Kern;;;2005/09/12;;;21:08 Results to date of donations for the Data Encryption project 12 September 2005 Donor: Amount: WingNET Internet $500 Timo Neuvonen $250 Ed Grether $25 Charles Reinehr $100 Michael Proto $25 Phil Cordier $100 Dan Langille $100 Tom Plancon $65 Felix Schwarz $60 ClarkConnect $500 Andrew Ford $25 Ciphire Labs GmbH $?? INetU, Inc $1000 Goal: $3000 Total: $2,750 Note, the official list is kept by Landon at: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/bacula Read on for details of the project. Kern;;;2005/07/26;;;14:30 BACULA COMMUNITY NEWS RELEASE Backup Data Encryption Development Project 26 July 2005 WHAT After initial discussions between Bacula project manager Kern Sibbald, freelance open source developer Landon Fuller, and Craig Thompson, President of WingNET Internet Services, an agreement has been reached to begin work on the inclusion of data encryption as an integral part of Bacula. WHY The purpose of this project is to provide backup clients with the ability to securely encrypt their data for storage on Bacula storage servers without having to worry about the possibility of the data being accessed either by hackers or third parties. Data that is encrypted on Volumes on the remote server can give your customer (or CEO) an additional peace of mind that makes the difference between a sale or no sale. WHO WingNET recently expressed an interest in seeing this functionality developed. The concept had also been requested by numerous individuals and companies in the recent past on the various Bacula mailing lists. Kern suggested asking Landon to work on the project in order to speed up the process. HOW Landon Fuller has agreed to begin working on the project. As compensation for his time, his goal is to raise approximately $3,000 for donation to the Electronic Freedom Foundation. WingNET has offered to provide an initial donation of $500 for the project. However, YOUR support is needed to make the project a success. The data encryption project needs individuals and companies who would be willing to donate any amount of money toward the completion of the project. WHERE You may contribute by going to the EFF site donation page at: https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash&JServSessionIdr006=h0do7dkvl1.app2a and clicking on the "Gift Memberships >>" button. You will be asked to provide "Tribute Information" and to select an eCard recipient. Please use "The Bacula Project" as the honored individual name, and please choose to send an eCard to Kern Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>. Please do not forget to include the amount of your donation on the message that goes with the eCard. It is not necessary to specify a snail-mail notification address. By correctly sending an eCard, including the donation amount, we can track the total amount donated for this project. Can your company contribute $250 or $500? How about $100? And if your budget is really tight, why not forego a couple of fast food meals and contribute $20? This is a community project, and this can be your way of helping make Bacula an even better product for the good of the whole community. If you have any questions related to this project, please contact Kern Sibbald <kern at sibbald dot com>. Kern;;;2005/04/26;;;12:00 The Bacula Version 1.36.3 tar file is released to Source Forge. Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.3 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 118,000 (*.h *.c *.in) Major Changes to version 1.36.3: - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.2 (see below) - Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4 GB. - Thanks to Karl Cunningham's hard work and skilled Perl programming, the manual is now in LaTeX format and has an index! - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes (see below). New Directives in 1.36.3: - None, but see 1.36.2 additions below. New Commands: - None since 1.36.1 Items to note for 1.36.3!!! - Drop support of old style Include/Excludes. Matt Howard has supplied a handy Perl program that will do a good job of converting your FileSets. It can be found in examples/conf/fileset_convert.pl - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula", where the first is the database name, and the second is the user name. Patches applied: 04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should edit "since". 04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple simultaneous jobs from different pools. 09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32 doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case. 15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs() on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258. 16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch This patch causes the output directed to a file to be flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but a user complained about it. 17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2 which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed Bacula truncating tapes after a restore. Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make. 18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and the job attempts to call the SD. 18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled. The storage pointers were being released when they should not have been. 24Mar05 1.36.2-wx-console-bugfixes.patch Major wx-console fixes (see src/wx-console/CHANGELOG for details). 28Mar05 1.36.2-tray-monitor-memleak.patch This patch should fix memory leaks in tray-monitor. Kern;;;2005/02/28;;;12:00 The Bacula Version 1.36.2 tar file is released to Source Forge. Release Notes for Bacula 1.36.2 Bacula code: Total files = 398 Total lines = 117,915 (*.h *.c *.in) Major Changes to version 1.36.2: - Applied all fixes for bugs since version 1.36.1 (see below) - Added new directives from 1.37 code (see below). - Applied Tim's patch for ACLS. - Eight new options keywords in a FileSet resource: ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir, and regexfile, hardlinks. See below for details. - Fix deadlock in multiple simultaneous jobs. - Fix tape "truncation"/"number of files" after restore bug. - Fix ClientRun jobs on Win32 to faile if the return code is not zero. New Directives in 1.36.2: - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive: - WildDir xxx Will do a wild card match against directories (files will not be matched). - WildFile xxx Will do a wild card match against files (directories will not be matched). - RegexDir xxx Will do a regular expression match against directories (files will not be matched). - RegexFile xxx Will do a regular expression match against files( directories will not be matched). - IgnoreCase = yes | no Will ignore case in wild card and regular expression matches. This is handy for Windows where filename case is not significant. - FsType = string where string is a filesystem type: ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc, reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. For ext3 systems, use ext2. You may have multiple fstype directives and thus permit multiple filesystem types. If the type specified on the fstype directive does not match the filesystem for a particular directive, that directory will not be backed up. This directive can be used to prevent backing up non-local filesystems. - HFS Plus Support = yes | no If set, Mac OS X resource forks will be saved and restored. - In FileSet, you can exclude backing up of hardlinks (if you have a lot, it can be very expensive), by using: HardLinks = no in the Options section. Patch supplied by David R Bosso. Thanks. New Commands: - None since 1.36.1 Items to note for 1.36.2!!! - Dan has reminded us that the arguments for make_catalog_backup changed from 1.34.x to 1.36.1. The old arguments were typically "-U bacula". The new arguments are typically "bacula bacula", where the first is the database name, and the second is the user name. Patches applied: 03Dec04 1.36.1-pool.patch This patch should hold jobs in the Director's start queue if more than one simultaneous backup job wants to use the same Storage device with two different Pools (i.e. 2 Volumes). 03Dec04 1.16.1-slots.patch This patch should fix "update slots" with two different magazines in different pools by checking the pool when zapping the InChanger. 18Dec04 1.36.1-spool.patch This patch fixes the despooling size printed in the Job report. Previously, it reported the total size for the device. This patch makes it report the size for the job. 21Dec04 1.36.1-store.patch This patch fixes a problem with overriding storage daemon specifications. Previously they were not always honored. This implements more uniform handling. It also eliminates an orphaned buffer situation using JobDefs. 21Dec04 1.36.1-reload.patch This patch fixes Bacula so that it does not exit if there is a syntax error in its conf file during a reload command. 24Dec04 1.36.1-fileset.patch This patch should correct a seg fault in the FD that occurs at the end of a job when the job uses old style include/excludes. Old style include/excludes are deprecated and should be converted to the new style as soon as possible. 30Jan05 1.36.1-acl.patch This patch fixes some typos with ACL checking that results in the incorrect name being used for the check. This fixes possible security problems with unwanted access by restricted consoles. 15Feb05 1.36.1-truncate.patch This patch fixes a bug where a tape gets "truncated" after doing a restore. The number of files in the catalog do not agree with what Bacula thinks is on tape, then the tape is marked in error. ;;; Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59 News-Page for the Bacula-Website finished When you read this, you read the first news posted by me *hehe* through the new Bacula-News-System. Its file-based, no fancy database need. ;;;