Kern's ToDo List
- 15 August 2003
+ 21 August 2003
Documentation to do: (any release a little bit at a time)
- Document running a test version.
- Figure out how to use ssh or stunnel to protect Bacula communications.
For 1.32:
+- Implement multiple Consoles.
+- Add Console usr permissions.
+- Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
+- Fix restore to list errors if Invalid block found, and if # files
+ restored does not match # expected.
+- Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
+- Make | and < work on FD side.
+- Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
+- Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
+ be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
+ prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
+ run the job but don't save the files.
+- Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
+- Implement FileOptions (see end of this document)
- Enhance autochanger interface to include a "scan" feature
scan 1; scan 1-5; scan 1,2,4 ... to update the catalog
when the magazine is changed.
- Check and rechedk "Invalid block number"
- Make bextract release the drive properly between tapes
so that an autochanger can be made to work.
-- Fix "restore all" to bypass building the tree.
-- Fix restore to list errors if Invalid block found, and if # files
- restored does not match # expected.
- User wants to NOT backup up certain big files (email files).
- Maybe remove multiple simultaneous devices code in SD.
- On Windows with very long path names, it may be impossible to create
- Audit all UA commands to ensure that we always prompt where possible.
- Restrict characters permitted in a Resource name, and don't permit
duplicate names.
-- Prohibit backing up archive device (findlib/find_one.c:128)
-- Make | and < work on FD side.
- Check Jmsg in bnet, may not work, must dup bsock.
- Suppress Job Name in Jmsg for console
- Create Pools that are referenced in a Run statement at startup if possible.
if there is an error.
- Make sure all restore counters are working correctly in the FD.
- SD Bytes Read is wrong.
-- Configure mtx-changer to have correct path to mtx.
- Look at ALL higher level routines that call block.c to be sure
they don't expect something in errmsg.
- Investigate doing RAW backup of Win32 partition.
-- Add JobName= to VerifyToCatalog so that all verifies can be done at the end.
- Add thread specific data to hold the jcr -- send error messages from
low level routines by accessing it and using Jmsg().
- Cancel waiting for Client connect in SD if FD goes away.
- Add Progress command that periodically reports the progress of
a job or all jobs.
- One block was orphaned in the SD probably after cancel.
-- Add all command line arguments to "update", e.g. slot=nn volStatus=append, ...
- Examine Bare Metal restore problem (a FD crash exists somewhere ...).
- Implement single pane restore (much like the Gftp panes).
- Implement Automatic Mount even in operator wait.
- Implement create "FileSet"?
-- Implement Release Device in the Job resource to unmount a drive.
-- Implement Acquire Device in the Job resource to mount a drive,
- be sure this works with admin jobs so that the user can get
- prompted to insert the correct tape. Possibly some way to say to
- run the job but don't save the files.
-- Implement all command line args on run.
-- Implement command line "restore" args.
-- Implement "restore current select=no"
- Fix watchdog pthread crash on Win32 (this is pthread_kill() Cygwin bug)
- Implement "scratch pool" where tapes are defined and can be
taken by any pool that needs them.
to the user, who would then use "mount" as described above
once he had actually inserted the disk.
-- Make some way so that if a machine is skipped because it is not up
- that Bacula will continue retrying for a specified period of time --
- periodically.
- If tape is marked read-only, then try opening it read-only rather than
failing, and remember that it cannot be written.
- Refine SD waiting output:
- Have SD compute MD5 or SHA1 and compare to what FD computes.
- Make VolumeToCatalog calculate an MD5 or SHA1 from the
actual data on the Volume and compare it.
-- Implement FileOptions (see end of this document)
- Implement Bacula plugins -- design API
- Make bcopy read through bad tape records.
-- Fix read_record to handle multiple sessions.
- Program files (i.e. execute a program to read/write files).
Pass read date of last backup, size of file last time.
- Add Signature type to File DB record.
- Figure out how to do a bare metal Windows restore
- Possibly add email to Watchdog if drive is unmounted too
long and a job is waiting on the drive.
-- Use read_record.c in SD code.
-- Restore program that errors in SD due to no tape reports
+- Restore program that errs in SD due to no tape, reports
OK incorrectly in output.
- After unmount, if restore job started, ask to mount.
- Convert all %x substitution variables, which are hard to remember
- Compare tape to Client files (attributes, or attributes and data)
- Make all database Ids 64 bit.
- Write an applet for Linux.
-- Add estimate to Console commands
-- Implement new daemon communications protocol.
+- Implement new inter-daemon communications protocol.
- Allow console commands to detach or run in background.
- Fix status delay on storage daemon during rewind.
- Add SD message variables to control operator wait time
- Set flag for uname -a. Add to Volume label.
- Implement throttled work queue.
- Restore files modified after date
-- Restore file modified before date
-- Restore -- do nothing but show what would happen
- SET LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/mysql/lib/mysql
- Implement Restore FileSet=
- Create a protocol.h and protocol.c where all protocol messages
- Add user configurable timeout for connecting to SD.
- Unsaved Flag in Job record (use JobMissingFiles).
- Base Flag in Job record.
+- Configure mtx-changer to have correct path to mtx.
+- Add all command line arguments to "update", e.g. slot=nn volStatus=append, ...
+- Make some way so that if a machine is skipped because it is not up
+ that Bacula will continue retrying for a specified period of time --
+ periodically.
+- Implement all command line args on run.
+- Implement command line "restore" args.
+- Implement "restore current select=no"
+- Restore file modified before date
+- Restore -- do nothing but show what would happen
+- Add estimate to Console commands
+- Use read_record.c in SD code.
+- Fix read_record to handle multiple sessions.
+- Tip from Steve Allam
+ mt -f /dev/nst0 defblksize 0
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