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-               Patch notes for version 3.0
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-Patches Committed:
-14Apr09
-3.0.0-maxruntime.patch
-11Apr09
-3.0.0-read-vol-list.patch
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-                
-Projects:
-                     Bacula Projects Roadmap 
-                    Status updated 04 February 2009
-
-Items Completed for version 3.0.0:
-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
-
-Summary:
-Item  2:  Allow FD to initiate a backup
-Item  6:  Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
-Item  7:  Implement Base jobs
-Item  9:  Scheduling syntax that permits more flexibility and options
-Item 10:  Message mailing based on backup types
-Item 11:  Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications
-Item 14:  Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types
-Item 15:  Implement more Python events and functions  --- Abandoned for plugins
-Item 16:  Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
-Item 17:  Automatic promotion of backup levels based on backup size
-Item 19:  Automatic disabling of devices
-Item 20:  An option to operate on all pools with update vol parameters
-Item 21:  Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
-Item 22:  Implement Storage daemon compression
-Item 23:  Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management
-Item 24:  Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
-Item 25:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
-
-
-Item  1:  Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
-  Date:   28 November 2005
-  Origin: Martin Simmons (martin at lispworks dot com)
-  Status: Done
-
-  What:   When restoring a fileset for a specified date (including "most
-          recent"), Bacula should give you exactly the files and directories
-          that existed at the time of the last backup prior to that date.
-
-          Currently this only works if the last backup was a Full backup.
-          When the last backup was Incremental/Differential, files and
-          directories that have been renamed or deleted since the last Full
-          backup are not currently restored correctly.  Ditto for files with
-          extra/fewer hard links than at the time of the last Full backup.
-
-  Why:    Incremental/Differential would be much more useful if this worked.
-
-  Notes:  Merging of multiple backups into a single one seems to
-          rely on this working, otherwise the merged backups will not be
-          truly equivalent to a Full backup.  
-
-  Note:   Kern: notes shortened. This can be done without the need for 
-          inodes. It is essentially the same as the current Verify job,
-          but one additional database record must be written, which does 
-          not need any database change.
-
-  Notes:  Kern: see if we can correct restoration of directories if
-          replace=ifnewer is set.  Currently, if the directory does not
-          exist, a "dummy" directory is created, then when all the files
-          are updated, the dummy directory is newer so the real values
-          are not updated.
-
-Item  2:  Allow FD to initiate a backup
-  Origin: Frank Volf (frank at deze dot org)
-  Date:   17 November 2005
-  Status:
-
-   What:  Provide some means, possibly by a restricted console that
-          allows a FD to initiate a backup, and that uses the connection
-          established by the FD to the Director for the backup so that
-          a Director that is firewalled can do the backup.
-
-   Why:   Makes backup of laptops much easier.
-
-
-Item  3:  Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation) 
-  Origin: Marc Cousin and Eric Bollengier 
-  Date:   15 November 2005
-  Status: Done
-
-  What:   A merged backup is a backup made without connecting to the Client.
-          It would be a Merge of existing backups into a single backup.
-          In effect, it is like a restore but to the backup medium.
-
-          For instance, say that last Sunday we made a full backup.  Then
-          all week long, we created incremental backups, in order to do
-          them fast.  Now comes Sunday again, and we need another full.
-          The merged backup makes it possible to do instead an incremental
-          backup (during the night for instance), and then create a merged
-          backup during the day, by using the full and incrementals from
-          the week.  The merged backup will be exactly like a full made
-          Sunday night on the tape, but the production interruption on the
-          Client will be minimal, as the Client will only have to send
-          incrementals.
-
-          In fact, if it's done correctly, you could merge all the
-          Incrementals into single Incremental, or all the Incrementals
-          and the last Differential into a new Differential, or the Full,
-          last differential and all the Incrementals into a new Full
-          backup.  And there is no need to involve the Client.
-
-  Why:    The benefit is that :
-          - the Client just does an incremental ;
-          - the merged backup on tape is just as a single full backup,
-            and can be restored very fast.
-
-          This is also a way of reducing the backup data since the old
-          data can then be pruned (or not) from the catalog, possibly
-          allowing older volumes to be recycled
-
-Item  4:  Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
-  Origin: Alan Davis adavis@ruckus.com
-  Date:   6 March 2007
-  Status: Done, but not tested, and possibly not fully implemented.
- 
-  What:   The current behavior is for the director to create all pools
-          found in the configuration file in all catalogs.  Add a
-          Catalog directive to the Pool resource to specify which
-          catalog to use for each pool definition.
- 
-  Why:    This allows different catalogs to have different pool
-          attributes and eliminates the side-effect of adding
-          pools to catalogs that don't need/use them.
- 
-  Notes:  Kern: I think this is relatively easy to do, and it is really
-          a pre-requisite to a number of the Copy pool, ... projects
-          that are listed here.
-
-Item  5:  Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
-  Origin: kshatriyak at gmail dot com
-    Date: 1/1/2006
-  Status: Done at least via command line
-
-    What: In the restore option (Select the most recent backup for a
-          client) it would be useful to add an option where you can limit
-          the selection to a certain pool.
-
-     Why: When using cloned jobs, most of the time you have 2 pools - a
-          disk pool and a tape pool.  People who have 2 pools would like to
-          select the most recent backup from disk, not from tape (tape
-          would be only needed in emergency).  However, the most recent
-          backup (which may just differ a second from the disk backup) may
-          be on tape and would be selected.  The problem becomes bigger if
-          you have a full and differential - the most "recent" full backup
-          may be on disk, while the most recent differential may be on tape
-          (though the differential on disk may differ even only a second or
-          so).  Bacula will complain that the backups reside on different
-          media then.  For now the only solution now when restoring things
-          when you have 2 pools is to manually search for the right
-          job-id's and enter them by hand, which is a bit fault tolerant.
-
-  Notes:  Kern: This is a nice idea. It could also be the way to support
-          Jobs that have been Copied (similar to migration, but not yet
-          implemented).
-
-
-
-Item  6:  Deletion of disk Volumes when pruned
-  Date:   Nov 25, 2005
-  Origin: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org> (edited
-          by Kern)
-  Status:         
-
-   What:  Provide a way for Bacula to automatically remove Volumes
-          from the filesystem, or optionally to truncate them.
-          Obviously, the Volume must be pruned prior removal.
-
-  Why:    This would allow users more control over their Volumes and
-          prevent disk based volumes from consuming too much space.
-
-  Notes:  The following two directives might do the trick:
-
-          Volume Data Retention = <time period>
-          Remove Volume After = <time period>
-
-          The migration project should also remove a Volume that is
-          migrated. This might also work for tape Volumes.
-
-Item  7:  Implement Base jobs 
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: 
-  
-  What:   A base job is sort of like a Full save except that you 
-          will want the FileSet to contain only files that are
-          unlikely to change in the future (i.e.  a snapshot of
-          most of your system after installing it).  After the
-          base job has been run, when you are doing a Full save,
-          you specify one or more Base jobs to be used.  All
-          files that have been backed up in the Base job/jobs but
-          not modified will then be excluded from the backup.
-          During a restore, the Base jobs will be automatically
-          pulled in where necessary.
-
-  Why:    This is something none of the competition does, as far as
-          we know (except perhaps BackupPC, which is a Perl program that
-          saves to disk only).  It is big win for the user, it
-          makes Bacula stand out as offering a unique
-          optimization that immediately saves time and money.
-          Basically, imagine that you have 100 nearly identical
-          Windows or Linux machine containing the OS and user
-          files.  Now for the OS part, a Base job will be backed
-          up once, and rather than making 100 copies of the OS,
-          there will be only one.  If one or more of the systems
-          have some files updated, no problem, they will be
-          automatically restored.
-
-  Notes:  Huge savings in tape usage even for a single machine.
-          Will require more resources because the DIR must send
-          FD a list of files/attribs, and the FD must search the
-          list and compare it for each file to be saved.
-
-
-Item  8:  Implement Copy pools
-  Date:   27 November 2005
-  Origin: David Boyes (dboyes at sinenomine dot net)
-  Status: A trivial version of this is done.
-
-  What:   I would like Bacula to have the capability to write copies
-          of backed-up data on multiple physical volumes selected
-          from different pools without transferring the data
-          multiple times, and to accept any of the copy volumes
-          as valid for restore.
