-Kern;;;2006/05/02;;;14:30
- Release Notes pour Bacula 1.38.9
+Kern;;;18 October 2 2009 at 21:00
+Bacula Version 3.0.3 has been released to Source Forge
-Attention pour les versions ultérieures à 1.38.8:
+Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
+ below. Important!!!
-- le File Daemon Windows est désormais sensible à la casse. Pour retrouver le
-comportement des versions antérieures, vous devez explicitement utiliser
-"Ignore case = yes" dans la définition du FileSet.
+Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2.
-- Le caractère anti-slash n'est désormais plus autorisé dans les directives
-File (erreur typique pour les utilisateurs Windows), à moins que la chaîne
-soit encadrée de guillemets, auquel cas les caractères anti-slash doivent
-être doublés.
+Changes since 3.0.2:
+Bug fixes:
+ 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368,
+ 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382
-- Le nouvel algorithme pour la sélection des volumes issus du "Scratch Pool"
-qui était implémenté dans les version 1.38.6 et 1.38.7 a été abandonné au
-profit de la version corrigée de l'algorithme de la version
-1.38.5.
+Fixes:
+ Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes
+ Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori <lo@znerol.ch>
+ Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem
+ Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows
+ Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing
+ when doing fixup_write_error ...
+ Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by
+ Nicolae Mihalache <mache@abcpages.com>
+ Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288
+ Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346
+ Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -> file not found warning
+ Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359
+ Use old code for selecting file during restore.
+ Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits
+ tweak space on projects file
+ Fix seg fault in ignoredir code
+ Apply Frank's slash patch
+ Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371
+ 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch
+ Add more info when SD connection refused
+ 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch
+ Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query
+ 3.0.2-accurate.patch
+ Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS.
+ 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch
+ Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error.
+ 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch
+ Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks.
+ 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch
+ Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option
+ 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch
+ 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch
+ 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch
-Nouvelle fonctionnalité pour la version 1.38.9:
-- un bouton "Dir Status" a été ajouté pour la console Gnome.
-
-Cette version contient principalement des corrections de bugs mineurs pour la
-version 1.38.8.
+Compatibility:
+ As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+ the same time.
+ Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3
+ Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File
+ Daemons.
+
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;20 July 2009 at 14:49
+Bacula Version 3.0.2 has been released to Source Forge
+Note, if you are not already running 3.0.x, read the 3.0.x release notes
+below. Important!!!
+
+Version 3.0.2 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.1 with
+some enhancements (see below).
+
+Changes since 3.0.1:
+
+Bug fixes:
+ 1029, 1285, 1298, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1311, 1315
+ 1317, 1318, 1323, 1325, 1331, 1333, 1335
+
+Fixed:
+ - Fix problem with the Postgresql driver that sometime displays <NULL> values
+ - Cleanup old job records when starting the Director
+ - Fix bugs in xattr code
+ - Fix encoding problem with Postgresql
+ - Fix that prevents restore by file selection from using Copy job
+
+Enhancements:
+ - Security enhancement for the File Daemon
+ - New directive to specify source address for outgoing connexions
+ - Show volume availability in autochanger when doing restore.
+ This is project 31 in the projects file.
+ - Add accurate=yes/no option to estimate command
+ - Add --with-hostname, --with-bsrdir, --with-logdir to ./configure
+ - Add a restore menu that contructs a full restore when entering a JobId.
+ This is project 2 in the projects file.
+ - Add new Nagios plugin
+
+Compatibility:
+Like always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
+the same time.
+
+Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.2
+Director and Storage daemons. It should be no need to upgrade older File
+Daemon.
+;;;;
+
+Kern;;;30 April 2009 at 17:49
+Bacula Version 3.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
+
+Note, if you are not already running 3.0.0, please read the 3.0.0 release notes. Important!!!
+
+Version 3.0.1 is primarily a minor bug fix update to version 3.0.0 with
+one enhancement (see below).
+
+Changes since 3.0.0:
+Bug fixes:
+ 1276, 1274, 1275, 1272 1246, 1268, 1281, 1282.
+
+Fixed:
+- Check for job_canceled() in fd_plugin code.
+- Update Win32 table creation to have new DB version 11 format
+- Remove illegal Options in Exclude of default Win32/64 bacula-dir.conf
+- Remove 'Reposition' messages when restoring
+- Updated projects file
+- Tweak version string to display versionid field at the end
+ and keep fields order.
+ - Add additional mysql connection debug code submitted by:
+ Chandranshu <chandranshu@gmail.com>
+
+Enhancement:
+- Modify insertion of read Volumes in SD to be done *before* the
+ drive reservation. This ensures that a Volume to be read will not
+ be reserved for writing. Significant improvement in eliminating
+ tape deadlock situations.
+
+Note, both the Director and Storage daemons must be upgraded at the
+same time. The 3.0.1 File daemons are compatible with 3.0.0 file
+daemons and as noted below in the 3.0.0 release notes the Director
+and Storage daemon should be compatible with 2.4.x File daemons.
+In general, we do not expect any of the 3.0.x File daemons to work with older
+Directors and Storage daemons (as has always been the case for Bacula
+releases).
+
+============ Documentation improvements needed ==================
+
+Note!!!!! The 3.0.0+ documentation needs rather extensive modifications in the
+following areas:
+
+1. Missing documentation.
+2. Correction of links within various manuals -- most fail.
+3. Integration of the new features into the main documents.
+4. Much more.
+
+The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack
+manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest
+you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks.
+=====
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;09 April 2009 at 22:30
+Bacula Version 3.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
+
+This is to inform you that we have uploaded the Bacula version 3.0.0 source
+tar files and the Win32/64 installer files to the Bacula Source Forge
+download location.
+
+There are quite a number of new features in this release, and upgrading to it
+requires a database upgrade, so please read the release notes carefully
+(included below) and the documentation for the new features at:
+
+http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+
+There is still a good deal of work to do to finish the release process (mainly
+reorganizing the web site manuals ...), but at least the source files are
+released. The rpms should follow shortly (probably this weekend).
+
+If you are currently using 2.4.4, please note that within a few months that
+version will no longer be supported, so please consider the possibility of
+upgrading.
+
+This release probably has the most new features that we have ever released,
+and it has taken a long time to produce it. The basic code is very well
+tested, and if you stick to 2.4.4 features, you are unlikely to experience
+problems. However, many of the new features have not been well tested, so
+your help will be appreciated.
+
+The following issues with 3.0.0 are known and we are working on them:
+
+1. The documentation is not 100% complete (there are so many new features that
+we missed documenting some).
+
+2. All the new documentation is in the New Features chapter, but not all of it
+has yet been integrated back into the appropriate chapters.
+
+3. James has reported that the Exchange plugin may crash if you cancel a job
+while it is running. He is working on this.
+
+4. The SD has many new features that will make it more stable. One in
+particular is that it knows what Volumes will be read during a migration,
+copy, or Virtual backup job, and will ensure that they are not selected for
+writing (something easy to do if you are using disk files and the same pool
+for reading an writing). However, the day after the release was cut, I found
+a problem with this code that prevents it from working properly during
+certain pre-allocations of the write tape.
