1 Kern;;;10 June 2012 at 12:04 CET
2 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.8 to Source Forge
4 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.8
6 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
10 The 5.2.8 version is a bug fix release.
12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
14 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
15 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
16 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
17 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
18 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
22 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
23 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
24 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
25 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
26 that the project cannot properly support.
27 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
29 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
30 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
31 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
32 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
33 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
34 repeat them each bug fix release.
35 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
39 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
42 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.8
43 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
50 - Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871
51 - Ensure cancel status is set for canceled duplicate jobs -- partial fix for
53 - Enhance Win32 error messages -- fixes bug #1879
54 - Apply patch from bug 1876 to permit dot commands in a runscript
55 - Remove config variables from examples/devices fixes bug #1884
56 - Add more debug code for bug 1885
57 - Add more debug to block.c when read rejected
58 - Fail job that attempts to read from closed device -- reported in bug 1885 but
60 - Detect Python 2.7 fixes bug #1888
61 - Apply systemd patch from bug #1886
62 - Rewrite some SD subroutines as class members
63 - New overhaul of xattr code.
64 - Use IPPROTO_TCP for SOL_TCP if SOL_TCP isn't defined.
65 - Fix compiler warning.
67 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
68 1851 1871 1879 1884 1886 1888
71 Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
73 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
75 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
79 The 5.2.7 version is a significan bug fix release. (The
80 diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
82 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
83 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
84 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
85 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
86 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
87 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
88 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
90 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
91 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
92 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
93 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
94 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
95 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
96 that the project cannot properly support.
97 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
99 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
101 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
102 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
103 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
104 repeat them each bug fix release.
105 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
109 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
112 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
113 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
119 - Correct Qt version needed for bat
120 - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
121 - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
122 - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
123 - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
124 - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
125 - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
126 - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
127 - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
128 - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
129 - Add first Dutch translation
130 - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
131 - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
132 - Remove old shared objects before install
133 - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
134 - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
135 - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
136 - Add more checks to bvfs
137 - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
138 - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
139 - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
140 - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
141 - Fix class member shadowing.
142 - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
143 - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
144 - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
145 - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
146 - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
147 - Fix restore_job restore keyword
148 - Allow plugin to backup a directory
149 - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
150 - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
151 - Backport new StorageId code
152 - More definitive fix for update slots bug
153 - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
154 - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
155 - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
157 - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
158 - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
159 - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
160 between two Include{}
162 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
163 1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
167 Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
168 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
170 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
172 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
176 The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
178 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
179 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
180 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
181 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
182 SQL shared libraries.
183 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
185 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
186 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
187 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
188 each time the Director starts.
189 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
193 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
196 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
197 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
201 - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
202 part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
203 time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
204 but */xx* will not match the above filename.
209 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
210 - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
211 - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
212 - Make cd accept wildcards
213 - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
214 - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
215 - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
216 - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
217 - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
218 - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
219 - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
220 - Add wait on bad connection for security
221 - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
222 - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
223 - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
224 - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
225 - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
226 - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
228 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
232 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
233 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
234 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
236 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
240 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
242 Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
243 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
244 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
247 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
248 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
249 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
250 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
251 SQL shared libraries.
252 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
254 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
255 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
256 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
257 each time the Director starts.
258 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
262 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
265 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
266 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
272 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
273 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
274 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
275 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
276 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
278 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
279 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
284 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
285 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
287 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
289 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
293 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
295 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
296 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
297 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
298 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
299 SQL shared libraries.
300 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
302 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
303 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
304 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
305 each time the Director starts.
306 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
310 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
313 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
314 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
317 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
318 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
320 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
321 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
322 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
323 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
324 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
325 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
326 - Compiler warning cleanups
328 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
333 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
334 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
335 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
336 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
338 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
339 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
340 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
341 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
342 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
344 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
346 - Fix systemd pid files.
