1 Changes in release 3.1.0
3 * Deprecated old changers; see amanda-changers(7) for replacements. These
4 changers are still available in the distribution, but will be removed in a
11 * Although chg-zd-mtx is still supported, we recommend that all users upgrade
12 to the more efficient chg-robot. See contrib/convert-zd-mtx-to-robot.sh
13 for a useful conversion script.
14 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
15 o deprecated configuration keywords:
17 o keywords deprecated in 2.6.1:
21 o new configuration keyword
22 + autolabel -- replace label_new_tapes
23 + columnspec -- can specify a precision.
24 + order -- in script, to specify script order execution.
25 + client_port -- in dumptype, to specify which port to connect on
27 + estimate -- in dumptype, can specify multiple estimate method.
28 o accept 'define' keyword for defining an holdingdisk
29 * Amanda client configuration file changes (amanda-client.conf)
30 o new configuration keyword
31 + debug_days -- how many days to keep debug files.
32 + client_port -- use by amrecover, specify which port to connect on
34 * Removed compile-time default --with-changer-device: specify a device
35 explicitly in amanda.conf instead
36 * amtape behavior has changed:
37 o 'device' subcommand removed
38 o 'slot advance' subcommand removed
39 o 'update' subcommand no longer displays each slot as it is updated, and
40 is not supported by all changers
41 o taperscan output has changed
42 o new 'inventory' subcommand
45 + --changer -- Specify which changer to use
46 + --cleanup -- Remove logs and indexes associated with label
47 + --dryrun -- do not update the original copies.
48 + --erase -- Attempt to erase the data contained on the volume
49 + --keep-label -- Do not remove label from the tapelist
50 + --quiet -- Opposite of --verbose
51 + --verbose -- List backups of hosts and disks that are being
55 o new --properties option.
57 o changed wildcard setting for S3_BUCKET_LOCATION from "" to "*"
58 o new 'ndmp:' device to write to a tape on an ndmp server.
59 o new 'dvdrw:' device to write to a dvd drive.
61 o new properties to many applications
63 + new ACLS, SELINUX and XATTRS properties
65 + Allow '\' in diskname and amandapass.
66 + new ALLOW-ANONYMOUS property.
68 + ampgsql -- Backup PostgreSQL using continuous WAL archiving
69 + amsuntar -- Backup filesytem with the SUN tar
70 + amraw -- Backup only one directory entry
71 * New taper, with DirectTCP support, changed tape and catalog format:
72 o all dumpfiles are now F_SPLIT_DUMPFILE
73 o all on-tape dumpfiles have numparts=-1, since it's no longer possible
74 to calculate this value in advance
75 o there is no logging or reporting of zero-byte, successful parts (this
76 may cause gaps in filenums in the catalog)
78 o much more natural command-line interface (just run 'amreport $config')
79 o experimental XML output
80 * configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance.
82 Changes in release 2.6.1p2
83 * amtapetype: new -p option
87 o file not removed from holding disk
88 o sendbackup compatibility with a 2.4.2 server
89 o handle EROFS error from tape device.
90 o zfs snapshot name us the diskname.
91 o fix fd allocation in amandad
94 Changes in release 2.6.1p1
96 * amplot: better output
97 * Don't include genversion.h in distribution tarballs.
104 o compilation on some platform
107 Changes in release 2.6.1
109 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
110 o deprecated configuration keywords:
114 * Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program,
115 See the 'amanda-applications' man page.
116 o amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR
117 program. See 'amgtar' man page.
118 o amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a partition. See
120 o amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba man page.
121 o amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'.
122 * Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process, see the
123 'amanda-scripts' man page.
124 o amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then 'amgtar'
125 application will backup the snapshot. See 'amzfs-snapshot' man page.
126 o script-email: Simple script to send email. see 'script-email' man page.
127 * Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting concurrent
128 use of multiple devices and changers.
129 o currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old changer
131 o under active development.
132 * Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal efficiency
133 o can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc.
134 o only used in some applications.
135 * Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application can
136 use to create backup image.
137 * 'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format.
138 * Many improvements to report better error message to user.
139 * amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed.
140 * Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces.
141 * Many bugs fixed and improvement.
142 * amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from
143 amanda-client.conf on a client.
144 * Amanda configuration file changes
145 o new application-tool section
146 o new script-tool section
148 o new changer section
150 Changes in release 2.6.0
152 * configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require
153 shared libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to build
154 statically linked binaries.
155 * 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
156 new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
157 * 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
158 * Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/" subdirectories:
159 libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and internal programs
160 are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda.
161 * The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at
162 $localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your existing
163 /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
164 * New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
165 * New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools
166 these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
167 * Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
168 * glib is required to compile and run amanda.
