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Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is to let you know that I have released the Bacula source tar files and
> the Win32 binaries for BETA 2.1.22 to Source Forge in the bacula-beta area.
>
> This release represents a small, but important number of improvements over
> the
> last Beta:
>
> Changes since Beta release 2.1.20
> - New graphs in bat
> - Due to a typo, I had inadvertantly turned off batch insert mode.
> It is now re-enabled
> - Possible fix for bug #888 (dropped comm lines using TLS).
> - Test version of Win32 binaries for Vista.
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Note !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Restore on Win32, and in particular on Vista is untested. Please
> test before relying on it. It should backup and restore reparse
> points.
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I would appreciate testing this release. Please note that for several beta
> releases the SQL batch insert code was inadvertantly turned off, and it is
> turned on in this version. This should give some nice performance
> improvements.
>
> Also, if all goes well this version of Win32 will correctly handle Vista VSS
> (volume shadow copy) and reparse points (also known as junctions or mount
> points). I haven't tested restoring reparse points, so your feedback would
> be very much appreciate. Please take care with the reparse points because if
> the implementation is not correct, the restore could essentially follow the
> link and restore the data to the target, which would not be correct. I don't
> expect this to happy, but who knows. Also, if anyone has an older machine
> Win2K, WinNT, WinMe, Win98 there is a good chance that the new Microsoft
> reparse code will not be downward compatible (I believe Microsoft does so on
> purpose to encourage upgrades). The old "non-portable" option *should* work
> on those machines.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
> PS: Aside from testing, there remain two issues that I am working on before
> the production release of 2.2.0:
> 1. Considering a bit more agressive pruning in the Scratch pool to ensure that
> Scratch pool volumes in autochangers will get recycled in priority.
> 2. Considering modifying the Storage daemon locking code to remove a number of
> "conflicts" -- i.e. create a finer grain locking (more locks) so that
> there will be less blocking of the jobs.
>
> PPS: If you are building with bat enabled, when you do the ./configure, it
> will download a third party (qwt - graphics) library and compile it during
> the ./configure. This is a bit unusual, but it only needs to be done once, so
> for the moment that is how it works.
I downloaded the Windows version of 2.1.22 today -- I had a feeling that
bat would not be included, but I am curious what the plan is for version
2.2.0 with regard to bat. I felt like it was going to make it into at
least the *nix versions of Bacula, but I likely missed the answer to it.
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