-Kern;;;9 Jan 2008;;20:30
+Kern;;;03 Nobember 2008 at 17:35
+Critical 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch released
+We recently found and corrected a serious bug in Bacula that causes jobs to be
+orphaned or "stuck" in the director during the pruning process. Depending on
+what jobs get stuck and how many there are, it could prevent additional jobs
+from running. As best we can tell, this problem occurs only during what could
+be called extreme pruning conditions -- i.e. there are insufficient Volumes
+available for normal operations.
+
+In any case, we recommend that everyone apply the 2.4.3-orphaned-jobs.patch,
+which you can find in the bacula-patches section of the Source Forge download
+area as well as in the directory patches of both the trunk and Branch-2.4 SVN.
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;12 October 2008 at 10:30am
+Creation of Bacula Systems SA
+Dear Members of the Bacula Community,
+
+I'm pleased to announce the creation of Bacula Systems S.A., a new company to
+provide professional support and service for Bacula. I believe you will be
+pleased to see how we have married a strong commitment to the ethos of honest
+open source software with the availability of services desired by a wide
+range of Bacula users.
+
+As many of you know, I began work on Bacula in 2000 and released the first
+public version in April 2002 to Source Forge. Although I have personally
+written a very substantial part of the code, I offer sincere thanks to the
+many members of the community who have provided ideas, fixes, testing, and
+contributions of code, without which Bacula would not be what it is today.
+It has been a labor of love and I am pleased that so many people have found
+Bacula useful.
+
+Before telling you more about Bacula Systems, let me reiterate my unfaltering,
+ongoing commitment to open source software and the Bacula open source
+project. The code for Bacula and all future releases will remain available as
+free open source software under the GPL license that I transferred to the
+protection of the Free Software Foundation of Europe. Unlike some other open
+source projects, there will be no separate "enterprise" or proprietary
+version of the Bacula source code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the
+home for Bacula project development.
+
+So, why create Bacula Systems? The company was created to respond to requests
+from users who want professional support with guaranteed levels of service
+and response times. To ensure continuity and the highest level of knowledge
+transfer, I will take the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief
+Technical Officer of Bacula Systems S.A..
+
+Several members of the Bacula community have joined me to start the company.
+The other team members are also strongly dedicated to the spirit of keeping
+Bacula open and free while simultaneously offering commercial services to
+those for whom it is essential in making the decision to deploy Bacula.
+Bacula Systems is self-financed -- the initial capital comes from the
+founders; no outside venture capital was sought or accepted. This means we
+have the power to establish the company's priorities and we can remain
+dedicated to "honest open source". Bacula Systems S.A. is a Swiss company
+with offices in Yverdon-les-Bains, and with branches in France and Germany
+initially. We will open additional branches as business requires.
+
+I will continue to support development of Bacula via bacula.org and the Bacula
+community. Future developments will be in the "community" code base which
+will remain free. Bacula Systems will offer "funded development" to
+customers who wish to accelerate the addition of certain features to Bacula.
+Code developed this way will be contributed to the free distribution and will
+be available to the entire community at no charge. Bacula Systems will
+provide additional fee-based services, including high quality consulting,
+training, documentation and certified binaries.
+
+Our goal in establishing Bacula Systems is to be inclusive of the community,
+and expand it by creating opportunities for members of the Bacula community
+through a well-defined Partner Program. If you provide IT services or
+consulting, the Bacula Systems Partner Program can provide you with the
+additional back-up (pardon the pun) support you need to serve your customers
+more effectively.
+
+Our plan is to develop an international network of partners who offer high
+value added services to Bacula users -- installing, configuring and optimizing
+Bacula for their customers, as well as Level 3 and 4 support, with guaranteed
+service levels. We will also provide training and tools to our partners.
+
+The Bacula project website, www.bacula.org, and Source Forge will be unchanged
+in the mission and ideals of being free sources of information, mail lists
+and forum-based support for and by the community. Both Bacula source code and
+Bacula binaries will continue to be available for free, as in the past, and
+new releases will also be available for free. The new commercial website,
+www.baculasystems.com will provide information on commercial subscriptions
+for those users who want guaranteed levels of service, support, documentation
+and certified binaries.
+
+All members of the Bacula community are encouraged to register for free at
+www.baculasystems.com, so that you will receive announcements and news about
+our commercial activities, and so that you can send feedback to our new
+company, Bacula Systems.
+
+Thank you for your interest and participation in the Bacula community.
+
+Sincerely,
+
+Kern Sibbald
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;11 October 2008 at 11:30am
+Bacula version 2.4.3 Released
+This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries for
+Bacula version 2.4.3 have been released to the Bacula Source Forge download
+area.
+
+Release 2.4.3
+ This is a bug fix to version 2.4.2. All daemons are compatible
+ with other 2.4.x versions.
