1 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
2 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
3 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
5 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
9 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
11 Please note there was a seamingly innocent patch made to
12 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
13 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
16 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
18 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
19 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
21 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
25 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
26 each time the Director starts.
27 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
31 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
34 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
35 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
41 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
42 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
43 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
44 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
45 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
47 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
48 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
53 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
54 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
56 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
58 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
62 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
64 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
65 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
66 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
67 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
69 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
71 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
72 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
73 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
74 each time the Director starts.
75 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
79 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
82 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
83 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
86 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
87 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
89 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
90 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
91 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
92 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
93 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
94 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
95 - Compiler warning cleanups
97 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
102 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
103 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
104 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
105 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
107 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
108 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
109 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
110 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
111 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
113 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
115 - Fix systemd pid files.
116 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
117 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
118 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
119 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
120 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
122 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
123 - Backport Enterprise spec files
124 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
125 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
126 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
127 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
128 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
129 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
130 - Add new features in plugin
131 - Add helper for ini files
132 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
133 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
134 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
135 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
136 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
137 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
138 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
139 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
141 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
142 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
145 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
146 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
148 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
150 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
154 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
156 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
157 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
158 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
159 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
160 SQL shared libraries.
161 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
165 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
168 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
169 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
174 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
175 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
176 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
177 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
178 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
179 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
180 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
181 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
182 - Fix segfault in accurate code
183 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
185 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
190 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
191 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
193 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
195 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
199 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
200 additions and performance improvements.
202 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
203 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
204 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
205 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
206 SQL shared libraries.
207 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
211 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
214 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
215 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
220 - Implement -t option for Bat
221 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
222 - Get new lib/plugins.h
223 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
224 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
225 - Add Systemd configure options
226 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
227 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
228 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
229 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
230 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
231 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
232 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
233 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
234 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
236 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
237 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
238 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
239 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
240 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
241 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
242 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
243 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
244 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
246 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
247 -----------------------
252 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
253 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
256 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
258 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
263 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
264 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
265 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
266 number of important new features:
270 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
271 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
276 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
279 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
280 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
287 - Purge Migration Job
288 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
289 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
290 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
291 - Additions to RunScript variables
292 - Additions to the Plugin API
295 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
296 - Hash List Enhancements
298 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
299 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
302 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
303 ---------------------
304 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
305 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
306 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
307 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
308 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
309 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
312 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
314 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
315 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
316 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
317 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
321 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
322 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
323 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
325 Packaging the SQL backend:
326 --------------------------
327 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
328 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
329 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
330 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
333 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
338 Order of testing for database is
343 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
344 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
346 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
347 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
348 the default backend type.
350 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
351 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
352 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
354 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
356 And update the default backend in the following files:
358 create_bacula_database
361 grant_bacula_privileges
366 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
367 -----------------------------------------------
368 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
369 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
370 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
371 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
372 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
375 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
376 source (i.e. manually):
377 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
378 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
379 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
380 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
381 at the bottom of this file.
382 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
383 5. ./update_bacula_tables
384 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
385 script and put the name of another database, and then
386 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
387 catalogs have been updated.
388 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
389 not print any error messages.
391 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
392 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
393 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
394 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
395 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
396 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
397 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
398 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
401 ================================================================
405 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
406 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
407 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
408 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
409 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
410 - limit command in some list commands
411 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
412 - Faster crc32 algorithm
414 Security Enhancements:
415 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
416 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
418 Features Enhancements:
419 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
420 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
421 - Tray monitor for Windows
422 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
423 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
424 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
425 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
426 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
427 - Indent lsmark during restore
428 - Disable batch insert config item
429 - Director selection option in bconsole
430 - restorejob command in bconsole
431 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
432 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
433 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
434 - Improved hash table for hard links
435 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
436 and %h (Client Address)
439 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
441 - New database format
442 - Many new plugin API features
443 - Improved memory handling for restores
444 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
445 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
446 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
449 ===========================================================================
452 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
453 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
455 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
456 It includes new code and some new features.
457 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
459 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
460 the 5.0.1 release section.
465 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
468 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
469 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
472 Changes and New Features:
473 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
474 it printed a warning message and continued.
