Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.11 Bacula code: Total files = 423 Total lines = 139,479 (*.h *.c *.in) Warning for version 1.38.8 and greater: - The Windows FD no longer automatically folds the case in wild-card comparions. To get the same behavior as before, you must explicitly use "Ignore Case = yes" in your FileSet. - Backslashes are no longer permitted in File directives (typical error for Windows users), unless the string is enclosed in double quotes, in which case, the backslashes must be doubled. Major Changes for 1.38.11 - Add test for IRIX64 as OS - Fix scheduler hang during clock shift (due to missing unlock()) - Minor tweaks to bregex.c - Fix to block.c to correctly check for DVD number of parts. - Fix to dev.c to permit DVD seeking in spool file. Corrects label rewriting problems. - Clarify license for techlogs (GPL). I consider them "part" of the source code of Bacula. - Use FDL license for developer's manual, French translation, German translation, bimagemgr manuals (same as the main manual), and the web site. New features for 1.38.11: - None ==================================================================== Major Changes for 1.38.10: - This is a primarily a bug fix release, with the following bugs being resolved #570, 609, 611, 613, 614, 617 as well as other bugs not reported in the bugs database. See below for details. - The bconsole "reload" command should now work properly in virtually all situations thanks to the efforts of a number of people (Eric, Christopher, and myself). - There is an untested fix to eliminate the scheduling problems (either no job run or the same job run twice) during sudden clock shifts (daylight savings time change). - The manual has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). The major difference is that this removes the prior restriction on commercial reproduction of the manual. - Fixed a race condition (thanks to Christopher) on dual processor machines that caused jobs to block when starting with the SD. New features for 1.38.10: - None Fixes for 1.38.10: 08Jun06 - Modify setting ACLs to suppress error message if the file is a symbolic link since the file linked to may not yet be created, and symbolic links really should not have attributes ... 06Jun06 - Complete implementation of acl.c error message during restore. During backups, errors getting acls are silently ignored, as was previously the case. 04Jun06 - Modify configure.in to check for typeof(). - Better detection of postgresql installation if pg_conf works. - Fix RescheduleTimes = 0 bug (should not reschedule). - Down port from 1.39: fixes for reload, autochanger error messages, scheduler fixes for reload and day light savings change, 01Jun06 - Implement partial error messages for src/filed/acl.c - Fix return code to fail when doing update barcodes and Pool resource is not found. This previously caused Volumes to be labeled as cleaning tapes. - Small updates to projects file. 26May06 - Prevent DVD code from rewriting label if the device cannot be opened read/write. - Fix Dir/SD run race in migrate.c, verify.c, and restore.c - Update projects file. 24May06 - Applied patch posted by Jaime Ventura to bug #570 to correct failure of restarted jobs to complete (due to a destroyed pthreads conditional variable used by the message thread). - Fixed bug #619 where Bacula would not restart jobs with MaxRestartTimes set to zero. - Apply patch from John Goerzen bug #611 to fix bad manual links in the code. - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #614 to removed trailing colons in query.sql file. - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #613 to correct prunning of files not to create orphans. - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #617 to use mtime instead of ctime in restore long listing. - Apply patch from Rudolf Cejka bug #609 to use MarkId in verify.c instead of incorrect MarkedId. - Apply patch from adioso bug #616 to correct text in manual (replace Director with File daemon). 21May06 - Move DIR "run" command to SD before starting the message thread as suggested by Cristopher Hull to avoid a race deadlock from two threads using the bsock structure. - Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian. 05May06 - Correct EOF with no \n lex.c problem. - Add additional INFO messages if autochanger cannot be used. - Add Eric Bollengier's lex error handler fix, which corrects most of the reload problems. New features for 1.38.9: - A "Dir Status" button in the Gnome console. Fixes: This is mainly a bug fix release containing a collection of minor fixes for 1.38.8. - Added code to strip backslashes from Windows filenames during a restore. - Corrected Win32 License to use the correct LICENSE file. - Corrected the buffer count and bytes reported in the heap statistics. - Fix a number of incorrect strings marked for translation, when they should not be (e.g. commands). - Fix StartTime bug reported for ClientRunBeforeJob and RunBeforeJob Patches supplied by user in bugs #608 and #599. - Use