+
+5. There is still an outstanding bug report on VSS failing (it seems to be a
+bit of a rare case).
+
+As I previously announced, we will now make 3.0.0 our main release source code
+stream, and we hope to release new version every six months and bug fix
+updates even sooner. To be able to do this, we will support version 2.4.4
+only for a few more months. There after the project will only support the
+most current release ...
+
+This release comprises a lot of work by a lot of different people and many
+contributions. Normally I hesitate to mention particular people or
+contributions because I always forget someone, but since this was such a big
+release, I would like to mention at least the big contributions:
+
+Sponsor Company(s) - Programmer - Project
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Accurate Backup
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Catalog format enhancements
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - bextract non-portable Win32 data
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Win64 File daemon
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - SD deadlock detection + postmortum dump
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Faster Attribute despooling if DIR & FD on
+ same machine
+Bacula Systems - Eric Bollengier - Virtual tape emulation
+Bacula Systems - Kern Sibbald - USB rescue key
+Equiinet funded development - James Harper - MS Exchange plugin
+
+Personal contributions:
+Kjetil Torgrim Homme - Regex expressions for restore in bootstrap file
+Marco van Wieringen - ACL code overhaul
+Marco van Wieringen - Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
+Marco van Wieringen - Extended Attribute support
+Marco van Wieringen - Shared Objects
+Dirk Bartley - Bat speedup + stability improvement + many enhancements
+Joao Henrique Freitas - libdbi catalog driver
+Scott Barninger - rpm packaging
+Kern Sibbald - many big and little projects ...
+Many people -- see the AUTHORS file.
+
+Many thanks to everyone for making Bacula what it is today.
+
+=== List of new features ===
+- Accurate Backup
+- Copy Jobs
+- ACL code overhaul
+- Solaris ZFS/NFSv4 ACL support
+- Extended Attribute support
+ --disable-xattr (default=auto)
+- Shared Objects
+ --enable-libtool (default)
+ --disable-libtool
+- Virtual Backup
+- Catalog Format Enhancements
+ - Support for more than 4 Billion file entries
+ - New stats tables
+- Duplicate Job Control
+- TLS Authentication
+- bextract non-portable Win32 data
+- State File updated at Job Termination
+- Bacula Plugins
+ - FD bpipe plugin
+ - FD Exchange plugin
+- libdbi DB driver
+- Console Enhancements
+ - status slots
+ - list joblog
+ - command separator
+- Bootstrap regex
+- Restore seek optimization
+- Virtual Tape Emulation
+- Bat Enhancements
+- RunScript Enhancements
+- Status enhancements
+- FD connect timeout default to 3 minutes
+- ftruncate implemented for NFS Volumes
+- FD Version compatibily flag
+- Statistics Enhancements
+- Faster Attribute despooling
+- Document split into 6 manuals
+- GPLv2 license now compatible with OpenSSL
+- Win64 File daemon
+- Postmortum dump improvements in SD
+- Deadlock mutex detection in SD
+- Improved Volume management in SD to avoid deadlocks.
+- New configure install options
+ --docdir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION)
+ --htmldir= (default=/usr/share/doc/bacula-VERSION/html -- bat help files)
+ --plugindir= (default=sysconfdir, where plugins will be installed)
+- New Bare Metal Recovery with USB key. See rescue/linux/usb
+ New Directives:
+- Max Full Interval
+- Max Diff Interval
+- Honor No Dump Flag
+- Exclude Dirs Containing
+- Recycle Pool
+- Max Run Sched Time
+- Max Wait Time
+- Full/Diff/Incr Max Run Time
+- Scratch Pool
+- Max Console Connections
+- Spool Size (in Job resource)
+- Allow Mixed Priorities
+- Allow Duplicate Jobs
+- Allow Higher Duplicates
+- Cancel Queued Duplicates
+- Cancel Running Duplicates
+- TLS Authenticate
+- Console (in RunScript)
+
+New features from Project Items Completed for version 3.0.0
+ also listed above:
+Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
+Item 3: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation)
+Item 4: Implement Catalog directive for Pool resource in Director
+Item 5: Add an item to the restore option where you can select a Pool
+Item 8: Implement Copy pools
+Item 12: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
+Item 13: Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...)
+Item 18: Better control over Job execution
+Item 26: Store and restore extended attributes, especially selinux file
+contexts
+Item 27: make changing "spooldata=yes|no" possible for
+Item 28: Implement an option to modify the last written date for volumes
+Item n: Split documentation into several books
+================================
+
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 3.0.0
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 205,459 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+The diff between 2.4.4 and 2.5.x is 208,340 lines, so this release
+represents an enormous effort.
+
+This Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time,
+but they should be compatible with all 2.4.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. However, any
+release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
+
+================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
+
+New Catalog format in version 3.0.0 (2.5.40 or later)
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
+scripts that permit to convert a 2.4.x (version 10) catalog to 3.0.0 (version
+11). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will automatically
+detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We strongly
+recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading
+using rpms.
+
+The simplest way to upgrad the database assuming you are building from
+source:
+1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
+2. Save a copy of your existing database.
+3. Configure, build, and install the 3.0.0 version of Bacula
+ Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
+ at the bottom of this file.
+4. cd <your-scripts-installation-directory>
+5. ./update_bacula_tables
+6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
+ script and put the name of another database, and then
+ execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
+ catalogs have been updated.
+7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
+ not print any error messages.
+
+The upgrade operation will convert the FileId index field of the File table
+from 32 bits to 64 bits. This operation will take TIME and will *temporarily*
+DOUBLE THE SIZE of your catalog. Bacula must be shutdown during this update,
+so, won't be able to run jobs during this period. For example, a 3 million
+files
+catalog will take 2 mins to upgrade on a normal machine. Don't forget to
+backup it before executing the script.
+
+If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the update_bacula_tables
+script because the create_bacula_tables script automatically creates the new
+table format. However, if you are using a version of Bacula older than 2.5.40
+(e.g. 2.4.4) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will
+be found in the <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
+command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup your
+catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown Bacula and be
+aware that running the script can take some time depending on your database
+size.
+
+
+Important New configure options :
+----------------------
+
+This release of Bacula 3.0.0 uses libtool by default
+to generate the Bacula libraries as shared objects rather than
+being directly linked in as in prior versions. This means that
+the Bacula shared objects, must either be in a shared object
+directory known to the loader or they must be in the directory
+where the Bacula binaries are installed. It is also possible
+to explicitly specify the libraries directory on the ./configure
+line (--libdir=/full-path/dir), but this should not be necessary.
