Release Notes for Bacula Enterprise 18.2

Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise Only

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Both the Director (Dir) and all Storage Daemons (SDs) must be upgraded to version 18.2 as they are not compatible with earlier versions.

Catalog format in version 18.0 and greater:

If you upgrade from 18.0 to 18.2, you will not need to run the update_bacula_tables script.

The major release 18.0 of Bacula uses a new catalog format. We provide a set of scripts that convert 6.6.x and earlier catalog versions to the new 18.0 format (1027). See the “migrationNewMajorVersionBacula” for detailed instructions on the migration process.

The database upgrade from 1026 to 1027 is fast and simple for most users.

The Bacula Enterprise RPM spec files have been modified to detect the database change and to perform the upgrade for you (from 8.10, 10.0, 10.2, etc.). We strongly recommend that you save a copy of your existing database before upgrading using RPMs. If you want to have more control over the catalog upgrade step when upgrading using RPMs, you may want to contact the Bacula Systems support team to get the update_bacula_tables script from the updated package and run it before the RPM installation step, or you can stop the database server before the upgrade.

The Bacula Enterprise Debian and Ubuntu packages have been designed to upgrade the catalog with the dbconfig database management tool. The update_bacula_tables script from the Director package can be used to upgrade the catalog manually.

If you upgrade the BWeb Management Suite from 8.x and you use a MySQL catalog, you must first update the BWeb SQL tables with the script upgrade-8.8_10.2_mysql.sql.

If you are starting from scratch, you will not need to run the update_bacula_tables script since the create_bacula_tables script creates the tables in the new format automatically.

Important notes:

If you upgrade to from a new 16.0.0-5 to 16.0.6-8 installation with a MySQL catalog, the following SQL command must be executed in order to use the JobHisto table and features:

ALTER TABLE JobHisto

ADD COLUMN RealStartTime DATETIME, ADD COLUMN isVirtualFull - TINYINT - default 0, ADD COLUMN CompressRatio - float - default 0, ADD COLUMN Rate - - - float - default 0, ADD COLUMN LastReadStorageId Integer - default 0, ADD COLUMN LastReadDevice - blob, ADD COLUMN WriteStorageId - integer - default 0, ADD COLUMN WriteDevice - blob, ADD COLUMN StatusInfo - - blob, ADD COLUMN Encrypted - - int - - default 0;

For Restricted Console users, we have changed slightly the DirectoryACL=*all* and UserIdACL=*all*, if the directives are not defined in a restricted console, the restore code will allow the file listing.

Old File Daemon versions are still compatible and can be used to protect older systems such as Redhat 5-6, SLES 10-11.2.

Known Issues and Workarounds:

  • #1723 The hardlinks=yes FileSet option is not compatible with VirtualFull jobs.

    This incompatibility might lead to problems performing a restore. The error message displayed during a restore job is:

  • Error: create_file.c:327 Could not hard link /path: ERR=No such file or directory

To restore the file correctly, the first occurrence of the hardlink file in the backup must be selected manually. The procedure to distinguish hardlinks in the catalog is available from the Bacula Systems Support team.

  • #4957 Copy/Migration/VirtualFull jobs based on Incomplete jobs - a potential issue.

    Under some circumstances a Copy/Migration/VirtualFull job may not be able to copy the data from a Job that was interrupted and restarted using the Incomplete Job feature. In versions 10.2.3 and above, the Copy/Migration/VirtualFull job is aborted with the following error message:

  • Fatal error: catreq.c:691 SHA1 digest not same FileIndex=344 as attributes FI=343

or

  • Fatal error: catreq.c:691 MD5 digest not same FileIndex=344 as attributes FI=343

It is recommended to re-execute the Job that was interrupted and restarted to be able to copy/migrate the data. We do NOT recommend including Incomplete Jobs into a Progressive Virtual Full chain of jobs.

The automatic rescheduling of Incomplete Jobs should be disabled to avoid restarted Incomplete jobs finishing successfully and being selected to be copied, migrated, or consolidated in a Virtual Full. To prevent Bacula from rescheduling Incomplete Jobs, use the “RescheduleIncompleteJobs = no” Job directive.

Please contact the Bacula Systems Support team for more information on any of the above issues.

Release 18.2.2 / 02 December 2025

18.2.2 is a minor bug fix release. There are, however, a few new features.

