- 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.
Release Notes for Bacula 1.38.0
Bacula code: Total files = 420 Total lines = 138,440 (*.h *.c *.in)
20,440 additional lines of code since version 1.36.3
Major Changes:
- 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!!!
- 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).
Other Items:
- 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.
Change BACULA_PIDDIR from /var/run/bacula to /var/run.
Add CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-sbin-perm=0755.
Remove tcp_wrappers bl3.mk, configure doesn't check for it,
and even if explicitly enabled, build breaks.
Ride recent PKGREVISION bump.
This contains the update to 1.36.3 and an additional security fix,
thus the nb1.
Changes since 1.36.0:
Changes to 1.36.3 released 23Apr05:
22Apr05
- Correct return type of ftello to avoid overflow --
thanks to Peter Eriksson.
13Apr05
- Fix seg fault if Name directive missing in Job resource.
12Apr05
- Add new LaTeX doc to 1.36.2 branch.
- Fix SuSE autostart routines to use /etc/init.d instead
of /etc/rc.d/init.d.
- Increase index size on File table Name and Path table Path
to improve performance.
- Second fix for not zeroing SD pointers on restarted job.
- Turn off old style Include/Excludes.
01Apr05
- Use fseeko and ftello so that attributes can exceed 4GB
- Flush console output after every line.
- Turn off Multiple Connections in catalog resource, which
causes corruped databases. It is silently ignored.
- Drop support for old style Include/Exclude. There is a
perl script that will convert them.
- Inhibit trying to reset attributes on a Win32 drive.
18Mar05 1.36.2-store.patch
- This patch fails a job if no Storage resource is specified and
the job attempts to call the SD.
18Mar05 1.36.2-reschedule.patch
- This patch should fix a Segfault bug when a job is rescheduled.
The storage pointers were being released when they should not
have been.
17Mar05 1.36.2-restore-speed.patch
- This patch will fix a subtle bug that was introduced in 1.36.2
which causes Bacula to be very slow restoring a few files. This
is because it reads completely to the end of the Volume rather
than stopping when all the files on the Volume are loaded. The
introduction of the bug was caused by a patch that fixed
Bacula truncating tapes after a restore.
Note that all source files will be rebuilt during the make.
16Mar05 1.36.2-console.patch
- This patch causes the output directed to a file to be
flushed after every line. This is a bit overkill, IMO, but
a user complained about it.
15Mar05 1.36.2-netbsd.patch
- This patch corrects a compile problem because of no statfs()
on NetBSD. The patch was submitted by kardel with bug 258.
09Mar05 1.36.2-win32-drive.patch
- This patch will prevent the Win32 FD from printing an error message
when it attempts to restore the permissions for a drive (which Win32
doesn't permit). The error is harmless in any case.
04Mar05 1.36.2-level.patch
- This patch should fix a problem with th %l editing in the
client (FD) where it edited nothing. With this fix, it should
edit "since".
04Mar05 1.36.2-pool.patch
- This patch corrects a problem preventing multiple
simultaneous jobs from different pools.
Changes to 1.36.2 released 28Feb05:
27Feb05
- Fix pointer to stack variable in Verify jobs.
- Change reference to DEV_BSIZE to B_DEV_BSIZE to
avoid colision with some OSes.
- Release storage[i] in job.c if allocated when
starting/restarting a job. Avoids orpahanned buffers.
24Feb05
- Add awk check to configure.in
- Bring over a few files from 1.37.
18Feb05
- Fix some lower case character problems in sql_cmds.c reported
by Debian.
- Fix seg fault if debug level 900 set in SD.
- Truncate Win32 child return code to 8 bits.
15Feb05
- Fix deadlock in multiple simultaneous jobs.
- Fix tape "truncation"/"number of files" after restore bug.
- Merge a few minor things from the 1.37 stream.
14Feb05
- Add a number of new features from 1.37, and apply fixes
for all known bugs. See ReleaseNotes for details.
- Apply Tim's patch for ACLs.
Version 1.36.1 released 26Nov04:
24Nov04
- Take Dan's fix to the fix_postgresql_tables (thanks Dan)
- Increase Maximum Concurrent Jobs to 20 in SD and FD!
- Fix improper handling of autochanger Volumes that are not
marked InChanger.