+
+ ./configure --libdir=<full-path>
+
+If you have problems with libtool or you wish to use the old
+way of building libraries and linking them into Bacula, you
+can do so by disabling libtool on the configure command line with:
+
+ ./configure --disable-libtool
+
+During the installation of Bacula 3.0.0, it will now install
+bat help files (if you have configured bat). These files
+are placed in /usr/share/doc/bacula/html by default. If you
+want to put them elsewhere use:
+
+ ./configure --htmldir=<full-path>
+
+During the installation of Bacula, it will now install the
+ReleaseNotes, License, technotes, ChangeLog, and similar
+files in /usr/share/doc/bacula by default. If you
+want to put them elsewhere use:
+
+ ./configure --docdir=<full-path>
+
+During the installation of Bacula, any plugins will be
+installed in the plugindir, which is by default the
+same as libdir (/usr/lib). You can specify an alternate
+location with:
+
+ ./configure --with-plugindir=<full-path>
+
+==============================================================
+
+This release includes large number of new features and changes.
+It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files
+and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new
+features.
+
+Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents
+some but not all the new features (we are still working on it):
+
+http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
+
+The ChangeLog has more details.
+
+;;;
+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;;;2006/05/02;;;14:30
-Erreur de segmentation pour les versions antérieures à la version 1.38.5
+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.
-Important !
-Dans les versions 1.38.5 et antérieures, il y avait apparemment un bug qui
-engendrait une erreur de segmentation pour le démon de stockage.
+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.
-Un contournement a été implémenté dans la version 1.38.6 et supérieure qui
-semble fonctionner. Toutefois si vous rencontrez des problèmes, suivez les
-instructions ci-dessous.
+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.
-Si vous compilez Bacula sur un machine 64 bits, vous devez vous assurer que
-le code est compilé avec l'option -O0 sinon le SD devrait se planter sur
-presque toutes les opérations. Ceci est apparemment dû à un bug du
-compilateur gcc lors de la génération du code 64 bits.
+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;;;2006/04/14;;;14:30
- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.8
-
-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=<job-name> and
- disable job=<job-name>. 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.
-
+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.
-Minor bug fixes:
-- See below:
-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 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;;;2006/04/07;;;14:30
- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.7
-06Apr06
-- Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet
+
+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
+Win32-beta release areas of Source Forge
+
+Version BETA 2.2.8 is a bug fix to version 2.2.7:
+- It fixes bugs: 1036, 1033(doc), 1028, and possibly 1018 and 1032.
+ Bugs 1018 and 1032 involve problems with multiple-drive autochangers.
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;24 Dec 2007;;20:30
+Bacula version 2.2.7 Released
+Bacula version 2.2.7 source tar files as well as the Win32
+binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge
+
+Version 2.2.7 has several new features and several important bug fixes
+ since version 2.2.6:
+- It fixes bugs: 1009, 1022, 1024, 1019, 1012, 1021, 1020
+ 1007, 1008. For more details, please see the technotes-2.1 file.
+- Fixed a seg fault reported by Frank Sweetser that depended on
+ exact path lengths, but the problem was in bsnprintf.c
+- Double quoting include filenames (@xxx) in Bacula conf files is now
+ possible, thanks to a patch by Michael Stapelberg.
+- You can pipe input to include filenames (@|prog) by using a vertical
+ bar, thanks to the above patch.
+- A daylight savings time bug in the Win32 bsmpt was fixed by a patch from
+ Nerijus Baliunas.
+- Marc Cousins submitted a patch that permits building the PostgreSQL
+ driver with version 8.3.
+- The configure option --archivedir has been changed to --with-archivedir
+;;;
+Kern;;;9 Nov 2007;;15:25
+Bacula version 2.2.6 Released
+Bacula version 2.2.6 source tar files as well as the Win32
+binaries are available in the Bacula release area of Source Forge.
+
+This release is a minor fix upgrade to version 2.2.5,
+and we recommend that all users upgrade when they can.
+
+Version 2.2.6 is a minor bug fix realease to version 2.2.5
+- It fixes bugs: #1003, 942, 982, 990(response only), 991,
+ 993, 986, 976.
+ - Fix bat crash wen it cannot connect to Director.
+ - Fix joblist failure bug in bat.
+;;;
+Kern;;;9 Oct 2007;;15:25
+Bacula version 2.2.5 Released
+Despite the fact that the Release Notes are rather short, the bug
+fixes represent quite a lot of work:
+
+Version 2.2.5 is a major bug fix release to version 2.2.4
+- It fixes the following bugs: #961, 962, 963, 969, 968, 960,
+ 964, (possibly 935 and 903), 953, 953, 967, 966, 965, 954,
+ 957, 908, 958, and 955.
+- It also improves listing performance problems in bat pointed
+ out by Chris Howells.
+;;;
+Kern;;;29 Sept 2007;;20:30
+A serious data loss bug in Bacula version 2.2.4 found and fixed
+
+This bug was very elusive and time consuming to track down. It
+turned out to be a race condition that can lose the last one or
+two blocks of a Job, which can happen in rare cases only when
+running multiple simultaneous jobs when a volume fills and one
+Job finishes receiving the last data from the FD and at the same
+time a second job detects the end of the Volume. The bug was
+introduced in version 2.0.0 and did not exist in version 1.38.x.
+If the bug is triggered, the data is lost (not written to the
+Volume), and it can occur for any backup job of any level under
+the conditions noted above.
+
+The bug is reported in the bugs database as bug #964, and just
+this morning I found and tested a fix, which is attached as a patch
+to the bug report. The patch (2.2.4-lost-block.patch) is also
+uploaded to the bacula-patches 2.2.x release area. This bug may
+also be part of the problems reported in bug #935 and possibly
+#903.
+
+Also in the bacula-patches 2.2.x area, you will find other
+patches that fixes bugs #953, 966, 967, 965, 958, 908, and
+955. Please refer to bugs.bacula.org for the details.
+
+Though this bug quite serious (data loss), it should be rare.
+However, we recommend everyone to apply the patch.
+;;;
+Kern;;;2007/9/14;;;14:30
+Bacula version 2.2.4 Released
+
+This version of Bacula is a minor bug release to version 2.2.3.
+It contains the following fixes:
+
+- Possible fix for authorization problems bug #953.
+- Possible fix for bug #908.
+- Add waits to multiple exit detection code to try to force pid
+ file to always be deleted.
+- Restore good dev.tar.gz to rescue set appropriate binary property.
+ This fixes bug #950.
+- Fix seg fault in error exit of acquire_for_read after unsuccessfully
+ trying to switch drives by checking for blocking before unblocking.
+ Fixes bug #906.
+- Cancel storage daemon in all cases where FD reports error. This
+ should fix virtually all cases of bug #920 and will ensure that Devices
+ are released as soon as possible.
+- Fix error message that was clobbered when Dir tells SD it does not
+ have write permission on Volume. This should fix a minor point
+ in bug #942, but not the main problem.
+- Fix migration code to get correct Volume name with multiple volumes
+ by skipping |. Fixes bug #936.