Amazon RDS Plugin:

  • amazon-rds: Update libraries and include log4j adjustments

Bfuse:

  • bfuse: Add -W to allow writing right on mounted fuse filesystem

  • bfuse: Add openstack vm disk implementation

  • bfuse: Remove char *vmdk in diskRecord implementations that did not needed it

  • bfuse: Update mount-vm for openstack single item restore

  • bfuse: Updated error message for vmbackend

Bguardian:

  • bguardian: Clean Makefile after replacing shade-plugin

  • bguardian: Fix bug when DirAddress is not empty, but Address it is

  • bguardian: Fix issues with logging

  • bguardian: Update project version and show it in the log

BSnapDiff:

  • bsnapdiff: allow backups to complete and log ERROR for bsnapdiff_open/close

  • bsnapdiff: allow backups to continue in bsnapdiff_open when created == 0

  • bsnapdiff: bug fixes for regress tests of production FreeBSD pkgs

  • bsnapdiff: changes to regress to support GPFS/ZFS integration

  • bsnapdiff: improve error handling for bsnapdiff and bug fixes

  • bsnapdiff: updates to regress tests remove DEBUG_MODE use REGRESS_DEBUG

  • bsnapdiff-gpfs: initial checkin for GPFS snapshot support

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: add support for zfs snapshots for bconsole snapshot

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: added log messages for bsnapdiff performance checks

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: allow zfs diff errors to not fail a backup

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: fix zfs diff error handling and performance for single path snapshot startup

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: fix zfs diff error handling bug with non-blocking read on stderr

BWeb Management Console:

  • bweb: Add more events

  • bweb: Add Level as a valid directive to be adjusted in scan_plugin

  • bweb: Add tags to verified and copied jobs

  • bweb: Fix #11786 Add Enabled information to Director Storage list

  • bweb: Fix #11789 about update volume command

  • bweb: Fix #qa-amazon-rds/11 About scan plugin issue with Amazon RDS plugin

  • bweb: Fix bad S3 texts on some parameters #11767

  • bweb: Fix client dashboard issue

  • bweb: Fix documentation url

  • bweb: Fix issue with welcome wizard

  • bweb: Integration of M365 EntraID module

  • bweb: Limit information sent to access log with system_auth option

  • bweb: Use bweb default limit in the Last Jobs table

  • bweb: Fix #11847 About logrotate issue with permissions

  • bweb: Display MaxVols, hide MaxVolFiles in Pool overview by default

  • bweb: Add tags to verified and copied jobs

Deduplication:

  • dedup2: don’t display “ignore <storage>” in the dedup query, fix sort

  • dedup2: improve error message when merge get corrupted extents

Documentation:

  • Hotfix: add algoliasearch module to virt env

  • Hotfix: disable parallel I/O + remove trailing ‘/’ in Exchange exclude entry

  • Hotfix: install dotenv module in virt env

  • Bugfix: remove duplicate breadcrumbs for nested hardcoded-toctree pages

  • Bugfix: remove trailing whitespace in directives time defaults

  • Bugfix: restore breadcrumbs for all pages with automated navigation tree

  • docs: Delete all notion of “white paper” in documentation

  • docs: Improvements in the perl sample script to synchronize LDAP/AD into bweb

  • docs: Add doc for new XXHASH64, XXH3_64 and XXH3_128 signatures

  • docs: Add ZFS documentation

  • docs: Restructure OpenShift

  • docs: Document upgrade to version 18.2.x

  • docs: Menu reorder

  • docs: Add New features section for 18.2.1

  • docs: Openstack: Add a note about snapshot consistency in OS environment

  • docs: Add the “env” parameter for the NDMP plugin

  • docs: CitrixHypervisor (XenServer) Plugin name change to Xen Plugin

  • docs: Update of Volume Encryption

  • docs: New article about Community vs Enterprise

  • docs: Modifications to BWeb LDAP authentication via PAM + TOTP added

  • docs: Add endpoint for M365 e-mail restores

  • docs: Quick start article for PostgreSQL Plugin

High Availability:

  • ha: Scripts and examples for catalog(postgresql) ha

  • ha: add drbd example

HPC Accelerator:

  • big-fs: Using change trailing junk for trailing newline

  • big-fs: Fix #issues/39 The /opt/bacula/bin/fs-backint binary does not always get installed

  • big-fs: Add estimate support

  • big-fs: Check that correct include clause is updated at getInclude time (Fix FileSet with Exclude block)

Kubernetes Plugin:

  • k8s: Add feature to avoid the same node when try to backup a pvc using snapshots

  • k8s: Add fix to regenerate xfs uuid when create a pvc from longhorn snapshot

  • k8s: Add more information when mismatch the format between PV and SC

  • k8s: Add new resource to backup: PodDisruptionBudgets

  • k8s: Add new resources to backup: VolumeSnapshots and VolumeSnapshotContents

  • k8s: Fix problem to backup only PVs of backed PVCs when the PVC does not have PV assigned

  • k8s: Fix problem to detect PV filesystem

  • k8s: Fixed check order to skip a pvc

  • k8s: Throw error at begining of job if the plugins can not access to cert files

  • k8s: Throw error when detect the incompatibility with Standard backup and block PVC

  • k8s: Fixed exception when the resources is not found in kubernetes/openshift cluster

  • k8s: Fix problem to backup only PVs of backed PVCs when the PVC does not have PV assigned

LibVIRT:

  • libvirt: Add ‘block_dev’ backup method

  • libvirt: Add capacity to detect number of nbd devices and control busy nbd devices

  • libvirt: Add compatibility with Single Item Restore

  • libvirt: Add control to ensure disconnect lvm disks

  • libvirt: Add remote blockdev backup

  • libvirt: SIR: Fix matches between bmp and real data

  • libvirt: vmdisk implementation for single item restore

  • libvirt: Change restore behavior. By default, the plugin restores the virtual machine with random values.

