1 Kern;;;27 June 2012 at 15:32 CET
2 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.10 to Source Forge
6 The 5.2.10 version is a significant bug fix release.
8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
10 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
11 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
12 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
13 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
14 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
18 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
19 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
20 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
21 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
22 that the project cannot properly support.
23 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
26 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
27 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
28 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
29 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
30 repeat them each bug fix release.
31 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
35 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
38 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.9
39 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
42 Major changes since 5.2.9:
43 - IPv6 networking should work correctly now
44 - SQL Counter problems resolved
45 - Bat hanging after running a number of jobs
46 - dbcheck rw_writelock problem
47 - Add rudimentary support for backing up AFS
48 - Windows VSS restore bug
52 - Real fix of bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
53 - Fix bug #1891 wrong daemon name printed with -? option
54 - Fix bug #1859 INSERT INTO Counters fails
55 - First try at fixing bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
56 - Convert write_rec_to_block() to a state machine
57 - Fix bat from eating all Dir connections -- fixes bug #1872
58 - Back port fixes from BEE to fix Windows restore bug #1892
59 - Add block checksum flag to version.h
60 - Add block checksum debug code
61 - Fix bug #1893 dbcheck -B gives rwl_writelock error.
62 - Remove restriction of network buffer size being multiple of a tape block
63 - Add rudimentary support for saving AFS acls.
64 - Send level before the fileset in estimate_cmd() like in backup()
66 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
67 1859 1872 1891 1892 1893 1897
71 Kern;;;11 June 2012 at 20:15 CET
72 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.8 to Source Forge
74 This release is identical to release 5.2.8, with the exception
77 "Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871"
79 has been removed because it is not portable to all systems or
83 Kern;;;10 June 2012 at 12:04 CET
85 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.8
87 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
91 The 5.2.8 version is a bug fix release.
93 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
94 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
95 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
96 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
97 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
98 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
99 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
101 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
102 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
103 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
104 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
105 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
106 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
107 that the project cannot properly support.
108 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
110 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
111 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
112 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
113 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
114 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
115 repeat them each bug fix release.
116 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
120 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
123 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.8
124 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
131 - Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871
132 - Ensure cancel status is set for canceled duplicate jobs -- partial fix for
134 - Enhance Win32 error messages -- fixes bug #1879
135 - Apply patch from bug 1876 to permit dot commands in a runscript
136 - Remove config variables from examples/devices fixes bug #1884
137 - Add more debug code for bug 1885
138 - Add more debug to block.c when read rejected
139 - Fail job that attempts to read from closed device -- reported in bug 1885 but
141 - Detect Python 2.7 fixes bug #1888
142 - Apply systemd patch from bug #1886
143 - Rewrite some SD subroutines as class members
144 - New overhaul of xattr code.
145 - Use IPPROTO_TCP for SOL_TCP if SOL_TCP isn't defined.
146 - Fix compiler warning.
148 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
149 1851 1871 1879 1884 1886 1888
152 Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
154 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
156 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
160 The 5.2.7 version is a significan bug fix release. (The
161 diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
163 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
164 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
165 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
166 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
167 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
168 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
169 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
171 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
172 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
173 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
174 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
175 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
176 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
177 that the project cannot properly support.
178 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
180 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
181 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
182 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
183 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
184 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
185 repeat them each bug fix release.
186 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
190 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
193 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
194 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
200 - Correct Qt version needed for bat
201 - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
202 - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
203 - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
204 - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
205 - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
206 - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
207 - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
208 - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
209 - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
210 - Add first Dutch translation
211 - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
212 - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
213 - Remove old shared objects before install
214 - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
215 - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
216 - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
217 - Add more checks to bvfs
218 - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
219 - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
220 - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
221 - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
222 - Fix class member shadowing.
223 - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
224 - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
225 - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
226 - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
227 - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
228 - Fix restore_job restore keyword
229 - Allow plugin to backup a directory
230 - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
231 - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
232 - Backport new StorageId code
233 - More definitive fix for update slots bug
234 - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
235 - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
236 - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
238 - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
239 - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
240 - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
241 between two Include{}
243 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
244 1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
248 Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
249 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
251 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
253 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
257 The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
259 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
260 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
261 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
262 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
263 SQL shared libraries.
264 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
266 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
267 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
268 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
269 each time the Director starts.
