There appear to still be issues with the windows installer not making fully
functional config files. I ran the bacula-win64-5.2.0rc1.exe on my own
desktop computer (that was already installed with the 5.0.3 win64 fd). I
used the Automatic option,...
Bacula didn't over-write my configs from what I can tell but the conf.new
files contain un-substituted @variables@. As a result, I had to guess at
the configs needed to make the tray monitor work.
I can make it show the status of local jobs but the new "Run..." option
seems to require something I've left out.
Also, I couldn't find any documentation on how to get the tray monitor to
work and couldn't figure out which parameter it wants that isn't matching
up right. It starts but has the following error:
"Authentication error : 1999 Authorization failed."
Commenting out the Storage and Director section fixes that, but that's why
the "Run..." menu item isn't working I'd bet. :)
Can somebody post an explanation of which Name, Mon, and Password, etc.
values have to match values in the other appropriate conf file that it is
trying to authenticate against to get the spiffy new client Run menu item
to work?
Bob
On 8/8/2011 8:49 AM, Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is to let you know that the source tar files and the Win32 binaries
> for Bacula BETA version 5.2.0rc1 have been released to the Bacula Source
> Forge download area.
>
> We would appreciate that packagers take some time to update their
> procedure during the RC phase to have ready-to-use 5.2.0 version. It is
> very likely that we will cut a RC2 release in a couple weeks.
>
> =====
>
> Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.0 RC 1
>
> Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount)
>
> General:
> --------
>
> This 5.2.0 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3.
> It includes well over 50,000 lines of changes made by 19 contributors
> and a number of important new features:
>
> Compatibility:
> --------------
> As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at
> the same time.
>
> Older 5.0.x and 3.0.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.2.0
> Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older
> File Daemons.
>
> ================== Warning !!!!!! ==========================
>
> The new pruning algorithm will not allow to prune jobs that are
> essential to restore since the last Full backup. Pruning of volumes are
> not affected.
>
> New Catalog format in version 5.2.0
> -----------------------------------
> This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of
> scripts that permit to convert a 5.0.x (version 12) catalog to 5.2.0
> (version 14). The Bacula project rpms distributed on Source Forge will
> automatically detect the database change and do the upgrade for you. We
> strongly recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before
> upgrading using rpms.
>
> The simplest way to upgrade the database assuming you are building from
> source:
> 1. Stop any current version of Bacula from running.
> 2. Save a copy of your existing database.
> 3. Configure, build, and install the 5.2.0 version of Bacula
> Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link
> at the bottom of this file.
> 4. cd<your-scripts-installation-directory>
> 5. ./update_bacula_tables
> 6. If you have multiple catalogs, edit the update_bacula_tables
> script and put the name of another database, and then
> execute the script again. Repeat this until all Bacula
> catalogs have been updated.
> 7. Start the new Bacula. If everything worked, it should
> not print any error messages.
>
> If you start from scratch, you don't need to run the
> update_bacula_tables script because the create_bacula_tables script
> automatically creates the new table format. However, if you are using a
> version of Bacula older than 5.0.0 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run
> the update_bacula_tables script that will be found in the
> <bacula>/src/cats directory after you run the ./configure
> command. As mentioned above, before running this script, please backup
> your catalog database, and when you do running it, be sure shutdown
> Bacula and be aware that running the script can take some time depending
> on your database size.
>
> ================================================================
>
> Changes:
>
> Speed and Memory Usage Enhancements:
> - Implement LZO compression algorithm (To enable it, you need to have
> the lzo headers installed on your system. liblzo2-dev on debian for
> example).
> - New Pruning algoritm -- safer and faster
> - Use of PostgreSQL cursor when doing large queries, should reduce the
> memory usage during restore and accurate backups.
> - limit command in some list commands
> - Bacula Virtual File System for fast catalog access
> - Faster crc32 algorithm
>
> Security Enhancements:
> - Additional security against injection of illegal characters
> - Fix possible fnmatch problem
>
> Features Enhancements:
> - Improvements in ACL and xattr handling on additional platforms:
> AIX, Darwind, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64
> - Tray monitor for Windows
> - New SQL backend and ./configure that permits building multiple catalog
> backends in one build, and has the main Bacula core code totally
> independent of the SQL backend, which should simplify packaging
> (only thelibbacsql.so/dll needs to be changed.
> - Indent lsmark during restore
> - Disable batch insert config item
> - Director selection option in bconsole
> - restorejob command in bconsole
> - Many additional features for bat such as "brestore" panel
> - Improved hash table for hard links
> - Additional script variable editing such as %b (JobBytes), %F
> (JobFiles) and %h (Client Address)
> - Many new things on bacula-web
>
> Other Enhancements:
> - Includes better handling for Windows repares points, mount points, and
> junction points.
> - New database format
> - Many new plugin API features
> - Improved memory handling for restores
> - Significant stability enhancements to bat
> - A few path name length limits in Windows have been removed.
>
> http://bacula.org/5.1.x-manuals/en/main/main/Community_Bacula_New_Featur.html
>
> Bye
>
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