+- Implement patch supplied by Landon to fix bug #944 where using
+ TLS with bconsole uses 99+% of the CPU.
+- Fix bug #946 about "bacula-dir -t" which doesn't works
+ as expected.
+- Using "m" in bconsole will show messages as in prior versions
+ and not memory usage.
+
+- Note, you need GTK >= 2.10 to be able to link the Tray Monitor
+ program.
+;;;
+Kern;;;2007/9/9;;;14:30
+I regret to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula.
+
+Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are
+missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we
+have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly tests for this
+kind of problem many times.
+
+Despite our testing, there is indeed a bug in Bacula that has the following
+characteristics:
+
+1. It happens only when multiple simultaneous Jobs are run (regardless of
+whether or not data spooling is enabled), and happens only when the
+Storage daemon is changing from one Volume to another -- i.e. the
+backups span multiple volumes, and it only happens for Jobs writing
+to the same volume.
+
+2. It has only been observed on disk based backup, but not on tape.
+
+3. Under the right circumstances (timing), it could and probably does happen
+on tape backups.
+
+4. It seems to be timing dependent, and requires multiple clients to
+reproduce, although under the right circumstances, it should be reproducible
+with a single client doing multiple simultaneous backups.
+
+5. Analysis indicates that it happens most often when the clients are slow
+(e.g. doing Incremental backups).
+
+6. It has been verified to exist in versions 2.0.x and 2.2.x.
+
+7. It should also be in version 1.38, but could not be reproduced in testing,
+perhaps due to timing considerations or the fact that the test FD daemons
+were version 2.2.2.
+
+8. The data is correctly stored on the Volume, but incorrect index (JobMedia)
+records are stored in the database. (the JobMedia record generated during
+the Volume change contains the index of the new Volume rather than the
+previous Volume). This will be described in more detail below.
+
+9. You can prevent the problem from occurring by either turning off multiple
+simultaneous Jobs or by ensuring that while running multiple simultaneous
+Jobs that those Jobs do not span Volumes. E.g. you could manually mark
+Volumes as full when they are sufficiently large.
+
+10. If you are not running multiple simultaneous Jobs, you will not be
+affected by this bug.
+
+11. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to tapes, I believe there is
+a reasonable probability that this problem could show up when Jobs are split
+across tapes.
+
+12. If you are running multiple simultaneous Jobs to disks, I believe there is
+a high probability that this problem will show up when Jobs are split across
+disks Volumes.
+
+13. The bug concerns only the Storage daemon so there is no need to update
+the clients, though I do recommend updating the Director when installing
+an updated Storage daemon.
+
+I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct
+version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version
+2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that
+reproduced the problem.
+
+The patch has now been confirmed to fix the problem reported, and Bacula
+version 2.2.3 has been released to Source Forge.
+
+For the technical details of the bug, please see:
+
+ http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-935.txt
+
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;2007/8/11;;;14:30
+
+Bacula Version 2.2.0 has been released to Source Forge.
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.2.0
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 520 Total lines = 195,550 (*.h *.c *.in)
+ 82 new files, 41,221 new lines of code, 208,380 lines of change from 2.0.3
+
+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.
+
+Areas requiring caution or testing:
+- You must have the thread safe version of MySQL client libraries loaded
+ to build with MySQL enabled.
+- Volumes are pruned only when absolutely necessary -- this may cause
+ your database to grow compared to prior Bacula versions.
+- Solaris door and even port files are no longer restored (equivalent
+ to what we do with sockets).
+- SQLite is no longer supported for Solaris -- it fails too often with
+ bus errors. SQLite3 should work on Solaris.
+- The default setting for SQLite3 is now 'PRAGMA synchronous=OFF'.
+ This makes it run 30 times faster, but increases the possiblity
+ of a corrupted database if your server shuts down unexpectedly.
+ The default behavior can be changed in src/version.h
+- Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
+ test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
+ points.
+- Win32 servers are untested, and very likely not to work.
+
+The major new features are:
+- Much faster insertion of attributes (somewhere around 10 times),
+ many thanks to Eric Bollengier and Marc Cousin.
+- First release of bat (Bacula Administration Tool). Note to build
+ bat you must explicitly enable it on the ./configure line, you
+ must have the Qt4 version 4.2 or later libraries loaded, the qwt
+ (Qt Graphics) package loaded, and qmake and the other Qt4 tools
+ must be available. Most of the implementation was done by Dirk Bartley.
+- Red/Black restore in memory tree (500 times faster loading).
+- The Regex Where code to allow easier relocation of restored files
+ thanks to Eric.
+- Socket level heartbeat for all connections (untested).
+- posix_fadvise() use in the FD to improve performance reduces
+ swapping due to opening/reading lots of files. Win32 equivalent
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
+- Much improved Volume reservation code that should eliminate most
+ conflicts experienced in multiple drive autochangers.
+- Simpler locking in the SD in the reservation system.
+- Detection of file size/date change during backup if enabled.
+- New Recycle Pool feature -- thanks to Eric.
+- Efficient implementation of very large include/exclude lists.
+- Volumes are no longer pruned during 'status dir'
+- Pruning is now more efficient, and if a Volume is purged,
+ during pruning, it is immediately discovered.
+- License is now GPL v2 without modifications, fix a few copyright
+ mistakes made when adding FSFE copyright notice.
+
+New ./configure options:
+- --enable-bwx-console
+- --enable-bat
+- --with-qwt=
+- --with-db-name=
+- --with-db-user=
+- --enable-batch-insert
+
+New bconsole commands:
+- exec
+- memory
+- update recyclepool
+- .sql
+- .api
+- .pwd (in restore tree)
+- restoreclient (keyword)
+- backupclient (keyword)
+- regexwhere (keyword)
+- update jobid (new command)
+- recyclepool (keyword)
+
+New directives:
+- Heartbeat Interval (bconsole.conf)
+- Heartbeat Interval (bacula-dir.conf in Director, Client, Storage)
+- TLS Allowed CN (bacula-dir.conf in Client)
+- Regex Where (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Strip Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Add Prefix (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Add Suffex (bacula-dir.conf in Job)
+- Recycle Pool (bacula-dir.conf in Pool)
+- FailJobOnError (bacula-dir.conf in RunScript)
+- CheckFileChanges (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
+- StripPath (bacula-dir.conf in FileSet)
+
+Other features or bug fixes:
+- Fixed bugs: 916, 910, 917, 914, 906, 907,
+ 842, 830, 893, 861, 888, 886, 807, 877, 872
+ 885, 887, 864, 874, 882, 881, 863, 859,
+ 856, 854, 845, 847, 846, 809, 772,
+ 822, 825, 824, 808, 802, 797, 798, 795, 789, 791,
+ 788, 780, 763, 782, 612, 767, 775, 621, 772, 764,
+ 766, 621, 761, 755, 750, 741, 747, 742, 744, and 743.
+- Configure bat with --enable-bat. Define qwt libraries with
+ --with-qwt=<dir>. See Installation chapter of manual for details.