475 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
476 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
477 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
478 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
479 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
480 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
481 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
482 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
486 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
488 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
489 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
490 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
491 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
492 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
493 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
494 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
495 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
496 - Add archlinux to os.m4
497 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
498 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
499 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
500 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
501 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
502 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
503 - Up maximum block size to 20M
504 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
505 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
506 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
507 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
508 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
509 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
510 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
511 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
512 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
513 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
514 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
515 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
516 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
517 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
518 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
519 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
520 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
522 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
523 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
524 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
525 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
526 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
527 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
528 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
529 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
530 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
531 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
532 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
533 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
534 - Added new bacula-libs package.
535 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
536 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
538 See ChangeLog for more details.
541 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
542 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
544 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
545 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
546 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
547 and we are very pleased.
550 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
551 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
553 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
555 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
560 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
563 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
564 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
571 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
573 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
574 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
575 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
576 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
577 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
578 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
579 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
580 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
581 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
582 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
583 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
584 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
586 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
587 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
588 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
589 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
590 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
591 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
592 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
593 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
594 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
595 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
596 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
597 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
598 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
599 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
603 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
604 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
606 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
607 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
609 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
610 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
611 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
612 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
613 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
614 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
615 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
617 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
618 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
619 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
620 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
621 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
622 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
624 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
625 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
626 release there is no database upgrade needed.
628 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
629 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
630 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
632 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
638 ============= Performance Note ==================
640 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
641 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
642 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
643 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
644 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
645 versions, on a well configured database it should run
648 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
649 In general, these will cause very significant performance
650 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
651 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
652 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
653 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
654 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
655 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
656 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
657 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
659 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
660 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
661 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
662 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
663 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
664 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
666 ==========================================
669 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
671 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
673 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
674 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
675 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
677 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
678 features section of the manual.
680 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
681 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
682 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
683 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
684 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
685 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
689 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
690 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
691 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
692 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
693 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
694 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
697 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
698 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
699 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
700 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
702 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
703 section in the manual.
704 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
707 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
708 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
710 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
711 - Fix three-pool regress bug
712 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
713 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
714 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
716 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
717 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
718 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
720 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
721 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
722 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
723 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
724 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
725 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
726 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
727 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
728 - Fix missing console page in bat
729 - Add bat help files to Window install
730 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
731 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
732 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
733 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
734 - Update the bsock error URL
735 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
736 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
737 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
738 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
739 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
740 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
741 - Remove file_index sequential check
742 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
745 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
746 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
747 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
748 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
749 not installed by the Makefiles
751 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
752 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
753 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
754 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
756 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
757 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
758 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
759 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
760 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
761 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
762 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
764 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
765 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
766 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
767 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
768 this problem (bug) does not exist.
770 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
771 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
772 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
773 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
774 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
775 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
777 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
778 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
779 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
780 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
783 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
784 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
785 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
789 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
792 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
794 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
795 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
796 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
797 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
798 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
799 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
800 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
801 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
802 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
803 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
804 --enable-smartalloc \
805 --enable-tray-monitor \
808 --with-dump-email=${email} \
809 --with-job-email=${email} \
810 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
813 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
814 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
815 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
816 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
818 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
819 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
820 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
822 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
823 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
824 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
825 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
826 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
827 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
828 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
829 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
830 different versions of the shared objects.
832 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
833 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
834 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
835 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
836 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
837 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
838 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
839 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
840 use readline or not as you please.
844 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
845 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
848 -----------------------------------------------------------
849 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
850 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
851 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
852 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
853 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
854 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
855 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
856 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
857 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
858 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
859 version is more advanced or has more features than the
860 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
861 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
862 will be version 4.0.0.
865 --------------------------------------------------------------
866 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
870 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
871 -------------------------------------------------------
874 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
875 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
879 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
880 responding to the bsmtp program
881 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
882 - Fix various problems with the reload command
883 - Fix problems with conio
884 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
887 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
888 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
889 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
890 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
891 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
893 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
894 checksum verification for example.
895 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
896 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
897 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
898 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
899 - Add new speed test to btape program
900 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
901 - Windows version of Bat
902 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
903 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
904 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
906 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
907 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
908 - Many ACL improvements
909 - Level added to FD status Job entry
910 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
911 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
912 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
915 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
916 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
917 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
918 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
920 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
921 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
922 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
923 as is reasonable for your situation.