169 * Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes,
170 vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
171 * New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda
172 applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default in the perl
173 installsitelib directory. It can be changed with
174 'configure --with-amperldir'.
175 * New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server
176 without any network connection or other configuration.
177 * Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
178 * Amanda configuration file changes
179 o amanda.conf changes
180 + flush-threshold-dumped
181 + flush-threshold-scheduled
184 + usetimestamps default to yes
186 Changes in release 2.5.2p1
190 + missing sockaddr_storage
191 + missing AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL
192 + compare of IPv4 and IPv6 v4mapped address.
193 + (bsd/bsdudp): server use two sockets,
194 one for IPv4 and one for IPv6
198 o compilation on some platform
201 Changes in release 2.5.2
203 * Many bugs fixed and code cleanup
204 * krb5 auth is working
205 * Works with IPv6 address
206 * Amanda configuration file changes
207 o amanda.conf changes
208 + debugging is enabled in the config file
209 see all debug_* config option
210 + tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too
211 larger for your hardware
213 Changes in release 2.5.1p3
216 * amrecover improve handling of not ascii filename in index.
217 * Works with tar-1.16 and exit status of 1.
218 * Can define a LASTSLOT in a chg-disk config file.
221 Changes in release 2.5.1p2
224 * amoverview is working
225 * dumptype starttime is working
227 * Amanda command changes
228 o amtape accept the -o arguments
229 o amgetconf --list to list all tapetype, dumptype, holdingdisk
231 o amgetconf can return a value of a specific tapetype, dumptype,
232 holdingdisk or interface
235 Changes in release 2.5.1p1
238 o Timeout waiting for ACK
239 o "illegal density" with dump
240 o IRIX: Parse config file, amrecover
242 o amrecover with FreeBSD/OpenBSD
243 * Some other small cleanup.
244 * Remove contrib/sst.
247 Changes in release 2.5.1
249 * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
250 * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
251 * Open SSL encryption support
252 * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
253 * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
254 authentication methods.
255 * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
256 (same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
257 compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
258 amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
259 * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
260 are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
262 * Amanda command changes
263 o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
264 o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test.
265 Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
266 o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man
268 o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry
269 is not found in the configuration file.
271 * Amanda configuration file changes
272 o amanda.conf changes
273 + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
274 + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
275 + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
276 backup runs in a calendar day.
277 + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
278 NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
279 + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
280 amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
281 o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
282 Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
284 + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
285 Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
286 o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
287 o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.
290 Changes in release 2.5.0p2
292 * listhost subcommand in amrecover
294 Changes in release 2.5.0p1
296 * Add the 'amtape update' command.
298 Changes in release 2.5.0
300 * Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
301 * Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
302 and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client,
303 Custom encryption utilities can be used.
304 * Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
305 really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You
306 can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
308 * Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
309 longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration
310 can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
311 * Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
313 Change in release 2.4.5p1
315 * New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'.
316 * New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options.
318 Change in release 2.4.5
320 * new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
321 k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
322 * new amoverview -skipmissed option.
324 Change in release 2.4.5b1
326 * holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
327 * autoflush flush today's dump.
328 * new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
329 the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
331 * bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
332 * calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
333 * new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
334 CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
335 CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
336 SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
337 can be wrong on the estimate size.
339 Changes in release 2.4.4p3
341 * new chg-iomega changer script.
342 * amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
343 (eg. after an amrmtape).
345 Changes in release 2.4.4p2
347 * new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
348 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
349 * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
350 * amanda works with samba3.
351 * new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
352 * Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.
354 Changes in release 2.4.4p1
356 * amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
357 * new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
358 * new chg-mcutil changer.
359 * amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
360 * default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
361 * amplot generate color postscript by default.
362 * amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
363 * rait: works with file:
364 * print a postscript label for each tape used.
366 Changes in release 2.4.4
368 * New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.
370 Changes in release 2.4.4b1
372 * maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
373 * New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
374 * Client compile on CYGWIN
375 * amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
376 * amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
377 * New config options:
378 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
380 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
381 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
382 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
383 default to tapesize * runtapes
384 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
386 * amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
387 * New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
388 * New --date option to amstatus
389 * amreport print an usage by tape.
390 * Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
391 single host in a run.
392 * New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait
394 Changes in release 2.4.3
396 * Few small bug fixed
397 * New runtapes argument to amverify.
398 * New amverifyrun program.
399 * 2.4.3 client works with older server.
401 Changes in release 2.4.3b4
403 * new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
404 * exclude list with relative path is working again.
405 * amstatus is working again.