-
-  Why:    In many cases, businesses are required to keep offsite
-          copies of backup volumes, or just wish for simple
-          protection against a human operator dropping a storage
-          volume and damaging it. The ability to generate multiple
-          volumes in the course of a single backup job allows
-          customers to simple check out one copy and send it
-          offsite, marking it as out of changer or otherwise
-          unavailable. Currently, the library and magazine
-          management capability in Bacula does not make this process
-          simple.
-
-          Restores would use the copy of the data on the first
-          available volume, in order of Copy pool chain definition.
-
-          This is also a major scalability issue -- as the number of
-          clients increases beyond several thousand, and the volume
-          of data increases, transferring the data multiple times to
-          produce additional copies of the backups will become
-          physically impossible due to transfer speed
-          issues. Generating multiple copies at server side will
-          become the only practical option. 
-
-  How:    I suspect that this will require adding a multiplexing
-          SD that appears to be a SD to a specific FD, but 1-n FDs
-          to the specific back end SDs managing the primary and copy
-          pools.  Storage pools will also need to acquire parameters
-          to define the pools to be used for copies. 
-
-  Notes:  I would commit some of my developers' time if we can agree
-          on the design and behavior. 
-
-  Notes:  Additional notes from David:
-          I think there's two areas where new configuration would be needed. 
-
-          1) Identify a "SD mux" SD (specify it in the config just like a
-          normal SD. The SD configuration would need something like a
-          "Daemon Type = Normal/Mux" keyword to identify it as a
-          multiplexor.  (The director code would need modification to add
-          the ability to do the multiple session setup, but the impact of
-          the change would be new code that was invoked only when a SDmux is
-          needed).
-
-          2) Additional keywords in the Pool definition to identify the need
-          to create copies.  Each pool would acquire a Copypool= attribute
-          (may be repeated to generate more than one copy.  3 is about the
-          practical limit, but no point in hardcoding that).
-
-          Example:
-          Pool {
-            Name = Primary
-            Pool Type = Backup
-            Copypool = Copy1
-            Copypool = OffsiteCopy2
-          }
-
-          where Copy1 and OffsiteCopy2 are valid pools.
-
-          In terms of function (shorthand): Backup job X is defined
-          normally, specifying pool Primary as the pool to use.  Job gets
-          scheduled, and Bacula starts scheduling resources.  Scheduler
-          looks at pool definition for Primary, sees that there are a
-          non-zero number of copypool keywords.  The director then connects
-          to an available SDmux, passes it the pool ids for Primary, Copy1,
-          and OffsiteCopy2 and waits.  SDmux then goes out and reserves
-          devices and volumes in the normal SDs that serve Primary, Copy1
-          and OffsiteCopy2.  When all are ready, the SDmux signals ready
-          back to the director, and the FD is given the address of the SDmux
-          as the SD to communicate with.  Backup proceeds normally, with the
-          SDmux duplicating blocks to each connected normal SD, and
-          returning ready when all defined copies have been written.  At
-          EOJ, FD shuts down connection with SDmux, which closes down the
-          normal SD connections and goes back to an idle state.  SDmux does
-          not update database; normal SDs do (noting that file is present on
-          each volume it has been written to).
-
-          On restore, director looks for the volume containing the file in
-          pool Primary first, then Copy1, then OffsiteCopy2.  If the volume
-          holding the file in pool Primary is missing or busy (being written
-          in another job, etc), or one of the volumes from the copypool list
-          that have the file in question is already mounted and ready for
-          some reason, use it to do the restore, else mount one of the
-          copypool volumes and proceed.
-
-
-Item  9:  Scheduling syntax that permits more flexibility and options
-   Date:  15 December 2006
-  Origin: Gregory Brauer (greg at wildbrain dot com) and
-          Florian Schnabel <florian.schnabel at docufy dot de>
-  Status:
-
-   What:  Currently, Bacula only understands how to deal with weeks of the
-          month or weeks of the year in schedules.  This makes it impossible
-          to do a true weekly rotation of tapes.  There will always be a
-          discontinuity that will require disruptive manual intervention at
-          least monthly or yearly because week boundaries never align with
-          month or year boundaries.
-
-          A solution would be to add a new syntax that defines (at least)
-          a start timestamp, and repetition period.
-
-          An easy option to skip a certain job  on a certain date.
-   
-
-     Why: Rotated backups done at weekly intervals are useful, and Bacula
-          cannot currently do them without extensive hacking.
-
-          You could then easily skip tape backups on holidays.  Especially
-          if you got no autochanger and can only fit one backup on a tape
-          that would be really handy, other jobs could proceed normally
-          and you won't get errors that way.
-
-
-   Notes: Here is an example syntax showing a 3-week rotation where full
-          Backups would be performed every week on Saturday, and an
-          incremental would be performed every week on Tuesday.  Each
-          set of tapes could be removed from the loader for the following
-          two cycles before coming back and being reused on the third
-          week.  Since the execution times are determined by intervals
-          from a given point in time, there will never be any issues with
-          having to adjust to any sort of arbitrary time boundary.  In
-          the example provided, I even define the starting schedule
-          as crossing both a year and a month boundary, but the run times
-          would be based on the "Repeat" value and would therefore happen
-          weekly as desired.
-
-
-          Schedule {
-              Name = "Week 1 Rotation"
-              #Saturday.  Would run Dec 30, Jan 20, Feb 10, etc.
-              Run {
-                  Options {
-                      Type   = Full
-                      Start  = 2006-12-30 01:00
-                      Repeat = 3w
-                  }
-              }
-              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 2, Jan 23, Feb 13, etc.
-              Run {
-                  Options {
-                      Type   = Incremental
-                      Start  = 2007-01-02 01:00
-                      Repeat = 3w
-                  }
-              }
-          }
-
-          Schedule {
-              Name = "Week 2 Rotation"
-              #Saturday.  Would run Jan 6, Jan 27, Feb 17, etc.
-              Run {
-                  Options {
-                      Type   = Full
-                      Start  = 2007-01-06 01:00
-                      Repeat = 3w
-                  }
-              }
-              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 9, Jan 30, Feb 20, etc.
-              Run {
-                  Options {
-                      Type   = Incremental
-                      Start  = 2007-01-09 01:00
-                      Repeat = 3w
-                  }
-              }
-          }
-
-          Schedule {
-              Name = "Week 3 Rotation"
-              #Saturday.  Would run Jan 13, Feb 3, Feb 24, etc.
-              Run {
-                  Options {
-                      Type   = Full
-                      Start  = 2007-01-13 01:00
-                      Repeat = 3w
-                  }
-              }
-              #Tuesday.  Would run Jan 16, Feb 6, Feb 27, etc.
-              Run {
-                  Options {
-                      Type   = Incremental
-                      Start  = 2007-01-16 01:00
-                      Repeat = 3w
-                  }
-              }
-          }
-
-   Notes: Kern: I have merged the previously separate project of skipping 
-          jobs (via Schedule syntax) into this.
-
-
-Item 10:  Message mailing based on backup types
- Origin:  Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
-   Date:  January 6, 2006
- Status:
-
-   What:  In the "Messages" resource definitions, allowing messages
-          to be mailed based on the type (backup, restore, etc.) and level
-          (full, differential, etc) of job that created the originating
-          message(s).
-
- Why:     It would, for example, allow someone's boss to be emailed
-          automatically only when a Full Backup job runs, so he can
-          retrieve the tapes for offsite storage, even if the IT dept.
-          doesn't (or can't) explicitly notify him.  At the same time, his
-          mailbox wouldnt be filled by notifications of Verifies, Restores,
-          or Incremental/Differential Backups (which would likely be kept
-          onsite).
-
- Notes:   One way this could be done is through additional message types, for example:
-
-   Messages {
-     # email the boss only on full system backups
-     Mail = boss@mycompany.com = full, !incremental, !differential, !restore, 
-            !verify, !admin
-     # email us only when something breaks
-     MailOnError = itdept@mycompany.com = all
-   }
-
-   Notes: Kern: This should be rather trivial to implement.
-
-
-Item 11:  Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications
- Origin:  Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
- Date:    18 Dec 2006
- Status:
- What:    Cause Bacula daemons (dir, fd, sd) to always use the ip address
-          specified in the [DIR|DF|SD]Addr directive as the source IP
-          for initiating communication.
- Why:     On complex networks, as well as extremely secure networks, it's
-          not unusual to have multiple possible routes through the network.