925 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
927 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
928 -----------------------------------------------------
930 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
931 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
932 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
933 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
934 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
937 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
939 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
940 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
941 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
942 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
943 at the bottom of this file.
944 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
945 5. ./update_bacula_tables
946 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
947 script and put the name of another database, and then
948 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
949 catalogs have been updated.
950 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
951 not print any error messages.
953 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
954 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
955 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
956 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
957 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
958 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
959 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
960 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
962 ================================================================
965 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
966 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
967 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
968 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
969 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
970 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
971 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
972 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
974 ================================================================
976 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
977 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
978 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
979 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
980 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
981 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
982 ================================================================
984 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
985 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
986 the manual for more details.
988 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
990 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
992 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
993 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
994 are still some that need fixing.
996 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
999 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1000 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1001 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1005 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1006 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1007 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1010 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1011 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1013 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
1015 The ChangeLog has more details.
1020 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
1021 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
1023 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1026 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
1028 Changes since 3.0.2:
1030 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
1031 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
1034 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
1035 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
1036 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
1037 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
1038 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
1039 when doing fixup_write_error ...
1040 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
1041 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
1042 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
1043 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
1044 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
1045 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
1046 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
1047 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
1048 tweak space on projects file
1049 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
1050 Apply Frank's slash patch
1051 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
1052 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
1053 Add more info when SD connection refused
1054 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
1055 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
1056 3.0.2-accurate.patch
1057 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
1058 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
1059 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
1060 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
1061 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
1062 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
1063 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
1064 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
1065 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
1066 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
1069 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1072 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
1073 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1078 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
1079 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
1080 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1083 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
1084 some enhancements (see below).
1086 Changes since 3.0.1:
1089 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
1090 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
1093 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
1094 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
1095 - Fix bugs in xattr code
1096 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
1097 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
1100 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
1101 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
1102 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
1103 This is project 31 in the projects file.
1104 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
1105 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
1106 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
1107 This is project 2 in the projects file.
1108 - Add new Nagios plugin
1111 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1114 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
1115 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
1119 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
1120 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1122 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
1124 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
1125 one enhancement (see below).
1127 Changes since 3.0.0:
1129 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
1132 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
1133 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
1134 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
1135 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
1136 - Updated projects file
1137 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
1138 and keep fields order.
1139 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
1140 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
1143 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1144 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1145 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1146 tape deadlock situations.
1148 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1149 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1150 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1151 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1152 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1153 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1156 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1158 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1161 1. Missing documentation.
1162 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1163 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1166 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1167 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1168 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1172 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1173 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1175 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1176 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1179 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1180 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1181 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1183 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1185 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1186 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1187 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1189 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1190 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1193 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1194 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1195 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1196 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1197 your help will be appreciated.
1199 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1201 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1202 we missed documenting some).
1204 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1205 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1207 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1208 while it is running. He is working on this.
1210 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1211 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1212 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1213 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1214 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1215 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1216 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1218 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1219 bit of a rare case).
1221 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1222 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1223 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1224 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1225 most current release ...
1227 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1228 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1229 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1230 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1232 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1233 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1234 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1235 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1236 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1237 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1238 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1240 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1241 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1242 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1244 Personal contributions:
1245 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1246 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1247 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1248 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1249 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1250 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1251 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1252 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1253 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1254 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1256 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1258 === List of new features ===
1262 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1263 - Extended Attribute support
1264 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1266 --enable-libtool (default)
1269 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1270 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1272 - Duplicate Job Control
1273 - TLS Authentication
1274 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1275 - State File updated at Job Termination
1278 - FD Exchange plugin
1280 - Console Enhancements
1285 - Restore seek optimization
1286 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1288 - RunScript Enhancements
1289 - Status enhancements
1290 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1291 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1292 - FD Version compatibily flag
1293 - Statistics Enhancements
1294 - Faster Attribute despooling
1295 - Document split into 6 manuals
1296 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1298 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1299 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1300 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1301 - New configure install options
1302 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1303 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1304 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1305 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1309 - Honor No Dump Flag
1310 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1312 - Max Run Sched Time
1314 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1316 - Max Console Connections
1317 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1318 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1319 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1320 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1321 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1322 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1324 - Console (in RunScript)
1326 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1328 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1329 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1330 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1331 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1332 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1333 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1334 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1335 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1336 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1338 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1339 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1340 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1341 ================================
1344 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1346 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1348 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1349 represents an enormous effort.
