http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/153 <pre>Hello, This is in response to the email from Jesper (see below). As it is not always obvious, I am not in the least upset in any way. This is meant to be information about our future direction, and more directly a response to Jesper's concerns and questions. I have devoted 12-16 hours a day many times 7 days a week for 12 years to build Bacula, so I have no intention of see Bacula fade away. I will be around for a bit longer (I am well over retirement age). That said, I have to think about who is going to take the relay in some years, and my experience with Bacula Open Source is that the community is *extremely* important in testing, finding bugs, sending in small patches, and providing good ideas, but it is poor in doing major design and programming projects. First, I am not in the least complaining, and second, there are some exceptions. We unfortunately reject a large number of submissions or completely re-write them because the authors do not follow our standards of coding (checking error returns, having reasonably clean code, test cases, documentation, and a good design that won't put Bacula design wise in a corner in a few years). After long thought, my conclusion is that the only way to ensure that Bacula continues is to have a commercial company behind it. To have a commercial company behind it, the company must offer services and be able to sell those services in sufficient quantity to be at least break-even. For the first two years of Bacula Systems existence, we provided services on the same code base as the community, and we funded a *large* number of projects. Bacula Systems came close to going under. Customers willing to pay, were not willing to pay *only* for service, they want features that are not in the community version. Frankly that surprised me. We changed direction several years ago. We now attempt to differentiate Bacula Enterprise from Bacula Community by adding high end features that are Enterprise of nature, and the company is doing well. A community member does not need SAN shared storage for example -- or if you do and you consider yourself community, that is fine with me, but you will need an Enterprise contract. There are a *lot* of "enterprises" out there that given a community version, refuse to pay for an enterprise contract (mostly ISPs, Universities, governments, and small businesses). This is fine; it is their right. However, we developers are not obligated to fix their sometimes *extremely* complicated bugs or implement their needed features. We often do so, but we are not getting paid for that so anything along that line that you ("enterprises") get please be happy for. I think everyone of the Bacula developers have expressed this feeling at least in some degree. We work on it mostly for our own needs (mine were satisfied *many* years ago) or the pleasure. Most Bacula developers come, and then go (often because they change jobs). I am pleased with everything they do for Bacula. You ask about development fees. Well over the 12 years I have worked on Bacula, the project has received a total of about $5,000 in cash contributions. No complaints. I appreciate those contributions enormously because they represent something that very few people do -- thank you contributors. To have a full time developer on board when everything is considered about $150-$200 K per year per developer, and in my opinion, the Bacula project needs at least 5 developers, so you can see that the community simply does not have the means to pay contributers. That is not even something I am going to try to do again (Bacula Systems essentially tried for 2 years unsuccessfully). Now, if you calculate based on the cost of a developer a two month project would cost Bacula Systems about $30K without any margin at all. One can outsource to various countries such as India at approximately one third the price, but then you end up with a pile of code that may be *very* difficult to maintain (we have seen this with several of the large community contributions, which were developed by experienced people). For the future: Most of the major features that I personally am developing are going into the Enterprise version. All of the bugs fixed by Bacula Systems are going to the community. Most all the small or non-Enterprise features are going in to the community. All the community patches and other contributions that make sense to put in Bacula are going to the community (unless it is from a Bacula partner who wishes the code to go only in the Enterprise version). Bottom line: Bacula as a project has all the features that Community users need. Bacula for Enterprise needs a good number of high end features (some of which have proprietary interfaces -- Oracle, certain Microsoft code, ...). The Bacula Enterprise features, unlike the community features, are far from complete. Over time when the current differentiating features become less important, they will be pushed back into the community. If you are a community member, then Bacula has everything you need. I know, because I use it here for my 10-15 computers, and I do not need any of the Enterprise features. If you are on the boarder line or well over it toward needing Enterprise features, you have a number of solutions: 1. Develop the code yourself 2. Encourage the community to develop it 3. Offer a bounty 4. Go without the feature 5. Pay for an Enterprise contract 6. Someone can fork the project, but in my opinion, in that case the fork will be dead within 5 years, because it is extremely difficult to write fast and robust backup software that works across many platforms (I have been doing it professionally since 1972). Note, I no longer have the time or energy to attempt to seek funds from the community. I did it, but in general it doesn't work (at least for me). I will do anything I can to help such an effort though. Bacula Systems is not taking anything away from the community. On the contrary, it is providing the community with a lot of services that would not otherwise be there. Just take a look at the new features in Bacula 5.2.x. Look at how many bug fix versions we put out since 5.2.0 -- that takes a lot of work, and is possible only because there are salaried persons working on it (free for the community). I am not sure how contributions of many new features by Bacula Systems in versions 5.0.0 and again in 5.2.0 can give you concerns about quietly killing the community version. Your actual words were to quietly kill the Open Source version. For your information, the Enterprise version *is* Open Source. However, we distribute it only to customers, which is 100% in conformance with the AGPLv3 Open Source license it has. This is in general, not just to Jesper: You may not agree with me. That is OK. If you do, that is even better. Please don't get upset though, there are enough things in the world going wrong that it is not worth the effort to complain to someone who has and is giving you lots of very useful *free* software. Best regards, Kern On 03/23/2012 07:10 AM, Jesper Krogh wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure </pre> Kern Sibbald 2012-03-23T08:20:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/152 <pre>Hello, This morning, we released