  • libvirt: Fix issue with temporary files not being removed during local backup

  • libvirt: Add ‘no_network’ restore option and fix the restored network autostart parameter on restore operation

  • libvirt: In checkpoint backup, removed error when the previous job does not match with previous checkpoint

Microsoft 365 Plugin:

  • m365: Add support for the EntraID Service

  • m365: Get and restore all embedded images #11839

  • m365: Fix issue with referenced attachments. Add inline attachments logic to calendars

  • m365: APIs update to 6.50.0. Include beta libraries. Implement entraid unified roles backup

  • m365: Add delta call to users

  • m365: Add m365-graph-beta library download and installing operation

  • m365: Add mechanism to inluce project commit sha. Add backend command ‘sha’ to query it easily

  • m365: Add sharepoint sharepoint_site_size_catalog_limit parameter and…

  • m365: AdminUnit restore fixes

  • m365: Basic backup for users, groups and apps

  • m365: Catalog of permissions. Separation of sensitive permissions in add-app with q_entraid parameter

  • m365: Fix bug on registration without entraid parameter

  • m365: Fix pages not iterating correctly when using top and maxpagesize together in some calls, like emails

  • m365: Generator code for regress testing

  • m365: Holistic restore fixes

  • m365: Shared with me objects need delegated permissions. It’s disabled by default

  • m365: Specification that we are using HTTPS

  • m365: Upgrade PnP.Powershell and remove limitation of not running pwsh in parallel

  • m365: Users restore main logic

  • m365: Varied restoring fixes

  • m365: add .query method “meta” to debug json messages

MSSQL Plugin:

  • mssql: Fix error about Availability Group once the restore is started

OpenStack Plugin:

  • openstack: Add SSL certificate handling

  • openstack: Add ca_cert parameter to restore parameter

  • openstack: Add new argument for SSL certificate handling

  • openstack: Added OS_CACERT to gui/json for bweb

  • openstack: Change cacert parameter name to be coherent with openstack rc file

  • openstack: Change name of CA CERT parameter

  • openstack: Correct volume size when said volume is backup through an instance

  • openstack: Fix issue with bweb path being inconsistent

  • openstack: Get server volume information from server snapshot

  • openstack: Implement API version resolver for https keystone

  • openstack: Keep track of blocks written to bvmdk to preserve bmp consistency

Oracle Plugin:

  • oracle: Adapt install script for Solaris

  • oracle: Adapt install-sbt-libobk.sh to solaris

  • oracle: Fix compilation

  • oracle: Fix compilation on solaris

  • oracle: Update install-sbt-libobk.sh

Nutanix-AHV Plugin:

  • nutanix-ahv: Add safeguard for snapshot name

  • nutanix-ahv: Solves an issue a VM could not be restored if a specific boot bus/index was specified a backup

Quobyte Plugin:

  • quobyte: Do not force snapshot support

  • quobyte: Fix #11818 about incorrect error reported with parameters

Packages:

  • rpms: Add bsnapdiff to suse package

  • rpms: Add bsnmp package to SLES

  • rpms: fix suse snapshot package

RHV Plugin:

  • rhv: Use metaplugin PluginObject new class

S3 Plugin:

  • s3: Add pid and java version to log

  • s3: Alternative implementation to work without ListAllMyBuckets permissions. Adapt ListBuckets for no owner. Update libraries

  • s3: Do not retry errors on missing permissions

vSphere Plugin:

  • vsphere: Fix restore failing when source VM was deleted and moref is not matching vm-xxx

  • vsphere: Mark as Template only if we are dealing with vCenter and not with ESXi

Windows File Daemon:

  • win32: Update to openssl 3.5.4

  • win32: Upgrade QT version

Miscellaneous:

  • Add the “encrypted” keyword when labeling an encrypted Volume

  • Compare JobId list when detecting duplicate virtual full jobs

  • Compute the footprint of the htable big buffer based on initialization

  • Display the JobId in the run job event

  • Enhance the .events command

  • Fix #11779 about empty fileset option block generating incorrect JSON

  • Fix #11787 about disabled storage still being selected for backup

  • Fix #11822 about JSON segfault with many concurrent jobs

  • Fix SetVolumeReadOnly accept if st_mode as not write at all instead of 0200

  • Fix data from plugins going to the metadata volume instead of the aligned one

  • Fix FileDaemon configuration variable type

  • Improve JSON escaping

  • Increase default key-manager passphrase from 12 to 45 characters

  • Use VolumeRetention for immutability checks on the Storage Daemon side

  • update cJSON to 1.7.19

  • plugins: Downgrade junit library to 5 as it’s not compatible with Java 8

  • plugins: Downgrades to keep compatibility with Java 8

  • plugins: Update plugin object Category where necessary, based on new unified class in MetaPlugin