+
+Bugs Fixed:
+ 1159, 1162. 1149, 1128, 1143, 1140, 1129
+
+Change Summary:
+- Apply 2.4.2-cancel-non-running-jobs.patch to be able to cancel
+ a non created job faster.
+- This should correct bug #1159 where Migration does not properly
+ respect the Migration Low Bytes directive.
+- Fix typo in configure.in that breaks --with-db-password option
+- This code should fix the race condition that leads to a Director
+ crash at job end time when the job list is updated. This was reported
+ in bug #1162.
+- Remove all double quotes from SQLite creating script and
+ replace by single quotes as suggested by John Huttley.
+- Fix SQL case problem that may cause the failure of DiskToCatalog
+ in bug #1149.
+- Copy missing storage name into edit buffer. As far as I can tell
+ this never caused a bug.
+- Remove catalog dependency for bcopy
+- Modify catalog scripts to have an easier packaging integration,
+ using default variables.
+ Make difference between SQLite3 and SQLite in db_get_type()
+- Attempt to fix bug #1128 InChanger flag cleared during Migration
+ job when reading from one autochanger and writing to another.
+- Add more information to SD acquire.c INFO messages.
+- Fix NULL Volume name error when reading and the drive must
+ be switched.
+- Fix a Verify InitCatalog problem where in certain cases
+ a garbage filename may be entered in the verification database. This
+ fixes bug #1143.
+- Add space after version before date in bat about dialog.
+- Fix seg fault in Dir during estimate command with no level value
+ given. This fixes bug #1140.
+- Add message to migration job when the target job is already migrated.
+ This closes bug #1129.
+
+Unless some really serious new bug shows up, this will be the last release
+until the next major version (3.0.0), which we hope will be ready around the
+end of the year.
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;26 July 2008 at 10:30am
+Bacula version 2.4.2 Released
+This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
+Bacula version 2.4.2 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
+
+ This is an important bug fix release since version 2.4.1.
+
+Bugs Fixed:
+ 1034, 1125, 1118, 1124, 1107, 1129, 1126
+
+Change Summary:
+26Jul08
+- When a migration job actually runs, re-check the Job record
+ and skip if the job is already migrated. This should
+ significantly reduce the problems with bug #1129.
+- Break the do_swapping into do_unload, do_swapping, and
+ do_load. It is much more logical that way.
+- Implement a set_dcr_from_vol subroutine in acquire.c for
+ reading volumes. This allows the dcr to be refreshed after being
+ zapped when the wrong volume is mounted. This should fix bug #1126 -
+- During multiple tape restore, bacula
+ does not ask for physical tape change, but rereads same tape
+- Apply patch submitted for bug #1107 with a small modification.
+ This fixes a bug where bcopy copied too many records.
+- Make some tweaks to bsmtp based on patch submitted in bug #1124.
+ This fixes bug #1124.
+- Make the default bat restore Pool be Any. This fixes bug #1118.
+- Fix bug #1125 which reports a SD crash at the end of a tape
+ during restore. It was a debug statement that should not be
+ in a release.
+- Fix #1034 by setting big timeout on mysql connections
+- Do partial integration of the Win32 bat build created by Eric.
+- Ensure that SD tried to mount a volume not in an autochanger
+ at least once before asking for operator intervention.
+- Fix a pthreads bug in the Win32 pthreads emulation code affects only
+ version 2.5.x and above.
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;7 July 2008 at 10:30am
+Bacula version 2.4.1 Released
+This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
+Bacula version 2.4.1 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
+
+Bugs Fixed:
+ 1103, 1100, 1105, 1094, 1109, 1106, 1101, 1102, 1112
+ 1117, 1116, 1097.
+
+Change summary:
+- Clear in-use bit on vol when unused while swapping.
+- Remove sleep at end of ./bacula
+- Clear hash packet for hardlinked files correctly. This corrects
+ a long standing bug where hardlinked files selected individually
+ would occasionally not be restored.
+- Apply Eric's patch to ensure that autoprune does not return
+ a Volume not in the autochanger unless requested to do so.
+- Correct bat restore display of multiple drives. This fixes
+ bug #1117.
+- Do find_a_volume() each time an unload is done. This
+ fixes the failure of maxvol2-test.
+- Use Qmsg() in job.c watchdog callback.
+- Release main control rwlock if ABORTing.
+- Make watchdog connect timeout queue messages rather than sending
+ directly to avoid lock conflicts with the real thread.
+- Remove const char that causes problems with Python, which has
+ older 'incorrect' headers.
+- Add const char in dbd.c to avoid compiler warnings.
+- Fix mtx-changer to detect both versions of Ubuntu (Debian)
+ mt. This fixes bug #1116.
