RPMs and source tar ball are available for the following platforms at http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php - Red Hat Enterprise server 5, - Red Hat Enterprise server 4, - Red Hat Enterprise server 3 - Suse Linux Enterprise 9, - Suse Linux Enterprise 10, - Open Suse 10.0, - Fedora Core 3, - Fedora Core 4, - Fedora Core 5, - Fedora Core 6, - Fedora Core 7
2.6.0 features: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/2.6.0_features Hopefully, these packages will help in trying out the images before the final release. Paddy On Jan 17, 2008 4:47 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of > Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b1 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape > handling code (Device API). > > It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 > > We hope to release the final 2.6.0 soon. We appreciate if you can test it > before the release, even a simple compilation can be useful to find problem > on some hardware/software, report all compilation warning. > > Here's a list of the changes for release 2.6.0b1 (from the NEWS file): > Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details. > > > configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require shared > libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to build statically linked > binaries. > 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the new, more > flexible 'amcheckdump' > 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated. > Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/" subdirectories: > libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and internal programs are now > installed in $libexecdir/amanda. > The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at > $localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your existing > /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda. > New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg. > New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools > these tools make assumptions, please see man page. > Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup > glib is required to compile and run amanda. > Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes, > vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3 > New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda > applications in Perl. > New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server without > any network connection or other configuration. > Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'. > Amanda configuration file changes > > amanda.conf changes > > flush-threshold-dumped > flush-threshold-scheduled > taperflush > device_property > usetimestamps default to yes > -- Amanda http://amanda.zmanda.com ZRM for MySQL http://www.zmanda.com/backup-mysql.html