  • plugins: fix test runvmware.sh

  • scan_plugin: Do not force Snapshot with autosplit plugin

  • Fix #11862 about resume command displaying non-backup jobs

  • shstore: Use a loop around register for Solaris

  • install-key-manager displays a message when “check” doesn’t detect any problem

  • Increase default key-manager passphrase from 12 to 45 characters

  • autosplit: Fix #11844 Disable the forcing of EnableSnapshot=yes

  • aligned: Fix data from plugins going to the metadata volume instead of the aligned one

  • Add the “encrypted” keyword when labeling an encrypted Volume after “new”

  • Compare JobId list when detecting duplicate virtual full jobs

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 11767 11779 11786 11787 11789 11818 11822 285 609

Release 18.2.1 / 08 October 2025

Bguardian:

  • bguardian: Add output parameter and modify behavior of silent to avoid output if necessary

  • bguardian: Fix issues count missmatch. Try to fix Json infinite value issue: #11539

BSnapDiff:

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: better bug fix for virtual full previous job and jobid

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: bug fix for xattr=on ZFS setting for extended attributes

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: bug fix for xattr=on default for ZFS configuration

  • bsnapdiff-zfs: two bug fixes for zfs bsnapdiff plugin

BWeb Management Console:

  • bweb: Adapt btime for new SD messages on encrypted volumes

  • bweb: Add autosplit plugin to the scan_plugin

  • bweb: Add console definitions for default roles based on CommandACLs

  • bweb: Add daemon log retention directive

  • bweb: Add extra jobid check in get_log()

  • bweb: Add index option to the xenserver configuration page

  • bweb: Add new checksum signature to fileset edition page

  • bweb: Add oauth2 install script to the package

  • bweb: Add test for the number of daemon log message

  • bweb: Basic Okta integration

  • bweb: Fix #11528 About changing syslog to journal in bweb systemd service file

  • bweb: Fix #11538 about quobyte integration

  • bweb: Fix #11561 About empty VMware dashboard

  • bweb: Fix #11595 Fix profile configuration field to provide user/password/host/port

  • bweb: Fix #11679 about LinBMR new job wizard does not populate FileSet ACL

  • bweb: Fix #11692 Add MaximumConcurrentJobs entry in new storage wizard

  • bweb: Fix another occurence of HTTP2 problem because of the header

  • bweb: Fix oauth2-proxy deployment when BWeb is not configured. Fix HTTP2 protocol error problem in XHR Request because of : in header names

  • bweb: Fix problem with Ajax calls reading BConsole async calls and generating HTTP2 invalid headers

  • bweb: Fix search button in run job page

  • bweb: Fix security dashboard problems #11533 #11534

  • bweb: Force content-type for json output

  • bweb: Improve install_bweb.sh to report errors correctly

  • bweb: OAuth2 -> Integration of bweb roles ; Logout screen ; Control of headers ; User_info screen

  • bweb: OAuth2 scripts integration for packaging. Substitute : for html code. Bim fixes around OAuth2. Bim certificate with IP/Name

  • bweb: OAuth2/OIDC adjustments to support MS Entra ID as well

  • bweb: Solve scan plugin previsualization problem with users and group. Solve endless loading when m365 add-app is used

  • bweb: Use python3 in install_win.py script

  • bweb: oauth2-proxy installation script and sample config. Basic integration in BIM

  • bweb: Sort the plugins in bweb.js

  • bweb: Use RoleACL in predefined roles

  • bweb: Add support to ConsoleDefs

Cloud Storage:

  • cloud: Fix #11530 about segfault with large number of upload and/or running jobs

  • cloud: Fix #11586 remove extra delete call prior to upload

  • cloud: Fix QA-Cloud-Amazon#15 upload issue introduced in 18.0.9

  • cloud: Fix upload message after an error

Deduplication:

  • dedup2: Fix frozen job after silent error on the index

Documentation:

  • docs: Add OpenStack examples for the scan_plugin and BWeb automation

  • docs: Add description and values to Console Defs

  • docs: Amazon RDS Plugin

  • docs: Publish Navigation Project to 18.1

Google Workspace Plugin:

  • google-workspace: Include missing files in Incremental backups when they are uploaded, but keeping original modified times

HPC Accelerator:

  • big-fs: Add support for Fileset options exclude rules

  • big-fs: Fix backup of untouched directories

  • big-fs: Fix dependency selection

  • big-fs: Handle the case where the link doesn’t have a / at the end

  • big-fs: Update makefile for more coherent log messages

  • big-fs: Add dummy deleted record in master job

  • big-fs: Add support for Exclude rules

  • big-fs: Do regular job if the number of workers is too small

  • big-fs: Fix restore job selection

  • big-fs: Increment num_files_examined when listing files

  • big-fs: Update status client with the current filename on the master job

  • big-fs: Adapt install-big-fs.sh for the Storage Daemon

  • big-fs: Add Accurate=yes to the default job generated by install-big-fs.sh

  • big-fs: Add AllowIncompleteJobs and more precise setup for Job clause in install script

  • big-fs: Add additional information in default fs backint fon file

  • big-fs: Add check for fs-backint binary existence

  • big-fs: Add protocol to count SKIPPED files

  • big-fs: Adds safegard in case ACL are wrongs and all workers get ended early

  • big-fs: Allows only master job to start fs-backint instances from sap-fd

  • big-fs: Avoid segfault with incorrect command line

  • big-fs: By default checkpoint are deactivated and a min value is set if user try to set it

  • big-fs: Change default fileset to use Include/File and define the number of workers to 3

  • big-fs: Changed default lookup conffile lookup to be coherent between sap-fd and backint

  • big-fs: Changed permission on /opt/bacula/big-fs to allow read for everyone

  • big-fs: Checkpoint depending on time and total number of files per worker implementation

  • big-fs: Comment out unused checkpoint feature

  • big-fs: Correctly end backup in error and kill fs-backint when no connection is possible

  • big-fs: Disable processing_time/processing_files

  • big-fs: Do not display additional fs-backint execution failure when no conf file found

  • big-fs: Enhance the “Unable to contact” message

  • big-fs: Fix #11338 big fs binary helper updated for big fs mode

  • big-fs: Fix exit status of fs-backint after a mismatch

  • big-fs: Fix missing double quote in Fileset Plugin= line AND remove unecessary check for restore and include parameter

  • big-fs: Fix waitjobcompletion not working

  • big-fs: Improve cancel code

  • big-fs: Install script has command acl cancel in default dir conf

  • big-fs: Jobs bails out if maximumconcurrentjob=1 to avoid infinite stalling

  • big-fs: Put default value for maximum concurrent job to 3

  • big-fs: Remove redundant flag bad_connction using canceled instead for same result

  • big-fs: Remove test routine in installer that makes use of broken big-fs CLI

  • big-fs: Sends cancel instead of wait if a worker is starting when going into bail out

  • big-fs: Setup for new max process/time limit

  • big-fs: Share the accurate table with workers

  • big-fs: Start bacula job with controljobid and accurate=no

  • big-fs: Update install script group attribution to big-fs folder

  • big-fs: Updated log info for close_bpipe

  • big-fs: Use a timeout when connecting bacula

  • big-fs: fs-backint reports status to sap-fd if waitjobcompletion is set

  • big-fs: use bVarControlJob to generate lock file

  • big-fs: waitjobcompletion set to true in default fs-backint conf file from install script

Kubernetes and Openshift Plugins:

  • k8s: Add checking if the filesystem type of pv matches with the filesystem type of storage class

  • k8s: Add environment information when execute with debug >= 2

  • k8s: Added fileset parameters with ‘_’ to improve readability

  • k8s: Change default key name in kubernetes secret etcd certs

  • k8s: Compatibility with storage class in WaitForFirstConsumer mode.

  • k8s: Fix 0011554. Allows cloned pvcs access to multi node

  • k8s: Fix 0011554. The clone pvc get the access mode from original pvc

  • k8s: Fix 001160. Check if the Longhorn pvc, created from vsnapshot, is ready to work

  • k8s: Fix 0011606.Wait until the PVC is available

  • k8s: Fix 0011644. Problem with index out in input parameters

  • k8s: Fix bacula-backup name using a job name with _

  • k8s: Fix bug in pvc backups

  • k8s: Fix bug in query action: user_permissions

  • k8s: Fix bugs to found old pvc before the backup

  • k8s: Fix cloned pvc names when the job name contains illegal character for k8s

  • k8s: Fix compilation cython error caused by typing list[str]

  • k8s: Fix duplicated empty clone error message

  • k8s: Fix error when trying to check compatibility with snapshot backup and there are not any storage classes

  • k8s: Fix some bugs and add tunning parameters

  • k8s: Improve pod logs

  • k8s: Omit other bacula backup pvcs during backup

  • k8s: Refactor fileset parameters with retrocompatibility and optimizations

  • k8s: Update python dependencies

  • k8s: add a check to see if the file formats of the pv and storage class match

  • k8s: update kubernetes image

  • k8s: Increase the backend timeout from 1 hour to 48 hours

  • openshift: Support backup/restore routes

Linux BMR:

  • Bacula-rescue.sh: 2.5.2 collect LVM configuration files

  • Bacula-rescue.sh: 2.5.3 LVM and multipath conf files + rpm/deb package list

  • Bacula-rescue.sh: 2.5.4 Fix check for /etc/multipath.conf and redirect stderr

LibVIRT:

  • Add LibVIRT Plugin

  • libvirt: Add custom libvirt-java library to allow remote backups

  • libvirt: Add default parameters to timeouts and intervals

  • libvirt: Add libvirt in bweb

  • libvirt: Add network backup configuration

  • libvirt: Add network backup parameter

  • libvirt: Add networks directory in list root directory

  • libvirt: Add new fileset parameter: ‘nbd_access’

  • libvirt: Add parameter ‘abort_on_error’ for this plugin on Bweb

  • libvirt: Add remote backup logic and optimization code to waiting

  • libvirt: Add restore domain on remote host via ssh

  • libvirt: Add storage_pool_config fileset parameter

  • libvirt: Change backup methods and add a new fileset parameter ‘nbd_access’

  • libvirt: Change default temporary directory, documented the parameters and change name the timeout to mount the disks

  • libvirt: Change fileset parameter from ‘temporal_dir’ to ‘temporary_dir’

  • libvirt: Change parameter ‘temporary_dir’ to ‘tmp_dir’

  • libvirt: Compatibility with raw disks. Only full backups

  • libvirt: Edit restore options

  • libvirt: Fix NullPointerException in estimation

  • libvirt: Fix custom quiesce, change parameter ‘temporary_dir’ to ‘tmp_dir’, add try option in quiesce parameter

  • libvirt: Fix debug message levels

  • libvirt: Fix debug message replacements, bjoblist and backup domains without disks

  • libvirt: Fix fileset parameters

  • libvirt: Fix log info when connect to hypervisor in listing or query operations

  • libvirt: Fix override domain with checkpoints

  • libvirt: Fix problem with offline domains and estimation job

  • libvirt: Fix version in Bweb

  • libvirt: Integrate with BWeb

  • libvirt: Optimization to avoid sending zeros and fixing problem with unformatted disks

  • libvirt: Shows the input fileset parameters when starts the job in debug mode

  • libvirt: Throw error if the user tries to backup a raw disk format

Lustre:

  • lustre-xatrr: Add support for LUSTRE-specific Attributes

Microsoft 365 Plugin:

  • m365: Add mechanism to include project commit sha. Add backend command ‘sha’ to query it easily

  • m365: Change mail to userPrincipalName in user management as there can be users without mail. Include mailboxes without mail, but with inbox

  • m365: Data spooling new variables to avoid filesystem filling and limit the behavior at will

  • m365: Fix .query login for groups and sites

  • m365: Fix Drive backup not using delta for Inc backup in certain circunstances

  • m365: Fix add owner to app step during add-app command

  • m365: Fix bug about template and restore object at restore time in sharepoint

  • m365: Fix incorrect template size comparison #11580

  • m365: Fix wrong email destination folder at restore time, when there are folders and sub-folders with the same name #11702

  • m365: Generate a warning instead of an error when a file is over the spooling configured limit

  • m365: Comments about recovery actions and roles used

  • m365: More strict message flag check. Generalize cleaning messages before restore beyond events. New attachment upload ConnectionRequestTimeout

  • m365: New spooling parameters

  • m365: OneNote through delegated permissions. Support for Sites in delegated permissions and Global Admin user when no owners are found

  • m365: User license better check and to debug message. spool_max_file_size_bytes parameter. Fixes on Onenote and Calendars

MySQL Plugin:

  • mysql: Fix #11736 about dump_opt generating incorrect command line

NDMP Plugin:

  • ndmp: Fix #11568 About issue when scanning history file on Isilon

Nutanix AHV Plugin:

  • nutanix-ahv: Add plugin disk_exclude parameter to bacula

  • nutanix-ahv: Implement true backward compatibility between plugin versions

  • nutanix-ahv: Possibility to ignore disks at backup by ID

OpenStack Plugin:

  • openstack: Add fallback procedure if server creation fails due to network

Packages:

  • debs: Add support for Debian 13

  • rpms: Add support for RHEL10

  • rpms: Fix incorrect dependency on python33

PostgreSQL Plugin:

  • postgres: Change bVarSince type from int to utime_t

  • postgres: Fix #11598 About PostgreSQL 9.5 compatibility

  • postgres: Fix #11603 About restore error when restoring existing databases

Proxmox Plugin:

  • proxmox: Add support for 9.x

Quobyte Snapshot:

  • quobyte: Add support for multi-cluster environnement

  • quobyte: Display an error if the parameter is incorrect

  • quobyte: Fix #11600 Add abort_on_error option to the quobyte plugin

  • quobyte: Implement check command for .query interface

RHV Plugin:

  • rhv: Add new parameter ‘use_imageio_in_mng_node’ to switch if get the disk data from manager node or directly from host

  • rhv: Exclude disks early with target_exclude_disks and show warning instead of error for blocked disks #11661

