On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >Hello, > >The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of >Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b2 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape >handling code (Device API). > >It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org 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. If you > mix 2.6.0 and earlier version with rsh/ssh auth, you need to add > an 'amandad_path' to the dumptype and to amanda-client.conf. > * 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 > o amanda.conf changes > + flush-threshold-dumped > + flush-threshold-scheduled > + taperflush > + device_property > + usetimestamps default to yes > >Jean-Louis
FWIW, Jean-Louis, I have been running that tarball, with my usual build config, since the evening of the 8th, with no known issues. But I haven't tried a recovery, should I? Running with 30 virtual tapes on a 372GB sata drive now. Bare metal recovery could be problematic, and would require a bare bones install that supported sata since my bios does not. But that obviously is not an amanda problem. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) No house is childproofed unless the little darlings are in straitjackets.
