Bacularis - new Baculum's fork

date: 18.12.2021 - gani

We are pleased to announce that there has been created a new friendly fork of Baculum. The project is named Bacularis and it has been founded by Baculum's creator for making easier all installation and configuration process. Main goal of the Bacularis project is to simplify using the Baculum web interface that it could be used not only by Bacula experts but also by people not familiar too much with Bacula.

For more information we encourage to visit the Bacularis web page at:

https://bacularis.app

In the news titled "Why Bacularis?" you can find the project description with current differences between Baculum and Bacularis:

https://bacularis.app/news/3/36/Why-Bacularis

New Baculum package repository for Fedora 35

date: 20.11.2021 - gani

There has been prepared a new repository with Baculum 11.0.5.7 packages for Fedora 35. Information about this repository is available in the installation chapter of the Baculum online documentation.

Baculum 11.0.5.7 has been released

date: 17.11.2021 - gani

We are pleased to announce a new Baculum version 11.0.5.7. This is a minor new feature and bug fix release. The main new function is capability to restrict Bacula resources for basic users. There has also been added documentation for Bacula directives and we did many visual improvements in the Baculum Web interface. Finally, we updated Portuguese, Russian and Polish translations.

New changes and fixes:

  • Baculum Web:
    • Add capability to assign dedicated bconsole config file to API basic users
    • Add interface to manage API basic users from Web component side
    • Add documentation for directives
    • Reduce free spaces between interface elements - idea proposed by Sergey Zhidkov
    • Add option to enable/disable messages log window - idea proposed by Bill Arlofski
    • Add time range filters to job history page - idea proposed by Heitor Faria
    • Add copy resource function to enable creating new resources based on others
    • Visual improvements in interface
    • Update Russian translations
    • Update Portuguese translations
    • Update Polish translations
    • Unify buttons view
    • Add password generator to password fields
    • Improve wizards view and responsivity
    • Add capability to close modal windows on clicking gray shadow
    • Fix #2646 apply new user permissions immediately instead of after logging out and logging in
    • Fix #2647 PHP warning about headers already sent on storage view page
    • Unset default API host setting if default API host is no longer assigned to user
  • Baculum API:
    • Add API endpoints for API basic user management

Source file: baculum-11.0.5.7.tar.gz

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Baculum 11.0.5.6 has been released

date: 1.11.2021 - gani

We are pleased to announce a new Baculum version 11.0.5.6. This is a bug fix release. It fixes a bug introduced in 11.0.5.5 that happens if user do not have configured Bacula configuration function in Baculum. Also there has also been updated Russian translations.

New changes and fixes:

  • Baculum Web:
    • Fix undefined index error if user not use Bacula configuration function
    • Update Russian translations

Source file: baculum-11.0.5.6.tar.gz

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Baculum 11.0.5.5 has been released

date: 31.10.2021 - gani

We are pleased to announce a new Baculum version 11.0.5.5. This is a minor bug fix and new feature release. From new feature side there has been added a migrate job wizard. Besides of that we improved notifying if job is waiting on media (media mount request) and we updated translations. The interface has also been optimized for faster page loading.

If you have Baculum installed manually from source archive, before updating please read the UPGRADE file included to sources. If you update using binary packages, no additional action is required.

New changes and fixes:

  • Baculum Web:
    • New migrate job wizard
    • Add warning to running job status if job needs media
    • Do not require using some job resource values to ease using jobdefs - idea proposed by Heitor Faria
    • Update Portuguese translations
    • Update Polish translations
    • Loading pages optimization
    • Improve sun icon for displaying job status weather - idea proposed by Heitor Faria
    • Fix #2642 add tool to re-assigning volumes from one pool to another
    • Move all external dependencies to vendor directory
  • Baculum API:
    • Add capability to use pre-defined paths in API config wizard - idea proposed by Heitor Faria

Source file: baculum-11.0.5.5.tar.gz

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New Baculum 11.0.5.4 packages for Debian 11 Bullseye

date: 24.10.2021 - gani

There has been prepared a new repository with Baculum 11.0.5.4 packages for Debian 11 Bullseye. Information about this repository is available in the installation chapter of the Baculum online documentation.

Baculum 11.0.5.4 has been released

date: 3.08.2021 - gani

We are pleased to announce a new Baculum version 11.0.5.4. This is a minor new feature and bug fix release. In this version a new schedule setting has been prepared. There have also been updated Portuguese, Russian and Polish translations. We removed the redundant Statistics page as all statistics can now be set on Director, File Daemon and Storage Daemon configuration pages.

New changes and fixes:

  • Baculum Web:
    • New advanced schedule settings
    • Update Portuguese translations
    • Update Russian translations
    • Update Polish translations
    • Fix displaying issue in restore browser - reported by Sergey Zhidkov
    • Fix error about expected port number when writing component main resource
    • Fix auto-scrolling in windows with configuration
    • Fix remove storage resource if autochanger directive is set
    • Remove redundant statistics pages

Source file: baculum-11.0.5.4.tar.gz

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Baculum 11.0.5.3 has been released

date: 14.07.2021 - gani

We are pleased to announce a new Baculum version 11.0.5.3. This is a minor new feature and bug fix release. The main new features for this version are: the new copy job wizard and improvements on the dashboard page. Russian, Portuguese and Polish translations have been updated as well.

New changes and fixes:

  • Baculum Web:
    • New copy job wizard
    • Backup job wizard improvements
    • Add jump to previous/next error navigation in messages window
    • Update Portuguese translations
    • Update Russian translations
    • Update Polish translations
    • Make table texts translatable - reported by Sergey Zhidkov
    • Make job status pie chart smaller - idea proposed by Sergey Zhidkov
    • Change buttons on dashboard page - reported by Sergey Zhidkov
    • Make job status pie chart clickable and direct to job history page with filtered results - idea proposed by Bill Arlofski
    • Reduce size of icons in run job window and on dashboard page
    • Fix opening job details in job table on main dashboard page - reported by Sergey Zhidkov
    • Fix required fields in jobdefs forms
    • Fix loading dashboard page if job status is created but not yet running
    • Fix table width on schedule list page
    • Fix legend in job status pie chart on job view page
    • Move resource monitor and error message box to separate modules
    • Add to directive controls option to hide reset button and remove button
  • Baculum API:
    • Add to config API endpoint parameter to apply jobdefs in results
    • Update API documentation

Source file: baculum-11.0.5.3.tar.gz

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