+- Create a depkgs-qt package that has both Qt4 and qwt, which are
+ needed to build bat. Most modern Linux systems will have both
+ these packages in the distro.
+- Storage overrides delete all previous storage definitions instead
+ of prepending.
+- One should be able to mount and unmount removable devices if the
+ Device resource has Removeable Media set and the mount and unmount
+ directives are defined.
+- ./configure will do a better job of searching for qwt libraries.
+- The Win32 version can no longer be shutdown from the tray monitor.
+ Use the command line or the Services panne.
+- Keep prune_volumes() from pruning the whole Scratch pool.
+- More debug output in status storage.
+- Correct moving a Scratch volume from pool to pool (some
+ critical columns were lost).
+- Different locking in reservations and despooling systems,
+ which means more micro-locking and less macro-locking, which
+ should give a lot more concurrency at the expense of slightly
+ (<0.1%) more overhead due to more locking/unlocking, but
+ concurrent jobs should run much faster.
+- Additional drive reservation algorithm that should solve a lot of
+ the problems experienced with multiple drive autochangers.
+- Storage daemon status command enhanced to more clearly show Volume,
+ pool and media type when a job is waiting.
+- Made bsmtp work with more strict SMTP servers.
+- Detect doubly freed buffers in smartall.c
+- wx-console renamed to bwx-console (Fedora request)
+- gnome-console renamed to bgnome-console (Fedora request)
+- Migration preserves original job's FileSetId
+- Spooling implemented for migration jobs.
+- Config files can be read through a pipe, by specifying a leading |
+ in front of the configuration path/filename.
+- New memory command (bconsole) that will print the current Director's
+ memory usage, and an in use buffer dump.
+- Console name changed from *Console* to -Console- to accomodate Win32
+ filename restrictions.
+- Corrected the Win32 ftruncate bug.
+- Additional version information added to Job reports.
+- New -8 option for bsmtp to specify UTF-8 encoding type.
+- bsmtp will no longer add < > to target (from, to, cc) if there
+ is already a < in the target.
+- Prefer Mounted Volumes extended to mean a volume that is being
+ mounted by another job.
+- Runscript timing set to same as version 1.38.11
+- New TLS Allowed CN directive(s) permitted.
+- New bconsole 'exec' command to run external script/command.
+- Turn on FreeBSD/OpenBSD code to set EOT model on tape.
+- Drop from root done before database is opened.
+- Database user and name can be configured with:
+ --with-db-name=name --with-db-user=user
+- Turn on wait_for_drive in mtx-changer script.
+- Rework how bar codes are handled in mtx-changer script.
+ This appears to have been an unreported bug.
+- Updated nagios plugin supplied by Christian Masopust
+- Better restricted console ACL checking.
+- New Client Connect Wait directive in Storage daemon so that
+ users can configure how long SD waits for FD connection.
+- Bacula will no longer permit pruning of the currently running
+ job (note, if other jobs are running, they may be pruned).
+- Sockets are no longer restored.
+- dbcheck works in 300K chunks so will typically run faster.
+- Include/Exclude lists can now be efficiently handled for quite
+ large sizes -- tens of thousands of entries.
+- Several memory leaks in migration and database usage were fixed.
+- New console keyword restoreclient, which specifies the client to
+ which the restore will be sent. The client keyword specifies
+ the backup client. The restoreclient keyword is optional if it is
+ not specified, the backup client will also be the restore client.
+- The disk file size is now checked to ensure that it agrees with the
+ catalog value before Bacula will append to the disk (same as tape
+ and DVD).
+
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;2007/3/6;;;14:30
+
+Bacula Version 2.0.3 has been released to Source Forge.
+This is a bug fix release to version 2.0.2. If you are upgrading from
+a version older than 2.0.0, please be sure to read the important notes
+below.
+
+Also, please check the patches directory in the current SVN or the
+patches release section on Source Forge for important bug fixes to
+this version.
+
+5Mar07
+kes File migrate bug with Pool Occupancy using mediaid instead
+ of jobids. Fixes bug #795.
+kes Fix orphaned buffers in filed backup and verify due to
+ crypto buffers not freed during errors. Fixes bug #789.
+04Mar07
+kes Add smartctl call to bacula-sd.conf as an example of getting
+ tape alert info.
+02Mar07
+kes Add Client Connect Wait to Storage daemon to permit users to
+ modify the time the SD waits for a FD connection.
+28Feb07
+kes Apply Command ACL filter to JobId list in restore command.
+kes Correct typeo in var.c patch.
+27Feb07
+kes Don't let Bacula prune File or Job records for the current Job.
+kes Fix variable substitution pad + inc bug reported (with patch)
+ in bug #791.
+26Feb07
+kes Correct SQLite log table index as reported by Luca Berra.
+24Feb07
+ebl Fix FIFO stuff, bacula tries to rewind the FIFO... Thanks to Andreas
+22Feb07
+kes Fix a few places in lib/message.c where the open fd may
+ not be zeroed.
+21Feb07
+kes Add LANG=C to autoconf/randpass so it works with languages other
+ than English. Fixes bug #788.
+20Feb07
+ebl Revert ClientRunBeforeJob as it was in 1.38.x
+ This fixes bug #780
+ You will not be able to generate Include/Exclude list any more.
+ If you want to use this, you can apply
+ trunk/bacula/patches/testing/clientrunbeforejob_can_generate_include_exclude_list.patch
+19Feb07
+kes Restore of sockets created false error messages because Bacula
+ no longer restores sockets, but the code was still trying to
+ set the attributes on a non-existent file. Reported by a user.
+16Feb07
+kes Fix encryption deblocking bug, which caused some restored files
+ to be truncated. This fixes bug #763. This is a CRITICAL bug fix.
+kes Add FD event sequence order prepared by Eric -- for RunScripts.
+kes Fix 12am/pm bug as reported in bug #782.
+15Feb07
+kes Add quick disconnect FD code from 2.1.4 to 2.0.3. This code
+ causes the SD to release the FD as soon as the FD has sent
+ all the data to the SD. After that the SD will do any final
+ despooling (data and attributes) that are necessary. This
+ allows laptops to disconnect much quicker from the network
+ after a backup.
+13Feb07
+kes Apply Eric's ClientRunScriptAfter patch to 2.0 and 2.1.
+11Feb07
+kes Optimize the use of the database a bit in the Status dir command.
+ Only open it when needed, ensure that if any previous database
+ was opened, it is closed.
+10Feb07
+kes Modify dbcheck to handle orphaned JobMedia, Path, Filename,
+ and File records in 300K chunks to be more efficient. This
+ idea came from Juan Luis Frances (if I remember right).
+09Feb07
+kes Update projects list.
+08Feb07
+kes Fix dird/ua_cmds.c so that a cancel command checks if the
+ console is authorized to cancel the job. This fixes bug
+ #767.
