Bacula

Bacula is a completely free, open source and cross-platform graphical/command-line software comprised of network client and server-based backup components designed for system administrators or end-user who are looking for a powerful application for manageing recovery, backup and verification of computer data across a network of computers.

Offers numerous advanced features

While being very efficient and easy to use, Bacula comes with numerous advanced storage management features, which help system administrators to easily find and recover damaged or lost files. Among these, we can mention built-in support for a wide range of tape drives, commercial support, as well as support for full, differential, consolidation and incremental backups.

Additionally, the software supports custom and fully open data formats, supports autochangers, supports file-level deduplication, supports the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), can backup data to tape, DVD or disk, supports staging, supports SQL catalogs, can handle 1 billion objects, offers various Tripwire-like functions, supports Volume Shadow Copy (VSS), and backup span of multiple volumes.

Among other notable changes, we can mention Microsoft Exchange support, backup reports via breport, backup alerts/notifications, deleting of files in incremental mode, encryption datastream through TLS (Transport Layer Security), Microsoft SQL Server database support, Oracle database support, PostgreSQL database support, as well as VMWare vStorage support.

Its graphical user interface (GUI) is extremely easy to use and very intuitive. It will list clients and volumes, allows you to view jobs to run, modify jobs, view graphs, graphs zoom, and provides a restore wizard.

Runs on GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac

Bacula has been described by its developers as the most popular open source network backup solution. After our throught tests, we can confirm that. for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Both 32 and 64-bit hardware platforms are supported at this time.

What is new in this release:

• Remove NSIS debug
• baculum: Fix opening configuration tabs bug reported by Heitor Faria
• Restore win32 dir from Branch-5.2 and update it
• Add Phil Stracchino's fix for Qt5
• baculum: Fix saving boolean values in schedule Run directive
• rpm: Add Fedora26-64 platform
• baculum: Add link to go back from job configuration window
• Use correct SQL table encoding for Postgresql 10.x
• baculum: Add listbox control and use it for base and device directives
• baculum: Fix showing verify job fields in job run configuration window
• baculum: Revert back volume pool name in volume list window
• baculum: Fix error message about disabled bconsole
• baculum: API endpoints code refactor
• baculum: Add state, number, boolean and id validators
• baculum: Return bconsole disabled error if bconsole support isn't enabled
• baculum: Remove unused api endpoints
• baculum: Fix oauth2 client working in the web part
• baculum: Fix auth setting radio buttons alignement
• baculum: Enlarge interface height to 100%
• baculum: Add more information to cURL error
• baculum: New reworked restore wizard
• baculum: Wizards view improvements
• baculum: Add restore hardlinks support in api
• baculum: Add strip_prefix, add_prefix, add_suffix and regex_where restore
• options to api restore
• Port missing RestoreObject Plugin Config code from BEE.
• baculum: Stop using hidden fields to store item identifiers
• baculum: Fix redundant loading users portlet
• baculum: Add required config fields asterisk mark

What is new in version :

• Fix build/configure problems with bpluginfo.c
• Refactor lock_volumes so most lock a vol rather than globally
• Add virtualfull-extreme test
• Apply patch for chio-changer-openbsd from bug #1984 -- Implements listall
• Add bat Mac patch from bug #1953
• Fix bug #1812 cannot run Copy/Migrate jobs from bat
• Fix loading of bat translations. Patch from bug #1890
• Fix text input in bat. Fixe bug #1965
• Remove Device from show command as it is not used or updated
• Fix #1982 update enabled keyword in help command
• Fix update_postgresql_tables 10 to 11
• Clean after building doc binaries requested by Willem vd Akker for Debian build
• Require Qt version 4.8.4
• Fix bug #1955 that OK to run? does not retry on bad response
• Backport new lock calls + debug for SD
• Fix bug #1975 new label ignored when first is duplicate.
• Pull src/lib changes from master
• Pull SD files from master
• Turn off prune-test
• Add logdir and bsrdir to regression config
• Add bsrdir and logdir to regress-config
• Changed default directories from /var/bacula to /opt/bacula
• Make spool size max message more explicit
• Display more info when maximum spool size is reached
• Fix TERM defs for Solaris 11 in conio.c
• Allow group to cd to sysconfdir
• Make sysconfdir belong to Bacula user/group and exclude others
• Fix Virtual Full file close bug -- race condition
• Enhance mount message to include read/append
• Improve vol_mgr swap messages
• Enhance output of Using Device to include for read/write
• Add jobid to Pmsg output
• Fix bug #1959 input validation on delete of jobs.
• Fix bug #1956 Authorization Errors false
• Add workaround for #5507 where autoprune and reload are in deadlock
• Allow conf file quoted strings to be used in a list
• Make bfgets handle very long lines
• Avoid seg fault by checking for NULL client -- reported by Arno
• Final fix of bug #1943
• Fix bug #1948 MailOnSuccess get executed on error.
• Fix missing index on Media table
• Fix bug #1943 no message storage on closed database connection.
• Fix bug #1946 Fix problem with MySQL with big Base jobs.
• Reduce wait time in regression RunScripts
• Implement a timeout on regression tests of 15 minutes
• Fix #5346 .bvfs_lsfiles and .bvfs_restore to handle deleted files
• Fix spooldata, accurate and ingnoreduplicate run argument
• Fix messages segfault
• Implement feature request #1939
• fix #1938 about PATH_MAX on hurd
• fix #1938 about MAXPATHLEN on hurd
• Fix bug #1937 OpenBSD autochanger example script
• Fix #4996 about MaxRunTime canceling the job too early
• Fix bug #1934 Wrong values at media list in BAT
• Fix race condition in close_msg that causes seg fault
• Fix double unlink
• More tests for freeing NULL pointers
• Add MaximumConcurrentReadJobs directive to Storage resource
• Add ujobid to .bvfs_get_jobids
• Avoid problem when stripping a relative path
• Fix #4513 about HIDDEN attribute set to parent directory during restore