-          Often, each of these routes is secured by different policies
-          (effectively, firewalls allow or deny different traffic depending
-          on the source address)
-          Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult or impossible to
-          represent this in a system routing table, as the result is
-          excessive subnetting that quickly exhausts available IP space.
-          The best available workaround is to provide multiple IPs to
-          a single machine that are all on the same subnet.  In order
-          for this to work properly, applications must support the ability
-          to bind outgoing connections to a specified address, otherwise
-          the operating system will always choose the first IP that
-          matches the required route.
- Notes:   Many other programs support this.  For example, the following
-          can be configured in BIND:
-          query-source address 10.0.0.1;
-          transfer-source 10.0.0.2;
-          Which means queries from this server will always come from
-          10.0.0.1 and zone transfers will always originate from
-          10.0.0.2.
-
-
-Item 12:  Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: Partially coded in 1.37 -- much more to do.
-
-  What:   Allow users to specify wild-card and/or regular
-          expressions to be matched in both the Include and
-          Exclude directives in a FileSet.  At the same time,
-          allow users to define plug-ins to be called (based on
-          regular expression/wild-card matching).
-
-  Why:    This would give the users the ultimate ability to control
-          how files are backed up/restored.  A user could write a
-          plug-in knows how to backup his Oracle database without
-          stopping/starting it, for example.
-
-
-Item 13:  Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
-  Origin: Eric Bollengier
-  Date:   30/12/2006
-  Status: Implemented by Eric, see project-restore-attributes-only.patch
-
-  What:   The goal of this project is to be able to restore only rights
-          and attributes of files without crushing them.
-
-  Why:    Who have never had to repair a chmod -R 777, or a wild update
-          of recursive right under Windows? At this time, you must have
-          enough space to restore data, dump attributes (easy with acl,
-          more complex with unix/windows rights) and apply them to your 
-          broken tree. With this options, it will be very easy to compare
-          right or ACL over the time.
-
-  Notes:  If the file is here, we skip restore and we change rights.
-          If the file isn't here, we can create an empty one and apply
-          rights or do nothing.
-
-          This will not work with win32 stream, because it seems that we 
-          can't split the WriteBackup stream to get only ACL and ownerchip.
-
-Item 14:  Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types
-Date:     19 Jan 2005
-Origin:   Chad Slater <chad.slater@clickfox.com>
-Status: 
-                                                
-  What:   Adding a FullStorage=BigTapeLibrary in the Schedule resource
-          would help those of us who use different storage devices for different
-          backup levels cope with the "auto-upgrade" of a backup.
-
-  Why:    Assume I add several new devices to be backed up, i.e. several
-          hosts with 1TB RAID.  To avoid tape switching hassles, incrementals are
-          stored in a disk set on a 2TB RAID.  If you add these devices in the
-          middle of the month, the incrementals are upgraded to "full" backups,
-          but they try to use the same storage device as requested in the
-          incremental job, filling up the RAID holding the differentials.  If we
-          could override the Storage parameter for full and/or differential
-          backups, then the Full job would use the proper Storage device, which
-          has more capacity (i.e. a 8TB tape library.
-
-
-Item 15:  Implement more Python events and functions
-  Date:   28 October 2005
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: Project abandoned in favor of plugins.
-
-  What:   Allow Python scripts to be called at more places 
-          within Bacula and provide additional access to Bacula
-          internal variables.
-
-          Implement an interface for Python scripts to access the
-          catalog through Bacula.
-
-  Why:    This will permit users to customize Bacula through
-          Python scripts.
-
-  Notes:  Recycle event
-          Scratch pool event
-          NeedVolume event
-          MediaFull event
-           
-          Also add a way to get a listing of currently running
-          jobs (possibly also scheduled jobs).
-
-
-          to start the appropriate job.
-
-
-Item 16:  Allow inclusion/exclusion of files in a fileset by creation/mod times
-  Origin: Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
-  Date:   January 11, 2006
-  Status:
-
-  What:   In the vein of the Wild and Regex directives in a Fileset's
-          Options, it would be helpful to allow a user to include or exclude
-          files and directories by creation or modification times.
-
-          You could factor the Exclude=yes|no option in much the same way it
-          affects the Wild and Regex directives.  For example, you could exclude
-          all files modified before a certain date:
-
-   Options {
-     Exclude = yes
-     Modified Before = ####
-   }
-
-           Or you could exclude all files created/modified since a certain date:
-
-   Options {
-      Exclude = yes
-     Created Modified Since = ####
-   }
-
-           The format of the time/date could be done several ways, say the number
-           of seconds since the epoch:
-           1137008553 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # result of `date +%s`
-
-           Or a human readable date in a cryptic form:
-           20060111134233 = Jan 11 2006, 1:42:33PM   # YYYYMMDDhhmmss
-
-  Why:    I imagine a feature like this could have many uses. It would
-          allow a user to do a full backup while excluding the base operating
-          system files, so if I installed a Linux snapshot from a CD yesterday,
-          I'll *exclude* all files modified *before* today.  If I need to
-          recover the system, I use the CD I already have, plus the tape backup.
-          Or if, say, a Windows client is hit by a particularly corrosive
-          virus, and I need to *exclude* any files created/modified *since* the
-          time of infection.
-
-  Notes:  Of course, this feature would work in concert with other
-          in/exclude rules, and wouldnt override them (or each other).
-
-  Notes:  The directives I'd imagine would be along the lines of
-          "[Created] [Modified] [Before|Since] = <date>".
-          So one could compare against 'ctime' and/or 'mtime', but ONLY 'before'
-           or 'since'.
-
-        
-Item 17:  Automatic promotion of backup levels based on backup size
-   Date:  19 January 2006
-  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
-  Status: 
-
-    What: Amanda has a feature whereby it estimates the space that a  
-          differential, incremental, and full backup would take.  If the  
-          difference in space required between the scheduled level and the next  
-          level up is beneath some user-defined critical threshold, the backup  
-          level is bumped to the next type.  Doing this minimizes the number of  
-          volumes necessary during a restore, with a fairly minimal cost in  
-          backup media space.
-
-    Why:  I know at least one (quite sophisticated and smart) user  
-          for whom the absence of this feature is a deal-breaker in terms of  
-          using Bacula; if we had it it would eliminate the one cool thing  
-          Amanda can do and we can't (at least, the one cool thing I know of).
-
-
-Item 18:  Better control over Job execution
-   Date:  18 August 2007
-  Origin: Kern
-  Status: 
-
-    What: Bacula needs a few extra features for better Job execution:
-          1. A way to prevent multiple Jobs of the same name from
-             being scheduled at the same time (ususally happens when
-             a job is missed because a client is down).
-          2. Directives that permit easier upgrading of Job types
-             based on a period of time. I.e. "do a Full at least
-             once every 2 weeks", or "do a differential at least
-             once a week". If a lower level job is scheduled when
-             it begins to run it will be upgraded depending on
-             the specified criteria.
-
-    Why:  Obvious.
-   
-
-Item 19:  Automatic disabling of devices
-   Date:  2005-11-11
-  Origin: Peter Eriksson <peter at ifm.liu dot se>
-  Status:
-
-   What:  After a configurable amount of fatal errors with a tape drive
-          Bacula should automatically disable further use of a certain
-          tape drive. There should also be "disable"/"enable" commands in
-          the "bconsole" tool.
-
-   Why:   On a multi-drive jukebox there is a possibility of tape drives
-          going bad during large backups (needing a cleaning tape run,
-          tapes getting stuck). It would be advantageous if Bacula would
-          automatically disable further use of a problematic tape drive
-          after a configurable amount of errors has occurred.
-
-          An example: I have a multi-drive jukebox (6 drives, 380+ slots)
-          where tapes occasionally get stuck inside the drive. Bacula will
-          notice that the "mtx-changer" command will fail and then fail
-          any backup jobs trying to use that drive. However, it will still
-          keep on trying to run new jobs using that drive and fail -
-          forever, and thus failing lots and lots of jobs... Since we have
-          many drives Bacula could have just automatically disabled
-          further use of that drive and used one of the other ones
-          instead.
-
-Item 20:  An option to operate on all pools with update vol parameters
-  Origin: Dmitriy Pinchukov <absh@bossdev.kiev.ua>
-   Date:  16 August 2006
-  Status: Patch made by  Nigel Stepp
-
-   What:  When I do update -> Volume parameters -> All Volumes
-          from Pool, then I have to select pools one by one.  I'd like
-          console to have an option like "0: All Pools" in the list of
-          defined pools.
