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Technical notes on version 1.28 02Jan02
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- Implemented Bare Metal Recovery for Linux and manual procedures for Solaris
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- Now using only a single technotes file kes-1.28 and will add to
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it as the development goes on.
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- Wrote a general purpose bi-directional pipe command. This replaces
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previous use of pipes as well as the run_program previously used.
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- Make BSRs stop if no more matches are possible.
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- Allow unliminted number of devices in Storage daemon.
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- Allow connections to Storage daemon before all devices are initialized.
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- Better documentation (and btape test command) on using fixed block
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Changes submitted this submission:
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- Thanks to James MacLean for finding two errors in the bacula-dir.conf
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file as well as discovering that the filename quoting was not working
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for the database. This necessitated version 1.28a and 1.28b.
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- Add cygreadline5.dll to Win32 release -- needed for console
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- Add scripts make_catalog_backup and delete_catalog_backup that makes and
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deletes an ASCII copy of the catalog for backup. An example of how
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to use it is in the <bacula-src/src/dird/bacula-dir.conf file.
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- Made a nicer column oriented listing of scheduled jobs for "status dir".
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- Added backup/restore of raw partitions.
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- Corrected restoration of files in root directory (problem with
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splitting path from file).
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- Finally decided to cleanup handling of splitting path and filenames
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in the cats directory. Now the code is in one place sql.c and it
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is done using Pool memory, so there are no length restrictions.
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- Add start of Solaris bare metal recovery
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- Add Site Visit usage statistics to Web page
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- Got Bacula listed on www.backupcentral.com
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- Retest bare metal recovery on Linux 2 times with verify
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- Cleanup printout of verify differences using proper casting to
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handle shorts and long longs.
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- Added --enable-client-only to ./configure
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- Modified --enable-static-sd to work better and documented it.
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- Fixed Restore options (never,ifnewer, ...). They now work.
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- Moved the stored.c Resource lock into the allocation thread so
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that the same thread sets/clears it. This created a problem on
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- Set close_bpipe() status to zero for FreeBSD because it does not
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seem to return good child termination status codes.
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- Added more rescue documentation.
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- Did a spell check of the Bacula doc.
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- Modified bscan to use the working directory as specified in the
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configuration file as the default.
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- Fixed an important bug reported by George Motter that caused only
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the last option on an Include record to be used (all previous options
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- Chase down some inconsistencies in creating Media records from
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the Pool defaults, and in updating/creating the Pool from the
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resource. Also fixed the cats DB routines to include all
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fileds (VolUseDuration was missing for example).
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- Added building static versions of daemon static-bacula-dir, ...
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- Fine tuned the rescue (bare metal) code including support for grub.
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- Added skeleton freebsd rescue
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- Corrected SQL syntax error in autoprune code (JobType => Type).
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- Added error messages for SQL errors in autopruning.
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- Documented Bare Metal Recovery
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- Create new "rescue" directory containg the Bare Metal Recovery code.
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- Fiddle with SQL a bit for pruning as apparently the last InitCatalog
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was pruned after the expiration date eventhough it was the ONLY copy!
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I'm not sure this is fixed yet.
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- Allow Director to pass a NUL where string to FD (fix in FD).
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- Fix installation mv of query.sql.
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- Make sure btraceback.gdb is not wiped on "make distclean"
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- Corrected a bug in mod of replace options pointed out by Dave Anderson.
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- Started adding FileOptions ...
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- Fixed and incorrect print out of the number of files restored (Jarif).
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- Finally fixed EndBlock (and file address for Files) in catalog!
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- Added hostname to tape header as always planned.
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- Removed Level code (will not implement unless strong demand exists).
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- Tweaked bscan to print number of errors ignored before first SOS.
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- Enhanced btape "fill" to permit using one tape and to dump last
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block before writing and upon read back.
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- Make fsf_dev() return 0 on fail and 1 on success.
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- Use new db_get_job_volume_parameters() to enhance Write Bootstrap to
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contain more info (start/end file/block, file indexes).
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- Added --enable-static-fd, sd, and dir to configuration to enable making
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static versions of the daemons.
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- The btape test program was indicating errors on Adrian's machine
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using the ATAPI (ide-scsi) tape drive. It turns out that this
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is a fixed block driver as a consequence, Bacula must be setup
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to write fixed blocks. btape was not always using the fixed
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blocks defined in the Bacula config, so that has been updated.
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It now works fine. A lot of tips added to the Bacula test command
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to help guide the user.
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- Documentation of the above significantly improved in the manual.
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- Added code in watchdog to permit setting and clearing child timers. If
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the timer expires, the child process is killed.
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- Modified restore to handle differential jobs.
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- Added a new test to the btape "test" command
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- More documentation of new features (week position in scheduler, bsr).
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- Re-read last block written on full tape to verify it.
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- Fix segmentation fault with btape fill command due to missing FileSet MD5.
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- Created better SQL input editing routines str_to_int64 and str_to_uint64()
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- Pull Client from database in Console restore command.
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- Create a Unique list of Volumes to be mounted (previously had repeats).
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- Made many of the SQL searches better by using the ClientId rather than the name
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in the restore Console command.
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- Modified reading of a tape to include the VolFile info. Once the
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tape is past the specified file, reading stops. The BSR now includes
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both the VolFile and VolBlock. Currently VolBlock is not used.
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- Handle multiple volumes better by creating a real volume list with all
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- Display "At prompt waiting for input" in gnome console when at subcommand
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- Broke ascii to internal and internal to string editing routines out into
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- Added a readme and an afs-bacula script to the examples directory
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that permits Bacula to backup an AFS filesystem. Thanks to
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Lucas Mingarro for the submission.
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- Added A Sun-desktop autoloader script and Device definition to the
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examples/devices subdirectory. Thanks to Lucas Mingarro for the
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- If the WriteBootStrap fails, the job will now be marked in error.
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- Added a week position to the scheduler syntax that allows you to
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specify 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 4th, or first, ... fifth as a week
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position specification in front of a day. So if you say
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the scheduler will start only on the first sunday of the month. The
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day specification can also be a day range e.g. sun-fri.
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This code is untested.
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- Implemented bpipe.h and bpipe.c in src/lib, which defines a bi-directional
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pipe. This allows executing other programs and sending them information
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as well as getting info from them.
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- Replaced the previous pipe usage with bpipes in RunBeforeJob and
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- The mail program now uses bpipes rather than pipes, which means that any
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error output will appear in the job output (truly bi-directional).
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- Modified BSR to handle counts and to stop when no more matches are possible.
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- Improved error messages in smtp.
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