+kes Modify SD so that the VolCatJobs medium record is updated
+ at the beginning of a Job rather than the end. This
+ fixes bug #775 where exceeding MaxVolJobs caused jobs
+ to fail.
+kes Added a mutex around getting and setting Volume information
+ so that multiple simultaneous jobs will single thread.
+07Feb07
+ Switch to using Subversion
+kes Remove src/pygtk-console/ from configure
+06Feb07
+kes Delete src/lib/btree.c from win32 build, then add rblist.c
+ plus the entrypoints.
+kes Apply patch supplied that corrects debug print
+ in canceling jobs for max run time. Supplied as
+ part of bug #621, which was previously fixed.
+05Feb07
+kes Test on job_canceled() and sd_msg_thread_done inside
+ loop starting the message thread to avoid a race condition.
+ Fixes bug #771.
+kes Remove rl_catch_signal from console.c as it conflicted
+ with the header definition. Fixes bug #765.
+ebl Fixes bug #766 about RunsOnClient = Yes (case sensitive)
+04Feb07
+kes Clarify some stored/acquire messages to indicate if the
+ problem is with read or append.
+02Feb07
+kes Fix memory leak with storage ids in cats/sql_get.c
+kes Terminate watchdog earlier to avoid reference to released
+ memory -- reported by Jason Austin.
+kes Move closing the database from jobq.c to the director daemon
+ termination routine. This fixes memory leaks for shadow jobs
+ (i.e. migration jobs).
+kes Free up the unique jobid chain items in migrate.c. This fixes
+ a memory leak problem.
+kes Convert some ugly looking for statements to use foreach_alist
+ in findlib/find.c. This will facilitate converting the structures
+ to use dlist (for large include/exclude lists).
+kes Fix a bug in the btree.c and btree.h routines, then rename them
+ rblist and add them to be built in src/lib. Include some new
+ methods written by Rudolf Cejka that make the code more readable
+ (hides some of the ugly casting).
+26Jan07 (back port)
+kes Implement item #12 on project list -- quick release of FD by
+ the SD. This is noted in more detail above.
+
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;2007/1/28;;;14:30
+
+Bacula Version 2.0.2 released:
+28Jan08
+kes Fix maxruntime bug #621.
+27Jan07
+kes Get current main CVS .specs for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake.
+26Jan07
+ebl Implement the include JobID in spool file name project.
+kes Reorder projects file in order determined by Jan 2007 vote.
+kes Fix open of SQLite3 db where user does not have write permission
+ so that DIR does not crash. Fixes bug #761.
+25Jan07
+kes Change 'Device not configured to autolabel' from INFO
+ to WARNING.
+kes Fix jobq.c to restart failed jobs when Reschedule Times = 0
+ which should restart an indefinite # of times.
+kes Fix configure --help to print --with-mysql[=DIR]. Same for
+ other DIR specifications.
+23Jan07
+rn Fix msvc build problems. Fix bacula.dll exports for msvc build.
+ Fix path quoting in SQLite scripts.
+ Fix problems with SHGetFolderPath.
+19Jan07
+kes Create patches/2.0.1-restart.patch. Fixes bug #755.
+18Jan07
+kes Fix Job restart on error bug that promotes an Inc to a Full
+ backup. This should fix bug #755.
+kes Add qt-console and first cut of code.
+
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;2007/1/13;;;14:30
+
+Bacula Version 2.0.1 has been released to Source Forge.
+This is bug fix update to version 2.0.0 and contains
+the following fixes:
+
+- Fix Bacula->Documentation link on Win32 to point to index.html
+ instead of bacula.html. Fixed bug #750.
+- Return JobId in db_get_job_record() when JobId==0. This should
+ fix bug #741.
+- Do not release source pointers when restarting a failed job.
+- Add dynamic dll entry point for SHGetFolderPath to Win32 code.
+ This *should* fix bug #747.
+- Modify winbacula.nsi to substitute with g bin_dir_cmd. Should fix
+ bug #742.
+- Modify USTORE constructor to set an empty store_source string,
+ and don't copy the store_source string in a cancel. Hopefully
+ this will fix Arno's seg fault, bug #744.
+- Add back code to disable conio in configure. Fixes bug #743.
+- Correct the Options scanner in the FD to correctly handle
+ SHA1 option, which was eating the next option. Reported by
+ Sebastien Guilbaud.
+- Add code to indicate when the SD is spooling, spool wait, and
+ despooling as requested by Alan Brown.
+
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:30
+
+Bacula Version 2.0.0 has been released to Source Forge.
+
+There is an English Press Kit, written by Dan Langille at:
+
+ http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en
+
+and a German version, translated by Arno Lehmann at:
+
+ http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.de
+
+;;;
+
+Kern;;;2007/1/4;;;14:31
+
+ Release Notes for Bacula 2.0.0
+
+ Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 154,329 (*.h *.c *.in)
+
+==== IMPORTANT Catalog update required =====
+- The database format has been updated from what was used in
+ Bacula 1.38.x. You must manually update your database before
+ running Bacula 1.39.x or higher. If you are using Bacula supplied
+ RPMs this is not necessary as the RPM does it automatically.
+ Please backup your previous version of the database before
+ running the update. The update script will be automatically
+ installed in your scripts directory, or can also be found in
+ <bacula-source>/src/cats. It is called:
+
+ ./update_bacula_tables
+
+ It is necessary to run it only once the first time you move to
+ a 2.0.0. Upgrading the Bacula version thereafter does not
+ require updating the database again. Depending on the size of
+ your database the script make take a bit of time, to run, but
+ in general, it should be very fast.
+
+==== IMPORTANT new Win32 install procedure =====
+ For Win32 migrations from versions prior to 1.39.0 nothing special
+ needs to be done to upgrade. Everything should be taken care of
+ automatically. The only thing not done is to delete the old C:\bacula
+ directory mostly out of paranoia.
+
+==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
+- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
+ should.More importantly, in restore mode, the restore tree is
+ no longer shown in the left pane. I suspect this is due to
+ incompatible changes in the GTK+ API, and hence have given up
+ on gnome and gtk+, as this has already happened several times
+ previously. At some point there will be a new GUI console.
+- The bacula-dir.conf directive Accept Any Volume has been
+ removed because it was never implemented. You must delete all
+ occurrence of this directive for the Director to run. The Storage
+ daemon will automatically accept any valid Volume that you mount.
+- The --mandir ./configure option now points to the top level man
+ directory. The man files will be installed under mandir/man8 and
+ mandir/man1 as appropriate.
+- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 2.0.0 Director
+ and SD providing you do not use any of the new features (runscript,
+ data encryption). It seems to work here, but we do not guarantee it.
+- Your Director and SD must be simultaneously upgraded.
+- The restore command no longer uses the MediaType as the primary method
+ of finding a suitable Storage device. Normally it will select the last
+ device used to write a Volume. If no storage device is defined, it
+ will use the old algorithm which selects the first Storage resource
+ with the correct MediaType.