347 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
348 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
349 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
350 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
351 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
353 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
354 - Backport Enterprise spec files
355 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
356 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
357 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
358 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
359 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
360 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
361 - Add new features in plugin
362 - Add helper for ini files
363 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
364 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
365 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
366 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
367 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
368 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
369 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
370 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
372 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
373 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
376 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
377 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
379 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
381 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
385 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
387 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
388 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
389 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
390 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
391 SQL shared libraries.
392 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
396 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
399 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
400 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
405 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
406 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
407 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
408 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
409 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
410 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
411 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
412 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
413 - Fix segfault in accurate code
414 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
416 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
421 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
422 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
424 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
426 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
430 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
431 additions and performance improvements.
433 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
434 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
435 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
436 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
437 SQL shared libraries.
438 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
442 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
445 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
446 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
451 - Implement -t option for Bat
452 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
453 - Get new lib/plugins.h
454 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
455 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
456 - Add Systemd configure options
457 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
458 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
459 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
460 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
461 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
462 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
463 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
464 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
465 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
467 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
468 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
469 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
470 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
471 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
472 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
473 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
474 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
475 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
477 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
478 -----------------------
483 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
484 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
487 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
489 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
494 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
495 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
496 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
497 number of important new features:
501 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
502 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
507 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
510 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
511 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
518 - Purge Migration Job
519 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
520 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
521 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
522 - Additions to RunScript variables
523 - Additions to the Plugin API
526 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
527 - Hash List Enhancements
529 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
530 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
533 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
534 ---------------------
535 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
536 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
537 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
538 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
539 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
540 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
543 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
545 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
546 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
547 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
548 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
552 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
553 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
554 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
556 Packaging the SQL backend:
557 --------------------------
558 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
559 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
560 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
561 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
564 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
569 Order of testing for database is
574 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
575 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
577 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
578 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
579 the default backend type.
581 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
582 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
583 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
585 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
587 And update the default backend in the following files:
589 create_bacula_database
592 grant_bacula_privileges
597 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
598 -----------------------------------------------
599 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
600 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
601 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
602 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
603 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
606 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
607 source (i.e. manually):
608 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
609 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
610 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
611 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
612 at the bottom of this file.
613 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
614 5. ./update_bacula_tables
615 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
616 script and put the name of another database, and then
617 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
618 catalogs have been updated.
619 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
620 not print any error messages.
622 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
623 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
624 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
625 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
626 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
627 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
628 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
629 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
632 ================================================================
636 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
637 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
638 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
639 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
640 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
641 - limit command in some list commands
642 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
643 - Faster crc32 algorithm
645 Security Enhancements:
646 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
647 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
649 Features Enhancements:
650 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
651 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
652 - Tray monitor for Windows
653 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
654 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
655 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
656 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
657 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
658 - Indent lsmark during restore
659 - Disable batch insert config item
660 - Director selection option in bconsole
661 - restorejob command in bconsole
662 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
663 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
664 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
665 - Improved hash table for hard links
666 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
667 and %h (Client Address)
670 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
672 - New database format
673 - Many new plugin API features
674 - Improved memory handling for restores
675 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
676 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
677 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
680 ===========================================================================
683 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
684 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
686 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
687 It includes new code and some new features.
688 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
690 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
691 the 5.0.1 release section.
696 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
699 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
700 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
703 Changes and New Features:
704 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
705 it printed a warning message and continued.
706 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
707 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
708 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
709 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
710 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
711 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
712 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
713 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
717 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
719 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
720 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
721 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
722 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
723 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
724 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
725 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
726 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
727 - Add archlinux to os.m4
728 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
729 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
730 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
731 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
732 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
733 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
734 - Up maximum block size to 20M
735 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
736 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
737 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
738 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
739 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
740 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
741 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
742 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
743 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
744 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
745 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
746 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
747 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
748 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
749 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
750 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
751 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
753 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
754 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
755 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
756 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
757 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
758 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
759 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
760 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
761 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
762 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
763 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
764 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
765 - Added new bacula-libs package.
766 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
767 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
769 See ChangeLog for more details.
772 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
773 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
775 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
776 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
777 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
778 and we are very pleased.