407 Changes in release 2.4.3b3
409 * --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
410 * blocksize tapetype option
411 * file-pad tapetype option
412 * Multiple exclude in dumptype
413 * Option include in dumptype
414 * New disklist syntax:
415 * hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
416 * chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
417 * amrecover: new listdisk command.
419 Changes in release 2.4.3b2
421 * amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
422 * amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
423 * amstatus work with amflush.
425 Changes in release 2.4.3b1
428 * New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
429 * New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
430 * amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
431 * new autoflush option.
432 * new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.
434 Changes in release 2.4.2
436 * Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
437 * Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
438 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will
439 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
440 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer
441 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the
442 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag
443 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
444 * dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
445 * Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
447 * A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
448 * negative chunksize is no longer supported
449 * chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
450 * ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
451 * Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
452 * New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
453 scheduling of full backups
454 * chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
455 * --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
456 * new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
457 * Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
458 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
460 * A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
461 constant in dumper.c.
462 * A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
463 constant in amcheck.c.
464 * new amtrmlog command
465 * --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file
467 Changes in release 2.4.1
469 * FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
470 * A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
471 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
472 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.
473 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
474 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
475 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
476 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
477 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
479 * Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
480 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
481 * amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
482 * New `amstatus' program.
483 * New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
484 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
485 * Reporter can now print tape labels.
486 * ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
487 * amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
488 * New `clean' amtape command.
489 * amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
490 * Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
491 * amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
492 * Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
493 (but they won't span across tapes yet).
494 * A total estimate time-out may be specified.
495 * Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
496 * amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
497 * amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
498 to avoid running concurrently.
499 * driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
500 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
501 * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
502 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
503 * New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
504 if they are setuid-root.
506 Changes in release 2.4.0p1
508 * Fixed kerberos encryption
509 * New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
510 * amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
511 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
512 * Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
513 * Updated to libtool 1.2a
514 * Minor portability-related bugfixes.
516 Changes in release 2.4.0
518 * Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
519 * New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
520 * New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
521 a more portable and user-friendly format.
522 * Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
523 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda
524 protocol backward compatibility.
525 * Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
526 * At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
527 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
528 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
529 * New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
530 tape changer script configuration interface.
531 * amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
533 * Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
534 * Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
535 * amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
536 * It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
537 * BSD security is now enabled by default.
538 * A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
539 * New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
540 * Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
541 * Various bugfixes and new ports.
543 Changes in release 2.3.0.4
544 * New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
545 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
546 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
547 * New configure options:
548 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
549 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
550 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME
551 * Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
552 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
553 * Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
554 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day
555 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
556 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
558 * Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
559 * Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
560 * Better fully qualified domain name support.
561 * Many little dumper fixes.
562 * Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
563 only one tape in the tapelist.
564 * More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
566 * Fix --with-mmap configure bug.
568 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
569 * Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
570 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
571 understands command line variable assignment.
572 * Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
573 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
574 * Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires
575 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
576 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
577 * rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
578 * no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
579 * amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
580 * New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
581 * Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
582 * Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
583 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This
585 * Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
586 * Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
587 * Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
588 * Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
589 * Bug fixes in Samba code.
590 * More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
593 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
594 * New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
595 * Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
596 * Gnutar incrementals should now work.
597 * amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
598 * amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
600 * New configure options:
601 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory
602 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR
603 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use
604 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
605 * Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
606 * Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
607 * Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
608 * configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
609 * Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
610 * dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
611 * Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
612 * Many bug fixes to codes.
614 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
615 * Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses
616 automake and autoconf.
617 * Samba PC client backup support added.
618 * New programs and scripts:
619 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
620 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
621 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
622 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
623 * New options added to programs:
624 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
625 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
626 * Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
627 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
628 * Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude
630 * Tape planning improvements.
631 * Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
632 * Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
633 * More debugging added to several programs.
634 * Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
635 * Better support for multidomain environments.
636 * Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
637 * Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.
639 Changes in release 2.3.0.3
640 * Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
641 * Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
642 * Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
645 Changes in release 2.3.0.2
648 Changes in release 2.3.0.1
649 * Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
652 Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
653 * A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
654 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
655 * Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is
656 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
658 * Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
659 * Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
660 * Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
661 * Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
662 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by
663 running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
664 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.
666 Changes in release 2.2.6
667 * A number of material bugs fixed.
668 * A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
669 * The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
670 * This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
671 tested on the following systems:
673 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1
674 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0
675 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2
676 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
677 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
678 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
681 Changes in release 2.2.5
682 * SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
684 * Supports GZIP compression.
685 * Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
686 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
687 * Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
688 if you wish, and it won't get confused.
689 * Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
690 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as
691 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
693 * Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
694 hooks in place for non-dump clients.
695 * Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
697 * Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.