1351 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1352 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1353 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1354 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1355 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1357 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1359 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1360 -----------------------------------------------------
1362 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1363 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1364 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1365 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1366 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1369 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1371 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1372 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1373 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1374 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1375 at the bottom of this file.
1376 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1377 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1378 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1379 script and put the name of another database, and then
1380 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1381 catalogs have been updated.
1382 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1383 not print any error messages.
1385 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1386 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1387 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1388 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1390 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1391 backup it before executing the script.
1393 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1394 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1395 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1396 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1397 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1398 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1399 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1400 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1404 Important New configure options :
1405 ----------------------
1407 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1408 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1409 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1410 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1411 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1412 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1413 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1414 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1416 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1418 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1419 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1420 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1422 ./configure --disable-libtool
1424 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1425 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1426 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1427 want to put them elsewhere use:
1429 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1431 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1432 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1433 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1434 want to put them elsewhere use:
1436 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1438 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1439 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1440 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1443 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1445 ==============================================================
1447 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1448 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1449 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1452 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1453 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1455 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1457 The ChangeLog has more details.
1460 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1461 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1462 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1463 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1464 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1465 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1466 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1467 available for normal operations.
1469 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1470 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1471 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1474 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1475 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1476 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1478 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1479 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1480 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1481 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1482 range of Bacula users.
1484 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1485 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1486 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1487 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1488 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1489 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1492 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1493 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1494 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1495 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1496 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1497 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1498 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1499 home for Bacula project development.
1501 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1502 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1503 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1504 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1505 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1507 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1508 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1509 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1510 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1511 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1512 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1513 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1514 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1515 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1516 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1518 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1519 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1520 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1521 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1522 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1523 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1524 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1525 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1527 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1528 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1529 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1530 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1531 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1534 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1535 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1536 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1537 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1539 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1540 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1541 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1542 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1543 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1544 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1545 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1546 and certified binaries.
1548 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1549 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1550 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1551 company, Bacula Systems.
1553 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1560 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1561 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1562 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1563 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1567 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1568 with other 2.4.x versions.
1571 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1574 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1575 a non created job faster.
1576 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1577 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1578 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1579 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1580 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1582 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1583 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1584 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1586 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1587 this never caused a bug.
1588 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1589 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1590 using default variables.
1591 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1592 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1593 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1594 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1595 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1597 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1598 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1600 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1601 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1602 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1603 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1604 This closes bug #1129.
1606 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1607 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1611 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1612 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1613 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1614 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1616 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1619 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1623 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1624 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1625 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1626 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1627 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1628 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1629 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1630 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1631 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1632 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1633 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1634 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1635 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1636 This fixes bug #1124.
1637 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1638 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1639 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1641 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1642 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1643 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1644 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1645 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1646 version 2.5.x and above.
1649 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1650 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1651 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1652 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1655 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1659 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1660 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1661 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1662 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1663 would occasionally not be restored.
1664 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1665 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1666 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1668 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1669 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1670 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1671 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1672 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1673 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1674 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1675 older 'incorrect' headers.
1676 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1677 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1678 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1679 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1680 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1681 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1682 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1683 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1684 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1685 is read on that drive.
1686 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1687 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
1689 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
1690 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
1691 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
1692 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
1693 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
1694 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
1695 be opened. Reported by Eric.
1696 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
1697 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
1698 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
1699 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
1700 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
1701 have the requested MediaType.
1702 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
1703 the configuration routines.
1704 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
1705 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
1706 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
1707 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
1708 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
1709 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
1713 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
1714 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
1715 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1716 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1718 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1719 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1720 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1721 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1722 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1723 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1724 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1726 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
1727 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
1728 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
1729 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
1730 no database upgrade needed.
