1 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
2 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
4 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
5 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
7 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
8 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
9 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
10 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
11 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
12 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
13 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
15 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
16 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
17 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
18 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
19 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
20 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
22 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
23 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
24 release there is no database upgrade needed.
26 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
27 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
28 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
30 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
36 ============= Performance Note ==================
38 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
39 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
40 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
41 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
42 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
43 versions, on a well configured database it should run
46 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
47 In general, these will cause very significant performance
48 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
49 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
50 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
51 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
52 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
53 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
54 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
55 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
57 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
58 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
59 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
60 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
61 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
62 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
64 ==========================================
67 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
69 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
71 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
72 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
73 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
75 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
76 features section of the manual.
78 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
79 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
80 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
81 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
82 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
83 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
87 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
88 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
89 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
90 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
91 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
92 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
95 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
96 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
97 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
98 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
100 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
101 section in the manual.
102 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
105 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
106 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
108 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
109 - Fix three-pool regress bug
110 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
111 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
112 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
114 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
115 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
116 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
118 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
119 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
120 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
121 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
122 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
123 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
124 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
125 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
126 - Fix missing console page in bat
127 - Add bat help files to Window install
128 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
129 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
130 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
131 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
132 - Update the bsock error URL
133 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
134 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
135 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
136 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
137 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
138 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
139 - Remove file_index sequential check
140 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
143 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
144 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
145 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
146 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
147 not installed by the Makefiles
149 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
150 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
151 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
152 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
154 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
155 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
156 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
157 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
158 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
159 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
160 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
162 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
163 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
164 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
165 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
166 this problem (bug) does not exist.
168 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
169 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
170 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
171 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
172 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
173 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
175 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
176 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
177 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
178 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
181 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
182 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
183 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
187 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
190 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
192 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
193 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
194 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
195 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
196 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
197 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
198 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
199 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
200 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
201 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
202 --enable-smartalloc \
203 --enable-tray-monitor \
206 --with-dump-email=${email} \
207 --with-job-email=${email} \
208 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
211 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
212 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
213 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
214 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
216 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
217 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
218 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
220 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
221 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
222 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
223 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
224 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
225 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
226 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
227 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
228 different versions of the shared objects.
230 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
231 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
232 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
233 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
234 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
235 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
236 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
237 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
238 use readline or not as you please.
242 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
243 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
246 -----------------------------------------------------------
247 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
248 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
249 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
250 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
251 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
252 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
253 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
254 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
255 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
256 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
257 version is more advanced or has more features than the
258 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
259 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
260 will be version 4.0.0.
263 --------------------------------------------------------------
264 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
268 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
269 -------------------------------------------------------
272 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
273 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
277 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
278 responding to the bsmtp program
279 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
280 - Fix various problems with the reload command
281 - Fix problems with conio
282 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
285 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
286 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
287 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
288 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
289 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurent Jobs for Devices to balance load
291 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
292 checksum verification for example.
293 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
294 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
295 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
296 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
297 - Add new speed test to btape program
298 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
299 - Windows version of Bat
300 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
301 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
302 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
304 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
305 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
306 - Many ACL improvements
307 - Level added to FD status Job entry
308 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
309 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
310 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
313 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
314 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
315 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
316 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
318 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
319 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
320 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
321 as is reasonable for your situation.
323 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
325 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
326 -----------------------------------------------------
328 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
329 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
330 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
331 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
332 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
335 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
337 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
338 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
339 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
340 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
341 at the bottom of this file.
342 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
343 5. ./update_bacula_tables
344 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
345 script and put the name of another database, and then
346 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
347 catalogs have been updated.
348 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
349 not print any error messages.
351 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
352 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
353 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
354 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
355 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
356 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
357 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
358 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
360 ================================================================
363 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
364 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
365 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
366 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
367 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
368 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
369 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
370 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
372 ================================================================
374 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
375 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
376 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
377 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
378 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
379 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
380 ================================================================
382 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
383 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
384 the manual for more details.
386 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
388 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
390 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
391 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
392 are still some that need fixing.
