1 Kern;;;11 September 2012 at 13:43 CET
2 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.11 to Source Forge
4 Version 5.2.11 version is a bug fix release.
6 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
9 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.11
10 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
13 Important changes since last release:
14 - A new bpluginfo utility tool
15 - Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
16 - Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
17 - Important Copy job bug fixed.
20 - Add JobId to SD debug output
21 - Commit batch session every 800,000 files
22 - Simplify safer delete code using a single regex
23 - Clean up error message generation during update attributes -- should fix bug
25 - Eliminate heartbeat error messages. Fixes bug #1925
26 - Apply patch from bug #1911 to implement --with-logdir
27 - Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
28 - mysql database install/update scripts patch. Fixes bug #1901
29 - Delegate uid/gid changing to systemd. Fixes bug #1905
31 - Fix manpage errors, fixes bug #1907
32 - Final fix for #1859 missed one query.
33 - bpluginfo - Utility tool display various information
34 - Backport more master code
35 - Fix Makefile.in so that testfind builds with acl dependency
36 - Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
37 - backport code from master
38 - Fix #1923 about MySQL 4 support for BVFS
39 - Fix #1902 about bad status slots output
40 - Fix Sigma Copy bug #4377
42 - Reset bsmtp to only send to IPv4 mailhosts.
44 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
45 1823 1859 1901 1902 1903 1905 1906 1907 1911 1923 1925 4377
48 Kern;;;28 June 2012 at 20:55 CET
49 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.10 to Source Forge
53 The 5.2.10 version is a significant bug fix release including
54 our first cut of AFS support.
56 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
57 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
58 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
59 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
60 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
61 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
62 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
64 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
65 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
66 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
67 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
68 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
69 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
70 that the project cannot properly support.
71 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
73 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
74 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.9, please
75 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
76 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
77 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
78 repeat them each bug fix release.
79 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
83 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
86 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.9
87 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
90 Major changes since 5.2.9:
91 - IPv6 networking should work correctly now
92 - SQL Counter problems resolved
93 - Bat hanging after running a number of jobs
94 - dbcheck rw_writelock problem
95 - Windows VSS restore bug
98 - Add rudimentary support for backing up AFS
101 - Add extra test for unsupported Protocol Families.
102 - Fix inet_pton call.
103 - Real fix of bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
104 - Fix bug #1891 wrong daemon name printed with -? option
105 - Fix bug #1859 INSERT INTO Counters fails
106 - First try at fixing bug #1897 5.2.9 breaks IPv6 connectivity
107 - Convert write_rec_to_block() to a state machine
108 - Fix bat from eating all Dir connections -- fixes bug #1872
109 - Back port fixes from BEE to fix Windows restore bug #1892
110 - Add block checksum flag to version.h
111 - Add block checksum debug code
112 - Fix bug #1893 dbcheck -B gives rwl_writelock error.
113 - Remove restriction of network buffer size being multiple of a tape block
114 - Add rudimentary support for saving AFS acls.
115 - Send level before the fileset in estimate_cmd() like in backup()
117 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
118 1859 1872 1891 1892 1893 1897
122 Kern;;;11 June 2012 at 20:15 CET
123 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.8 to Source Forge
125 This release is identical to release 5.2.8, with the exception
128 "Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871"
130 has been removed because it is not portable to all systems or
131 versions of readline.
134 Kern;;;10 June 2012 at 12:04 CET
136 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.8
138 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
142 The 5.2.8 version is a bug fix release.
144 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
145 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
146 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
147 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
148 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
149 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
150 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
152 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
153 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
154 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
155 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
156 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
157 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
158 that the project cannot properly support.
159 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
161 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
162 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
163 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
164 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
165 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
166 repeat them each bug fix release.
167 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
171 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
174 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.8
175 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
182 - Apply readline without TERM_LIB dependency patch from bug #1871
183 - Ensure cancel status is set for canceled duplicate jobs -- partial fix for
185 - Enhance Win32 error messages -- fixes bug #1879
186 - Apply patch from bug 1876 to permit dot commands in a runscript
187 - Remove config variables from examples/devices fixes bug #1884
188 - Add more debug code for bug 1885
189 - Add more debug to block.c when read rejected
190 - Fail job that attempts to read from closed device -- reported in bug 1885 but
192 - Detect Python 2.7 fixes bug #1888
193 - Apply systemd patch from bug #1886
194 - Rewrite some SD subroutines as class members
195 - New overhaul of xattr code.
196 - Use IPPROTO_TCP for SOL_TCP if SOL_TCP isn't defined.
197 - Fix compiler warning.
199 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
200 1851 1871 1879 1884 1886 1888
203 Kern;;;2 June 2012 at 13:01 CET
205 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.7
207 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
211 The 5.2.7 version is a significan bug fix release. (The
212 diff file between 5.2.6 and this one is over 25,000 lines).
214 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
215 Please note that with this version of Bacula, during the install
216 of the shared libraries from the src/cats, src/lib, and src/findlib
217 directories, any old Bacula libraries in the installation
218 destination directory will be removed. This should not cause
219 any problems and at least keeps the installation library cleaner.
220 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
222 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
223 For packagers, if you change options, naming, and the way
224 we link our shared object files, as at least one of you does,
225 you are creating a situation where the user may not be able
226 to run multiple versions of Bacula on the same machine, which
227 is often very useful, and in addition, you create a configuration
228 that the project cannot properly support.
229 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
231 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
232 If you are upgrading from a version older than 5.2.7, please
233 read all the old ReleaseNotes of all versions released
234 after the version you are upgrading from. There area
235 many important notices sumarized here, and we do not
236 repeat them each bug fix release.
237 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
241 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
244 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
245 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
251 - Correct Qt version needed for bat
252 - Turn on SD deadlock detection by default
253 - Fix bug #1880 ltdl.m4 missing for new feature.
254 - Fix bug #1870 GNU binutils-gold build failure.
255 - Add new empty netinet/tcp.h so Windows compile works
256 - Eliminate compiler warning in stored/dircmd.c
257 - Fix TCP Heartbeat code
258 - Align conio.c struct at 8 bytes to fix Sparc bus error.
259 - Fix get_basename() -- rewrite
260 - Apply James' exchange-fd.c regression fix
261 - Add first Dutch translation
262 - Ensure that StorageId is updated after write
263 - Fix updating of cached slots + error message numbering
264 - Remove old shared objects before install
265 - Add missing dummy bVarPrefixLinks variable retrieval.
266 - Fix mysql config for older versions of mysql+config.
267 - Fix problem in BVFS with concurrent queries
268 - Add more checks to bvfs
269 - Try to use multi-row insert statements for mysql.