270 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
274 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
277 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
278 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
282 - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
283 part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
284 time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
285 but */xx* will not match the above filename.
290 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
291 - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
292 - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
293 - Make cd accept wildcards
294 - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
295 - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
296 - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
297 - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
298 - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
299 - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
300 - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
301 - Add wait on bad connection for security
302 - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
303 - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
304 - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
305 - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
306 - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
307 - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
309 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
313 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
314 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
315 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
317 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
321 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
323 Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
324 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
325 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
328 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
329 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
330 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
331 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
332 SQL shared libraries.
333 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
335 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
336 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
337 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
338 each time the Director starts.
339 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
343 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
346 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
347 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
353 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
354 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
355 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
356 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
357 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
359 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
360 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
365 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
366 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
368 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
370 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
374 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
376 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
377 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
378 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
379 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
380 SQL shared libraries.
381 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
383 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
384 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
385 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
386 each time the Director starts.
387 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
391 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
394 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
395 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
398 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
399 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
401 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
402 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
403 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
404 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
405 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
406 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
407 - Compiler warning cleanups
409 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
414 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
415 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
416 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
417 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
419 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
420 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
421 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
422 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
423 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
425 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
427 - Fix systemd pid files.
428 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
429 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
430 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
431 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
432 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
434 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
435 - Backport Enterprise spec files
436 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
437 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
438 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
439 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
440 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
441 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
442 - Add new features in plugin
443 - Add helper for ini files
444 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
445 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
446 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
447 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
448 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
449 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
450 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
451 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
453 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
454 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
457 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
458 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
460 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
462 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
466 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
468 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
469 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
470 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
471 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
472 SQL shared libraries.
473 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
477 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
480 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
481 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
486 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
487 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
488 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
489 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
490 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
491 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
492 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
493 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
494 - Fix segfault in accurate code
495 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
497 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
502 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
503 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
505 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
507 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
511 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
512 additions and performance improvements.
514 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
515 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
516 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
517 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
518 SQL shared libraries.
519 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
523 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
526 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
527 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
532 - Implement -t option for Bat
533 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
534 - Get new lib/plugins.h
535 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
536 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
537 - Add Systemd configure options
538 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
539 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
540 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
541 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
542 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
543 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
544 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
545 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
546 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
548 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
549 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
550 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
551 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
552 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
553 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
554 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
555 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
556 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
558 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
559 -----------------------
564 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
565 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
568 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
570 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
575 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
576 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
577 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
578 number of important new features:
582 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
583 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
588 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
591 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
592 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
599 - Purge Migration Job
600 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
601 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
602 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
603 - Additions to RunScript variables
604 - Additions to the Plugin API
607 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
608 - Hash List Enhancements
610 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
611 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
614 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
615 ---------------------
616 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
617 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
618 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
619 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
620 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
621 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
624 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
626 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
627 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
628 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
629 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
633 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
634 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
635 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
637 Packaging the SQL backend:
638 --------------------------
639 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
640 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
641 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
642 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
645 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
650 Order of testing for database is
655 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
656 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
658 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
659 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
660 the default backend type.
662 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
663 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
664 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
666 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
668 And update the default backend in the following files:
670 create_bacula_database
673 grant_bacula_privileges
678 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
679 -----------------------------------------------
680 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
681 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
682 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
683 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
684 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
687 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
688 source (i.e. manually):
689 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
690 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
691 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
692 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
693 at the bottom of this file.
694 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
695 5. ./update_bacula_tables
696 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
697 script and put the name of another database, and then
698 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
699 catalogs have been updated.
700 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
701 not print any error messages.
703 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
704 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
705 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
706 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
707 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
708 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
709 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
710 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
713 ================================================================
717 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
718 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
719 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
720 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
721 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
722 - limit command in some list commands
723 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
724 - Faster crc32 algorithm
726 Security Enhancements:
727 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
728 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
730 Features Enhancements:
731 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
732 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
733 - Tray monitor for Windows
734 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
735 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
736 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
737 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
738 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
739 - Indent lsmark during restore
740 - Disable batch insert config item
741 - Director selection option in bconsole
742 - restorejob command in bconsole
743 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
744 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
745 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
746 - Improved hash table for hard links
747 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
748 and %h (Client Address)
751 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
753 - New database format
754 - Many new plugin API features
755 - Improved memory handling for restores
756 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
757 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
758 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
761 ===========================================================================
764 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
765 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
767 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
768 It includes new code and some new features.
769 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
771 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
772 the 5.0.1 release section.