394 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
397 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
398 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
399 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
403 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
404 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
405 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
408 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
409 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
411 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
413 The ChangeLog has more details.
418 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
419 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
421 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
424 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
428 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
429 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
432 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
433 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
434 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
435 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
436 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
437 when doing fixup_write_error ...
438 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
439 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
440 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
441 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
442 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
443 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
444 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
445 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
446 tweak space on projects file
447 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
448 Apply Frank's slash patch
449 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
450 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
451 Add more info when SD connection refused
452 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
453 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
455 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
456 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
457 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
458 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
459 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
460 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
461 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
462 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
463 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
464 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
467 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
470 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
471 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
476 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
477 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
478 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
481 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
482 some enhancements (see below).
487 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
488 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
491 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
492 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
493 - Fix bugs in xattr code
494 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
495 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
498 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
499 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
500 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
501 This is project 31 in the projects file.
502 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
503 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
504 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
505 This is project 2 in the projects file.
506 - Add new Nagios plugin
509 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
512 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
513 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
517 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
518 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
520 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
522 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
523 one enhancement (see below).
527 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
530 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
531 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
532 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
533 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
534 - Updated projects file
535 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
536 and keep fields order.
537 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
538 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
541 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
542 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
543 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
544 tape deadlock situations.
546 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
547 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
548 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
549 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
550 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
551 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
554 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
556 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
559 1. Missing documentation.
560 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
561 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
564 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
565 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
566 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
570 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
571 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
573 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
574 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
577 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
578 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
579 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
581 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
583 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
584 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
585 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
587 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
588 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
591 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
592 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
593 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
594 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
595 your help will be appreciated.
597 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
599 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
600 we missed documenting some).
602 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
603 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
605 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
606 while it is running. He is working on this.
608 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
609 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
610 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
611 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
612 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
613 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
614 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
616 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
619 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
620 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
621 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
622 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
623 most current release ...
625 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
626 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
627 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
628 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
630 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
631 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
632 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
633 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
634 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
635 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
636 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
638 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
639 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
640 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
642 Personal contributions:
643 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
644 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
645 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
646 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
647 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
648 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
649 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
650 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
651 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
652 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
654 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
656 === List of new features ===
660 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
661 - Extended Attribute support
662 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
664 --enable-libtool (default)
667 - Catalog Format Enhancements
668 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
670 - Duplicate Job Control
672 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
673 - State File updated at Job Termination
678 - Console Enhancements
683 - Restore seek optimization
684 - Virtual Tape Emulation
686 - RunScript Enhancements
687 - Status enhancements
688 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
689 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
690 - FD Version compatibily flag
691 - Statistics Enhancements
692 - Faster Attribute despooling
693 - Document split into 6 manuals
694 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
696 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
697 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
698 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
699 - New configure install options
700 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
701 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
702 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
703 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
708 - Exclude Dirs Containing
712 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
714 - Max Console Connections
715 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
716 - Allow Mixed Priorities
717 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
718 - Allow Higher Duplicates
719 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
720 - Cancel Running Duplicates
722 - Console (in RunScript)
724 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
726 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
727 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
728 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
729 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
730 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
731 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
732 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
733 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
734 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
736 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
737 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
738 Item n: Split documentation into several books
739 ================================
742 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
744 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
746 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
747 represents an enormous effort.
749 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
750 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
751 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
752 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
753 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
755 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
757 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
758 -----------------------------------------------------
760 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
761 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
762 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
763 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
764 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
767 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
769 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
770 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
771 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
772 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
773 at the bottom of this file.
774 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
775 5. ./update_bacula_tables
776 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
777 script and put the name of another database, and then
778 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
779 catalogs have been updated.
780 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
781 not print any error messages.
783 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
784 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
785 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
786 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
788 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
789 backup it before executing the script.
791 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
792 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
793 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
794 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
795 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
796 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
797 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
798 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
802 Important New configure options :
803 ----------------------
805 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
806 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
807 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
808 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
809 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
810 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
811 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
812 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
814 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
816 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
817 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
818 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
820 ./configure --disable-libtool
822 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
823 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
824 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
825 want to put them elsewhere use:
827 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
829 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
830 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
831 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
832 want to put them elsewhere use:
834 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
836 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
837 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
838 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
841 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
843 ==============================================================
845 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
846 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
847 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
850 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
851 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
853 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
855 The ChangeLog has more details.
858 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
859 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
860 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
861 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
862 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
863 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
864 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
865 available for normal operations.