270 - On some platforms intptr_t is in an other include file.
271 - Add support for fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) to close filedescriptors.
272 - Use closefrom if available instead of trying to close fds ourself.
273 - Fix class member shadowing.
274 - Move storages tls initialization to proper place.
275 - Fix Copyright on init scripts suse, add specific daemon user & group
276 - Add support for new POSIX getaddrinfo interface.
277 - Apply MSQL detection fixes from bug #1829
278 - Fix bug #1805 cannot specify hostname in ./configure
279 - Fix restore_job restore keyword
280 - Allow plugin to backup a directory
281 - Print seconds in schedule time as noted in bug #1854
282 - Fix #1857 about restore cd command that blocks on empty directory
283 - Backport new StorageId code
284 - More definitive fix for update slots bug
285 - Fix #4062 on make_catalog_backup.pl script when user/password are empty
286 - Fix bug #1853: bacula-sd dead but pid file exists.
287 - Fix bug #1841 estimate command level=differential goes wrong in accurate
289 - Fix bug #1842 Incorrect port number reported
290 - Fix bug #1848 bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to client
291 - Force the re-initialization of BaseJobOpts, AccurateOpts and VerifyOpts
292 between two Include{}
294 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
295 1805 1829 1841 1842 1848 1853 1854 1857 1870 1874 1880 4062
299 Kern;;;22 February 2012 at 15:03 CET
300 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.6 to Source Forge
302 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6
304 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
308 The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release.
310 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
311 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
312 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
313 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
314 SQL shared libraries.
315 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
317 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
318 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
319 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
320 each time the Director starts.
321 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
325 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
328 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
329 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
333 - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each
334 part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a
335 time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx
336 but */xx* will not match the above filename.
341 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code.
342 - Insert the slot field as a numeric field.
343 - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it
344 - Make cd accept wildcards
345 - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code
346 - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing
347 - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted
348 - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion
349 - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared
350 - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code.
351 - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins.
352 - Add wait on bad connection for security
353 - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant
354 - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands
355 - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms.
356 - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs
357 - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command
358 - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs
360 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
364 Kern;;;26 January 2012 at 07:55 CET
365 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.5 to Source Forge
366 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5
368 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
372 The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release.
374 Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to
375 version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences
376 on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade
379 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
380 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
381 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
382 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
383 SQL shared libraries.
384 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
386 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
387 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
388 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
389 each time the Director starts.
390 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
394 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
397 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
398 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
404 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation
405 - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore.
406 - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status
407 - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build
408 - Fix MediaView::getSelection
410 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
411 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs)
416 Kern;;;18 January 2012 at 20:55 CET
417 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.4 to Source Forge
419 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4
421 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
425 The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release.
427 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
428 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
429 important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly
430 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
431 SQL shared libraries.
432 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
434 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
435 If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working
436 directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted
437 each time the Director starts.
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 5.2.3
446 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
449 Most important changes since 5.2.3:
450 - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header
452 - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning.
453 - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms
454 - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new
455 depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz
456 - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz
457 - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins
458 - Compiler warning cleanups
460 - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts
465 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future
466 - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword
467 - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821
468 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a
470 - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810
471 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a version
472 - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables
473 - Set job status to running when restore job really starts
474 - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been missed
476 - Add support for soname setting in libtool.
478 - Fix systemd pid files.
479 - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time
480 - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define
481 - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD
482 - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr.
483 - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr
485 - Add configure for new redhat spec files
486 - Backport Enterprise spec files
487 - Fix bad memset() reported by clang
488 - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin
489 - Try to fix openssl problem with signal
490 - Add BSOCK::set_killable()
491 - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula creates them
492 - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog
493 - Add new features in plugin
494 - Add helper for ini files
495 - Implement run accurate=yes/no
496 - Add .bvfs_clear_cache
497 - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource
498 - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken
499 - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr.
500 - Add second xattr to show bug 1806
501 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop
502 - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs
504 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
505 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210
508 Kern;;;16 December 2011 at 12:293 CET
509 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.3 to Source Forge
511 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.3
513 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
517 The 5.2.3 version is an bug fix release.
519 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
520 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
521 important notices below for version 5.2.2, particularly
522 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
523 SQL shared libraries.
524 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
528 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
531 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.3
532 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
537 - Revert patch from Ben to not compress man pages on Solaris fix #1801
538 - Fix bug #3322 don't poll when operator is labeling tapes
539 - bvfs: Fix mysql REGEXP operator
540 - Fix Mysql 5.5.18 symbol lookup
541 - fix utf8/iso8859 problems
542 - Fix #3419, update stats problem
543 - Fix cats_test to use the new method names.
544 - Update accurate code to use 1 byte instead of 3
545 - Fix segfault in accurate code
546 - Fix compilation warning on FreeBSD
548 Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
553 Kern;;;27 November 2011 at 12:03 CET
554 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.2 to Source Forge
556 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2
558 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
562 The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some
563 additions and performance improvements.
565 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
566 If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the
567 important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly
568 the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the
569 SQL shared libraries.
570 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
574 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
577 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.2
578 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
583 - Implement -t option for Bat
584 - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat
585 - Get new lib/plugins.h
586 - Pull new SD plugin files from Master
587 - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts
588 - Add Systemd configure options
589 - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325
590 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL
591 - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director
592 - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache.
593 - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval.
594 - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side
595 - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file.
596 - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs.
597 - Remove last traces of @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
599 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4
600 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
601 - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
602 - Add missing bwild & bregex man8 pages
603 - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778
604 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter
605 - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek
606 - bvfs: add clear_cache function
607 - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy
609 Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1
610 -----------------------
615 Kern;;;30 October 2011 at 14:50 CET
616 We have released Bacula Version 5.2.1 to Source Forge
619 Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.1
621 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
626 This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
627 It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors,
628 lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a
629 number of important new features:
633 Version 5.2.0 was short lived, because Marco (thanks) found
634 a number of last minute bugs. So the first official release of 5.2
639 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
642 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.1
643 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
650 - Purge Migration Job
651 - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem)
652 - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm
653 - Ability to Verify any specified Job
654 - Additions to RunScript variables
655 - Additions to the Plugin API
658 - Class Based Database Backend Drivers
659 - Hash List Enhancements
661 Some of the above are described below; all the above are
662 described in more detail in the New Features chapter of the
665 Closed Bugs since 5.0.3:
666 ---------------------
667 1389 1444 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1493 1494 1497 1499 1501
668 1502 1504 1509 1511 1513 1516 1524 1526 1527 1532 1536 1538 1541 1542 1549
669 1551 1553 1554 1558 1559 1560 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1574 1577 1581 1582
670 1584 1587 1594 1595 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1606 1608 1610 1612 1623 1624
671 1633 1643 1648 1655 1661 1664 1666 1669 1672 1675 1684 1685 1695 1696 1699
672 1700 1703 1735 1741 1749 1751 1761 1762 1764 1768 1770 1771 2710
675 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
677 The new pruning algorithm will not allow pruning of jobs that are essential to
678 restore since the last Full backup. This is, of course, correct and desirable,
679 but it is different from older Bacula versions that could inappropriately
680 prune jobs. Pruning of volumes is not affected.