Bacula version 5.2.6 to Source Forge. You may be wondering why there have been so many releases of version 5.2.x. It isn't because there are any problems, but rather that Bacula Systems is now very well organized (with a new CEO and many new employees) that I now have more time to work on Bacula, and that means we are fixing more bugs, implementing new features and such. The results you will see when appropriate in releases. At the end of 2011 Bacula Systems introduced a new service offering specifically for existing community users called the Bacula Enterprise Selective Migration Plan. This program is geared towards IT shops and systems administrators who have deployed the community version of Bacula and wish to professionalize their backup and restore infrastructure using the Enterprise Edition. The success of this plan surpassed our greatest expectations and therefore we have decided to extend it until the 31st of March 2012! The content of the offer remains the same and includes: - Bacula Enterprise Edition (latest version available) and all updates and new while you are subscribed. - 1 plugin of your choice (see list in the current price list) - 1 day of remote consulting - Migration to 4.0 White Paper - Seats in our training courses (Admin I and/or II) at 50% discount. You may find more details about this Selective Migration Plan on our website at: http://www.baculasystems.com/index.php/products/bee-selective-mig-plan.html Below for your convenience, you will find the Release Notes. Thanks for using Bacula. Best regards, Kern ================================================================== Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.6 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount) General: -------- The 5.2.6 version is a bug fix release. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the SQL shared libraries. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted each time the Director starts. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 5.2.3 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons. New Feature: - The restore tree cd command accepts wild cards within each part of a path. Wild cards apply only to a single part at a time: i.e. cd a*/b*/xx* will match abc/bcd/xxfxx but */xx* will not match the above filename. Changes since 5.2.5: 17Feb12 - Fix old exchange-fd plugin Accurate checkFile code. - Insert the slot field as a numeric field. - Fix #1831 by dropping the table before creating it - Make cd accept wildcards - Remove bad optimization from Accurate code - Lock read acquire in SD to prevent to read jobs getting the same thing - Implement more robust check in other drives for tape slot wanted - Fix lost dcr point -- memory loss in Copy/Migration + possible confusion - Ensure that bvfs SQL link is not shared - Fix error printing in acl and xattr code. - Backport better error debug output for sd plugins. - Add wait on bad connection for security - Make mtx-changer more fault tolerant - Fix 32/64 bit problems in SD sscanf commands - Skip certain filesystem types on some platforms. - Allow BVFS to browse and restore Base jobs - Add error message to .bvfs_clear_cache command - Fix plugin bug with multiple simultaneous jobs Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1831 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization &amp; Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ </pre> Kern Sibbald 2012-02-22T14:36:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/151 <pre>Hello, Yesterday, we released Bacula version 5.2.5 to Source Forge. Below for your convenience are the ReleaseNotes. Best regards, Kern Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 General: -------- The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix release. Please note there was a seemingly innocent patch made to version 5.2.4 that had rather serious negative consequences on restarted jobs. Anyone using restarted jobs should upgrade from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the SQL shared libraries. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted each time the Director starts. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 5.2.3 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons. Changes since 5.2.4: 25Jan12 - Disable usage of JS_Warning waiting for a more complete implementation - Removed old sd plugins which doesn't work anymore. - Adapt sample-query.sql for Warning job status - Fix location of Qt dlls for Win64 build - Fix MediaView::getSelection Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1824 (1814 1806 1818 non-bugs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 </pre> Kern Sibbald 2012-01-27T18:29:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/150 <pre>Hello, A few days ago, we released Bacula version 5.2.4 to Source Forge. There are quite a number of fixes and updates as you can see in the ReleaseNotes included below. We haven't tested bat in the Windows binaries, but have noticed that there was a small discrepancy between the .dlls and the header files we used to build it, so if you have problems with it, please let me know and I will build a corrected version. Best regards, Kern ============================================= Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.4 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 General: -------- The 5.2.4 version is an bug fix release. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the important notices below for version 5.2.3, particularly the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the SQL shared libraries. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you store .bsr or .mail files in the Bacula working directory, please be aware that they will all be deleted each time the Director starts. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 5.2.3 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older Daemons. Most important changes since 5.2.3: - Fix LZO detection so that it correctly detects presense of header files. - Switch the way we handle shared object versioning. - Backport Enterprise spec files to platforms/rpms - Switch to using Qt 4.7.4 (you must download new depkgs-qt-24Dec11.tar.gz - Update depkgs to depkgs-24Dec11.tar.gz - Enhancements to File daemon and Storage daemon plugins - Compiler warning cleanups - xattr fixes - Cleanup old files in the working directory when the Director starts Changes since 5.2.3: 18Jan12 - Prepare for adding IPv6 to Windows in the future - Fix bug #1822 Schedule run line parsing fails if value is keyword - Revert to 5.0 size computation in accurate elements, may fix #1821 - Mark that a file was found in the accurate list in the ff_pkt with a variable - Definitive fix for MySQL MaxValue problem bug #1810 - Initialize delta_seq to -1 because 0 means that we have already a ve - Adapt bfileview for bvfs tables - Set job status to running when restore job really starts - Remove ifdeffing that turned off JS_Warning status -- must have been test code - Add support for soname setting in libtool. - Fix bug #1815 - Fix systemd pid files. - Limit migration/copy jobs to starting 100 at a time - Avoid conflict with PAGE_SIZE define - Send previous Job name during Incremental/Differential to the FD - Fix bug #1811 Filed fails to backup more then one xattr. - system.posix_acl_default is also an acl stored as xattr - Fix bug #1807 - Add configure for new redhat spec files - Backport Enterprise spec files - Fix bad memset() reported by clang - Test new plugin function in bpipe and test plugin - Try to fix openssl problem with signal - Add BSOCK::set_killable() - Set directory attributes when using Replace=Never when Bacula create - Use RestoreObject type in Catalog - Add new features in plugin - Add helper for ini files - Implement run accurate=yes/no - Add .bvfs_clear_cache - Add Accurate and MaxRunSchedTime in Schedule resource - Fix bug #1802 configure code to detect LZO is broken - Fix bug #1806 failure to save second and more xattr. - Add second xattr to show bug 1806 - Fix seg fault in plugin event loop - Fix #3210 about slow restore with bvfs Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 1802 1806 1807 1810 1811 1815 1821 1822 3210 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! 