777 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
780 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
781 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
784 Changes and New Features:
785 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
786 it printed a warning message and continued.
787 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
788 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
789 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
790 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
791 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
792 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
793 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
794 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
798 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
800 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
801 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
802 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
803 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
804 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
805 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
806 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
807 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
808 - Add archlinux to os.m4
809 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
810 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
811 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
812 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
813 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
814 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
815 - Up maximum block size to 20M
816 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
817 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
818 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
819 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
820 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
821 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
822 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
823 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
824 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
825 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
826 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
827 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
828 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
829 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
830 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
831 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
832 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
834 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
835 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
836 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
837 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
838 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
839 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
840 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
841 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
842 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
843 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
844 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
845 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
846 - Added new bacula-libs package.
847 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
848 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
850 See ChangeLog for more details.
853 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
854 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
856 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
857 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
858 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
859 and we are very pleased.
862 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
863 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
865 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
867 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
872 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
875 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
876 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
883 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
885 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
886 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
887 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
888 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
889 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
890 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
891 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
892 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
893 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
894 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
895 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
896 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
898 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
899 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
900 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
901 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
902 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
903 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
904 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
905 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
906 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
907 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
908 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
909 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
910 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
911 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
915 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
916 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
918 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
919 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
921 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
922 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
923 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
924 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
925 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
926 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
927 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
929 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
930 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
931 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
932 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
933 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
934 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
936 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
937 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
938 release there is no database upgrade needed.
940 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
941 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
942 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
944 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
950 ============= Performance Note ==================
952 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
953 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
954 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
955 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
956 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
957 versions, on a well configured database it should run
960 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
961 In general, these will cause very significant performance
962 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
963 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
964 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
965 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
966 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
967 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
968 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
969 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
971 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
972 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
973 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
974 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
975 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
976 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
978 ==========================================
981 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
983 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
985 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
986 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
987 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
989 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
990 features section of the manual.
992 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
993 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
994 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
995 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
996 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
997 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1001 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
1002 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
1003 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
1004 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
1005 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
1006 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
1009 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
1010 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
1011 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1012 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
1014 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
1015 section in the manual.
1016 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
1019 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
1020 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
1022 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
1023 - Fix three-pool regress bug
1024 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
1025 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
1026 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
1028 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
1029 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
1030 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
1032 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
1033 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
1034 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
1035 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
1036 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
1037 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
1038 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
1039 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
1040 - Fix missing console page in bat
1041 - Add bat help files to Window install
1042 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
1043 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
1044 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
1045 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
1046 - Update the bsock error URL
1047 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
1048 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
1049 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
1050 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
1051 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
1052 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
1053 - Remove file_index sequential check
1054 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
1057 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
1058 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
1059 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
1060 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
1061 not installed by the Makefiles
1063 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
1064 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
1065 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
1066 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
1068 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
1069 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
1070 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
1071 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
1072 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
1073 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
1074 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
1076 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
1077 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
1078 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
1079 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
1080 this problem (bug) does not exist.
1082 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
1083 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
1084 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
1085 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
1086 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
1087 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
1089 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
1090 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
1091 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
1092 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
1095 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
1096 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
1097 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
1101 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
1104 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
1106 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
1107 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
1108 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
1109 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
1110 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
1111 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
1112 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
1113 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
1114 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
1115 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
1116 --enable-smartalloc \
1117 --enable-tray-monitor \
1120 --with-dump-email=${email} \
1121 --with-job-email=${email} \
1122 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
1123 --with-baseport=9101
1125 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
1126 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
1127 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
1128 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
1130 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
1131 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
1132 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
1134 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
1135 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
1136 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
1137 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
1138 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
1139 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
1140 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
1141 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
1142 different versions of the shared objects.
1144 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
1145 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
1146 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
1147 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
1148 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
1149 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
1150 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
1151 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
1152 use readline or not as you please.
1156 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
1157 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
1160 -----------------------------------------------------------
1161 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
1162 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
1163 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
1164 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
1165 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
1166 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
1167 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
1168 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
1169 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
1170 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
1171 version is more advanced or has more features than the
1172 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
1173 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
1174 will be version 4.0.0.