684 To build Bat, you need Qt4 version 4.6.2. If you build with any other
685 version it is likely not to work. If you do not have version 4.6.2, on
686 your system, you can download the Bacula depkgs_qt version 16Dec10.
688 Packaging the SQL backend:
689 --------------------------
690 The main Bacula Director code is independent of the SQL backend
691 in this version. This means that the Bacula Director can be packaged
692 by itself, then each of the different SQL backends supported can
693 be packaged separately. It is possible to build all the DB backends
696 - configure can be run with multiple database configure options.
701 Order of testing for database is
706 Each configured backend generates a libbaccats-<backend_name>-<version>.so
707 A dummy catalog library is created named libbaccats-version.so
709 At configure time the first detected backend is used as the so called default
710 backend and at install time the dummy libbaccats-<version>.so is replaced with
711 the default backend type.
713 If you configure all 3 backends you get 3 backend libraries and the postgresql
714 gets installed as the default. When you want to switch the default you can
715 copy one of the 3 backend libraries over the libbaccats-<version>.so e.g.
717 cp libbaccats-postgresql-<version>.so libbaccats-<version>.so
719 And update the default backend in the following files:
721 create_bacula_database
724 grant_bacula_privileges
729 New Catalog format in version 5.2.0 and greater
730 -----------------------------------------------
731 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
732 scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.1 (version
733 14). The Bacula project rpm spec files have been modified to
734 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
735 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
738 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
739 source (i.e. manually):
740 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
741 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
742 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.1 version of Bacula
743 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
744 at the bottom of this file.
745 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
746 5. ./update_bacula_tables
747 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
748 script and put the name of another database, and then
749 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
750 catalogs have been updated.
751 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
752 not print any error messages.
754 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
755 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
756 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 5.0.0
757 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
758 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
759 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
760 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
761 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
764 ================================================================
768 Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
769 - Implement LZO compression algorithm (need lzo2 headers to activate this option)
770 - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
771 - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
772 memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
773 - limit command in some list commands
774 - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
775 - Faster crc32 algorithm
777 Security Enhancements:
778 - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
779 - Fix possible fnmatch problem
781 Features Enhancements:
782 - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
783 AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
784 - Tray monitor for Windows
785 - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
786 backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally independent
787 of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging (only the
788 libbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed to switch from one database backend
789 to another (e.g. MySQL to PostgreSQL).
790 - Indent lsmark during restore
791 - Disable batch insert config item
792 - Director selection option in bconsole
793 - restorejob command in bconsole
794 - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
795 - The old bat version browser has been turned off since it does not
796 work correctly and the brestore panel provides the same functionality
797 - Improved hash table for hard links
798 - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F (JobFiles)
799 and %h (Client Address)
802 - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
804 - New database format
805 - Many new plugin API features
806 - Improved memory handling for restores
807 - Significant stability enhancements to bat
808 - xattr/ACL restore failure are now printed as Warning
809 - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
812 ===========================================================================
815 Kern;;;06 August 2010 at 19:15 CET
816 We have released Bacula Version 5.0.3 to Source Forge
818 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2.
819 It includes new code and some new features.
820 There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0.
822 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in
823 the 5.0.1 release section.
828 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
831 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.3
832 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
835 Changes and New Features:
836 - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously
837 it printed a warning message and continued.
838 - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts
839 - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins)
840 must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously
841 for the PLUGIN_LICENSE.
842 - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column.
843 - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if
844 it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes
845 typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes.
849 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610
851 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
852 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit
853 - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0
854 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0
855 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line
856 - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD.
857 - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump
858 - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610
859 - Add archlinux to os.m4
860 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall
861 - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine
862 - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault
863 - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons
864 - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync
865 - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows
866 - Up maximum block size to 20M
867 - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599
868 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599
869 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin
870 - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg
871 - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition
872 - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both
873 catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir
874 - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev->is_open()
875 by moving and commenting out the ASSERT()
876 - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated
877 - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls
878 - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate
879 - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory
880 - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match
881 - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault
882 - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c
883 - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard
885 - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs
886 - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra
887 - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups
888 - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command
889 - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag
890 - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test
891 - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms
892 - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger
893 - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side
894 - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir
895 - Fix segfault when loading Plugins
896 - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore
897 - Added new bacula-libs package.
898 - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value
899 - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant
901 See ChangeLog for more details.
904 Kern;;;01 August 2010 at 17:23 CET
905 Welcome to our new bacula.org server
907 This is our new bacula.org server, graciously provided
908 by UKFast. Our previous server, also hosted by UKFast, was
909 getting to be a bit old, so they furnished us a new one,
910 and we are very pleased.
913 Kern;;;28 April 2010 at 19:15 CET
914 Eric has released Bacula Version 5.0.2 to Source Forge
916 This 5.0.2 version is primarily a important bug fix update to version 5.0.1.
918 Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 release notes below.
923 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
926 Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.2
927 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
934 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560
936 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553
937 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp
938 - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume
939 - Fix cancel crash bug #1551
940 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe
941 - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541
942 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson
943 - Rewind on close to fix #1549
944 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536
945 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command
946 - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job
947 - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without
949 - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache.
950 - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries
951 - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration
952 - Another fix for OpenSSLv1
953 - Add -lrt to Solaris links
954 - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1
955 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs
956 - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James
957 - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement.
958 - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
959 - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files
960 - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem
961 - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12
962 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet
966 Kern;;;25 February 2010 at 15:35
967 Bacula Version 5.0.1 has been released to Source Forge
969 Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been
970 released to Source Forge (thanks Eric).
972 This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been
973 rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the
974 release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by
975 one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior
976 clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one
977 machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File
978 daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine).
980 Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have
981 changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save
982 your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula
983 uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be
984 serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are
985 not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space.
987 If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release
988 notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this
989 release there is no database upgrade needed.