most recent of st_ctime and st_mtime in restore tree DIR listing. This fixes some problems with Win32 printing incorrect values. - Correct the clock shift comm time calculation between the DIR and the FD. It was added rather than subtracted. - Strip all backslashes in filenames to be restored on Win32 machines -- the names should all be in Unix format, and if there are any backslashes it is most likely due to an improper FileSet definition, and the files will not otherwise be restorable. - Delete src/win32/License.txt - Modify installer to install LICENSE - Add back ua_label barcode fix from Rufolf Cejka. - Add 'Dir Status' button to the gnome console. - Display heap stats in Storage daemon without debug level. - Implement using pg_config for finding PostgreSQL files. Fixes bug #600. Patch supplied by user. - Remove -t option from mktemp in mtx_changer.in and use working directory. Fixes bug #578. - Update job start time after the any run before job so that files created by the script are only backed up once. Fixes bug #599. - Strip trailing newline only from filenames entered in the restore command when reading a file. This permits the user to enter filenames with trailing spaces. Fixes bug #549. The user supplied a patch that I modified slightly. - Use the most recent time (st_mtime, st_ctime) in the dir command in restore. This gives the user a better idea of what the newest file really is. This fixes bug #574. The fix was suggested by the user. - Remove the -f option from the chown in Makefile.in for more portability. - Change setting the group in Makefile.in to use chgrp for more portability. - Implement a Bacula read/write lock for Python rather than using the Python lock to avoid recursive problems. - Correct the uninstall directory names in filed/Makefile.in as reported by a user. New features for 1.38.8: - Regex, RegexFile, and RegexDir are now implemented in the Win32 FD. However, this is new experimental code that is largely untested. It may not work, it may cause memory leaks, or it may even crash the FD. Please test carefully before using. - On Linux/Unix systems there are two new programs, bregex and bwild that allow you to test regular expressions and wild-cards. These programs are installed with the other binaries. They are not available on Win32 systems. Fixes: - See below. New Features from pre-1.38.8 releases: - For autochanger get Scratch tape if in autochanger if no appendable Volumes are available. - New virtual disk autochanger. See scripts/disk-changer for documentation. - New optional Device resource directive in SD. 'Device Type =', which may have types: File, DVD, Tape, or FIFO. This can be useful for writing DVDs on FreeBSD where Bacula cannot correctly detect the DVD. - Faster restore tree building and uses less memory. - The command line keyword job (or jobname) now refers to the name of the job specified in the Job resource; jobid refers as before to the non-unique numeric jobid; and ujobid refers to the unique job identification that Bacula creates for each job. - The job report for Backups has a few more user friendly ways of displaying the information. - The wait command can now be made to wait for jobids. - New command line keywords are permitted in update volume. They are Inchanger=yes/no, slot=nn. - Add two new console commands: enable job= and disable job=. When a job is disabled, it will not be started by the scheduler. If you disable a job and restart Bacula or reload the .conf file, the job will be re-enabled. - Add a new Job resource directive "enable = yes|no". - There is a new program named regex in the tools directory that allows you to try regular expressions on your system. Major bug fixes: - Fix race condition in multiple-drive autochangers where both drives want the same Volume. - Do not allow opening default catalog for restricted console if it is not in ACL. - Writable FIFOs now work for restore. - ACLs are now checked in all dot commands. - Multiple drive autochangers and multiple different autochangers should now work correctly (no race conditions for Volume names, update slots use correct StorageId). - Fix bug where drive was always reserved if a restore job failed while in the reservation process. Minor bug fixes: - See below: Release 1.38.8 (14Apr06) 14Apr06 - Correct Makefile for Solaris /bin/sh - Correct mtx-changer.in for Solaris /bin/sh - Abort if a conf resource does not have a Name = 12Apr06 - Change the name of the regex program to bregex. - Add the bwild program to the tools directory. It is similar to the bregex program. - Implement create bregex.h and bregex.c in src/lib from the Python regexp program. - Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32. 11Apr06 - Modify Makefile to change the permissions on Working Directory to 770 if the directory is created. - Do not fail the Makefile if changing the permissions or owner/group on WorkingDir fails. - Correct the old recycling algorithm so that Scratch Volumes are selected when looking for a Volume in the changer. - Correct a typo in the Verify SQL reported by Joe Park. 10Apr06 - Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must explictly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option. - Remove the code added to 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 that pulls a scratch volume in an Autochanger early in the 'recycling' algorithm. 