+- Fix failure of 2drive-concurrent-test. Always read label;
+ clear_unload() only after drive is defined in acquire_for_read().
+- Generally clean up the manual tape loading code. The main
+ conceptial change is that when a volume is marked to be unloaded,
+ its volume name is retained, and it is only marked as unloaded
+ when either the autoloader says it is unloaded or another tape
+ is read on that drive.
+- Fix a recycling problem with two autochangers reported in bug
+ #1106. This may also (unlikely) fix a second recycling bug as
+ reported in #1103.
+- Fix a SD lock volumes deadlock problem reported in bug #1100.
+- Fix format problem in bscan output reported in bug #1105.
+- Copy more data when restarting a job so that run
+ overrides are kept. This should fix bug #1094.
+- Backport updates to jobq.c where possible.
+- Fix bug where SD did not ask operator if the device could not
+ be opened. Reported by Eric.
+- Add dbuser to DIR conf file (replaces user).
+- Add --with-db-password to ./configure
+- Fix regress to handle db_password.
+- Fix a couple of pedantic compiler warnings.
+- Fix bug when starting a restore on a storage that doesn't
+ have the requested MediaType.
+- More work on word alignments -- eliminate all ints from
+ the configuration routines.
+- Fix bug reported by Scott Barninger where the bacula script
+ refers to scripts in the wrong directory. Needed to meet the
+ requirements of recent FHS location changes.
+- Fix word alignment problem on non-Intel 64 bit machines
+ such as Solaris. This should fix bug #1097 -- bus error in SD.
+- Add missing win32/patches/wxWidgets.patch to 2.4 repository.
+;;;
+
+
+Kern;;;4 Jun 2008 at 10:30am
+Bacula version 2.4.0 Released
+This is to inform you that we have released the source and Win32 binaries of
+Bacula version 2.4.0 to the Bacula Source Forge download area.
+
+This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
+but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
+Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
+code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
+with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
+said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
+the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
+
+As usual, we strongly recommend when installing to keep the Director and the
+Storage daemon on the same version. However, since this release only
+contains refactored code and bug fixes rather than new features, the clients
+(File daemons) should function perfectly with any 2.2.x version, and there is
+no database upgrade needed.
+
+=====================================================
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.4.0
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 500 Total lines = 188,654 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
+but they should be compatible with all 2.0.x File daemons, unless you
+use some of the new features that affect the FD. In other words, you should
+not have to upgrade all your File daemons when you upgrade. There is
+no database upgrade needed from version 2.0.x to 2.2.0 nor from version
+2.2.x to version 2.4.0
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+As of Version 2.4.0, the Win32 FD should not descend into
+any reparse point directory or reparse mount points unless the
+specified directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level of
+FileSet (as with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will
+be backed up, much like Unix hardlinked files. If you want
+reparse directories backed up, you must explicitly include them
+in your FileSet.
+======================================================
+
+This release consists mainly of a number of bug fixes since 2.2.x
+but most importantly, a rewrite of significant portions of the
+Storage daemon reservation and autochanger code. This rewritten
+code is simpler, more stable, and works much better, particularly
+with multiple drive autochangers than the prior code did. That
+said, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. Note,
+the new code has not been tested in manual volume mount situations.
+
+Bugs fixed:
+ 1095, 1086, 1091, 1070, 1041, 1083, 1078, 1066, 1068, 1038
+ 1062, 1065, 1046, 1047, 1031
+
+New features:
+- You can now build bat without the QWT libraries. Use
+ --without-qwt as a ./configure option.
+
+Release Version 2.4.0
+- Update version to 2.4.0 to reflect the magnitude of the SD changes.
+- Make sure to clear JS_WaitMedia when operator mounts a Volume.
+ This fixes bug #1095.
+- Add create_postgresql_database.sql to Win32 installer. Should
+ fix problem reported by Juilio Monteiro.
+- Get correct slot when auto unloading a device. This fixes bug
+ #1086.
+- Fix possible seg fault if SQL error.
+- Fix renaming a Volume, which used the wrong Volume name.
+- If operator has rewind tape, print warning, release tape and
+ try once more. If tape is positioned somewhere, something went
+ wrong, so mark the tape in error and try once more. Previously
+ this error was fatal, now it produces an error message.
+- Ensure correct volume name displayed during restore
+- Fix a few more Coverity reported problems.
+- Fix #1091 about bad output in estimate command.
+- Modify autochanger locking to attempt to avoid race
+ conditions.
+- Make sure device not busy before doing label command.
+- Display open() errors except when polling. Previously too
+ many were suppressed. This should fix bug #1070.
+- Fix Win32 reparse points. Bacula will not recurse into any
+ reparse point directory, including mount points, unless the
+ directory is explicitly mentioned at the top level (same as
+ with Unix). A file that is linked to another file will be
+ backed up -- much as Unix does for hardlinked files.
