Hello,
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of
Amanda 2.6.1, the 2.6.1b2 release.
Thanks to everyone that tested 2.6.1b1 and provided feedback.
The final 2.6.1 should be released in early January.
Source tarballs are available from
* http://www.amanda.org
* https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120
Binaries for many systems will be available soon from
* http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
Documentation can be found at
* http://wiki.zmanda.com
Here's a list of the changes for release 2.6.1b1(from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.
* Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup
program, see the 'amanda-applications' man page.
o amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the
GNUTAR program. See 'amgtar' man page.
o amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a
partition. See'amstar' man page.
o amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba
man page.
o amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'.
* Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process,
see the 'amanda-scripts' man page.
o amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then
'amgtar'application will backup the snapshot. See
'amzfs-snapshot' man page.
o script-email: Simple script to send email. see
'script-email' man page.
* Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting
concurrent use of multiple devices and changers.
o currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old
changershell scripts.
o under active development.
* Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal
efficiency
o can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc.
o only used in some applications.
* Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application
canuse to create backup image.
* 'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format.
* Many improvements to report better error message to user.
* amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed.
* Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces.
* Many bugs fixed and improvement.
* amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from
amanda-client.conf on a client.
* Amanda configuration file changes
o new application-tool section
o new script-tool section
o new device section
o new changer section
Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noël
Jean-Louis martineau