  • rhv: Fix Incorrect URL when getting the Proxy image service URL and the Server parameter has a port in its URL

  • rhv: Update log4j libraries

S3 Object Plugin:

  • s3: Add plugin restore parameter config_file

Scan Plugin:

  • scan_plugin: Fix #11314 About incorrect EnableVSS setting for MSSQL jobs

  • scan_plugin: Fix #11522 About EnableVSS for specific plugins

  • scan_plugin: Fix #11584 Add –value-re-match and –value-re-replace parameters

  • scan_plugin: Fix #11602 Allow to specify fileset directives in –fs_option

Snapshot:

  • snapshot: Add support for recent LVM output

  • snapshot: bug fixes for OneFS=no and others

Volume Encryption:

  • Improve volume encryption key-manager & installer

  • Add more encryption algorithms to the Volume encryption

  • Volume encryption handel passphrase request from the key-manager

vSphere Plugin:

  • vsphere: Add message about download VMX/NVRAM being only possible from vCenter node

  • vsphere: Downgrade maven exec plugin so it’s compatible with RHEL 7

  • vsphere: Download files (nvram, vmx) with session cookie instead of Basic Auth. Some extra debug

  • vsphere: Fix “main ERROR Unrecognized format specifier [d]” log4j error, by updating the library

  • vsphere: Fix bad datastore name when downloading NVRAM and/or VMX

  • vsphere: Fix building by installing yavijava before compiling code

  • vsphere: Fix no log output after library update, by adding log4j1.compatibility flag

  • vsphere: Fix sha command in vsphere-ctl

Windows File Daemon:

  • win32: move to openssl 3.5

  • win32: remove openssl 3.X warnings about the use of MD5 deprecated functions

  • win32: remove warning about unused variable

  • win32: skip junction point when portable=yes

  • win32: Fix 30s restore delay by using a “condition” instead of pthread_kill()

XEN/XCP-NG:

  • sir: Add support for XEN/XCP-NG incremental backups with index feature

  • xenserver: Add “index” plugin parameter support to speed up SIR sessions

  • xenserver: Read allowed_operations from VDI resources to determine if a disk is an ISO and discard it. Not fail when CBT is ‘not supported’

  • xenserver: Set ObjectStatus for each VM backed up

Miscellaneous:

  • Add ConsoleDefs and sub-command ACL to CommandACL

  • Add RoleACL to Console resource

  • Do not call signal handler if a bpipe command get killed before the execution

  • Do not duplicate results of bvfs_get_jobids

  • Fix segfault in bcopy with dedupengine

  • update mtx-changer-python to 1.32

  • release: Add SHA information to source archive

  • meta-plugin: Capability to change the level after instance the BJoblist

  • Add autosplit plugin to automatically split directories with the scan plugin

  • Add package for SNMP Bacula service

  • Add Catalog/DaemonLogRetention directive and specific prune command to prune Daemon log messages

  • Add maximum concurrent jobs to JSON status dir output

  • Add maximum_concurrent_jobs to Storage Daemon status output

  • Modify “show fileset” to display “ext2/ext3/ext4” instead of “ext2”

  • Improve the BSR Do not split a BSR if no file span the volumes

  • Fix #11718 Flush logs after an event

  • Fix #11502 Hide vacuum permission errors on system tables with Postgresql 16

  • Fix #11610 About incorrect backup behavior with client dynamic fileset

  • Fix #11620 xattr size change during backup

  • Fix #11671 About segfault in the Director when using unstable connections and ConnectToDirector

  • Fix #11676 Improve restore messages

  • Fix #11698 Immutability not always applied to the Aligned .add volume

  • Fix 10717 dedup2 show orphan=NA when checkmiss is not used in vacuum

  • Fix 11622: Comm Line Compression looks to be not working above 4GiB.

  • Fix XXHASH* verify S6, S7 & S8 unrecognized options

  • Fix loggin errors in dbcheck and in filed/restore.c

  • Implement fstype aliases (fat, vfat, fat32) => msdos & (ext3, ext4) => ext2

  • Avoid execution issue with runscript Queued

  • Redirect Runscript/Console messages directly to the Job message resource

  • Stop using deprecated openssl EVP_PKEY_(en|de)crypt_old(), HASH, EVP_MD_CTX_md and DH file loading functions

  • Add malloc less backtrace stack

  • bat: Fix restore progress bar

Bugs fixed/closed since last release: 11314 11338 11502 11522 11528 11530 11533 11538 11539 11561 11568 11580 11584 11586 11595 11598 11600 11602 11603 11610 11620 11661 11671 11676 11679 11692 11698 11702 11736

Release 18.2.0 / 19 May 2025

18.2.0 is a major release. There are new features and fixes. More detailed information can be found in the ChangeLog file.