867 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
868 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
869 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
872 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
873 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
874 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
876 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
877 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
878 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
879 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
880 range of Bacula users.
882 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
883 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
884 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
885 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
886 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
887 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
890 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
891 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
892 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
893 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
894 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
895 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
896 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
897 home for Bacula project development.
899 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
900 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
901 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
902 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
903 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
905 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
906 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
907 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
908 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
909 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
910 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
911 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
912 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
913 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
914 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
916 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
917 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
918 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
919 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
920 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
921 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
922 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
923 training, documentation and certified binaries.
925 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
926 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
927 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
928 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
929 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
932 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
933 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
934 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
935 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
937 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
938 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
939 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
940 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
941 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
942 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
943 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
944 and certified binaries.
946 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
947 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
948 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
949 company, Bacula Systems.
951 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
958 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
959 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
960 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
961 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
965 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
966 with other 2.4.x versions.
969 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
972 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
973 a non created job faster.
974 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
975 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
976 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
977 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
978 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
980 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
981 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
982 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
984 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
985 this never caused a bug.
986 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
987 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
988 using default variables.
989 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
990 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
991 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
992 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
993 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
995 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
996 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
998 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
999 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1000 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1001 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1002 This closes bug #1129.
1004 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1005 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1009 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1010 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1011 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1012 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1014 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1017 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1021 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1022 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1023 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1024 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1025 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1026 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1027 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1028 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1029 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1030 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1031 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1032 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1033 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1034 This fixes bug #1124.
1035 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1036 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1037 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1039 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1040 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1041 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1042 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1043 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1044 version 2.5.x and above.
1047 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1048 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1049 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1050 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1053 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1057 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1058 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1059 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1060 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1061 would occasionally not be restored.
1062 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1063 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1064 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1066 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1067 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1068 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1069 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1070 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1071 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1072 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1073 older 'incorrect' headers.
1074 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1075 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1076 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1077 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1078 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1079 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1080 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1081 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1082 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1083 is read on that drive.
1084 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1085 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
1087 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
1088 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
1089 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
1090 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
1091 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
1092 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
1093 be opened. Reported by Eric.
1094 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
1095 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
1096 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
1097 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
1098 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
1099 have the requested MediaType.
1100 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
1101 the configuration routines.
1102 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
1103 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
1104 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
1105 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
1106 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
1107 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
1111 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
1112 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
1113 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1114 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1116 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1117 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1118 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1119 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1120 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1121 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1122 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1124 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
1125 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
1126 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
1127 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
1128 no database upgrade needed.
1130 =====================================================
1132 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
1134 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
1136 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1137 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1138 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1139 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1140 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
1141 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
1143 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1144 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
1145 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
1146 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
1147 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
1148 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
1149 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
1151 ======================================================
1153 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1154 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1155 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1156 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1157 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1158 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1159 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1162 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
1163 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
1166 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
1167 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
1169 Release Version 2.4.0
1170 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
1171 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
1172 This fixes bug #1095.
1173 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
1174 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
1175 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
1177 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
1178 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
1179 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
1180 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
1181 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
1182 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
1183 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
1184 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
1185 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
1186 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
1188 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
1189 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
1190 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
1191 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
1192 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
1193 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
1194 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
1195 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
1196 This fixes bug #1041.
1197 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
1198 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
1199 - Implement --without-qwt
1200 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
1201 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
1202 with or without the QWT libaries.
1203 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
1204 from one drive to another.
1205 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
1206 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
1207 This fixes bug #1083.
1208 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
1209 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
1211 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
1212 This fixes bug #1078.
1213 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
1214 warning rather than an error.
1215 - Fix SQL query in migration code
1216 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
1217 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
1218 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
1219 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
1220 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
1221 same volume name twice in a row.
1222 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
1223 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
1224 handling the responsibilities.
1225 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
1226 causes a seg fault in many cases.
