If you want packages to try the 2.6.0 beta2 release, they are available at http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
Please give it a try and provide success reports as well as issues found. thanks, Paddy On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 2.6.0and > 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 > - amanda.conf changes > - flush-threshold-dumped > - flush-threshold-scheduled > - taperflush > - device_property > - usetimestamps default to yes > > Jean-Louis > -- Amanda http://amanda.zmanda.com ZRM for MySQL http://www.zmanda.com/backup-mysql.html
