1 Changes in release 2.5.2p1
5 + missing sockaddr_storage
6 + missing AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL
7 + compare of IPv4 and IPv6 v4mapped address.
8 + (bsd/bsdudp): server use two sockets,
9 one for IPv4 and one for IPv6
13 o compilation on some platform
16 Changes in release 2.5.2
18 * Many bugs fixed and code cleanup
19 * krb5 auth is working
20 * Works with IPv6 address
21 * Amanda configuration file changes
23 + debugging is enabled in the config file
24 see all debug_* config option
25 + tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too
26 larger for your hardware
27 * Amanda command changes
28 o amadmin: new 'holding list' and 'holding delete' subcommand.
30 Changes in release 2.5.1p3
33 * amrecover improve handling of not ascii filename in index.
34 * Works with tar-1.16 and exit status of 1.
35 * Can define a LASTSLOT in a chg-disk config file.
38 Changes in release 2.5.1p2
41 * amoverview is working
42 * dumptype starttime is working
44 * Amanda command changes
45 o amtape accept the -o arguments
46 o amgetconf --list to list all tapetype, dumptype, holdingdisk
48 o amgetconf can return a value of a specific tapetype, dumptype,
49 holdingdisk or interface
52 Changes in release 2.5.1p1
55 o Timeout waiting for ACK
56 o "illegal density" with dump
57 o IRIX: Parse config file, amrecover
59 o amrecover with FreeBSD/OpenBSD
60 * Some other small cleanup.
64 Changes in release 2.5.1
66 * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
67 * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
68 * Open SSL encryption support
69 * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
70 * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
71 authentication methods.
72 * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
73 (same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
74 compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
75 amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
76 * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
77 are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
79 * Amanda command changes
80 o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
81 o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test.
82 Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
83 o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man
85 o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry
86 is not found in the configuration file.
88 * Amanda configuration file changes
90 + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
91 + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
92 + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
93 backup runs in a calendar day.
94 + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
95 NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
96 + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
97 amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
98 o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
99 Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
101 + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
102 Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
103 o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
104 o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.
107 Changes in release 2.5.0p2
109 * listhost subcommand in amrecover
111 Changes in release 2.5.0p1
113 * Add the 'amtape update' command.
115 Changes in release 2.5.0
117 * Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
118 * Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
119 and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client,
120 Custom encryption utilities can be used.
121 * Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
122 really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You
123 can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
125 * Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
126 longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration
127 can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
128 * Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
130 Change in release 2.4.5p1
132 * New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'.
133 * New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options.
135 Change in release 2.4.5
137 * new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
138 k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
139 * new amoverview -skipmissed option.
141 Change in release 2.4.5b1
143 * holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
144 * autoflush flush today's dump.
145 * new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
146 the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
148 * bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
149 * calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
150 * new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
151 CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
152 CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
153 SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
154 can be wrong on the estimate size.
156 Changes in release 2.4.4p3
158 * new chg-iomega changer script.
159 * amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
160 (eg. after an amrmtape).
162 Changes in release 2.4.4p2
164 * new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
165 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
166 * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
167 * amanda works with samba3.
168 * new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
169 * Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.
171 Changes in release 2.4.4p1
173 * amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
174 * new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
175 * new chg-mcutil changer.
176 * amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
177 * default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
178 * amplot generate color postscript by default.
179 * amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
180 * rait: works with file:
181 * print a postscript label for each tape used.
183 Changes in release 2.4.4
185 * New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.
187 Changes in release 2.4.4b1
189 * maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
190 * New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
191 * Client compile on CYGWIN
192 * amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
193 * amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
194 * New config options:
195 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
197 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
198 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
199 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
200 default to tapesize * runtapes
201 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
203 * amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
204 * New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
205 * New --date option to amstatus
206 * amreport print an usage by tape.
207 * Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
208 single host in a run.
209 * New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait
211 Changes in release 2.4.3
213 * Few small bug fixed
214 * New runtapes argument to amverify.
215 * New amverifyrun program.
216 * 2.4.3 client works with older server.
218 Changes in release 2.4.3b4
220 * new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
221 * exclude list with relative path is working again.
222 * amstatus is working again.
224 Changes in release 2.4.3b3
226 * --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
227 * blocksize tapetype option
228 * file-pad tapetype option
229 * Multiple exclude in dumptype
230 * Option include in dumptype
231 * New disklist syntax:
232 * hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
233 * chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
234 * amrecover: new listdisk command.