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Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure </pre> Kern Sibbald 2011-12-17T15:21:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/148 <pre>Hello, This is to announce that Bacula version 5.2.2 has been released to Source Forge as well as especially for our Cuban friends who are locked out of Source Forge: www.bacula.org/downloads/Bacula-5.2.2. For those of you who tested by running CDash (one person) and by testing the Windows version (one person), many thanks :-). For those of you who might be interested in the ReleaseNotes, I include them below. Best regards, Kern Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.2 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 (Using SLOCCount General: -------- The 5.2.2 version is an important bug fix release. It contains also some additions and performance improvements. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are upgrading directly from 5.0.3 to this version, please see the important notices below for version 5.2.1, particularly the database upgrade and the difference in packaging the SQL shared libraries. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 5.2.2 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older F Daemons. Changes since 5.2.1: ----------------- - Implement -t option for Bat - Require correct Qt version 4.6.2 or later to build bat - Get new lib/plugins.h - Pull new SD plugin files from Master - Fix script to set mode of cats scripts - Add Systemd configure options - Split messages line by line before sending it to syslog() fix #3325 - Fix bvfs_restore on MySQL - Fix #3308 where a SMTP problem can block the director - Change locking scheme of the mountpoint cache. - Enhance mountcache with rescan option after interval. - Add %D option to edit_job_code, simplify callbacks on director side - Move Zdeflate and Zinflate to seperate file. - Put libraries in the correct order for non shared libs. - Remove last traces of &lt; at &gt;SQL_BINDIR&lt; at &gt; and &lt; at &gt;DB_TYPE&lt; at &gt; - Fix bug #1774 - Move batch insert detection into db.m4 - bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previo - bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update - Add missing bwild &amp; bregex man8 pages - Fix compilation issue of wx-console #1778 - bvfs: fix filter for pattern= bvfs parameter - Improve speed of BVFS with SQLite, Thanks to J.Starek - bvfs: add clear_cache function - bvfs: Handle windows drive when building path hierarchy Closed Bugs Since 5.2.1 ----------------------- 1774 1778 3308 3325 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d </pre> Kern Sibbald 2011-11-27T11:26:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/147 <pre>Hello, Today, we released Bacula version 5.2.1. If you downloaded version 5.2.0, sorry for the inconvenience, but I *strongly recommend you download version 5.2.1 to avoid possible problems. Several people have commented lately that the Bacula project appears dead, but it is not at all the case. The developers have been working hard. Since version 5.0.3, there have been over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 developers, making 1,851 commits to the git repo, and we have closed 88 bug reports (the large part of them being fixed). There are also some nice new features -- some of the main ones are: - LZO Compression - New Tray Monitor - Purge Migration Job - Changes in Bvfs (Bacula Virtual FileSystem) - Changes in the Pruning Algorithm - Ability to Verify any specified Job - Additions to RunScript variables - Additions to the Plugin API - ACL enhancements - XATTR enhancements - Class Based Database Backend Drivers - Hash List Enhancements Bacula 5.2.1 is now available for download from Source Forge, where you can also find the ReleaseNotes, or you can read them at the following link: http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=news and the New Features section of the manual is at: http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_2_x.html Enjoy. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. 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You can download by following the link it at: http://www.baculasystems.com/index.php/try-bacula-enterprise-version.html and as you will see at the above link, you can download and use it for free, or you can get help installing it. We wish you a great experience with this trial version. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. 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Obviously I'll be there too and will discuss the Bacula roadmap as I see it -- however, due to some nice unexpected user code submissions, the roadmap does not always work out as I expect :-) . I am looking forward to being there and to meeting you there too. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry&amp;reg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos &amp; much more. Register early &amp; save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 </pre> Kern Sibbald 2011-08-02T18:49:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/144 <pre>Hello, Most of you who attended last year's Bacula Conference, and responded to the survey earlier this year, specifically requested that we hold another Bacula Conference, which is what we are doing. We are beginning to organize the conference, and as we did last year, we would like to give you your chance to make presentations. If you are interested in presenting something at the next Bacula Conference, or you want a bit of information about the conference (still in the early planning stage for the moment), please read more at the following link: http://www.baculasystems.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&amp;view=items&amp;id=252:bacula-developer-conference-2011 Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! 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I thought you might like a bit of feedback on the results so far (more after the survey is complete). 1. I was surprised how many of you appreciate the need for commercial support by Bacula Systems. No one (so far) has responded that Bacula Systems is not at all important to the project. 