+- The MD5/SHA1 hash codes kept in the database are now kept in a binary
+ format compatible with the rest of the world. If you are running verify
+ jobs, you *must* do an InitCatalog or all files will show an MD5
+ difference. Also, authentication uses the new algorithm by
+ default, but *should* accept connections from older components (FD) using
+ the old non-compatible algorithm. This has been tested, but more
+ more testing is still needed.
+- A stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash when Bacula runs and accesses
+ the tape drive. Workaround, load the SuSE 10.1 version 2.6.16.21-0.25
+ kernel or later. The SuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 or later kernel also works.
+ This problem may also be present in certain Fedora FC5 kernels.
+- If you have been using the data encryption feature of 1.39.x, please
+ be aware that certain combinations of encryption and other options
+ with version 1.39.0 through 1.39.26 created Volume data that cannot
+ be restored. We strongly recommend that anyone using encryption
+ carefully review his/her backups and at a minium do a Full backup
+ with 1.39.28 of all encrypted data. Robert Nelson has identified
+ and fixed it as follows:
+ As of 1.39.27:
+ No filters = Works fine
+ Sparse = Works fine
+ Compression = Works fine
+ Encryption = Works fine
+ Sparse + Compression = Works fine
+
+ Sparse + Encryption = Restore broken
+ Sparse + Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
+ Compression + Encryption = Restore broken
+
+ As of 1.39.28:
+ Most combinations work, but some encrypted files are
+ not properly restored.
+
+ As of 1.39.30:
+ All combinations work fine except Sparse+Encryption.
+
+ Bottom line, if you are using data encryption, please test restoring
+ data to be sure it all works correctly.
+- The current Volume format written by 1.39.22 is different from
+ the format written by previous versions. The two formats
+ are not compatible. Thus any DVDs written prior to 1.39.22 will
+ be unreadable by version 1.39.22.
+- If you previously run a Bacula version prior to 1.39.30, the JobMedia
+ data may not be correct for disk Volumes. This can cause incorrect
+ seeking in versions after 1.39.30. If you experience what appears to
+ be data I/O or integrity errors during restores, please add the
+ following directive to your disk DEVICE resource in the Storage
+ daemon conf file:
+
+ Block Positioning = no
+
+ This will turn off all seek requests during restores and avoid
+ this problem.
+- VSS for Windows clients is now enabled by default.
+- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
+- Implement mount command for autochanger, see manual.
+
+New Features in 2.0.0:
+- Turn on disk seek code for restores.
+- There is a partial but reasonable translation of the Bacula
+ messages for French. To install it, first configure and build
+ Bacula, then as root run:
+
+ cd <bacula-source>/po
+ make install
+
+ If you have your locale set properly you will get the translated
+ messages.
+- Bacula now support Migration jobs that are documented in a new
+ Migration chapter in the manual
+ http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
+- Data encryption is now implemented and is documented in
+ a new chapter of the manual at:
+ http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Data_Encryption.html
+- Additional support for removable devices. See the
+ Requires Mount, Mount Point, Mount Command, and Unmount
+ Commands in the Storage daemon configuration chapter:
+ http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html
+ Also see the Edit Codes for Mount and Unmount Directives in the
+ same chapter.
+- Switch the Win32 build from using Microsoft C++ to using mingw32
+ cross-compiling. The initial work was done by Howard Thomson,
+ then tweaked by me. Robert Nelson then totally reworked the
+ cross-compiling code so that it not only cross-compiles, but
+ also compiles on Visual Studio, and at the same time, he added
+ all the current Unix features to the FD, such as selection on
+ drives, encryption support, building *all* the tools, ...
+- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
+ This code is working but should still be tested carefully
+ before putting into production.
+- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to
+ any client (including Unix/Linux clients). Of course, in doing so,
+ the Microsoft specific permissions and ACLs will be lost. Thanks
+ to Thorsten Engel for this code.
+- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now
+ eliminated thanks to Thorsten Engel. However, if you are using
+ Volume Shadow Copy, please be careful to specify all the paths
+ in the bacula-fd.conf file using a full path notation including
+ the drive letter.
+- Eric Bollengier wrote new RunScript directives that includes
+ the old RunBefore/AfterJob and ClientRunBefore/AfterJob features
+ plus a *lot* more, allowing you to control just about every aspect
+ of running scripts. See the manual for detailed documentation.
+ http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#5227
+- SunOS ACLs should now work thanks to a patch from David Duchscher.
+- 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"
+ This can be used to preview the next scheduled job (and the
+ next tape to be used) on Fridays if there are no scheduled jobs during
+ the weekend.
+- From Eric Bollengier. One can now using the bconsole wait command do:
+ wait (wait for all jobs to stop)
+ wait jobid=nn
+ wait jobuid=unique id
+ wait job=job-name
+- Volumes can now be set to Enable, Disable, or Archive. If they
+ are not enabled, Volumes will not be mounted.
+ Implement update volume enable=(on|off|true|false|archived|0|1|2)
+- Add Catalog message destination in Messages resource that puts the
+ job report in the Log database table.
+- Writing/reading DVD Volumes is much more stable -- to the point
+ of being useful. Thanks to Richard Mortimer.
+- Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
+ the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
+ the job can be manually started from the console.
+- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
+ can be enabled by changing one define and changing the appropriate
+ table variable. Normally, you need 64 bits only for FileId.
+- Relative path specifications (i.e. ../xxx) are now permitted in
+ the restore cd command.
+- When running multiple simultaneous jobs, most jobs that use spooling
+ will now finish faster due to a mutex optimization made by Eric
+ Bollengier.
+- Conf files containing UTF-8 marker at the head of the file as well as
+ conf files containing Window cr/lf and Mac cr line termination characters
+ are now accepted thanks to Robert Nelson.
+- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable.
+- Win32 external script execution is much more flexible -- handles
+ spaces in names better, ...
+- Lots of DVD fixes -- writing DVDs is now reported to work.
+- Fix opening of database in a restricted console to respect
+ any Catalog ACL.
+- Much better automatic handling of multiple database catalogs in
+ the restore command.
+- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
+ patch from Carsten Paeth calle@calle.in-berlin.de
+- Character substitution in Job/JobDefs WriteBootStrap.
+ from Eric Bollengier.
+- Apply patch supplied in bug #656 to pass priority field
+ in the run dialog to the Director in gnome console.
+- Add support of encrypted data stream to bscan from Eric.
+ display data_len instead of data content (may be binary).
+- Add Enabled=xxx on update slots command.
+- Add host:port to connect failure messages to FD and SD from Dir/
+- Add WhereACL to console ACL list. If nothing is specified, only
+ the default is permitted for restore. Otherwise, *all* allows any
+ path, or you can specify permitted paths. This should allow control
+ over where users can restore files. This is untested.
+- Install man pages with 'make install'.