1177 --------------------------------------------------------------
1178 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
1182 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
1183 -------------------------------------------------------
1186 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
1187 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
1191 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
1192 responding to the bsmtp program
1193 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
1194 - Fix various problems with the reload command
1195 - Fix problems with conio
1196 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
1199 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
1200 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
1201 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
1202 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
1203 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
1205 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
1206 checksum verification for example.
1207 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
1208 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
1209 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
1210 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
1211 - Add new speed test to btape program
1212 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
1213 - Windows version of Bat
1214 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
1215 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
1216 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
1218 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
1219 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
1220 - Many ACL improvements
1221 - Level added to FD status Job entry
1222 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
1223 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
1224 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
1227 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1228 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
1229 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
1230 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
1232 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
1233 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1234 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
1235 as is reasonable for your situation.
1237 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1239 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
1240 -----------------------------------------------------
1242 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1243 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
1244 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1245 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1246 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1249 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1251 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1252 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1253 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
1254 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1255 at the bottom of this file.
1256 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1257 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1258 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1259 script and put the name of another database, and then
1260 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1261 catalogs have been updated.
1262 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1263 not print any error messages.
1265 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1266 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1267 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
1268 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1269 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1270 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1271 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1272 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1274 ================================================================
1277 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1278 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
1279 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
1280 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
1281 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
1282 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
1283 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
1284 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
1286 ================================================================
1288 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1289 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
1290 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
1291 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
1292 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
1293 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
1294 ================================================================
1296 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
1297 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
1298 the manual for more details.
1300 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1302 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
1304 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
1305 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
1306 are still some that need fixing.
1308 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
1311 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1312 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1313 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1317 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1318 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1319 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1322 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1323 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1325 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
1327 The ChangeLog has more details.
1332 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
1333 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
1335 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1338 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
1340 Changes since 3.0.2:
1342 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
1343 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
1346 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
1347 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
1348 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
1349 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
1350 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
1351 when doing fixup_write_error ...
1352 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
1353 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
1354 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
1355 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
1356 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
1357 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
1358 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
1359 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
1360 tweak space on projects file
1361 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
1362 Apply Frank's slash patch
1363 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
1364 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
1365 Add more info when SD connection refused
1366 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
1367 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
1368 3.0.2-accurate.patch
1369 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
1370 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
1371 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
1372 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
1373 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
1374 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
1375 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
1376 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
1377 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
1378 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
1381 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1384 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
1385 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1390 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
1391 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
1392 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1395 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
1396 some enhancements (see below).
1398 Changes since 3.0.1:
1401 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
1402 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
1405 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
1406 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
1407 - Fix bugs in xattr code
1408 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
1409 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
1412 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
1413 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
1414 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
1415 This is project 31 in the projects file.
1416 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
1417 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
1418 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
1419 This is project 2 in the projects file.
1420 - Add new Nagios plugin
1423 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1426 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
1427 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
1431 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
1432 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1434 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
1436 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
1437 one enhancement (see below).
1439 Changes since 3.0.0:
1441 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
1444 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
1445 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
1446 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
1447 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
1448 - Updated projects file
1449 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
1450 and keep fields order.
1451 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
1452 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
1455 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1456 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1457 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1458 tape deadlock situations.
1460 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1461 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1462 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1463 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1464 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1465 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1468 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1470 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1473 1. Missing documentation.
1474 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1475 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1478 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1479 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1480 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1484 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1485 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1487 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1488 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1491 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1492 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1493 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1495 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1497 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1498 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1499 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1501 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1502 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1505 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1506 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1507 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1508 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1509 your help will be appreciated.
1511 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1513 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1514 we missed documenting some).
1516 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1517 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1519 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1520 while it is running. He is working on this.
1522 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1523 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1524 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1525 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1526 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1527 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1528 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1530 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1531 bit of a rare case).
1533 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1534 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1535 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1536 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1537 most current release ...