1227 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
1229 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
1230 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
1231 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
1232 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
1233 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
1234 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
1235 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
1236 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
1237 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
1238 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
1239 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
1240 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
1241 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
1242 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
1243 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
1244 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
1246 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
1247 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
1248 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
1249 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
1250 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
1251 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
1252 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
1253 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
1254 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
1255 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
1256 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
1257 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
1258 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
1259 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
1260 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
1261 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
1262 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
1263 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
1265 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
1266 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
1267 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
1268 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
1269 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
1270 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
1271 the ./configure line.
1272 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
1276 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
1277 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
1278 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
1279 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
1280 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
1282 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
1283 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
1285 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
1286 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
1287 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
1288 and are difficult to reproduce.
1289 See the ChangeLog for more details.
1290 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
1291 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
1295 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
1296 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
1297 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
1298 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
1299 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
1301 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
1302 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
1303 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
1306 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
1307 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
1308 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
1309 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
1311 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
1312 since version 2.2.6:
1313 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
1314 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
1315 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
1316 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
1317 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
1318 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
1319 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
1320 bar, thanks to the above patch.
1321 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
1323 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
1324 driver with version 8.3.
1325 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
1327 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
1328 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
1329 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
1330 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
1332 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
1333 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
1335 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
1336 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
1338 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
1339 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
1341 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
1342 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
1343 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
1344 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
1346 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
1347 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
1348 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
1349 957, 908, 958, and 955.
1350 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
1351 out by Chris Howells.
1353 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
1354 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
1356 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
1357 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
1358 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
1359 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
1360 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
1361 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
1362 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
1363 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
1364 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
1365 the conditions noted above.
1367 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
1368 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
1369 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
1370 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
1371 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
1374 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
1375 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
1376 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
1378 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
1379 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
1381 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
1382 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
1384 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
1385 It contains the following fixes:
1387 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
1388 - Possible fix for bug #908.
1389 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
1390 file to always be deleted.
1391 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
1392 This fixes bug #950.
1393 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
1394 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
1396 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
1397 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
1398 are released as soon as possible.
1399 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
1400 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
1401 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
1402 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
1403 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
1404 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
1405 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
1406 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
1408 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
1409 and not memory usage.
1411 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
1414 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
1415 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
1417 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
1418 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
1419 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
1420 kind of problem many times.
1422 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
1425 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
1426 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
1427 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
1428 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
1431 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
1433 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
1436 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
1437 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
1438 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
1440 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
1441 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
1443 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
1445 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
1446 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
1449 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
1450 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
1451 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
1452 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
1454 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
1455 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
1456 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
1457 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
1459 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
1460 affected by this bug.
1462 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
1463 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
1466 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
1467 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
1470 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
1471 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
1472 an updated Storage daemon.
1474 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
1475 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
1476 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
1477 reproduced the problem.
1479 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
1480 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
1482 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
1484 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
1488 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
1490 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1492 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
1494 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
1495 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
1497 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1498 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1499 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1500 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1501 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
1503 Areas requiring caution or testing:
1504 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
1505 to build with MySQL enabled.
1506 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
1507 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
1508 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
1509 to what we do with sockets).
1510 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
1511 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
1512 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
1513 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
1514 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
1515 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
1516 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
1517 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
1519 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
1521 The major new features are:
1522 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
1523 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
1524 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
1525 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
1526 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
1527 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
1528 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
1529 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
1530 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
1532 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
1533 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
1534 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
1536 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
1537 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
1538 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
1539 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
1540 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
1541 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
1542 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
1543 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
1544 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
1545 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
1546 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
1548 New ./configure options:
1549 - --enable-bwx-console
1554 - --enable-batch-insert
1556 New bconsole commands:
1559 - update recyclepool
1562 - .pwd (in restore tree)
1563 - restoreclient (keyword)
1564 - backupclient (keyword)
1565 - regexwhere (keyword)
1566 - update jobid (new command)
1567 - recyclepool (keyword)
1570 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
1571 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
1572 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
1573 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1574 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1575 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1576 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
1577 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
1578 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
1579 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
1580 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
1582 Other features or bug fixes:
1583 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
1584 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
1585 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
1586 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
1587 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
1588 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
1589 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
1590 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
1591 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
1592 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
1593 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
1594 these packages in the distro.
