-page/fr/news.txt +++ b/docs/home-page/fr/news.txt @@ -42,3 +42,2674 @@ Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1801 3322 3419 +;;;; +Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- +The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some +additions and performance improvements. + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the +important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly +the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the +SQL shared libraries. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.2.1: +----------------- + - Implement -t option for Bat + - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat + - Get new lib/plugins.h + - Pull new SD plugin files from Master + - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts + - Add Systemd configure options + - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325 + - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL + - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director + - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache. + - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval. + - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side + - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file. + - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs. + - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@ + - Fix bug #1774 + - Move batch insert detection into db.m4 + - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous + - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update + - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages + - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778 + - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter + - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek + - bvfs: add clear_cache function + - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy + +Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1 +----------------------- +1774 1778 3308 3325 + + +;;;; +Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) + +General: +-------- + +This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3. +It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors, +lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a +number of important new features: + +Version 5.2.0 +------------- +Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found +a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2 +is 5.2.1. + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Main New Features: +------------------ +- LZO Compression +- New Tray Monitor +- Purge Migration Job +- Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem) +- Changes in the Pruning Algorithm +- Ability to Verify any specified Job +- Additions to RunScript variables +- Additions to the Plugin API +- ACL enhancements +- XATTR enhancements +- Class Based Database Backend Drivers +- Hash List Enhancements + +Some of the above are described below; all the above are +described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the +manual. + +Closed Bugs since 5.0.3: +--------------------- +1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501 +1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549 +1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582 +1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624 +1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699 +1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710 + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + + The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to + restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable, + but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately + prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected. + +Building Bat: +------------- +To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other +version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on +your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10. + +Packaging the SQL backend: +-------------------------- +The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend +in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged +by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can +be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends +at the same time. + +- configure can be run with multiple database configure options. + --with-sqlite3 + --with-mysql + --with-postgresql + +Order of testing for database is +- postgresql +- mysql +- sqlite3 + +Each configured backend generates a libbaccats--.so +A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so + +At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default +backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-.so is replaced with +the default backend type. + +If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql +gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can +copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-.so e.g. + +cp libbaccats-postgresql-.so libbaccats-.so + +And update the default backend in the following files: + +create_bacula_database +drop_bacula_database +drop_bacula_tables +grant_bacula_privileges +make_bacula_tables +make_catalog_backup +update_bacula_tables + +New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater +----------------------------------------------- +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version +14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source (i.e. manually): +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + +================================================================ + +Changes: + +Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements: +- Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option) +- New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster +- Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the + memory usage during restore and accurate backups. +- limit command in some list commands +- Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access +- Faster crc32 algorithm + +Security Enhancements: +- Additional security against injection of illegal characters +- Fix possible fnmatch problem + +Features Enhancements: +- Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms: + AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 +- Tray monitor for Windows +- New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog + backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent + of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the + libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend + to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL). +- Indent lsmark during restore +- Disable batch insert config item +- Director selection option in bconsole +- restorejob command in bconsole +- Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel +- The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not + work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality +- Improved hash table for hard links +- Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles) + and %h (Client Address) + +Other Enhancements: +- Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and + junction points. +- New database format +- Many new plugin API features +- Improved memory handling for restores +- Significant stability enhancements to bat +- xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning +- A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed. + + +=========================================================================== +;;;; + +Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET +We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2. +It includes new code and some new features. +There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in + the 5.0.1 release section. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes and New Features: +- If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously + it printed a warning message and continued. +- New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts +- Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins) + must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously + for the PLUGIN_LICENSE. +- The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column. +- If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if + it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes + typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes. + + +Bug fixes +1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610 + +- Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3 +- Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit +- Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0 +- Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0 +- Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line +- Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD. +- Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump +- Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610 +- Add archlinux to os.m4 +- More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall +- Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine +- Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault +- Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons +- Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync +- Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows +- Up maximum block size to 20M +- Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599 +- Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599 +- Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin +- Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg +- Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition +- Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both + catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir +- Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open() + by moving and commenting out the ASSERT() +- Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated +- Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls +- New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate +- Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory +- Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match +- Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault +- Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c +- fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard + install dir +- Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs +- Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra +- Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups +- Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command +- Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag +- Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test +- Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms +- Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger +- Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side +- Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir +- Fix segfault when loading Plugins +- Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore +- Added new bacula-libs package. +- Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value +- Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant + +See ChangeLog for more details. + +;;;; +Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET +Welcome to our new bacula.org server + +This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided +by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was +getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one, +and we are very pleased. + +;;;; +Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET +Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge + +This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1. + +Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below. + Important!!! + +Compatibility: +-------------- + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +Changes since 5.0.1 +------------------- + +Bug fixes +1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560 + +- Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553 +- Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp +- Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume +- Fix cancel crash bug #1551 +- Check if sql backend is thread-safe +- Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541 +- Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson +- Rewind on close to fix #1549 +- Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536 +- Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command +- Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job +- Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without + calling db_unlock. +- Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache. +- Fix #1532 about permission on binaries +- Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration +- Another fix for OpenSSLv1 +- Add -lrt to Solaris links +- Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1 +- Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs +- Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James +- Remove --without-qwt from configure statement. +- Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files +- Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem +- Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12 +- Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet + +;;;; + +Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35 +Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge + +Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been +released to Source Forge (thanks Eric). + +This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been +rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the +release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by +one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior +clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one +machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File +daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine). + +Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have +changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save +your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula +uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be +serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are +not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space. + +If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release +notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this +release there is no database upgrade needed. + +Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over +the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be +releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon. + +Thanks for using Bacula :-) + +Best regards, + +Kern + +============= Performance Note ================== + +Some of you have encountered performance problems with your +database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is +mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore, +accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this +change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous +versions, on a well configured database it should run +extremely well. + +We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes. +In general, these will cause very significant performance +problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check +that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are +suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup +millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory +configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global +memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small +(sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those +parameters is extremely important to run fast. + +If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not +solve your problem, you can also consider switching to +PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big +installations (many millions of files per Job). However for +large installations, you will also need to adjust the default +PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters. + +========================================== + + + Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1 + + Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount) + +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly +reworked, and the default value has changed. See below. + +Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new +features section of the manual. + +When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration, +(default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx +10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to +resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an +error message could be produced at each poll attempt. +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +Changes since 5.0.0 +------------------- +- We believe that we have resolved most of the problems + concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the + Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when + canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release. + If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing + a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away. + +Directives: +- The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from + no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your + conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +- AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented + and was confusing. +- New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features + section in the manual. +- Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual. + +Bug fixes: +1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497 +1499 1501 1505 1509 1513 + +- Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513. +- Fix three-pool regress bug +- Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505 +- This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out + docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi + constructor. +- Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host +- Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509 +- Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o + #1476 +- Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors +- Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497 +- Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499 +- Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494 +- Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448 +- Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476 +- Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c +- Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0 +- Fix missing console page in bat +- Add bat help files to Window install +- Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown +- Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors +- Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x +- Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line +- Update the bsock error URL +- Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl +- Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl +- Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field +- Allow multiple CNs when using TLS +- Fix seg fault in SQlite driver +- Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version +- Remove file_index sequential check +- Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message + +For Packagers: +1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty. +The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to +make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can +be found in /examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is +not installed by the Makefiles + +2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install +mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is +required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on +any update, any existing file should not be overwritten. + +3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt. +However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always +compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt +4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with +any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt +4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download +location, read the README file and follow the instructions. + +If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not +have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or +rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be +built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later, +this problem (bug) does not exist. + +depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with +you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you +build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but +rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat +(make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will +use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong. + +4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any +special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for +example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure is strongly discouraged. +Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong +shared objects. + +5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a +single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or +PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full +recommendation is: + +#!/bin/sh +# Recommended configure script for Bacula +prefix=/opt/bacula +email=xxx@yyy.zz +CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ + ./configure \ + --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ + --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ + --docdir=${prefix}/html \ + --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ + --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ + --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ + --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ + --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ + --enable-smartalloc \ + --enable-tray-monitor \ + --enable-bat \ + --with-mysql \ + --with-dump-email=${email} \ + --with-job-email=${email} \ + --with-smtp-host=localhost \ + --with-baseport=9101 + +Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, +...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names +defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in +the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. + +If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document +describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please +send an email to the bacula-devel list. + +6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared +libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with +Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version. +So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future +versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch +updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on +whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this +new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between +different versions of the shared objects. + +7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console +routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult +to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release. +This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me +that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a +consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline +enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command +completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to +use readline or not as you please. + + +;;;; +Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00 +Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge + +Release Numbering: +----------------------------------------------------------- +You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to +5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for +several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing +the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version +and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided +that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always +be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always +be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x. +In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger +than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project +version is more advanced or has more features than the +Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version +is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010) +will be version 4.0.0. + +Warning: +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or +upgrade. + + +Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Bug fixes: +1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373 +1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450 +1454 1455 1458 1456 + +Fixed: + - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't + responding to the bsmtp program + - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes + - Fix various problems with the reload command + - Fix problems with conio + - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD + +Enhancements: + - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge + - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs + - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons + - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device + - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load + between drives + - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use + checksum verification for example. + - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP) + - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup + - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline + - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree + - Add new speed test to btape program + - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...) + - Windows version of Bat + - Added Spanish Bacula translation + - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands + - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write + to the same Pool + - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs + - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client) + - Many ACL improvements + - Level added to FD status Job entry + - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device + - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll + - Implement lock manager with bad order protection + +Compatibility: +As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version +of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines, +you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0 +Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon +as is reasonable for your situation. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version +12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9 +(e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. +================================================================ + + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must +first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting +the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably +fail and you will need to manually find and run the +Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version. +This is because the file locations are different. If you want +to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before +uninstalling it. +================================================================ + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems, +we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to +access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish +to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features +section of the manual for how to set access control lists. +================================================================ + +Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers +(Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of +the manual for more details. + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems: + +1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many + of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there + are still some that need fixing. + +2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has + not yet been done. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== + + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;;; + + +Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00 +Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes + below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2. + +Changes since 3.0.2: +Bug fixes: + 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368, + 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382 + +Fixes: + Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes + Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori + Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem + Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows + Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing + when doing fixup_write_error ... + Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by + Nicolae Mihalache + Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288 + Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346 + Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning + Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359 + Use old code for selecting file during restore. + Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits + tweak space on projects file + Fix seg fault in ignoredir code + Apply Frank's slash patch + Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371 + 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch + Add more info when SD connection refused + 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch + Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query + 3.0.2-accurate.patch + Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS. + 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch + Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error. + 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch + Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks. + 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch + Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch + 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch + +Compatibility: + As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at + the same time. + + Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3 + Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File + Daemons. + +;;;; + +Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes +below. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with +some enhancements (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.1: + +Bug fixes: + 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315 + 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335 + +Fixed: + - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays values + - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director + - Fix bugs in xattr code + - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql + - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job + +Enhancements: + - Security enhancement for the File Daemon + - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions + - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore. + This is project 31 in the projects file. + - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command + - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure + - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId. + This is project 2 in the projects file. + - Add new Nagios plugin + +Compatibility: +Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at +the same time. + +Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2 +Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File +Daemon. +;;;; + +Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49 +Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. + +Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!! + +Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with +one enhancement (see below). + +Changes since 3.0.0: +Bug fixes: + 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282. + +Fixed: +- Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code. +- Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format +- Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf +- Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring +- Updated projects file +- Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end + and keep fields order. + - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by: + Chandranshu + +Enhancement: +- Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the + drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not + be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating + tape deadlock situations. + +Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the +same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file +daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director +and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons. +In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older +Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula +releases). + +============ Documentation improvements needed ================== + +Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the +following areas: + +1. Missing documentation. +2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail. +3. Integration of the new features into the main documents. +4. Much more. + +The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack +manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest +you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. +===== +;;; + +Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30 +Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source +tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge +download location. + +There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it +requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully +(included below) and the documentation for the new features at: + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly +reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are +released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend). + +If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that +version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of +upgrading. + +This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released, +and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well +tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience +problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so +your help will be appreciated. + +The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them: + +1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that +we missed documenting some). + +2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it +has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters. + +3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job +while it is running. He is working on this. + +4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in +particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration, +copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for +writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool +for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found +a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during +certain pre-allocations of the write tape. + +5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a +bit of a rare case). + +As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code +stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix +updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4 +only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the +most current release ... + +This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many +contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or +contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big +release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions: + +Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on + same machine +Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation +Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key +Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin + +Personal contributions: +Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file +Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul +Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support +Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects +Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements +Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver +Scott Barninger - rpm packaging +Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ... +Many people -- see the AUTHORS file. + +Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today. + +=== List of new features === +- Accurate Backup +- Copy Jobs +- ACL code overhaul +- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support +- Extended Attribute support + --disable-xattr (default=auto) +- Shared Objects + --enable-libtool (default) + --disable-libtool +- Virtual Backup +- Catalog Format Enhancements + - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries + - New stats tables +- Duplicate Job Control +- TLS Authentication +- bextract non-portable Win32 data +- State File updated at Job Termination +- Bacula Plugins + - FD bpipe plugin + - FD Exchange plugin +- libdbi DB driver +- Console Enhancements + - status slots + - list joblog + - command separator +- Bootstrap regex +- Restore seek optimization +- Virtual Tape Emulation +- Bat Enhancements +- RunScript Enhancements +- Status enhancements +- FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes +- ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes +- FD Version compatibily flag +- Statistics Enhancements +- Faster Attribute despooling +- Document split into 6 manuals +- GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL +- Win64 File daemon +- Postmortum dump improvements in SD +- Deadlock mutex detection in SD +- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks. +- New configure install options + --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION) + --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files) + --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed) +- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb + New Directives: +- Max Full Interval +- Max Diff Interval +- Honor No Dump Flag +- Exclude Dirs Containing +- Recycle Pool +- Max Run Sched Time +- Max Wait Time +- Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time +- Scratch Pool +- Max Console Connections +- Spool Size (in Job resource) +- Allow Mixed Priorities +- Allow Duplicate Jobs +- Allow Higher Duplicates +- Cancel Queued Duplicates +- Cancel Running Duplicates +- TLS Authenticate +- Console (in RunScript) + +New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0 + also listed above: +Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files +Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) +Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director +Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool +Item 8: Implement Copy pools +Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements. +Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...) +Item 18: Better control over Job execution +Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file +contexts +Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for +Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes +Item n: Split documentation into several books +================================ + + + Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in) + +The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release +represents an enormous effort. + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any +release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade. + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== + +New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later) +----------------------------------------------------- + +This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of +scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version +11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically +detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly +recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading +using rpms. + +The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from +source: +1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running. +2. Save a copy of your existing database. +3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula + Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link + at the bottom of this file. +4. cd +5. ./update_bacula_tables +6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables + script and put the name of another database, and then + execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula + catalogs have been updated. +7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should + not print any error messages. + +The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table +from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily* +DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update, +so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million +files +catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to +backup it before executing the script. + +If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables +script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new +table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40 +(e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will +be found in the /src/cats directory after you run the ./configure +command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your +catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be +aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database +size. + + +Important New configure options : +---------------------- + +This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default +to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than +being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that +the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object +directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory +where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible +to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure +line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary. + + ./configure --libdir= + +If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old +way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you +can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with: + + ./configure --disable-libtool + +During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install +bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files +are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --htmldir= + +During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the +ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar +files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you +want to put them elsewhere use: + + ./configure --docdir= + +During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be +installed in the plugindir, which is by default the +same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate +location with: + + ./configure --with-plugindir= + +============================================================== + +This release includes large number of new features and changes. +It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files +and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new +features. + +Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents +some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): + +http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html + +The ChangeLog has more details. + +;;; +Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35 +Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released +We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be +orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on +what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs +from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could +be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes +available for normal operations. + +In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch, +which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download +area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN. +;;; + +Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am +Creation of Bacula Systems SA +Dear Members of the Bacula Community, + +I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to +provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be +pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest +open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide +range of Bacula users. + +As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first +public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally +written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the +many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and +contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today. +It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found +Bacula useful. + +Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering, +ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source +project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as +free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the +protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open +source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary +version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the +home for Bacula project development. + +So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests +from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service +and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge +transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief +Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A.. + +Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company. +The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping +Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to +those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula. +Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the +founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we +have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain +dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company +with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany +initially. We will open additional branches as business requires. + +I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula +community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which +will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to +customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula. +Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will +be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will +provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting, +training, documentation and certified binaries. + +Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community, +and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community +through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or +consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the +additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers +more effectively. + +Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high +value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing +Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed +service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners. + +The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged +in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists +and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and +Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and +new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website, +www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions +for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation +and certified binaries. + +All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at +www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about +our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new +company, Bacula Systems. + +Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community. + +Sincerely, + +Kern Sibbald +;;; + +Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am +Bacula version 2.4.3 Released +This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for +Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download +area. + +Release 2.4.3 + This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible + with other 2.4.x versions. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129 + +Change Summary: +- Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel + a non created job faster. +- This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly + respect the Migration Low Bytes directive. +- Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option +- 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. +- Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and + replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley. +- Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog + in bug #1149. +- Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell + this never caused a bug. +- Remove catalog dependency for bcopy +- Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration, + using default variables. + Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type() +- Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration + job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another. +- Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages. +- Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must + be switched. +- Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases + a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This + fixes bug #1143. +- Add space after version before date in bat about dialog. +- Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value + given. This fixes bug #1140. +- Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated. + This closes bug #1129. + +Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release +until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the +end of the year. +;;; + +Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.2 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + + This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126 + +Change Summary: +26Jul08 +- 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. +- Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and + do_load. It is much more logical that way. +- 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 +- Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification. + This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records. +- Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124. + This fixes bug #1124. +- Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118. +- Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape + during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be + in a release. +- Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections +- Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric. +- Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger + at least once before asking for operator