1539 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1540 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1541 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1542 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1544 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1545 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1546 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1547 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1548 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1549 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1550 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1552 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1553 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1554 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1556 Personal contributions:
1557 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1558 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1559 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1560 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1561 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1562 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1563 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1564 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1565 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1566 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1568 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1570 === List of new features ===
1574 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1575 - Extended Attribute support
1576 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1578 --enable-libtool (default)
1581 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1582 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1584 - Duplicate Job Control
1585 - TLS Authentication
1586 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1587 - State File updated at Job Termination
1590 - FD Exchange plugin
1592 - Console Enhancements
1597 - Restore seek optimization
1598 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1600 - RunScript Enhancements
1601 - Status enhancements
1602 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1603 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1604 - FD Version compatibily flag
1605 - Statistics Enhancements
1606 - Faster Attribute despooling
1607 - Document split into 6 manuals
1608 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1610 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1611 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1612 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1613 - New configure install options
1614 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1615 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1616 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1617 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1621 - Honor No Dump Flag
1622 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1624 - Max Run Sched Time
1626 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1628 - Max Console Connections
1629 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1630 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1631 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1632 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1633 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1634 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1636 - Console (in RunScript)
1638 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1640 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1641 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1642 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1643 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1644 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1645 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1646 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1647 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1648 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1650 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1651 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1652 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1653 ================================
1656 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1658 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1660 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1661 represents an enormous effort.
1663 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1664 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1665 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1666 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1667 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1669 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1671 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1672 -----------------------------------------------------
1674 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1675 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1676 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1677 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1678 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1681 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1683 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1684 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1685 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1686 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1687 at the bottom of this file.
1688 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1689 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1690 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1691 script and put the name of another database, and then
1692 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1693 catalogs have been updated.
1694 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1695 not print any error messages.
1697 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1698 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1699 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1700 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1702 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1703 backup it before executing the script.
1705 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1706 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1707 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1708 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1709 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1710 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1711 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1712 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1716 Important New configure options :
1717 ----------------------
1719 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1720 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1721 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1722 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1723 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1724 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1725 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1726 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1728 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1730 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1731 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1732 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1734 ./configure --disable-libtool
1736 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1737 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1738 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1739 want to put them elsewhere use:
1741 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1743 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1744 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1745 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1746 want to put them elsewhere use:
1748 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1750 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1751 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1752 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1755 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1757 ==============================================================
1759 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1760 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1761 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1764 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1765 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1767 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1769 The ChangeLog has more details.
1772 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1773 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1774 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1775 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1776 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1777 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1778 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1779 available for normal operations.
1781 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1782 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1783 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1786 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1787 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1788 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1790 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1791 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1792 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1793 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1794 range of Bacula users.
1796 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1797 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1798 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1799 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1800 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1801 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1804 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1805 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1806 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1807 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1808 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1809 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1810 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1811 home for Bacula project development.
1813 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1814 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1815 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1816 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1817 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1819 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1820 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1821 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1822 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1823 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1824 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1825 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1826 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1827 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1828 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1830 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1831 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1832 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1833 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1834 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1835 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1836 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1837 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1839 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1840 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1841 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1842 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1843 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1846 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1847 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1848 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1849 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1851 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1852 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1853 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1854 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1855 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1856 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1857 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1858 and certified binaries.
1860 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1861 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1862 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1863 company, Bacula Systems.
1865 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1872 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1873 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1874 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1875 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1879 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1880 with other 2.4.x versions.
1883 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1886 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1887 a non created job faster.
1888 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1889 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1890 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1891 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1892 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1894 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1895 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1896 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1898 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1899 this never caused a bug.
1900 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1901 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1902 using default variables.
1903 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1904 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1905 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1906 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1907 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1909 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1910 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1912 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1913 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1914 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1915 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1916 This closes bug #1129.
1918 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1919 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1923 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1924 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1925 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1926 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1928 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1931 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1935 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1936 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1937 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1938 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1939 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1940 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1941 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1942 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1943 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1944 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1945 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1946 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1947 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1948 This fixes bug #1124.
1949 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1950 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1951 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1953 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1954 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1955 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1956 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1957 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1958 version 2.5.x and above.
1961 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1962 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1963 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1964 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1967 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1971 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1972 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1973 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1974 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1975 would occasionally not be restored.
1976 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1977 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1978 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1980 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1981 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1982 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1983 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1984 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1985 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1986 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1987 older 'incorrect' headers.
1988 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1989 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1990 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1991 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1992 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1993 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1994 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1995 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1996 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1997 is read on that drive.
1998 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1999 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
2001 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
2002 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
2003 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
2004 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
2005 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
2006 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
2007 be opened. Reported by Eric.
2008 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
2009 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
2010 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
2011 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
2012 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
2013 have the requested MediaType.
