-Kern;;;2006/04/16;;;14:30
-
- Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.8
-
- Bacula code: Total files = 419 Total lines = 137,078 (*.h *.c *.in)
- 20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
-
-!!!! Important !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- In Bacula version 1.38.5 and prior, there was apparently a
- compiler bug that caused the Storage daemon to seg fault.
- I have applied a workaround in version 1.38.6 and greater that
- seems to work. If you experience problems, follow the instructions
- below.
-
- If you are compiling for a 64 bit machine, you need to ensure
- that the code is compiled with the -O0 (- oh zero) option otherwise
- the SD will crash on most all operations -- apparently due to
- a compiler bug in gcc's 64 bit code generation.
-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
-Warning:
-- The Windows FD no longer automatically folds the case
- in wild-card comparions. To get the same behavior as before,
- you must explicitly use "Ignore Case = yes" in your FileSet.
-- Backslashes are no longer permitted in File directives
- (typical error for Windows users), unless the string is
- enclosed in double quotes, in which case, the backslashes
- must be doubled.
-- The new algorithm for selecting Volumes from the Scratch
- pool that was implemented in 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 is abandoned
- in favor of a corrected version of the 1.38.5 algorithm.
-
-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. Unfortunately, at this time, the Ignore Case
- directive is not implemented in the Windows regex, so
- you must explictly take into account the case in your
- patterns.
-- 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;;;9 Jan 2008;;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.
+;;;
-Minor bug fixes:
-- See below:
-
-Release 1.38.8 (14Apr06)
-14Apr06
-- Correct Makefile for Solaris /bin/sh
-- Correct mtx-changer.in for Solaris /bin/sh
-- Abort if a conf resource does not have a Name =
-12Apr06
-- Change the name of the regex program to bregex.
-- Add the bwild program to the tools directory. It is similar
- to the bregex program.
-- Implement create bregex.h and bregex.c in src/lib from the
- Python regexp program.
-- Use the new bregex.c to implement Regex expressions on Win32.
-11Apr06
-- Modify Makefile to change the permissions on Working Directory
- to 770 if the directory is created.
-- Do not fail the Makefile if changing the permissions or
- owner/group on WorkingDir fails.
-- Correct the old recycling algorithm so that Scratch Volumes
- are selected when looking for a Volume in the changer.
-- Correct a typo in the Verify SQL reported by Joe Park.
-10Apr06
-- Remove automatic case folding on Windows FDs. You must
- explictly use the 'Ignore Case = yes' option.
-- Remove the code added to 1.38.6 and 1.38.7 that pulls a
- scratch volume in an Autochanger early in the 'recycling'
- algorithm.
-08Apr06
-- Tweak license to include Microsoft restrictions.
-- Move mysql.reconnect to after real_connect(). Thanks to
- Frank Sweetser for the patch.
-- Disallow a backslash in a File = directive (Windows junk)
- unless the string is quoted.
-- Apply Eric's patch to ua_label.c so that daemon protocol
- is not translated.
-
-Release 1.38.7 (06Apr06) released 07Apr06
-06Apr06
-- Remove timed wait for VSS on Win2K3 as it is not yet
+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
-- 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.
+- 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.
-- 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.
+- 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.
-- 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.
-
-Michael;;;2005/02/25;;;19:59
-News-Page for the Bacula-Website finished
-When you read this, you read the first news posted by me *hehe*
-through the new Bacula-News-System.
-
-Its file-based, no fancy database need.
+- 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
+- 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.
+
+ # 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"
+
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