New Features in 3.0.2

This chapter presents the new features added to the development 3.0.2 versions to be released as Bacula version 3.0.2 sometime in 2009.

Source Address

A feature has been added which allows the administrator to specify the address from which the director and file daemons will attempt connections from. This may be used to simplify system configuration overhead when working in complex networks utilizing multi-homing and policy-routing.

To accomplish this, two new configuration directives have been implemented:

FileDaemon {
  FDSourceAddress=10.0.1.20    # Always initiate connections from this address
}

Director {
  DirSourceAddress=10.0.1.10   # Always initiate connections from this address
}

Simply adding specific host routes would have an undesirable side-effect: any application trying to contact the destination host would be forced to use the more specific route, possibly diverting management traffic onto a backup VLAN. Instead of adding host routes for each client connected to a multi-homed backup server (for example where there are management and backup VLANs), one can use the new directives to specify a specific source address at the application level.

Additionally, this allows the simplification and abstraction of firewall rules when dealing with a Hot-Standby director or storage daemon configuration. The Hot-standby pair may share a CARP address, which connections must be sourced from, while system services listen and act from the unique interface addresses.

This project was funded by Collaborative Fusion, Inc.

Show volume availability when doing restore

When doing a restore the restore selection dialog ends by displaying this screen:

  The job will require the following
   Volume(s)                 Storage(s)                SD Device(s)
   ===========================================================================
   *000741L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
   *000866L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
   *000765L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
   *000764L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
   *000756L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
   *001759L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
   *001763L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
    001762L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 
    001767L3                  LTO-4                     LTO3 

Volumes marked with ``*'' are online.

This should help getting large restores through minimizing the time spent waiting for operator to drop by and change tapes in the library.

This project was funded by Bacula Systems.