1 Changes in release 3.2.0alpha
3 * Support for multiple simultaneous writes to storage devices
4 o Can write to all available drives in parallel.
5 o Works only with the new changer API.
6 o Useful if two or more volumes are used in a single run.
7 o dump direct to tape can be scheduled any time during the run,
8 previously they were done sequencially after all dump to holding disk.
9 o enabled with the new 'taper-parallel-write' configuration option.
10 * Support for LEOM in storage devices
11 o allows splitting without partial parts, saving space
12 o much more efficient, since parts need not be cached on disk in most
14 * new, simpler splitting commands in the tapetype section:
15 part-size, part-cache-type, part-cache-dir, part-cache-max-size; see
16 amanda.conf(5) for details
17 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
18 o new configuration keyword:
19 + taper-parallel-write -- How many drive amanda can write to
21 o deprecated configuration keywords:
23 + amrecover_check_label
24 * the CONFIG parameter to amidxtaped is now required; this means that
25 versions of amrecover older than 2.4.3 will be unable to recover from
26 servers running Amanda-3.2 and later.
27 * The new dumptype and global parameters 'recovery-limit' can be used to
28 limit which hosts may recover from a particular DLE. See amanda.conf(5)
29 and amanda-auth(7) for more information.
30 * Several old changers have been removed - these changers will work with
31 Amanda for the forseeable future, but are no longer included in the
39 o chg-null (use the new "chg-null:")
40 o chg-rait (use the new "chg-rait:{dev1,dev2}")
44 * Amvault is much improved, but still experimental:
45 o supports assembling split parts on the source volume and re-splitting
46 them on the destination
47 o supports filtering dumps with the same syntax as amfetchdump
48 o a --fulls-only option skips all incremental dumps on the source
49 o an --export option tries to move tertiary volumes to import/export
51 o command-line syntax has changed incompatibly; see manpage or
53 * Rewritten and improved:
57 Changes in release 3.1.0
59 * Deprecated old changers; see amanda-changers(7) for replacements. These
60 changers are still available in the distribution, but will be removed in a
67 * Although chg-zd-mtx is still supported, we recommend that all users upgrade
68 to the more efficient chg-robot. See contrib/convert-zd-mtx-to-robot.sh
69 for a useful conversion script.
70 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
71 o deprecated configuration keywords:
73 o keywords deprecated in 2.6.1:
77 o new configuration keyword
78 + autolabel -- replace label_new_tapes
79 + columnspec -- can specify a precision.
80 + order -- in script, to specify script order execution.
81 + client_port -- in dumptype, to specify which port to connect on
83 + estimate -- in dumptype, can specify multiple estimate method.
84 o accept 'define' keyword for defining an holdingdisk
85 * Amanda client configuration file changes (amanda-client.conf)
86 o new configuration keyword
87 + debug_days -- how many days to keep debug files.
88 + client_port -- use by amrecover, specify which port to connect on
90 * Removed compile-time default --with-changer-device: specify a device
91 explicitly in amanda.conf instead
92 * amtape behavior has changed:
93 o 'device' subcommand removed
94 o 'slot advance' subcommand removed
95 o 'update' subcommand no longer displays each slot as it is updated, and
96 is not supported by all changers
97 o taperscan output has changed
98 o new 'inventory' subcommand
101 + --changer -- Specify which changer to use
102 + --cleanup -- Remove logs and indexes associated with label
103 + --dryrun -- do not update the original copies.
104 + --erase -- Attempt to erase the data contained on the volume
105 + --keep-label -- Do not remove label from the tapelist
106 + --quiet -- Opposite of --verbose
107 + --verbose -- List backups of hosts and disks that are being
110 o new --label option.
111 o new --properties option.
113 o changed wildcard setting for S3_BUCKET_LOCATION from "" to "*"
114 o new 'ndmp:' device to write to a tape on an ndmp server.
115 o new 'dvdrw:' device to write to a dvd drive.
117 o new properties to many applications
119 + new ACLS, SELINUX and XATTRS properties
121 + Allow '\' in diskname and amandapass.
122 + new ALLOW-ANONYMOUS property.