intervention. +- Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only + version 2.5.x and above. +;;; + +Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.1 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +Bugs Fixed: + 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112 + 1117, 1116, 1097. + +Change summary: +- Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping. +- Remove sleep at end of ./bacula +- Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects + a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually + would occasionally not be restored. +- Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return + a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so. +- Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes + bug #1117. +- Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This + fixes the failure of maxvol2-test. +- Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback. +- Release main control rwlock if ABORTing. +- Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending + directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread. +- Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has + older 'incorrect' headers. +- Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings. +- Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian) + mt. This fixes bug #1116. +- Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label; + clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read(). +- Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main + conceptial 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. +- Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug + #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as + reported in #1103. +- Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100. +- Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105. +- Copy more data when restarting a job so that run + overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094. +- Backport updates to jobq.c where possible. +- Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not + be opened. Reported by Eric. +- Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user). +- Add --with-db-password to ./configure +- Fix regress to handle db_password. +- Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings. +- Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't + have the requested MediaType. +- More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from + the configuration routines. +- 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. +- Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines + such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD. +- Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository. +;;; + + +Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.4.0 Released +This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of +Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area. + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the +Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only +contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients +(File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is +no database upgrade needed. + +===================================================== + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in) + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version +2.2.x to version 2.4.0 + +================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== +As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into +any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the +specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of +FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will +be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want +reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them +in your FileSet. +====================================================== + +This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x +but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the +Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten +code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly +with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That +said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note, +the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations. + +Bugs fixed: + 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038 + 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031 + +New features: +- You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use + --without-qwt as a ./configure option. + +Release Version 2.4.0 +- Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes. +- Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume. + This fixes bug #1095. +- Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should + fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro. +- Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug + #1086. +- Fix possible seg fault if SQL error. +- Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name. +- If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and + try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went + wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously + this error was fatal, now it produces an error message. +- Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore +- Fix a few more Coverity reported problems. +- Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command. +- Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race + conditions. +- Make sure device not busy before doing label command. +- Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too + many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070. +- Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any + reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the + directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as + with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be + backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files. + This fixes bug #1041. +- Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes). +- Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity. +- Implement --without-qwt +- Fix layout of restore tree dialog +- Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built + with or without the QWT libaries. +- Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume + from one drive to another. +- Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions. +- Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives. + This fixes bug #1083. +- Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from + the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially, + bug #1083. +- Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD. + This fixes bug #1078. +- Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a + warning rather than an error. +- Fix SQL query in migration code +- Fix bat seg fault at termination. +- Add Bacula generated version to bat about box. +- Backport development stream SD reservation system changes. +- When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger. +- Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the + same volume name twice in a row. +- Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make + the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically + handling the responsibilities. +- Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just + causes a seg fault in many cases. +- Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and + swapping volumes. +- Prevent volume from being released while being swapped. +- Refactor parts of stored/mount.c +- Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime +- Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime + and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066 +- Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c +- Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to + autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code. +- Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job. +- Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking + the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by + another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it. +- Correct some SD catalog request error messages. +- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD + when reading past an EOS_LABEL. +- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just + causes problems. +- Lock volumes when unreserving a device. +- Do not mark volume unused when recycling. +- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger. +- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when + running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo + for excellent analysis and testing. +- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9 + Mostly SD reservations enhancements. +- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination + of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038. +- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration. +- Implements autostart scripts for Debian +- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program. +- Apply doc fix from bug #1062. +- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore + GUI. Fixes bug #1065. +- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version. +- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should + fix bug #1046. +- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups() +- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem. +- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include + proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs. +- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links. +- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on + the ./configure line. +- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information + in job report. +;;;; + +Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am +Bacula version 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas +of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release + +Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few + additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously + released: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030, + 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers, + and are difficult to reproduce. + See the ChangeLog for more details. + Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably + want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ... +;;; + + +Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30 +Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released +Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the bacula-beta and +Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge + +Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7: +- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032. + Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers. +;;; + +Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30 +Bacula version 2.2.7 Released +Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge + +Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes + since version 2.2.6: +- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020 + 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file. +- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on + exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c +- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now + possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg. +- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical + bar, thanks to the above patch. +- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from + Nerijus Baliunas. +- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL + driver with version 8.3. +- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir +;;; +Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.6 Released +Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32 +binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge. + +This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5, +and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can. + +Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5 +- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991, + 993, 986, 976. + - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director. + - Fix joblist failure bug in bat. +;;; +Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25 +Bacula version 2.2.5 Released +Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug +fixes represent quite a lot of work: + +Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4 +- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960, + 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954, + 957, 908, 958, and 955. +- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed + out by Chris Howells. +;;; +Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30 +A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed + +This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It +turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or +two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when +running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one +Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same +time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was +introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x. +If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the +Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under +the conditions noted above. + +The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just +this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch +to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also +uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may +also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly +#903. + +Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other +patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and +955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details. + +Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare. +However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30 +Bacula version 2.2.4 Released + +This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3. +It contains the following fixes: + +- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953. +- Possible fix for bug #908. +- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid + file to always be deleted. +- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property. + This fixes bug #950. +- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully + trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking. + Fixes bug #906. +- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This + should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices + are released as soon as possible. +- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not + have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point + in bug #942, but not the main problem. +- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes + by skipping |. Fixes bug #936. +- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using + TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU. +- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works + as expected. +- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions + and not memory usage. + +- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor + program. +;;; +Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30 +I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. + +Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are +missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we +have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this +kind of problem many times. + +Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following +characteristics: + +1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of +whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the +Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the +backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing +to the same volume. + +2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape. + +3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen +on tape backups. + +4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to +reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible +with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups. + +5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow +(e.g. doing Incremental backups). + +6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x. + +7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing, +perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons +were version 2.2.2. + +8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia) +records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during +the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the +previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below. + +9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple +simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous +Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark +Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large. + +10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be +affected by this bug. + +11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is +a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split +across tapes. + +12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is +a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across +disks Volumes. + +13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update +the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing +an updated Storage daemon. + +I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct +version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version +2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that +reproduced the problem. + +The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula +version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge. + +For the technical details of the bug, please see: + + http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge. + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in) + 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3 + +This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, +but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you +use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should +not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is +no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0. + +Areas requiring caution or testing: +- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded + to build with MySQL enabled. +- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause + your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions. +- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent + to what we do with sockets). +- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with + bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris. +- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'. + This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity + of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly. + The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h +- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please + test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse + points. +- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work. + +The major new features are: +- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times), + many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin. +- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build + bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you + must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt + (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools + must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley. +- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading). +- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files + thanks to Eric. +- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested). +- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces + swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent + implemented. +- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most + conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers. +- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system. +- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled. +- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric. +- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists. +- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir' +- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged, + during pruning, it is immediately discovered. +- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright + mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice. + +New ./configure options: +- --enable-bwx-console +- --enable-bat +- --with-qwt= +- --with-db-name= +- --with-db-user= +- --enable-batch-insert + +New bconsole commands: +- exec +- memory +- update recyclepool +- .sql +- .api +- .pwd (in restore tree) +- restoreclient (keyword) +- backupclient (keyword) +- regexwhere (keyword) +- update jobid (new command) +- recyclepool (keyword) + +New directives: +- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf) +- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage) +- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client) +- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job) +- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool) +- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript) +- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) +- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet) + +Other features or bug fixes: +- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907, + 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872 + 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859, + 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772, + 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791, + 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764, + 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743. +- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with + --with-qwt=. See Installation chapter of manual for details. +- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are + needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both + these packages in the distro. +- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead + of prepending. +- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the + Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount + directives are defined. +- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries. +- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor. + Use the command line or the Services panne. +- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool. +- More debug output in status storage. +- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some + critical columns were lost). +- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems, + which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which + should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly + (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but + concurrent jobs should run much faster. +- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of + the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers. +- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume, + pool and media type when a job is waiting. +- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers. +- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c +- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request) +- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request) +- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId +- Spooling implemented for migration jobs. +- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading | + in front of the configuration path/filename. +- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's + memory usage, and an in use buffer dump. +- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32 + filename restrictions. +- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug. +- Additional version information added to Job reports. +- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type. +- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there + is already a < in the target. +- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being + mounted by another job. +- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11 +- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted. +- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command. +- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape. +- Drop from root done before database is opened. +- Database user and name can be configured with: + --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user +- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script. +- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script. + This appears to have been an unreported bug. +- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust +- Better restricted console ACL checking. +- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that + users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection. +- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running + job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned). +- Sockets are no longer restored. +- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster. +- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite + large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries. +- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed. +- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to + which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies + the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is + not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client. +- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the + catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape + and DVD). + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge. +This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from +a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes +below. + +Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the +patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to +this version. + +5Mar07 +kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead + of jobids. Fixes bug #795. +kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to + crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789. +04Mar07 +kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting + tape alert info. +02Mar07 +kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to + modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection. +28Feb07 +kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command. +kes Correct typeo in var.c patch. +27Feb07 +kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job. +kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch) + in bug #791. +26Feb07 +kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra. +24Feb07 +ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas +22Feb07 +kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may + not be zeroed. +21Feb07 +kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other + than English. Fixes bug #788. +20Feb07 +ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x + This fixes bug #780 + You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more. + If you want to use this, you can apply + trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch +19Feb07 +kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula + no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to + set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user. +16Feb07 +kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files + to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix. +kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts. +kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782. +15Feb07 +kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code + causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent + all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final + despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This + allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network + after a backup. +13Feb07 +kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1. +11Feb07 +kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command. + Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database + was opened, it is closed. +10Feb07 +kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename, + and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This + idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right). +09Feb07 +kes Update projects list. +08Feb07 +kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the + console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug + #767. +kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated + at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This + fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs + to fail. +kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information + so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread. +07Feb07 + Switch to using Subversion +kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure +06Feb07 +kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c + plus the entrypoints. +kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print + in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as + part of bug #621, which was previously fixed. +05Feb07 +kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside + loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition. + Fixes bug #771. +kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted + with the header definition. Fixes bug #765. +ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive) +04Feb07 +kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the + problem is with read or append. +02Feb07 +kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c +kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released + memory -- reported by Jason Austin. +kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon + termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs + (i.e. migration jobs). +kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes + a memory leak problem. +kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist + in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures + to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists). +kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them + rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new + methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable + (hides some of the ugly casting). +26Jan07 (back port) +kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by + the SD. This is noted in more detail above. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.2 released: +28Jan08 +kes Fix maxruntime bug #621. +27Jan07 +kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake. +26Jan07 +ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project. +kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote. +kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission + so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761. +25Jan07 +kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO + to WARNING. +kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0 + which should restart an indefinite # of times. +kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for + other DIR specifications. +23Jan07 +rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build. + Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts. + Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath. +19Jan07 +kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755. +18Jan07 +kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full + backup. This should fix bug #755. +kes Add qt-console and first cut of code. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge. +This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains +the following fixes: + +- Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html + instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750. +- Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should + fix bug #741. +- Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job. +- Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code. + This *should* fix bug #747. +- Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix + bug #742. +- Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string, + and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully + this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744. +- Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743. +- Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle + SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by + Sebastien Guilbaud. +- Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and + despooling as requested by Alan Brown. + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30 + +Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge. + +There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en + +and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at: + + http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de + +;;; + +Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31 + + Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0 + + Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in) + +==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required ===== +- The database format has been updated from what was used in + Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before + running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied + RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically. + Please backup your previous version of the database before + running the update. The update script will be automatically + installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in + /src/cats. It is called: + + ./update_bacula_tables + + It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to + a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not + require updating the database again. Depending on the size of + your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but + in general, it should be very fast. + +==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure ===== + For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special + needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of + automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula + directory mostly out of paranoia. + +==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ==== +- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it + should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is + no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to + incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up + on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times + previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console. +- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been + removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all + occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage + daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount. +- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man + directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and + mandir/man1 as appropriate. +- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director + and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript, + data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it. +- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded. +- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method + of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last + device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it + will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource + with the correct MediaType. +- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary + format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify + jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5 + difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by + default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using + the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more + more testing is still needed. +- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses + the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25 + kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works. + This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels. +- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please + be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options + with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot + be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption + carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup + with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified + and fixed it as follows: + As of 1.39.27: + No filters = Works fine + Sparse = Works fine + Compression = Works fine + Encryption = Works fine + Sparse + Compression = Works fine + + Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken + Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken + + As of 1.39.28: + Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are + not properly restored. + + As of 1.39.30: + All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption. + + Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring + data to be sure it all works correctly. +- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from + the format written by previous versions. The two formats + are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will + be unreadable by version 1.39.22. +- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia + data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect + seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to + be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the + following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage + daemon conf file: + + Block Positioning = no + + This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid + this problem. +- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default. +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual. + +New Features in 2.0.0: +- Turn on disk seek code for restores. +- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula + messages for French. To install it, first configure and build + Bacula, then as root run: + + cd /po + make install + + If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated + messages. +- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new + Migration chapter in the manual + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html +- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in + a new chapter of the manual at: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html +- Additional support for removable devices. See the + Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount + Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter: + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html + Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the + same chapter. +- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32 + cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson, + then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the + cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but + also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added + all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on + drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ... +- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32. + This code is working but should still be tested carefully + before putting into production. +- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to + any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so, + the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks + to Thorsten Engel for this code. +- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now + eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using + Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths + in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including + the drive letter. +- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes + the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features + plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect + of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation. + http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227 +- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher. +- Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at + If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with + "list nextvol days=xx" + or + "status dir days=xx" + This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the + next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during + the weekend. +- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do: + wait (wait for all jobs to stop) + wait jobid=nn + wait jobuid=unique id + wait job=job-name +- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they + are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted. + Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2) +- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the + job report in the Log database table. +- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point + of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer. +- Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents + the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, + the job can be manually started from the console. +- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits + can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate + table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId. +- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in + the restore cd command. +- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling + will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric + Bollengier. +- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as + conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters + are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson. +- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable. +- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles + spaces in names better, ... +- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work. +- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect + any Catalog ACL. +- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in + the restore command. +- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf. + patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de +- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap. + from Eric Bollengier. +- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field + in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console. +- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric. + display data_len instead of data content (may be binary). +- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command. +- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/ +- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only + the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any + path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control + over where users can restore files. This is untested. +- Install man pages with 'make install'. +- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c +- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work +- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work. +- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb. +- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status + command now reports in KB, MB, ... units. +- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that + triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer +- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots" +- Implement mount command for autochanger +- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called + from File= was not found. +- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to + do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not + have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code. + Note, this may apply to other OSes as well. +- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that + creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by + Andrew J. Millar. +- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by + Christian Masopust. +- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they + appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore + listing where they could be "lost". +- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix + correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. + Bug # 506. +- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund. +- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One + list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other + lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). +- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This + should get Bacula into the correct groups. +- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive + and mount, unmount directives. +- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks + to a user submission. +- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed + in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount + devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to + changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the + device will be blocked. +- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places. +- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override + all other Storage specifications. +- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no. +- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes + from a database table for restore. +- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are + designed for user use in doing Volume Management software. +- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to + accept time qualifiers. +- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as + suggested by Eric Bollengier. +- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and + Job Level, only during JobInit event. +- Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname + to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to + be the numeric (non-unique) job id. +- Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only + one at a time). +- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from + Sebastian Stark +- Split the bacula start/start script into four files: + bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts + bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director + bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon + bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon +- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must + explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. +- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing + wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program. +- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. +- Apply patch from Christopher Hull + - Allow multiple connections to database with different + parameters. + - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg + fault, but still 60 second window. + - Additional info in Reschedule message. + - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of + cancel, error. + - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR. + - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN. + - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _. + - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32. + - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance). + - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32. + - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points. +- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard + routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by + author of bug #565. +- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher + Hull. +- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. +- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support. + O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without + updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which + happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also + prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but + only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup + programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both + categories). + You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting: + noatime = yes + The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except + it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime. +- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon. +- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs: + Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table + Delete MAC table + Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space) + Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record + Add Cost to Location table. + Enabled to Media table and Location table. +- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors + and forcing a 6 second wait. +- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags + -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti +- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to + eliminate the security problems associated with using the + system libraries print routines. +- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool + came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool, + it is all very complicated. +- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed + for restore. +- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this + class. +- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery + chapter of the manual +- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD. +- Add Comment field to llist of a volume. +- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives. +- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures, + and the LICENSE file has been updated. +- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource + Mail On Success directive. +- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job + report. +- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which + are printed in the Job report. + +Additional Features Added for Win32: +- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There + is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that + has the concept of drives. + +- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet + resource. Allowed values are: yes and no. + + When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the + Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways. + + Patterns conform to Posix + \ is not a special character in character classification [] + To match a - it must be the first or last character + To match a ] it must be the first character + + fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a / + so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path + +- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match + against the filename portion. This in combination with the + FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile = + abc*.def work as expected. + +- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion. + + Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5. + + # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp" + WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files" + +;;; -- 2.39.5