781 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
782 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
784 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
786 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
791 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
794 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
795 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
802 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
804 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
805 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
806 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
807 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
808 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
809 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
810 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
811 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
812 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
813 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
814 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
815 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
817 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
818 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
819 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
820 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
821 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
822 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
823 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
824 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
825 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
826 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
827 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
828 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
829 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
830 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
834 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
835 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
837 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
838 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
840 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
841 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
842 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
843 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
844 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
845 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
846 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
848 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
849 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
850 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
851 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
852 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
853 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
855 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
856 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
857 release there is no database upgrade needed.
859 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
860 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
861 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
863 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
869 ============= Performance Note ==================
871 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
872 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
873 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
874 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
875 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
876 versions, on a well configured database it should run
879 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
880 In general, these will cause very significant performance
881 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
882 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
883 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
884 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
885 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
886 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
887 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
888 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
890 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
891 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
892 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
893 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
894 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
895 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
897 ==========================================
900 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
902 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
904 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
905 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
906 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
908 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
909 features section of the manual.
911 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
912 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
913 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
914 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
915 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
916 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
920 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
921 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
922 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
923 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
924 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
925 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
928 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
929 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
930 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
931 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
933 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
934 section in the manual.
935 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
938 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
939 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
941 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
942 - Fix three-pool regress bug
943 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
944 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
945 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
947 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
948 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
949 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
951 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
952 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
953 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
954 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
955 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
956 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
957 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
958 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
959 - Fix missing console page in bat
960 - Add bat help files to Window install
961 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
962 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
963 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
964 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
965 - Update the bsock error URL
966 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
967 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
968 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
969 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
970 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
971 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
972 - Remove file_index sequential check
973 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
976 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
977 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
978 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
979 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
980 not installed by the Makefiles
982 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
983 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
984 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
985 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
987 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
988 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
989 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
990 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
991 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
992 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
993 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
995 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
996 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
997 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
998 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
999 this problem (bug) does not exist.
1001 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
1002 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
1003 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
1004 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
1005 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
1006 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
1008 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
1009 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
1010 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
1011 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
1014 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
1015 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
1016 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
1020 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
1023 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
1025 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
1026 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
1027 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
1028 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
1029 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
1030 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
1031 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
1032 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
1033 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
1034 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
1035 --enable-smartalloc \
1036 --enable-tray-monitor \
1039 --with-dump-email=${email} \
1040 --with-job-email=${email} \
1041 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
1042 --with-baseport=9101
1044 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
1045 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
1046 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
1047 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
1049 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
1050 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
1051 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
1053 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
1054 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
1055 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
1056 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
1057 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
1058 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
1059 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
1060 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
1061 different versions of the shared objects.
1063 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
1064 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
1065 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
1066 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
1067 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
1068 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
1069 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
1070 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
1071 use readline or not as you please.
1075 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
1076 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
1079 -----------------------------------------------------------
1080 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
1081 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
1082 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
1083 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
1084 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
1085 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
1086 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
1087 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
1088 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
1089 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
1090 version is more advanced or has more features than the
1091 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
1092 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
1093 will be version 4.0.0.
1096 --------------------------------------------------------------
1097 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
1101 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
1102 -------------------------------------------------------
1105 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
1106 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
1110 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
1111 responding to the bsmtp program
1112 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
1113 - Fix various problems with the reload command
1114 - Fix problems with conio
1115 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
1118 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
1119 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
1120 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
1121 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
1122 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
1124 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
1125 checksum verification for example.
1126 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
1127 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
1128 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
1129 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
1130 - Add new speed test to btape program
1131 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
1132 - Windows version of Bat
1133 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
1134 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
1135 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
1137 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
1138 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
1139 - Many ACL improvements
1140 - Level added to FD status Job entry
1141 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
1142 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
1143 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
1146 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1147 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
1148 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
1149 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
1151 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
1152 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1153 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
1154 as is reasonable for your situation.
1156 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1158 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
1159 -----------------------------------------------------
1161 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1162 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
1163 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1164 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1165 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1168 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1170 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1171 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1172 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
1173 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1174 at the bottom of this file.
1175 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1176 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1177 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1178 script and put the name of another database, and then
1179 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1180 catalogs have been updated.
1181 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1182 not print any error messages.