991 Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over
992 the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be
993 releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon.
995 Thanks for using Bacula :-)
1001 ============= Performance Note ==================
1003 Some of you have encountered performance problems with your
1004 database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is
1005 mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore,
1006 accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this
1007 change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous
1008 versions, on a well configured database it should run
1011 We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes.
1012 In general, these will cause very significant performance
1013 problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check
1014 that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are
1015 suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup
1016 millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory
1017 configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global
1018 memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small
1019 (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those
1020 parameters is extremely important to run fast.
1022 If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not
1023 solve your problem, you can also consider switching to
1024 PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big
1025 installations (many millions of files per Job). However for
1026 large installations, you will also need to adjust the default
1027 PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters.
1029 ==========================================
1032 Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1
1034 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount)
1036 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1037 The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly
1038 reworked, and the default value has changed. See below.
1040 Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new
1041 features section of the manual.
1043 When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration,
1044 (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx
1045 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to
1046 resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an
1047 error message could be produced at each poll attempt.
1048 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1052 - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems
1053 concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the
1054 Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when
1055 canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release.
1056 If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing
1057 a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away.
1060 - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from
1061 no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your
1062 conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1063 - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented
1065 - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features
1066 section in the manual.
1067 - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual.
1070 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497
1071 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513
1073 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513.
1074 - Fix three-pool regress bug
1075 - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505
1076 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out
1077 docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi
1079 - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host
1080 - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509
1081 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o
1083 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors
1084 - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497
1085 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499
1086 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494
1087 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448
1088 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476
1089 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c
1090 - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0
1091 - Fix missing console page in bat
1092 - Add bat help files to Window install
1093 - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown
1094 - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors
1095 - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x
1096 - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line
1097 - Update the bsock error URL
1098 - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl
1099 - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl
1100 - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field
1101 - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS
1102 - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver
1103 - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version
1104 - Remove file_index sequential check
1105 - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message
1108 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty.
1109 The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to
1110 make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can
1111 be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is
1112 not installed by the Makefiles
1114 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install
1115 mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is
1116 required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on
1117 any update, any existing file should not be overwritten.
1119 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt.
1120 However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always
1121 compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt
1122 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with
1123 any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt
1124 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download
1125 location, read the README file and follow the instructions.
1127 If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not
1128 have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or
1129 rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be
1130 built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later,
1131 this problem (bug) does not exist.
1133 depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with
1134 you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you
1135 build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but
1136 rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat
1137 (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will
1138 use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong.
1140 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any
1141 special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for
1142 example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged.
1143 Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong
1146 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a
1147 single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or
1148 PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full
1152 # Recommended configure script for Bacula
1155 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
1157 --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \
1158 --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \
1159 --docdir=${prefix}/html \
1160 --htmldir=${prefix}/html \
1161 --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \
1162 --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \
1163 --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \
1164 --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \
1165 --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \
1166 --libdir=${prefix}/lib \
1167 --enable-smartalloc \
1168 --enable-tray-monitor \
1171 --with-dump-email=${email} \
1172 --with-job-email=${email} \
1173 --with-smtp-host=localhost \
1174 --with-baseport=9101
1176 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql,
1177 ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names
1178 defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in
1179 the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices.
1181 If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document
1182 describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please
1183 send an email to the bacula-devel list.
1185 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared
1186 libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with
1187 Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version.
1188 So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future
1189 versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch
1190 updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on
1191 whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this
1192 new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between
1193 different versions of the shared objects.
1195 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console
1196 routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult
1197 to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release.
1198 This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me
1199 that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a
1200 consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline
1201 enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command
1202 completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to
1203 use readline or not as you please.
1207 Eric;;;25 January 2010 at 10:00
1208 Bacula Version 5.0.0 has been released to Source Forge
1211 -----------------------------------------------------------
1212 You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to
1213 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for
1214 several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing
1215 the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version
1216 and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided
1217 that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always
1218 be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always
1219 be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x.
1220 In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger
1221 than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project
1222 version is more advanced or has more features than the
1223 Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version
1224 is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010)
1225 will be version 4.0.0.
1228 --------------------------------------------------------------
1229 Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or
1233 Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release):
1234 -------------------------------------------------------
1237 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373
1238 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450
1242 - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't
1243 responding to the bsmtp program
1244 - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes
1245 - Fix various problems with the reload command
1246 - Fix problems with conio
1247 - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD
1250 - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge
1251 - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs
1252 - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons
1253 - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device
1254 - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices to balance load
1256 - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use
1257 checksum verification for example.
1258 - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP)
1259 - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup
1260 - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline
1261 - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree
1262 - Add new speed test to btape program
1263 - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...)
1264 - Windows version of Bat
1265 - Added Spanish Bacula translation
1266 - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands
1267 - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write
1269 - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs
1270 - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client)
1271 - Many ACL improvements
1272 - Level added to FD status Job entry
1273 - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device
1274 - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll
1275 - Implement lock manager with bad order protection
1278 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1279 the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version
1280 of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines,
1281 you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well.
1283 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0
1284 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1285 Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon
1286 as is reasonable for your situation.
1288 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1290 New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later)
1291 -----------------------------------------------------
1293 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1294 scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version
1295 12). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1296 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1297 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1300 The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
1302 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1303 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1304 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.0.0 version of Bacula
1305 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1306 at the bottom of this file.
1307 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1308 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1309 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1310 script and put the name of another database, and then
1311 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1312 catalogs have been updated.
1313 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1314 not print any error messages.
1316 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1317 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1318 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 3.1.9
1319 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1320 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1321 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1322 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1323 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1325 ================================================================
1328 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1329 If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must
1330 first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting
1331 the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably
1332 fail and you will need to manually find and run the
1333 Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version.
1334 This is because the file locations are different. If you want
1335 to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before
1337 ================================================================
1339 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1340 Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems,
1341 we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to
1342 access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish
1343 to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features
1344 section of the manual for how to set access control lists.
1345 ================================================================
1347 Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers
1348 (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of
1349 the manual for more details.
1351 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1353 Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems:
1355 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many
1356 of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there
1357 are still some that need fixing.
1359 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has
1362 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1363 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1364 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1368 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1369 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1370 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1373 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1374 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1376 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html
1378 The ChangeLog has more details.
1383 Kern;;;18 October 2009 at 21:00
1384 Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
1386 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1389 Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
1391 Changes since 3.0.2:
1393 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
1394 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
1397 Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
1398 Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
1399 Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
1400 Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
1401 Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
1402 when doing fixup_write_error ...