22Nov04
- Update authentication failure message to indicate possible
problem with Maximum Concurrent Jobs. Add to doc too.
- Commit PostgreSQL BIGINT fix -- apparently some people didn't
get it.
- Do not use a slot unless it is InChanger in the autochanger
code, otherwise autochanger gets upset not finding the Volume.
21Nov04
- Make authentication timeout compile time configurable.
The value is set in src/baconfig.h
- Fix removing items from watchdog queue, which apparently
screwed up if there was more than one item.
- Rework mediaformat part of manual to separate out old
tape format for easier reading.
- Add a lot of debug code to the authentication code.
- Add seconds to the start/end times printed in the job report.
19Nov04
- Fix mutex deadlock in dequeue of messages.
- Add debug code to FD authorization.
18Nov04
- Increase authentication timeouts to 10 minutes.
15Nov04
- Fix cancel bug in FD on /lib/tls with zero pid in
pthread_kill.
- Add date/time to all messages.
- Make Qmsg use time message was queued rather than time
printed.
- Indent job output two spaces.
13Nov04
- Fix web page links for new manual.
- Grant postgresql permission to cdimages.
- Correct crash after "list nextvol" "list media" bug 160
12Nov04
- Fix scripts/Makefile.in missing ;\ -- thanks Martin
- A bit of work on btape to keep if from going into infinite
loops when things do not work well, and to print a bit
better info.
11Nov04
- JobDefs Storage resource completely overrode anything
specified in Job resource -- bug 159 -- fixed.
- Fix syntax of renaming postgresql per Dan.
- Add working_directory to be /tmp for wx_console.
10Nov04
- Allow both a JobId and a filename or list of files to be
specified on a restore command line.
- Save old mtx-changer before installing new one: bug 156
- Fix errors in CDROM file pointed out by Scott.
09Nov04
- Fix exepath when Bacula executed without path.
- Move test for socket libraries for Solaris in configure.in
before tcp wrapper tests so that linking works.
- Add "make copy-static-fd" to makefile in CDROM file to
copy existing static fd to CDROM rather than building it.
08Nov04
- More doc updates
- Fix ps command for OpenBSD
- Rework the creation of indexes for SQL -- fall back
to the old code, but document what can be added.
06Nov04
- Add new Daemon message handler in default DIR conf.
05Nov04
- Fix Seg Fault with -D100 in bpipe.c.
- Fix Seg Fault in run specifying a JobId.
- Make mail from daemon with a Messages Resource use
the MailCommand with editing rather than the default
sendmail.
- Replace Jmsg in dispatch_message() with Qmsg.
- Make edit_job_codes handle NULL jcr.
04Nov04
- Add M_ALERT class and put tape alerts into it.
- Fix Verify count vs found by not double counting files
that are split across files/Volumes.
30Oct04
- Fix count returned from write_bsr_file() to handle multiple
volumes. This fixes most cases of the Verify VolumeToCatalog.
- Cleanup a bit the make clean for the rescue cdrom and remove
unneeded files from the CVS.
28Oct04
- Fixed acquiring a tape so that it does not block all acquires
when operator intervention is needed.
- Platform build script updates from Scott
- Doc updates
- Add patch to force Linux LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to avoid using the
new /lib/tls. This is done in the startup scripts.
- Modify mtx-changer so that it checks for ONLINE while
waiting.
- Modify make_postgresql_tables.in so that EndBlock is stored
as a bigint. Prevents job failures when a disk volume is
larger than 2GB.
24Oct04
- Add grep ONLINE to wait_for_drive() in mtx-changer.in
- More doc.
- Rebuild Scott's new configure
And always is defined as share/examples/rc.d
which was the default before.
This rc.d scripts are not automatically added to PLISTs now also.
So add to each corresponding PLIST as required.
This was discussed on tech-pkg in late January and late April.
Todo: remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR uses in MESSAGES and elsewhere
and remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR itself.
under share/examples/rc.d. The variable name already was named
RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR.
This is from ideas from Greg Woods and others.
Also bumped PKGREVISION for all packages using RCD_SCRIPTS mechanism
(as requested by wiz).
pkgsrc-wip.
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system
administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data
across a network of computers of different kinds. In technical terms, it is
a network client/server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to
use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features
that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Bacula source
code has been released under the GPL version 2 license.
To Do: Split client/server package, add a frontend (gnome) package.