1184 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1185 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1186 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
1187 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1188 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1189 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1190 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1191 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1193 ================================================================
1196 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1197 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
1198 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
1199 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
1200 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
1201 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
1202 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
1203 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
1205 ================================================================
1207 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1208 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
1209 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
1210 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
1211 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
1212 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
1213 ================================================================
1215 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
1216 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
1217 the manual for more details.
1219 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1221 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
1223 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
1224 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
1225 are still some that need fixing.
1227 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
1230 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1231 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1232 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1236 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1237 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1238 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1241 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1242 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1244 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
1246 The ChangeLog has more details.
1251 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
1252 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
1254 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1257 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
1259 Changes since 3.0.2:
1261 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
1262 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
1265 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
1266 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
1267 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
1268 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
1269 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
1270 when doing fixup_write_error ...
1271 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
1272 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
1273 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
1274 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
1275 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
1276 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
1277 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
1278 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
1279 tweak space on projects file
1280 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
1281 Apply Frank's slash patch
1282 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
1283 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
1284 Add more info when SD connection refused
1285 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
1286 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
1287 3.0.2-accurate.patch
1288 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
1289 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
1290 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
1291 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
1292 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
1293 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
1294 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
1295 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
1296 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
1297 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
1300 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1303 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
1304 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1309 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
1310 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
1311 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1314 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
1315 some enhancements (see below).
1317 Changes since 3.0.1:
1320 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
1321 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
1324 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
1325 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
1326 - Fix bugs in xattr code
1327 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
1328 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
1331 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
1332 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
1333 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
1334 This is project 31 in the projects file.
1335 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
1336 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
1337 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
1338 This is project 2 in the projects file.
1339 - Add new Nagios plugin
1342 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1345 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
1346 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
1350 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
1351 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1353 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
1355 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
1356 one enhancement (see below).
1358 Changes since 3.0.0:
1360 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
1363 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
1364 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
1365 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
1366 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
1367 - Updated projects file
1368 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
1369 and keep fields order.
1370 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
1371 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
1374 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1375 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1376 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1377 tape deadlock situations.
1379 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1380 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1381 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1382 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1383 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1384 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1387 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1389 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1392 1. Missing documentation.
1393 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1394 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1397 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1398 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1399 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1403 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1404 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1406 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1407 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1410 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1411 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1412 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1414 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1416 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1417 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1418 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1420 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1421 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1424 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1425 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1426 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1427 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1428 your help will be appreciated.
1430 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1432 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1433 we missed documenting some).
1435 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1436 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1438 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1439 while it is running. He is working on this.
1441 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1442 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1443 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1444 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1445 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1446 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1447 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1449 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1450 bit of a rare case).
1452 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1453 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1454 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1455 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1456 most current release ...
1458 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1459 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1460 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1461 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1463 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1464 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1465 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1466 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1467 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1468 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1469 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1471 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1472 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1473 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1475 Personal contributions:
1476 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1477 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1478 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1479 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1480 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1481 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1482 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1483 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1484 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1485 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1487 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1489 === List of new features ===
1493 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1494 - Extended Attribute support
1495 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1497 --enable-libtool (default)
1500 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1501 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1503 - Duplicate Job Control
1504 - TLS Authentication
1505 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1506 - State File updated at Job Termination
1509 - FD Exchange plugin
1511 - Console Enhancements
1516 - Restore seek optimization
1517 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1519 - RunScript Enhancements
1520 - Status enhancements
1521 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1522 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1523 - FD Version compatibily flag
1524 - Statistics Enhancements
1525 - Faster Attribute despooling
1526 - Document split into 6 manuals
1527 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1529 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1530 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1531 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1532 - New configure install options
1533 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1534 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1535 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1536 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1540 - Honor No Dump Flag
1541 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1543 - Max Run Sched Time
1545 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1547 - Max Console Connections
1548 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1549 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1550 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1551 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1552 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1553 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1555 - Console (in RunScript)
1557 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1559 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1560 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1561 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1562 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1563 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1564 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1565 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1566 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1567 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1569 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1570 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1571 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1572 ================================
1575 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1577 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1579 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1580 represents an enormous effort.