1403 Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
1404 Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
1405 Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
1406 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
1407 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
1408 Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
1409 Use old code for selecting file during restore.
1410 Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
1411 tweak space on projects file
1412 Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
1413 Apply Frank's slash patch
1414 Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
1415 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
1416 Add more info when SD connection refused
1417 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
1418 Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
1419 3.0.2-accurate.patch
1420 Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
1421 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
1422 Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
1423 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
1424 Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
1425 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
1426 Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
1427 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
1428 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
1429 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
1432 As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1435 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
1436 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
1441 Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
1442 Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
1443 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
1446 Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
1447 some enhancements (see below).
1449 Changes since 3.0.1:
1452 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
1453 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
1456 - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
1457 - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
1458 - Fix bugs in xattr code
1459 - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
1460 - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
1463 - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
1464 - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
1465 - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
1466 This is project 31 in the projects file.
1467 - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
1468 - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
1469 - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
1470 This is project 2 in the projects file.
1471 - Add new Nagios plugin
1474 Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
1477 Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
1478 Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
1482 Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
1483 Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
1485 Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
1487 Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
1488 one enhancement (see below).
1490 Changes since 3.0.0:
1492 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
1495 - Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
1496 - Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
1497 - Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
1498 - Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
1499 - Updated projects file
1500 - Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
1501 and keep fields order.
1502 - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
1503 Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
1506 - Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
1507 drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
1508 be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
1509 tape deadlock situations.
1511 Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
1512 same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
1513 daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
1514 and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
1515 In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
1516 Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
1519 ============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
1521 Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
1524 1. Missing documentation.
1525 2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
1526 3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
1529 The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
1530 manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
1531 you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
1535 Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
1536 Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
1538 This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
1539 tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
1542 There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
1543 requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
1544 (included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
1546 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1548 There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
1549 reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
1550 released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
1552 If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
1553 version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
1556 This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
1557 and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
1558 tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
1559 problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
1560 your help will be appreciated.
1562 The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
1564 1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
1565 we missed documenting some).
1567 2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
1568 has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
1570 3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
1571 while it is running. He is working on this.
1573 4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
1574 particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
1575 copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
1576 writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
1577 for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
1578 a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
1579 certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
1581 5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
1582 bit of a rare case).
1584 As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
1585 stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
1586 updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
1587 only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
1588 most current release ...
1590 This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
1591 contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
1592 contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
1593 release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
1595 Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
1596 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
1597 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
1598 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1599 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
1600 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
1601 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
1603 Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
1604 Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
1605 Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
1607 Personal contributions:
1608 Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
1609 Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
1610 Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1611 Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
1612 Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
1613 Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
1614 Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
1615 Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
1616 Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
1617 Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
1619 Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
1621 === List of new features ===
1625 - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
1626 - Extended Attribute support
1627 --disable-xattr (default=auto)
1629 --enable-libtool (default)
1632 - Catalog Format Enhancements
1633 - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
1635 - Duplicate Job Control
1636 - TLS Authentication
1637 - bextract non-portable Win32 data
1638 - State File updated at Job Termination
1641 - FD Exchange plugin
1643 - Console Enhancements
1648 - Restore seek optimization
1649 - Virtual Tape Emulation
1651 - RunScript Enhancements
1652 - Status enhancements
1653 - FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
1654 - ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
1655 - FD Version compatibily flag
1656 - Statistics Enhancements
1657 - Faster Attribute despooling
1658 - Document split into 6 manuals
1659 - GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
1661 - Postmortum dump improvements in SD
1662 - Deadlock mutex detection in SD
1663 - Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
1664 - New configure install options
1665 --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
1666 --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
1667 --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
1668 - New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
1672 - Honor No Dump Flag
1673 - Exclude Dirs Containing
1675 - Max Run Sched Time
1677 - Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
1679 - Max Console Connections
1680 - Spool Size (in Job resource)
1681 - Allow Mixed Priorities
1682 - Allow Duplicate Jobs
1683 - Allow Higher Duplicates
1684 - Cancel Queued Duplicates
1685 - Cancel Running Duplicates
1687 - Console (in RunScript)
1689 New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
1691 Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
1692 Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
1693 Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
1694 Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
1695 Item 8: Implement Copy pools
1696 Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
1697 Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
1698 Item 18: Better control over Job execution
1699 Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
1701 Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
1702 Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
1703 Item n: Split documentation into several books
1704 ================================
1707 Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
1709 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
1711 The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
1712 represents an enormous effort.
1714 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
1715 but they should be compatible with all 2.4.x File daemons, unless you
1716 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
1717 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. However, any
1718 release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
1720 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
1722 New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
1723 -----------------------------------------------------
1725 This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
1726 scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
1727 11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
1728 detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
1729 recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
1732 The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
1734 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
1735 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
1736 3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
1737 Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
1738 at the bottom of this file.
1739 4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
1740 5. ./update_bacula_tables
1741 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
1742 script and put the name of another database, and then
1743 execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
1744 catalogs have been updated.
1745 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
1746 not print any error messages.
1748 The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
1749 from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
1750 DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
1751 so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
1753 catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
1754 backup it before executing the script.
1756 If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
1757 script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
1758 table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
1759 (e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
1760 be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
1761 command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
1762 catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
1763 aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
1767 Important New configure options :
1768 ----------------------
1770 This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
1771 to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
1772 being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
1773 the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
1774 directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
1775 where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
1776 to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
1777 line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
1779 ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
1781 If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
1782 way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
1783 can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
1785 ./configure --disable-libtool
1787 During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
1788 bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
1789 are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
1790 want to put them elsewhere use:
1792 ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
1794 During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
1795 ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
1796 files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
1797 want to put them elsewhere use:
1799 ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
1801 During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
1802 installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
1803 same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
1806 ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
1808 ==============================================================
1810 This release includes large number of new features and changes.
1811 It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
1812 and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
1815 Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
1816 some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
1818 http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
1820 The ChangeLog has more details.
1823 Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
1824 Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
1825 We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
1826 orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
1827 what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
1828 from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
1829 be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
1830 available for normal operations.
1832 In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
1833 which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
1834 area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
1837 Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
1838 Creation of Bacula Systems SA
1839 Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
1841 I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
1842 provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
1843 pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
1844 open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
1845 range of Bacula users.
1847 As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
1848 public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
1849 written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
1850 many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
1851 contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
1852 It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
1855 Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
1856 ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
1857 project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
1858 free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
1859 protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
1860 source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
1861 version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
1862 home for Bacula project development.
1864 So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
1865 from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
1866 and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
1867 transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
1868 Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
1870 Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
1871 The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
1872 Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
1873 those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
1874 Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
1875 founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
1876 have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
1877 dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
1878 with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
1879 initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
1881 I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
1882 community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
1883 will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
1884 customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
1885 Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
1886 be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
1887 provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
1888 training, documentation and certified binaries.
