1 Release Notes for amanda-2.6.0
4 New program written entirely in perl, it replaces 'amverify' and
7 amcryptsimple, amgpgcrypt
8 New encryption plugins based on gpg.
10 amserverconfig, amaddclient
11 New Initial Amanda configuration tools, these tools make assumptions,
15 'amverify' and 'amveryfyrun' are deprecated -- use amcheckdump.
16 'amdd' and 'ammt' are also deprecated. If you have scripts that use
17 them, then you must rewrite them in perl using the new perl modules.
20 --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require shared library.
21 Instead, use --with-static-binaries to build statically linked binaries.
22 --with-amlibdir, libraries are now installed in $amlibdir
23 --without-amlibdir : amlibdir=$libdir
24 --with-amlibdir=yes : amlibdir=$libdir/amanda (default value)
25 --with-amlibdir=/path/to/libdir : amlibdir=/path/to/libdir
26 --with-amlibexecdir, internal programs are installed in $amlibexecdir
27 --without-amlibexecdir : amlibdir=$libexecdir
28 --with-amlibexecdir=yes : amlibdir=$libexecdir/amanda
30 --with-amlibexecdir=/path/to/libexecdir : amlibdir=/path/to/libexecdir
31 --with-amperldir, Where to install perl modules
32 --without-amperldir : amperldir=$amlibdir/perl
33 --with-amperldir=yes : amperldir= $(perl installsitelib)
35 --with-amperldir=/path/to/perldir : amperldir=/path/to/perldir
38 Libraries are installed in $amlibdir (previously $libdir)
39 Internal programs are installed in $amlibexecdir (previously $libexecdir)
40 You must change your inetd/xinetd config for the new amandad path.
41 The amandad path change affect rsh/ssh auth, amanda-2.6.0 installations
42 will need to add an 'amandad_path' parameter to configuration files in
43 order to talk to older versions of Amanda:
44 amanda-2.6.0 client -> amanda-2.5.2 or earlier server: add
45 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) to
46 /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf
47 amanda-2.5.2 or earlier client -> amanda-2.6.0 server: add
48 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amanda/amandad"' (or the appropriate path)
49 to /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf
50 amanda-2.6.0 server -> amanda-2.5.2 or earlier client: add
51 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) to the
53 amanda-2.5.2 or earlier server -> amanda-2.6.0 client: add
54 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amanda/amandad"' (or the appropriate path)
56 The amandates files is now $localstatedir/amanda/amandates, previously it
57 was /etc/amandates, this file must be created on all client.
60 It now defaults to 'yes'.
63 glib is required to compile and run amanda.
64 It is free and can be downloaded form http://www.gtk.org/download/
67 The Device API is a complete rewrite of all tape-access functionality.
68 To use the Device API, all devices must be specified by their full
69 name, e.g., tape:/dev/nst0. Existing functionality is now available
70 in the tape, file, and rait devices, and a new Amazon S3 backend named
71 's3' is also available.
74 Link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda applications in Perl
76 Changer (Execute changer scripts)
77 Cmdline (Parse command line argument)
78 Config (Parse config files)
80 Debug (Write to debug files)
81 Logfile (Parse log files)
82 Tapefile (Parse tapelist file)
83 Perl modules are installed in $amperldir
85 local security driver (auth)
86 Allows backups of the Amanda server without any need for network
87 configuration, and similarly allows amrecover to work on the Amanda
88 server without any network configuration.
91 Almost 200 unit tests are available, which should be run on an installed
92 copy of Amanda. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Testing for more
95 flush-threshold-dumped, flush-threshold-scheduled, taperflush
96 These three config options allow to better fill your tapes.
97 They are what was known as the taperstart/taperflush feature.
100 Release Notes for amanda-2.5.2
104 IPv6 support is enabled by default if your OS support it, if your OS is
105 not working correctly with IPV6, you can disable it at configure time
106 with '--without-ipv6'.
110 This option is useful only if you configured amanda with a big
111 '--with-maxtapeblocksize' and your hardware can't works with big block
115 Release Notes for amanda-2.5.1
120 This new feature will record all dump with timestamp instead of datestamp,
121 it will allow to do many dump in a day and recover easily anyone of them.
123 If you use this features, you will not be able to downgrade to 2.5.0 or
126 see the usetimestamps section of 'man amanda.conf'
131 These are 2 new auth, they still use bsd authentification like bsd, but
134 bsdudp is like bsd, it use udp for connecting to client but it will use
135 only one tcp port for all data stream.
137 bsdtcp use tcp to connect the to client and it's the only network
138 connection use. It doesn't have the udp packet size limit, so you can
139 have an unlimited number of DLE for a single host.
141 amrecover use the security-api
143 amrecover now use the security-api, You don't need to configure an
144 amindexd and an amidxtaped services in your xinetd.
145 amindexd and amidxtaped will be launched by amandad like any other services.
146 You must do modification to your xinetd configuration and .amandahosts toi
147 allow connection to amindexd and amidxtaped.
149 new format of xinetd.d/amanda
151 amandad get in arguments the list of services it can launch, you must add
152 theses services in the server_args options.
154 new format of .amandahosts
156 You must append to each line the services this client can launch, the
160 See the AUTHORIZATION section of the amanda man page and the