1582 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1583 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1584 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1585 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1586 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1588 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1590 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1591 -----------------------------------------------------
1593 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1594 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1595 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1596 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1597 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1600 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1602 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1603 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1604 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1605 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1606 at the bottom of this file.
1607 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1608 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1609 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1610 script and put the name of another database, and then
1611 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1612 catalogs have been updated.
1613 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1614 not print any error messages.
1616 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1617 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1618 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1619 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1621 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1622 backup it before executing the script.
1624 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1625 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1626 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1627 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1628 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1629 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1630 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1631 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1635 Important New configure options :
1636 ----------------------
1638 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1639 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1640 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1641 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1642 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1643 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1644 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1645 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1647 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1649 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1650 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1651 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1653 ./configure --disable-libtool
1655 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1656 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1657 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1658 want to put them elsewhere use:
1660 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1662 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1663 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1664 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1665 want to put them elsewhere use:
1667 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1669 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1670 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1671 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1674 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1676 ==============================================================
1678 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1679 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1680 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1683 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1684 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1686 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1688 The ChangeLog has more details.
1691 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1692 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1693 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1694 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1695 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1696 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1697 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1698 available for normal operations.
1700 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1701 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1702 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1705 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1706 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1707 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1709 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1710 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1711 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1712 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1713 range of Bacula users.
1715 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1716 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1717 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1718 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1719 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1720 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1723 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1724 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1725 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1726 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1727 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1728 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1729 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1730 home for Bacula project development.
1732 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1733 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1734 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1735 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1736 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1738 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1739 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1740 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1741 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1742 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1743 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1744 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1745 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1746 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1747 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1749 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1750 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1751 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1752 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1753 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1754 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1755 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1756 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1758 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1759 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1760 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1761 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1762 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1765 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1766 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1767 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1768 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1770 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1771 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1772 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1773 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1774 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1775 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1776 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1777 and certified binaries.
1779 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1780 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1781 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1782 company, Bacula Systems.
1784 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1791 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1792 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1793 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1794 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1798 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1799 with other 2.4.x versions.
1802 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1805 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1806 a non created job faster.
1807 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1808 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1809 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1810 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1811 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1813 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1814 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1815 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1817 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1818 this never caused a bug.
1819 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1820 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1821 using default variables.
1822 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1823 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1824 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1825 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1826 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1828 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1829 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1831 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1832 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1833 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1834 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1835 This closes bug #1129.
1837 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1838 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1842 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1843 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1844 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1845 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1847 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1850 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1854 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1855 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1856 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1857 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1858 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1859 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1860 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1861 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1862 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1863 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1864 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1865 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1866 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1867 This fixes bug #1124.
1868 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
1869 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
1870 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
1872 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
1873 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
1874 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
1875 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
1876 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
1877 version 2.5.x and above.
1880 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
1881 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
1882 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1883 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1886 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
1890 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
1891 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
1892 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
1893 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
1894 would occasionally not be restored.
1895 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
1896 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
1897 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
1899 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
1900 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
1901 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
1902 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
1903 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
1904 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
1905 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
1906 older 'incorrect' headers.
1907 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
1908 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
1909 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
1910 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
1911 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
1912 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
1913 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
1914 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
1915 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
1916 is read on that drive.
1917 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
1918 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
1920 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
1921 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
1922 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
1923 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
1924 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
1925 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
1926 be opened. Reported by Eric.
1927 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
1928 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
1929 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
1930 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
1931 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
1932 have the requested MediaType.
1933 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
1934 the configuration routines.
1935 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
1936 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
1937 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
1938 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
1939 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
1940 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
1944 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
1945 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
1946 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1947 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1949 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1950 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1951 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1952 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1953 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1954 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1955 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1957 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
1958 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
1959 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
1960 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
1961 no database upgrade needed.