1890 Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
1891 and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
1892 through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
1893 consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
1894 additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
1897 Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
1898 value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
1899 Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
1900 service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
1902 The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
1903 in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
1904 and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
1905 Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
1906 new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
1907 www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
1908 for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
1909 and certified binaries.
1911 All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
1912 www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
1913 our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
1914 company, Bacula Systems.
1916 Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
1923 Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
1924 Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
1925 This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
1926 Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
1930 This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
1931 with other 2.4.x versions.
1934 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
1937 - Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
1938 a non created job faster.
1939 - This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
1940 respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
1941 - Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
1942 - This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
1943 crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
1945 - Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
1946 replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
1947 - Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
1949 - Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
1950 this never caused a bug.
1951 - Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
1952 - Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
1953 using default variables.
1954 Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
1955 - Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
1956 job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
1957 - Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
1958 - Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
1960 - Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
1961 a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
1963 - Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
1964 - Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
1965 given. This fixes bug #1140.
1966 - Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
1967 This closes bug #1129.
1969 Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
1970 until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
1974 Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
1975 Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
1976 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
1977 Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
1979 This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
1982 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
1986 - When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
1987 and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
1988 significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
1989 - Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
1990 do_load. It is much more logical that way.
1991 - Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
1992 reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
1993 zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
1994 - During multiple tape restore, bacula
1995 does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
1996 - Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
1997 This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
1998 - Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
1999 This fixes bug #1124.
2000 - Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
2001 - Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
2002 during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
2004 - Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
2005 - Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
2006 - Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
2007 at least once before asking for operator intervention.
2008 - Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
2009 version 2.5.x and above.
2012 Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
2013 Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
2014 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
2015 Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
2018 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
2022 - Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
2023 - Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
2024 - Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
2025 a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
2026 would occasionally not be restored.
2027 - Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
2028 a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
2029 - Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
2031 - Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
2032 fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
2033 - Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
2034 - Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
2035 - Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
2036 directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
2037 - Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
2038 older 'incorrect' headers.
2039 - Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
2040 - Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
2041 mt. This fixes bug #1116.
2042 - Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
2043 clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
2044 - Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
2045 conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
2046 its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
2047 when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
2048 is read on that drive.
2049 - Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
2050 #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
2052 - Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
2053 - Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
2054 - Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
2055 overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
2056 - Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
2057 - Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
2058 be opened. Reported by Eric.
2059 - Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
2060 - Add --with-db-password to ./configure
2061 - Fix regress to handle db_password.
2062 - Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
2063 - Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
2064 have the requested MediaType.
2065 - More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
2066 the configuration routines.
2067 - Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
2068 refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
2069 requirements of recent FHS location changes.
2070 - Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
2071 such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
2072 - Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
2076 Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
2077 Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
2078 This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
2079 Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
2081 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
2082 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
2083 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2084 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2085 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2086 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2087 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2089 As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
2090 Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
2091 contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
2092 (File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
2093 no database upgrade needed.
2095 =====================================================
2097 Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
2099 Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
2101 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2102 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2103 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2104 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2105 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
2106 2.2.x to version 2.4.0
2108 ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
2109 As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
2110 any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
2111 specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
2112 FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
2113 be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
2114 reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
2116 ======================================================
2118 This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
2119 but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
2120 Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
2121 code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
2122 with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
2123 said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
2124 the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
2127 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
2128 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
2131 - You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
2132 --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
2134 Release Version 2.4.0
2135 - Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
2136 - Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
2137 This fixes bug #1095.
2138 - Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
2139 fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
2140 - Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
2142 - Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
2143 - Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
2144 - If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
2145 try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
2146 wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
2147 this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
2148 - Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
2149 - Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
2150 - Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
2151 - Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
2153 - Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
2154 - Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
2155 many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
2156 - Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
2157 reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
2158 directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
2159 with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
2160 backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
2161 This fixes bug #1041.
2162 - Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
2163 - Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
2164 - Implement --without-qwt
2165 - Fix layout of restore tree dialog
2166 - Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
2167 with or without the QWT libaries.
2168 - Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
2169 from one drive to another.
2170 - Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
2171 - Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
2172 This fixes bug #1083.
2173 - Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
2174 the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
2176 - Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
2177 This fixes bug #1078.
2178 - Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
2179 warning rather than an error.
2180 - Fix SQL query in migration code
2181 - Fix bat seg fault at termination.
2182 - Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
2183 - Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
2184 - When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
2185 - Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
2186 same volume name twice in a row.
2187 - Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
2188 the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
2189 handling the responsibilities.
2190 - Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
2191 causes a seg fault in many cases.
2192 - Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
2194 - Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
2195 - Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
2196 - Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
2197 - Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
2198 and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
2199 - Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
2200 - Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
2201 autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
2202 - Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
2203 - Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
2204 the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
2205 another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
2206 - Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
2207 - Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
2208 when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
2209 - Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
2211 - Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
2212 - Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
2213 - Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
2214 - Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
2215 running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2216 <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
2217 - *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
2218 Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
2219 - Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
2220 of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
2221 - Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
2222 - Implements autostart scripts for Debian
2223 - Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
2224 - Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
2225 - Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
2226 GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
2227 - Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
2228 - Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
2230 - Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
2231 - Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
2232 - Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
2233 proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
2234 - Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
2235 - Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
2236 the ./configure line.
2237 - Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
2241 Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
2242 Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
2243 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2244 binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
2245 of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
2247 Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
2248 additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
2250 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
2251 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
2252 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
2253 and are difficult to reproduce.
2254 See the ChangeLog for more details.
2255 Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
2256 want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
2260 Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
2261 Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
2262 Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
2263 binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
2264 Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
2266 Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
2267 - It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
2268 Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
2271 Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
2272 Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
2273 Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
2274 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
2276 Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
2277 since version 2.2.6:
2278 - It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
2279 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
2280 - Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
2281 exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
2282 - Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
2283 possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
2284 - You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
2285 bar, thanks to the above patch.
2286 - A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
2288 - Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
2289 driver with version 8.3.
2290 - The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
2292 Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
2293 Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
2294 Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
2295 binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
2297 This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
2298 and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
2300 Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
2301 - It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
2303 - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
2304 - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
2306 Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
2307 Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
2308 Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
2309 fixes represent quite a lot of work:
2311 Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
2312 - It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
2313 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
2314 957, 908, 958, and 955.
2315 - It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
2316 out by Chris Howells.
2318 Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
2319 A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
2321 This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
2322 turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
2323 two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
2324 running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
2325 Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
2326 time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
2327 introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
2328 If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
2329 Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
2330 the conditions noted above.
2332 The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
2333 this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
2334 to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
2335 uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
2336 also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
2339 Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
2340 patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
2341 955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
2343 Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
2344 However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
2346 Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
2347 Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
2349 This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
2350 It contains the following fixes:
2352 - Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
2353 - Possible fix for bug #908.