2. I have purposely refrained from discussing Bacula Systems too much on this list, because this is a community list, and I would not like to bother you about the commercial aspects of Bacula. However, I did receive a few comments such as the following one: I realise that Bacula Systems is a necessary evil but at times I feel that 3rd party contibutors may be put off because lots of planing seems to be done by Bacula systems. In practice I don't think there is a problem but just lurking on the -devel list makes it sound like that. or others that said that they wanted to know what exactly is in the Enterprise edition compared to the Community version. At least one person believes that the Bacula Systems plans are secret. Answer: Yes, I can understand those concerns. Bacula Systems plans are not secret, it is just that I haven't announced them on this list. We openly discussed them in the Bacula Developer's conference and will do so in the next conference as well. Since most people seem to want to hear more about Bacula Systems, I will begin including something on it in the next status report (generally quarterly). 3. One person requested that we stop putting features in the Enterprise version that are not in the Community version. Answer: As of the current Enterprise release (4.0.4) there are NO features in the Enterprise release that are not in the Community release (this will change over time, see below...). Our initial concept was to have full open source and to make the source of the Enterprise available to everyone. Unfortunately, with that fully open source strategy the first two years of Bacula Systems generated losses. We have realized that we must differentiate the Enterprise version and the Community version. Most Open Source companies do this by becoming Open Core companies. That is they have a free Community version and a proprietary commercial version with more features. Our new strategy is to remain fully Open Source, but to differentiate, as other companies do, what is Enterprise and what is Community. Thus, a certain part of the new development that Bacula Systems undertakes will be Open Source for the Community version and another part will be Open Source for the Enterprise version. This strategy seems to be working. In many ways, we differentiate like Open Core companies, but remain full Open Source. To complete the answer, today, Bacula Systems is putting some new features into the Enterprise version (mostly plugins) that will not immediately be available in the Community. Those new plugins (Windows related) are currently in beta test, and most of such features (such as Oracle plugins, SAP plugins, NDMP, ...) are high end features needed by companies but not very useful to most community members. All bugs that we fix are fixed in both the Community and the Enterprise versions, and I expect that over time many of the Enterprise features will become available in the Community version. For now I'll stop there, but there are many other interesting subjects. I do encourage you to fill out the survey, because it is an excellent way to let us know what you are thinking. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5CXJ7S3 Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d </pre> Kern Sibbald 2011-01-24T16:08:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/142 <pre>Hello, As you can see from the email below, we have been planning to hold a Bacula Developer's conference the 27th and 28th of September. Despite some early enthusiasm, there are currently not enough people signed up to hold the conference. However disappointing that is, I am hoping that there will be enough interest manifested by the end of this week. Real interest can be shown by sending a registration email to the address noted below. Best regards, Kern =========== Email sent 9 August ========== Hello, We will be holding the first Bacula Developer's conference during the last part of September and would enjoy meeting you and having you participate in the conference. Please see below for more information. For those of you who are planning to give a presentation, please contact me with the title and a brief abstract of your talk so that I can add it to the bacula.org web site page concerning the conference. Please see the details below. Best regards, Kern Bacula Developer's Conference 27-28 September 2010 Yverdon-les-Bains Switzerland Are you interested in: - Meeting the Bacula developers in person. - Learning how we maintain the source code. - Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers. - Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap. - Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers. - Learning more about Bacula Systems. - Hearing from other Bacula developers and users. If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula Systems founders and key Bacula developers person. This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to sponsor part of your trip -- please ask. Sunday 26 Sept. Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and optional. Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010 Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes) Tentative program: - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...) - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor - Bacula in Brazil - Linux Bare Metal Recovery - Bacula development process - Bacula Roadmap - Bweb - How Bacula Systems supports the project -- Rob Morrison Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010 Birds of a feather meetings: Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning, organizing, ... - Using git - How patches are integrated - Regression testing - CDash regression dashboard - Release cycle - Roadmap discussion and your input Brain storming new backup strategies such as deduplication - How Bacula plugins work - Rpms and how to improve them ... Naturally, we will furnish plenty of beer and pizza and other goodies. Your input needed: We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible. Registration: To register for this event, please send an email to: isabelle&lt; at &gt;baculasystems.com and include your: Name, Company, Telephone number, Mobile Telephone number, Date of arrival, Date of departure, and any special interests you have for the conference. In return, Isabelle will send you an email that gives detailed information on available hotels, our location, how to get here, and other useful information for the conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-08-30T17:30:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/141 <pre>Hello, We will be holding the first Bacula Developer's conference during the last part of September and would enjoy meeting you and having you participate in the conference. Please see below for more information. For those of you who are planning to give a presentation, please contact me with the title and a brief abstract of your talk so that I can add it to the bacula.org web site page concerning the conference. Please see the details below. Best regards, Kern Bacula Developer's Conference 27-28 September 2010 Yverdon-les-Bains Switzerland Are you interested in: - Meeting the Bacula developers in person. - Learning how we maintain the source code. - Hearing presentations about Bacula from the developers. - Learning about and helping define the Bacula roadmap. - Giving feedback or ideas directly to the