-
-   Why:   I have many pools and therefore unhappy with manually
-          updating each of them using update -> Volume parameters -> All
-          Volumes from Pool -> pool #.
-
-
-Item 21:  Include timestamp of job launch in "stat clients" output
-  Origin: Mark Bergman <mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu>
-  Date:   Tue Aug 22 17:13:39 EDT 2006
-  Status:
-
-  What:   The "stat clients" command doesn't include any detail on when
-          the active backup jobs were launched.
-
-  Why:    Including the timestamp would make it much easier to decide whether
-          a job is running properly. 
-
-  Notes:  It may be helpful to have the output from "stat clients" formatted 
-          more like that from "stat dir" (and other commands), in a column
-          format. The per-client information that's currently shown (level,
-          client name, JobId, Volume, pool, device, Files, etc.) is good, but
-          somewhat hard to parse (both programmatically and visually), 
-          particularly when there are many active clients.
-
-
-
-Item 22:  Implement Storage daemon compression
-  Date:   18 December 2006
-  Origin: Vadim A. Umanski , e-mail umanski@ext.ru
-  Status:
-  What:   The ability to compress backup data on the SD receiving data
-          instead of doing that on client sending data.
-  Why:    The need is practical. I've got some machines that can send
-          data to the network 4 or 5 times faster than compressing
-          them (I've measured that). They're using fast enough SCSI/FC
-          disk subsystems but rather slow CPUs (ex. UltraSPARC II).
-          And the backup server has got a quite fast CPUs (ex. Dual P4
-          Xeons) and quite a low load. When you have 20, 50 or 100 GB
-          of raw data - running a job 4 to 5 times faster - that
-          really matters. On the other hand, the data can be
-          compressed 50% or better - so losing twice more space for
-          disk backup is not good at all. And the network is all mine
-          (I have a dedicated management/provisioning network) and I
-          can get as high bandwidth as I need - 100Mbps, 1000Mbps...
-          That's why the server-side compression feature is needed!
-  Notes:
-
-Item 23:  Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management 
-  Date:   8 November 2005, November 11, 2005
-  Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton at sinenomine dot net>,
-          Arno Lehmann <al at its-lehmann dot de>
-  Status:
-
-  What:   Make Bacula manage tape life cycle information, tape reuse
-          times and drive cleaning cycles.
-
-  Why:    All three parts of this project are important when operating
-          backups.
-          We need to know which tapes need replacement, and we need to
-          make sure the drives are cleaned when necessary.  While many
-          tape libraries and even autoloaders can handle all this
-          automatically, support by Bacula can be helpful for smaller
-          (older) libraries and single drives.  Limiting the number of
-          times a tape is used might prevent tape errors when using
-          tapes until the drives can't read it any more.  Also, checking
-          drive status during operation can prevent some failures (as I
-          [Arno] had to learn the hard way...)
-
-  Notes:  First, Bacula could (and even does, to some limited extent)
-          record tape and drive usage.  For tapes, the number of mounts,
-          the amount of data, and the time the tape has actually been
-          running could be recorded.  Data fields for Read and Write
-          time and Number of mounts already exist in the catalog (I'm
-          not sure if VolBytes is the sum of all bytes ever written to
-          that volume by Bacula).  This information can be important
-          when determining which media to replace.  The ability to mark
-          Volumes as "used up" after a given number of write cycles
-          should also be implemented so that a tape is never actually
-          worn out.  For the tape drives known to Bacula, similar
-          information is interesting to determine the device status and
-          expected life time: Time it's been Reading and Writing, number
-          of tape Loads / Unloads / Errors.  This information is not yet
-          recorded as far as I [Arno] know.  A new volume status would
-          be necessary for the new state, like "Used up" or "Worn out".
-          Volumes with this state could be used for restores, but not
-          for writing. These volumes should be migrated first (assuming
-          migration is implemented) and, once they are no longer needed,
-          could be moved to a Trash pool.
-
-          The next step would be to implement a drive cleaning setup.
-          Bacula already has knowledge about cleaning tapes.  Once it
-          has some information about cleaning cycles (measured in drive
-          run time, number of tapes used, or calender days, for example)
-          it can automatically execute tape cleaning (with an
-          autochanger, obviously) or ask for operator assistance loading
-          a cleaning tape.
-
-          The final step would be to implement TAPEALERT checks not only
-          when changing tapes and only sending the information to the
-          administrator, but rather checking after each tape error,
-          checking on a regular basis (for example after each tape
-          file), and also before unloading and after loading a new tape.
-          Then, depending on the drives TAPEALERT state and the known
-          drive cleaning state Bacula could automatically schedule later
-          cleaning, clean immediately, or inform the operator.
-
-          Implementing this would perhaps require another catalog change
-          and perhaps major changes in SD code and the DIR-SD protocol,
-          so I'd only consider this worth implementing if it would
-          actually be used or even needed by many people.
-
-          Implementation of these projects could happen in three distinct
-          sub-projects: Measuring Tape and Drive usage, retiring
-          volumes, and handling drive cleaning and TAPEALERTs.
-
-Item 24:  Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
-  Date:   27 November 2005
-  Origin: Ove Risberg (Ove.Risberg at octocode dot com)
-  Status:
-
-  What:   I want the file daemon to start multiple threads for a backup
-          job so the fastest possible backup can be made.
-
-          The file daemon could parse the FileSet information and start
-          one thread for each File entry located on a separate
-          filesystem.
-
-          A confiuration option in the job section should be used to
-          enable or disable this feature. The confgutration option could
-          specify the maximum number of threads in the file daemon.
-
-          If the theads could spool the data to separate spool files
-          the restore process will not be much slower.
-
-  Why:    Multiple concurrent backups of a large fileserver with many
-          disks and controllers will be much faster.
-
-Item 25:  Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
-  Date:   Nov. 24/2005 
-  Origin: Ray Pengelly [ray at biomed dot queensu dot ca
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   The ability to archive data to storage based on certain parameters
-          such as age, size, or location.  Once the data has been written to
-          storage and logged it is then pruned from the originating
-          filesystem. Note! We are talking about user's files and not
-          Bacula Volumes.
-
-  Why:    This would allow fully automatic storage management which becomes
-          useful for large datastores.  It would also allow for auto-staging
-          from one media type to another.
-
-          Example 1) Medical imaging needs to store large amounts of data.
-          They decide to keep data on their servers for 6 months and then put
-          it away for long term storage.  The server then finds all files
-          older than 6 months writes them to tape.  The files are then removed
-          from the server.
-
-          Example 2) All data that hasn't been accessed in 2 months could be
-          moved from high-cost, fibre-channel disk storage to a low-cost
-          large-capacity SATA disk storage pool which doesn't have as quick of
-          access time.  Then after another 6 months (or possibly as one
-          storage pool gets full) data is migrated to Tape.
-
-
-Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file contexts
-   Date: 28 December 2007
-   Origin: Frank Sweetser <fs@wpi.edu>
-   Status: Done
-   What: The ability to store and restore extended attributes on
-         filesystems that support them, such as ext3.
-
-   Why: Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) enabled systems make extensive
-        use of extended attributes.  In addition to the standard user,
-        group, and permission, each file has an associated SELinux context
-        stored as an extended attribute.  This context is used to define
-        which operations a given program is permitted to perform on that
-        file.  Storing contexts on an SELinux system is as critical as
-        storing ownership and permissions.  In the case of a full system
-        restore, the system will not even be able to boot until all
-        critical system files have been properly relabeled.
-
- Notes: Fedora ships with a version of tar that has been patched to handle
-        extended attributes.  The patch has not been integrated upstream
-        yet, so could serve as a good starting point.
-
-        http://linux.die.net/man/2/getxattr
-        http://linux.die.net/man/2/setxattr
-        http://linux.die.net/man/2/listxattr
-        ===
-        http://linux.die.net/man/3/getfilecon
-        http://linux.die.net/man/3/setfilecon
-
-Item 27:  make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
-          manual/interactive jobs
-  Origin: Marc Schiffbauer <marc@schiffbauer.net>
-  Date:   12 April 2007)
-  Status: Done
-
-  What:   Make it possible to modify the spooldata option
-          for a job when being run from within the console.