2014 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
2015 the configuration routines.
2016 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
2017 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
2018 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
2019 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
2020 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
2021 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
2025 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
2026 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
2027 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
2028 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
2030 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
2031 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
2032 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2033 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2034 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2035 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2036 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2038 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
2039 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
2040 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
2041 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
2042 no database upgrade needed.
2044 =====================================================
2046 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
2048 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
2050 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2051 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2052 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2053 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2054 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
2055 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
2057 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
2058 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
2059 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
2060 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
2061 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
2062 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
2063 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
2065 ======================================================
2067 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
2068 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
2069 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2070 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2071 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2072 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2073 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2076 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
2077 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
2080 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
2081 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
2083 Release Version 2.4.0
2084 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
2085 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
2086 This fixes bug #1095.
2087 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
2088 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
2089 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
2091 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
2092 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
2093 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
2094 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
2095 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
2096 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
2097 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
2098 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
2099 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
2100 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
2102 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
2103 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
2104 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
2105 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
2106 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
2107 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
2108 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
2109 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
2110 This fixes bug #1041.
2111 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
2112 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
2113 - Implement --without-qwt
2114 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
2115 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
2116 with or without the QWT libaries.
2117 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
2118 from one drive to another.
2119 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
2120 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
2121 This fixes bug #1083.
2122 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
2123 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
2125 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
2126 This fixes bug #1078.
2127 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
2128 warning rather than an error.
2129 - Fix SQL query in migration code
2130 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
2131 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
2132 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
2133 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
2134 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
2135 same volume name twice in a row.
2136 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
2137 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
2138 handling the responsibilities.
2139 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
2140 causes a seg fault in many cases.
2141 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
2143 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
2144 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
2145 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
2146 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
2147 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
2148 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
2149 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
2150 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
2151 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
2152 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
2153 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
2154 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
2155 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
2156 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
2157 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
2158 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
2160 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
2161 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
2162 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
2163 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
2164 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2165 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
2166 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
2167 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
2168 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
2169 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
2170 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
2171 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
2172 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
2173 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
2174 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
2175 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
2176 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
2177 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
2179 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
2180 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
2181 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
2182 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
2183 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
2184 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
2185 the ./configure line.
2186 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
2190 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
2191 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
2192 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2193 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
2194 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
2196 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
2197 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
2199 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
2200 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
2201 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
2202 and are difficult to reproduce.
2203 See the ChangeLog for more details.
2204 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
2205 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
2209 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
2210 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
2211 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2212 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
2213 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
2215 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
2216 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
2217 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
2220 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
2221 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
2222 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
2223 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
2225 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
2226 since version 2.2.6:
2227 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
2228 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
2229 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
2230 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
2231 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
2232 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
2233 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
2234 bar, thanks to the above patch.
2235 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
2237 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
2238 driver with version 8.3.
2239 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
2241 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
2242 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
2243 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
2244 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
2246 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
2247 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
2249 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
2250 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
2252 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
2253 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
2255 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
2256 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
2257 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
2258 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
2260 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
2261 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
2262 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
2263 957, 908, 958, and 955.
2264 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
2265 out by Chris Howells.
2267 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
2268 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
2270 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
2271 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
2272 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
2273 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
2274 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
2275 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
2276 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
2277 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
2278 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
2279 the conditions noted above.
2281 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
2282 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
2283 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
2284 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
2285 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
2288 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
2289 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
2290 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
2292 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
2293 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
2295 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
2296 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
2298 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
2299 It contains the following fixes:
2301 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
2302 - Possible fix for bug #908.
2303 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
2304 file to always be deleted.
2305 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
2306 This fixes bug #950.
2307 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
2308 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
2310 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
2311 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
2312 are released as soon as possible.
2313 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
2314 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
2315 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
2316 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
2317 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
2318 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
2319 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
2320 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
2322 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
2323 and not memory usage.
2325 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
2328 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
2329 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
2331 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
2332 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
2333 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
2334 kind of problem many times.
2336 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
2339 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
2340 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
2341 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
2342 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
2345 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
2347 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
2350 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
2351 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
2352 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
2354 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
2355 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
2357 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
2359 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
2360 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
2363 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
2364 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
2365 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
2366 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
2368 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
2369 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
2370 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
2371 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
2373 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
2374 affected by this bug.