developers. - Learning more about Bacula Systems. - Hearing from other Bacula developers and users. If so, you should know that there will be a Bacula Developer's conference in Yverdon, Switzerland (about 1.5 hour by train from Geneva Airport) on the 27th and 28th of September. In addition, Bacula Systems will hold an Open House on Sunday the 26th beginning at noon where you can meet most of the Bacula Systems founders and key Bacula developers person. This conference will be most appropriate for developers and advanced Bacula users, but it is open and free for everyone interested in Bacula. If you are or have been a contributor to the Bacula project, the project may be able to sponsor part of your trip -- please ask. Sunday 26 Sept. Bacula Systems Open House. Visit the Bacula Systems offices and meet the Bacula developers and the Bacula Systems founders. Totally informal and optional. Day 1: Monday 27 September 2010 Presentations by Bacula developers and anyone else who would like to give a formal presentation (30 to 45 minutes) Tentative program: - Swisscom sharing our experiences with Bacula (SAP backup, ...) - DassIT new Bacula conf file GUI editor - Bacula in Brazil - Linux Bare Metal Recovery - Bacula development process - Bacula Roadmap - Bweb - How Bacula Systems supports the project -- Rob Morrison Day 2: Tuesday 28 September 2010 Birds of a feather meetings: Informal direct conversations with the developers, planning, organizing, ... - Using git - How patches are integrated - Regression testing - CDash regression dashboard - Release cycle - Roadmap discussion and your input Brain storming new backup strategies such as deduplication - How Bacula plugins work - Rpms and how to improve them ... Naturally, we will furnish plenty of beer and pizza and other goodies. Your input needed: We are still in the process of organizing the presentations and the time with the developers, so if you are planning to attend and you would like to make a formal presentation, or if you have some particular subjects that you would like us to address, please let us know as soon as possible. Registration: To register for this event, please send an email to: isabelle&lt; at &gt;baculasystems.com and include your: Name, Company, Telephone number, Mobile Telephone number, Date of arrival, Date of departure, and any special interests you have for the conference. In return, Isabelle will send you an email that gives detailed information on available hotels, our location, how to get here, and other useful information for the conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-08-09T13:06:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/140 <pre>Hello, We have released Bacula version 5.0.3 to Source Forge. For those of you who cannot use Source Forge, you can find the release in: www.bacula.org/downloads/Bacula-5.0.3 This 5.0.3 version is significant bug fix update to version 5.0.2. It includes new code and some new features. There is no database change since prior versions of 5.0. Note, if you are running 5.0.0, read the 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 release notes below in the 5.0.1 release section. Important!!! 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 5.0.3 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons. Changes and New Features: - If a VSS (Windows) snapshot fails, the whole Job is failed, previously it printed a warning message and continued. - New editing codes %b = Job Bytes and %f = Job Files for runscripts - Any non-Bacula project plugins (i.e. third party plugins) must be upgraded to specify AGPLv3 in place of the GPLv2 used previously for the PLUGIN_LICENSE. - The bat Media page text columns can be sorted by clicking on the column. - If possible, the SD will automatically update the catalog Volume size if it does not match the Volume size. The mismatch between the Volume sizes typically occurs when the FD has a comm line drop or the FD crashes. Bug fixes 1538 1554 1564 1567 1568 1569 1571 1577 1581 1582 1587 1594 1595 1606 1610 - Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3 - Make Win32 no filesystem change more explicit - Backport Branch-4.0 release to Branch-5.0 - Massive backport from Branch-5.1 to Branch-5.0 - Fix postgresql catalog creation when version is not on the first line - Fix bug #1610 handle empty xattr values on Linux and xBSD. - Garbage collect memory pool at end of job and before sm_dump - Add xattr seg fault protection suggested by Marco for bug #1610 - Add archlinux to os.m4 - More fixes for 32/64 bit problems in smartall - Fix 32/64 bit problem in smartalloc dump routine - Fix bad copy/paste in commit c88dccb88 prably a seg fault - Add .dump and .exit commands for daemons - Make SD automatically fix the Volume size in the Catalog when out of sync - Use Pmsg in smartall.c rather than printf for tracing Windows - Up maximum block size to 20M - Fix for TLS bugs #1568 and #1599 - Improve comm line error handling for TLS, may fix bug #1568 and #1599 - Fix problem when sending Cancel event to plugin - Convert all Jmsg on the watchdog thread to Qmsg - Fix SD crash due to mismatched lock/unlock in error condition - Fix bug #1587 if you have clients with different catalogs configured, both catalogs contains all clients after a reload or restart of the dir - Fix bug #1577 During migration: ERROR in block.c:950 Failed ASSERT: dev-&gt;is_open() by moving and commenting out the ASSERT() - Skip HB kill in FD if HB thread terminated - Fix crash from unequal volume_lock/unlock calls - New prunning algorithm -- should be more accurate - Save any dumps during regression to dumps directory - Fix crash from rw_lock/unlock miss match - Attempt to fix duplicate job kill seg fault - Replace pthread_kill by my_thread_send_signal() in jcr.c - fix #1595 about batch mode detection problem for postgresql with non standard install dir - Fix #1594 about prune copy jobs - Apply literal string fix in printf submitted by Luca Berra - Fix bug #1582 Restore from multiple storage daemons breaks subsequent backups - Fix segfault on "cancel jobid=" command - Fix bug #1554 Windows installer doesn't honor /S flag - Remove pool zap code that breaks 2drive-concurrent-test - Fix #1571 and install libraries with 755 perms - Fix bug #1581 ASSERTs in src/dird/jobq.c can never trigger - Fix problem with BaseJob and Accurate FileSet options on client side - Fix for bug #1569 deadlock/crash in Dir - Fix segfault when loading Plugins - Fix #1567 about display of long volume names truncated during restore - Added new bacula-libs package. - Fix bug #1538 Start Scripts return incorrect value - Fix bug #1564 init scripts not LSB compliant Please note that now that there is an Enterprise version, which I run on my site, I have no longer tested this version in production. That said, it has been tested on at least 5 flavors of Linux, OpenSolaris, and Mac. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-08-06T18:34:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/139 <pre>Hello, This is to let you know that Eric has released the tar.gz source files and the Windows binaries to the Bacula section of the Source Forge download area. This 5.0.2 version is primarily an important bug fix update to version 5.0.1. Please read the full ReleaseNotes. 