Hello,
This morning I released the Bacula source tar file and Win32 binaries for BETA
version 1.39.30 to the Bacula release area of Source Forge. This release has
a number of bug fixes since 1.39.28 as well as the following new features:
- 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.
- Turn on disk seek code for restores.
- 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.
There are still a few outstanding bugs, but all are either bugs reported in
1.38.11 or bugs in new features. The core part of the code is very stable,
and I encourage as many people as possible to try it. If you are upgrading
Win32 from 1.38.11, be especially careful to read the release notes as there
are significant changes.
If all goes well, version 1.40 will be released within a week or two.
Best regards,
Kern
===============================================
Release Notes for Bacula 1.39.30
Bacula code: Total files = 438 Total lines = 153,698 (*.h *.c *.in)
Version 1.39.30 contains mainly bug fixes to 1.39.28. Please
see the ChangeLog for more details.
==== IMPORTANT Encrypted Volume data may be unreadable ====
- 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.
==== IMPORTANT a stock SuSE 10.1 kernel may crash =====
- 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.
==== 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. 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 1.39.x beta or to 1.40.0. 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 DVD Volume format changed ====
- 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.
==== IMPORTANT miscellaneous ====
- The Gnome console program (gconsole) no longer functions as it
should. If you have multiple catalogs, you will need to select
the catalog (this I will fix). 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 --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.
- The "Accept Any Volume" directive has been removed. It was never
implemented. Bacula will always accept any valid tape that is in
the drive for appending.
- You *should* be able to use 1.38.x FDs with version 1.39.18 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.
==== 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, we can change that prior to release if
everyone is comfortable with it).
Prior to using the current installer, if you used a version of the beta
prior to 1.39.26, you must do one of the following three things:
1) Uninstall prior beta version and select the option to delete
the configuration and state files. This will get rid of the bogus
configuration files. Reinstall the new 1.39.26 version.
2) Manually copy the *.conf files from C:\Bacula\bin to
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula.
3) Manually edit the *.conf files in C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula. The links in the Bacula menu
can be used to avoid having to enter that ugly path.
After one of these has been done the upgrade should work fine.
======
New Features in 1.39.30:
- 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.
- Turn on disk seek code for restores.
- 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.
Major new Features in 1.40.0:
- The basic features of Migration are now complete, and
are documented in a new Migration chapter in the manual
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Migration.html
- There is an Encryption chapter in the doc.
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 considered beta (i.e.
test carefully before putting into production).
- Data encryption done in the Client is now supported due to code
submitted by Landon Fuller.
- 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.
- 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.
- Apply patch for enhancing wait from Eric Bollengier. One can now:
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.
New Features in 1.40.0:
- Add enable/disable job=<job-name>. This command prevents
the specified job from being scheduled. Even when disabled,
the job can be manually started from the console.
- The database Id records should be 32/64 bit independent now. 64 bits
can be enabled by changing one define, but this has never been tested.
- 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.
- Permit multiple console/director resources in bconsole.conf.
patch from Carsten Paeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- 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.
- The bytes field in the terminated jobs part of the status
command now reports in KB, MB, ... units.
- When not descending into a directory, print the File= name that
triggered it -- makes why not descending a bit clearer
- Do not unload autochanger when doing "update slots"
- Implement mount command for autochanger
- Fix bug #462 incorrect error message printed when client script called
from File= was not found.
- Fix bug #558 (waiting for feedback) where Bacula needs too much time to
do a rewind on Solaris when no tape is in the drive (Solaris does not
have the detailed errno found on Linux). Added Solaris specific code.
Note, this may apply to other OSes as well.
- The examples directory has a new bacula_mail_summary.sh file that
creates a single email summary of any number of jobs. Submitted by
Andrew J. Millar.
- Add nagios plugin to the examples directory. Submitted by
Christian Masopust.
- Modify most restore error messages to be queued so that they
appear at the end of the job rather than mixed with the restore
listing where they could be "lost".
- Apply patch supplied by user (slightly modified) to fix
correct detection of holes in block devices and FIFOs.
Bug # 506.
- Added a report.pl program to the examples directory from Jonas Bjorklund.
- Add two new queries to query.sql provided by Arno. One
list volumes known to the Storage device, and the other
lists volumes possibly needing replacement (error, ...).
- Implement new code for changing userid and group at startup. This
should get Bacula into the correct groups.
- Implement support for removable filesystems.
- 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.
- 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). This is not well tested.
- 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.
- Implement a number of user supplied patches for DVD writing.
- 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.
- Spend a lot of time integrating mkcdrec with the rescue disk.
- Add spooling/despooling info in status output of SD.
- Add Comment field to llist of a volume.
- Allow true/false in some yes/no questions.
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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