2376 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
2377 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
2380 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
2381 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
2384 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
2385 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
2386 an updated Storage daemon.
2388 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
2389 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
2390 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
2391 reproduced the problem.
2393 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
2394 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2396 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
2398 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
2402 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
2404 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2406 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
2408 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
2409 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
2411 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2412 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2413 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2414 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2415 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
2417 Areas requiring caution or testing:
2418 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
2419 to build with MySQL enabled.
2420 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
2421 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
2422 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
2423 to what we do with sockets).
2424 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
2425 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
2426 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
2427 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
2428 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
2429 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
2430 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
2431 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
2433 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
2435 The major new features are:
2436 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
2437 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
2438 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
2439 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
2440 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
2441 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
2442 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
2443 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
2444 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
2446 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
2447 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
2448 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
2450 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
2451 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
2452 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
2453 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
2454 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
2455 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2456 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2457 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2458 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2459 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2460 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2462 New ./configure options:
2463 - --enable-bwx-console
2468 - --enable-batch-insert
2470 New bconsole commands:
2473 - update recyclepool
2476 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2477 - restoreclient (keyword)
2478 - backupclient (keyword)
2479 - regexwhere (keyword)
2480 - update jobid (new command)
2481 - recyclepool (keyword)
2484 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2485 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2486 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2487 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2488 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2489 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2490 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2491 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2492 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2493 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2494 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2496 Other features or bug fixes:
2497 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2498 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2499 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2500 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2501 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2502 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2503 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2504 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2505 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2506 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2507 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2508 these packages in the distro.
2509 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2511 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2512 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2513 directives are defined.
2514 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2515 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2516 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2517 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2518 - More debug output in status storage.
2519 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2520 critical columns were lost).
2521 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2522 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2523 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2524 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2525 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2526 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2527 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2528 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2529 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2530 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2531 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2532 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2533 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2534 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2535 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2536 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2537 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2538 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2539 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2540 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2541 filename restrictions.
2542 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2543 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2544 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2545 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2546 is already a < in the target.
2547 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2548 mounted by another job.
2549 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2550 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2551 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2552 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2553 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2554 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2555 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2556 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2557 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2558 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2559 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2560 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2561 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2562 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2563 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2564 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2565 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2566 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2567 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2568 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2569 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2570 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2571 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2572 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2573 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2574 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2575 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2580 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2582 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2583 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2584 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2587 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2588 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2592 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2593 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2594 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2595 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2597 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2600 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2601 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2603 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2604 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2606 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2607 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2610 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2612 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2614 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2617 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2618 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2620 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2622 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2623 If you want to use this, you can apply
2624 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2626 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2627 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2628 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2630 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2631 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2632 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2633 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2635 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2636 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2637 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2638 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2639 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2642 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2644 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2645 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2646 was opened, it is closed.
2648 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2649 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2650 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2652 kes Update projects list.
2654 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2655 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2657 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2658 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2659 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2661 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2662 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2664 Switch to using Subversion
2665 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2667 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2668 plus the entrypoints.
2669 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2670 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2671 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2673 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2674 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2676 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2677 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2678 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2680 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2681 problem is with read or append.
2683 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2684 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2685 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2686 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2687 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2688 (i.e. migration jobs).
2689 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2690 a memory leak problem.
2691 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2692 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2693 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2694 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2695 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2696 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2697 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2699 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2700 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2704 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2706 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2708 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2710 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2712 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2713 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2714 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2715 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2717 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2719 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2720 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2721 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2722 other DIR specifications.
2724 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2725 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2726 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2728 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2730 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2731 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2732 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2736 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2738 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2739 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2740 the following fixes:
2742 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2743 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2744 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2746 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2747 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2748 This *should* fix bug #747.
2749 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2751 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2752 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2753 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2754 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2755 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2756 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2758 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2759 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2763 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2765 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2767 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2769 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2771 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2773 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2777 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2779 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2781 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2783 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2784 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2785 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2786 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2787 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2788 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2789 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2790 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2791 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2793 ./update_bacula_tables
2795 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2796 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2797 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2798 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2799 in general, it should be very fast.
2801 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2802 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2803 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2804 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2805 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2807 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2808 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2809 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2810 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2811 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2812 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2813 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2814 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2815 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2816 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2817 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2818 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2819 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2820 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2821 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2822 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2823 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2824 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2825 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2826 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2827 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2828 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2829 with the correct MediaType.