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 5.0.2 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons. Changes since 5.0.1 ------------------- Bug fixes 1502 1511 1517 1524 1527 1532 1536 1541 1549 1551 1553 1559 1560 - Probable fix for SD crash bug #1553 - Fix #1559 problem when restoring pruned jobs with a regexp - Fix for bug #1560 bcopy cannot find Volume - Fix cancel crash bug #1551 - Check if sql backend is thread-safe - Correct Pool display in SD status. Fixes bug #1541 - Fix cancel crash reported by Stephen Thompson - Rewind on close to fix #1549 - Remove closelog() in bpipe fixes bug #1536 - Fix #1517 about missing Base level in .level command - Replace ASSERT in block.c with fail Job - Fix database locking calling db_lock and returning from function without calling db_unlock. - Add missing db_unlock to bvfs_update_cache. - Fix #1532 about permission on binaries - Fix #1527 about deadlock during migration - Another fix for OpenSSLv1 - Add -lrt to Solaris links - Fix tls.c for OpenSSLv1 - Fix #1511 when trying to insert more than 50.000 directories in bvfs - Fix plugin load not to stop if one plugin bad -- pointed out by James - Remove --without-qwt from configure statement. - Second correct fix to bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files - Fix bug #1524 verify fails after adding or removing files - Apply fix suggested by Andreas in bug #1502 for mediaview column sort problem - Fix OpenSSL 1.x problem in crypto.c on Fedora 12 - Display AllowCompress warning message only if compression used in FileSet Thanks for using Bacula :-) Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-04-28T17:23:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/138 <pre>Hello, Bacula version 5.0.1 source code and Windows (32/64 bit) binaries have been released to Source Forge (thanks Eric). This is a major bug fix release including a few directives that have been rewritten, one new directive, and some different directive behavior (see the release notes below). As is usual for a patch release (last digit changes by one), this version is compatible with the 5.0.0 database and with prior clients. However, you *must* upgrade all components that are on any one machine (that is you must upgrade your Director, Storage daemon, and File daemon at the same time, if they reside on the same machine). Note, Bacula does not normally uninstall previous versions, and we have changed the shared object naming convention, so you might want to first save your configuration files then uninstall the old Bacula using the old Bacula uninstall prior to installing the new one. If you do not, it should not be serious, but you may be left with some older Bacula shared objects that are not used and hence wasting a small amount of disk space. If you are upgrading from version 3.0.x or prior, please see the full release notes as you must do a database upgrade. When updating from 5.0.0 to this release there is no database upgrade needed. Scott has made a number of changes and improvements in the rpm packaging over the past few weeks since version 5.0.0 was released, so he will probably be releasing the 5.0.1 rpms quite soon. Thanks for using Bacula :-) Best regards, Kern ============= Performance Note ================== Some of you have encountered performance problems with your database (mainly with MySQL) with Bacula version 5.0.0. This is mainly because we've changed the SQL query used for restore, accurate jobs and base jobs. We have extensively tested this change, and though it should be a little bit slower than the previous versions, on a well configured database it should run extremely well. We strongly recommend to avoid the temptation to add new indexes. In general, these will cause very significant performance problems in other areas. A better approch is to carefully check that all your MySQL memory configuation parameters are are suitable for the size of your installation. If you backup millions of files, you need to adapt the database memory configuration parameters concerning sorting, joining and global memory. By default, sort and join parameters are very small (sometimes 8Kb), and having sufficient memory specified by those parameters is extremely important to run fast. If adjusting your MySQL memory configuration values does not solve your problem, you can also consider switching to PostgreSQL, which performs much better with Bacula on big installations (many millions of files per Job). However for large installations, you will also need to adjust the default PostgreSQL memory configuration parameters. ========================================== Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.1 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Allow Duplicate Jobs directive has been significantly reworked, and the default value has changed. See below. Truncate On Purge has been totally rewritten. See the new features section of the manual. When Volume Poll Interval is set in the SD DEVICE configuration, (default 5 mins), after a certain number of polling tries (approx 10) polling will stop and the operator will be asked to resolve the problem. Previously there was no limit, and an error message could be produced at each poll attempt. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Changes since 5.0.0 ------------------- - We believe that we have resolved most of the problems concerning canceled or failed jobs being "stuck" in the Director. There is one outstanding problem in the SD when canceling jobs that we will fix in the next major release. If you see jobs that seem to be stuck, in general issuing a cancel command in bconsole should now make them go away. Directives: - The default for "Allow Duplicate Jobs" has been changed from no to yes. If you use this directive, please check your conf file, and note the next two items !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - AllowHigherDuplicates disabled. It did not work as documented and was confusing. - New directive "CancelLowerLevelDuplicates" See New Features section in the manual. - Truncate on Purge rewritten. See New Features section in the manual. Bug fixes: 1448 1466 1467 1468 1476 1481 1486 1488 1494 1497 1499 1501 1505 1509 1513 - Ensure SD asks for help when looping even if poll set. Fixes bug #1513. - Fix three-pool regress bug - Modify bacula.spec fixes bug #1505 - This version fixes an issue where the console window would start out docked. It is fixed by initiating the variables in the Pages class wi constructor. - Fix make_catalog_backup.pl fails when catalog db is on other host - Apply MacOSX installer patch from bug #1509 - Apply fix to previous fix of Copy problem. Fix proposed by reporter o #1476 - Fix bug #1501 -t does not print errors - Apply SQLite3 update fix from bug #1497 - Apply bashism fix for diskchanger.in script from bug #1499 - Apply rpm fix for Sci Linux from bug #1494 - Take most recent Ukranian po from bug #1448 - Probable fix for Copy/Migration bug #1476 - Fix bug #1488 -- avoid recursion and race conditions in messages.c - Upgrade cats library also to 5.0.0 - Fix missing console page in bat - Add bat help files to Window install - Improve Windows upgrade to ensure old FD is shutdown - Fix bug #1481 -- bat consumes all console file descriptors - Backport truncate on purge from 5.1.x - Fix bug #1486 -- bat doesn't show any errors on command-line - Update the bsock error URL - Correct .my.cnf umask in make_catalog_backup.pl - Apply fix for dbcheck use by make_catalog_backup.pl - Fix seg fault in bscan from new comment field - Allow multiple CNs when using TLS - Fix seg fault in SQlite driver - Make shared libs version the same as the Bacula release version - Remove file_index sequential check - Fix #1466 about Bogus pruning message For Packagers: 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty. The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can be found in &lt;bacula-source&gt;/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is not installed by the Makefiles 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on any update, any existing file should not be overwritten. 