1963 =====================================================
1965 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
1967 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
1969 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1970 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
1971 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1972 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
1973 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
1974 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
1976 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1977 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
1978 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
1979 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
1980 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
1981 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
1982 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
1984 ======================================================
1986 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
1987 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
1988 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
1989 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
1990 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
1991 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
1992 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
1995 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
1996 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
1999 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
2000 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
2002 Release Version 2.4.0
2003 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
2004 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
2005 This fixes bug #1095.
2006 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
2007 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
2008 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
2010 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
2011 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
2012 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
2013 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
2014 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
2015 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
2016 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
2017 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
2018 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
2019 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
2021 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
2022 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
2023 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
2024 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
2025 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
2026 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
2027 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
2028 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
2029 This fixes bug #1041.
2030 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
2031 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
2032 - Implement --without-qwt
2033 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
2034 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
2035 with or without the QWT libaries.
2036 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
2037 from one drive to another.
2038 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
2039 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
2040 This fixes bug #1083.
2041 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
2042 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
2044 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
2045 This fixes bug #1078.
2046 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
2047 warning rather than an error.
2048 - Fix SQL query in migration code
2049 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
2050 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
2051 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
2052 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
2053 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
2054 same volume name twice in a row.
2055 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
2056 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
2057 handling the responsibilities.
2058 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
2059 causes a seg fault in many cases.
2060 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
2062 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
2063 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
2064 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
2065 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
2066 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
2067 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
2068 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
2069 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
2070 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
2071 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
2072 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
2073 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
2074 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
2075 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
2076 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
2077 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
2079 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
2080 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
2081 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
2082 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
2083 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2084 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
2085 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
2086 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
2087 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
2088 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
2089 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
2090 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
2091 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
2092 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
2093 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
2094 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
2095 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
2096 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
2098 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
2099 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
2100 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
2101 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
2102 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
2103 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
2104 the ./configure line.
2105 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
2109 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
2110 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
2111 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2112 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
2113 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
2115 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
2116 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
2118 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
2119 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
2120 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
2121 and are difficult to reproduce.
2122 See the ChangeLog for more details.
2123 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
2124 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
2128 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
2129 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
2130 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2131 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
2132 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
2134 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
2135 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
2136 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
2139 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
2140 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
2141 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
2142 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
2144 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
2145 since version 2.2.6:
2146 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
2147 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
2148 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
2149 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
2150 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
2151 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
2152 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
2153 bar, thanks to the above patch.
2154 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
2156 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
2157 driver with version 8.3.
2158 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
2160 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
2161 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
2162 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
2163 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
2165 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
2166 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
2168 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
2169 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
2171 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
2172 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
2174 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
2175 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
2176 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
2177 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
2179 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
2180 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
2181 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
2182 957, 908, 958, and 955.
2183 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
2184 out by Chris Howells.
2186 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
2187 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
2189 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
2190 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
2191 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
2192 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
2193 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
2194 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
2195 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
2196 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
2197 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
2198 the conditions noted above.
2200 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
2201 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
2202 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
2203 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
2204 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
2207 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
2208 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
2209 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
2211 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
2212 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
2214 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
2215 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
2217 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
2218 It contains the following fixes:
2220 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
2221 - Possible fix for bug #908.
2222 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
2223 file to always be deleted.
2224 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
2225 This fixes bug #950.
2226 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
2227 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
2229 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
2230 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
2231 are released as soon as possible.
2232 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
2233 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
2234 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
2235 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
2236 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
2237 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
2238 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
2239 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
2241 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
2242 and not memory usage.
2244 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
2247 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
2248 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
2250 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
2251 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
2252 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
2253 kind of problem many times.
2255 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
2258 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
2259 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
2260 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
2261 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
2264 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
2266 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
2269 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
2270 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
2271 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
2273 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
2274 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
2276 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
2278 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
2279 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
2282 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
2283 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
2284 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
2285 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
2287 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
2288 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
2289 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
2290 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
2292 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
2293 affected by this bug.
2295 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
2296 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
2299 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
2300 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
2303 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
2304 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
2305 an updated Storage daemon.
2307 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
2308 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
2309 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
2310 reproduced the problem.
2312 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
2313 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2315 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
2317 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
2321 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
2323 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2325 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
2327 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
2328 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
2330 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2331 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2332 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2333 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2334 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
2336 Areas requiring caution or testing:
2337 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
2338 to build with MySQL enabled.
2339 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
2340 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
2341 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
2342 to what we do with sockets).