1732 =====================================================
1734 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
1736 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
1738 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1739 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1740 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1741 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1742 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
1743 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
1745 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1746 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
1747 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
1748 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
1749 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
1750 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
1751 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
1753 ======================================================
1755 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1756 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1757 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1758 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1759 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1760 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1761 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1764 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
1765 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
1768 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
1769 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
1771 Release Version 2.4.0
1772 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
1773 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
1774 This fixes bug #1095.
1775 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
1776 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
1777 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
1779 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
1780 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
1781 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
1782 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
1783 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
1784 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
1785 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
1786 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
1787 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
1788 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
1790 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
1791 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
1792 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
1793 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
1794 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
1795 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
1796 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
1797 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
1798 This fixes bug #1041.
1799 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
1800 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
1801 - Implement --without-qwt
1802 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
1803 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
1804 with or without the QWT libaries.
1805 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
1806 from one drive to another.
1807 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
1808 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
1809 This fixes bug #1083.
1810 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
1811 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
1813 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
1814 This fixes bug #1078.
1815 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
1816 warning rather than an error.
1817 - Fix SQL query in migration code
1818 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
1819 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
1820 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
1821 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
1822 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
1823 same volume name twice in a row.
1824 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
1825 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
1826 handling the responsibilities.
1827 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
1828 causes a seg fault in many cases.
1829 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
1831 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
1832 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
1833 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
1834 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
1835 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
1836 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
1837 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
1838 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
1839 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
1840 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
1841 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
1842 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
1843 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
1844 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
1845 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
1846 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
1848 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
1849 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
1850 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
1851 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
1852 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
1853 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
1854 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
1855 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
1856 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
1857 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
1858 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
1859 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
1860 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
1861 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
1862 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
1863 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
1864 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
1865 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
1867 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
1868 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
1869 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
1870 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
1871 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
1872 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
1873 the ./configure line.
1874 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
1878 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
1879 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
1880 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
1881 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
1882 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
1884 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
1885 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
1887 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
1888 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
1889 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
1890 and are difficult to reproduce.
1891 See the ChangeLog for more details.
1892 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
1893 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
1897 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
1898 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
1899 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
1900 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
1901 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
1903 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
1904 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
1905 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
1908 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
1909 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
1910 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
1911 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
1913 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
1914 since version 2.2.6:
1915 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
1916 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
1917 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
1918 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
1919 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
1920 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
1921 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
1922 bar, thanks to the above patch.
1923 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
1925 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
1926 driver with version 8.3.
1927 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
1929 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
1930 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
1931 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
1932 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
1934 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
1935 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
1937 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
1938 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
1940 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
1941 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
1943 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
1944 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
1945 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
1946 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
1948 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
1949 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
1950 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
1951 957, 908, 958, and 955.
1952 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
1953 out by Chris Howells.
1955 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
1956 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
1958 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
1959 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
1960 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
1961 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
1962 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
1963 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
1964 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
1965 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
1966 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
1967 the conditions noted above.
1969 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
1970 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
1971 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
1972 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
1973 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
1976 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
1977 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
1978 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
1980 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
1981 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
1983 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
1984 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
1986 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
1987 It contains the following fixes:
1989 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
1990 - Possible fix for bug #908.
1991 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
1992 file to always be deleted.
1993 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
1994 This fixes bug #950.
1995 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
1996 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
1998 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
1999 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
2000 are released as soon as possible.
2001 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
2002 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
2003 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
2004 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
2005 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
2006 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
2007 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
2008 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
2010 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
2011 and not memory usage.
2013 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
2016 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
2017 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
2019 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
2020 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
2021 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
2022 kind of problem many times.
2024 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
2027 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
2028 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
2029 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
2030 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
2033 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
2035 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
2038 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
2039 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
2040 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
2042 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
2043 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
2045 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
2047 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
2048 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
2051 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
2052 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
2053 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
2054 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
2056 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
2057 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
2058 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
2059 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
2061 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
2062 affected by this bug.
2064 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
2065 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
2068 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
2069 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
2072 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
2073 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
2074 an updated Storage daemon.
2076 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
2077 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
2078 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
2079 reproduced the problem.
2081 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
2082 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2084 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
2086 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
2090 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
2092 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2094 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
2096 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
2097 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
2099 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2100 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2101 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2102 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2103 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
2105 Areas requiring caution or testing:
2106 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
2107 to build with MySQL enabled.