Applications and Databases:

  • Add Amazon RDS Plugin

  • Add multi-concurrent job Fileset support (big-fs)

  • Support for LDAP on Redhat 8 and 9

  • Windows and Linux BMR (support for RHEL9+UEFI, multi-path and swapfile) updates

BWeb Management Console:

  • Automation Wizard expended - Allow deletion of generated jobs - Add workset integration

  • Rework of the Autochanger management page

  • Use secure attribute in HTTPS only

  • Simplify openssl command to generate certificate

  • Display a warning if https is not used

  • Add support for Dedup2 in new storage wizard

Security & Core:

  • FIPS 140-3 compliance with SCRAM-SHA256 support

  • Core performance improvement

Single Item Restore:

  • The support for Nutanix, Azure VM, HyperV, OpenStack and Amazon EC2 has been added

Snapshot Support:

  • Add BSnapDiff fast incremental accelerator for ZFS

  • Add support for the Quobyte

CitrixHypervisor (Xenserver) Plugin:

  • Add support for XCP-NG

  • Add secure mode compatibility

Google Workspace Plugin:

  • Add suspended user parameter to backup and query

  • Add export type parameters

  • Fix issue when reading messages without label #11469. Fix internal error messages about ‘no app name’

  • Export Google Documents by exportLinks when available. Allow to configure export targets

Hypervisor to Cloud (EC2) Migration:

  • Tools to migrate vSphere VMs to Amazon EC2 has been added

HyperV WinAPI:

  • Cluster & Standalone support enhanced

  • UEFI support, boot order management

  • Enhanced network support (multi-interface support, automatic mapping)

Kubernetes Plugin:

  • Add new restore options. Restore in other namespace, other name or other storageclass

  • Integration longhorn snapshots in pod annotations

  • Backup snapshot with Longhorn storage without csi driver

  • Add etcd backup

  • Listing new cluster resourcres: clusterroles, clusterrolebindings,volumesnapshotclasses

  • Add backup and restore of Role and RoleBinding namespaced resources

  • Add backup and restore of ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding resources

  • Add bacula annotations in cloned pvc

  • Change bacula job name length in backup pod

  • Add summary in .query command user_permissions

  • Add new listing namespaced resources

  • Add query command to ask user’s permissions

  • Add support pvcdata list in estimation jobs

  • Add parallel job in same namespace

  • Add a change that pvc annotation takes precedence without pod annotation

  • Add pvc clean up from old backup jobs

  • Fix get provisioner permissions

  • Get images from repositories with auth

  • Add support backup and restore kubevirt resources

  • Add support to backup k8s jobs

  • Add support clone backup with block pvcs

  • Add support backup/restore a new type of resource: cron jobs

  • Add support backup/restore a new type of resource: network policies

  • Add support backup/restore pvc’s block mode

  • Add support to local restore compressed pvc data

  • Add support to make backup to pvcs with block volume_mode

Microsoft 365 Plugin:

  • Add M365 Sharepoint, Activity Module and PST export

  • Convert EventMessages associated to emails (ItemAttachments) to plain messages so we can restore them in Service

  • Add sharepoint_include_personal parameter to control if personal sites are listed or not (not by default now)

  • Add parameter to limit restore object size for sharepoint sites

  • Add sharepoint sharepoint_site_size_catalog_limit parameter and others

  • Check if we are getting the site template itself when checking restore object

  • Limit sharepoint restore object size. Put template in unique path and use it at restore time

Nutanix AHV:

  • Change write mode and delayed sync at restore time

  • Fix #11218: Display name/if of vm being restored

  • Fixes disks not being backup due to ndfs error messages and does local restore of disk that not belong to conf at restore time

OpenStack Plugin:

  • New plugin with backup/restore of Nova server instances

  • Support for Glance images

  • Support of Nova flavors

Oracle Plugin:

  • Allow using localdir to use files directly

Proxmox Plugin:

  • Fix #11315 to not fail a restore job when Proxmox is not reporting correctly the restored device

S3 Plugin:

  • Add thumbprint parameter

  • Introduce trust_all_certificates option for the different clients. Libs upgrade

  • Query thumbprint. Trust thumbprint or trust any local certificate if we have an endpoint

Storage:

  • New Global Endpoint Deduplication v2 scan and recovery tools

  • Set default dedup driver to Dedup2 instead of legacy

  • Add immutability support for Aligned and Cloud plugins

  • Add Storage Class support for Cloud plugins

  • Add support for authentication token for AWS Cloud plugin

  • Set default value of TransferPriority to Low

vSphere Plugin:

  • Make server parameter not mandatory. Use number of the version in the .jar file

  • Include filter by folder (to be used with scan plugin) and list folders query methods

Miscellaneous:

  • linuxbmr: add multipath support for 2.3.0

  • Fix segfault with non supported alert code

  • Fix #3587: Do not overwrite the Job/Storage with the Pool/Storage when the Storage was set in command line

  • The FD verify that all the data blocks belong to the right backups and files

  • Add use_import_export configuration option to mtx-changer

See also

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