2343 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
2344 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
2345 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
2346 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
2347 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
2348 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
2349 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
2350 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
2352 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
2354 The major new features are:
2355 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
2356 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
2357 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
2358 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
2359 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
2360 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
2361 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
2362 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
2363 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
2365 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
2366 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
2367 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
2369 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
2370 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
2371 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
2372 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
2373 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
2374 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2375 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2376 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2377 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2378 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2379 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2381 New ./configure options:
2382 - --enable-bwx-console
2387 - --enable-batch-insert
2389 New bconsole commands:
2392 - update recyclepool
2395 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2396 - restoreclient (keyword)
2397 - backupclient (keyword)
2398 - regexwhere (keyword)
2399 - update jobid (new command)
2400 - recyclepool (keyword)
2403 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2404 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2405 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2406 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2407 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2408 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2409 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2410 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2411 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2412 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2413 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2415 Other features or bug fixes:
2416 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2417 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2418 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2419 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2420 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2421 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2422 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2423 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2424 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2425 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2426 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2427 these packages in the distro.
2428 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2430 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2431 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2432 directives are defined.
2433 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2434 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2435 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2436 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2437 - More debug output in status storage.
2438 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2439 critical columns were lost).
2440 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2441 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2442 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2443 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2444 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2445 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2446 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2447 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2448 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2449 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2450 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2451 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2452 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2453 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2454 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2455 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2456 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2457 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2458 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2459 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2460 filename restrictions.
2461 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2462 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2463 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2464 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2465 is already a < in the target.
2466 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2467 mounted by another job.
2468 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2469 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2470 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2471 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2472 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2473 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2474 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2475 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2476 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2477 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2478 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2479 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2480 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2481 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2482 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2483 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2484 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2485 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2486 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2487 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2488 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2489 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2490 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2491 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2492 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2493 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2494 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2499 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2501 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2502 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2503 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2506 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2507 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2511 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2512 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2513 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2514 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2516 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2519 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2520 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2522 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2523 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2525 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2526 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2529 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2531 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2533 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2536 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2537 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2539 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2541 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2542 If you want to use this, you can apply
2543 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2545 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2546 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2547 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2549 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2550 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2551 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2552 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2554 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2555 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2556 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2557 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2558 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2561 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2563 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2564 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2565 was opened, it is closed.
2567 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2568 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2569 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2571 kes Update projects list.
2573 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2574 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2576 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2577 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2578 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2580 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2581 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2583 Switch to using Subversion
2584 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2586 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2587 plus the entrypoints.
2588 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2589 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2590 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2592 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2593 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2595 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2596 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2597 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2599 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2600 problem is with read or append.
2602 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2603 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2604 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2605 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2606 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2607 (i.e. migration jobs).
2608 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2609 a memory leak problem.
2610 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2611 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2612 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2613 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2614 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2615 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2616 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2618 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2619 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2623 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2625 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2627 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2629 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2631 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2632 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2633 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2634 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2636 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2638 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2639 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2640 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2641 other DIR specifications.
2643 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2644 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2645 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2647 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2649 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2650 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2651 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2655 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2657 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2658 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2659 the following fixes:
2661 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2662 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2663 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2665 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2666 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2667 This *should* fix bug #747.
2668 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2670 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2671 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2672 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2673 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2674 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2675 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2677 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2678 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2682 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2684 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2686 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2688 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2690 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2692 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2696 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2698 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2700 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2702 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2703 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2704 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2705 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2706 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2707 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2708 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2709 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2710 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2712 ./update_bacula_tables
2714 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2715 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2716 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2717 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2718 in general, it should be very fast.
2720 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2721 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2722 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2723 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2724 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2726 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2727 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2728 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2729 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2730 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2731 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2732 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2733 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2734 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2735 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2736 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2737 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2738 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2739 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2740 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2741 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2742 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2743 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2744 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2745 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2746 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2747 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2748 with the correct MediaType.
2749 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2750 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2751 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2752 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2753 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2754 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2755 more testing is still needed.
2756 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2757 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2758 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2759 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2760 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2761 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2762 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2763 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2764 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2765 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2766 and fixed it as follows:
2768 No filters = Works fine
2770 Compression = Works fine
2771 Encryption = Works fine
2772 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2774 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2775 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2776 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2779 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2780 not properly restored.
