Hello,
Amanda 2.4.2-beta2 has just been released. It should be stable.
Amanda 2.4.2 will be release soon if this one doesn't show a bug.
I would like if everyone can try it!
Its sources can be downloaded from:
http://download.sourceforge.net/amanda
Here's a list of the changes for release 2.4.2b2 (from the NEWS file):
* 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
* 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
More detailed information can be obtained from the ChangeLog file in
the distribution.
If you find any problems in this release, please report them
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Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal
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Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