2830 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2831 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2832 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2833 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2834 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2835 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2836 more testing is still needed.
2837 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2838 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2839 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2840 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2841 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2842 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2843 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2844 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2845 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2846 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2847 and fixed it as follows:
2849 No filters = Works fine
2851 Compression = Works fine
2852 Encryption = Works fine
2853 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2855 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2856 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2857 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2860 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2861 not properly restored.
2864 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2866 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2867 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2868 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2869 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2870 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2871 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2872 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2873 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2874 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2875 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2876 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2879 Block Positioning = no
2881 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2883 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2884 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2885 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2887 New Features in 2.0.0:
2888 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2889 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2890 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2891 Bacula, then as root run:
2893 cd <bacula-source>/po
2896 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2898 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2899 Migration chapter in the manual
2900 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2901 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2902 a new chapter of the manual at:
2903 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2904 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2905 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2906 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2907 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2908 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2910 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2911 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2912 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2913 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2914 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2915 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2916 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2917 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2918 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2919 before putting into production.
2920 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2921 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2922 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2923 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2924 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2925 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2926 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2927 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2929 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2930 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2931 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2932 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2933 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2934 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2935 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2936 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2937 "list nextvol days=xx"
2939 "status dir days=xx"
2940 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2941 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2943 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2944 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2946 wait jobuid=unique id
2948 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2949 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2950 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2951 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2952 job report in the Log database table.
2953 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2954 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2955 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2956 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2957 the job can be manually started from the console.
2958 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2959 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2960 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2961 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2962 the restore cd command.
2963 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2964 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2966 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2967 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2968 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2969 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2970 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2971 spaces in names better, ...
2972 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2973 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2975 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2976 the restore command.
2977 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2978 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2979 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2980 from Eric Bollengier.
2981 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2982 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2983 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2984 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2985 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2986 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2987 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2988 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2989 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2990 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2991 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2992 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2993 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2994 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2995 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2996 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2997 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2998 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2999 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
3000 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
3001 - Implement mount command for autochanger
3002 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
3003 from File= was not found.
3004 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
3005 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
3006 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
3007 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
3008 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
3009 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
3011 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
3013 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
3014 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
3015 listing where they could be "lost".
3016 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
3017 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
3019 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
3020 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
3021 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
3022 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
3023 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
3024 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
3025 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
3026 and mount, unmount directives.
3027 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
3028 to a user submission.
3029 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
3030 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
3031 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
3032 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
3033 device will be blocked.
3034 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
3035 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
3036 all other Storage specifications.
3037 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
3038 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
3039 from a database table for restore.
3040 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
3041 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
3042 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
3043 accept time qualifiers.
3044 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
3045 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
3046 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
3047 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
3048 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
3049 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
3050 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
3051 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
3053 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
3054 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
3055 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
3056 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
3057 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
3058 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
3059 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
3060 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
3061 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
3062 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
3063 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
3064 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
3065 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
3066 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
3068 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
3069 fault, but still 60 second window.
3070 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
3071 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
3073 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
3074 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
3075 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
3076 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
3077 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
3078 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
3079 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
3080 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
3081 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
3083 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
3085 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
3086 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
3087 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
3088 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
3089 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
3090 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
3091 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
3092 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
3094 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
3096 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
3097 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
3098 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
3099 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
3100 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
3102 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
3103 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
3104 Add Cost to Location table.
3105 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
3106 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
3107 and forcing a 6 second wait.
3108 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
3109 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
3110 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
3111 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
3112 system libraries print routines.
3113 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
3114 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
3115 it is all very complicated.
3116 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
3118 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
3120 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
3121 chapter of the manual
3122 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
3123 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
3124 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
3125 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
3126 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
3127 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
3128 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
3129 Mail On Success directive.
3130 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
3132 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
3133 are printed in the Job report.
3135 Additional Features Added for Win32:
3136 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3137 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
3138 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
3139 has the concept of drives.
3141 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3142 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
3144 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
3145 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
3147 Patterns conform to Posix
3148 \ is not a special character in character classification []
3149 To match a - it must be the first or last character
3150 To match a ] it must be the first character
3152 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
3153 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
3155 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
3156 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
3157 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
3158 abc*.def work as expected.
3160 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
3162 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
3164 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
3165 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
3166 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
3167 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
3168 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
3169 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"