08Apr06 - Tweak license to include Microsoft restrictions. - Move mysql.reconnect to after real_connect(). Thanks to Frank Sweetser for the patch. - Disallow a backslash in a File = directive (Windows junk) unless the string is quoted. - Apply Eric's patch to ua_label.c so that daemon protocol is not translated. Release 1.38.7 (06Apr06) released 07Apr06 06Apr06 - Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet implemented. - Correct bacula.in script to reference bacula-ctl-xx in the sysconfig directory rather than the bin directory. Release 1.38.6 (28Mar06) released 29Mar06 28Mar06 - Back port from 1.39 fixes to lib/jcr.c to use foreach_jcr() and new jcr chain locking. 26Mar06 - Fix a long standing bug in the bacula start/stop scripts. - Attempt to add the new bacula-ctl-* files to the rpm. - Switch to using typeof() for list traversing to avoid as many FC5 g++ compiler warnings as possible. 25Mar06 - Split the bacula start/start script into four files: bacula -- starts and stops calling other scripts bacula-ctl-dir -- starts/stops the director bacula-ctl-fd -- starts/stops the File daemon bacula-ctl-sd -- starts/stops the Storage daemon - Create datestyle fix for PostgreSQL. Fixes bug #574. - Correct editing of JobId from int to int64 in fd_cmds.c - Eliminate FileSet name race with bash_spaces() and multiple threads by bashing in a local. - Fix error return from 'use storage' to print a correct error message rather than nothing. - Correct false re-read last block error message when two jobs are simultaneously writing at the end of a tape. - Simplify exit conditions in the reserve.c code to avoid possible non-release of reservation_lock(). - Suffle lock order in reserve to avoid deadlock between reservation lock and device mutex. - Add Thorsten's VSS timeout code to 1.38 branch. - Initialize jcr mutex before first use. Thanks to Thorsten for tracking this down for me !!!! as it broke the Win32 build. - Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from Sebastian Stark - Implement regex test program in tools directory. - Attempt to fix time problem with bsmtp with foreign langs. - Add strip_trailing_newline() submitted by user. Release 1.38.6 beta6 16Mar06 - Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for restore, if polling is turned on. - Disallow multiple storage specifications for a job. Should fix Arno's problem. - Add back a missing store of poolid in jr.poolid. - If dir_user or dir-group is specified in ./configure apply it to the working-dir. Fixes bug #533. - If rescheduling a job cancel the previous incarnation with the SD. Fixes bugs #566 and 557. - Fix bug #567 do_message() definition type conflict. Release 1.38.6 beta5 14Mar06 - Add more jcr methods and make mutex and use_count private. - Create lock/unlock methods for jcr. - Fix PostgreSQL bug doing sql_data_seeek() by explicitly reading records to get to seek position. - Integrate patch from bug #561 to correct conio.c signal definitions. - Fix Rescheduling failed Jobs. Ensure that SD message thread terminates correctly by doing pthread_kill(). Do not destroy SD cond wait variable between executions of the job. Use local mutex for cond variable to avoid blocking jcr chain. Fix poor use of jcr use count in jobq.c for restarted jobs. - Fix obsolete usage of foreach_dlist() to use foreach_jcr() in lib/jcr.c -- prevents locking the jcr chaing. - Apply patch from bug #564, which corrects listing volumes with multiple autochangers. Apply same fix to next volume list. - Fix bug #562 where restore bootstrap file is not unique. - Use new routine lock_reservations() to lock the reservations system, and call it while looking for a volume in askdir.c. This could possibly fix bug #543. - Stop SD command loop if job is canceled. Release 1.38.6 beta3 4Mar06 04Mar06 - The po files should now be current. - Fix new sql_use_result() code to properly release the buffers in all cases. - Convert to using new Python class definitons with (object). - Use the keyword ujobid to mean the unique job id; job or jobname to mean the Job name given on the Name directive, and jobid to be the numeric (non-unique) job id. - Allow listing by any of the above. - Add the user friendly job report code for reporting job elapsed time and rates with suffexes. - Add Priority and JobLevel as Python settable items. - Use TEMPORARY table creation where the table is created by Bacula. - Add new code submitted by Eric for waiting on specific jobid. - Add ACL checking for the dot commands. - Fix restore of writable FIFOs. - Fix a bug in bpipe where the string was freed too early. 