X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ReleaseNotes;h=ff5f136c8f5441d9aaa97aa420678afe92606881;hb=e6f5b6ec8d303807a43534a2a33cc9640b8d2972;hp=664194b2dcc50be1fd5d2d937107d85ded3d9604;hpb=12179dea039515c06168c0037d048566a3f623de;p=debian%2Famanda diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 664194b..ff5f136 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,3 +1,149 @@ + Release Notes for amanda-2.6.1 + +amgtar, amstar, amsamba, amzfs-sendrecv + Four new programs implementing application-api. + Swithching from the program "GNUTAR" to the application "amgtar" have some + advantage: + - amgtar use by default the gtar --atime-preserve=system option, you must + disable it if you gtar relase doesn't have that option. + - Can be configured to cross filesystem. + - Can be configured to not check the device number on newer gtar + (--no-check-device of gtar). + - You can configure error message from gtar you don't want to see in the + report. + +amzfs-snapshot, script-email + Two new scripts implementing script-api. + The 'zfs-snapshot' script must be used only with the 'amgtar' application. + +amarchiver + New program to manipulate file in amanda archive format. + +New perl Module: + Application (perl utility functions for Applications) + Archive (Perl access to the amanda archive library) + Constants (perl access to build-time configuration values) + MainLoop (Perl interface to the Glib MainLoop) + Process (interface to process), used by amcleanup. + Script (perl utility functions for Scripts) + Tapelist (Manipulate the Amanda tapelist) + Xfer (Xfer-api) + + + Release Notes for amanda-2.6.0 + +amcheckdump + New program written entirely in perl, it replaces 'amverify' and + 'amveryfyrun' + +amcryptsimple, amgpgcrypt + New encryption plugins based on gpg. + +amserverconfig, amaddclient + New Initial Amanda configuration tools, these tools make assumptions, + please see man page. + +Deprecated programs + 'amverify' and 'amveryfyrun' are deprecated -- use amcheckdump. + 'amdd' and 'ammt' are also deprecated. If you have scripts that use + them, then you must rewrite them in perl using the new perl modules. + +Configure options + --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require shared library. + Instead, use --with-static-binaries to build staticailly linked binaries. + --with-amlibdir, libraries are now installed in $amlibdir + --without-amlibdir : amlibdir=$libdir + --with-amlibdir=yes : amlibdir=$libdir/amanda (default value) + --with-amlibdir=/path/to/libdir : amlibdir=/path/to/libdir + --with-amlibexecdir, internal programs are installed in $amlibexecdir + --without-amlibexecdir : amlibdir=$libexecdir + --with-amlibexecdir=yes : amlibdir=$libexecdir/amanda + (default value) + --with-amlibexecdir=/path/to/libexecdir : amlibdir=/path/to/libexecdir + --with-amperldir, Where to install perl modules + --without-amperldir : amperldir=$amlibdir/perl + --with-amperldir=yes : amperldir= $(perl installsitelib) + (default value) + --with-amperldir=/path/to/perldir : amperldir=/path/to/perldir + +Path changes + Libraries are installed in $amlibdir (previously $libdir) + Internal programs are installed in $amlibexecdir (previously $libexecdir) + You must change your inetd/xinetd config for the new amandad path. + The amandad path change affect rsh/ssh auth, amanda-2.6.0 installations + will need to add an 'amandad_path' parameter to configuration files in + order to talk to older versions of Amanda: + amanda-2.6.0 client -> amanda-2.5.2 or earlier server: add + 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) to + /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf + amanda-2.5.2 or earlier client -> amanda-2.6.0 server: add + 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amanda/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) + to /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf + amanda-2.6.0 server -> amanda-2.5.2 or earlier client: add + 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) to the + dumptype + amanda-2.5.2 or earlier server -> amanda-2.6.0 client: add + 'amandad_path "/usr/libexec/amanda/amandad"' (or the appropriate path) + to the dumptype + The amandates files is now $localstatedir/amanda/amandates, previously it + was /etc/amandates, this file must be created on all client. + +usetimestamps + It now defaults to 'yes'. + +Glib + glib is required to compile and run amanda. + It is free and can be downloaded form http://www.gtk.org/download/ + +Device API + The Device API is a complete rewrite of all tape-access functionality. + To use the Device API, all devices must be specified by their full + name, e.g., tape:/dev/nst0. Existing functionality is now available + in the tape, file, and rait devices, and a new Amazon S3 backend named + 's3' is also available. + +Perl Module + Link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda applications in Perl + Available Modules: + Changer (Execute changer scripts) + Cmdline (Parse command line argument) + Config (Parse config files) + Device (device-api) + Debug (Write to debug files) + Logfile (Parse log files) + Tapefile (Parse tapelist file) + Perl modules are installed in $amperldir + +local security driver (auth) + Allows backups of the Amanda server without any need for network + configuration, and similarly allows amrecover to work on the Amanda + server without any network configuration. + +make installcheck + Almost 200 unit tests are available, which should be run on an installed + copy of Amanda. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Testing for more + information. + +flush-threshold-dumped, flush-threshold-scheduled, taperflush + These three config options allow to better fill your tapes. + They are what was known as the taperstart/taperflush feature. + + + Release Notes for amanda-2.5.2 + +IPv6 + + IPv6 support is enabled by default if your OS support it, if your OS is + not working correctly with IPV6, you can disable it at configure time + with '--without-ipv6'. + +readblocksize + + This option is useful only if you configured amanda with a big + '--with-maxtapeblocksize' and your hardware can't works with big block + size. + + Release Notes for amanda-2.5.1