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Bacula Developer Notes
- Contributions
- Patches
- Copyrights
- Copyright Assignment - Fiduciary License Agreement
- The Development Cycle
  - Feature Requests
- Bacula Code Submissions and Projects
- Patches for Released Versions
- Developing Bacula
- Debugging
- Using a Debugger
- Memory Leaks
- Special Files
- When Implementing Incomplete Code
  - Bacula Source File Structure
- Header Files
- Programming Standards
- Do Not Use
- Avoid if Possible
- Do Use Whenever Possible
- Indenting Standards
- Naming Convention
- Locks and Threads
- Tabbing
- Don'ts
- Message Classes
- Debug Messages
  - Debug Tags
- Error Messages
- Job Messages
- Queued Job Messages
- Memory Messages
- Bugs Database
Bacula Git Usage
- Bacula Git repositories
- Git Usage
  - Learning Git
- Step by Step Modifying Bacula Code
  - More Details
- Forcing Changes
Bacula FD Plugin API
- Normal vs Command vs Options Plugins
- Loading Plugins
- loadPlugin
- Plugin Entry Points
- Bacula Plugin Entrypoints
- Building Bacula Plugins
- Advanced Restore Options
- Bacula Auth Plugin Documentation
Platform Support
- General
- Requirements to become a Supported Platform
Daemon Protocol
- General
- Low Level Network Protocol
- General Daemon Protocol
- The Protocol Used Between the Director and the Storage Daemon
- The Protocol Used Between the Director and the File Daemon
- The Save Protocol Between the File Daemon and the Storage Daemon
  - Command and Control Information
  - Data Information
Director Services Daemon
File Services Daemon
- Commands Received from the Director for a Backup
- Commands Received from the Director for a Restore
Storage Daemon Design
- SD Design Introduction
- SD Development Outline
- SD Connections and Sessions
  - SD Append Requests
  - SD Read Requests
- SD Data Structures
Catalog Services
- General
- Sequence of Creation of Records for a Save Job
- Database Tables
Storage Media Output Format
- General
- Definitions
- Storage Daemon File Output Format
- Overall Format
- Serialization
- Block Header
- Record Header
- Version BB02 Block Header
- Version 2 Record Header
- Volume Label Format
- Session Label
- Overall Storage Format
- Unix File Attributes
- Old Depreciated Tape Format
Bacula Porting Notes
- Porting Requirements
- Steps to Take for Porting
Implementing a GUI Interface
- General
  - Minimal Code in Console Program
  - GUI Interface is Difficult
- Bvfs API
TLS
- Introduction to TLS
- New Configuration Directives
- TLS API Implementation
- Bnet API Changes
  - Negotiating a TLS Connection
  - Manipulating Socket Blocking State
- Authentication Negotiation
Bacula Regression Testing
- Setting up Regession Testing
- Running the Regression Script
- Testing a Binary Installation
- Running a Single Test
- Writing a Regression Test
Bacula MD5 Algorithm
- Command Line Message Digest Utility
  - Name
  - Synopsis
  - Description
  - Options
  - Files
  - Bugs
- Download md5.zip (Zipped archive)
Bacula Memory Management
- General
TCP/IP Network Protocol
- General
- bnet and Threads
- bnet_open
- bnet_send
- bnet_fsend
- Additional Error information
- bnet_recv
- bnet_sig
- bnet_strerror
- bnet_close
- Becoming a Server
- Higher Level Conventions
Smart Memory Allocation
- Installing SMARTALLOC
- Squelching a SMARTALLOC
- Living with Libraries
- SMARTALLOC Details
- When SMARTALLOC is Disabled
- The alloc() Function
- Overlays and Underhandedness
- Test and Demonstration Program
- Invitation to the Hack
- Download smartall.zip (Zipped archive)
  - Copying
Acronyms
Index

Bacula® Developer's Guide

Kern Sibbald

May 29, 2021

This manual documents Bacula Enterprise Edition 11.0.4 (29 May 2021)

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