26Feb06 - Fix bug reported by Arno listing blocks with bls - Update the po files at Eric's request. Release 1.38.6-beta2 25Feb06 25Feb06 - Add sql_use_result() define. Changes to 1.38.6-beta1 - Don't open default catalog if not in ACL. - Add virtual disk autochanger code. - Add user supplied bug fix to make two autochangers work correctly using StorageId with InChanger checks. - Correct new/old_jcr confusion in copy_storage(). - Remove & from Job during scan in msgchan.c -- probably trashed the stack. - When getting the next Volume if no Volume in Append mode exists and we are dealing with an Autochanger, search for a Scratch Volume. - Check for missing value in dot commands -- bug fix. - Fix bug in update barcodes command line scanning. - Make sure Pool Max Vols is respected. - Check that user supplied a value before referencing it in restore -- pointed out by Karl Hakimian. - Add Karl Hakimian's table insert code. - Don't ask user to select a specific Volume when updating all volumes in a Pool. - Remove reservation if set for read when removing dcr. - Lock code that requests next appendable volume so that two jobs to get the same Volume at the same time. - Add new Device Type = xxx code. Values are file, tape, dvd, and fifo. - Preserve certain modes (ST_LABEL|ST_APPEND|ST_READ) across a re-open to change read/write permission on a device. - Correct a misplaced double quote in certain autochanger scripts. - Make make_catalog_backup.in a bit more portable. - Implement Karl Hakimian's sql_use_result(), which speeds up restore tree building and reduces the memory load. - Correct a number of minor bugs in getting a Volume from the Scratch Pool. - Implement additional command line options for update Volume. - Don't require user to enter a Volume name when updating all Volumes in a pool. Release 1.38.5 released 19Jan06: - Apply label barcodes fix supplied by Rudolf Cejka. - Modify standard rpm installation to set SD group to disk so that SD will by default have access to tape drives. - Allow users to specify user/group and start options for each daemon in /etc/sysconf/bacula file. Changes to 1.38.4 released 17Jan06: - The main changes are to the Director and the Storage daemon, thus there is no need to update your File daemons. Just the same, I do recommend running with the release 1.38.3 Win32 FD or later. - Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...). - Add periodic (every 24 hours) garbage collection of memory pool by releasing free buffers. - Correct bug counting sized (for display only) in smartall.c - Print FD mempool stats if debug > 0 rather than 5. - Correct bug in alist.c that re-allocated the list if the number of items goes to zero. - Move the reservation system thread locking to the top level so that one job at a time tries all possible drives before waiting. - Implement a reservation 'fail' message queue that is built and destroyed on each pass through the reservation system. These messages are displayed in a 'Jobs waiting to reserve a drive' list during a 'status storage='. Note, multiple messages will generally print for each JobId because they represent the different problems with either the same drive or different drives. If this output proves too confusing of voluminous, I will display it only when debug level 1 or greater is enabled in the SD. - Add enable/disable job=. This command prevents the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled, the job can be manually started from the console. - During 'update slots' clear all InChanger flags where the StorageId is zero (old Media records). - Fix autochanger code to strip leading spaces from returned slots number. Remove bc from chio-changer. - Back port a bit of 1.39 crypto code to reduce diffs. - Fix first call to autochanger that missed close()ing the drive. Put close() just before each run_program(). Fixes Arno's changer bug. - Add PoolId to Job record when updating it at job start time. - Pull in more code from 1.39 so that there are fewer file differences (the new ua_dotcmds.c, base64.h, crypto.h hmac.c jcr.c (dird and lib) lib.h md5.h parse_conf.c util.c. Aside from ua_dotcmds.c these are mostly crypto upgrades. - Implement new method of walking the jcr chain. The incr/dec of the use_count is done within the walking routines. This should prevent a jcr from being freed from under the walk routines. Changes to 1.38.3 released 05Jan06: - This is mainly a bug release fix. In addition, the multiple drive reservation algorithm has been rewritten. - In addition, the method of handling waiting for tapes to be mounted and the mount messages has been modified. (the above two items are a potential source of problems). - Simplify code in askdir.c that waits for creating an appendable volume so that it can handle multiple returns from the wait code. - Modify the wait code to permit multiple returns. - Return a zero when 'autochanger drives' is called and it is not an autochanger. - Make rewind_dev() a method taking a DCR as an argument. This permits closing and reopening the drive if the rewind fails as happens if the drive was loaded while the file descriptor was open. This refreshes the