2108 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
2109 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
2110 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
2111 to what we do with sockets).
2112 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
2113 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
2114 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
2115 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
2116 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
2117 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
2118 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
2119 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
2121 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
2123 The major new features are:
2124 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
2125 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
2126 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
2127 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
2128 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
2129 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
2130 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
2131 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
2132 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
2134 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
2135 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
2136 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
2138 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
2139 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
2140 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
2141 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
2142 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
2143 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2144 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2145 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2146 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2147 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2148 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2150 New ./configure options:
2151 - --enable-bwx-console
2156 - --enable-batch-insert
2158 New bconsole commands:
2161 - update recyclepool
2164 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2165 - restoreclient (keyword)
2166 - backupclient (keyword)
2167 - regexwhere (keyword)
2168 - update jobid (new command)
2169 - recyclepool (keyword)
2172 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2173 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2174 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2175 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2176 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2177 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2178 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2179 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2180 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2181 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2182 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2184 Other features or bug fixes:
2185 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2186 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2187 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2188 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2189 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2190 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2191 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2192 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2193 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2194 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2195 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2196 these packages in the distro.
2197 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2199 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2200 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2201 directives are defined.
2202 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2203 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2204 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2205 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2206 - More debug output in status storage.
2207 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2208 critical columns were lost).
2209 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2210 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2211 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2212 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2213 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2214 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2215 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2216 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2217 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2218 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2219 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2220 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2221 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2222 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2223 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2224 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2225 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2226 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2227 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2228 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2229 filename restrictions.
2230 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2231 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2232 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2233 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2234 is already a < in the target.
2235 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2236 mounted by another job.
2237 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2238 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2239 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2240 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2241 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2242 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2243 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2244 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2245 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2246 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2247 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2248 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2249 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2250 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2251 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2252 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2253 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2254 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2255 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2256 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2257 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2258 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2259 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2260 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2261 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2262 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2263 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2268 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2270 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2271 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2272 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2275 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2276 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2280 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2281 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2282 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2283 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2285 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2288 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2289 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2291 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2292 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2294 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2295 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2298 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2300 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2302 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2305 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2306 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2308 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2310 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2311 If you want to use this, you can apply
2312 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2314 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2315 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2316 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2318 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2319 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2320 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2321 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2323 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2324 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2325 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2326 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2327 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2330 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2332 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2333 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2334 was opened, it is closed.
2336 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2337 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2338 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2340 kes Update projects list.
2342 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2343 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2345 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2346 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2347 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2349 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2350 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2352 Switch to using Subversion
2353 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2355 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2356 plus the entrypoints.
2357 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2358 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2359 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2361 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2362 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2364 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2365 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2366 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2368 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2369 problem is with read or append.
2371 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2372 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2373 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2374 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2375 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2376 (i.e. migration jobs).
2377 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2378 a memory leak problem.
2379 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2380 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2381 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2382 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2383 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2384 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2385 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2387 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2388 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2392 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2394 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2396 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2398 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2400 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2401 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2402 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2403 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2405 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2407 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2408 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2409 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2410 other DIR specifications.
2412 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2413 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2414 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2416 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2418 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2419 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2420 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2424 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2426 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2427 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2428 the following fixes:
2430 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2431 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2432 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2434 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2435 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2436 This *should* fix bug #747.
2437 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2439 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2440 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2441 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2442 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2443 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2444 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2446 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2447 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2451 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2453 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2455 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2457 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2459 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2461 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2465 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2467 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2469 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2471 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2472 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2473 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2474 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2475 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2476 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2477 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2478 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2479 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2481 ./update_bacula_tables
2483 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2484 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2485 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2486 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2487 in general, it should be very fast.
2489 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2490 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2491 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2492 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2493 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2495 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2496 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2497 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2498 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2499 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2500 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2501 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2502 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2503 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2504 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2505 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2506 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2507 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2508 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2509 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2510 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2511 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2512 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2513 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2514 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2515 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2516 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2517 with the correct MediaType.
2518 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2519 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2520 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2521 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2522 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2523 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2524 more testing is still needed.