+ This fixes bug #1041.
+- Remove StorageId test when pruning and recycling (Eric's changes).
+- Fix buffer overruns detected by Coverity.
+- Implement --without-qwt
+- Fix layout of restore tree dialog
+- Add configure bat QWT libraries, so that bat can be built
+ with or without the QWT libaries.
+- Implement regression that explicitly tests swapping a Volume
+ from one drive to another.
+- Enhance disk-changer to detect most error conditions.
+- Fix SD code so that it properly swaps a Volume between drives.
+ This fixes bug #1083.
+- Prevent a Volume that is being swapped from being freed from
+ the volume list. This will most likely fix, at least partially,
+ bug #1083.
+- Fix strippath so that it does not get a buffer overrun and crash FD.
+ This fixes bug #1078.
+- Make inability to change owner/group when creating a dir only a
+ warning rather than an error.
+- Fix SQL query in migration code
+- Fix bat seg fault at termination.
+- Add Bacula generated version to bat about box.
+- Backport development stream SD reservation system changes.
+- When wrong volume is mounted during read, unload_autochanger.
+- Stop searching for Volumes in SD askdir if DIR returns the
+ same volume name twice in a row.
+- Rework class structures for VOLRES, DCR, and DEVICE to make
+ the method names a bit more logical, and for more logically
+ handling the responsibilities.
+- Remove redundant code in terminating the scheduler that just
+ causes a seg fault in many cases.
+- Improve algorithm for detecting pre-reserved volume and
+ swapping volumes.
+- Prevent volume from being released while being swapped.
+- Refactor parts of stored/mount.c
+- Add sanity checks for VolWriteTime and VolReadTime
+- Take care of bad clock changes while computing VolWriteTime
+ and VolReadTime. This should fix or limit #1066
+- Correct error string numbers in dird/catreq.c
+- Restructure reserving, acquiring, and mounting volumes. Calls to
+ autochanger are deferred for mount.c -- simplifes the code.
+- Do not prune any running job. It just fails the job.
+- Lock the volumes when changing dev->reserved_device and marking
+ the volume unused otherwise the device can get reserved by
+ another job before the volume is released, thus blocking it.
+- Correct some SD catalog request error messages.
+- Turn off code in read_record that causes a seg fault in the SD
+ when reading past an EOS_LABEL.
+- Turn off unloading the autochanger in reserve.c as it just
+ causes problems.
+- Lock volumes when unreserving a device.
+- Do not mark volume unused when recycling.
+- Fix bug #1068 fixes a SD crash when using Virtual autochanger.
+- Generate correct JobMedia records during spooling/despooling when
+ running concurrent jobs. Thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
+ <tih@hamartun.priv.no> for excellent analysis and testing.
+- *Massive* commit of all fixes and back ports to create 2.2.9
+ Mostly SD reservations enhancements.
+- Fix Win32 FD backup/restore memory leak due to improper termination
+ of BackupRead/Write. This fixes bug# 1038.
+- Fixes a StorageId problem with volumes after migration.
+- Implements autostart scripts for Debian
+- Fix mtx-changer.in for broken Debian mt program.
+- Apply doc fix from bug #1062.
+- Resolve crash and improper restore wx-console Win32 restore
+ GUI. Fixes bug #1065.
+- Update Win32 wxWidgets to latest version.
+- Attempt to do correct handling of Win32 mount points. Should
+ fix bug #1046.
+- Add const to AIX prototype for initgroups()
+- Fix to the JobMedia patch, which introduced a new problem.
+- Fix creating first JobMedia record during Migration to include
+ proper index. This caused slow restores of migrated jobs.
+- Fix bug #1047, do not strip paths on symbolic links.
+- Set catalog backup database and user name from values specified on
+ the ./configure line.
+- Apply patch to correct bug #1031, about wrong pool source information
+ in job report.
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;27 Jan 2008 at 10:30am
+Bacula version 2.2.8 Released
+Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
+binaries are available in the bacula and Win32 release areas
+of Source Forge. I have hidden the previous BETA release
+
+Version 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7 and has a few
+ additional bugs fixed than the BETA 2.2.8 version previously
+ released:
+- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, 1040, 1045(doc), 1030,
+ 1042(partially), and possibly bugs 1018 and 1032.
+ Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers,
+ and are difficult to reproduce.
+ See the ChangeLog for more details.
+ Note, if you previously loaded version 2.2.8 BETA, you will probably
+ want to upgrade, but it is not urgent ...
+;;;
+
+
+Kern;;;9 Jan 2008 at 20:30
Bacula version BETA 2.2.8 Released
Bacula version 2.2.8 source tar files as well as the Win32
binaries are available in the bacula-beta and
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