1 Changes in release 2.5.1p1
3 o Timeout waiting for ACK
4 o "illegal density" with dump
5 o IRIX: Parse config file, amrecover
7 o amrecover with FreeBSD/OpenBSD
8 * Some other small cleanup.
11 Changes in release 2.5.1
13 * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
14 * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
15 * Open SSL encryption support
16 * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
17 * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
18 authentication methods.
19 * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
20 (same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
21 compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
22 amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
23 * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
24 are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
26 * Amanda command changes
27 o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
28 o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test.
29 Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
30 o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man
32 o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry
33 is not found in the configuration file.
35 * Amanda configuration file changes
37 + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
38 + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
39 + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
40 backup runs in a calendar day.
41 + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
42 NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
43 + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
44 amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
45 o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
46 Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
48 + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
49 Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
50 o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
51 o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.
54 Changes in release 2.5.0p2
56 * listhost subcommand in amrecover
58 Changes in release 2.5.0p1
60 * Add the 'amtape update' command.
62 Changes in release 2.5.0
64 * Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
65 * Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
66 and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client,
67 Custom encryption utilities can be used.
68 * Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
69 really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You
70 can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
72 * Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
73 longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration
74 can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
75 * Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
77 Change in release 2.4.5p1
79 * New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'.
80 * New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options.
82 Change in release 2.4.5
84 * new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
85 k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
86 * new amoverview -skipmissed option.
88 Change in release 2.4.5b1
90 * holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
91 * autoflush flush today's dump.
92 * new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
93 the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
95 * bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
96 * calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
97 * new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
98 CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
99 CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
100 SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
101 can be wrong on the estimate size.
103 Changes in release 2.4.4p3
105 * new chg-iomega changer script.
106 * amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
107 (eg. after an amrmtape).
109 Changes in release 2.4.4p2
111 * new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
112 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
113 * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
114 * amanda works with samba3.
115 * new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
116 * Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.
118 Changes in release 2.4.4p1
120 * amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
121 * new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
122 * new chg-mcutil changer.
123 * amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
124 * default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
125 * amplot generate color postscript by default.
126 * amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
127 * rait: works with file:
128 * print a postscript label for each tape used.
130 Changes in release 2.4.4
132 * New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.
134 Changes in release 2.4.4b1
136 * maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
137 * New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
138 * Client compile on CYGWIN
139 * amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
140 * amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
141 * New config options:
142 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
144 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
145 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
146 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
147 default to tapesize * runtapes
148 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
150 * amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
151 * New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
152 * New --date option to amstatus
153 * amreport print an usage by tape.
154 * Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
155 single host in a run.
156 * New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait
158 Changes in release 2.4.3
160 * Few small bug fixed
161 * New runtapes argument to amverify.
162 * New amverifyrun program.
163 * 2.4.3 client works with older server.
165 Changes in release 2.4.3b4
167 * new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
168 * exclude list with relative path is working again.
169 * amstatus is working again.
171 Changes in release 2.4.3b3
173 * --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
174 * blocksize tapetype option
175 * file-pad tapetype option
176 * Multiple exclude in dumptype
177 * Option include in dumptype
178 * New disklist syntax:
179 * hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
180 * chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
181 * amrecover: new listdisk command.
183 Changes in release 2.4.3b2
185 * amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
186 * amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
187 * amstatus work with amflush.
189 Changes in release 2.4.3b1
192 * New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
193 * New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
194 * amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
195 * new autoflush option.
196 * new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.
198 Changes in release 2.4.2
200 * Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
201 * Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
202 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will
203 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
204 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer
205 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the
206 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag
207 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
208 * dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
209 * Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
211 * A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
212 * negative chunksize is no longer supported
213 * chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
214 * ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
215 * Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
216 * New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
217 scheduling of full backups
218 * chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
219 * --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
220 * new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
221 * Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
222 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
224 * A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
225 constant in dumper.c.
226 * A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
227 constant in amcheck.c.
228 * new amtrmlog command
229 * --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file
231 Changes in release 2.4.1
233 * FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
234 * A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
235 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
236 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.
237 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
238 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
239 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
240 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
241 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
243 * Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
244 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
245 * amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
246 * New `amstatus' program.
247 * New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
248 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
249 * Reporter can now print tape labels.
250 * ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
251 * amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
252 * New `clean' amtape command.
253 * amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
254 * Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
255 * amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
256 * Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
257 (but they won't span across tapes yet).
258 * A total estimate time-out may be specified.
259 * Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
260 * amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
261 * amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
262 to avoid running concurrently.
263 * driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
264 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
265 * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
266 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
267 * New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
268 if they are setuid-root.
270 Changes in release 2.4.0p1
272 * Fixed kerberos encryption
273 * New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
274 * amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
275 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
276 * Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
277 * Updated to libtool 1.2a
278 * Minor portability-related bugfixes.
280 Changes in release 2.4.0
282 * Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
283 * New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
284 * New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
285 a more portable and user-friendly format.
286 * Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
287 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda
288 protocol backward compatibility.
289 * Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
290 * At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
291 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
292 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
293 * New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
294 tape changer script configuration interface.
295 * amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
297 * Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
298 * Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
299 * amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
300 * It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
301 * BSD security is now enabled by default.
302 * A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
303 * New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
304 * Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
305 * Various bugfixes and new ports.
307 Changes in release 2.3.0.4
308 * New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
309 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
310 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
311 * New configure options:
312 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
313 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
314 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME
315 * Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
316 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
317 * Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
318 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day
319 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
320 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
322 * Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
323 * Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
324 * Better fully qualified domain name support.
325 * Many little dumper fixes.
326 * Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
327 only one tape in the tapelist.
328 * More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
330 * Fix --with-mmap configure bug.
332 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
333 * Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
334 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
335 understands command line variable assignment.
336 * Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
337 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
338 * Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires
339 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
340 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
341 * rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
342 * no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
343 * amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
344 * New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
345 * Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
346 * Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
347 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This
349 * Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
350 * Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
351 * Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
352 * Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
353 * Bug fixes in Samba code.
354 * More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
357 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
358 * New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
359 * Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
360 * Gnutar incrementals should now work.
361 * amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
362 * amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
364 * New configure options:
365 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory
366 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR
367 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use
368 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
369 * Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
370 * Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
371 * Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
372 * configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
373 * Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
374 * dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
375 * Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
376 * Many bug fixes to codes.
378 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
379 * Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses
380 automake and autoconf.
381 * Samba PC client backup support added.
382 * New programs and scripts:
383 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
384 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
385 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
386 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
387 * New options added to programs:
388 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
389 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
390 * Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
391 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
392 * Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude
394 * Tape planning improvements.
395 * Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
396 * Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
397 * More debugging added to several programs.
398 * Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
399 * Better support for multidomain environments.
400 * Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
401 * Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.
403 Changes in release 2.3.0.3
404 * Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
405 * Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
406 * Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
409 Changes in release 2.3.0.2
412 Changes in release 2.3.0.1
413 * Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
416 Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
417 * A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
418 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
419 * Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is
420 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
422 * Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
423 * Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
424 * Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
425 * Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
426 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by
427 running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
428 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.
430 Changes in release 2.2.6
431 * A number of material bugs fixed.
432 * A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
433 * The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
434 * This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
435 tested on the following systems:
437 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1
438 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0
439 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2
440 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
441 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
442 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
445 Changes in release 2.2.5
446 * SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
448 * Supports GZIP compression.
449 * Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
450 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
451 * Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
452 if you wish, and it won't get confused.
453 * Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
454 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as
455 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
457 * Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
458 hooks in place for non-dump clients.
459 * Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
461 * Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.
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