2354 - Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
2355 file to always be deleted.
2356 - Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
2357 This fixes bug #950.
2358 - Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
2359 trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
2361 - Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
2362 should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
2363 are released as soon as possible.
2364 - Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
2365 have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
2366 in bug #942, but not the main problem.
2367 - Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
2368 by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
2369 - Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
2370 TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
2371 - Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
2373 - Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
2374 and not memory usage.
2376 - Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
2379 Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
2380 I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
2382 Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
2383 missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
2384 have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
2385 kind of problem many times.
2387 Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
2390 1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
2391 whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
2392 Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
2393 backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
2396 2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
2398 3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
2401 4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
2402 reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
2403 with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
2405 5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
2406 (e.g. doing Incremental backups).
2408 6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
2410 7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
2411 perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
2414 8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
2415 records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
2416 the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
2417 previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
2419 9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
2420 simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
2421 Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
2422 Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
2424 10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
2425 affected by this bug.
2427 11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
2428 a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
2431 12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
2432 a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
2435 13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
2436 the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
2437 an updated Storage daemon.
2439 I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
2440 version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
2441 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
2442 reproduced the problem.
2444 The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
2445 version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2447 For the technical details of the bug, please see:
2449 http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
2453 Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
2455 Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2457 Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
2459 Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
2460 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
2462 This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
2463 but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
2464 use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
2465 not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
2466 no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0.
2468 Areas requiring caution or testing:
2469 - You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
2470 to build with MySQL enabled.
2471 - Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
2472 your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
2473 - Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
2474 to what we do with sockets).
2475 - SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
2476 bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
2477 - The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
2478 This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
2479 of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
2480 The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
2481 - Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
2482 test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
2484 - Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
2486 The major new features are:
2487 - Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
2488 many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
2489 - First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
2490 bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
2491 must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
2492 (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
2493 must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
2494 - Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
2495 - The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
2497 - Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
2498 - posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
2499 swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
2501 - Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
2502 conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
2503 - Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
2504 - Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
2505 - New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
2506 - Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
2507 - Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
2508 - Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
2509 during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
2510 - License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
2511 mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
2513 New ./configure options:
2514 - --enable-bwx-console
2519 - --enable-batch-insert
2521 New bconsole commands:
2524 - update recyclepool
2527 - .pwd (in restore tree)
2528 - restoreclient (keyword)
2529 - backupclient (keyword)
2530 - regexwhere (keyword)
2531 - update jobid (new command)
2532 - recyclepool (keyword)
2535 - Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
2536 - Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
2537 - TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
2538 - Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2539 - Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2540 - Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2541 - Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
2542 - Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
2543 - FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
2544 - CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2545 - StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
2547 Other features or bug fixes:
2548 - Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
2549 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
2550 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
2551 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
2552 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
2553 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
2554 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
2555 - Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
2556 --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
2557 - Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
2558 needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
2559 these packages in the distro.
2560 - Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
2562 - One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
2563 Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
2564 directives are defined.
2565 - ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
2566 - The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
2567 Use the command line or the Services panne.
2568 - Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
2569 - More debug output in status storage.
2570 - Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
2571 critical columns were lost).
2572 - Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
2573 which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
2574 should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
2575 (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
2576 concurrent jobs should run much faster.
2577 - Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
2578 the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
2579 - Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
2580 pool and media type when a job is waiting.
2581 - Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
2582 - Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
2583 - wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
2584 - gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
2585 - Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
2586 - Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
2587 - Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
2588 in front of the configuration path/filename.
2589 - New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
2590 memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
2591 - Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
2592 filename restrictions.
2593 - Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
2594 - Additional version information added to Job reports.
2595 - New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
2596 - bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
2597 is already a < in the target.
2598 - Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
2599 mounted by another job.
2600 - Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
2601 - New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
2602 - New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
2603 - Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
2604 - Drop from root done before database is opened.
2605 - Database user and name can be configured with:
2606 --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
2607 - Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
2608 - Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
2609 This appears to have been an unreported bug.
2610 - Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
2611 - Better restricted console ACL checking.
2612 - New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
2613 users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
2614 - Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
2615 job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
2616 - Sockets are no longer restored.
2617 - dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
2618 - Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
2619 large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
2620 - Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
2621 - New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
2622 which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
2623 the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
2624 not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
2625 - The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
2626 catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
2631 Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
2633 Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
2634 This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
2635 a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
2638 Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
2639 patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
2643 kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
2644 of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
2645 kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
2646 crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
2648 kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
2651 kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
2652 modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
2654 kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
2655 kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
2657 kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
2658 kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
2661 kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
2663 ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
2665 kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
2668 kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
2669 than English. Fixes bug #788.
2671 ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
2673 You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
2674 If you want to use this, you can apply
2675 trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
2677 kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
2678 no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
2679 set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
2681 kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
2682 to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
2683 kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
2684 kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
2686 kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
2687 causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
2688 all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
2689 despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
2690 allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
2693 kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
2695 kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
2696 Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
2697 was opened, it is closed.
2699 kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
2700 and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
2701 idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
2703 kes Update projects list.
2705 kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
2706 console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
2708 kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
2709 at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
2710 fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
2712 kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
2713 so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
2715 Switch to using Subversion
2716 kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
2718 kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
2719 plus the entrypoints.
2720 kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
2721 in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
2722 part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
2724 kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
2725 loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
2727 kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
2728 with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
2729 ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
2731 kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
2732 problem is with read or append.
2734 kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
2735 kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
2736 memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
2737 kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
2738 termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
2739 (i.e. migration jobs).
2740 kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
2741 a memory leak problem.
2742 kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
2743 in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
2744 to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
2745 kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
2746 rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
2747 methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
2748 (hides some of the ugly casting).
2750 kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
2751 the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
2755 Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
2757 Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
2759 kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
2761 kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
2763 ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
2764 kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
2765 kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
2766 so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
2768 kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
2770 kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
2771 which should restart an indefinite # of times.
2772 kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
2773 other DIR specifications.
2775 rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
2776 Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
2777 Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
2779 kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
2781 kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
2782 backup. This should fix bug #755.
2783 kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
2787 Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
2789 Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
2790 This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
2791 the following fixes:
2793 - Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
2794 instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
2795 - Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
2797 - Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
2798 - Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
2799 This *should* fix bug #747.
2800 - Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
2802 - Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
2803 and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
2804 this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
2805 - Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
2806 - Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
2807 SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
2809 - Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
2810 despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
2814 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
2816 Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
2818 There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
2820 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
2822 and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
2824 http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
2828 Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
2830 Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
2832 Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
2834 ==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
2835 - The database format has been updated from what was used in
2836 Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
2837 running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
2838 RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
2839 Please backup your previous version of the database before
2840 running the update. The update script will be automatically
2841 installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
2842 <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
2844 ./update_bacula_tables
2846 It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
2847 a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
2848 require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
2849 your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
2850 in general, it should be very fast.
