1 Kern;;;2005/08/23;;;10:20
2 Results to date of donations for the Data Encryption project
15 Goal: $3000 Total: $1,725
17 Note, the official list is kept by Landon at:
19 http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/bacula
21 Read on for details of the project.
23 Kern;;;2005/07/26;;;14:30
24 BACULA COMMUNITY NEWS RELEASE
25 Backup Data Encryption Development Project
29 After initial discussions between Bacula project manager Kern
30 Sibbald, freelance open source developer Landon Fuller, and Craig
31 Thompson, President of WingNET Internet Services, an agreement
32 has been reached to begin work on the inclusion of data
33 encryption as an integral part of Bacula.
36 The purpose of this project is to provide backup clients with the
37 ability to securely encrypt their data for storage on Bacula
38 storage servers without having to worry about the possibility of
39 the data being accessed either by hackers or third parties. Data
40 that is encrypted on Volumes on the remote server can give your
41 customer (or CEO) an additional peace of mind that makes the
42 difference between a sale or no sale.
45 WingNET recently expressed an interest in seeing this
46 functionality developed. The concept had also been requested by
47 numerous individuals and companies in the recent past on the
48 various Bacula mailing lists. Kern suggested asking Landon to
49 work on the project in order to speed up the process.
52 Landon Fuller has agreed to begin working on the project. As
53 compensation for his time, his goal is to raise approximately
54 $3,000 for donation to the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
55 WingNET has offered to provide an initial donation of $500 for
56 the project. However, YOUR support is needed to make the project
57 a success. The data encryption project needs individuals and
58 companies who would be willing to donate any amount of money
59 toward the completion of the project.
62 You may contribute by going to the EFF site donation page at:
64 https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash&JServSessionIdr006=h0do7dkvl1.app2a
66 and clicking on the "Gift Memberships >>" button. You will
67 be asked to provide "Tribute Information" and to select an eCard
68 recipient. Please use "The Bacula Project" as the honored
69 individual name, and please choose to send an eCard to Kern
70 Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>. Please do not forget to
71 include the amount of your donation on the message that goes with
72 the eCard. It is not necessary to specify a snail-mail
75 By correctly sending an eCard, including the donation amount, we can
76 track the total amount donated for this project.
78 Can your company contribute $250 or $500? How about $100? And
79 if your budget is really tight, why not forego a couple of fast
80 food meals and contribute $20?
82 This is a community project, and this can be your way of helping make
83 Bacula an even better product for the good of the whole community.
85 If you have any questions related to this project, please contact
86 Kern Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>.
89 Kern;;;2005/04/26;;;12:00
90 The Bacula Version 1.36.3 tar file is released to Source Forge.
92 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.3
94 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 118,000 (*.h *.c *.in)
96 Major Changes to version 1.36.3:
97 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.2 (see below)
98 - Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4 GB.
99 - Thanks to Karl Cunningham's hard work and skilled Perl
100 programming, the manual is now in LaTeX format
102 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes (see below).
104 New Directives in 1.36.3:
105 - None, but see 1.36.2 additions below.
110 Items to note for 1.36.3!!!
111 - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes. Matt Howard has
112 supplied a handy Perl program that will do a good job of
113 converting your FileSets. It can be found in
114 examples/conf/fileset_convert.pl
115 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
116 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
117 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
118 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
123 04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch
124 This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the
125 client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should
128 04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch
129 This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple
130 simultaneous jobs from different pools.
132 09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch
133 This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message
134 when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32
135 doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case.
137 15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch
138 This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs()
139 on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258.
141 16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch
142 This patch causes the output directed to a file to be
143 flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but
144 a user complained about it.
146 17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch
147 This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2
148 which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This
149 is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather
150 than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The
151 introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed
152 Bacula truncating tapes after a restore.
153 Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make.
155 18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch
156 This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and
157 the job attempts to call the SD.
159 18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch
160 This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled.
161 The storage pointers were being released when they should not
164 24Mar05 1.36.2-wx-console-bugfixes.patch
165 Major wx-console fixes (see src/wx-console/CHANGELOG for details).
167 28Mar05 1.36.2-tray-monitor-memleak.patch
168 This patch should fix memory leaks in tray-monitor.
170 Kern;;;2005/02/28;;;12:00
171 The Bacula Version 1.36.2 tar file is released to Source Forge.
173 Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.2
175 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 117,915 (*.h *.c *.in)
177 Major Changes to version 1.36.2:
178 - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.1 (see below)
179 - Added new directives from 1.37 code (see below).
180 - Applied Tim's patch for ACLS.
181 - Eight new options keywords in a FileSet resource:
182 ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir,
183 and regexfile, hardlinks. See below for details.
184 - Fix deadlock in multiple simultaneous jobs.
185 - Fix tape "truncation"/"number of files" after restore bug.
186 - Fix ClientRun jobs on Win32 to faile if the
187 return code is not zero.
189 New Directives in 1.36.2:
190 - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive:
192 Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not
195 Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not
198 Will do a regular expression match against directories (files
199 will not be matched).
201 Will do a regular expression match against files( directories
202 will not be matched).
203 - IgnoreCase = yes | no
204 Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches.
205 This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant.
207 where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc,
208 reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3
209 systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives
210 and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type
211 specified on the fstype directive does not match the
212 filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will
213 not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent
214 backing up non-local filesystems.
215 - HFS Plus Support = yes | no
216 If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored.
217 - In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have
218 a lot, it can be very expensive), by using:
220 in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks.
225 Items to note for 1.36.2!!!
226 - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup
227 changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically
228 "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula",
229 where the first is the database name, and the second is the
234 03Dec04 1.36.1-pool.patch
235 This patch should hold jobs in the Director's start queue if
236 more than one simultaneous backup job wants to use the same
237 Storage device with two different Pools (i.e. 2 Volumes).
239 03Dec04 1.16.1-slots.patch
240 This patch should fix "update slots" with two different
241 magazines in different pools by checking the pool when zapping
244 18Dec04 1.36.1-spool.patch
245 This patch fixes the despooling size printed in the Job
246 report. Previously, it reported the total size for the
247 device. This patch makes it report the size for the job.
249 21Dec04 1.36.1-store.patch
250 This patch fixes a problem with overriding storage daemon
251 specifications. Previously they were not always honored.
252 This implements more uniform handling. It also eliminates
253 an orphaned buffer situation using JobDefs.
255 21Dec04 1.36.1-reload.patch
256 This patch fixes Bacula so that it does not exit if there
257 is a syntax error in its conf file during a reload command.
259 24Dec04 1.36.1-fileset.patch
260 This patch should correct a seg fault in the FD that occurs
261 at the end of a job when the job uses old style include/excludes.
262 Old style include/excludes are deprecated and should be
263 converted to the new style as soon as possible.
265 30Jan05 1.36.1-acl.patch
266 This patch fixes some typos with ACL checking that results
267 in the incorrect name being used for the check.
268 This fixes possible security problems with unwanted
269 access by restricted consoles.
271 15Feb05 1.36.1-truncate.patch
272 This patch fixes a bug where a tape gets "truncated" after
273 doing a restore. The number of files in the catalog do not
274 agree with what Bacula thinks is on tape, then the tape is
279 Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59
280 News-Page for the Bacula-Website finished
281 When you read this, you read the first news posted by me *hehe*
282 through the new Bacula-News-System.
284 Its file-based, no fancy database need.