1 Changes in release 2.4.4p3
3 * new chg-iomega changer script.
4 * amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
5 (eg. after an amrmtape).
7 Changes in release 2.4.4p2
9 * new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
10 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
11 * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
12 * amanda works with samba3.
13 * new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
14 * Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.
16 Changes in release 2.4.4p1
18 * amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
19 * new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
20 * new chg-mcutil changer.
21 * amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
22 * default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
23 * amplot generate color postscript by default.
24 * amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
25 * rait: works with file:
26 * print a postscript label for each tape used.
28 Changes in release 2.4.4
30 * New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.
32 Changes in release 2.4.4b1
34 * maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
35 * New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
36 * Client compile on CYGWIN
37 * amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
38 * amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
40 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
42 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
43 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
44 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
45 default to tapesize * runtapes
46 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
48 * amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
49 * New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
50 * New --date option to amstatus
51 * amreport print an usage by tape.
52 * Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
54 * New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait
56 Changes in release 2.4.3
59 * New runtapes argument to amverify.
60 * New amverifyrun program.
61 * 2.4.3 client works with older server.
63 Changes in release 2.4.3b4
65 * new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
66 * exclude list with relative path is working again.
67 * amstatus is working again.
69 Changes in release 2.4.3b3
71 * --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
72 * blocksize tapetype option
73 * file-pad tapetype option
74 * Multiple exclude in dumptype
75 * Option include in dumptype
76 * New disklist syntax:
77 * hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
78 * chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
79 * amrecover: new listdisk command.
81 Changes in release 2.4.3b2
83 * amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
84 * amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
85 * amstatus work with amflush.
87 Changes in release 2.4.3b1
90 * New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
91 * New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
92 * amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
93 * new autoflush option.
94 * new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.
96 Changes in release 2.4.2p2
99 * Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
100 * Amrecover should now work with xfsrestore.
101 * Amrecover no longer binds an incorrect port that resulted in connection
102 failures on some systems.
103 * Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
104 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will
105 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
106 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer
107 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the
108 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag
109 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
110 * updated chg-zd-mtx.sh.in changer.
112 Changes in release 2.4.2p1
114 * Bugs fix release, the most annoying one is that amanda could retry
115 the same filesystem indefinitely if it is larger than the holding
116 disk but the estimate was smaller.
118 Changes in release 2.4.2
120 * dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
121 * Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
123 * A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
124 * negative chunksize is no longer supported
125 * chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
126 * ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
127 * Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
128 * New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
129 scheduling of full backups
130 * chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
131 * --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
132 * new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
133 * Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
134 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
136 * A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
137 constant in dumper.c.
138 * A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
139 constant in amcheck.c.
140 * new amtrmlog command
141 * --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file
143 Changes in release 2.4.1
145 * FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
146 * A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
147 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
148 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.
149 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
150 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
151 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
152 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
153 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
155 * Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
156 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
157 * amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
158 * New `amstatus' program.
159 * New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
160 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
161 * Reporter can now print tape labels.
162 * ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
163 * amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
164 * New `clean' amtape command.
165 * amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
166 * Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
167 * amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
168 * Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
169 (but they won't span across tapes yet).
170 * A total estimate time-out may be specified.
171 * Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
172 * amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
173 * amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
174 to avoid running concurrently.
175 * driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
176 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
177 * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
178 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
179 * New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
180 if they are setuid-root.
182 Changes in release 2.4.0p1
184 * Fixed kerberos encryption
185 * New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
186 * amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
187 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
188 * Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
189 * Updated to libtool 1.2a
190 * Minor portability-related bugfixes.
192 Changes in release 2.4.0
194 * Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
195 * New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
196 * New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
197 a more portable and user-friendly format.
198 * Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
199 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda
200 protocol backward compatibility.
201 * Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
202 * At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
203 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
204 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
205 * New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
206 tape changer script configuration interface.
207 * amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
209 * Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
210 * Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
211 * amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
212 * It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
213 * BSD security is now enabled by default.
214 * A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
215 * New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
216 * Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
217 * Various bugfixes and new ports.
219 Changes in release 2.3.0.4
220 * New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
221 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
222 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
223 * New configure options:
224 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
225 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
226 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME
227 * Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
228 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
229 * Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
230 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day
231 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
232 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
234 * Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
235 * Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
236 * Better fully qualified domain name support.
237 * Many little dumper fixes.
238 * Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
239 only one tape in the tapelist.
240 * More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
242 * Fix --with-mmap configure bug.
244 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
245 * Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
246 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
247 understands command line variable assignment.
248 * Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
249 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
250 * Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires
251 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
252 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
253 * rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
254 * no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
255 * amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
256 * New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
257 * Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
258 * Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
259 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This
261 * Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
262 * Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
263 * Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
264 * Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
265 * Bug fixes in Samba code.
266 * More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
269 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
270 * New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
271 * Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
272 * Gnutar incrementals should now work.
273 * amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
274 * amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
276 * New configure options:
277 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory
278 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR
279 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use
280 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
281 * Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
282 * Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
283 * Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
284 * configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
285 * Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
286 * dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
287 * Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
288 * Many bug fixes to codes.
290 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
291 * Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses
292 automake and autoconf.
293 * Samba PC client backup support added.
294 * New programs and scripts:
295 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
296 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
297 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
298 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
299 * New options added to programs:
300 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
301 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
302 * Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
303 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
304 * Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude
306 * Tape planning improvements.
307 * Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
308 * Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
309 * More debugging added to several programs.
310 * Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
311 * Better support for multidomain environments.
312 * Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
313 * Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.
315 Changes in release 2.3.0.3
316 * Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
317 * Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
318 * Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
321 Changes in release 2.3.0.2
324 Changes in release 2.3.0.1
325 * Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
328 Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
329 * A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
330 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
331 * Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is
332 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
334 * Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
335 * Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
336 * Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
337 * Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
338 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by
339 running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
340 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.
342 Changes in release 2.2.6
343 * A number of material bugs fixed.
344 * A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
345 * The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
346 * This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
347 tested on the following systems:
349 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1
350 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0
351 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2
352 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
353 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
354 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
357 Changes in release 2.2.5
358 * SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
360 * Supports GZIP compression.
361 * Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
362 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
363 * Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
364 if you wish, and it won't get confused.
365 * Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
366 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as
367 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
369 * Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
370 hooks in place for non-dump clients.
371 * Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
373 * Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.
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