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt. However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download location, read the README file and follow the instructions. If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later, this problem (bug) does not exist. depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong. 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure &lt;your-options&gt; is strongly discouraged. Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong shared objects. 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full recommendation is: #!/bin/sh # Recommended configure script for Bacula prefix=/opt/bacula email=xxx&lt; at &gt;yyy.zz CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ ./configure \ --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ --docdir=${prefix}/html \ --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ --enable-smartalloc \ --enable-tray-monitor \ --enable-bat \ --with-mysql \ --with-dump-email=${email} \ --with-job-email=${email} \ --with-smtp-host=localhost \ --with-baseport=9101 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please send an email to the bacula-devel list. 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version. So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between different versions of the shared objects. 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release. This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to use readline or not as you please. ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel&amp;#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-02-25T14:33:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/137 <pre>Hello, Bat: We have received a number of problem reports and bugs about building and running bat, and unfortunately our documentation was insufficient, which is hopefully now corrected. Bat is built with the Qt packages for doing the GUI. I have worked with a lot of different GUI packages (Sun/Solaris, Mac, Windows, OS/2, wxWidgits, X, Qt3, Qt4, ...) and I prefer Qt4 over all the other ones. However, it is very version dependent, which is a bit of a pain. As a consequence, the only way to get a stable working version of Bat is to build it on the version of Qt where we have built and tested it. That version is Qt 4.3.4 (default on Ubuntu 8.04). So to get bat to build correctly, we have released a depkgs-qt that contains the source code for Qt 4.3.4, and if you are trying to build Bat, either you should load the Qt 4.3.4 binaries on your system, or download our depkgs-qt release from Source Forge and built Qt 4.3.4 there. Building from depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, it is just used in the Bat build. We have updated the manuals (5.0.0 and 5.1.x-development) on the web site to have more detailed instructions on building Bat. Hopefully this will resolve any and all problems you may be having. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please see: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Installing_Bacula.html#SECTION001250000000000000000 for details. ============================== ActionOnPurge: --- Please do not use!!! Action on purge is a new directive in 5.0.0, which permits automatically truncating your volumes with the volume is purged. Unfortunately, this new code is not very robust and in some cases can lead to problems. We strongly recommend that you avoid using this directive. We are rewriting the implementation for version 5.0.1 where it will be a very useful feature. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-02-03T10:57:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/136 <pre>Hello, The source code tar files and the Windows (32/64) binaries for Bacula version 5.0.0 have been released to Source Forge. We are very pleased with this release for a number of reasons: 1. It is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Bacula Project 2. This is the first release that has been "cut" by someone other than me. Eric Bollengier did this one. 3. This release has a good number of important stablity enhancements as indicated by how few errors we have been seeing in the regresson tests. 4. More and more users are helping us test by running the regression tests (thanks). 5. There has been a significant number of contributions to this release -- in fact, the source code (SF git repo) contains patches in this version submitted by 21 people. Many thanks, and please keep it up! I have spent a good deal of effort trying to improve the Win32/64 install procedure. However, there are a number of problems. Please be sure to look at the Warnings below -- particularly the fact that you must de-install the prior version *before* attempting to upgrade to the current version. Thanks again to everyone for using Bacula and for all those who have contributed to the project. Best regards, Kern Release Notes for Bacula 5.0.0 Bacula code: Total files = 1,081 Total lines = 217,272 (Using SLOCCount) Release Numbering: ----------------------------------------------------------- You might be wondering why this release jumps from 3.0.x to 5.0.0 thus skipping version 4.0.0. We have done this for several reasons: first, we wanted a way of distinguishing the numbering system for the Bacula System Enterprise version and the Bacula Project version. So, to do so, we have decided that the first number of the Bacula Project version will always be odd, and the first number of the Enterprise version will always be even. Thus the Bacula Project now moves from 3.0.x to 5.0.x. In addition, we want to keep the Bacula Project version larger than the Enterprise version to indicate that the Bacula Project version is more advanced or has more features than the Enterprise version. For memory, the current Enterprise version is 2.6.1, and the next release (in a few months -- before June 2010) will be version 4.0.0. Warning: -------------------------------------------------------------- Please note the three Warnings below before doing any install or upgrade. Changes since 3.0.3a (the last Bacula Project release): ------------------------------------------------------- Bug fixes: 1337 1351 1352 1354 1357 1361 1367 1369 1370 1373 1376 1391 1403 1409 1420 1422 1427 1428 1431 1450 1454 1455 1458 1456 Fixed: - Problem that locks the Director when the SMTP server wasn't responding to the bsmtp program - Restore's dir command shows incorrect file sizes - Fix various problems with the reload command - Fix problems with conio - Eliminate several deadlocks or potential race conditions from SD Enhancements: - Project 5: Truncate volume after purge - Project 6: File Deduplication using Base Jobs - Project 10: Restore from Multiple Storage Daemons - Project 11: AllowCompression per Device - Project 23: Add Maximum Concurent Jobs for Devices to balance load between drives - Add Accurate Fileset Options to configure accurate detection. Can use checksum verification for example. - Allow FD to keep root read but drop write permission (CAP) - Secure handling of passwords for catalog backup - Add Tab-completion for Bconsole when using Readline - Add Bvfs API to query the catalog without building a memory tree - Add new speed test to btape program - Add new Bat screens (Autochanger content, Job view, Media view, ...) - Windows version of Bat - Added Spanish Bacula translation - New bconsole -u nnn option to have timeout on commands - Allow Migrate, Copy, and Virtual Full to read and write to the same Pool - show disabled -- shows disabled Jobs - Add Pool File and Job retention periods (take precedence over Client) - Many ACL improvements - Level added to FD status Job entry - Allow turning on/off Block Checksum per device - Set Device Poll interval to 5 minutes -- previously did not poll - Implement lock manager with bad order protection Compatibility: As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time, and on any given machine, you must run only one version of Bacula. This means that on the Director and Storage daemon machines, you *must* upgrade your File daemon as well. Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 5.0.0 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons immediately. However, we recommend that you do so as soon as is reasonable for your situation. ================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== New Catalog format in version 5.0.0 (3.1.9 or later) ----------------------------------------------------- This release of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of scripts that permit to convert a 3.0.x (version 11) catalog to 5.0.0 (version 12). 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 5.0.0 version of Bacula Note the new ./configure options in the manuals see the link at the bottom of this file. 4. cd &lt;your-scripts-installation-directory&gt; 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 3.1.9 (e.g. 3.0.3) then you need to run the update_bacula_tables script that will be found in the &lt;bacula&gt;/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. ================================================================ ================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== If you upgrade a previous Win32 client installation, you must first stop the File daemon, then uninstall it before attempting the upgrade. If you do not do so, the upgrade will probably fail and you will need to manually find and run the Uninstall.exe file, before you can upgrade to the new version. This is because the file locations are different. If you want to save your previous bacula-fd.conf file, please do so before uninstalling it. ================================================================ ================== Warning !!!!!! ========================== Due to permissions problems on Windows Vista and later systems, we no longer require SYSTEM or Administrator permissions to access the binaries and configuation files. If you wish to restrict access to these files, please see the New Features section of the manual for how to set access control lists. ================================================================ Note, the Win32 Installer no longer installs the Bacula Servers (Director and Storage daemon). See the New Features section of the manual for more details. ============ Documentation improvements needed ================== Note!!!!! The 5.0.0+ documentation has a number of known problems: 1. We have reduced the number of manuals, which has fixed many of the broken links found in the old 3.0.x version, but there are still some that need fixing. 2. Integration of the 3.0.x features into the main manuals has not yet been done. The documentation will not be completed in the near future due to lack manpower. If you are unhappy with this situation as we are, we suggest you help by submitting patches to the documentation. Thanks. ===== This release includes large number of new features and changes. It should be more or less compatible with previous xx.conf files and File daemons providing that you are not using any of the new features. Please see the New Features chapter of the new manual, which documents some but not all the new features (we are still working on it): http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html The ChangeLog has more details. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev </pre> Kern Sibbald 2010-01-25T12:17:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce/135 <pre>Hello, This is to let you know that last Sunday, we released Bacula Version 3.0.3 to Source Forge. If you are not already running 3.0.x, please read the full 3.0.x release notes. Important!!! Version 3.0.3 is primarily a important bug fix update to version 3.0.2. Changes since 3.0.2: Bug fixes: 1391, 1288, 1346, 1352, 1359, 1355, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1368, 1369, 1370, 1371, 1382 Fixes: Apply James' fix for some Exchange plugin crashes Integrate patch for building dmg on OSX from Lorenz Schori &lt;lo&lt; at &gt;znerol.ch&gt; Fix bug #1391 Job status improperly set due to subtle variable overload problem Fix #1352 about double free with regexp and big filenames on windows Apply Graham's idea for recovering from disk full by recursing when doing fixup_write_error ... Make fix for VirtualFull changing device based on suggestion by Nicolae Mihalache &lt;mache&lt; at &gt;abcpages.com&gt; Fix concurrent Job recycle bug #1288 Backport part of one possible fix from bug #1346 Fix bug #1382 newly created disk volumes -&gt; file not found warning Fix Alpha ifdefing -- should fix bug #1359 Use old code for selecting file during restore. Cherry-pick 3.1.x commits tweak space on projects file Fix seg fault in ignoredir code Apply Frank's slash patch Fix seg fault in SD bug #1371 3.0.2-Fix-seg-fault-in-SD-bug-1371.patch Add more info when SD connection refused 3.0.2-Add-more-info-when-SD-connection-refused.patch Fix bug #1355 Director crashes with double free in Accurate SQL query 3.0.2-accurate.patch Fixes bug #1368 ASSERT Failure on MacOS. 3.0.2-mac-path-len.patch Fix #1364 and #1363 about compression buffer error. 3.0.2-zlib-buffer.patch Fixes bug #1365 and #1366 about MacOSX resource forks. 3.0.2-bug-1365.patch and 3.0.2-bug-1366.patch Fix "Exclude Dir Containing" fileset option 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-fd.patch 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing.patch 3.0.2-exclude-dir-containing-top_level.patch Compatibility: As always, both the Director and Storage daemon must be upgraded at the same time. Older 3.0.x and possibly 2.4.x File Daemons are compatible with the 3.0.3 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference </pre> Kern Sibbald 2009-10-23T16:52:33 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.announce