124 + ampgsql -- Backup PostgreSQL using continuous WAL archiving
125 + amsuntar -- Backup filesytem with the SUN tar
126 + amraw -- Backup only one directory entry
127 * New taper, with DirectTCP support, changed tape and catalog format:
128 o all dumpfiles are now F_SPLIT_DUMPFILE
129 o all on-tape dumpfiles have numparts=-1, since it's no longer possible
130 to calculate this value in advance
131 o there is no logging or reporting of zero-byte, successful parts (this
132 may cause gaps in filenums in the catalog)
133 * Redesigned amreport
134 o much more natural command-line interface (just run 'amreport $config')
135 o experimental XML output
136 * configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance.
138 Changes in release 2.6.1p2
139 * amtapetype: new -p option
143 o file not removed from holding disk
144 o sendbackup compatibility with a 2.4.2 server
145 o handle EROFS error from tape device.
146 o zfs snapshot name us the diskname.
147 o fix fd allocation in amandad
150 Changes in release 2.6.1p1
152 * amplot: better output
153 * Don't include genversion.h in distribution tarballs.
160 o compilation on some platform
163 Changes in release 2.6.1
165 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
166 o deprecated configuration keywords:
170 * Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program,
171 See the 'amanda-applications' man page.
172 o amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR
173 program. See 'amgtar' man page.
174 o amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a partition. See
176 o amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba man page.
177 o amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'.
178 * Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process, see the
179 'amanda-scripts' man page.
180 o amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then 'amgtar'
181 application will backup the snapshot. See 'amzfs-snapshot' man page.
182 o script-email: Simple script to send email. see 'script-email' man page.
183 * Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting concurrent
184 use of multiple devices and changers.
185 o currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old changer
187 o under active development.
188 * Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal efficiency
189 o can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc.
190 o only used in some applications.
191 * Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application can
192 use to create backup image.
193 * 'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format.
194 * Many improvements to report better error message to user.
195 * amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed.
196 * Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces.
197 * Many bugs fixed and improvement.
198 * amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from
199 amanda-client.conf on a client.
200 * Amanda configuration file changes
201 o new application-tool section
202 o new script-tool section
204 o new changer section
206 Changes in release 2.6.0
208 * configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require
209 shared libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to build
210 statically linked binaries.
211 * 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
212 new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
213 * 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
214 * Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/" subdirectories:
215 libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and internal programs
216 are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda.
217 * The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at
218 $localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your existing
219 /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
220 * New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
221 * New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools
222 these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
223 * Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
224 * glib is required to compile and run amanda.
225 * Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes,
226 vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
227 * New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda
228 applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default in the perl
229 installsitelib directory. It can be changed with
230 'configure --with-amperldir'.
231 * New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server
232 without any network connection or other configuration.
233 * Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
234 * Amanda configuration file changes
235 o amanda.conf changes
236 + flush-threshold-dumped
237 + flush-threshold-scheduled
240 + usetimestamps default to yes
242 Changes in release 2.5.2p1
246 + missing sockaddr_storage
247 + missing AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL
248 + compare of IPv4 and IPv6 v4mapped address.
249 + (bsd/bsdudp): server use two sockets,
250 one for IPv4 and one for IPv6
254 o compilation on some platform
257 Changes in release 2.5.2
259 * Many bugs fixed and code cleanup
260 * krb5 auth is working
261 * Works with IPv6 address
262 * Amanda configuration file changes
263 o amanda.conf changes
264 + debugging is enabled in the config file
265 see all debug_* config option
266 + tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too
267 larger for your hardware
269 Changes in release 2.5.1p3
272 * amrecover improve handling of not ascii filename in index.
273 * Works with tar-1.16 and exit status of 1.
274 * Can define a LASTSLOT in a chg-disk config file.
277 Changes in release 2.5.1p2
280 * amoverview is working
281 * dumptype starttime is working
283 * Amanda command changes
284 o amtape accept the -o arguments
285 o amgetconf --list to list all tapetype, dumptype, holdingdisk
287 o amgetconf can return a value of a specific tapetype, dumptype,
288 holdingdisk or interface
291 Changes in release 2.5.1p1
294 o Timeout waiting for ACK
295 o "illegal density" with dump
296 o IRIX: Parse config file, amrecover
298 o amrecover with FreeBSD/OpenBSD
299 * Some other small cleanup.
300 * Remove contrib/sst.
303 Changes in release 2.5.1
305 * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed.
306 * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
307 * Open SSL encryption support
308 * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp.
309 * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh
310 authentication methods.