1595 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
1597 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
1598 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
1599 directives are defined.
1600 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
1601 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
1602 Use the command line or the Services panne.
1603 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
1604 - More debug output in status storage.
1605 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
1606 critical columns were lost).
1607 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
1608 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
1609 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
1610 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
1611 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
1612 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
1613 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
1614 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
1615 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
1616 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
1617 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
1618 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
1619 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
1620 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
1621 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
1622 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
1623 in front of the configuration path/filename.
1624 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
1625 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
1626 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
1627 filename restrictions.
1628 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
1629 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
1630 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
1631 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
1632 is already a < in the target.
1633 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
1634 mounted by another job.
1635 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
1636 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
1637 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
1638 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
1639 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
1640 - Database user and name can be configured with:
1641 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
1642 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
1643 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
1644 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
1645 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
1646 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
1647 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
1648 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
1649 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
1650 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
1651 - Sockets are no longer restored.
1652 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
1653 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
1654 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
1655 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
1656 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
1657 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
1658 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
1659 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
1660 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
1661 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
1666 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
1668 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
1669 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
1670 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
1673 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
1674 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
1678 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
1679 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
1680 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
1681 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
1683 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
1686 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
1687 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
1689 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
1690 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
1692 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
1693 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
1696 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
1698 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
1700 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
1703 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
1704 than English. Fixes bug #788.
1706 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
1708 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
1709 If you want to use this, you can apply
1710 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
1712 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
1713 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
1714 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
1716 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
1717 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
1718 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
1719 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
1721 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
1722 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
1723 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
1724 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
1725 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
1728 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
1730 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
1731 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
1732 was opened, it is closed.
1734 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
1735 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
1736 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
1738 kes Update projects list.
1740 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
1741 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
1743 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
1744 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
1745 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
1747 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
1748 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
1750 Switch to using Subversion
1751 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
1753 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
1754 plus the entrypoints.
1755 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
1756 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
1757 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
1759 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
1760 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
1762 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
1763 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
1764 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
1766 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
1767 problem is with read or append.
1769 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
1770 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
1771 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
1772 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
1773 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
1774 (i.e. migration jobs).
1775 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
1776 a memory leak problem.
1777 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
1778 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
1779 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
1780 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
1781 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
1782 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
1783 (hides some of the ugly casting).
1785 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
1786 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
1790 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
1792 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
1794 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
1796 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
1798 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
1799 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
1800 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
1801 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
1803 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
1805 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
1806 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
1807 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
1808 other DIR specifications.
1810 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
1811 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
1812 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
1814 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
1816 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
1817 backup. This should fix bug #755.
1818 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
1822 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
1824 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1825 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
1826 the following fixes:
1828 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
1829 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
1830 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
1832 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
1833 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
1834 This *should* fix bug #747.
1835 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
1837 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
1838 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
1839 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
1840 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
1841 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
1842 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
1844 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
1845 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
1849 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
1851 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1853 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
1855 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
1857 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
1859 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
1863 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
1865 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
1867 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
1869 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
1870 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
1871 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
1872 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
1873 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
1874 Please backup your previous version of the database before
1875 running the update. The update script will be automatically
1876 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
1877 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
1879 ./update_bacula_tables
1881 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
1882 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
1883 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
1884 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
1885 in general, it should be very fast.
1887 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
1888 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
1889 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
1890 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
1891 directory mostly out of paranoia.
1893 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
1894 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
1895 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
1896 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
1897 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
1898 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
1899 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
1900 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
1901 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
1902 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
1903 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
1904 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
1905 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
1906 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
1907 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
1908 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
1909 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
1910 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
1911 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
1912 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
1913 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
1914 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
1915 with the correct MediaType.
1916 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
1917 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
1918 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
1919 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
1920 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
1921 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
1922 more testing is still needed.
1923 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
1924 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
1925 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
1926 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
1927 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
1928 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
1929 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
1930 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
1931 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
1932 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
1933 and fixed it as follows:
1935 No filters = Works fine
1937 Compression = Works fine
1938 Encryption = Works fine
1939 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
1941 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
1942 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
1943 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
1946 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
1947 not properly restored.
