Hello,
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the third beta release of
Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b3 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape
handling code (Device API).
It can be downloaded 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 2.6.0b3 (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
o Speedup in 'amrecover find' and starting amrecover.
* 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. Perl module are installed by default
in the perl installsitelib directory. It can be changed with
'configure --with-amperldir'.
* 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