file descriptor. - Remove the ST_OPENED flag and always rely on fd < 0 for knowing if the device is open or not. This should eliminate Arnos problem. - Return error if reserve cannot find at least one suitable device. - Make wait_for_sysop() return correct state information. - Fix Win32 state file problem. write was not using compat code. This should fix bug #500. - Modify gui on command to set only GUI mode and not batch. - Modify .messages command to always print messages regardless of the mode. - If GUI mode is on, suppress automatic printing of You have messages. - Modify restore command in wx-console to set gui on and to use only .messages instead of messages. Hopefully this fixes bug #514. - Implement load balancing code with multiple drive autochangers. - Rewrite reservation algorithm again. Rename variables to be more logical, add HEARTBEAT with Director, allow cancel of jobs stuck in reservation, add last resourt any_drive. - Fix seg fault if user labels a drive directly bug #513 - Remove quotes around Version as it breaks things. - Merge in Aleksandar Milivojevic's mods to the spec file. - Apply sparse code fix for raw drives and fifos. Bug 506 - Thorsten fixed Unicode cd problem with wx-console bug 505. - Correct reservation system to do a last ditch try for any mounted volume, then anyone anywhere. - Updates to ssh-tunnel from Joshua Kugler. - Added a report.pl program from Jonas Bjorklund. - Simplify the O_NONBLOCK open() code for tape drives, and always open nonblocking. - Do not wait for open() if EIO returned (shouldn't happen). - Eliminate 3 argument to tape open(). - Correct the slot # edited in the 3995 Bad autochanger unload message. - With -S on bscan (show progress) do not divide by zero. - Make cancel pthread_cond_signal() pthread_cond_broadcast(). - When dcr is freed, also broadcast dev->wait_next_vol signal. - Remove unused code in wait_for_device. - Make wait_for_device() always return after 60 seconds of wait. - Use localhost if no network configured - Eliminated duplicate MaxVolBytes in cat update -- bug 509. - Update specs to include mysql4 define. - Return rec->FileIndex in dcr->VolLastIndex for normal and partial records in read_record(). This allows bscan to get FileIndex at EOT correct. - Fix butil.c to correctly set dcr -- fixes seg fault in bls. - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs. Bug # 506. - Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix SD hang with multiple pools and bad client IP. Fixes bug # 508. - Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by Christian Masopust. - Remove warning message about multiple saves of hardlinked files from find_one.c as it can generate too many warning messages. - Reset timeout values before select() per patch from Frank Sweetser for problems with non-blocking sockets. - Unlink the state file if either reading or writing it gets errors. Hopefully this will fix Win32 exit problems. - Get next volume from Scratch pool before creating a volume. - Set new Pool defaults in Vol when moved from Scratch Pool. - Remove argument from create_bacula_database for SQLite as it caused an error. - Fix reservation so that mutexes are properly applied. - Rework reservation algorithm so that two drives can be used at the same time. - Apply days keyword patch from Alexander.Bergolth at wu-wien.ac.at If this patch is applied, the number of days can be specified with 'list nextvol days=xx' or 'status dir days=xx' My use case is to be able to preview the next scheduled job (and the next tape to be used) on fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during the weekend. - Fix font code in gnome2 console user patch. Fixes bug #501. - Fix malformatted bnet error message that caused seg fault fixes bug 502 - Applied user patch to improve README.vc8 in src/win32. - Ensure that StorageId is stored in Media record when ever possible. - Remove old code from winservice.cpp - Break on error in scan. - Fix typo in signal.c - Separate read/write DCR in SD. Add jcr->read_dcr. - Cleanup how find_device() works. - Remove abs() in bfile.c so that it compiles on Solaris. Bug #491. Changes to 1.38.2: - Fix crash in tray-monitor when daemon disconnects. Bug #479. - Fix bnet-server bug found on OpenBSD. Bug #486 - Fix cancel failure bug. Bug #481 - Fix failure when Pool name has spaces. Bug #487 - Fix SD crash in autochanger code. Mutex failure. Bug #488 - Fix a couple of free()s in src/filed/acl.c - Fix memory overrun in bfile.c in building OS X resource fork filename. Bug #489 - Add Pool name to SD status output. - Add Python install dir for Solaris to configure. Bug #492 Changes to 1.38.1: - Corrected ACL for Solaris (David Duchscher and Attila Fulop). - Add bacula_mail_summary.sh to examples directory. It makes a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by Adrew J. Millar. - Unmount command now unloads autochanger. - Fix hang in FD (Martin Simmons) - Fix Win98 stat() problem in FD (Thorsten Engel) - Fix update slots which did not clear missing tapes. - Fix autostart