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Changes in release 2.5.0p2

* Fix major bug in amandad.
* amverifyeun works.
* amstatus works with ':' in diskname.

Changes in release 2.5.0p1

* Add the 'amtape update' command.
* Many small bug fix.

Changes in release 2.5.0

* Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
* Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
  and gpg encryption),  Encryption can be done on server or client,
  Custom encryption utilities can be used.
* Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
  really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE.  You
  can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
  and so on.
* Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
  longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape).  Data restoration
  can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
* Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.

Change in release 2.4.5p1

* New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'.
* New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options.

Change in release 2.4.5

* new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
  k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
* new amoverview -skipmissed option.

Change in release 2.4.5b1

* holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
* autoflush flush today's dump.
* new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
  the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
  and large disk.
* bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
* calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
* new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
    CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
    CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
    SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
            can be wrong on the estimate size.

Changes in release 2.4.4p3

* new chg-iomega changer script.
* amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
  (eg. after an amrmtape).

Changes in release 2.4.4p2

* new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
* 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
* amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
* amanda works with samba3.
* new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
* Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.

Changes in release 2.4.4p1

* amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
* new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
* new chg-mcutil changer.
* amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
* default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
* amplot generate color postscript by default.
* amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
* rait: works with file:
* print a postscript label for each tape used.

Changes in release 2.4.4

* New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.

Changes in release 2.4.4b1

* maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
* New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
* Client compile on CYGWIN
* amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
* amrestore -l <label>  : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
* New config options:
  amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
                    tape.
  amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
  amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
  maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
               default to tapesize * runtapes
  taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
             tape usage.
* amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
* New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
* New --date option to amstatus
* amreport print an usage by tape.
* Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
  single host in a run.
* New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait

Changes in release 2.4.3

* Few small bug fixed
* New runtapes argument to amverify.
* New amverifyrun program.
* 2.4.3 client works with older server.

Changes in release 2.4.3b4

* new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
* exclude list with relative path is working again.
* amstatus is working again.

Changes in release 2.4.3b3

* --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
* blocksize tapetype option
* file-pad tapetype option
* Multiple exclude in dumptype
* Option include in dumptype
* New disklist syntax:
*   hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
* chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
* amrecover: new listdisk command.

Changes in release 2.4.3b2

* amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
* amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
* amstatus work with amflush.

Changes in release 2.4.3b1

* tapeio.
* New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
* New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
* amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
* new autoflush option.
* new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.

Changes in release 2.4.2

* Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
* Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
  ones automatically cleaned out.  This means more space (a few KBytes) will
  be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
  once.  But it also means important debugging information should no longer
  be lost by the file being overwritten.  The length of time to keep the
  files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4).  The old flag
  --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
* dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
* Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
  disk
* A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
* negative chunksize is no longer supported
* chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
* ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
* Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
* New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
  scheduling of full backups
* chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
* --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
* new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
* Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
  from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
  size.
* A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
  constant in dumper.c.
* A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
  constant in amcheck.c.
* new amtrmlog command
* --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file

Changes in release 2.4.1

* FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
* A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
  of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
  A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.  
  A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
  which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
  If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
  otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
  set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
  version of amanda.
* Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
  using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
* amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
* New `amstatus' program.
* New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
  tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
* Reporter can now print tape labels.
* ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
* amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
* New `clean' amtape command.
* amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
* Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
* amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
* Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
  (but they won't span across tapes yet).
* A total estimate time-out may be specified.
* Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
* amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
* amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
  to avoid running concurrently.
* driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
  new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
* Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
  systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
* New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
  if they are setuid-root.

Changes in release 2.4.0p1

* Fixed kerberos encryption
* New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
* amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
  compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
* Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
* Updated to libtool 1.2a
* Minor portability-related bugfixes.

Changes in release 2.4.0

* Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
* New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
* New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
  a more portable and user-friendly format.
* Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
  are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp.  This breaks Amanda
  protocol backward compatibility.
* Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
* At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
  service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
  files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
* New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
  tape changer script configuration interface.
* amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
  be run as root.
* Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
* Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
* amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
* It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
* BSD security is now enabled by default.
* A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
* New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
* Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
* Various bugfixes and new ports.

Changes in release 2.3.0.4
* New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
  chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
  commands.  See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
* New configure options:
  --with-db=DBLIB          Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
  --enable-buffered-dump   Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
  --with-group=GROUPNAME   Install all files into group GROUPNAME
* Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
  Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
* Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
  dumptype configuration.  It takes one argument which is a time of day
  (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
  just an integer).  This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
  the given time.
* Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
* Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
* Better fully qualified domain name support.
* Many little dumper fixes.
* Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
  only one tape in the tapelist.
* More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
  have declarations.
* Fix --with-mmap configure bug.

Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
* Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
  improvements.  Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
  understands command line variable assignment.
* Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
  and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
* Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains.  Requires
  using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
  names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
* rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
* no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
* amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
* New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
* Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
* Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
  configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines.  This
  is now fixed.
* Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
* Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
* Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
* Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
* Bug fixes in Samba code.
* More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
  Ultrix systems.

Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
* New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
* Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
* Gnutar incrementals should now work.
* amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
* amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
  in various scripts.
* New configure options:
  --with-mmap                           force mmap() instead of shared memory
  --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR  gnutar directory lists go in DIR
  --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve        gnutar preserves atime, do not use
  --with-pid-debug-files                use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
* Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
* Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
* Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
* configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
* Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
* dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
* Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
* Many bug fixes to codes.

Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
* Configuration now uses configure.  Build environment now uses
  automake and autoconf.
* Samba PC client backup support added.
* New programs and scripts:
  amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
  amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
  hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
  no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
* New options added to programs:
  amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
  amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
* Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
  host.  Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
* Better gnutar support for indexing.  Amanda now lets you exclude
  files from the dump.
* Tape planning improvements.
* Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
* Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
* More debugging added to several programs.
* Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
* Better support for multidomain environments.
* Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
* Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.

Changes in release 2.3.0.3
* Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
* Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
* Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
* Many bug fixes.

Changes in release 2.3.0.2
* Bug fixes.

Changes in release 2.3.0.1
* Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
* Bug fixes.

Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
* A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
  John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
* Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported.  The current limit is
  2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
  (1/2 :-).
* Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
* Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
* Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
* Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
  to/from a textual format.  This allows fixing a corrupted database by
  running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
  Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.

Changes in release 2.2.6
* A number of material bugs fixed.
* A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
* The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
* This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
  tested on the following systems:
        SunOS 4.1.3     IRIX 5.2
        Solaris 2.3     BSDI BSD/386 1.1
        Ultrix 4.2      NetBSD 1.0
        DEC OSF/1 2.0   AIX 3.2
  I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
  tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
  I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
  that platform.

Changes in release 2.2.5
* SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
  available.
* Supports GZIP compression.
* Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
  (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
* Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
  if you wish, and it won't get confused.
* Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
  encrypting files over the net.  The Kerberos support is available as
  a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
  ftp site.
* Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
  hooks in place for non-dump clients.
* Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
  very quickly.
* Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.