-          Currently it is possible to modify the backup level
-          and the spooldata setting in a Schedule resource.
-          It is also possible to modify the backup level when using
-          the "run" command in the console. 
-          But it is currently not possible to to the same 
-          with "spooldata=yes|no" like:
-
-          run job=MyJob level=incremental spooldata=yes
-
-  Why:    In some situations it would be handy to be able to switch
-          spooldata on or off for interactive/manual jobs based on
-          which data the admin expects or how fast the LAN/WAN
-          connection currently is.
-
-  Notes:  ./.
-
-Item 28:  Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
-Date:     16 September 2008
-Origin:   Franck (xeoslaenor at gmail dot com)
-Status:   Done
-What:     The ability to modify the last written date for a volume
-Why:      It's sometime necessary to jump a volume when you have a pool of volume
-          which recycles the oldest volume at each backup.
-          Sometime, it needs to cancel a set of backup (one day
-          backup, completely) and we want to avoid that bacula
-          choose the volume (which is not written at all) from
-          the cancelled backup (It has to jump to next volume).
-          in this case, we just need to update the written date
-          manually to avoir the "oldest volume" purge.
-Notes:    An option can be add to "update volume" command (like 'written date'
-          choice for example)
-
-
-========= New Items since the last vote =================
-
-Item 26: Add a new directive to bacula-dir.conf which permits inclusion of all subconfiguration files in a given directory
-Date:   18 October 2008
-Origin: Database, Lda. Maputo, Mozambique
-Contact:Cameron Smith / cameron.ord@database.co.mz 
-Status: New request
-
-What: A directive something like "IncludeConf = /etc/bacula/subconfs" Every
-      time Bacula Director restarts or reloads, it will walk the given
-      directory (non-recursively) and include the contents of any files
-      therein, as though they were appended to bacula-dir.conf
-
-Why: Permits simplified and safer configuration for larger installations with
-      many client PCs.  Currently, through judicious use of JobDefs and
-      similar directives, it is possible to reduce the client-specific part of
-      a configuration to a minimum.  The client-specific directives can be
-      prepared according to a standard template and dropped into a known
-      directory.  However it is still necessary to add a line to the "master"
-      (bacula-dir.conf) referencing each new file.  This exposes the master to
-      unnecessary risk of accidental mistakes and makes automation of adding
-      new client-confs, more difficult (it is easier to automate dropping a
-      file into a dir, than rewriting an existing file).  Ken has previously
-      made a convincing argument for NOT including Bacula's core configuration
-      in an RDBMS, but I believe that the present request is a reasonable
-      extension to the current "flat-file-based" configuration philosophy.
- 
-Notes: There is NO need for any special syntax to these files.  They should
-       contain standard directives which are simply "inlined" to the parent
-       file as already happens when you explicitly reference an external file.
-
- Item n: List inChanger flag when doing restore.
- Origin: Jesper Krogh<jesper@krogh.cc>
-   Date:   17 oct. 2008
- Status:
-
-   What: When doing a restore the restore selection dialog ends by telling stuff 
-      like this:
-  The job will require the following
-   Volume(s)                 Storage(s)                SD Device(s)
-   ===========================================================================
-    000741L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    000866L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    000765L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    000764L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    000756L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    001759L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    001763L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    001762L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-    001767L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-   When having an autochanger, it would be really nice with an inChanger 
-   column so the operator knew if this restore job would stop waiting for 
-   operator intervention. This is done just by selecting the inChanger flag 
-   from the catalog and printing it in a seperate column.
-
-
-   Why:    This would help getting large restores through minimizing the 
-      time spent waiting for operator to drop by and change tapes in the library.
-
-  Notes: [Kern] I think it would also be good to have the Slot as well,
-      or some indication that Bacula thinks the volume is in the autochanger
-      because it depends on both the InChanger flag and the Slot being
-      valid.
-
-
-Item 1:   Implement an interface between Bacula and Amazon's S3.
-  Date:   25 August 2008
-  Origin: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
-  Status: Not started.
-  What:   Enable the storage daemon to store backup data on Amazon's
-          S3 service.
-
-  Why:    Amazon's S3 is a cheap way to store data off-site. Current
-          ways to integrate Bacula and S3 involve storing all the data
-          locally and syncing them to S3, and manually fetching them
-          again when they're needed. This is very cumbersome.
-
-
-Item 1:   enable/disable compression depending on storage device (disk/tape)
-  Origin: Ralf Gross ralf-lists@ralfgross.de
-  Date:   2008-01-11
-  Status: Initial Request
-
-  What: Add a new option to the storage resource of the director.  Depending
-          on this option, compression will be enabled/disabled for a device.
-
-  Why: If different devices (disks/tapes) are used for full/diff/incr
-          backups, software compression will be enabled for all backups
-          because of the FileSet compression option.  For backup to tapes
-          wich are able to do hardware compression this is not desired.
-          
-
-  Notes:
-         http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/cutoff=11124
-         It must be clear to the user, that the FileSet compression option
-         must still be enabled use compression for a backup job at all.
-         Thus a name for the new option in the director must be
-         well-defined.
-
-  Notes: KES I think the Storage definition should probably override what
-         is in the Job definition or vice-versa, but in any case, it must
-         be well defined.
-
-
-Item 1: Backup and Restore of Windows Encrypted Files through raw encryption
-        functions
-
-  Origin: Michael Mohr, SAG  Mohr.External@infineon.com
-  
-  Date:   22 February 2008
-  
-  Status:
-
-  What: Make it possible to backup and restore Encypted Files from and to
-          Windows systems without the need to decrypt it by using the raw
-          encryption functions API (see:
-          http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx)
-
-          that is provided for that reason by Microsoft.
-          If a file ist encrypted could be examined by evaluating the 
-          FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYTED flag of the GetFileAttributes
-          function.
-
-  Why:    Without the usage of this interface the fd-daemon running
-          under the system account can't read encypted Files because
-          the key needed for the decrytion is missed by them. As a result 
-          actually encrypted files are not backed up
-          by bacula and also no error is shown while missing these files.
-
-  Notes:  ./.
-
-   Item 1: Possibilty to schedule Jobs on last Friday of the month
-   Origin: Carsten Menke <bootsy52 at gmx dot net>
-   Date:   02 March 2008
-   Status:
-
-   What: Currently if you want to run your monthly Backups on the last
-           Friday of each month this is only possible with workarounds (e.g
-           scripting) (As some months got 4 Fridays and some got 5 Fridays)
-           The same is true if you plan to run your yearly Backups on the
-           last Friday of the year.  It would be nice to have the ability to
-           use the builtin scheduler for this.
-
-   Why:    In many companies the last working day of the week is Friday (or 
-           Saturday), so to get the most data of the month onto the monthly
-           tape, the employees are advised to insert the tape for the
-           monthly backups on the last friday of the month.
-
-   Notes: To give this a complete functionality it would be nice if the
-           "first" and "last" Keywords could be implemented in the
-           scheduler, so it is also possible to run monthy backups at the
-           first friday of the month and many things more.  So if the syntax
-           would expand to this {first|last} {Month|Week|Day|Mo-Fri} of the
-           {Year|Month|Week} you would be able to run really flexible jobs.
-
-           To got a certain Job run on the last Friday of the Month for example one could 
-           then write
-
-              Run = pool=Monthly last Fri of the Month at 23:50
-
-              ## Yearly Backup
-
-              Run = pool=Yearly last Fri of the Year at 23:50
-
-              ## Certain Jobs the last Week of a Month
-
-              Run = pool=LastWeek last Week of the Month at 23:50
-
-              ## Monthly Backup on the last day of the month
-
-              Run = pool=Monthly last Day of the Month at 23:50
-
-   Date: 20 March 2008
-
-   Origin: Frank Sweetser <fs@wpi.edu>
-
-   What: Add a new SD directive, "minimum spool size" (or similar).  This
-         directive would specify a minimum level of free space available for
-         spooling.  If the unused spool space is less than this level, any
-         new spooling requests would be blocked as if the "maximum spool
-         size" threshold had bee reached.  Already spooling jobs would be
-         unaffected by this directive.