311 * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command
312 (same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for
313 compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old
314 amidxtaped/amindexd protocol.
315 * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and
316 are also classified based on Amanda configuration name.
318 * Amanda command changes
319 o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O.
320 o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test.
321 Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test.
322 o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man
324 o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry
325 is not found in the configuration file.
327 * Amanda configuration file changes
328 o amanda.conf changes
329 + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes
330 + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes
331 + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple
332 backup runs in a calendar day.
333 + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values:
334 NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED.
335 + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in
336 amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication.
337 o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf.
338 Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda
340 + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in
341 Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf
342 o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery.
343 o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed.
346 Changes in release 2.5.0p2
348 * listhost subcommand in amrecover
350 Changes in release 2.5.0p1
352 * Add the 'amtape update' command.
354 Changes in release 2.5.0
356 * Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
357 * Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil
358 and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client,
359 Custom encryption utilities can be used.
360 * Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a
361 really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You
362 can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files
364 * Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
365 longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration
366 can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.
367 * Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
369 Change in release 2.4.5p1
371 * New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'.
372 * New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options.
374 Change in release 2.4.5
376 * new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number
377 k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera.
378 * new amoverview -skipmissed option.
380 Change in release 2.4.5b1
382 * holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
383 * autoflush flush today's dump.
384 * new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
385 the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
387 * bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
388 * calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
389 * new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
390 CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
391 CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
392 SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
393 can be wrong on the estimate size.
395 Changes in release 2.4.4p3
397 * new chg-iomega changer script.
398 * amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file
399 (eg. after an amrmtape).
401 Changes in release 2.4.4p2
403 * new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx
404 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist.
405 * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file.
406 * amanda works with samba3.
407 * new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver.
408 * Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again.
410 Changes in release 2.4.4p1
412 * amverify do not advance to next tape at the end.
413 * new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior.
414 * new chg-mcutil changer.
415 * amrecover_changer works with chg-multi.
416 * default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0.
417 * amplot generate color postscript by default.
418 * amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript.
419 * rait: works with file:
420 * print a postscript label for each tape used.
422 Changes in release 2.4.4
424 * New -a option to amcheck to always send an email.
426 Changes in release 2.4.4b1
428 * maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype.
429 * New amtapetype program (replace tapetype)
430 * Client compile on CYGWIN
431 * amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape
432 * amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring.
433 * New config options:
434 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the
436 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore.
437 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer.
438 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run,
439 default to tapesize * runtapes
440 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve
442 * amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape.
443 * New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command.
444 * New --date option to amstatus
445 * amreport print an usage by tape.
446 * Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a
447 single host in a run.
448 * New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait
450 Changes in release 2.4.3
452 * Few small bug fixed
453 * New runtapes argument to amverify.
454 * New amverifyrun program.
455 * 2.4.3 client works with older server.
457 Changes in release 2.4.3b4
459 * new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features.
460 * exclude list with relative path is working again.
461 * amstatus is working again.
463 Changes in release 2.4.3b3
465 * --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options
466 * blocksize tapetype option
467 * file-pad tapetype option
468 * Multiple exclude in dumptype
469 * Option include in dumptype
470 * New disklist syntax:
471 * hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ]
472 * chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul.
473 * amrecover: new listdisk command.
475 Changes in release 2.4.3b2
477 * amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory.
478 * amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape.
479 * amstatus work with amflush.
481 Changes in release 2.4.3b1
484 * New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush.
485 * New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush.
486 * amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex.
487 * new autoflush option.
488 * new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper.
490 Changes in release 2.4.2
492 * Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed.
493 * Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old
494 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will
495 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than
496 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer
497 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the
498 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag
499 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored.
500 * dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file
501 * Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding
503 * A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks
504 * negative chunksize is no longer supported
505 * chunksize is now 1 Gb by default
506 * ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris
507 * Samba 2.0.0 is now supported
508 * New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual
509 scheduling of full backups
510 * chg-scsi was ported to several platforms
511 * --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default
512 * new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin.
513 * Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up
514 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet
516 * A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT
517 constant in dumper.c.
518 * A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT
519 constant in amcheck.c.
520 * new amtrmlog command
521 * --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file
523 Changes in release 2.4.1
525 * FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ.
526 * A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number
527 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day.
528 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle.