2525 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2526 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2527 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2528 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2529 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2530 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2531 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2532 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2533 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2534 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2535 and fixed it as follows:
2537 No filters = Works fine
2539 Compression = Works fine
2540 Encryption = Works fine
2541 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2543 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2544 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2545 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2548 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2549 not properly restored.
2552 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2554 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2555 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2556 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2557 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2558 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2559 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2560 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2561 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2562 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2563 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2564 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2567 Block Positioning = no
2569 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2571 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2572 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2573 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2575 New Features in 2.0.0:
2576 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2577 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2578 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2579 Bacula, then as root run:
2581 cd <bacula-source>/po
2584 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2586 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2587 Migration chapter in the manual
2588 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2589 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2590 a new chapter of the manual at:
2591 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2592 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2593 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2594 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2595 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2596 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2598 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2599 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2600 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2601 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2602 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2603 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2604 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2605 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2606 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2607 before putting into production.
2608 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2609 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2610 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2611 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2612 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2613 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2614 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2615 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2617 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2618 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2619 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2620 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2621 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2622 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2623 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2624 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2625 "list nextvol days=xx"
2627 "status dir days=xx"
2628 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2629 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2631 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2632 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2634 wait jobuid=unique id
2636 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2637 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2638 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2639 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2640 job report in the Log database table.
2641 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2642 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2643 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2644 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2645 the job can be manually started from the console.
2646 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2647 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2648 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2649 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2650 the restore cd command.
2651 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2652 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2654 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2655 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2656 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2657 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2658 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2659 spaces in names better, ...
2660 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2661 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2663 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2664 the restore command.
2665 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2666 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2667 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2668 from Eric Bollengier.
2669 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2670 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2671 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2672 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2673 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2674 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2675 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2676 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2677 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2678 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2679 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2680 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2681 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2682 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2683 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2684 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2685 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2686 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2687 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
2688 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2689 - Implement mount command for autochanger
2690 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
2691 from File= was not found.
2692 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
2693 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
2694 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
2695 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
2696 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
2697 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
2699 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
2701 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
2702 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
2703 listing where they could be "lost".
2704 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
2705 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
2707 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
2708 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
2709 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
2710 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
2711 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
2712 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
2713 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
2714 and mount, unmount directives.
2715 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
2716 to a user submission.
2717 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
2718 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
2719 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
2720 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
2721 device will be blocked.
2722 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
2723 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
2724 all other Storage specifications.
2725 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
2726 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
2727 from a database table for restore.
2728 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
2729 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
2730 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
2731 accept time qualifiers.
2732 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
2733 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
2734 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
2735 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
2736 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
2737 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
2738 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
2739 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
2741 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
2742 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
2743 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
2744 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
2745 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
2746 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
2747 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
2748 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
2749 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
2750 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
2751 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
2752 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
2753 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
2754 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
2756 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
2757 fault, but still 60 second window.
2758 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
2759 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
2761 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
2762 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
2763 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
2764 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
2765 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
2766 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
2767 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
2768 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
2769 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
2771 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
2773 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
2774 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
2775 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
2776 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
2777 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
2778 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
2779 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
2780 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
2782 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
2784 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
2785 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
2786 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
2787 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
2788 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
2790 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
2791 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
2792 Add Cost to Location table.
2793 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
2794 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
2795 and forcing a 6 second wait.
2796 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
2797 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
2798 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
2799 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
2800 system libraries print routines.
2801 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
2802 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
2803 it is all very complicated.
2804 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
2806 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
2808 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
2809 chapter of the manual
2810 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
2811 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
2812 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
2813 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
2814 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
2815 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
2816 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
2817 Mail On Success directive.
2818 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
2820 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
2821 are printed in the Job report.
2823 Additional Features Added for Win32:
2824 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2825 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
2826 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
2827 has the concept of drives.
2829 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2830 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
2832 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
2833 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
2835 Patterns conform to Posix
2836 \ is not a special character in character classification []
2837 To match a - it must be the first or last character
2838 To match a ] it must be the first character
2840 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
2841 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
2843 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
2844 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
2845 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
2846 abc*.def work as expected.
2848 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
2850 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
2852 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
2853 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
2854 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
2855 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
2856 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
2857 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"