1950 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
1952 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
1953 data to be sure it all works correctly.
1954 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
1955 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
1956 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
1957 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
1958 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
1959 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
1960 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
1961 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
1962 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
1965 Block Positioning = no
1967 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
1969 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
1970 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
1971 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
1973 New Features in 2.0.0:
1974 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
1975 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
1976 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
1977 Bacula, then as root run:
1979 cd <bacula-source>/po
1982 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
1984 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
1985 Migration chapter in the manual
1986 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
1987 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
1988 a new chapter of the manual at:
1989 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
1990 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
1991 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
1992 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
1993 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
1994 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
1996 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
1997 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
1998 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
1999 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2000 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2001 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2002 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2003 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2004 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2005 before putting into production.
2006 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2007 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2008 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2009 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2010 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2011 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2012 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2013 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2015 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2016 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2017 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2018 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2019 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2020 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2021 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2022 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2023 "list nextvol days=xx"
2025 "status dir days=xx"
2026 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2027 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2029 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2030 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2032 wait jobuid=unique id
2034 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2035 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2036 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2037 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2038 job report in the Log database table.
2039 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2040 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2041 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2042 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2043 the job can be manually started from the console.
2044 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2045 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2046 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2047 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2048 the restore cd command.
2049 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2050 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2052 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2053 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2054 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2055 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2056 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2057 spaces in names better, ...
2058 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2059 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2061 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2062 the restore command.
2063 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2064 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2065 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2066 from Eric Bollengier.
2067 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2068 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2069 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2070 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2071 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2072 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2073 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2074 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2075 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2076 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2077 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2078 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2079 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2080 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2081 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2082 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2083 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2084 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2085 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
2086 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2087 - Implement mount command for autochanger
2088 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
2089 from File= was not found.
2090 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
2091 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
2092 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
2093 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
2094 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
2095 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
2097 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
2099 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
2100 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
2101 listing where they could be "lost".
2102 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
2103 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
2105 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
2106 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
2107 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
2108 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
2109 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
2110 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
2111 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
2112 and mount, unmount directives.
2113 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
2114 to a user submission.
2115 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
2116 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
2117 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
2118 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
2119 device will be blocked.
2120 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
2121 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
2122 all other Storage specifications.
2123 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
2124 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
2125 from a database table for restore.
2126 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
2127 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
2128 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
2129 accept time qualifiers.
2130 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
2131 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
2132 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
2133 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
2134 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
2135 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
2136 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
2137 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
2139 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
2140 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
2141 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
2142 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
2143 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
2144 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
2145 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
2146 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
2147 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
2148 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
2149 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
2150 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
2151 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
2152 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
2154 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
2155 fault, but still 60 second window.
2156 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
2157 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
2159 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
2160 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
2161 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
2162 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
2163 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
2164 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
2165 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
2166 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
2167 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
2169 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
2171 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
2172 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
2173 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
2174 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
2175 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
2176 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
2177 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
2178 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
2180 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
2182 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
2183 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
2184 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
2185 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
2186 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
2188 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
2189 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
2190 Add Cost to Location table.
2191 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
2192 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
2193 and forcing a 6 second wait.
2194 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
2195 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
2196 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
2197 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
2198 system libraries print routines.
2199 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
2200 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
2201 it is all very complicated.
2202 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
2204 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
2206 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
2207 chapter of the manual
2208 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
2209 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
2210 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
2211 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
2212 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
2213 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
2214 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
2215 Mail On Success directive.
2216 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
2218 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
2219 are printed in the Job report.
2221 Additional Features Added for Win32:
2222 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2223 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
2224 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
2225 has the concept of drives.
2227 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
2228 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
2230 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
2231 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
2233 Patterns conform to Posix
2234 \ is not a special character in character classification []
2235 To match a - it must be the first or last character
2236 To match a ] it must be the first character
2238 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
2239 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
2241 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
2242 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
2243 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
2244 abc*.def work as expected.
2246 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
2248 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
2250 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
2251 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
2252 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
2253 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
2254 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
2255 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"