The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
2.4.2. It fixe a many bugs and have many new feature since
amanda-2.4.1p1.
It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/
Here's a list of the changes for release 2.4.2 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ChangeLog file for more details.
* 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
--
Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529
Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