-
-   Why: I've been bitten by this scenario a couple of times:
-
-        Assume a maximum spool size of 100M. Two concurrent jobs, A and B,
-        are both running.  Due to timing quirks and previously running jobs,
-        job A has used 99.9M of space in the spool directory.  While A is
-        busy despooling to disk, B is happily using the remaining 0.1M of
-        spool space.  This ends up in a spool/despool sequence every 0.1M of
-        data.  In addition to fragmenting the data on the volume far more
-        than was necessary, in larger data sets (ie, tens or hundreds of
-        gigabytes) it can easily produce multi-megabyte report emails!
-
-   Item n?: Expand the Verify Job capability to verify Jobs older than the 
-   last one. For VolumeToCatalog Jobs
-   Date: 17 Januar 2008
-   Origin: portrix.net Hamburg, Germany.
-   Contact: Christian Sabelmann
-   Status: 70% of the required Code is part of the Verify function since v. 2.x
-
-   What:
-   The ability to tell Bacula which Job should verify instead of 
-   automatically verify just the last one.
-
-   Why: 
-   It is sad that such a powerfull feature like Verify Jobs
-   (VolumeToCatalog) is restricted to be used only with the last backup Job
-   of a client.  Actual users who have to do daily Backups are forced to
-   also do daily Verify Jobs in order to take advantage of this useful
-   feature.  This Daily Verify after Backup conduct is not always desired
-   and Verify Jobs have to be sometimes scheduled.  (Not necessarily
-   scheduled in Bacula).  With this feature Admins can verify Jobs once a
-   Week or less per month, selecting the Jobs they want to verify.  This
-   feature is also not to difficult to implement taking in account older bug
-   reports about this feature and the selection of the Job to be verified.
-          
-   Notes: For the verify Job, the user could select the Job to be verified 
-   from a List of the latest Jobs of a client. It would also be possible to 
-   verify a certain volume.  All of these would naturaly apply only for 
-   Jobs whose file information are still in the catalog.
-
-Item X:   Add EFS support on Windows
-   Origin: Alex Ehrlich (Alex.Ehrlich-at-mail.ee)
-   Date:   05 August 2008
-   Status:
-
-   What:   For each file backed up or restored by FD on Windows, check if
-           the file is encrypted; if so then use OpenEncryptedFileRaw,
-           ReadEncryptedFileRaw, WriteEncryptedFileRaw,
-           CloseEncryptedFileRaw instead of BackupRead and BackupWrite
-           API calls.
-
-   Why:    Many laptop users utilize the EFS functionality today; so do.
-           some non-laptop ones, too.
-           Currently files encrypted by means of EFS cannot be backed up.
-           It means a Windows boutique cannot rely on Bacula as its
-           backup solution, at least when using Windows 2K, XPP,
-           "better" Vista etc on workstations, unless EFS is
-           forbidden by policies.
-           The current situation might result into "false sense of
-           security" among the end-users.
-
-   Notes:  Using xxxEncryptedFileRaw API would allow to backup and
-           restore EFS-encrypted files without decrypting their data.
-           Note that such files cannot be restored "portably" (at least,
-           easily) but they would be restoreable to a different (or
-           reinstalled) Win32 machine; the restore would require setup
-           of a EFS recovery agent in advance, of course, and this shall
-           be clearly reflected in the documentation, but this is the
-           normal Windows SysAdmin's business.
-           When "portable" backup is requested the EFS-encrypted files
-           shall be clearly reported as errors.
-           See MSDN on the "Backup and Restore of Encrypted Files" topic:
-           http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363783.aspx
-           Maybe the EFS support requires a new flag in the database for
-           each file, too?
-           Unfortunately, the implementation is not as straightforward as
-           1-to-1 replacement of BackupRead with ReadEncryptedFileRaw,
-           requiring some FD code rewrite to work with
-           encrypted-file-related callback functions.
-
-                                                                                                                                                                                              encrypted-file-related callback functions.
-========== Already implemented ================================
-
-
-============= Empty Feature Request form ===========
-Item  n:  One line summary ...
-  Date:   Date submitted 
-  Origin: Name and email of originator.
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   More detailed explanation ...
-
-  Why:    Why it is important ...
-
-  Notes:  Additional notes or features (omit if not used)
-============== End Feature Request form ==============
-
-========== Items on put hold by Kern ============================
-
-Item h1:  Split documentation
-  Origin: Maxx <maxxatworkat gmail dot com>
-  Date:   27th July 2006
-  Status: Approved, awaiting implementation
-
-  What:   Split documentation in several books
-
-  Why:    Bacula manual has now more than 600 pages, and looking for
-          implementation details is getting complicated.  I think
-          it would be good to split the single volume in two or
-          maybe three parts:
-
-          1) Introduction, requirements and tutorial, typically
-             are useful only until first installation time
-
-          2) Basic installation and configuration, with all the
-             gory details about the directives supported 3)
-             Advanced Bacula: testing, troubleshooting, GUI and
-             ancillary programs, security managements, scripting,
-             etc.
-
-  Notes:  This is a project that needs to be done, and will be implemented,
-          but it is really a developer issue of timing, and does not 
-          needed to be included in the voting.
-
-
-Item h2:  Implement support for stacking arbitrary stream filters, sinks.
-Date:     23 November 2006
-Origin:   Landon Fuller <landonf@threerings.net>
-Status:   Planning. Assigned to landonf.
-
-  What:   Implement support for the following:
-          - Stacking arbitrary stream filters (eg, encryption, compression,  
-            sparse data handling))
-          - Attaching file sinks to terminate stream filters (ie, write out  
-            the resultant data to a file)
-          - Refactor the restoration state machine accordingly
-
-   Why: The existing stream implementation suffers from the following: - All
-           state (compression, encryption, stream restoration), is
-             global across the entire restore process, for all streams. There are  
-             multiple entry and exit points in the restoration state machine, and  
-             thus multiple places where state must be allocated, deallocated,  
-             initialized, or reinitialized. This results in exceptional complexity  
-             for the author of a stream filter.
-           - The developer must enumerate all possible combinations of filters  
-             and stream types (ie, win32 data with encryption, without encryption,  
-             with encryption AND compression, etc).
-
-  Notes: This feature request only covers implementing the stream filters/
-          sinks, and refactoring the file daemon's restoration
-          implementation accordingly.  If I have extra time, I will also
-          rewrite the backup implementation.  My intent in implementing the
-          restoration first is to solve pressing bugs in the restoration
-          handling, and to ensure that the new restore implementation
-          handles existing backups correctly.
-
-          I do not plan on changing the network or tape data structures to  
-          support defining arbitrary stream filters, but supporting that  
-          functionality is the ultimate goal.
-
-          Assistance with either code or testing would be fantastic.
-
-  Notes:  Kern: this project has a lot of merit, and we need to do it, but
-          it is really an issue for developers rather than a new feature
-          for users, so I have removed it from the voting list, but kept it
-          here, but at some point, it will be implemented.
-
-Item h3:  Filesystem watch triggered backup.
-  Date:   31 August 2006
-  Origin: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   With inotify and similar filesystem triggeret notification
-          systems is it possible to have the file-daemon to monitor
-          filesystem changes and initiate backup.
-
-  Why:    There are 2 situations where this is nice to have.
-          1) It is possible to get a much finer-grained backup than
-             the fixed schedules used now.. A file created and deleted
-             a few hours later, can automatically be caught.
-
-          2) The introduced load on the system will probably be
-             distributed more even on the system.
-
-  Notes:  This can be combined with configration that specifies
-          something like: "at most every 15 minutes or when changes
-          consumed XX MB".
-
-Kern Notes: I would rather see this implemented by an external program
-          that monitors the Filesystem changes, then uses the console
-
-
-Item h4:  Directive/mode to backup only file changes, not entire file
-  Date:   11 November 2005
-  Origin: Joshua Kugler <joshua dot kugler at uaf dot edu>
-          Marek Bajon <mbajon at bimsplus dot com dot pl>
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   Currently when a file changes, the entire file will be backed up in
-          the next incremental or full backup.  To save space on the tapes
-          it would be nice to have a mode whereby only the changes to the
-          file would be backed up when it is changed.
-
-  Why:    This would save lots of space when backing up large files such as 
-          logs, mbox files, Outlook PST files and the like.
-
-  Notes:  This would require the usage of disk-based volumes as comparing 
-          files would not be feasible using a tape drive.
-
-  Notes:  Kern: I don't know how to implement this. Put on hold until someone
-          provides a detailed implementation plan.