2852 ==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
2853 For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
2854 needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
2855 automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
2856 directory mostly out of paranoia.
2858 ==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
2859 - The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
2860 should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
2861 no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
2862 incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
2863 on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
2864 previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
2865 - The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
2866 removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
2867 occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
2868 daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
2869 - The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
2870 directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
2871 mandir/man1 as appropriate.
2872 - You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
2873 and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
2874 data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
2875 - Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
2876 - The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
2877 of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
2878 device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
2879 will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
2880 with the correct MediaType.
2881 - The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
2882 format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
2883 jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
2884 difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
2885 default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
2886 the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
2887 more testing is still needed.
2888 - A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
2889 the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
2890 kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
2891 This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
2892 - If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
2893 be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
2894 with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
2895 be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
2896 carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
2897 with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
2898 and fixed it as follows:
2900 No filters = Works fine
2902 Compression = Works fine
2903 Encryption = Works fine
2904 Sparse + Compression = Works fine
2906 Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
2907 Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2908 Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
2911 Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
2912 not properly restored.
2915 All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
2917 Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
2918 data to be sure it all works correctly.
2919 - The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
2920 the format written by previous versions. The two formats
2921 are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
2922 be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
2923 - If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
2924 data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
2925 seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
2926 be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
2927 following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
2930 Block Positioning = no
2932 This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
2934 - VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
2935 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
2936 - Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
2938 New Features in 2.0.0:
2939 - Turn on disk seek code for restores.
2940 - There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
2941 messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
2942 Bacula, then as root run:
2944 cd <bacula-source>/po
2947 If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
2949 - Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
2950 Migration chapter in the manual
2951 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
2952 - Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
2953 a new chapter of the manual at:
2954 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
2955 - Additional support for removable devices. See the
2956 Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
2957 Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
2958 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
2959 Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
2961 - Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
2962 cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
2963 then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
2964 cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
2965 also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
2966 all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
2967 drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
2968 - The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
2969 This code is working but should still be tested carefully
2970 before putting into production.
2971 - Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
2972 any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
2973 the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
2974 to Thorsten Engel for this code.
2975 - The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
2976 eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
2977 Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
2978 in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
2980 - Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
2981 the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
2982 plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
2983 of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
2984 http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
2985 - SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
2986 - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at
2987 If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with
2988 "list nextvol days=xx"
2990 "status dir days=xx"
2991 This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
2992 next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
2994 - From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
2995 wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
2997 wait jobuid=unique id
2999 - Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
3000 are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
3001 Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
3002 - Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
3003 job report in the Log database table.
3004 - Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
3005 of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
3006 - Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
3007 the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
3008 the job can be manually started from the console.
3009 - The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
3010 can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
3011 table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
3012 - Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
3013 the restore cd command.
3014 - When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
3015 will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
3017 - Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
3018 conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
3019 are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
3020 - Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
3021 - Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
3022 spaces in names better, ...
3023 - Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
3024 - Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
3026 - Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
3027 the restore command.
3028 - Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
3029 patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
3030 - Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
3031 from Eric Bollengier.
3032 - Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
3033 in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
3034 - Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
3035 display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
3036 - Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
3037 - Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
3038 - Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
3039 the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
3040 path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
3041 over where users can restore files. This is untested.
3042 - Install man pages with 'make install'.
3043 - Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
3044 - Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
3045 - Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
3046 - Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
3047 - The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
3048 command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
3049 - When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
3050 triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
3051 - Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
3052 - Implement mount command for autochanger
3053 - Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
3054 from File= was not found.
3055 - Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
3056 do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
3057 have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
3058 Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
3059 - The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
3060 creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
3062 - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
3064 - Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
3065 appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
3066 listing where they could be "lost".
3067 - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
3068 correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
3070 - Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
3071 - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
3072 list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
3073 lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
3074 - Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
3075 should get Bacula into the correct groups.
3076 - Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
3077 and mount, unmount directives.
3078 - Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
3079 to a user submission.
3080 - SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
3081 in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
3082 devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
3083 changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
3084 device will be blocked.
3085 - The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
3086 - A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
3087 all other Storage specifications.
3088 - Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
3089 - A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
3090 from a database table for restore.
3091 - There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
3092 designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
3093 - Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
3094 accept time qualifiers.
3095 - Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
3096 suggested by Eric Bollengier.
3097 - Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
3098 Job Level, only during JobInit event.
3099 - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname
3100 to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to
3101 be the numeric (non-unique) job id.
3102 - Allow the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
3104 - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
3105 Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
3106 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files:
3107 bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts
3108 bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director
3109 bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon
3110 bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon
3111 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
3112 explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
3113 - Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
3114 wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
3115 - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
3116 - Apply patch from Christopher Hull
3117 - Allow multiple connections to database with different
3119 - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
3120 fault, but still 60 second window.
3121 - Additional info in Reschedule message.
3122 - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
3124 - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
3125 - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
3126 - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
3127 - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
3128 - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
3129 - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
3130 - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
3131 - programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
3132 routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
3134 - Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
3136 - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
3137 - Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
3138 O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
3139 updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
3140 happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
3141 prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
3142 only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
3143 programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
3145 You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
3147 The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
3148 it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
3149 - Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
3150 - Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
3151 Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
3153 Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
3154 Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
3155 Add Cost to Location table.
3156 Enabled to Media table and Location table.
3157 - Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
3158 and forcing a 6 second wait.
3159 - If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
3160 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
3161 - Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
3162 eliminate the security problems associated with using the
3163 system libraries print routines.
3164 - Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
3165 came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
3166 it is all very complicated.
3167 - Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
3169 - Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
3171 - Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
3172 chapter of the manual
3173 - Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
3174 - Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
3175 - Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
3176 - The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
3177 Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
3178 and the LICENSE file has been updated.
3179 - Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
3180 Mail On Success directive.
3181 - The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
3183 - The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
3184 are printed in the Job report.
3186 Additional Features Added for Win32:
3187 - Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3188 resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
3189 is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
3190 has the concept of drives.
3192 - Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
3193 resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
3195 When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
3196 Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
3198 Patterns conform to Posix
3199 \ is not a special character in character classification []
3200 To match a - it must be the first or last character
3201 To match a ] it must be the first character
3203 fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
3204 so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
3206 - Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
3207 against the filename portion. This in combination with the
3208 FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
3209 abc*.def work as expected.
3211 - Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
3213 Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
3215 # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
3216 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
3217 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
3218 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
3219 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
3220 WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"