2783 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2785 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2786 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2787 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2788 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2789 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2790 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2791 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2792 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2793 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2794 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2795 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2798 Block Positioning = no
2800 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2802 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2803 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2804 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2806 New Features in 2.0.0:
2807 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2808 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2809 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2810 Bacula, then as root run:
2812 cd <bacula-source>/po
2815 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2817 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2818 Migration chapter in the manual
2819 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2820 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2821 a new chapter of the manual at:
2822 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2823 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2824 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2825 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2826 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2827 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2829 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2830 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2831 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2832 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2833 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2834 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2835 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2836 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2837 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2838 before putting into production.
2839 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2840 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2841 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2842 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2843 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2844 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2845 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2846 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2848 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2849 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2850 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2851 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2852 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2853 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2854 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2855 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2856 "list nextvol days=xx"
2858 "status dir days=xx"
2859 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2860 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2862 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2863 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2865 wait jobuid=unique id
2867 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
2868 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
2869 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
2870 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
2871 job report in the Log database table.
2872 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
2873 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
2874 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
2875 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
2876 the job can be manually started from the console.
2877 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
2878 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
2879 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
2880 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
2881 the restore cd command.
2882 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
2883 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
2885 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
2886 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
2887 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
2888 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
2889 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
2890 spaces in names better, ...
2891 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
2892 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
2894 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
2895 the restore command.
2896 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
2897 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
2898 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
2899 from Eric Bollengier.
2900 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
2901 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
2902 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
2903 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
2904 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
2905 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
2906 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
2907 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
2908 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
2909 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
2910 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
2911 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
2912 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
2913 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
2914 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
2915 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
2916 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
2917 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
2918 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
2919 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2920 - Implement mount command for autochanger
2921 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
2922 from File= was not found.
2923 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
2924 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
2925 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
2926 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
2927 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
2928 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
2930 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
2932 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
2933 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
2934 listing where they could be "lost".
2935 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
2936 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
2938 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
2939 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
2940 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
2941 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
2942 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
2943 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
2944 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
2945 and mount, unmount directives.
2946 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
2947 to a user submission.
2948 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
2949 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
2950 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
2951 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
2952 device will be blocked.
2953 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
2954 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
2955 all other Storage specifications.
2956 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
2957 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
2958 from a database table for restore.
2959 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
2960 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
2961 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
2962 accept time qualifiers.
2963 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
2964 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
2965 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
2966 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
2967 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
2968 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
2969 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
2970 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
2972 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
2973 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
2974 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
2975 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
2976 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
2977 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
2978 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
2979 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
2980 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
2981 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
2982 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
2983 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
2984 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
2985 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
2987 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
2988 fault, but still 60 second window.
2989 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
2990 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
2992 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
2993 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
2994 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
2995 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
2996 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
2997 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
2998 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
2999 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
3000 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
3002 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
3004 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
3005 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
3006 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
3007 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
3008 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
3009 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
3010 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
3011 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
3013 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
3015 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
3016 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
3017 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
3018 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
3019 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
3021 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
3022 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
3023 Add Cost to Location table.
3024 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
3025 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
3026 and forcing a 6 second wait.
3027 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
3028 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
3029 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
3030 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
3031 system libraries print routines.
3032 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
3033 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
3034 it is all very complicated.
3035 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
3037 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
3039 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
3040 chapter of the manual
3041 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
3042 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
3043 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
3044 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
3045 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
3046 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
3047 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
3048 Mail On Success directive.
3049 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
3051 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
3052 are printed in the Job report.
3054 Additional Features Added for Win32:
3055 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3056 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
3057 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
3058 has the concept of drives.
3060 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3061 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
3063 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
3064 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
3066 Patterns conform to Posix
3067 \ is not a special character in character classification []
3068 To match a - it must be the first or last character
3069 To match a ] it must be the first character
3071 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
3072 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
3074 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
3075 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
3076 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
3077 abc*.def work as expected.
3079 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
3081 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
3083 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
3084 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
3085 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
3086 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
3087 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
3088 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"