install for FreeBSD (user reported) - Fix several problems with PostgreSQL scripts (Eric Bollinger) - Critical: allow restore of the first file of non-portable Win32 backup. - Important: with muliple concurrent jobs the autochanger could get confused because of a missing mutex. - Fix accessing last slot in label and update slots. - Modify configure.in to add execute option to sqlite3 catalog scripts. - Create update_xxx_table_8_to_9 scripts for updatedb - Move the -lcrypt for PostgreSQL after the PostgreSQL libs in autoconf/bacula-macros/db.m4 as suggested by user. Fixes bug #457. - Remove @STATIC_CONS@ from tray-monitor Makefile as suggested by user. Fixes bug #456. - AMD64 users see compiler bug warning below!!!!!!!!! Major Changes in 1.38: - Fixed out of order Volumes in restore. - Improved algorithm for reserving drives in multiple drive autochangers. Autochange users MUST use the new Autochanger resource in the Storage daemon. - There is a new database format that is not compatible with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting from 1.36.x. No changes from version 1.37.30. - The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are Deamons are not compatible with prior versions. All FDs must be upgraded at the same time. - Support for ANSI/IBM labels. - Faster database inserts due to combining the MD5/SHA1 into the attributes record, eliminating one INSERT/file backed up. - Python Event support has been added. See below for configuration and details. The implementation is somewhat minimal, so the functionality is not complete. The Python interface has not been extensively tested, so please consider it BETA. - DVD writing support, using parts, and some new directives in the Device resource of the Storage configuration file thanks to Nicolas Boichat. Please note that this code is still BETA and should be carefully tested before using in production. - Seven new options keywords in a FileSet resource: ignorecase, fstype, hfsplussupport, wilddir, wildfile, regexdir, and regexfile thanks to Pruben Guldberg). See below for details. - Restore of all files for a Job or set of jobs even if the file records have been removed from the catalog. - Restore of a directory (non-recursive, i.e. only one level). - Support for TLS (ssl) between all the daemon connections thanks to Landon Fuller. - Any Volume in the Pool named Scratch may be reassigned to any other Pool when a new Volume is needed. - You may clone a Job and thus write (almost) the same data to multiple Volumes simultaneously (see below). Actually, any Job may start any other Job with this mechanism, so it also be used to group jobs. - Unicode filename support for Win32 (thanks to Thorsten Engel) - Volume Shadow Copy support for Win32 thus the capability to backup exclusively opened files (thanks to Thorsten Engel). A VSS enabled Win32 FD is available. You must explicitly turn on VSS with 'Enable VSS = yes' in your FileSet resource. - New manual format with an index (thanks to Karl Cunningham). - New Web site format (thanks to Michael Scherer). - SQLite3 support. - Web-bacula, previously a separate project by Juan Luis Frances, is now included in the Bacula GUI release. This is a management level tool for reporting the state of Bacula jobs. - The code is now Internationalized so that it can be localized in native languages. Thanks to Nicolas Boichat. New Directives: - New Job directive 'Prefer Mounted Volumes = yes|no' causes the SD to select either an Autochanger or a drive with a valid Volume already mounted in preference. If none is available, it will select the first available drive. - New Run directive in Job resource of DIR. It permits cloning of jobs. To clone a copy of the current job, use Run = 'job-name level=%l since=\'%s\'' Note, job-name is normally the same name as the job that is running but there is no restriction on what you put. If you want to start the job by hand and use job overrides such as storage=xxx, realize that the job will be started with the default storage values not the overrides. The level=%l guarantees that the chosen level of the job is the same, and the since=... ensures that the job uses *exactly* the same time/date for incremental and differential jobs. The since=... is ignored when level=Full. A cloned job will not start additional clones, so it is not possible to recurse. - New Options keywords in a FileSet directive (backported to 1.36.3): - 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. - Label Type = ANSI | IBM | Bacula Implemented in Director Pool resource and in SD Device resource. If it is specified in the SD Device resource, it will take precedence over the value passed from the Director to the SD. - Check Labels = yes | no Implemented in the SD Device resource. If you intend to read ANSI or IBM labels, this *must* be set. Even if the volume is not ANSI labeled, you can set this to yes, and Bacula will check the label type. - Scripts Directory = name. Defines the directory from which Bacula scripts will be called for events. In fact, Bacula