529 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file,
530 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes.
531 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle
532 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must
533 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous
535 * Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb"
536 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter.
537 * amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA.
538 * New `amstatus' program.
539 * New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses
540 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them.
541 * Reporter can now print tape labels.
542 * ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux.
543 * amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored.
544 * New `clean' amtape command.
545 * amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified.
546 * Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse.
547 * amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes.
548 * Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk
549 (but they won't span across tapes yet).
550 * A total estimate time-out may be specified.
551 * Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support.
552 * amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address.
553 * amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as
554 to avoid running concurrently.
555 * driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via
556 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details.
557 * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris
558 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems.
559 * New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even
560 if they are setuid-root.
562 Changes in release 2.4.0p1
564 * Fixed kerberos encryption
565 * New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files
566 * amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a
567 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression)
568 * Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip'
569 * Updated to libtool 1.2a
570 * Minor portability-related bugfixes.
572 Changes in release 2.4.0
574 * Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details.
575 * New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords.
576 * New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with
577 a more portable and user-friendly format.
578 * Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they
579 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda
580 protocol backward compatibility.
581 * Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1.
582 * At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda
583 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging
584 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name)
585 * New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize
586 tape changer script configuration interface.
587 * amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now
589 * Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool.
590 * Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted.
591 * amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs.
592 * It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time.
593 * BSD security is now enabled by default.
594 * A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf.
595 * New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.
596 * Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory.
597 * Various bugfixes and new ports.
599 Changes in release 2.3.0.4
600 * New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets
601 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline'
602 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information.
603 * New configure options:
604 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm}
605 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps
606 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME
607 * Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls
608 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems.
609 * Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the
610 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day
611 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s,
612 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at
614 * Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp.
615 * Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things.
616 * Better fully qualified domain name support.
617 * Many little dumper fixes.
618 * Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is
619 only one tape in the tapelist.
620 * More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not
622 * Fix --with-mmap configure bug.
624 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3
625 * Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance
626 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that
627 understands command line variable assignment.
628 * Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level
629 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle.
630 * Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires
631 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain
632 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file.
633 * rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns.
634 * no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking.
635 * amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes.
636 * New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root.
637 * Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security.
638 * Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security
639 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This
641 * Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them.
642 * Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed.
643 * Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions.
644 * Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on.
645 * Bug fixes in Samba code.
646 * More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and
649 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2
650 * New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system.
651 * Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor.
652 * Gnutar incrementals should now work.
653 * amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable.
654 * amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings
656 * New configure options:
657 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory
658 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR
659 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use
660 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames
661 * Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient.
662 * Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers.
663 * Better AIX, Linux, OSF support.
664 * configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not.
665 * Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available.
666 * dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support.
667 * Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms.
668 * Many bug fixes to codes.
670 Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1
671 * Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses
672 automake and autoconf.
673 * Samba PC client backup support added.
674 * New programs and scripts:
675 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape
676 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups.
677 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer.
678 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker.
679 * New options added to programs:
680 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information.
681 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label,
682 * Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape
683 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf.
684 * Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude
686 * Tape planning improvements.
687 * Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points.
688 * Tighter DNS checking added to amandad.
689 * More debugging added to several programs.
690 * Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx.
691 * Better support for multidomain environments.
692 * Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor.
693 * Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled.
695 Changes in release 2.3.0.3
696 * Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks.
697 * Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter.
698 * Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor.
701 Changes in release 2.3.0.2
704 Changes in release 2.3.0.1
705 * Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor.
708 Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha
709 * A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into
710 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5.
711 * Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is
712 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years
714 * Support for GNUTAR-based backups.
715 * Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run.
716 * Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host.
717 * Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported
718 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by
719 running the text version through a script and reimporting it.
720 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported.
722 Changes in release 2.2.6
723 * A number of material bugs fixed.
724 * A lot of lint picked in the whole package.
725 * The documentation is now reasonably up to date.
726 * This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side
727 tested on the following systems:
729 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1
730 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0
731 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2
732 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've
733 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so
734 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on
737 Changes in release 2.2.5
738 * SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is
740 * Supports GZIP compression.
741 * Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list
742 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g").
743 * Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day
744 if you wish, and it won't get confused.
745 * Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including
746 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as
747 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the
749 * Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific,
750 hooks in place for non-dump clients.
751 * Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts
753 * Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them.