236 Changes in release 2.4.3b2
238 * amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
239 * amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
240 * amstatus work with amflush.
242 Changes in release 2.4.3b1
245 * New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
246 * New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
247 * amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
248 * new autoflush option.
249 * new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.
251 Changes in release 2.4.2
253 * Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
254 * Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
255 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will
256 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
257 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer
258 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the
259 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag
260 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
261 * dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
262 * Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
264 * A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
265 * negative chunksize is no longer supported
266 * chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
267 * ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
268 * Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
269 * New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
270 scheduling of full backups
271 * chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
272 * --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
273 * new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
274 * Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
275 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
277 * A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
278 constant in dumper.c.
279 * A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
280 constant in amcheck.c.
281 * new amtrmlog command
282 * --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file
284 Changes in release 2.4.1
286 * FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
287 * A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
288 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
289 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.
290 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
291 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
292 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
293 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
294 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
296 * Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
297 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
298 * amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
299 * New `amstatus' program.
300 * New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
301 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
302 * Reporter can now print tape labels.
303 * ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
304 * amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
305 * New `clean' amtape command.
306 * amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
307 * Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
308 * amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
309 * Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
310 (but they won't span across tapes yet).
311 * A total estimate time-out may be specified.
312 * Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
313 * amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
314 * amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
315 to avoid running concurrently.
316 * driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
317 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
318 * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
319 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
320 * New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
321 if they are setuid-root.
323 Changes in release 2.4.0p1
325 * Fixed kerberos encryption
326 * New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
327 * amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
328 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
329 * Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
330 * Updated to libtool 1.2a
331 * Minor portability-related bugfixes.
333 Changes in release 2.4.0
335 * Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
336 * New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
337 * New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
338 a more portable and user-friendly format.
339 * Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
340 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda
341 protocol backward compatibility.
342 * Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
343 * At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
344 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
345 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
346 * New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
347 tape changer script configuration interface.
348 * amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
350 * Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
351 * Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
352 * amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
353 * It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
354 * BSD security is now enabled by default.
355 * A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
356 * New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
357 * Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
358 * Various bugfixes and new ports.
360 Changes in release 2.3.0.4
361 * New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
362 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
363 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
364 * New configure options:
365 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
366 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
367 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME
368 * Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
369 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
370 * Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
371 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day
372 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
373 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
375 * Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
376 * Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
377 * Better fully qualified domain name support.
378 * Many little dumper fixes.
379 * Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
380 only one tape in the tapelist.
381 * More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
383 * Fix --with-mmap configure bug.
385 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
386 * Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
387 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
388 understands command line variable assignment.
389 * Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
390 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
391 * Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires
392 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
393 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
394 * rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
395 * no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
396 * amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
397 * New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
398 * Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
399 * Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
400 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This
402 * Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
403 * Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
404 * Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
405 * Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
406 * Bug fixes in Samba code.
407 * More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
410 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
411 * New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
412 * Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
413 * Gnutar incrementals should now work.
414 * amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
415 * amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
417 * New configure options:
418 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory
419 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR
420 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use
421 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
422 * Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
423 * Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
424 * Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
425 * configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
426 * Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
427 * dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
428 * Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
429 * Many bug fixes to codes.
431 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
432 * Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses
433 automake and autoconf.
434 * Samba PC client backup support added.
435 * New programs and scripts:
436 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
437 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
438 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
439 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
440 * New options added to programs:
441 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
442 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
443 * Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
444 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
445 * Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude
447 * Tape planning improvements.
448 * Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
449 * Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
450 * More debugging added to several programs.
451 * Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
452 * Better support for multidomain environments.
453 * Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
454 * Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.
456 Changes in release 2.3.0.3
457 * Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
458 * Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
459 * Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
462 Changes in release 2.3.0.2
465 Changes in release 2.3.0.1
466 * Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
469 Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
470 * A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
471 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
472 * Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is
473 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
475 * Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
476 * Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
477 * Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
478 * Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
479 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by
480 running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
481 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.
483 Changes in release 2.2.6
484 * A number of material bugs fixed.
485 * A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
486 * The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
487 * This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
488 tested on the following systems:
490 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1
491 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0
492 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2
493 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
494 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
495 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
498 Changes in release 2.2.5
499 * SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
501 * Supports GZIP compression.
502 * Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
503 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
504 * Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
505 if you wish, and it won't get confused.
506 * Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
507 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as
508 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
510 * Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
511 hooks in place for non-dump clients.
512 * Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
514 * Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.