-
-
-Item h5:  Implement multiple numeric backup levels as supported by dump
-Date:     3 April 2006
-Origin:   Daniel Rich <drich@employees.org>
-Status:
-What: Dump allows specification of backup levels numerically instead of just
-          "full", "incr", and "diff".  In this system, at any given level,
-          all files are backed up that were were modified since the last
-          backup of a higher level (with 0 being the highest and 9 being the
-          lowest).  A level 0 is therefore equivalent to a full, level 9 an
-          incremental, and the levels 1 through 8 are varying levels of
-          differentials.  For bacula's sake, these could be represented as
-          "full", "incr", and "diff1", "diff2", etc.
-
-Why: Support of multiple backup levels would provide for more advanced
-          backup rotation schemes such as "Towers of Hanoi".  This would
-          allow better flexibility in performing backups, and can lead to
-          shorter recover times.
-
-Notes:    Legato Networker supports a similar system with full, incr, and 1-9 as
-          levels.
-
-Notes:    Kern: I don't see the utility of this, and it would be a *huge* 
-          modification to existing code.
-
-Item h6:  Implement NDMP protocol support
-  Origin: Alan Davis
-  Date:   06 March 2007
-  Status: 
-
-  What:   Network Data Management Protocol is implemented by a number of
-          NAS filer vendors to enable backups using third-party
-          software.
-
-  Why:    This would allow NAS filer backups in Bacula without incurring
-          the overhead of NFS or SBM/CIFS.
-
-  Notes:  Further information is available:
-          http://www.ndmp.org
-          http://www.ndmp.org/wp/wp.shtml
-          http://www.traakan.com/ndmjob/index.html
-
-          There are currently no viable open-source NDMP
-          implementations.  There is a reference SDK and example
-          app available from ndmp.org but it has problems
-          compiling on recent Linux and Solaris OS'.  The ndmjob
-          reference implementation from Traakan is known to
-          compile on Solaris 10.
-
-  Notes:  Kern: I am not at all in favor of this until NDMP becomes
-          an Open Standard or until there are Open Source libraries
-          that interface to it.
-
-Item h7:  Commercial database support
-  Origin: Russell Howe <russell_howe dot wreckage dot org>
-  Date:   26 July 2006
-  Status:
-
-  What: It would be nice for the database backend to support more databases.
-          I'm thinking of SQL Server at the moment, but I guess Oracle, DB2,
-          MaxDB, etc are all candidates.  SQL Server would presumably be
-          implemented using FreeTDS or maybe an ODBC library?
-
-  Why: We only really have one database server, which is MS SQL Server 2000.
-          Maintaining a second one for the backup software (we grew out of
-          SQLite, which I liked, but which didn't work so well with our
-          database size).  We don't really have a machine with the resources
-          to run postgres, and would rather only maintain a single DBMS.
-          We're stuck with SQL Server because pretty much all the company's
-          custom applications (written by consultants) are locked into SQL
-          Server 2000.  I can imagine this scenario is fairly common, and it
-          would be nice to use the existing properly specced database server
-          for storing Bacula's catalog, rather than having to run a second
-          DBMS.
-
-  Notes: This might be nice, but someone other than me will probably need to
-          implement it, and at the moment, proprietary code cannot legally
-          be mixed with Bacula GPLed code.  This would be possible only
-          providing the vendors provide GPLed (or OpenSource) interface
-          code.
-
-Item h8:  Incorporation of XACML2/SAML2 parsing
-   Date:   19 January 2006
-   Origin: Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>
-   Status: Blue sky
-
-   What: XACML is "eXtensible Access Control Markup Language" and "SAML is
-          the "Security Assertion Markup Language"--an XML standard for
-          making statements about identity and authorization.  Having these
-          would give us a framework to approach ACLs in a generic manner,
-          and in a way flexible enough to support the four major sorts of
-          ACLs I see as a concern to Bacula at this point, as well as
-          (probably) to deal with new sorts of ACLs that may appear in the
-          future.
-
-   Why: Bacula is beginning to need to back up systems with ACLs that do not
-          map cleanly onto traditional Unix permissions.  I see four sets of
-          ACLs--in general, mutually incompatible with one another--that
-          we're going to need to deal with.  These are: NTFS ACLs, POSIX
-          ACLs, NFSv4 ACLS, and AFS ACLS. (Some may question the relevance
-          of AFS; AFS is one of Sine Nomine's core consulting businesses,
-          and having a reputable file-level backup and restore technology
-          for it (as Tivoli is probably going to drop AFS support soon since
-          IBM no longer supports AFS) would be of huge benefit to our
-          customers; we'd most likely create the AFS support at Sine Nomine
-          for inclusion into the Bacula (and perhaps some changes to the
-          OpenAFS volserver) core code.)
-
-          Now, obviously, Bacula already handles NTFS just fine.  However, I
-          think there's a lot of value in implementing a generic ACL model,
-          so that it's easy to support whatever particular instances of ACLs
-          come down the pike: POSIX ACLS (think SELinux) and NFSv4 are the
-          obvious things arriving in the Linux world in a big way in the
-          near future.  XACML, although overcomplicated for our needs,
-          provides this framework, and we should be able to leverage other
-          people's implementations to minimize the amount of work *we* have
-          to do to get a generic ACL framework.  Basically, the costs of
-          implementation are high, but they're largely both external to
-          Bacula and already sunk.
-
-   Notes: As you indicate this is a bit of "blue sky" or in other words,
-          at the moment, it is a bit esoteric to consider for Bacula.
-
-Item h9:  Archive data
-  Date:   15/5/2006
-  Origin: calvin streeting calvin at absentdream dot com
-  Status:
-
-  What:   The abilty to archive to media (dvd/cd) in a uncompressed format
-          for dead filing (archiving not backing up)
-
-    Why: At work when jobs are finished and moved off of the main
-          file servers (raid based systems) onto a simple Linux
-          file server (ide based system) so users can find old
-          information without contacting the IT dept.
-
-          So this data dosn't realy change it only gets added to,
-          But it also needs backing up.  At the moment it takes
-          about 8 hours to back up our servers (working data) so
-          rather than add more time to existing backups i am trying
-          to implement a system where we backup the acrhive data to
-          cd/dvd these disks would only need to be appended to
-          (burn only new/changed files to new disks for off site
-          storage).  basialy understand the differnce between
-          achive data and live data.
-
-  Notes:  Scan the data and email me when it needs burning divide
-          into predefined chunks keep a recored of what is on what
-          disk make me a label (simple php->mysql=>pdf stuff) i
-          could do this bit ability to save data uncompresed so
-          it can be read in any other system (future proof data)
-          save the catalog with the disk as some kind of menu
-          system 
-
-   Notes: Kern: I don't understand this item, and in any case, if it
-          is specific to DVD/CDs, which we do not recommend using, 
-          it is unlikely to be implemented except as a user 
-          submitted patch.
-
-
-Item h10: Clustered file-daemons
-  Origin: Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl dot ucl dot ac dot uk
-  Date:   24 July 2006
-  Status:
-  What:   A "virtual" filedaemon, which is actually a cluster of real ones.
-
-  Why:    In the case of clustered filesystems (SAN setups, GFS, or OCFS2, etc)
-          multiple machines may have access to the same set of filesystems
-
-          For performance reasons, one may wish to initate backups from
-          several of these machines simultaneously, instead of just using
-          one backup source for the common clustered filesystem.
-
-          For obvious reasons, normally backups of $A-FD/$PATH and
-          B-FD/$PATH are treated as different backup sets. In this case
-          they are the same communal set.
-
-          Likewise when restoring, it would be easier to just specify
-          one of the cluster machines and let bacula decide which to use.
-
-          This can be faked to some extent using DNS round robin entries
-          and a virtual IP address, however it means "status client" will
-          always give bogus answers. Additionally there is no way of
-          spreading the load evenly among the servers.
-
-          What is required is something similar to the storage daemon
-          autochanger directives, so that Bacula can keep track of
-          operating backups/restores and direct new jobs to a "free"
-          client.
-
-   Notes: Kern: I don't understand the request enough to be able to
-          implement it. A lot more design detail should be presented
-          before voting on this project.
-
-      Feature Request Form
-
-Item n:   Data encryption on storage daemon
-  Origin: Tobias Barth <tobias.barth at web-arts.com>
-  Date:   04 February 2009
-  Status: new
-
-  What:   The storage demon should be able to do the data encryption that can currently be done by the file daemon.