What is new in version 7.2.0:

• Fix build/configure problems with bpluginfo.c
• Refactor lock_volumes so most lock a vol rather than globally
• Add virtualfull-extreme test
• Apply patch for chio-changer-openbsd from bug #1984 -- Implements listall
• Add bat Mac patch from bug #1953
• Fix bug #1812 cannot run Copy/Migrate jobs from bat
• Fix loading of bat translations. Patch from bug #1890
• Fix text input in bat. Fixe bug #1965
• Remove Device from show command as it is not used or updated
• Fix #1982 update enabled keyword in help command
• Fix update_postgresql_tables 10 to 11
• Clean after building doc binaries requested by Willem vd Akker for Debian build
• Require Qt version 4.8.4
• Fix bug #1955 that OK to run? does not retry on bad response
• Backport new lock calls + debug for SD
• Fix bug #1975 new label ignored when first is duplicate.
• Pull src/lib changes from master
• Pull SD files from master
• Turn off prune-test
• Add logdir and bsrdir to regression config
• Add bsrdir and logdir to regress-config
• Changed default directories from /var/bacula to /opt/bacula
• Make spool size max message more explicit
• Display more info when maximum spool size is reached
• Fix TERM defs for Solaris 11 in conio.c
• Allow group to cd to sysconfdir
• Make sysconfdir belong to Bacula user/group and exclude others
• Fix Virtual Full file close bug -- race condition
• Enhance mount message to include read/append
• Improve vol_mgr swap messages
• Enhance output of Using Device to include for read/write
• Add jobid to Pmsg output
• Fix bug #1959 input validation on delete of jobs.
• Fix bug #1956 Authorization Errors false
• Add workaround for #5507 where autoprune and reload are in deadlock
• Allow conf file quoted strings to be used in a list
• Make bfgets handle very long lines
• Avoid seg fault by checking for NULL client -- reported by Arno
• Final fix of bug #1943
• Fix bug #1948 MailOnSuccess get executed on error.
• Fix missing index on Media table
• Fix bug #1943 no message storage on closed database connection.
• Fix bug #1946 Fix problem with MySQL with big Base jobs.
• Reduce wait time in regression RunScripts
• Implement a timeout on regression tests of 15 minutes
• Fix #5346 .bvfs_lsfiles and .bvfs_restore to handle deleted files
• Fix spooldata, accurate and ingnoreduplicate run argument
• Fix messages segfault
• Implement feature request #1939
• fix #1938 about PATH_MAX on hurd
• fix #1938 about MAXPATHLEN on hurd
• Fix bug #1937 OpenBSD autochanger example script
• Fix #4996 about MaxRunTime canceling the job too early
• Fix bug #1934 Wrong values at media list in BAT
• Fix race condition in close_msg that causes seg fault
• Fix double unlink
• More tests for freeing NULL pointers
• Add MaximumConcurrentReadJobs directive to Storage resource
• Add ujobid to .bvfs_get_jobids
• Avoid problem when stripping a relative path
• Fix #4513 about HIDDEN attribute set to parent directory during restore

What is new in version 7.0.5:

• Fix build/configure problems with bpluginfo.c
• Refactor lock_volumes so most lock a vol rather than globally
• Add virtualfull-extreme test
• Apply patch for chio-changer-openbsd from bug #1984 -- Implements listall
• Add bat Mac patch from bug #1953
• Fix bug #1812 cannot run Copy/Migrate jobs from bat
• Fix loading of bat translations. Patch from bug #1890
• Fix text input in bat. Fixe bug #1965
• Remove Device from show command as it is not used or updated
• Fix #1982 update enabled keyword in help command
• Fix update_postgresql_tables 10 to 11
• Clean after building doc binaries requested by Willem vd Akker for Debian build
• Require Qt version 4.8.4
• Fix bug #1955 that OK to run? does not retry on bad response
• Backport new lock calls + debug for SD
• Fix bug #1975 new label ignored when first is duplicate.
• Pull src/lib changes from master
• Pull SD files from master
• Turn off prune-test
• Add logdir and bsrdir to regression config
• Add bsrdir and logdir to regress-config
• Changed default directories from /var/bacula to /opt/bacula
• Make spool size max message more explicit
• Display more info when maximum spool size is reached
• Fix TERM defs for Solaris 11 in conio.c
• Allow group to cd to sysconfdir
• Make sysconfdir belong to Bacula user/group and exclude others
• Fix Virtual Full file close bug -- race condition
• Enhance mount message to include read/append
• Improve vol_mgr swap messages
• Enhance output of Using Device to include for read/write
• Add jobid to Pmsg output
• Fix bug #1959 input validation on delete of jobs.
• Fix bug #1956 Authorization Errors false
• Add workaround for #5507 where autoprune and reload are in deadlock
• Allow conf file quoted strings to be used in a list
• Make bfgets handle very long lines
• Avoid seg fault by checking for NULL client -- reported by Arno
• Final fix of bug #1943
• Fix bug #1948 MailOnSuccess get executed on error.
• Fix missing index on Media table
• Fix bug #1943 no message storage on closed database connection.
• Fix bug #1946 Fix problem with MySQL with big Base jobs.
• Reduce wait time in regression RunScripts
• Implement a timeout on regression tests of 15 minutes
• Fix #5346 .bvfs_lsfiles and .bvfs_restore to handle deleted files
• Fix spooldata, accurate and ingnoreduplicate run argument
• Fix messages segfault
• Implement feature request #1939
• fix #1938 about PATH_MAX on hurd
• fix #1938 about MAXPATHLEN on hurd
• Fix bug #1937 OpenBSD autochanger example script
• Fix #4996 about MaxRunTime canceling the job too early
• Fix bug #1934 Wrong values at media list in BAT
• Fix race condition in close_msg that causes seg fault
• Fix double unlink
• More tests for freeing NULL pointers
• Add MaximumConcurrentReadJobs directive to Storage resource
• Add ujobid to .bvfs_get_jobids
• Avoid problem when stripping a relative path
• Fix #4513 about HIDDEN attribute set to parent directory during restore

What is new in version 5.2.12:

• This version fixes a serious segmentation fault introduced in release 5.2.11.

What is new in version 5.2.11:

• Important changes since last release:
• A new bpluginfo utility tool
• Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
• Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
• Important Copy job bug fixed.
• 10Sep12
• Add JobId to SD debug output
• Commit batch session every 800,000 files
• Simplify safer delete code using a single regex
• Clean up error message generation during update attributes -- should fix bug #1823
• Eliminate heartbeat error messages. Fixes bug #1925
• Apply patch from bug #1911 to implement --with-logdir
• Add chio-changer-openbsd submitted in bug #1903
• mysql database install/update scripts patch. Fixes bug #1901
• Delegate uid/gid changing to systemd. Fixes bug #1905
• Fix bug #1906
• Fix manpage errors, fixes bug #1907
• Final fix for #1859 missed one query.
• bpluginfoUtility tool display various information
• Backport more master code
• Fix Makefile.in so that testfind builds with acl dependency
• Make dump_resource respect console ACL's (security fix)
• backport code from master
• Fix #1923 about MySQL 4 support for BVFS
• Fix #1902 about bad status slots output
• Fix Sigma Copy bug #4377
• Fix bsmtp
• Reset bsmtp to only send to IPv4 mailhosts.
• Bugs fixed/closed since last release:
• 1823 1859 1901 1902 1903 1905 1906 1907 1911 1923 1925 4377

What is new in version 5.2.5:

• 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

What is new in version 5.2.2:

• 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 @SQL_BINDIR@ and @DB_TYPE@
• Fix bug #1774
• Move batch insert detection into db.m4
• bat: try to fix offset button problem when clicking too much on previous
• bvfs: Use single transaction for each job during update
• Add missing bwild & 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

What is new in version 5.2.0:

• This 5.2.1 version is a major release since the last version 5.0.3. It includes well over 299,387 lines of changes made by 20 contributors, lots of bug fixes (see below), 1,851 software commits,and a number of important new features.

What is new in version 5.0.3:

• 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->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

What is new in version 5.0.1:

• 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.

What is new in version 5.0.0:

• 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.