+- Add Media.Enabled flag to client backups for dotcmds.c
+- Enforce Media.Enabled=1 for a current restore to work
+- Require restore case 3 to have sqlquery permission to work.
+- Add -n option to bconsole to turn off conio -- used in bweb.
+- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
+ command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
+- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
+ triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
+- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
+- Implement mount command for autochanger
+- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
+ from File= was not found.
+- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
+ do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
+ have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
+ Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
+- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
+ creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
+ Andrew J. Millar.
+- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
+ Christian Masopust.
+- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
+ appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
+ listing where they could be "lost".
+- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
+ correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
+ Bug # 506.
+- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
+- 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, ...).
+- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
+ should get Bacula into the correct groups.
+- Implement support for removable filesystems -- device type directive
+ and mount, unmount directives.
+- Transfer rates are now presented in a more readable format thanks
+ to a user submission.
+- SD is now aware of what volumes are mounted. More information is printed
+ in the Status report. You must take much more care now to unmount
+ devices prior to removing tapes that Bacula has open or prior to
+ changing a magazine. Don't forget to do a mount afterwards or the
+ device will be blocked.
+- The Pool Maximum Volumes directive is now respected in all places.
+- A Storage device can now be specified in a Pool resource. It will override
+ all other Storage specifications.
+- Most but not all directives accept true/false in place of yes/no.
+- A patch from Karl Hakimian that reads JobIds, FileIndexes
+ from a database table for restore.
+- There are a number of new tables. Some such as the Location table are
+ designed for user use in doing Volume Management software.
+- Maximum Changer Wait, Maximum Open Wait, Maximum Rewind Wait to
+ accept time qualifiers.
+- Implement jobuid to replace old usage of job in keywords as
+ suggested by Eric Bollengier.
+- Implement write variables for Python to set Priority (anytime), and
+ Job Level, only during JobInit event.
+- 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 the SD to use multiple drives during a backup/restore (only
+ one at a time).
+- Integrate addition of line count limitation to bsmtp -l from
+ Sebastian Stark <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
- 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 <stark at tuebingen.mpg.de>
-- 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=<job-name>. 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 = <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 <bacula-source>/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
- <bacula-source>/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.
-;;;
+- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
+ explicitly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
+- Implement wild program in tools directory for testing
+ wild-cards. Almost identical to the regex program.
+- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
+- Apply patch from Christopher Hull
+ - Allow multiple connections to database with different
+ parameters.
+ - Invalidate the scheduler when doing a reload. Fixes seg
+ fault, but still 60 second window.
+ - Additional info in Reschedule message.
+ - Use set_jcr_job_status() everywhere to prevent loss of
+ cancel, error.
+ - Display peer IP in FD if error from connecting DIR.
+ - Don't increment file count for DIRBEGIN.
+ - Replace illegal characters in Win32 filename by _.
+ - Add SE_CREATE_PERMANENT_NAME privilege in Win32.
+ - Hash hard link filenames rather than linked list (performance).
+ - Fix for security failure in chdir on Win32.
+ - Add CreateDirectoryA/W win32 API entry points.
+- programs to duplicate Bacula's base64 algorithm using standard
+ routines. This fixes bugs #296, and 565. Patch submitted by
+ author of bug #565.
+- Fixes to reloading the Dir conf file from Eric Bollengier and Christopher
+ Hull.
+- Modify LICENSE to correct some problems pointed out by Debian.
+- Apply a patch submitted by cesarb in bug #606 to implement O_NOATIME support.
+ O_NOATIME is a open() flag which makes it possible to read a file without
+ updating the inode atime (and also without the inode ctime update which
+ happens if you try to set the atime back to its previous value). It also
+ prevents a race condition when two programs are reading the same file, but
+ only one does not want to change the atime. It's most useful for backup
+ programs and file integrity checkers (and bacula can fit on both
+ categories).
+ You enable it in the Bacula FileSet Options resource by setting:
+ noatime = yes
+ The effect of this option is similar to the keepatime option except
+ it is more efficient and avoids modifying ctime.
+- Implement a pile of new man pages contributed by Jose Tallon.
+- Modify the database format for handling Migration jobs:
+ Add PriorJobId, RealEndTime to Job table
+ Delete MAC table
+ Remove Stripe from JobMedia record (not used, wasting space)
+ Add ScratchPoolId, RecyclePoolId, Enabled to Media record
+ Add Cost to Location table.
+ Enabled to Media table and Location table.
+- Security: harden authentication failure in FD by single threading errors
+ and forcing a 6 second wait.
+- If using GCC (actually g++) add the following compiler flags
+ -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
+- Turn on new bsnprintf() code. The reason for this code is to
+ eliminate the security problems associated with using the
+ system libraries print routines.
+- Implement job report that indicates where Storage and Pool
+ came from -- with overrides and Pool storage and NextPool,
+ it is all very complicated.
+- Add more detail (Storage, Device) to list of volumes printed
+ for restore.
+- Add new VOLMGMT message class. No messages are yet sent with this
+ class.
+- Improved Bacula rescue procedures -- see the Disaster Recovery
+ chapter of the manual
+- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
+- Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
+- Allow true/false in many but not all yes/no directives.
+- The Bacula source code is now copyrighted by the Free Software
+ Foundation Europe. The Developer's Guide documents the new procedures,
+ and the LICENSE file has been updated.
+- Apply Jaime Ventura's patch that implements the Messages resource
+ Mail On Success directive.
+- The Client returns its Version string, which is printed in the Job
+ report.
+- The Client returns whether or not VSS and Encryption are used, which
+ are printed in the Job report.
+
+Additional Features Added for Win32:
+- Added DriveType directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
+ resource. Allowed values are: fixed, removable, cdrom, and remote. There
+ is only an implementation for Windows because it is the only platform that
+ has the concept of drives.
+
+- Adds EnhancedWild directive to the Director's Include Option FileSet
+ resource. Allowed values are: yes and no.
+
+ When EnhancedWild is enabled then the processing of the
+ Wild, WildDir and WildFile is changed in the following ways.
+
+ Patterns conform to Posix
+ \ is not a special character in character classification []
+ To match a - it must be the first or last character
+ To match a ] it must be the first character
+
+ fnmatch option FNM_FILE_NAME is specified * doesn't match a /
+ so it won't match multiple directory levels in a path
+
+- Relative WildFile patterns (ones without a leading /) match
+ against the filename portion. This in combination with the
+ FNM_FILE_NAME fnmatch() flag makes directives such as WildFile =
+ abc*.def work as expected.
+
+- Adds support for the shell's feature of brace expansion.
+
+ Here is an example where braces allow 24 lines to be expressed in 5.
-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.
+ # Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
+ WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Cookies"
+ WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/Recent"
+ WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/History"
+ WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temp"
+ WildDir = "[A-Z]:/{Documents and Settings,{WINNT,Windows}/Profiles}/*/{Local Settings,LOCALS~1}/Temporary Internet Files"
-Its file-based, no fancy database need.
;;;
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