appends this name to the standard Python list of search directories, so the script could also be in any of the Python system directories. - 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. - MaximumPartSize = bytes (SD, Device resource) Defines the maximum part size. - Requires Mount = Yes/No (SD, Device resource) Defines if the device require to be mounted to be read, and if it must be written in a special way. If it set, the following directives must be defined in the same Device resource: + Mount Point = directory Directory where the device must be mounted. + Mount Command = name-string Command that must be executed to mount the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the Mount Point. + Unmount Command = name-string Command that must be executed to unmount the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, and %m with the Mount Point. + Write Part Command = name-string Command that must be executed to write a part to the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename. + Free Space Command = name-string Command that must be executed to check how much free space is left on the device. Before the command is executed, %a is replaced with the Archive Device, %m with the Mount Point, %n with the current part number (0-based), and %v with the current part filename. - Write Part After Job = Yes/No (DIR, Job Resource, and Schedule Resource) If this directive is set to yes (default no), a new part file will be created after the job is finished. - A pile of new Directives to support TLS. Please see the TLS chapter of the manual. New Commands: - 'python restart' restarts the Python interpreter. Rather brutal, make sure no Python scripts are running. This permits you to change a Python script and get Bacula to use the new script. New configure options: - --with-libintl-prefix for defining alternate locations for the NLS internationalization libraries. Not normally required. - --datadir for defining where the language files will be installed required only if you do not want the default /usr/share. Items to note!!! - The Storage daemon now keeps track of what tapes it is using (was not the case in 1.36.x). This means that you must be much more careful when removing tapes and putting up a new one. In general, you should always do a 'unmount' prior to removing a tape, and a 'mount' after putting a new one into the drive. - If you use an Autochanger, you MUST update your SD conf file to use the new Autochanger resource. Otherwise, certain commands such as 'update slots' may not work. - You must add --with-python=[DIR] to the configure command line if you want Python support. Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 should be automatically detected if in the standard place. - When linking with --with-python, there are a few warnings that can be ignored. - You must either create a new catalog database or upgrade your old database. After installation, run from your scripts directory: ./upgrade_bacula_tables You can also find this script in the /src/cats directory. - The Director, Storage daemon, and File daemons are Deamons are not compatible with prior versions. All FDs must be upgraded at the same time. - You must add --with-openssl to the configure command line if you want TLS communications encryption support. - Disk seeking during restores does not yet work correctly in all cases, so it is turned off. - Note, with gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) on an AMD64 CPU running 64 bit CentOS4, there is a compiler bug that generates bad code that causes Bacula to segment fault. Typically you will see this in the Storage daemon first. The solution is to compile Bacula ensuring that no optimization is turned on (normally it is -O2). This same compiler bug has been reported and confirmed with gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) running on an AMD64 CPU. This for the moment, I would recommend that all users of GCC 4.0.1 or greater turn off all optimization when compiling. Other Items Fixed: - Security fixes for temp files created in mtx-changer, during ./configure, and during making of Rescue disk. - A new script, dvd-handler, in the scripts directory, which is designed to be used as parameters to Write Part Command and Free Space Command. They need the dvd+rw-tools to be installed (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/) AND, the growisofs program must be patched using the /patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch You must have Python installed to run the scripts. - Part files support: File volumes can now be split into multiple files, called 'parts'. - For the details of the Python scripting support, please see the new Python Scripting chapter in the manual. - The default user/group for the Director and Storage daemon installed by rpms is bacula/bacula, thus you may need to add additional permissions to your database, or modify the permissions of the tape drive. If all else fails, change to using user=root. However, it is more secure to use user=bacula.