-
-  Why:    This would have 2 advantages: 1) one could encrypt the data of unencrypted tapes by doing a migration job, and 2) the storage daemon would be the only machine that would have to keep the encryption keys.
-
-
-Item 1:   "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer device
-  Origin: Ralf Gross ralf-lists <at> ralfgross.de
-  Date:   2008-12-12
-  Status: Initial Request
-
-  What:   respect the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" directive in the _drives_
-          Storage section in addition to the changer section
-
-  Why:    I have a 3 drive changer where I want to be able to let 3 concurrent
-          jobs run in parallel. But only one job per drive at the same time.
-          Right now I don't see how I could limit the number of concurrent jobs
-          per drive in this situation.
-
-  Notes:  Using different priorities for these jobs lead to problems that other
-          jobs are blocked. On the user list I got the advice to use the "Prefer Mounted
-          Volumes" directive, but Kern advised against using "Prefer Mounted
-          Volumes" in an other thread:
-          http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/11876/
-
-          In addition I'm not sure if this would be the same as respecting the
-          drive's "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" setting.
-
-          Example:
-
-          Storage {
-            Name = Neo4100
-            Address = ....
-            SDPort = 9103
-            Password = "wiped"
-            Device = Neo4100
-            Media Type = LTO4
-            Autochanger = yes
-            Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
-          }
-          
-          Storage {
-            Name = Neo4100-LTO4-D1
-            Address = ....
-            SDPort = 9103
-            Password = "wiped"
-            Device = ULTRIUM-TD4-D1
-            Media Type = LTO4
-            Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
-          }
-          
-          [2 more drives] 
-
-          The "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" directive in the drive's section is ignored.
-
- Item n:   Add MaxVolumeSize/MaxVolumeBytes statement to Storage resource
-   Origin: Bastian Friedrich <bastian.friedrich@collax.com>
-   Date:   2008-07-09
-   Status: -
-
-   What:   SD has a "Maximum Volume Size" statement, which is deprecated
- and superseded by the Pool resource statement "Maximum Volume Bytes". It
- would be good if either statement could be used in Storage resources.
-
-   Why:    Pools do not have to be restricted to a single storage
- type/device; thus, it may be impossible to define Maximum Volume Bytes in
- the Pool resource. The old MaxVolSize statement is deprecated, as it is
- SD side only.
-           I am using the same pool for different devices.
-
-   Notes:  State of idea currently unknown. Storage resources in the dir
- config currently translate to very slim catalog entries; these entries
- would require extensions to implement what is described here. Quite
- possibly, numerous other statements that are currently available in Pool
- resources could be used in Storage resources too quite well.
-
-Item 1:   Start spooling even when waiting on tape
-  Origin: Tobias Barth <tobias.barth@web-arts.com>
-  Date:   25 April 2008
-  Status:
-
-  What:   If a job can be spooled to disk before writing it to tape, it
-should be spooled immediately.
-          Currently, bacula waits until the correct tape is inserted
-into the drive.
-
-  Why:    It could save hours. When bacula waits on the operator who
-must insert the correct tape (e.g. a new
-          tape or a tape from another media pool), bacula could already
-prepare the spooled data in the
-          spooling directory and immediately start despooling when the
-tape was inserted by the operator.
-         
-  2nd step: Use 2 or more spooling directories. When one directory is
-currently despooling, the next (on different
-            disk drives) could already be spooling the next data.
-
-  Notes:  I am using bacula 2.2.8, which has none of those features
-implemented.
-
-Item  1:  enable persistent naming/number of SQL queries
-
-  Date:   24 Jan, 2007 
-  Origin: Mark Bergman 
-  Status: 
-
-  What:  
-        Change the parsing of the query.sql file and the query command so that
-        queries are named/numbered by a fixed value, not their order in the
-        file.
-
-
-  Why:   
-        One of the real strengths of bacula is the ability to query the
-        database, and the fact that complex queries can be saved and
-        referenced from a file is very powerful. However, the choice
-        of query (both for interactive use, and by scripting input
-        to the bconsole command) is completely dependent on the order
-        within the query.sql file. The descriptve labels are helpful for
-        interactive use, but users become used to calling a particular
-        query "by number", or may use scripts to execute queries. This
-        presents a problem if the number or order of queries in the file
-        changes.
-
-        If the query.sql file used the numeric tags as a real value (rather
-        than a comment), then users could have a higher confidence that they
-        are executing the intended query, that their local changes wouldn't
-        conflict with future bacula upgrades.
-
-        For scripting, it's very important that the intended query is
-        what's actually executed. The current method of parsing the
-        query.sql file discourages scripting because the addition or
-        deletion of queries within the file will require corresponding
-        changes to scripts. It may not be obvious to users that deleting
-        query "17" in the query.sql file will require changing all
-        references to higher numbered queries. Similarly, when new
-        bacula distributions change the number of "official" queries,
-        user-developed queries cannot simply be appended to the file
-        without also changing any references to those queries in scripts
-        or procedural documentation, etc.
-
-        In addition, using fixed numbers for queries would encourage more
-        user-initiated development of queries, by supporting conventions
-        such as:
-
-                queries numbered 1-50 are supported/developed/distributed by
-                        with official bacula releases
-                        
-                queries numbered 100-200 are community contributed, and are
-                related to media management
-
-                queries numbered 201-300 are community contributed, and are
-                related to checksums, finding duplicated files across
-                different backups, etc.
-
-                queries numbered 301-400 are community contributed, and are
-                related to backup statistics (average file size, size per
-                client per backup level, time for all clients by backup level,
-                storage capacity by media type, etc.)
-
-                queries numbered 500-999 are locally created
-
-  Notes:
-        Alternatively, queries could be called by keyword (tag), rather
-        than by number.
-
-
-Item n: List inChanger flag when doing restore.
-   Origin: Jesper Krogh<jesper@krogh.cc>
-   Date:   17 oct. 2008
-   Status:
-
-   What:
-        When doing a restore the restore selection dialog ends by telling stuff 
-like this:
-The job will require the following
-    Volume(s)                 Storage(s)                SD Device(s)
-===========================================================================
-
-    000741L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    000866L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    000765L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    000764L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    000756L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    001759L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    001763L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    001762L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-    001767L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
-
-
-Item 26: Add a new directive to bacula-dir.conf which permits inclusion of all subconfiguration files in a given directory
-Date:   18 October 2008
-Origin: Database, Lda. Maputo, Mozambique
-Contact:Cameron Smith / cameron.ord@database.co.mz 
-Status: New request
-
-What: A directive something like "IncludeConf  = /etc/bacula/subconfs"
-      Every time Bacula Director restarts or reloads, it will walk the given directory (non-recursively) and include the contents of any files therein, as though they were appended to bacula-dir.conf
-
-Why: Permits simplified and safer configuration for larger installations with many client PCs.  
-      Currently, through judicious use of JobDefs and similar directives, it is possible to reduce the client-specific part of a configuration to a minimum.
-      The client-specific directives can be prepared according to a standard template and dropped into a known directory.  However it is still necessary to 
-      add a line to the "master" (bacula-dir.conf) referencing each new file.  
-      This exposes the master to unnecessary risk of accidental mistakes and makes automation of adding new client-confs, more difficult 
-      (it is easier to automate dropping a file into a dir, than rewriting an existing file).
-      Ken has previously made a convincing argument for NOT including Bacula's core configuration in an RDBMS, but I believe that the present request is a reasonable
-      extension to the current "flat-file-based" configuration philosophy.
- 
-Notes: There is NO need for any special syntax to these files.  
-       They should contain standard directives which are  simply "inlined" to the parent file as already happens when you explicitly reference an external file.
-
-Notes: (kes) this can already be done with scripting
-     From: John Jorgensen <jorgnsn@lcd.uregina.ca>
-     The bacula-dir.conf at our site contains these lines:
-
-   #
-   # Include subfiles associated with configuration of clients.
-   # They define the bulk of the Clients, Jobs, and FileSets.
-   #
-   @|"sh -c 'for f in /etc/bacula/clientdefs/*.conf ; do echo @${f} ; done'"
-
-    and when we get a new client, we just put its configuration into
-    a new file called something like:
-
-    /etc/bacula/clientdefs/clientname.conf
-
-
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